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8 Intriguing Superhero TV Shows That Were Never Made

As is often said, we are currently living through a hugely prosperous period for superhero TV shows, with Marvel and DC both owning the airwaves with the likes of Daredevil, Arrow, The Flash, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and many others. Whatever your particular taste for comic book capers is, there will most likely be a show for you out there.
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Published: Apr 17, 2016 02:28 pm

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6) Generation X

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Although its vast and hugely-populated world would be perfectly suited to TV, the X-Men franchise has never had a successful live-action television show. Fox are currently working on a few – like Legion and Hellfire – but things could have kickstarted a lot earlier if this series worked out.

A TV movie produced back in 1996, Generation X was actually the very first live-action take on the X-Men universe. Though it wasn’t exactly faithful to the source material, it did include several characters from the comics – like Jubilee, Banshee and Emma Frost (the latter two being the team leaders in this incarnation).

Unfortunately, the pilot was incredibly cheap and cheesy and the planned series never materialized. Thankfully, only four short years later, Bryan Singers’ X-Men restored the mutants to their proper place at the forefront of superhero adaptations. Shame an ­X-Men TV series couldn’t have happened as well, though.

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Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'
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