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* Mesmero appears in the X-Men: Evolution animated series, voiced by Ron Halder in a Middle-Eastern accent.

This version looks like a normal human, his main distinguishing feature being his facial tattoos, but is far more powerful and more adept at hand to hand combat than his comic version.

The majority of his power is implied to come from Apocalypse ; he is shown to match Professor X in his early appearances, but after being discarded by Apocalypse demonstrated no power whatsoever.

In his first appearance in the episode " Mindbender ," Mesmero used several members of the young X-Men ( Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Spyke and Shadowcat ) to steal three rings.

The three rings connected together with a golden rod to form a key that would open the first of three doors sealing away Apocalypse.

He was eventually discovered by Professor X and Rogue, but managed to escape with the key.

In the episode " Under Lock and Key ", Mesmero mind-controlled Gambit to steal half of a spider stone from Warren Worthington III's mansion.

In doing so, he was found and captured by Magneto, who had Mastermind extract the location of the other half of the stone from his mind.

Uniting the stone pieces created a giant metallic spider, which Magneto destroyed.

Only then did he learn that Mesmero had in fact tricked him into destroying it, as doing so was the only way to unlock the second door.

In the two-part episode " Dark Horizon ", he tricked Mystique into unlocking the third door unable to control her mind.

By unlocking the door, Mystique turned to stone.

With his usefulness exhausted, Apocalypse discarded Mesmero.

In the episode " Ascension " Pt.

1, Mesmero was subsequently captured by the X-Men, allowing Professor X to extract Apocalypse's master plan from his mind even though Mesmero still thinks that Apocalypse will return for him.