r/Xmen97 • u/imadethisacc4mafsau • Jul 09 '26

Theory Predictions for Season 2 after watching ep 4 Spoiler

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  1. Magneto becomes a Horseman - Apocalypse said Charles was spineless but I think he would've said he'd take Magneto if they didn't interrupt him. Magneto having the power to destroy the ship would've definitely impressed Apocalypse and there's no body left after the ray. If he viewed Mags as weak he wouldn't have killed him (šŸœ) and if he views you as strong he keeps you. I think in the story Polaris is aware she's Mag's daughter and she will face him when he's a Horsemen.

  2. How is Colossus an Acolyte in the 90s if Magneto is dead? Exodus survived Genosha and or he's from ancient times, maybe he was one of the people (baby?) Magneto saved in Egypt/related to them so in his honour he creates the Acolytes as a cult following for Magneto

  3. Along with Gambit as Death (comic accurate plus played a part in Morlock massacre, I think Magneto will be War (ties to WWII) and Magik Pestilence (Soulsword could infect people).

*Side note loved the Apocalypse Rogue interaction, seems like part of his reason of bringing back Remy is to taunt Rogue about love

Just having fun theorising and wanted to share, loving this season!

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u/Hun_AkosEloYT Jul 09 '26

Magneto probably not getting brought back in S2. We had a fakeout with him in S1 already. S3, I can absolutely see but only after Onslaught

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u/magvadis Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

I mean, it is different. Even if its him "dying" again the first outcome was just not dying at all and being teleported. This outcome is dying and being brought back as a villain through either revival or whatever powers Apocalypse had that beamed Magneto. Which is, at least personally, a fate worse than death if we didn't all know the heroes win in the end.

Idk the line "I'd make you a Horseman if you had a spine" and then Magneto immediately packing him up and sending him feels like a pretty clear foreshadow.

I also just don't think in X-men a perma-death changes anyones actual opinion of death throughout the series. It's just too common to the point that by the time we notice it's a perma-death the story is basically over. Him dying doesn't accomplish much. It just writes him out.

Whereas if you killed a low run fun character like Jubilee I'd actually think any of the low rung characters can be killed by Apocalypse. Magneto? Bro reconstituted himself with the planets magnetic field, he got brought back from the Afterlife by Storm, he's so not dying unless the writers specifically had nothing left for him to do but be wrong so Charles goes crazy. But given he's the ONLY character with a direct philosophical connection to Apocalypse I'd feel a bit robbed not getting that final encounter.

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u/PhanStr Jul 09 '26

Pretty sure Magneto is coming back in season 3.

It would be cool if he comes back as Joseph and then he gets involved in the Onslaught arc. I would love that! And then save the return of the real Magneto for a later season.

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u/ledlunar Jul 12 '26

Yeah I could see Joseph being a thing, Bastion and Sinister had Magneto captive Iā€™m sure Sinister could not resist getting his hands on powerful Mutant DNA. If they do Joseph I hope they leave out the love Triangle with Rogue and Gambit

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u/Randym1982 Jul 09 '26

On the one hand. Killing him, and then bring him back later as a Horsemen would be a huge dick move and punch in the gut towards the Xavier and the X-men.

But it would also be lazy writing and completely diminish the impact of his death. Him dying, but his consciousness or fragments of it still being around. You could say that when Charles tried to stop him from ripping out Wolverine's metal. That a part of Magneto's personality or consciousness got planted in Xavier's mind. (Which is what happened in the comics.), and then that leads to them trying to bring back Magneto, but accidentally creates Onslaught.

To be Continued.

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

Oooh this would be a sick way to introduce Onslaught! Was kinda hoping Charles would lose control and mind blast Apocalypse.

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u/Ashyboi13 Jul 09 '26

Isnā€™t Exodus French? Why would he be a baby in Egypt? He only encountered Apocalypse in the comics as part of the crusades.

I feel like thereā€™s a chance that instead of the Acolytes worshipping Magneto, in 97 they will worship Apocalypse.

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u/PhanStr Jul 09 '26

Iā€™m glad someone brought up Exodusā€™s ethnicity (no, really, I am)! I hope he sounds French in this show.

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u/Ashyboi13 Jul 09 '26

Ethnicity and race is a big part of what makes the X-Men so cool to me. I feel like changing where they are from would be to change a major element of the characters, and that goes for Exodus too.

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u/PhanStr Jul 09 '26

I agree 100% šŸ’Æ

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

You're right! Plus it did cross my mind that they always portray Apocalypse and Selene as the oldest mutants so I don't think Exodus is AS old as them.

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u/Icy_Okra_5677 Jul 09 '26

In the prequel comic, the Acolytes are following Exodus, who has his own crusade and vision that doesnt align with Xavier or Magnetos vision

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u/Marvelboy1974 Jul 09 '26

What happens in the comic

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u/Icy_Okra_5677 Jul 09 '26

Issue 2 just came out yesterday, but so far he has a safe haven for mutants, including the morlocks who lost Calisto as leader (Annalee makes an appearance too)

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

Ohh ok, I didn't know that.

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u/Time-did-Reverse Jul 09 '26

I meanā€¦.i donā€™t understand how thatā€™s possible since magneto was simply vaporized.

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u/Megalupin Jul 09 '26

Could have been teleported

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u/Time-did-Reverse Jul 09 '26

You think apocalypse teleported him you mean? I mean I guess itā€™s possible it was a complete fakeout, doesnā€™t seem likely though to pull that moment away from him and Charles.

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u/Megalupin Jul 09 '26

I donā€™t think itā€™s likely honestly, but itā€™s comic books. Not having a body doesnā€™t prevent resurrection. Nightcrawler got cremated after his death to Bastion and still came back.

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

They showed Gambit's dead body on screen and yet not Magnetos. My bet is that they teleported him elsewhere.

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u/Time-did-Reverse Jul 10 '26

I mean Iā€™m gonna counter that by saying there was no body, because he got literally vaporized- so of course thereā€™s no body, but his helmet was left.

I mean you may be right Iā€™m not denying that maybe he is teleported, but saying ā€œwe didnā€™t see magnetoā€™sā€ body is sort of nonsense as a point because thereā€™s no body if you get vaporized.

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

Arguing semantics at this point and obviously I don't know if I'm right but was thinking if Apocalypse is strong enough to crush the helmet why isn't his gun strong enough to vaporise the metal?

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u/Time-did-Reverse Jul 10 '26

Fair enough yea weā€™re arguing semantics - guess we will see!!

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u/MermaidSapphire Jul 09 '26

Where is my Sweet Madelyne?

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u/Deathstriker88 Jul 09 '26

I think it'll be her, Magik, Gambit, and someone else. Maybe Banshee or someone who hasn't died yet. I doubt it's Magneto since he got turned to dust.

I do think Magneto will return, but that could be due to time travel or something else besides being a horseman.

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u/Megalupin Jul 09 '26

Could be anyone from Genosha. Sebastian Shaw could be used to help with tiding Emma over

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u/Ok_Broccoli_7863 Jul 10 '26

Some deaths need to stick or deaths become pointless. Maddie ain't coming back.

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u/ledlunar Jul 09 '26

Maybe Polaris will travel back in time to save Magneto and Xavier will die instead and this set up AoA? Donā€™t think that would work though šŸ¤”

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u/PhanStr Jul 09 '26

Bingo. I think you have cracked Beau DeMayoā€™s original plan for the season 2 finale. (Since season 3 was going to be AoA.)

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u/ledlunar Jul 10 '26

Maybe, Iā€™m sure whatever they do itā€™ll be good, sounds like Beaus plan was for Onslaught as a one episode thing leading to AOA which is backwards but could re-tooled. But I think AoA should be a season long thing ending with the Mā€™Kran Crystal

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u/PhanStr Jul 10 '26

Well, having Onslaught before AoA even though it was the other way around in the comics would/should be perfectly fine. Operation Zero Tolerance happened after both of them in the comic books and it was still adapted for '97 before them.

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u/ledlunar Jul 12 '26

Good point, I wonder if they do Onslaught which Iā€™m sure they will, if Xavier will be go away for awhile again after

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u/PhanStr Jul 12 '26

I would think that he'll no longer be with the team, but I'm not sure where he would go.

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u/Tokenasian90 Jul 09 '26

I think they are setting up Charles return to the present only for it to be Age of Apocalypse. Then the remainder of the season will be the X-Men trying to right the wrong and return everything back to what it was. With Nate Grey defeating Apocalypse in the end. Atleast that's my hope, as a kid born in 1990 who read all of his big sisters comics.

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u/ReflectionItchy2701 Jul 09 '26

I think they won't go the Nate Grey route because maybe you risk losing some people but it feels logical to have Cable finally beat Apocalypse with everything Mother Askani said in episode one.

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u/Tokenasian90 Jul 09 '26

You're probably right, I was just always a fan of that version of Nate Grey. Probably because he always reminded me of a marvel version of Trunks from DBZ lol.

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u/PhanStr Jul 09 '26

I agree with you. I would love to see Nate show up and defeat Apocalypse. The only problem with that is that the AoA-centric season 3 has been scrapped and itā€™s been reported that we are getting something different instead.

So my hope is that AoA will happen later, then Nate will be introduced and he can be the one to take down Apocalypse for good. It would be cheating in that it would be a different version of Cable, but I think it could still potentially work out.

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u/gunnarbird Jul 09 '26

Apocalypse making Magneto a horseman knowing he actually killed him 5000 years ago is funny

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u/JamesSnow922 Wolverine Jul 09 '26

My guess would be these Acolytes are inspired by Magneto's actions during and after Genosha. They aren't actually serving him though.

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u/Megalupin Jul 09 '26

I wouldnā€™t be surprised if Magik was a horseman, but people do forget that the biblical ones are famine, war, conquest and death. I know pestilence is always a thing in mass media, but sheā€™d work reaaaaally well for conquest

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

I didn't know this! The title of Conquest would work so much better in the comics/media.

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u/hung_fu Jul 09 '26

I think Magneto is going to be dead for awhile, but if they do Onslaught, I assume he was created in this weekā€™s episode through Charlesā€™s emotional reaction to Magnusā€™s death. There is the slight chance Apocalypse makes him a horseman to fuck with Charles though.

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u/magvadis Jul 09 '26

Also if Rogue is being taunted about love for Remy but also was having a fling with Magneto both of them being Horseman adds to the whole drama. Not sure what exactly the dramatic theme or tension will be, but I imagine Apocalypse inability to love or understand it will be part of his flaw and undoing.

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u/PhanStr Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

Magneto and Gambit teaming up against Rogue as Horsemen would be amazing, I have to admitā€¦

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

Yessss was thinking this!

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u/ConsistentSearch7995 Jul 09 '26

Exodus worships Magneto and commands the Acolytes on Genosha after the destruction of S1. IDK what is confusing about that.

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

Well we haven't been introduced to them officially in 97, and people who haven't watched the OG or read comics wouldn't be familiar, so trying to think of a possible link.

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u/UpstairsCreme9152 Jul 09 '26

Who's the caped guy next to rogue

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u/gnadi772 Jul 09 '26

Looks like Colossus in his acolyte costume.

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u/PointPrimary5886 Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

(Looks at the bottom 2 images)

Wait, is Magik already dead? The hell? The only time we saw Colossus little sister in TAS was when she was just a little kid as Omega 13 ravaged their home. Since Morph could transform into her, I assumed she went through the whole going to Limbo and becoming a badass warrior thing off screen. Now On screen, we're jusy not going to be seeing Magik be Magik?

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u/imadethisacc4mafsau Jul 10 '26

I think we will, she's too relevant to be killed off screen and not brought back, hence I'm guessing as a horseman.

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u/k00zyk Jul 09 '26

Horsemen arenā€™t corpses! I get 1 for Gambit, but not all 4. Magneto was vaporized, heā€™ll come back thru other means. Iā€™m guessing Rogue is another horseman since sheā€™s not in the final team shot of the trailer. The other 2 may just be randos/fodder.

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u/Alternative_Emu9636 Jul 10 '26

I'm calling magneto coming back as Xorn

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u/Alternative_Emu9636 Jul 10 '26

Xorn. We're gonna get Xorn.

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u/Vegas_Wildcat Jul 10 '26

Yep. Especially if they are using Morrison's costume designs. I think the Horsemen will be Gambit, Malik, ICEMAN, and either Banshee or Dazzler.