| "Slave Island" | |
|---|---|
| X-Men episode | |
 Gambit, Jubilee, and Storm are captured. The collars are put around their necks. They are then forced to work. | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 7 |
| Written by | Mark Edward Edens |
| Production code | 107 |
| Original air date | February 13, 1993 |
"Slave Island" is an episode of the animated television series X-Men . It originally aired on February 13, 1993.
Hearing that mutants are welcome on the island nation of Genosha, Professor Xavier sends Storm, Gambit, and Jubilee there for a vacation. Here, they're captured by a Sentinel in the last episode, "Cold Vengeance".
They are taken to a Slave Island, where the mutants are forced to construct a dam. Here, Northstar, Aurora, Sunfire, Mystique, Rictor, Warpath, Blob, Pyro, Feral, Caliban, Domino and a lot of other mutants are also captured. They have a bomb collar on their necks to thwart escape attempts. They are told the guards will turn off the collars so they can use their powers for work. If anyone tries to escape, his/her collar will be reactivated. If they attempt to take it off, it will explode and destroy them. Storm tries to escape, but is captured. So, she's put in isolation in a hot box, which affects her deeply for her claustrophobia.
The other mutants start using forced labor. Jubilee took a metal wire, and gets out of her cell with it. She tells everyone they should jump the guard with the control switch for the collars and be released. But no one listens, so she returns to her cell.
Back at the X-Mansion, Cyclops tries to contact Storm and the others, but he doesn't get through. Right then Wolverine also returns. Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Rogue prepare to head for Genosha. Professor X stays behind because he has some important things to do.
Back in the slave camp, when the mutants are ready for work, Sunfire informs Jubilee they took Gambit during the night. Jubilee attacks the man with the control switch for the collars, but it doesn't work, so she's sent in solitude in a hot box. Someone had told the Sentinels of Jubilee's plan.
Then we see Bolivar Trask telling Henry Peter Gyrich about his newest creation and a factory to build new Sentinels. He calls it Master Mold, which is a huge Sentinel that creates smaller ones. Then Cameron Hodge and a government official named "the Leader" arrive to ask them about the rebellion. Gyrich says he allowed it to happen to break the mutants' spirit of resistance. Then he tells them Gambit had told them of the revolt.
When they're escorting Gambit back to the prison, he escapes. Then the men attempt to shoot Gambit, but Cable saves his life. He tells Gambit, he's looking for someone named the Leader, who's inside the factory. Cable gives Gambit a key to unlock the collar, and heads toward the factory.
Gambit releases Storm and Jubilee, then takes off their collars. Meanwhile, Cable starts shooting at the factory with his bomb gun, and Master Mold loses his power. At the camp, Gambit, Storm and Jubilee attack the Sentinels. Jubilee takes the control switch from one of the guards and liberates everyone. So now all the mutants start fighting with the Guards and the Sentinels. Jubilee tries to ask them to join in stopping the Sentinels, but they refuse, saying they followed her leadership to escape once to a disaster. But they'll destroy the Sentinels after they have claimed all of Genosha. Then the mutants flee. Storm creates a huge thunderstorm that causes the dam to collapse.
At the factory, Cable enters and chases after the Leader, but a Sentinel attacks him from behind. While Cable is busy with the Sentinel, the Leader escapes – although Cable eventually confronts and captures the Leader. When the dam is destroyed, it wipes out the entire Sentinel factory. Then the other X-Men arrive, board the X-Jet and leave for the X-Mansion. Cyclops calls Professor X, but no one answers. When they arrive at the X-Mansion, they find out that it's destroyed.
A review described the Sentinels to be less threatening in the episode in comparison to their roles in other episodes, however the episode setting up various characters, including Master Mold's role in the season finale and the following episode featuring Juggernaut. The review also praised Gambit's characteristics in the episode, with his character having been little introduced at the point of the episode in the series. However, it considered the nature of Cable's character in the episode confusing, to the point that he seems a different character when he later appears. The reviewer notably criticized the show's background artists considering that the scene at the end in which the X-Men return to the untidy mansion could have been better. [1]
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