Introducing: Jean Grey, Cyclops, Toad, Professor X, Storm, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Magneto. Wow, a lot of characters for one episode. There's also Paul and Duncan Matthews.

The Gist of It: The pilot episode of X-Men: Evolution opens with a Bayville High football game. Basically, Todd "Toad" Tolensky's stealing wallets at the game, so Duncan Matthews and his football playin' buddies decided to teach him that stealing is bad by beating the crap out of our dear amphibian friend. Luckily, Scott Summers comes to the rescue, attempting to look manly and imposing. Todd runs away and a mini-fight between Dunc and Scott ensues, and it is then interrupted by Jean Grey. Due to the interruption, Scott gets his sunglasses knocked off and ends up blowing Duncan away with his nifty little optic blasts--
: Hey! Remember what I told you about calling his powers "nifty"?
Right. Sorry. Anyway, lots of crap happens and our pals Professor Xavier and Storm are introduced. Somewhere else, Wolverine and Sabretooth are introduced. Then Kurt is. And Mystique. And at the very end, Magneto.

Come on, this is the first episode, so it's just a bunch of introductions. Do I REALLY have to write a decent summary about it?

Brotherhood Moments: Well, first, we see Todd stealing things, then almost getting beaten up. THEN we have Mystique forcing him to join by turning herself into a freaky demon and scaring him into the Brotherhood. Then we have Toad talking to Scott. Then we have him hopping around, fighting Kurt, running into Logan, then running away. That's all for the Brotherhood in this episode!

Episode Highlights: Let's see, what were the best parts of this episode? Well, we get to see Duncan hit on Jean and hit Scott. I rather liked that. And we get to see plenty of Toad. Plus, the fight between Toad and Nightcrawler was extremely amusing!

My Opinion on the Episode: I liked it the first time I saw it, but as with every series, the first episode always becomes my least favorite after watching a whole season. It's too boring and lacks, oh, all of my favorite characters. Except for Toad. Yay!

Narration Time!
Rating: On a scale of 1 to 5, I'd have to give it a 4, yo. Why? Cuz I actually had SCREEN TIME in this episode! Oh yeah! And there was no Lance or Pietro or Freddy to get in my way and boss me around! 'Course, I did have that asshole Duncan Matthews nearly kill me, and then that flying witch nearly electrocuted me-- man, how does that bald professor dude think that's gonna get him any recruits?!

Oh, and you know what else sucked about bein' in this episode? You don't see that professor man trying to attack his other potentials, do ya?! I'm the only one they tested that way! Man, I seriously got gypped in that part, you know? Otherwise, this episode kicked because I got to attack that fuzzy blue freak Nightcrawler.

Rosiel: And there you have it, Toad's take on the episode. (What? Is that so hard to believe?! Come on, give me a break, I'm trying to be creative while sporting a nasty headache, and I really don't wanna be writing this episode summary anyway.)