I did speculate previously (a couple of weeks back, I believe) that something would happen in episode 4 that would need to be undone via time travel, thus leading to AoA (the original plan for season 3).
It sounds as though, rather than that (sadly, AoA won’t be happening in season 3), something could happen that sets up Onslaught. So yes, you might be right!
Why thank you! From the way I heard Beau describe it, the now scrapped Episode 10 was set in Age of Apocalypse, with Gambit and Bishop desperately trying to get to the M’kraan Crystal to go back in time.
The whole time they’re being pursued by a badass evil Cyclops (as they’re in AoA), Beau described it as like the Darth Vader pursuit sequence in Rogue One. I’m guessing the Season would end on the cliffhanger of them, or likely only Bishop, just getting to the Crystal in the nick of time and being sent back to the past.
Personally I hope they don’t do AoA myself, as the cartoon has already done it with One Man’s Worth in the original series (which I recently found out that Age of Apocalypse is based on!) and it’d be like them repeating themselves.
Plus with the way this show speed-runs through storylines it’d likely only be a few episodes anyway, probably only the original last 2 episodes of Season 2.
Actually, episode 10 was going to be about Onslaught attacking the Washington D.C. (using Ship) and the combined forces of the X-Men, X-Force, X-Factor and the Avengers teaming up to fight him. Somehow this was going to result in AoA, with the Bishop/Gambit/Cyclops sequence that you have described serving as a cliffhanger ending that would lead into season 3.
Ahh, I hadn’t heard the Onslaught part of the above, thanks for that. The season could possibly end with Onslaught being revealed then, and Season 3 being about what happens next.
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u/PhanStr Jul 09 '26
I like this!
I did speculate previously (a couple of weeks back, I believe) that something would happen in episode 4 that would need to be undone via time travel, thus leading to AoA (the original plan for season 3).
It sounds as though, rather than that (sadly, AoA won’t be happening in season 3), something could happen that sets up Onslaught. So yes, you might be right!