X-Men: The Animated Series Season 3 19

"Weapon X, Lies, and Video Tape"
Release Date	June 11, 1995
Director(s)	Larry Houston
Writer(s)	David McDermott, Steven Melching
Producer(s)	Larry Houston
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 Welcome gentlemen... Welcome to our past... 

—Silver Fox

Appearances

Featured Characters:

• X-Men
  • Wolverine (Logan) (Main story and flashback)
  • Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy)
  • Jean Grey
  • Professor X (Charles Xavier)
  • Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Supporting Characters:

• Team X (First full appearance) (Only in flashback)
  • Sabretooth (Graydon Creed) (Main story and flashback)
  • Silver Fox (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
  • Maverick (Christoph Nord) (First full appearance) (Main story and flashback)

Antagonists:

• Weapon X Program (Only in flashback)
  • The Professor (Kenji Oyama) (Only in flashback)
  • Dr. Abraham Cornelius (Only in flashback)
  • Talos (First and only known appearance) (Destruction)
• Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich) (Only in flashback)
• Jebediah Creed (First appearance) (Only in flashback)

Other Characters:

• Heather Hudson (Only in flashback)
• Yuriko Oyama (Only in flashback)

Locations:

• Earth-92131
  • New York State
    • Westchester County
      • X-Mansion
  • Canada (Main story and flashback)
    • Alberta (Main story and flashback)
      • Weapon X Facility (Main story and flashback)
    • Quebec (Mentioned)
  • Soviet Union (Only in flashback)

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor
• Hoverchair
• Adamantium (Main story and flashback)
• C-Synt (Only in flashback)

Vehicles:

• Wolverine's Jeep
• Lotus (Main story and flashback)
• Silver Fox's Flying Car
• Mini-Jet

Synopsis

Wolverine discovers everything about his past life in the government program Weapon X was a lie... including his love affair with Silver Fox.

Notes

• This episode along with "The Juggernaut Returns" and "Nightcrawler" were originally scheduled to be part of season four; however, animation problems on other episodes led to these episodes being moved earlier in the slate.
• Silver Fox's flying vehicle has the skull-squid symbol of the Marvel Comics villain group HYDRA, which also explains her costume: she's a member of them now.
• This episode is loosely based on Wolverine (Vol. 2) #48–#50 with portions of Wolverine (Vol. 2) #61–#64 as well.

Trivia

After Jean Grey's apparent death in Dark Phoenix saga part 4, this is the 1st appearance of Jean. Furthermore no explanation is given to Jean's return. A reason could be that the series neglected to mention that the Jean we saw die was just a clone, as in the comics Jean was cloned several times.

• The "Professor"'s video logs have the dates of October 17 and November 3, 1973.

See Also

• 17 image(s) from X-Men: The Animated Series Season 3 19

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