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The first season of X-Men: Red Team, an American superhero drama television series based on based on the comic book series X-Men Red, published by Marvel Comics, was broadcast in the United States on HBO between X and Y.

Cast

Main

• Jessica Rothe as Jean Grey
• Ella Balinska as Laura Kinney / X-23
• Anna Diop as Ororo Monroe / Storm
• Storm Reid as Gabrielle Kinney / Honey Badger
• Stephan James as Nezhno Abidemi / Gentle
• Tristan Lake Leabu as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler
• Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Shilpa Khatri / Trinary
• Alexander Dreymon as Remy LeBeau / Gambit
• Kingsley Ben-Adir as Namor McKenzie
• Carey Mulligan as Cassandra Nova

Recurring

• Omari Hardwick as King T'Challa / Black Panther
• Harry Lloyd as Professor Charles Xavier

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
• James Marsden 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

To be ordered

• 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 as Cara Beckham, a mutant killed by David Bushell
• Odeya Rush as Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat
• Alden Ehrenreich as Scott Summers / Cyclops
• Maya Hawke as Rachel Summers / Prestige
• Booboo Stewart as Jamie Carlson / Teen Abomination, sent by Cassandra to attack the Red Team near Atlantis
• Jackson Robert Scott as young Charles Xavier
• Raegan Revord as young Cassandra Nova
• Laura Leighton as Sharon Xavier, Charles and Cassandra's mother, Brian's wife
• Chad Lowe as Dr. Brian Xavier, Charles and Cassandra's father, Sharon's husband

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"Jean Grey Returns"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar	August 30, 2023 (2023-08-30)
Through her Phoenix Force link, Jean Grey resurrects after being dead for six years. In her awake, she visits friend Kurt Wagner and envisions the mutants as a part of the United Nations. Decided to integrate the mutants, she presents the idea during a meeting in which ambassador Patricia Marbury manifests against Grey's idea before her head blows up unexpectedly. Blamed for her death, Grey escapes the meeting with the help of Wagner and sisters Laura and Gabrielle Kinney, and receives asylum in Wakanda. There, King T'Challa and resident Nezhno Abidemi help Grey defeat her friend 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 with the help of King Namor McKenzie, keeping Monroe unconscious. She suggests to recruit Shilpa Khatri, an Indian mutant she has been studying. Elsewhere, an unknown woman holds a piece of nanotechnology.
2	2	"The Kinney Sisters"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar & Sara Hess	September 6, 2023 (2023-09-06)
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 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. At age 13, Laura kills Sutter and Rice and manages to escape after being injected with chemical compoud Trigger 42. Laura grows up surviving the streets and swearing revenge against Facility, the company that funded her creation. At age 22, she discovers several other female clones, with one of them, Gabrielle, being still alive. The two team up and kill Robert Chandler, responsible for Trigger 42 and Gabrielle's creation. Some time later, they choose to live under Charles Xavier's care in the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.
3	3	"What's Your Story?"	Kate Herron	Andrew Chambliss	September 13, 2023 (2023-09-13)
Born to a Wakandan warrior and a Russian man from whom he inherited his X-Gene, Abidemi faces a life of persecution due to his outsider father, causing deep psychological trauma. At age 13, he is sent by T'Challa, by Storm's advise, to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. His ability to increase his muscle mass causes several injuries, leading T'Challa to cover Abidemi with Vibranium in order to prevent him from over-exerting. Finding other students from the Institute distracting, Abidemi turns into meditating and a focused lifestyle. His pacifist nature gives him the codename Gentle and he enters Storm's squad. In the present, Grey helps Abidemi with his constant nightmares and scary visions. Grey understands his pain is a subconscious mechanism to prevent himself from using his powers after suffering physical violence from his mother. Following their final session, Grey asks for Abidemi's help to rescue Khatri in India. In a post-credits scene, Gambit fails to help a woman from being killed by a mind-controlled man.
4	4	"Enemy in the Family"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar	September 20, 2023 (2023-09-20)
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 present day, 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 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 recent attack in Wakanda, Gambit calls Grey to update her. As she talks with him, Grey and the team's base are attacked by Teen Abomination, who also seems to be under mind control.
5	5	"King of the Sea"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar	September 27, 2023 (2023-09-27)
6	6	"Nightcrawler"	Kate Herron	Michael Waldron	October 4, 2023 (2023-10-04)
7	7	"The Perfect Storm"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar	October 11, 2023 (2023-10-11)
8	8	"Just like Magic"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar	October 18, 2023 (2023-10-18)
9	9	"Charles and Cassandra"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar	October 25, 2023 (2023-10-25)
10	10	"Poke the Monster"	Kate Herron	Chad Dunbar & Sara Hess	November 1, 2023 (2023-11-01)