X-Men: The Animated Series
Beyond Good and Evil Part 4
TV Flash files “Beyond Good and Evil Part 4” as hour 56 of 76 in the TV Flash guide — X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) on Fox Kids, season 4, episode 11, aired 1995-11-25, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E11: listed hour 56 of 76 in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide, hour 11 of 17 in season 4. It aired 1995-11-25 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Beyond Good and Evil Part 3” (S04E10). Next is “Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas” (S04E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Cable & the X-Men destroy the Lazarus Chamber. They then use Cable's computer and Cerebro to track a homing device on the Professor to the control axis where Apocalypse reveals his plan to use the psychics to destroy all time, and recreate a universe, where he will rule unchallenged. Feeling that he was deceived by Apocalypse, Magneto attacks him when Cable arrives and joins the attack. Apocalypse begins draining the psychics which causes time and history to start to disappear. Bishop sees this and releases the psychics. Sinister and the Nasty Boys retreat. Apocalypse and his Horsemen are defeated by the heroes. Using Cable's time-spaceship, everyone else is returned to present time at the X-Mansion. Cable then travels back to his own time.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Beyond Good and Evil Part 4 sit in the X-Men: The Animated Series guide?
S04E11 is listed hour 56 of 76 — hour 11 of 17 in season 4, season 4 episode 11.
When did X-Men: The Animated Series S04E11 air?
Beyond Good and Evil Part 4 aired 1995-11-25 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.…