X-Men

Marvel's mutants have always been the company's most politically charged property, and this collection captures how scattered their screen life became before Disney pulled them home. The throughline is allegory: feared and hunted for being born different, the X-Men have stood in for whatever marginalized group a given era needed them to.

The animated series anchor the collection, from the beloved 1992 cartoon to its 2024 revival X-Men '97, while Fox's long film run veered from prestige (Logan) to the irreverent Deadpool pictures to franchise fatigue. There are tie-in games, making-of featurettes, and comics here too, a reminder of how thoroughly these characters saturated the culture. It is an uneven body of work held together by a single durable idea, and at its best it is superhero storytelling with something real to say.

The X-Men franchise spans 5 series, 2 books, 1 games, 15 films in the CrossBinge catalog.