X-Men: The Animated Series Season 1 2

"Night of the Sentinels - Part II"
Release Date	November 7, 1992
Director(s)	Larry Houston
Writer(s)	Mark Edward Edens
Producer(s)	Larry Houston, Richard Bowman
Previous and Next Episodes
Previous	"Night of the Sentinels - Part I" (October 31, 1992)
Next	"Enter Magneto" (November 27, 1992)

Sentinel	Surrender, mutant!
Cyclops	Of course. Not!

Appearances

Featured Characters:

• X-Men (Main story and flashback)
  • Cyclops (Main story and flashback)
  • Gambit (Main story and flashback)
  • Rogue (Main story and flashback)
  • Storm (Main story and flashback)
  • Wolverine (Main story and flashback)
  • Beast (Main story and flashback)
  • Morph (Apparent death) (Main story and flashback)
  • Jubilee (Jubilation Lee) (Joins)
  • Jean Grey
  • Professor X (Xavier)

Antagonists:

• Mutant Control Agency (Main story and flashback)
  • Several unnamed agents
  • Henry Gyrich
  • Bolivar Trask (First appearance)
  • Sentinels (Main story and flashback)

Other Characters:

• President of the United States (First appearance)
• Senator Kelly (Appears on screen)
• Unnamed bikers
• Jubilee's foster father
• Martha (Jubilee's foster mother)
• Mister Sinister (Behind the scenes)

Races and Species:

• Mutants
• Humans
• Sentinels

Locations:

• Earth-92131 (Main story and flashback)
  • Earth (Main story and flashback)
    • United States of America (Main story and flashback)
      • Washington, D.C. (Main story and flashback)
        • Mutant Control Agency Headquarters (Main story and flashback)
        • White House
      • Michigan
        • Detroit
          • Sentinel Factory
      • New York
        • Westchester (First appearance)
          • New Salem (First appearance)
            • New Salem Mall (Mentioned)
            • Xavier's School for the Gifted
              • Cerebro Chamber

Items:

• X-Uniforms (Main story and flashback)
  • Cyclops' Visor (Main story and flashback)
  • Wolverine's Suit (Main story and flashback)
• Adamantium (On Wolverine's claws) (Main story and flashback)
• Cerebro
• Hoverchair
• Mutant Registration Act
• Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses (First appearance)

Vehicles:

• Tanks
• X-Men Blackbird (Main story and flashback)
• Wolverine's Jeep (First appearance)
• Cyclops' sport car (First appearance)

Synopsis

After breaking into the headquarters of the Mutant Control Agency and destroying the mutant files, the X-Men lose two of their own members in a battle with the Sentinels: Beast is captured and imprisoned, and Morph is killed by a Sentinel. Wolverine demands to go back for them, but is prevented by Cyclops and Rogue - he later vows to avenge Morph's death. Meanwhile, Henry Gyrich interrogates a captive Jubilee at his Sentinel-manufacturing facility in Detroit, Michigan.

The President of the United States - an unnamed woman - publicly announces the X-Men's raid on the "Federal Security Agency" headquarters, and the existence of the Sentinels. Locating Wolverine at a bar, Cyclops asks him to help find the Sentinel's home base. The president orders Gyrich to close down his privately-funded Mutant Registration Programme, concerned that the X-Men might have had good reason to destroy Gyrich's mutant files. Jubilee's foster father calls Gyrich, telling him that Cyclops is in his house, and Gyrich asks him to keep Cyclops at home as long as he can. However, Jubilee's foster father decides to warn Cyclops after his wife tells him the information Cyclops mentioned to her that Jubilee was likely to have been kidnapped by the Sentinels.

A Sentinel attacks Cyclops as the leaves the house. Cyclops fights back, by purposely blasting it's arm off, so the damaged Sentinel could return to base for repairs with the X-Men following it in the Blackbird. They destroy all the Sentinels present and rescue Jubilee, but Gyrich and his manufacturer, Bolivar Trask escape. Jubilee bids farewell to her foster parents, and moves into the Xavier Institute.

Notes

• The X-Men Animated series is known for re-imagining and inspiring X-Men comic book series. This episode references the following X-Men storylines:
  • The Mutant Registration Act was adapted from Uncanny X-Men #141;
  • Later on, in the comics, Jubilee was also captured and tortured in a Sentinel facility as part of the Operation: Zero Tolerance event in Generation X #27.
• The opening scene of this episode is a duplicate of the end of the previous episode.

Trivia

• Names listed on the "Mutant File" screen: Michael Booton, Geri Bryan, Andy Hamilton, Chris Hamilton, Ray Sherman, Corbin Went, and John Wesley.

See Also

• 6 image(s) from X-Men: The Animated Series Season 1 2

Recommended Reading

• The death of Morph, whose Earth-616 counterpart Changeling also died serving the X-Men (while posing as Professor X). However, the reaction to Morph's death was much more in line with the death of Thunderbird in X-Men #95.
• The sequence wherein Jubilee arrives at the X-Mansion is based on a similar sequence when Kitty Pryde first arrived at the X-Mansion following the funeral for Phoenix in X-Men #138.