If you grew up in the nineties, it's a safe bet that you watched X-Men: The Animated Series, and in so many ways it captures that decade to perfection: the fashions, the hairstyles, the music, the totally radical codenames. In the same breath, one has to admit that in just as many ways, it's dated badly.
But it's also a fundamental part of X-Men history, introducing the story and characters to a non-comic book reading audience, drawing in a lasting generation of fans, and leading to countless playground arguments over who was what character. It perhaps even paved the way for the current film franchise.
