X-Men: The Animated Series
Slave Island
TV Flash files “Slave Island” as hour 7 of 76 in the TV Flash guide — X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) on Fox Kids, season 1, episode 7, aired 1993-02-13, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E07: listed hour 7 of 76 in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide, hour 7 of 13 in season 1. It aired 1993-02-13 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Cold Vengeance” (S01E06). Next is “The Unstoppable Juggernaut” (S01E08).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Gambit, Storm, Jubilee and a host of other mutants are made to work as slaves in Genosha to complete a dam which will power a Sentinel factory. Special collars on mutants' necks prevent them from using their powers, but Gambit manages to escape. During his escape, Gambit finds Cable who is looking for the one responsible for enslaving the mutants, the Leader. Cable gives Gambit a key to unlock his collar before attacking the Sentinel factory. Gambit frees the other Mutants, who begin fighting with the guards and Sentinels before fleeing. Storm uses her powers to bring down the dam, causing a flood to destroy the entire factory. The X-Men return home to find the X-Mansion destroyed.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Slave Island sit in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide?
S01E07 is listed hour 7 of 76 — hour 7 of 13 in season 1, season 1 episode 7.
When did X-Men: The Animated Series S01E07 air?
Slave Island aired 1993-02-13 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is it standalone or serialized?
Serialized comic arcs, including ambitious storylines like the Phoenix Saga. The previously-on was homework, not a recap gag.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Saturday-morning mutants with comic-book continuity and a previously-on that trained kids to follow serial pain. The Phoenix Saga as children’s television that refused to stay cute — prejudice as superpower metaphor, voiced with soap-opera gravitas. Marvel’s TV breakthrough years before the films: leather jackets, moral lectures, and a theme song that still works like a summoning.
The work, first: Saturday-morning mutants in leather jackets, a previously-on that trained kids to follow serial pain, soap-opera gravitas in a slot that usually wanted toys. The Fox Kids series (1992–1997) treated Marvel lore seriously — Xavier's team fighting prejudice and supervillains in serialized comic arcs, the Phoenix Saga as children's television that refused to stay cute. Cedric Smith, Norm Spencer, Catherine Disher, Cal Dodd's Wolverine, Lenore Zann's Rogue, George Buza's Beast. Darker, denser kids'…
Filed against
- Cedric Smith as Professor X
Cedric Smith voiced Professor X on X-Men: The Animated Series — Saturday-morning mutants, comic continuity, serial pain for kids, Phoenix that refused to stay cute. Prejudice as superpower metaphor, soap-opera gravitas from a wheelchair…
- Norm Spencer as Cyclops
Norm Spencer’s Cyclops trained Saturday-morning kids to follow serial pain on X-Men: The Animated Series — 1990s mutants, comic-book continuity, a previously-on, the Phoenix Saga as children’s television that refused to stay cute.…
- Catherine Disher as Jean Grey
Catherine Disher voiced Jean Grey on X-Men: The Animated Series — Saturday-morning mutants, comic-book continuity, a previously-on that trained kids on serial pain, the Phoenix Saga as children's television that refused to stay cute.…
- Cal Dodd as Wolverine
Cal Dodd voiced Wolverine on X-Men: The Animated Series — Saturday-morning mutants with comic-book continuity, a previously-on that trained kids to follow serial pain, the Phoenix Saga refusing to stay cute. Prejudice as superpower…
- Lenore Zann as Rogue
Lenore Zann's Rogue gave X-Men: The Animated Series a Southern-mutant ache — Saturday-morning continuity, a previously-on that trained kids to follow serial pain, Phoenix Saga as children's television that refused to stay cute. Prejudice…
- George Buza as Beast
George Buza voiced Beast on X-Men: The Animated Series — Saturday-morning mutants with comic-book continuity, a previously-on that trained kids to follow serial pain. Prejudice as superpower metaphor, soap-opera gravitas in a blue hide.…