Captive Hearts (X-Men) their romantic date. The episode has been reviewed to be somewhat "dull" and one of the poorest of the series, notably as of the Morlocks and Storm's character. The scene that featured a lightsaber fight has been criticized. However, it has been praised for Cyclops's fake death, and Wolverine's attack on him, as well as Gambit's reaction to the Morlocks plague. Captive Hearts (X-Men) Captive Hearts is the fifth episode from the first season of "X-Men: The Animated Series". Fox Kids broadcast the episode on January 30, 1993. It introduced the "Morlocks" to the series. The episode is loosely based
X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men board for 1992's "X-Men". Funding for this pilot actually came from the budget for "". Instead of making a 13th episode of "RoboCop", Marvel Productions decided to use their funding to have Toei Animation produce the animation for this pilot. The pilot itself is most specifically influenced by issues #129-139 of "Uncanny X-Men". Shortly after this pilot was delivered, Marvel started having financial issues (New World Pictures, who purchased the Marvel Entertainment Group or MEG from Cadence Industries in 1986, sold MEG in January 1989 to the Andrews Group) and stopped work on just about everything but "Muppet Babies". This