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Trivia: Despite its guitar-driven sound, the theme song for this show was actually written entirely on a keyboard using MIDI technology. Composer Ron Wasserman attributed this to having hardly any gear to work with, which only consisted of a nice mixer board that had EQ in it, and one compressor. He even admitted to pouring a Coke into the first console so that they would buy him a new one.

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Out of the Past (2) - S3-E2

Trivia: Cyclops and Jean's waiter Sidney is a caricature of Sidney Iwanter, a writer for the show. (00:08:20)

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: When the camera is panning across Mojo's studio audience after he has abducted the X-Men, you can see an older man in the middle of the crowd. This man is a caricature of Marvel Comics legend Jack Kirby. Coincidentally, Kirby died the day after this episode originally aired. (00:07:52)

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Whatever It Takes - S2-E3

Trivia: Mjnari was modelled on producer/director Larry Houston's son, Adrian.

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Trivia: A few weeks into the show's production, the staff was informed by Marvel that their character designs had to be changed. This is because the characters were modelled on artist Jim Lee's redesigns in the comics, and he, along with some other artists, were in the process of leaving Marvel Comics to found Image Comics. To convince Marvel to change their minds, storyboard artist Will Meugniot submitted a deliberately awful looking model sheet that looked reminiscent of 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

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Repo Man - S2-E5

Trivia: Snowbird wasn't in the original script for this episode because they couldn't afford any more speaking parts. Larry Houston decided to add her to the episode and just not give her any lines, so that the full Alpha Flight team would appear.

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Mojovision - S2-E11

Trivia: The TV salesman that is assisting Cyclops and Jean is a caricature of former Marvel president Joe Calamari. His name tag even says "Calamari." (00:04:28)

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A Rogue's Tale - S2-E9

Trivia: The man who attempts to steal Mystique's umbrella at the beginning of the episode is a caricature of series producer Frank Squillace.

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Time Fugitives: Part 1 - S2-E7

Trivia: When Beast is looking through the logbook detailing patients and their slide numbers, some of the names listed, such as Frank Squillace and Larry Houston, are people who worked on the show. (00:09:47)

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Days of Future Past: Part 2 - S1-E12

Trivia: In this episode, Storm tells Gambit that she knows him better than anyone. This is a reference to the comics, in which Storm was the first member of the X-Men that Gambit met, and whom vouched for his initiation onto the team. (00:07:08)

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Trivia: George Buza, who voiced Beast, never watched any episodes of this show until 2019, more than 20 years after the show ended. He finally decided to watch them at the insistence of Cal Dodd, who voiced Wolverine, because Buza was scheduled to be a guest at his first comic con, and decided he needed to have knowledge of the show, knowing that fans at conventions would be asking him questions about it.

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Trivia: Chris Potter, who voiced Gambit, has said he always wanted to play Gambit in the films, stating that he looked like Gambit when he was younger. He was actually brought in to audition for the role of Cyclops for the first X-Men film, but thought to himself before the audition that he didn't want to play Cyclops and have to wear those "bad sunglasses."

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Trivia: In the comics, Pyro is Australian. In this show, he has a British accent.

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Trivia: When the show was in early stages of development, Saban Entertainment sold executive producer Stan Lee on the idea of the show's premise being a "mutant of the week" series, which would see Professor X and Cyclops as the only two main characters, and they would drive around in a van, accompanied by a dog, and search for different mutants every episode.

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'Til Death Do Us Part: Part 1 - S2-E1

Trivia: During Cyclops and Jean Grey's wedding ceremony, a man can be seen standing next to Storm, and after the nuptials can be seen standing in the background after Rogue rejects Gambit's attempt to kiss her. According to the book "X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series," this character is intended to be Doctor Strange. The book also reveals that a character model was drawn for J. Jonah Jameson to be at wedding as well. However, he didn't make it into the episode. (00:02:55 - 00:04:09)

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A Deal with the Devil - S5-E3

Trivia: According to the book "Previously on X-Men: The Making of an Animated Series," this episode was originally conceived as an episode called "Bring Me Charles Xavier" (a reference to the film Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia), and would have been the 47th episode of the series overall. In addition to the return of Omega Red, it also would have seen the returns of Colossus and his little sister Ilyana, as well as Darkstar. The episode was written by showrunner Eric Lewald, and after being told numerous times by his colleagues that the script just didn't work, he reworked it into what became this episode. An image for the cast list of the unproduced episode is visible in the book "X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series."

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X-Ternally Yours - S2-E6

Trivia: According to the book "X-Men: The Art and Making of the Animated Series," the character of the External didn't have a counterpart established in the comics for the show's creators to base her on by the time this episode went into production, so director Larry Houston designed her himself, choosing to portray her as a Creole woman. The character's comic counterpart ended up debuting around the same time this episode aired, in Gambit #1, where she is a blonde Caucasian woman named Candra.

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Captive Hearts - S1-E5

Trivia: The duel between Storm and Callisto for leadership of the Morlocks is taken from Uncanny X-Men #170, though there they duelled with knives instead of staves.

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Trivia: Following Disney's acquisition of Fox, the creators of this show pitched a revival to stream on Disney+. Producer Larry Houston has said he would come out of retirement specifically to work on this. The revival - titled X-Men '97 - was announced on Disney+ Day in November of 2021 for a 2024 premiere date, with much of the surviving original cast returning.

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Trivia: Much like in the comics, the Savage Land is a rainforest hidden within Antarctica. In April of 2020, it was reported that scientists discovered evidence of a rainforest that existed in Western Antarctica 90 million years ago.

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