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The first season of ''[[User:Mrs. Hastings/sandbox/X-Men: Red Team|X-Men: Red Team]]'', an American [[Superhero fiction|superhero]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama]] television series based on [[Marvel Comics]]' series ''[[X-Men Red]]'', was released by [[Disney+]] between August 30 and November 1, 2023, comprising 10 episodes. The season follows a resurrected [[Jean Grey]] as she attempts to categorize mutants as part of the [[United Nations]] and forms a team of mutants to confront the mind-controller [[Cassandra Nova]]. The [[ensemble cast]] consists of [[Jessica Rothe]], [[Ella Balinska]], [[Anna Diop|Anna Diop,]] [[Storm Reid]], [[Simone Ashley]], [[Stephan James (actor)|Stephan James]], [[Tristan Lake Leabu]], [[Alexander Dreymon]], [[Kingsley Ben-Adir]] and [[Carey Mulligan]].

== Episodes ==
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 | EpisodeNumber       = 1
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 1
 | Title               = [[A|Jean Grey Returns]]
 | DirectedBy          = [[Lorene Scafaria]]
 | WrittenBy           = [[User:Mrs. Hastings/sandbox/Chad Dunbar|Chad Dunbar]]
 | Aux2                = {{—}}
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|08|30}}
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 | ShortSummary        = In 2018 New York City, [[Jean Grey]] resurrects through her [[Phoenix Force (comics)|Phoenix Force]] link after being dead for six years. She visits friend [[Nightcrawler (character)|Kurt Wagner]] and envisions humans and [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|mutants]] integrated. Decided to succeed, she presents the idea during a [[United Nations]] meeting, in which ambassador Patricia Marbury manifests against Grey's idea before her head blows up unexpectedly. Blamed for Marbury's death, Grey escapes with the help of Wagner and sisters [[X-23|Laura]] and [[Gabby Kinney|Gabrielle Kinney]], and receives asylum in [[Wakanda]]. There, [[Black Panther (character)|King T'Challa]] and resident [[Gentle (character)|Nezhno Abidemi]] help Grey defeat her friend [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Ororo Monroe]], who attacks Wakanda under the mental control of unknown forces. Grey recruits Wagner, the Kinney sisters, Abidemi, and Monroe to investigate Marbury's assassination, and hides in [[Atlantis (Marvel Comics)|Atlantis]] with the help of King [[Namor|Namor McKenzie]], keeping Monroe unconscious. She suggests to recruit [[A|Shilpa Khatri]], an Indian mutant she has been studying. Elsewhere, an unknown woman{{efn|Identified off-screen as [[Cassandra Nova]].}} holds a piece of [[nanotechnology]].
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 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 2
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 2
 | Title               = [[A|Scars in Body and Mind]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar and [[Sara Hess]]
 | Aux2                = Gentle
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|09|6}}
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 | ShortSummary        = Born in 1984 to a Wakandan warrior and a Russian man from whom he inherited his [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|X-Gene]], Abidemi faces a life of persecution due to his outsider father, causing deep psychological trauma. In 1997, at age 13, his body is covered with [[Vibranium]] to prevent him from over-exerting due to his superhuman abilities. He is sent by T'Challa, by Storm's advise, to [[Professor X|Charles Xavier]]'s Institute for Higher Learning. Finding other students from the Institute distracting, Abidemi turns into meditating and a focused lifestyle. His pacifist nature gives him the codename Gentle while fighting in Storm's squad. In 2010, Grey helps Abidemi with his constant nightmares and scary visions. She understands his pain is a subconscious mechanism to prevent himself from using his powers after suffering physical violence from his mother. In 2018, Abidemi meditates as Grey asks for his help to rescue Khatri in India. In a [[post-credits scene]], [[Gambit (Marvel Comics)|Gambit]] fails to stop a crazed man from killing a mutant as Cassandra watches from afar.
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 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 3
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 3
 | Title               = [[A|We've All Got Baggage]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar and [[Andrew Chambliss]]
 | Aux2                = Trinary
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|09|13}}
 | LineColor           = B03060
 | ShortSummary        = Born in 1999, Shilpa Khatri has the ability to control all forms of technology and faces prejudice from her family and school colleagues. Despite this, she grows to cherish and improve her powers. In 2018, she transfers money from 25 Indian CEOs to the accounts of every working Indian woman. Khatri's father finds out and reports her. Before being caught and imprisoned by the Indian Mutant Defense Force (IMDF), she sends a voice message to Grey for help. Grey, Abidemi, and Namor rescue her, and Khatri takes control of a [[Sentinel (comics)|Sentinel]] deployed by IMDF to escape the facility. Khatri decides to join Grey's team. Back in Atlantis, she is able to identify and remove the Nano-Sentinel, a mind-controlling device, from Storm's brain. Meanwhile, Gambit is informed that David Bushell, responsible for killing mutant Cara Beckham, has been contained and arrested. Aware of Storm's similar recent attack in Wakanda, Gambit calls Grey to update her. As they talk, Grey and the team's base is attacked by [[Teen Abomination]].
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 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 4
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 4
 | Title               = [[A|The Kinney Sisters]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar
 | Aux2                = Laura and Gabrielle
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|09|20}}
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 | ShortSummary        = In 1994, failing to recreate the [[Weapon X]] experiment, Dr. Martin Sutter recruits geneticist Dr. Sarah Kinney, who suggests the creation of a female clone. She succeeds by mixing her own DNA with [[Wolverine (character)|James Howlett]]'s, the original Weapon X subject. Kinney is forced by Dr. [[Zander Rice]], Sutter's protégé, to surrogate the birth and raise the child, named Laura. In the following years, Laura is submitted to intense training and experiments, which ultimately leads to her hatred against herself and others. In 2006, at age 11, Laura kills Sutter and Rice and manages to escape after being injected with chemical compound Trigger 42. Laura grows up surviving the streets and swearing revenge against her creators. In 2008, she discovers several other female clones, with one of them, [[Gabby Kinney|Gabrielle]], being still alive. The two team up and kill Robert Chandler, responsible for Trigger 42 and Gabrielle's creation. Shortly after, they decide to live in the Institute and become close to Xavier. In a post-credits scene, Cassandra has a nightmare.
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 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 5
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 5
 | Title               = [[A|The Avenging Child]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar
 | Aux2                = Namor
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|09|27}}
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 | ShortSummary        = In 1922, Atlantean princess Fen acquires info on humans through Leonard McKenzie, a sailor who was instructed to find Vibranium in the Antarctic Ocean and befriended her. They fall in love and Fen decides to live with Leonard after getting pregnant. Her father, Thakorr, kills Leonard. Fen resents Thakorr and names her child Namor, which means "avenging son". Due to being an Atlantean ''Homo mermanus'' and also having the X-Gene, Namor presents superhuman strength, speed and durability, as well as water-related abilities. It is shown that, in his youth, Namor battled in the [[World War II]] alongside [[Steve Rogers]] and befriended and helped Grey in various missions. In 2018, Teen Abomination is subdued by Namor and Trinary finds a Nano-Sentinel in his brain. Connected to Grey's powers, Trinary manages to locate the device's origin, a warehouse in New York. There, Grey, Gambit, and Storm find proof of Cassandra Nova's activies and are interrupted when Cassandra herself shows up.
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 | EpisodeNumber       = 6
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 6
 | Title               = [[A|Crawling Nights]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar and [[Michael Waldron]]
 | Aux2                = Nightcrawler
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|10|04}}
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 | ShortSummary        = In 1990, living in a German village under the alias of a married noblewoman, [[Mystique (character)|Mystique]] falls in love and becomes pregnant of the mysterious [[Azazel (Marvel Comics)|Azazel]]. During  difficult delivery, her true form is revealed. A torch-wielding mob chase Mystique and she passes out after putting baby Kurt inside a chest in a lake. The child is raised by [[Margali Szardos]], a Romani [[Fortune-telling|fortune teller]] and circus member, and lives happily in the circus despite its owner, Max Getmann. Kurt grows close to Stephan and Jimaine, Margali's biological children, and promises to Stephan to kill him if he ever kills someone. In 2000, Stephan murders three circus-goers and Kurt accidentally kills him. Chased by another furious mob including Getmann, Kurt is rescued by a priest, whose church is burned down by the mob. Before Getmann gets to kill Kurt, Charles Xavier appears and rescues him, programming the mob to remember Kurt dying. In a post-credits scene set in 1997, Xavier talks to a young Abidemi before finding a photo of himself alongside Cassandra in their child years.
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 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 7
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 7
 | Title               = [[A|Somebody to Control]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar
 | Aux2                = Gambit
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|10|11}}
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 | ShortSummary        = In 1982, baby Remy is left in the maternity ward after birth for having red eyes and is kidnapped by members of the Thieves Guild, who believe he is "le diable blanc", a figure who would lead them to a prophesied holy land. Raised by street thieves, Remy learns tactics of thievery and, at age 10, attempts to steal from Jean-Luc LeBeau, the Guild's leader. LeBeau simpathizes with him and adopts him as his son, teaching him, throughout the following years, fighting skills. In 2006, Remy has adopted the Gambit alias to act as an [[anti-hero]] and has controlled his ability to turn objects into fire weapons. One day, he helps Storm defeat [[Toad (comics)|Toad]] and they soon create a strong relationship and Storm invites him to join the X-Men, which he refuses to maintain his independency. In 2018, Gambit accidentally burns down Cassandra's warehouse during a fight against her, which she escapes. Back in Atlantis, the Red Team start searching for Cassandra's background when Charles appears and reveals she is his evil twin sister.
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 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 8
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 8
 | Title               = [[A|Estranged Twins]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar
 | Aux2                = Charles and Cassandra
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|10|18}}
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 | ShortSummary        = Charles explains that every person has a [[Mummudrai]], a spirit that is their equal and opposite, and his created a physical form while in the womb, becoming a human twin. He understood their evilness and tried to kill them with his psychic abilities, causing their mother to have a miscarriage. While pronounced stillborn, Cassandra's spirit survived and spent decades building a new body and planning revenge. Charles further mentions that Cassandra tried to kill his X-Men years prior using Sentinels she acquired from Donald, [[Bolivar Trask]]'s cousin, but she was stopped and killed. Trinary discovers Cassandra is planning to implant millions of Nano-Sentinels in human minds to generate a "hate machine" against mutants. After debating, the Red Team join forces through Charles and Grey to maximize Trinary's power. She manages to destroy all traces of the Nano-Sentinels. In retaliation, Cassandra invades Atlantis's surface disguise alongside [[Rachel Summers]], Grey's daughter from an alternate timeline.
 }}
 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 9
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 9
 | Title               = [[A|The Almighty Storm]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar
 | Aux2                = Storm
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|10|25}}
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 | ShortSummary        = 
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 {{Episode list
 | EpisodeNumber       = 10
 | EpisodeNumber2      = 10
 | Title               = [[A|Get Off My Mind]]
 | DirectedBy          = Lorene Scafaria
 | WrittenBy           = Chad Dunbar and Sara Hess
 | Aux2                = Jean Grey
 | OriginalAirDate     = {{Start date|2023|11|01}}
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 | ShortSummary        = Under Cassandra's control, Rachel battles the Red Team, injuring Trinary and Nightcrawler. They escape and travel to South Korea, where Cassandra hijacks the military into becoming her army against mutants. With [[Shuri (character)|Shuri]]'s help, the Red Team creates copies of [[Magneto (Marvel Comics)|Magneto]]'s helmet to free any one infected by Nano-Sentinels. Again enraged by the Team's actions against her, Cassandra activates bombs throughout South Korea as an mind-controlled [[Jean Grey (film character)|alternate version of Jean Grey]] fights the Red Team. While being psychically visited by Charles, Cassandra is infected by a reprogrammed Nano-Sentinel that makes her feel empathy, instantly filling her with regret. Grey also visits her mind and promises to help her atone, whereas Charles says he can not forgive her. Grey and husband [[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Scott]] talk to Rachel about her relationship with her parents. The Red Team ask for [[Doctor Strange]]'s help to erase Rachel's and alt-Grey's memories and return them to their proper timelines. Knowing that Cassandra is defeated, Grey asks whose Red Team members would like to remain active. Namor decides to return to his duties in Atlantis, whilst the remain choose to stay in the team. Grey receives a phone call from the [[White House]]. In a post-credits scene, Grey dreams of a threatening male voice saying they are coming for her.
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== Cast and characters ==

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| header   = Season 1 main cast

| image1   = Jessica Rothe.jpg
| caption1 = Jessica Rothe

| image2   = Ella Balinska during interview in 2019 02.png
| caption2 = Ella Balinska

| image3   = Anna Diop (31627443202) (cropped).jpg
| caption3 = Anna Diop

| image4   = Storm reid sc 2020 2.jpg
| caption4 = Storm Reid

| image5   = Stephan James.jpg
| caption5 = Stephan James

| image6   = Tristan Lake Leabu.jpg
| caption6 = Tristan Lake Leabu

| image7   = Kingsley Ben-Adir during an interview, January 2021.png
| caption7 = Kingsley Ben-Adir

| image8   = Channing Tatum (19276524319).jpg
| caption8 = Channing Tatum

| image9   = Carey Mulligan - 2018 (45646489364) (cropped).jpg
| caption9 = Carey Mulligan
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=== Main ===
* [[Jessica Rothe]] as [[Jean Grey]]
* [[Ella Balinska]] as [[X-23|Laura Kinney / X-23]]
* [[Anna Diop]] as [[Storm (Marvel Comics)|Ororo Monroe / Storm]]
* [[Storm Reid]] as [[Gabby Kinney|Gabrielle Kinney / Honey Badger]]
* [[Simone Ashley]] as [[A|Shilpa Khatri / Trinary]]
* [[Stephan James (actor)|Stephan James]] as [[Gentle (character)|Nezhno Abidemi / Gentle]]
* [[Tristan Lake Leabu]] as [[Nightcrawler (character)|Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler]]
* [[Kingsley Ben-Adir]] as [[Namor|Namor McKenzie]]
* [[Channing Tatum]] as [[Gambit (Marvel Comics)|Remy LeBeau / Gambit]]
* [[Carey Mulligan]] as [[Cassandra Nova]]

=== Recurring ===
* [[Omari Hardwick]] as [[Black Panther (character)|King T'Challa / Black Panther]], the king of Wakanda and Grey and Monroe's close friend
* [[Harry Lloyd]] as [[Professor X|Charles Xavier]], a pacifist [[Telepathy|telepath]] and founder of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
* [[Booboo Stewart]] as [[Teen Abomination|Jamie Carlson / Teen Abomination]], sent by Cassandra to attack the Red Team in Atlantis

=== Guest ===
* [[Lily Allen]] as Patricia Marbury, a British [[United Nations ambassador]] killed by Cassandra to incriminate Jean Grey
* [[Kirby Howell-Baptiste]] as Dr. Sarah Kinney, Laura's surrogate mother and responsible for her creation
* [[Roark Critchlow]] as Dr. Martin Sutter, head of the Facility top-secret program
* [[Luke Hemsworth]] as Robert Chandler, creator of Trigger 42
* [[Julian Morris]] as Dr. Zander Rice, Sutter's protégé
* Dante Brown as 13-years-old Nezhno Abidemi
* [[Simona Brown]] as Abidemi's mother, a Wakandan warrior
* [[Tom Wlaschiha]] as Abidemi's Russian father
* [[Eli Goree]] as Q'Lako, Abidemi's mother's friend, who mocked her son
* [[Mohan Kapur]] as Miko Khatri, Shilpa's traitor father
* [[Jeremy Bobb]] as David Bushell, an ordinary citizen who, under Cassandra's control, kills a mutant named Cara
* [[Erin Moriarty (actress)|Erin Moriarty]] as Cara Beckham, a mutant killed by David Bushell
* [[Karla Souza]] as Fen, an Atlantean princess
* [[Fawad Khan]] as Leonard McKenzie, a sailor sent to the Antarctic Ocean to retrieve Vibranium
* [[Zahn McClarnon]] as Thakorr, former emperor of Atlantis and Fen's father
* [[Jonathan Groff]] as [[Captain America|Steve Rogers / Captain America]], a physically-enhanced World War II veteran
* [[Ana de Armas]] as [[Mystique (character)|Raven Darkhölme / Mystique]], a charming mutant with shape-shifting abilities and Wagner's mother
* [[Ben Foster (actor)|Ben Foster]] as [[Azazel (Marvel Comics)|Azazel]], a powerful mutant with demonic appearance and Wagner's father
* Petr Kotlár as Stephan Szardos, Margali's biological older son
* [[Edyta Górniak]] as Margali Szardos, a Romani fortune teller and member of Getmann's circus who adopts Wagner
* [[Ever Anderson]] as Jimaine Szardos, Margali's biological younger daughter
* [[Viggo Mortensen]] as Max Getmann, a ruthless and violent circus owner who profits off mutants
* [[Kurt Russell]] as Jean-Luc LeBeau, leader of the Thieves Guild and Remy's adoptive father
* [[Jay Baruchel]] as [[Toad (comics)|Todd Tolansky / Toad]], a mutant with prehensile tongue, a slimy substance that he spits onto others, and enhanced agility
* [[Chad Lowe]] as Dr. Brian Xavier, Charles and Cassandra's father, Sharon's husband
* [[Laura Leighton]] as Sharon Xavier, Charles and Cassandra's mother, Brian's wife
* [[Jackson Robert Scott]] as young Charles Xavier
* [[A|Raegan Revord]] as young Cassandra Nova
* [[Maya Hawke]] as [[Rachel Summers]], Jean and Scott's daughter from an alternate timeline
* [[Leah Harvey]] as [[Shuri (character)|Shuri]], T'Challa genius sister
* [[Aidan Gillen]] as [[Doctor Strange]], the Master of Mystic Arts, who helps the Red Team
* [[Alden Ehrenreich]] as [[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Scott Summers / Cyclops]], Grey's husband
* [[Famke Janssen]] as [[Jean Grey (film character)|Jean Grey]], a version of the character previously featured in [[20th Century Fox]]'s [[X-Men (film series)|''X-Men'' film series]]

== Critical response ==
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The [[review aggregator]] website [[Rotten Tomatoes]] reports a 96% approval rating with an average rating of 8/10, based on 327 reviews. The critical consensus reads, "A delightful distraction from previous Marvel Comics adaptations, ''X-Men: Red Team'' presents dephtful characters with a powerhouse storytelling." [[Metacritic]], which uses a [[weighted average]], assigned a score of 87 out of 100 based on 50 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".

== Notes ==
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