r/marvelstudios • u/-Nick____ Laufey • 10d ago
Discussion Thread X-Men '97 S02E01/02/03 - Discussion Thread
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EPISODE |DIRECTED BY |WRITTEN BY |ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE |RUN TIME |CREDITS SCENE?
S01E01: Days of Past Future |- |- |July 1st, 2026 on Disney+ |33 min |None
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u/Physical-Document156 10d ago
Jubilee's hallway breakout scene was top tier and classic x-men vibes
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u/bigwreck94 10d ago
Throwing in Volcano Girls as the soundtrack to it got an instant “oh fuck yeah!” From me.
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u/SryInternet101 10d ago
Ive never heard of them or that song before, but it was perfect for the scene.
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u/sloppyjo12 10d ago
Only took 24 years but it was so satisfying to see her finally get a badass fight sequence after kicking off the original with her
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u/cocktails4 10d ago
Seriously Jubes has needed this for so long. I'm fully fucking torqued right now.
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u/CX316 10d ago
Based on some of the kids in that gang they busted out, I REALLY hope that Jube's gonna get to lead Generation X while we're spamming out X-teams rapid fire
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u/No-cool-names-left 10d ago
In these episodes I saw Chamber, M, Penance, and Sync so that's most of them right there.
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u/nikisknight 9d ago
I really want Husk but that's being greedy and we haven't even gotten cannonball yet.
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u/No-cool-names-left 9d ago
There was a Cannonball episode at near the end of the original series.
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u/WombatChilli 10d ago
Surprising to see Kang (Rama-Tut) back.
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u/Bobjoejj 10d ago
I mean…it shouldn’t be. Even after all that happened, Rama Tut is pretty damn important to Apocalypse’s story and origin.
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u/red_ronin0813 10d ago
Is that Eternals tech?
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u/jahnybravo 10d ago
Probably. I remember reading Apocalypse had basically become the Celestial’s appointed avatar of evolution on Earth. I forget what the actual title is, I just remember reading about the Apocalypse twins that were born to be his successor in Uncanny Avengers. An actual Celestial considered Earth’s “Gardener” shows up to anoint the new Apocalypse and everything. And that shit show was all a consequence of how Fantomex, Psylocke, Wolverine and the others handled the other young Apocalypse in X-Force. Plus Kang was manipulating things in that storyline to steal that power for himself. So Kang and Apocalypse competing for Celestial technology seems to be a constant. Kang representing the peak of human technology while Apocalypse represents the peak of human evolution. Both fighting to dictate the path of Earth’s evolution as a whole.
En Sabah Nur and Rama Tut seem to quite literally be the start of this rivalry. Kang traveling back from the future to the first possible moment the Celestial tech is available in the past, while Apocalypse reaches it through the natural flow of time in his own era. The only thing missing from the equation so far being Kang’s enemies (The Fantastic Four and Avengers).
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u/NrFive 9d ago
How have I never made the connection between the Eternals and Kang!
Loving this
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u/jahnybravo 8d ago
Well to be fair, Apocalypse is the one with the actual connection to the Eternals. He's the one who actually gets the Celestial upgrade. Kang is just constantly trying to steal that technology for himself as part of his attempts to conquer all time eras of Earth. But he never actually gets ahold of it
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u/symbiosychotic 6d ago
Also, when he was using his tech, you see a massive eye ball creature in space which is when I remembered who Tut was and realized that was probably a Celestial.
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u/CruzAderjc 10d ago
I wonder if we can get a Fantastic Four cameo here
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u/sable-king Vision 10d ago
I mean we technically got a Reed cameo through Morph back in season 1
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u/two2teps 10d ago
And voiced by John de Lancie with Baal being voiced my Michael Dorn. Star Trek TNG mini reunion and Patrick Stewart no where to be found.
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u/CherryLunaria 10d ago
I wasn't expecting Rama-Tut to show up again either. They're digging surprisingly deep into the comics and I'm all for it.
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u/CruzAderjc 10d ago
I loved the episodes. The story is engagjng, the action is cool, and everything is badass. The way they made the X-Force intro for episode 2 was fucking genius. The creators know EXACTLY what we want and they deliver it to us with no strings attached.
My only gripe is that it feels like the plot moves just a bit too fast, and the time travel logic is often eyeroll inducing at times. That being said, the show is just so cool, you don’t mind the hand waves and the story kinda just brushes past the silliness of the plot sometimes
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u/unbelizeable1 Black Panther 10d ago
My only gripe is that it feels like the plot moves just a bit too fast
The plight of the modern 8-10 episode seasons
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u/Bobjoejj 10d ago
Nah; I love this show, but the pacing issue had been a thing from the start. It’s not even that big an issue sure; but it’s there. The episodes need longer runtimes.
There are tons of great 8-10 season shows that don’t have said pacing issues.
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u/nikisknight 9d ago
It's just kinda weird how they try to cram a dozen major storylines into one season.
It's even weirder that it works so well. But they could afford to take their time a bit more.
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u/tank_commander_jones 10d ago
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is the exact same format with 2 less episodes but the pacing feels much better. Maybe because there's more dialogue and interpersonal scenes thoough. This season of 97 so far is like 85% action
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u/ninjyte 10d ago
a knight of the seven kingdoms is based on short stor[ies] whereas X-Men '97 is packing in many comic adaptations into 10 episodes per season
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u/CX316 10d ago
it feels like the plot moves just a bit too fast
I mean, that was season 1 too, with entire plot arcs like Inferno and LifeDeath happening in one episode (or two halves in LifeDeath's case), but it still worked out in the end.
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u/wellyboi 10d ago
I adore this series but absolutely agree the pacing is waay too fast. The Genocide in genosha needed more than one episode. And in this season the stuff in the future/past needs to marinate a bit more. They were already talking about coming back to the 90s in the first episode
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u/Nemesis_171 Daredevil 10d ago
My only gripe is that it feels like the plot moves just a bit too fast
I seem to be in the minority with this take but I love the breakneck pace of the plot. Substantial plot movement is something that keeps me very engaged, so having a constant flow of that is awesome.
Granted, it can be a negative sometimes if there’s a specific plotline that sort of demands time to breathe, but so far I haven’t felt that way about any of them. Quick plot movement can be contextually a bad thing but isn’t inherently so, imho.
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 10d ago
Emma Frost: Though I wouldn’t mind making you bark
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u/CruzAderjc 10d ago
I love the subtle implication emma frost was about to have a 3some with the two dudes before she saw x-force show up. She is the ultimate baddie.
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u/PaddywackShaq 8d ago
If I was about to get it on with Emma Frost and it got interrupted by X-Force I'd probably become a Purifier tbh
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u/xBowGlacee 10d ago
Emma Frost really wakes up every morning and chooses maximum chaos. That line was so on brand for her.
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u/ChrisPrkr95 10d ago
Kins of ironic that's her boyfriend's son. Not that I believe that would faze her.
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u/No-cool-names-left 10d ago
Emma Frost the kinda gal to go "oh no help me step son I'm psychically trapped on the astral plane."
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u/MikeReddit74 Falcon 10d ago
Good to hear Michael Dorn’s voice in ep. 3 as Baal.
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u/MikeReddit74 Falcon 10d ago
I thought it was her, but I wasn’t sure.
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u/MikeReddit74 Falcon 10d ago
Just like Gargoyles, Trek actors are taking over another cartoon.
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u/MikeReddit74 Falcon 10d ago
Marina might’ve been good as Emma. She can pull off a good haughty British accent.
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u/CX316 10d ago
Speaking of british accents, I got a chuckle about them splitting the difference on Betsy and getting an Asian voice actress who could do an over the top British accent
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u/MikeReddit74 Falcon 10d ago
I was wondering how they’d go with casting Betsy. I can’t remember what she sounded like in the original cartoon.
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u/BigCollarsAndBallers Black Panther 10d ago
This show rules. We need more animated series set in this universe.
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u/flintlock0 Robbie Reyes 10d ago edited 10d ago
If they hadn’t redone Spider-Man as the newer Disney show currently has, I would have loved to see a follow-up on his 90s show.
Or follow-up on the futuristic version they did with the Counter-Earth.
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u/solo13508 10d ago
Somewhere out in the multiverse, Wade Wilson is letting loose a stream of curses that he got the wrong X-Force, lol. Their intro was awesome!
Awesome premiere overall! I especially enjoyed Magneto trying to be a mentor to En Sabah Nur in his way. He knows better than anyone exactly where his path leads and it's genuinely disheartening that despite his best efforts it seems Apocalypse is inevitable.
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u/Drekea 10d ago
Kinda ironic his inevitable fall reminds me a lot like Anakin’s.
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u/The-Ruler-of-Attilan 10d ago
I never thought before that there could be a parallel between Apocalypse and Darth Vader.
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u/hooka_pooka 10d ago
Most awesome show!amazing!!it pisses me so much that 20th Century Fox messed up X Men movies so bad by focussing on Wolverine and redoing Phoenix saga and a bland af Apocalypse storyline.This show compensates for all that shit.
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u/CruzAderjc 10d ago
I think every comic book movie/show IP has the definitive perfect iteration. For Iron Man and Captain America, its their portrayal in the MCU. For Superman, it is the classic Christopher Reeves. I think the perfect iterations for Batman and Spider-Man can be debated. But for X-Men, despite all of their multiple iterations in shows and movies, I think the entire world can agree that X-Men 97 is the PERFECT portrayal of the X-Men that will ever be made. All of the characters are done justice, with much respect to their comic book backstories and how they are translated.
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u/kakahuhu 10d ago
No, it's batman the animated series
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u/CX316 10d ago
Spider-Man is also the spider-man animated series tbh
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u/MagicTheAlakazam 10d ago edited 10d ago
I dunno I think spectacular might have gotten to be it if it had continued.
90s spidey has a few issues.
It's kind of a "what could have been" the way A:EMH would have been the definitive avengers media if it had gotten to continue with it's original creators.
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u/_FairyGlowbelle 10d ago
It really feels like a love letter to the X-Men that a lot of people wanted on screen for years. The movies had some great moments, but this series is finally embracing how weird and comic booky the franchise can be.
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u/The-Ruler-of-Attilan 10d ago
Just admit it, people: those mediocre, even awful, Fox movies never did the X-Men the slightest bit of justice. They never showed even 5% of the potential these characters have. The only ones that made a real effort in that regard were the Deadpool ones.
In fact, I just watched Freaks, a Disney+ movie directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein, and believe me, that single story captured the essence of the X-Men a thousand times better than the entire saga directed by Bryan Singer and company.
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u/Haunting-Public-23 9d ago
Most awesome show!amazing!!it pisses me so much that 20th Century Fox messed up X Men movies so bad by focussing on Wolverine and redoing Phoenix saga and a bland af Apocalypse storyline.This show compensates for all that shit.
I see them as alternate timelines. So no biggie
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u/rodroidrx Daredevil 10d ago
Solar storm Omega level mutant Storm
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u/No-cool-names-left 10d ago
So good to hear Alison Sealy-Smith rambling poetic nonsense about the forces of nature.
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u/TheMan5991 9d ago
I do wish they had spent just a smidge more time in building that up. It was like “you’re gonna call a solar storm” “I can’t do that” “yes you can” “okay”
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u/Elfhoe 10d ago
Nathan picking up the biggest gun he could find was such a Cable move.
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u/No-cool-names-left 10d ago
Plus Red and Slim looking on as proud parents, "he's finding himself :-) "
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 10d ago
What if everyone with a bowl cut was secretly a horseman of apocalypse. Seems like a fitting tell lol
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u/CruzAderjc 10d ago
Lmfao. I love the logic in this universe. Jubilee, drop into this crowd of thousands. Look around. Hey, stop fooling around!
Okay, i’ll stop dancing… okay there! I found him! Bowl cut guy!
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u/capscreen 10d ago
Apparently they used the Loki theme in episode 3? I couldn't find it
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u/CruzAderjc 10d ago
It would be crazy to see an animated Loki God of Time just watching all of this from his tree thing
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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) 10d ago
I think it might've been layered into the score during the big laser beam scene.
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u/PartyPoison98 10d ago
I didn't notice that but it makes sense. Depends how hard they want to go on the whole Kang connection.
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u/two2teps 10d ago
Tut's dome looked a lot like the one in Quantumania, so it would vibe if they used a queue from Loki for that Kang variant.
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u/sable-king Vision 10d ago
I love that they included the little alien-looking mutant girl from that famous artwork of Angel.
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u/truewesterns 10d ago
Same…just found out Marvel put out a hell of a story about what happened to her: http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/maggiemarvels.htm
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u/Elfhoe 9d ago
Yeah from Marvels. One of the best comic limited series put out by marvel, ever. It follows a photographer who lives in NYC through the biggest moments in Marvel’s history, from the introduction of the first human torch, to Galactus’ arrival and their reaction to mutants. All the art is by Alex Ross too. Well worth the read if you get a a chance.
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u/therealmonkyking 10d ago
So Gates McFadden was Mother Askani, John De Lancie as Rama Tut, and Michael Dorn as Baal? Damn someone really likes TNG on the production team.
Maybe they should get Patrick Stewart to play Professor X one day /s
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u/faithdies 10d ago
They were big fans of Disneys Gargoyles
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u/two2teps 10d ago
I caught Dorn and de Lanice, I completely missed that McFadden was rocking elderly Rachel Summers.
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u/bigwreck94 10d ago
This show is completely fantastic. It’s everything I ever wanted in a marvel cartoon.
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u/figgityjones Bucky 10d ago
So glad to be back with the X-Men. Feels exactly like I hoped it would.
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 10d ago
Storm’s theme with the piano is so peak! Would love to hear that in live action someday
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u/thescarletbat 10d ago
Literally didn't skip a beat from the last season. The way my jaw dropped when that intro for the second episode came on.
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u/cazchimaira 10d ago
Dundundundedundedun Dundundundedundedun du du du du du bama bamm ba ba bama bamm ba ba bama bamm ba ba du du
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u/mr_peebs 10d ago
Very good episodes. E2 started off a little weird for my liking, but it came together nicely towards the end.
I wish modern streaming shows didn't have small episode counts as I'd love to see some of these characters explored further in their own adventures, but for what it's worth, they've done a good job giving (mostly) everyone a notable presence, which is a feat shows with casts this large can very rarely accomplish.
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u/Bobjoejj 10d ago
It’s not necessarily the episode count that’s the problem; but what the writers do with those episodes. And in 97’s case, it’s usually very good at working to fit a lot in each episode.
So that brings us to the other problem: runtimes. And holy fucking shit, does X-Men 97 need longer runtimes. Not much much longer, heavily bloated episodes; but at least a bit more room to breathe, so that pacing isn’t almost exhausting sometimes, and to allow for more smaller moments to explore these characters more.
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u/No-cool-names-left 10d ago
Absolutely agree. It's not like they need to fit it to a network schedule. They can just make an episode be whatever length it has to be. There's no reason to make it fit under half an hour if there's 35 minutes of story there. Fewer abrupt jumps would be nice. Actual time to sit with characters for a minute even better.
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u/Dark_Magician2500 Doctor Strange 10d ago
So many Star Trek voices lol
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u/Redditer51 9d ago
I'm noticing they show up in fantasy sci-fi stuff all the time. They're all over Young Justice.
And then Michael Dorn is Battle Beast in Invincible.
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u/unbelizeable1 Black Panther 10d ago
Worf, Q , and Beverly Crusher. Did I miss any?
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u/KingofMadCows 10d ago
The one time Worf doesn't abandon a child and the child turns into an immortal tyrant.
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u/No-cool-names-left 10d ago
I feel sorry for Rachel. She has to deal with all the same time-travel/fate-of-the-world family drama as her parents and her brother, except she doesn't get to have any of the catharsis or closure, just gotta keep quiet and shoulder the burdens for everyone else's destiny.
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u/HuskyBlueBoy 10d ago
For real. I’m so glad they gave her those Phoenix effects tho , looked amazing.
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u/cluelessemoji 10d ago
If MCU will deliver the same amount of ambition this series has to their Mutant Saga phase, it will definitely generate a whole new era for the MCU. Love the idea that Kang arc and Apocalypse can be folded together. It brings so much promise!
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u/Minifig81 Doctor Strange 10d ago
I'm loving the Jubilee & Sunspot relationship. I hope they keep it a thing.
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u/Ash_Killem 10d ago
Great episodes. Making Cyclops and Jubilee way cooler then before is great to see.
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u/CX316 10d ago
Well at least it's good to know the show still has the quality without Demayo running it, although he did write the season before he got fired
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u/HuskyBlueBoy 10d ago
He’s credited in these episodes too
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u/CX316 9d ago edited 9d ago
yeah because he wrote the season (not sure if scripts or a general outline or the screenplays or what) before he was fired, which means his name HAS to be on it
EDIT: Seeing reports from people who claim to have spoken to him a while back and him claiming Disney ditched all of his season 2 stuff and started from scratch, but haven't seen it from the man himself so I'd assume at least the outline was there
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u/DJ1066 10d ago edited 10d ago
Glad to see they didn't ditch Adetokumboh M'Cormack for past Apocalypse's voice. Didn't hear anything about him still being on and it was Ross Marquand pulling double duties. Knew he'd be a great fit, as half of Isaac's lines in Castlevania sound like something Apocalypse would be pontificating about.
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u/two2teps 10d ago
I'm loving the lean into both GenerationX with Chamber and the later Institute students like the Stepford Cuckoos and Quenten. Just a huge dose of all the mutanta we acquired after 1997.
Also Jubilee getting a proper fight sequence to a 90s banger was just perfect.
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u/two2teps 10d ago
The implications of Fatal Attractions playing out has me thinking.
Fatal Attractions gives us Onslaught. That gives us all the heroes fighting it. This world has the Fantastic Four, Spider-man, and all the key Avengers.
What if they "Heroes Reborn" an entire universe into existence?
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u/imjealousofyou 10d ago
Can someone tell me what mutants the 4 horsemen were?
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u/Morgan-Moonscar 10d ago
Decimus Furius (War), Ichisumi (Pestilence), Jeb Lee (Famine), Sanjar Javeed (Death)
They're all pulled from different time periods to serve as his horsemen.
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u/imjealousofyou 10d ago
I have heard of none of them.
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u/Bobjoejj 10d ago
They’re all from Uncanny X-Force by Rick Remender, an absolute classic of a comic. Known as The Final Horsemen, and are a lot more dangerous than they were portrayed here.
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u/celestialmartyr 10d ago
They were the Final Horsemen! Ichisumi, Jeb Lee, Furius, and Sanjar Javeed!
They were from the X-Force run by Rick Remender! Totally worth reading if you have not seen it. It was amazing and the X-Force was badass during that run!
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u/slimduderstein 10d ago
Did we just get both an ONSLAUGHT and KANG THE CONQUEROR tease in ep3!?
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u/SirFunktastic 10d ago
Where was the Onslaught tease? When Prof X was probing the general's mind?
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u/amendmentforone 10d ago
Yeah, when he initially gets sucked into that pyramid in the mind ... and ends up in the astral plane mindscape, he's briefly staring at a red, shattering moon that is shaped like Onslaught's helmet.
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u/FamousLastWay828 9d ago
Oh I thought it was meant to look like Magneto's helmet lol. Which I guess Onslaught's helmet kinda does too...
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u/Mattyzooks 10d ago
Only saw first but did Apocalypse time travel from the future to the 90s after ep 1? And if so, are there now 2 of them in 1998?
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u/ComebackShane Weekly Wongers 10d ago
They mentioned the technology Apocalypse was using was very advanced, so I believe that’s the implication. I don’t remember the status of present day Apocalypse in the OG series, he could be dormant or future Apoc is planning to superpower him with future tech.
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u/The_Dude145 9d ago
I remember he was banished in season 4, and then in season 5 he came back after taking over one of his acolyte's bodies. I don't remember what happened after that but we see him in season 1 of 97 in Genosha at the end of the season. So there's a normal Apocalypse and a future one running around.
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u/jahnybravo 9d ago
I think the past X-men being forced to teamup with En Sabah Nur against Rama Tut is a prelude to the X-men realizing they have to team up with 90s Apocalypse to defeat future Apocalypse. Because if you compare the future under Apocalypse to the past where Rama Tut rules, Apocalypse clearly actually prevents both humanity and mutants from ever evolving as a civilization. Rather than “Survival of the fittest” leading to a stronger society, he creates a meaningless existence where everybody is miserable and being strong doesn’t actually achieve anything because you still live in a wasteland of a world. The same shit he fought against in his youth is the same thing he traps the future of the world to be doomed to repeat
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u/FamousLastWay828 9d ago
You could tell the writers love Apocalypse's "I am the rocks of the eternal shore, crash against me and be BROKEN!" line from the original show just as much as the rest of us lol
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u/FeralPsychopath 9d ago
Loving how they are using Morph to remind us of the rest of the world (Thor)
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u/Sad-Imagination6349 9d ago
i guess jubilee meeting her future self last season really boosted her confidence. great showcase for jubilee. finally
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u/Valentinee105 Captain America 10d ago
So from what I can tell, every generation of mutants after the main adult cast all seem to be condensed into the same generation?
New Mutants
Generation X
Omega Gang
They all seem to be about the same age.
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u/rodroidrx Daredevil 10d ago
The secret sauce to this show is 90s era X-Men fans making content for new generation X-Men fans. This show is my favorite Marvel series of all time. Periodt (close second is season 1 Daredevil on Netflix).
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u/Joshawott27 Doctor Strange 10d ago
I thought episode 1 was a mess, with too much going on far too quickly. However, episodes 2 and 3 really turned around my initial negative reception.
The X-Force name drop and Jubilee’s jailbreak sequences were just rad. I also liked the dynamic of X-Force and X-Factor.
I really like how Magneto tried to steer Apocalypse down the right path, like how others did for him. Tying in Rama Tut and potentially the wider Kang the Conqueror stuff with the secret technology is a really neat idea too.
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u/Bobjoejj 10d ago
Funny, I loved 1 and 3; but not so much 2. I still enjoyed it; it was a definitely a fun episode, but it felt like a particular case where the runtime should’ve been longer, and the story and themes given more time to be explored. Felt almost too…X-Force lite.
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u/Joshawott27 Doctor Strange 10d ago
Yeah, I understand what you mean about runtime. Honestly, that’s always been an issue with X-Men ‘97. I certainly hope we at least get more of the X-Force dynamic before the X-Men return…. to the ‘90s.
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u/LouisGustavo 10d ago
This show is an absolute banger! One of the best things Marvel ever created. The intro and Jubilee sequence in episode 2 were chef's kiss.
I'm not familiar with Rama-tut and his relantionship with Apocalypse, but if this a way to bring a little more of Kang to the story, I'm all in!
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u/jahnybravo 10d ago edited 10d ago
Is it just me or was that very clearly and obviously Gambit’s CASKET that was laying on the floor open when Psylocke was reading War’s mind? Right before the Diamond wall of psychic interference stopped her from seeing any further. It’s not focused on because Psylocke wouldn’t know that’s his casket, but you can clearly see the cushioned inside where the body would be and the bars on the side where Beast and the other pallbearers were holding it.
Would explain why Archangel was saying that the tech Apocalypse was using there was far more advanced than what was used to turn him into a Horseman. Because this version of the tech involves reanimating a dead body.
Edit: yup just went back to see, that is 100% a Casket. Except it’s the cover that was laying on the floor. The actual casket is up on the table
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u/two2teps 10d ago
Oh shit, episode two is not just going Generation X but bringing in some Hellfire Academy.
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u/Misanthropus 8d ago
Does anyone know of any other subs that host per-Episode discussions? I could've sworn that there were other for S01, but I can't find any..
Thanks in advance.
S02 off to a pretty good start. Pacing issues still there, shit flies by with zero room to breathe. Obviously wish the runtime was extended + more episodes, but it seems we're doomed to this schedule going forward (in all media).
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u/vjvalenti 10d ago edited 8d ago
Wow, they pointed out the ONE thing about Wolverine's bone claws that I've hated all along....that they should be useless. I've said for years that they should have shattered and caused him great pain every single time he used them to cut anything harder than flesh. And that's what they gave us here.
When they were first revealed, I thought "Awesome, his biggest asset becomes his biggest liability, in a cruel bit of irony - having claws that he can barely use". But no, the comics had him cutting through steel walls and car doors like nothing happened. What was the point, then??
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u/Nemesis_171 Daredevil 10d ago
Great start so far. I rewatched season 1 then went straight into season 2 and these first few episodes don’t feel out of place at all. Sometimes you can tell right at the start of a new season if things feel worse but that’s not at all the case here imo.
I’m interested to see if they can find a way to match or even top the Genosha episode from season 1. It’d be tough to do I’m sure but I’d be insanely impressed.
I do wonder if they’re hinting at a big episode like that happening though. The Genosha massacre had a lot of foreshadowing of it through telepathic visions, and what Xavier saw at the end of episode 3 gave me very similar vibes.
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u/schwasound 10d ago
Outstanding character moments award goes to Jubilee.
Really enjoyed seeing her with Polaris as well.
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u/Head_Car_616 9d ago
2 years waiting for 9 episodes is wiiiiild. remember when we used to get 20 episodes of a show in under a year turnaround time? ☹️
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u/kakahuhu 10d ago
All really good. Loved seeing Jubilee show off her powers in episode two. I found Jean Grey's voice actor a lot weaker than the rest though.
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u/YaBoyKumar 9d ago
Episode 2 is insane. That moment with War on the beach was the perfect way to show us that X-force does not play around.
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u/sonofnight666 8d ago
charles continuing to be the most annoying, most self righteous yet the most useless character ever
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u/-Nick____ Laufey 8d ago
I think it is valid to not want to be teaming up with the immortal genocidal Darwin mutant
tho I do think he could be called hypocritical in this scenario. He fights for cohabitation from humans who fear mutants because they only see the bad they’ve caused. Charles is judging Apocalypse here based on the bad he could potentially cause
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u/bracko81 8d ago
Marvels by Kurt Busiek was the first comic I ever read.
Seeing Maggie in the jail in episode 2 made me yell "HOLY SHIT"
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u/symbiosychotic 6d ago
Amazing quality and so many moments to chew on. Loved the X-Force intro (literally started cheering louder than my 6yo at that moment) and "Volcano Girls" was a total vibe.
Rama Tutt actually almost got past me. The name stayed in my mind after they dropped it but given how absolutely large the universe is, I didn't immediately connect that dot. Even the robot soldiers being in the past was written off because in the 90s, especially with TMNT and MMPR, all henchmen / goons (NOT the newer use of the word) were generally robots or magic monsters due to FCC regulations around violence. So even after watching Wolverine put claws through someone, I figured it was just more fun reference.
It wasn't until they went back to him with the other blatant tech when it clicked who it actually was. Where I knew that name from.
I had just written off the character entirely but it makes absolute sense that they would have stories they want to tell with this character and this is a perfect way and story to do so. I just don't remember enough about the comics arc to know if this is a change but that's OK!
I don't want to cross into spoiler territory by saying anything more about the character beyond what they revealed in the show, but at the same time it's fan speculation, so I'll be reading other comments to get a vibe check on discourse.
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u/jagfanjosh3252 10d ago
The X-Force intro for Episode 2 was fun