X-Men: The Animated Series
Beauty & the Beast
TV Flash files “Beauty & the Beast” as hour 23 of 76 in the TV Flash guide — X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) on Fox Kids, season 2, episode 10, aired 1994-01-15, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E10: listed hour 23 of 76 in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide, hour 10 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1994-01-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Rogue's Tale” (S02E09). Next is “Mojovision” (S02E11).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Friends Of Humanity attack a hospital for the blind that Beast is working at. And Wolverine plans on tearing them apart from the inside. Beast and one of his blind patients, Carly, fall in love together. But Carly's father is a mutant hater and won't stand to see them associating with each other. When the Friends Of Humanity kidnap Carly for associating with a mutant, Wolverine, Beast, and the FOH come full circle. Meanwhile, in the Savage Land, Xavier and Magneto are struggling to survive.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Beauty & the Beast sit in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide?
S02E10 is listed hour 23 of 76 — hour 10 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 10.
When did X-Men: The Animated Series S02E10 air?
Beauty & the Beast aired 1994-01-15 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.…