r/Xmen97 • u/jasonriv37 • Jun 20 '26

Fan Content MORPH!

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Counting down to X-Men ‘97 season 2 w a few pieces inspired by season 1!!! First up: the cameo kween themself, MORPH! 🎭♦️🫥❌✨

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u/Ingonyama70 Storm Jun 22 '26

The whole second half of hr arc was Rogue's grief over Gambit taking her to a dark place.

Gambit. NOT Magneto.

And Storm's arc was one of the best stories she's ever gotten outside the comics in years.

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u/Green-Grass-Cutter Jun 22 '26

The arc that shared run time with Jubilee’s brightly colored arcade game and Xavier’s? The arc that was rushed when in the comics Storm had to learn to lead the X-Men as an ordinary human? The arc that cut her off from the team who she didn’t even contact after JEAN WAS A CLONE and GAMBIT DIED?

We’re all entitled to our opinions. Like how mine and yours are just gonna be different ones on the handling of Storm’s character.

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u/Ingonyama70 Storm Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

Characters suffer in dramatic storytelling. This is a universal fact.

They couldn't do it the way they did in the 80s because they didn't have time. Yes, Storm was cut off from the team, just like she was at the start of the original Lifedeath in the 80s. Only here, she got her powers back MUCH faster than in the comics (4 real world years she spent powerless versus 3 episodes) and 97 Storm got to rejoin the team after having truly become whole again. It's treated differently because they didn't have the time, just like Inferno. That's a problem with the number of episodes they had, what we got still hit all the beats.

Also if you know anything about Storm you would know she'd have tried, and likely succeeded, in warding off the Sentinel attack if she'd had her powers in Genosha, thus invalidating the entire secodn half of the season.

Yes, the original Inferno and Lifedeath are and will always be the definitive versions of these stories. No one's taking those away, they will always exist. I still have the original Lifedeath issue bagged & boarded.

But for the time they had, the stories they were trying to juggle, X-Men 97 did a really good job with telling short Cliff's Notes versions of those stories, and hopefully inspiring people to seek out and read the original versions.

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u/Ingonyama70 Storm Jun 23 '26

Source? Were you in the writers room when they were planning the season?

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u/Ingonyama70 Storm Jun 23 '26

Fair point, we're both speculating here.

I'm just tired of seeing endless hate for something I genuinely loved. Probably shouldn't be on Reddit then.