Wolverine and the X Men: MetaView: Animated Series Review

The 1990’s saw some major changes in children’s animation, with an increasing focus on serial based storytelling and adult themes. The two shows that pioneered these changes the most were Batman the Animated series and X-Men. Both premiering in 1992, the writing and creative directions taken with these shows impacted an entire generation. Influencing not only the future of the genre in television and film, but even the comics they were originally based on.
X-Men in particular had proven that serial based story telling could work with younger audiences. Leading the show’s writers to adapt the more popular story arcs from the comics, with only minor changes to make them suitable for a younger audience. With such a large cast of characters and an ever expanding continuity. The Producers had recaps included at the beginning of key episodes containing specific details so that anyone seeing it for the first time would not be confused as to what was going on. X-Men was the first children’s show to do it this way. Previously on X-Men. That guys voice was so cool.
The popularity of the X-Men eventually lead to a film adaptation that proved just as popular on the big screen. Those films would in a similar way to the cartoon, also go on to heavily impact the comics and the superhero film genre as whole.
Basically the X-Men are awesome
In 2000 The children of the Atom would return to television in X-Men Evolution, which took a very different approach to the characters and its setting but proved to be just as popular with old and newer viewers.
In 2009 The X-Men once again returned to television in Wolverine and the X-Men.