Marvel made a live-action TV show about mutants during the 2000s ... without Wolverine or Magneto or any other X-Men. Technically, it wasn't even an adaptation of "X-Men" comics ... but the studio making actual "X-Men" movies at the time wasn't happy and sued Marvel over licensing rights. "Mutant X" premiered in syndication in October 2001, a little more than a year after 20th Century Fox released its first "X-Men" film. Though there was a comic titled "Mutant X," the TV show had no explicit connection to any comic. Fox, which bought the film rights to the X-Men from Marvel in 1993, sued for breach of contract and false advertising in 2001.