In which the first X-Men film turns 25 (and holds up remarkably well).

X-PLAINED:

• A startling absence
• The X-Men’s big-screen debut
• An X-film that might have been
• X-Men (2000), in general; and related publications
• Some very casting
• What makes a good adaptation
• Wolverine’s hair
• Those costumes
• The cinematic X-Men
• The cinematic Brotherhood
• Sabretooth’s eyebrows
• Condensed backstories
• The movie magic of magnetism
• The worst toy of all time
• Going to school with superheroes
• Things we’d like to have seen in the movie

NEXT EPISODE: The origin of Thunderbird! (Not that one.) (Or that one.)

The visual companion to this episode is the film X-Men (2000).

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