Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT With X-Men '97 out now, the Marvel cult classic X-Men: The Animated Series finds a new life. Still, despite the cartoon’s revered status, it was the live-action venture Legion that challenged the notions of storytelling within the X-Men mythos but went largely under the radar. Out of all the X-Men animated shows so far, the 90s-era series and X-Men: Evolution have best endured as fan favorites.
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The Clockwork Psychiatric Facility in Legion season 1 was a direct nod to Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange . Even the facility's interior design was inspired by sets from the British dystopian film. Related Legion Was The Real End Of Fox’s X-Men Legion represented the best of what Fox's version of the X-Men franchise was capable of, as the rights of the mutants now revert back to Disney. Crafting a menacing overarching antagonist out of the Shadow King was also a very original take on the comic book villain, a regular foe of Charles Xavier’s from the past.