X-Men: The Animated Series
The Dark Phoenix - Part III The Dark Phoenix
TV Flash files “The Dark Phoenix - Part III The Dark Phoenix” as a desk essential hour — X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) on Fox Kids, season 3, episode 13, aired 1994-11-19, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E13: listed hour 39 of 76 in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide, hour 13 of 19 in season 3. It aired 1994-11-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Dark Phoenix - Part II The Inner Circle” (S03E12). Next is “The Dark Phoenix - Part IV The Fate of the Phoenix” (S03E14).
Essential hour: “The Dark Phoenix - Part III The Dark Phoenix”. The Dark Phoenix, Part III: children's television refusing to stay cute — serial pain as the actual superpower.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Jean Grey, now completely part of the Phoenix, returns to her childhood home, overwhelmed by too much emotion and too much power.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Dark Phoenix - Part III The Dark Phoenix sit in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide?
S03E13 is listed hour 39 of 76 — hour 13 of 19 in season 3, season 3 episode 13.
When did X-Men: The Animated Series S03E13 air?
The Dark Phoenix - Part III The Dark Phoenix aired 1994-11-19 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.…