Wolverine and the X-Men returns to the Mojoverse in "Hunting Grounds," an episode named after Mojo's reality TV show in which the Reavers hunt down mutants for sport. It's like the Hunger Games, or Battle Royale, except Mojo did it first, thank you very much. Kurt and Wanda get abducted by Spiral and forced to participate in the deadly game for Mojo's amusement, and Kurt doesn't want to play along. Wanda is happy to play along, because she thinks murder is completely fine, whether it's for a reality TV audience or not. This is why it's never going to work out between those two, and Kurt has to go back to his boyfriend Logan in the end.

Spotlight: Spiral

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Maddy and Ryan face a serious challenge in "Stolen Lives," what may be the worst piece of X-Men fiction we've ever seen in the history of this show. It has a lot in common with the notoriously bad X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, except replace Silver Fox with Mystique. That's right! On this show, the love of Mystique's life isn't Destiny, as it was on X-Men Evolution. Instead, it's Logan. Because sure.

Next week's episode: "Hunting Grounds," Wolverine and the X-Men

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The time has come for Rogue and Domino to break up in "Battle Lines," another heart-breaking banger of an episode from Wolverine and the X-Men. If only they were all this good! Maddy sides with Magneto (as usual) on this week's episode, while Ryan deals with his disappointment over his boyfriend Logan's behavior on this show. It's weird to see Wolverine so flustered and out of his depth. Meanwhile, Cyclops is kinda cool now?? The visit to Mr. Sinister's lab put a rebel streak in Scott, and we gotta admit, we like it. He does need to learn how to close his damn eyes, though.

X-Men Spotlight: Tildie Soames

Next week's episode: "Stolen Lives," Wolverine and the X-Men

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Come up to Mr. Sinister's lab! See what's on the slab. It's Scott Summers, who's only there because he got tricked ... definitely not because he's second-guessing his sexuality. Jean Grey has been missing for two years, and suddenly Scott feels very guilty that he hasn't been looking for her. Sinister takes advantage of the situation, which isn't difficult to do, because Scott's sanity is quite frayed by this point.

X-Men Spotlight: Arclight

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Time for a mandatory episode in which Wolverine fights Sabretooth and has nine flashbacks to Weapon X. Nine! Nine flashbacks! We can't do this anymore, Logan. Neither can Hank, who gets a talking-to from Rogue for putting up with Logan's bullshit. Meanwhile, Kitty and Bobby are organizing the X-Mansion library according to how gay each book is, and we'd rather watch an entire episode about that.

X-Men Spotlight: Maverick

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Magneto has finally achieved his life's dream in founding Genosha, but what exactly does that mean? Kurt tries to figure out his old rival's political motivations, and so do Maddy and Ryan, because Wolverine and the X-Men doesn't make it clear. Meanwhile, Mystique heads to the X-Mansion in disguise and, after messing around and kicking everyone in the face, heads back to Genosha and ensures Kurt's kidnapping. Why is Kurt getting kidnapped? Is this ever going to be explained? We're a little worried the answer is "no."

X-Men Spotlight: Dust

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Finally, Bishop gets to be cool in "Future X," the ninth episode of Wolverine and the X-Men. Instead of shooting his gun and never hitting a single target, Bishop actually gets to use his powers to take out a ton of Sentinels and rescue Professor X and Cerebro from getting misused and abused by the robot dictators. Even Xavier gets to be kinda bad-ass in this episode, although he still can't seem to resist the temptation to read the minds of his allies as well as his enemies. Why is he like this? Meanwhile, in the present day, Wolverine has no idea what Charles Xavier is really doing, because Xavier loves to lie about it (again, why? we'll never know).

X-Men Spotlight: Marrow

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Wolverine and the X-Men gets back on track with "Time Bomb," a more serious episode about the Brotherhood kidnapping the mutant Nitro from the MRD. The weird part is, Nitro turned himself in; his power is that he explodes, but he can't control when it happens, and it harms everybody except him. Sounds like exactly the type of mutant that Charles Xavier would abandon, and that is somehow what happens in this episode, even though Xavier has to communicate across space and time in order to send Logan that message.

X-Men Spotlight: Nitro, who isn't actually an X-Man or a mutant in the comics

Next week's episode: "Future X," Wolverine and the X-Men

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Who put this Avengers episode into our X-Men show? Maddy and Ryan struggle through "Wolverine vs. Hulk," one of the weakest episodes so far in Wolverine and the X-Men. Nick Fury is here, and although he's still Logan's ex-boyfriend, he's apparently regressed into an anti-mutant bigot who is also bad at his job. Meanwhile, the Hulk is also here, and so is... the Wendigo? Sure. Why not!

X-Men Spotlight: The Wendigo

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Maddy and Ryan are witnessing Wolverine and the X-Men go off the rails this week with "X-Calibre," the episode that introduces Nightcrawler and also a ton of other characters who don't need to be there. Somehow, this one episode manages to cram together a storyline about cargo ships mistreating mutants while transporting them to Genosha, plus Nightcrawler acting as a solo vigilante who saves those mutants, while also having flashbacks to his childhood in a version of Germany that looks medieval and also pretty crappy (at least until Professor X shows to "rescue" Kurt by brainwashing the whole town). That sounds like enough content to merit an entire episode, doesn't it? Oh, just you wait, because this episode is actually about the Mojoverse! Yeah. Yeah, we don't know either.

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