X-Men: The Animated Series Season 4 1

"One Man's Worth - Part I"
Release Date	September 9, 1995
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 This is the mutant we must protect: Professor Charles Xavier, used his powers to bring mutants and non-mutants together. He established a school here, where he and his team of X-Men lived and fought for basic human rights. 

—Shard

Appearances

Featured Characters:

• Bishop
• Shard (First appearance)
• Wolverine (Logan) (First appearance)
• Storm (Ororo Munroe) (First appearance)

Supporting Characters:

• Charles Xavier (Death)

Villains:

• Fitzroy (Trevor) (First appearance)
• Bantam (First appearance)
• Master Mold (First appearance)
• Nimrod (First appearance) (Impersonates Charles Xavier)

Other Characters:

• Present Day
  • X-Men
    • Professor X (Charles Xavier)
    • Wolverine (Logan)
    • Storm (Ororo Munroe)
    • Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy) (Appears on screen)
    • Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Appears on screen)
    • Jean Grey (Appears on screen)
    • Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (Appears on screen)
  • Pres. Kelly (Appears on screen)
  • Master Mold (Appears on screen)
• An Age of Apocalypse
  • Mutant Resistance (First appearance)
    • The Leader/Magneto (General Magnus) (First appearance)
    • Blink (Clarice Ferguson) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Beast (Henry McCoy) (First appearance)
    • Mimic (Calvin Rankin) (First appearance)
    • Sabretooth (Graydon Creed, Sr.) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Wildchild (Kyle Gibney) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Angel (Warren Worthington III (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) (First appearance)
    • Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Nemesis (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Tar Baby (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Copycat (Vanessa Carlysle) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Rogue (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Red Mask, Star on Chest
    • Morph (Kevin Sidney) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Nurse Jean Grey (First appearance)
    • Blob (Fred J. Dukes) (Cameo)
    • Caliban (Cameo)
    • Callisto (Cameo)
    • Pyro (St. John Allerdyce) (Cameo)
    • Masque (Cameo)
    • Dr. Summers (Mentioned)
    • Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) (First appearance)
    • Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Sunder (Mark Hallett) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Frenzy (Joanna Cargill) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Polaris (Lorna Dane) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (Cameo) (First appearance)
  • Super-Humans
    • Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Patriot (Steve Rogers) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Black Widow (Natasha Romanov) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Giant Man (Hank Pym) (First appearance) (First appearance)
    • Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Scarlet Spider (Ben Reilly) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Cameo) (First appearance)
    • Hercules (Cameo) (First appearance)
• 2055 AD
  • Forge
  • Malcolm (Appears on screen) (First appearance)
  • Randall (Appears on screen) (First appearance)
  • Sentinels (Appears on screen)
  • Lobdell (Appears on screen)
• 1959 AD
  • Prof. Grey (First appearance)
  • Cindy (First appearance)
  • Moose (First appearance)
  • Rocko (First appearance)

Locations:

• 2055 AD
  • New York State
    • New York City
    • Statue of Liberty (Appears on screen)
• Present Day
  • New York State
    • Westchester County
      • X-Mansion
    • New York City (Appears on screen)
      • Manhattan (Appears on screen)
        • United Nations Headquarters (Appears on screen)
• An Age of Apocalypse (First appearance)
  • New York State
    • Westchester County
      • X-Mansion (Ruins)
• 1959 AD (First appearance)
  • New England
    • Bard College
    • Rip Van Winkle Coffee House

Items:

• Temporal Transceiver
• Time Portal
• Hoverchair
• Iron Man Armor
• Land-Crabs (First appearance)
• Magneto's Helmet
• Golden Mace (First appearance)
• Scarlet Spider's Web-Shooters (First appearance)

Vehicles:

• X-Men Blackbird (Appears on screen)

Synopsis

In the year 2055, Forge is alerted to a temporal rift in the past, and he sends Bishop and his sister Shard back to the past through his time machine, in hopes to get help from the X-Men. However, when they touch down in 1995, they arrive in a war-torn world, where mutants and ordinary humans are in an endless fight for their respective species' survival. In this alternate reality, it is revealed that Professor Charles Xavier has been erased from the timeline, resulting in this war-torn reality without his efforts to make peace between mutants and ordinary humans.

Bishop and Shard manage to convince Wolverine and Storm, who are husband and wife in this reality, of the changes that resulted in Professor X being erased from history, and the foursome head back to 1959, in an attempt to stop a mutant criminal named Fitzroy and his sidekick Bantam before they can carry out the assassination of the young Charles Xavier. However, in the midst of a small brawl within a local diner, Charles runs out scared after he learns about his future, back toward the college and the school laboratory to think about these things.

Meanwhile, after finishing the brawl, Bishop, Shard, Wolverine, and Storm split up to find Xavier, but they are soon ambushed by Nimrod, the Sentinel from the Future. As Bishop, Wolverine, and Storm engage Nimrod in battle, Shard continues searching for Fitzroy, finding him as he is just leaving the school laboratory. However, she is too late to capture him as he and Bantam escape back through the portal to the future. At the same time, after Wolverine, Storm, and Bishop manage to dismantle Nimrod, the Sentinel escapes back to the future along with the mutant criminals.

Back inside the school lab, Charles has doubts about what he just saw and decides that he could never be capable of such power—but just as he opens the door to exit the lab, Fitzroy's detonator is triggered...

To be continued...

Notes

• The "flashback footage" of the future includes cameos by Malcolm & Randall (Bishop's partners in the XSE), and human-sized Sentinels (as they appeared in the earliest X-Men comics).
• The "Professor Grey" that 1959-Xavier talks with is indeed John Grey, father of X-Man Jean.
• Lobdell, the guard Fitzroy feasts upon, is named after then-current X-Men writer Scott Lobdell.
• The alternate-present Storm sports a mohawk and a white leather vest outfit, the same look she took on for much of the comics in the 1980s.
• The nameless young man helps Logan fight off the café owner's goons looks like Marlon Brando's character in The Wild One.

See Also

• 55 image(s) from X-Men: The Animated Series Season 4 1