Avengers: Doomsday is rapidly approaching, and with it, the arrival of the X-Men in the MCU. Each new casting announcement sends fans and theorists into wild speculation about the direction of the X-Men reboot. After two distinct eras of X-Men movies and multiple branching timelines, future X-Men films run the risk of retreading old ground. […]
X-Men ’97 Season 2 deepened the story of Marvel’s mutant squad and all their messy family drama. This time, the threat the X-Men faced was the mutant warlord Apocalypse. The X-Men learned (at dire cost) that Apocalypse’s campaign for mutant domination stretched from the ancient past, all the way into a dystopian future, where man, […]
X-Men ’97 Season 2 is cooking with some sizzling hot grease, and Marvel fans are loving it. The sophomore season has already generated more hype than the first one, as the X-Men have gone hopping through time in an attempt to stop one of their greatest foes, Apocalypse, from ever rising to power, threatening the […]
Superhero fatigue is definitely a thing, but X-Men ’97 Season 2 proves the picture is more complex than that. Yes, it’s true that the biggest names are the ones who retain real value; there’s a reason Marvel has brought back Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Doom in Avengers: Doomsday, and the X-Men were bigger than […]
X-Men ’97 Season 2 has been surprisingly light on Wolverine. For years now, many X-Men fans have complained that Wolverine has become overexposed – both in the comics and in Fox’s X-Men movies. All of which makes X-Men ’97 something of a breath of fresh air, because this show knows full well that there are […]
X-Men ’97 Season 2 may be over now, but the discussion about it is certainly not. Marvel fans have been active on social media threads, and after the Season 2 Finale, there’s even more buzz about Season 2 as a whole and what’s to come in X-Men ’97 Season 3. After all, Season 2 of […]
Warning. This article contains spoilers for X-Men ’97 Season 2, episode 6. Death has always been a revolving door in superhero stories, so nobody really expected X-Men ’97 to keep Gambit dead. The Ragin’ Cajun died on Genosha in Season 1, sacrificing himself to destroy a rampaging Sentinel before it could continue its attempted genocide. […]
X-Men ’97 may have just made the X-Men’s biggest villains from the ’90s impossible. As much as modern fans like to think otherwise, the ’90s was a strange time for the X-Men comics. Things started out well, only to head in a disappointing direction after the so-called “X-Odus” – when a group of top X-Men […]
X-Men ’97 has officially set up one of the darkest, most horrific X-Men stories of all time. Marvel’s X-Men relaunch is back for a second season, and it’s going from strength to strength. By now, it’s clear Marvel is handling the expanding cast in a smart way; the first wave broke the X-Men into teams […]
The most recent episode of X-Men ’97 had a shocking moment at the end, and it included a cameo from the Watcher. In fact, this is the second time that the Watcher has shown up in the animated series, and both instances had him show up when one specific character was involved in a defining […]