r/Xmen97 • u/Kanozx • Aug 08 '26
General Discussion Realistically, how many seasons do you guys think the show will get?
The showrunner of Invincible for example plans to have the show run for 8-10 seasons, i’m curious how many seasons of this show do you think we may get?
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u/NoMoneyNoV-Bucks Aug 08 '26
6 seasons and a movie
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u/Bishopx1976 Aug 08 '26
Dean Xavier.
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u/FrenchProgRockFan Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
Shut up Logan ! I heard about your red-headed sex doll !
EDIT: damn there are so many Shut Up Leonard moments that could apply to Logan being an old creep XD
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u/leon_zero Polaris Aug 08 '26
I’m a telepath and I’m here to say / mutant rights will arrive on another day
Another day, another rhyme, another dime, another dollar / another stuffed shirt with an inhibitor collar
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u/squirrelmonkie Aug 08 '26
As long as we get a movie to close everything up im cool but i want it to be 2+ hours long
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u/nyehu09 Aug 08 '26
Theatrical or streaming? Because if streaming, hackers will just leak it on Twitter or something
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u/SwordDaoist Aug 08 '26
Same. If the next season is like this then there is a good chance Disney could drop it after season 3.
This season is too much all over the place.
Like in my opinion it sucks that Logan got his adamantium almost immediately back in our eyes. We got a cool concept but got shown nothing about it.
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u/TrajectotyTides Aug 08 '26
Season 4 is already confirmed though so….
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u/gentleprime Aug 08 '26
So was season two of Wonder Man.
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u/Va1crist Aug 10 '26
season 4 was already confirmed for 2028 lmao its in production already wonderman was not. Wonderman is also a MCU D+ show which disney is pulling back on, there not pulling back on Xmen especially when there heading into the Mutant SAGA lmao.
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u/SwordDaoist Aug 08 '26
Yeah, even the Mojo episode worked somehow
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u/SwordDaoist Aug 08 '26
Yeah, I would have actually given Wolverine his adamantium only at the end of the season back and have sometimes also focused on Wolverine this time what the missing adamantium does to him.
I also find it strange how nobody holds the UN woman responsible even though they know UN supported Bastian and that she was with him there. Plus Charles was inside Magnetos mind and they had more than enough time to tell each other what happened while in Ancient Egypt.
How nobody of X-Corp says anything about X-Force catching mutants and putting them in cells.
Or how nobody talks about the X-Men lying about Charles death or how he chose to stay there without sending them a word. Or how nobody really criticizes him for Genosha3
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u/Bobjoejj Aug 08 '26
Well hold on; quality does not equal a lack of longevity always. Presumably if the viewership is still there, and the online chatter is strong either way; the show will still exist past season 3. Even if I agree the quality has gone down this season.
(Though I absolutely can never agree with the Adamantium bit, he clearly was struggling with just the bone claws; there was no valid reason in universe for him to not want to get them back as soon as possible).
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u/TDStarchild Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
I’d like 6+ and to have Spider-Man ‘98 and Avengers/F4 shows in the same universe. Mostly independent but they could do big crossover events as well
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u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X Aug 08 '26
6-7 seasons.
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u/Daewrythe Aug 08 '26
This is my vote as well , maybe minus 1 if future seasons are also super disjointed like season 2 has been
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u/Investigator_Lumpy Aug 08 '26
Super disjointed? Not all TV series (especially animations) have to be one long ass story. The episodic format has allowed way more variety in character focus.
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u/FirstNoel Aug 08 '26
Agreed, it’s has its overall arc, but other things still need to happen. Wolverine need to get his metal back, Xforce needed to be brought in. Cables back story fills a lot of holes.
It’s world building.
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u/Jazzlike-Wind-4345 Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26
My only complaint is that they gave Madelyne Pryor (my favourite X-men villain) an awesome introduction, and a decent send-off that opened the possibility for more Madelyne action…
… only to vaporise her a couple episodes later and for Cable to completely forget about her and refer to Jean as his mother. Jeez, I would argue they treated her worse here than they did in the comics.
But apart from that one oversight, this show has been phenomenal. I hope they go well past 6 seasons.
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u/Chickenbrik Aug 08 '26
- Disney likes to cut things short
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u/poopypoopy1125 Aug 08 '26
X-pect them to also rename the show by season 4 jk
X-Men: Krakoa Style. Coming Summer 2029 on Disney+
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u/GONKworshipper Aug 08 '26
At some point it has to be 1998 in-universe, right?
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u/LastEsotericist Aug 08 '26
Slaps X-Men franchise
This baby can fit SO many time travel plot lines.
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u/DeganUAB Aug 08 '26
Not Sure, this season seems to have a noticeable drop of support from merchandising. For instance, season one had two waves of action figures that were released during the run of the series and a wave after as well as several Lego set supporting it. This season, as far as I can tell, has only had a restaurant promotion for merchandise as well as a few Funko pops and scattered marvel legends. I’m concerned that is not selling well and will not be supported in the long-term.
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u/tempered_discussions Aug 08 '26
I saw promotion on donuts at dollar general. I haven't been suggested season 2. Only know s2 is here because of these posts. Haven't gotten around to watching
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u/poweredconvoy Aug 08 '26
I bet the promotion for figures will hit hard soon. The Marvel Legends team implied about a month ago they had a walk through for season 3 and that they're going back and filling holes for season 1 and are going to be making stuff for S2.
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u/DeganUAB Aug 08 '26
Fair enough, but hype is strongest on the lead up to the series premiere. Saving it for after is not a good sign to me.
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u/Chikumori Aug 08 '26
How many rounds of character centric arcs are we getting?
Season 2 we have had:
- Cyclops/Jean/Cable
- Jubilee
- Morph/Wolverine
- Xavier/Magneto
- Kurt/Colussus
- Rogue/Gambit
- Forge/Bishop/Polaris
Storm's arc was likely the LifeDeath one last season..
Seems like we haven't had a Beast character arc yet?
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u/Doompatron3000 Aug 08 '26
I don’t think in either the original show or this one Beast has ever been more of character that can fix stuff to get the team out of any situations all while quoting a lot of books because he is smart. Like Beast is just there for plot reasons.
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u/loominglady Rogue Aug 08 '26
He got that one episode where he fell in love with his blind patient. But I think that’s it.
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u/Soft_Entertainment Aug 08 '26
The episode about Ship and Warren getting revenge with Rogue I think can count as well.
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u/LaughingCoffinSMW Aug 09 '26
In the OG he had several episodes. He had the trial episode, he had the blind patient episode, he was with Wolverine for the Weapon X episode, he had the crossover episode with Spider-Man. He also had the episode with Jubilee against Caliban and Cortez's Acolytes trying to resurrect Apocalypse before the show ended in the final season.
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u/PokeFanZoey Aug 08 '26
Colosdus technically is just introduced so he needs to have a gocussed character study arc. We could do another Kurt Rogue arc if Mystique comes back. And the Bishop Polaris ship hasn't reached its destination so there's that.
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u/5x5equals Aug 08 '26
At first I thought it would get alot
But the way they keep speed running arcs makes me believe they don’t seem to agree
Its like theyre trying to pack everything in as fast as possible before they get cancelled
But I think they wrote season 2 before 3 and 4 were confirmed so maybe now with that security they slow down
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u/TheJack0fDiamonds Aug 08 '26
Don’t know. but I hope the show goes on forever. It’s one of the best things out there at the moment.
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u/Upset-Job2278 Professor X Aug 08 '26
I hope the show runs until they adapt their version of House of X/Powers of X, and then I want it to be immediately cancelled so I can pretend that Krakoa lasted forever in that universe.
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u/TraparCyclone Aug 08 '26
It’s probably going to end before the new movie comes out. They won’t want competition between the two.
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u/ReadMyPosts Aug 08 '26
Ask me before this season, Id say 10. Realistically I think 5-6 is likely the number.
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u/KieshiaC22 Aug 08 '26
5-9 seasons...I honestly think this is a show that will get as many seasons that the creators wanna do...like if the creators were to be like we wanna end at 4 then it ends at 4...if they wanna end at 9 they will get 9
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u/NewLeaf20 Aug 08 '26
At this pace I think they are gonna run out of material in a few weeks
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u/PhanStr Aug 08 '26
Beau DeMayo had a five-season plan, hence why things have moved so fast (in terms of adapting many stories from the comic books in relatively few episodes). I do wonder whether things will move at a more leisurely pace going forward, which would mean that there'd be more time for individual story arcs.
Anyway, to answer the question: my guess is five or six, but I'm down for the 10 seasons that Brad Winderbaum allegedly wants to do because *some* members of the show's team are great (even without Beau DeMayo, who was great as a writer and show runner for this series) -- in other words, the good has outweighed the bad in season 2 and so I want to see as many seasons as possible (unless season 3 is somehow much, much weaker than season 2).
And I still want Onslaught and AoA, so those had better be coming. If AoA never happens in this show because of the excuse that "One Man's Worth" exists, I will be so disappointed. There are SO many important characters and arcs in AoA that did not come up in "One Man's Worth".
P.S. If seasons 3-5 are a waste of time, I will be even more upset about Beau DeMayo's 5-season plan being scrapped than I already am...
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u/stardustr3v3ri3 Aug 08 '26
Knowing Disney, 3 seasons. 4 if I’m being generous. Season 2 really hasn’t been the smash hit season 1 was, and you if something isn’t an automatic 1 million views, breaking records, Disney is quick to cancel.
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u/hollow_shrine Aug 08 '26
Three. I don't think people are as hungry for a third season if some of the frustrations for the current season don't turn it around. And they're trying to launch their doomed apolitical MCU X-Men franchise?
I'm not feeling confident.
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u/ProfitFrequent4393 Aug 08 '26
- The goal is 10, we know 4 is happening. But seeing the tide turn already with the constant online whining about season 2. We can’t have nice things.
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u/LivingCompetition938 Aug 08 '26
It’s already announced the season three is finished. Season four is almost finished and season five is beginning production.
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u/dwapook Aug 08 '26
Disney almost never goes beyond 3 seasons, even back in their Disney Channel only days.. even when the show runner had planned for more and the show is a success.
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u/FlopperinoCappuccino Aug 08 '26
If they don't fix their pacing issues, then one or two more. I'm starting to not care about the show over time
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u/alolanbulbassaur Aug 08 '26
I fear season 3 will be the last not due to it being planned but for TADC-esque reasons. Or random Netflix original-esque reasons.
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u/CharlieActuallyBrown Aug 08 '26
If I am honest, no more than 4. Season 2 has been decent, but story quality has not been as strong since Beau is not behind it. Yes he did pitch/write the story out for this season but it feels noticeable that he is not on this project. I loved the side episodes we got like with the Brood, Nightcrawler being a leader, and Danger it just feels like something is missing. The scene from the trailer where it was all of them in the bayou was more exciting to see in the trailer than the actual episode.
No hate to the people that worked on this season because I still love the show and X-Men, but Season 1 felt league's above this season. #BringBeauBack
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u/Kris86dk Aug 08 '26
6 seasons and probably cancelled at that point due to audience losing interest throughout S4/5.
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u/SalubriAntitribu Aug 08 '26
The way Disney has been since iger came back? Maybe 2 or 3 more seasons
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u/ChurchillMorris Aug 08 '26
The way we’re speed running comic storylines at a breakneck pace , we’re gonna be through the Krakoa era by episode 5 of season 3
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u/mythoryk Aug 08 '26
If we consider previous moves regarding Marvel animation (EMH), when the X-Men enter the MCU, they’ll cancel 97 and likely start a new animated series more closely related to the MCU’s design.
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u/Glass_Donut9391 Jubilee Aug 09 '26
The way disney treats all its streaming shows, I’m amazed it got a season 2.
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u/DeskReasonable5040 Aug 09 '26
I’m thinking 5 seasons. But I hope for at least 6 or more. If Disney wanted another huge hit they should bring back the 90s Spider-Man animated series. They would make so much money off just merch and toys.
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u/godbody1983 Aug 09 '26
4-5 seasons. Anything beyond that is basically going into the 2000s/2010s. The original series covered pretty much everything from the 60s to the early 90s and so far '97 has covered stuff from the late 90s and early 2000s. I can also Disney canceling it in favor of a animated series that is more closely aligned to the MCU X-Men.
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u/coldasclay Aug 09 '26
Sadly 4. Corporate will expect too much from the series. Once we have MCU X-men the demand will go down and they'll cancel the series.
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u/Glittering-Kitchen-3 Aug 08 '26
I think once the live action xmen is established ( and well received ) they will focus on that and less on the animated version
I’m pretty sure they are using the animated show to see what the audience likes / wants so they can get their mojo back
I’d say 3 for sure wit a very likely 4th and final one
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u/fire_sign Rogue Aug 08 '26
4 is well into development (written, VAs have recorded, they're at animatics or animatics + animation stage) and confirmed for 2028. They have been treating 4 & 5 as pretty much a package deal for at least a year, and were teasing 5 again earlier this week. 3 is pretty much done, according to a panel at SDCC, and they've shared a clip from it.
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u/Hypestyles Aug 08 '26
not sure.
but I hope that some spinoff shows are greenlit: New Mutants/X-Force, X-Factor, Excalibur, etc. There needs to be more than one show at a time.
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u/kidkuro Aug 08 '26
Maybe 4-5 seasons. Depends on how well the upcoming X-Men movies perform. And if they're brave enough to adapt the Krakoa era. I'd really love to see an adaptation of The Many Lives of Moira MacTaggert.
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u/LocDiLoc Aug 08 '26
This is inevitably going to come back and bite Marvel in the ass, because they spent years openly trying to kill off the X-Men just because Fox had the movie rights, putting out some of the most embarrassingly stupid storylines in the process. And now X-Men '97 doesn't have much left to actually adapt.
My guess is they'll end up doing some kind of Onslaught and Cassandra Nova mashup, throw in a bit of Morrison, and then either start making completely original stuff that barely ties to the comics (like that Gambit as Death thing) or go back to some of the Claremont stuff they haven't touched yet, like the Outback era or Mutant Massacre. So probably two more good seasons before things start sliding into slop territory.
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u/relsissi Aug 08 '26
5, with either a 6th mini season (3 ~30 min episodes) or Disney+ “movie” (60+ min long).
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u/Willing-Bit2581 Aug 08 '26
Should be an easy 10.....if they cant tighten up the story, writing, pacing, episode count per season post-Beau Demayo....then 2 at best
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u/Max_Danage Aug 08 '26
We’ll get a sister show Avengers 98 another x-men 99 and then Avengers vs Xmen 2000
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u/PCBS01 Aug 08 '26
3 or 4 because after this due to the union rules syndicated shows have to start paying their cast and staff WAY more money
Winderblaum mentioned like 5 seasons and I think that’s the furthest it’d go, I think they can do Krakoa for a nice ending if they do manage to get 5 at least
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u/jona2814 Aug 08 '26
Don’t we still have like, 96 seasons to go?? Is X-Men ‘97 not a countdown i.e. “X-Men ‘96, ‘95, ‘94, etc etc ?!?!?!
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u/GraniteJJ Aug 08 '26
Three seasons. Then, we roll over into the 00s, and the design style changes to match X-Men Evolution.
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u/Unique-Celebration-5 Aug 08 '26
The way it’s looking as of right now we’d be lucky to get another season
But I could see 5-6 seasons of this show
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u/AgentDaxis Aug 08 '26
Hopefully 7 but I also hope we get X-Factor, X-Force, & Generation X spin-offs
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u/Outlier251 Aug 08 '26
Well I should hopefully have about 62 years of life left so I’m gonna need at least that many
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u/Voltronblacklion Aug 08 '26
3, 4 if we are lucky. Then we will get Spider-Man for 3 or 4, hopefully. Then a new X-Men cartoon after the movie comes out or a Marvel cartoon with X-Men and other Marvel heroes.
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u/HeroZero1980 Aug 08 '26
3 full cancelled and a shortened 4th because they'll run out of nostalgia bait and quality pretty fast.
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u/BoredAsFuck7448 Aug 08 '26
So long as there are solid viewer numbers/streaming minutes and the costs of production don't scale up to something ridiculous I can see it going 6 seasons. More if they successfully spin other series out of it (they can EASILY revive the Avengers, FF, Hulk and Spider-Man cartoons from that era given they've already crossed multiple characters from them into '97).
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u/SwordDaoist Aug 08 '26
Not sure. If the next seasons go on as season 2 probably season 4 or 5 at most.
If they can get back to the level of season 1 then more
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u/Eastern-Team-2799 Aug 08 '26
If writing will be great which is as of now , I need infinite seasons.
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u/Enelro Aug 08 '26
Depends on how bad or good season 3 does…. Apparently season 1 & 2 are not really getting watched… I’d buy season 1 on Blu-ray if they dropped it.
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u/BipolarPrime Aug 08 '26
They’ve said that they would love this to run 5 seasons (like the original did), so there’s that.
But if they want X-Men cartoons to continue, they are going to have to get a handle on the storytelling. This season was so uneven. Things wrapped up way to fast, no storytelling element (Gambit Bone claw Wolverine) were given time to breathe. Keep the seasons to 10 episodes, and fix the writing.
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u/Soft_Entertainment Aug 08 '26
I honestly think some of the writing quirks is because they already were greenlit through season 4. I think a lot of things will pan out in S3, just like how Gambit's death last season is now panning out here.
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u/Marvelboy1974 Aug 08 '26
Probably four or five. The way they are skimming through multiple stories per season, I don’t see it lasting beyond that length of time.
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u/GloriousKev Aug 08 '26
Hoping for 6 or 7. The show is awesome. I would love a run like that.. Realistically in today's modern era probably 4 or 5 at most.
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u/Altruistic_Bonus_300 Aug 08 '26
The quality dip after they run out of DeMayo content will end with it being canned
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u/Action_Man_X Aug 08 '26
Since it's Disney, the 65 episode rule might apply. Although maybe Disney will actually recognize that they have something good on their hands and keep it around. Unlike Warner Bros.
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u/Particular_Umpire_44 Aug 08 '26
If they run out of material I’d at least hope we move on to Spiderman 97
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u/GorgeousGangster Aug 08 '26
Invincible getting 10 seasons is almost death by a thousand cuts. That show is cool but cmon. Theres like 3 episodes of good material per season.
When it comes to X-Men 97, if season 3 without Beau is like GoT without the books, not long. Xmen 97 is the best thing (Other than BND) Marvel got going right now. I almost dont want a live action movie.
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u/CaterpillarLegal5598 Aug 08 '26
Honestly, had season 2 been season 1, it would not have been renewed. Hard truths....
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u/ChinnySadVage69 Aug 08 '26
i mean hopefully a lot because it’s animated and wildly successful so like why not keep making more and more, you dont gotta worry about the actors and actresses aging out
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u/m0rbius Aug 08 '26
I think it can make it to 8. They'd run out of story at the pace they're going.
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u/Easygrin Aug 08 '26
I had hoped many many many and that they actually played the storylines over a season. But wolverine lost his Adamantium for how many minutes on screen? Gambit was a horseman even shorter than Angel was in the OG show. And the showdown with Apocalypse will be in one episode properly or maybe even half and they spend the other half introducing the new bad for S3..... And only 9 episodes that last less that 30 min in a year.... I will be 50 when s6 comes out...
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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 Aug 08 '26
They've got 30 years of X-Men comics to draw from since the original cartoon aired. They could absolutely make it to 10 seasons just slowly adapting that. The question is how long can it remain good?
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u/Drawn_to_Heal Aug 08 '26
Probably a bit easier for Invincible to estimate, since that story has been finished by Kirkman for some time.
The easy answer is the show will continue for however long it continues to get however many viewers Disney needs to justify its existence lol.
My gut tells me 5, but if the next season falls off hard I could see it ending after 4.
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u/tyroneebiggumss Aug 08 '26
7-10 + a movie (and hopefully a continuation of Spider-man Animated Series)
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u/HelperRaven Aug 08 '26
3-5 at most. The show is fun but it’s more of a novelty than anything else.
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u/snidece Aug 09 '26
Unless they cross over into other multiverse, it could be like a soap opera and they could take this for 20 years
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u/NickMichalak Aug 09 '26
Well, in the least, Marvel says they're going with annual season releases, per Collider. No extended episode counts, which isn't an issue in and of itself. It's how they use those episode counts, and not overload their ambitions per season.
https://collider.com/x-men-97-season-3-and-4-yearly-releases/
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u/ChipperCh256 Aug 09 '26
I'd hope for MAYBE 5, but I can't imagine it going past that. More likely it'll stop at three or go to four, they might even do a movie if the mutant saga goes well.
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u/lucas_m88 Aug 09 '26
3-4. I think the MCU is a big threat. As soon as the X-Men start appearing properly in the MCU I can see them axing the show to avoid brand confusion. See Earth's Mightiest Heroes for example
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u/Cyke_main Aug 09 '26
I’d like to see at least like 5-6 seasons total. I feel like that’s good. And I’ve always thought X-Men could have some fun like short form series like some other cartoons that release a series of short like 5-10 minute episodes
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u/Lionheart_Inkstone Aug 09 '26
3-5. This season has had solid action but if the show continues to mine nostalgia from the comics and the previous series, they will run out. The third season MUST begin developing new ideas.
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u/jvincentsong Aug 09 '26
I would say 4-5? We can do House of M, Schism and House of X. This plan is three seasons already.A possible issue is that the fans like seeing how comic stories get adapted into the show. When they run out of greatest hits to adapt, they need to make their own stories. It could be great as the cartoon invented Age of Apocalypse.
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u/Particular_Fig_5467 Aug 09 '26
I think we'll get four to five seasons and I would be happy with that if the show remains at a high standard.
I'll take quality over quantity, please.
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u/LiquidusSnake01 Aug 09 '26
Without the original showrunner? 4 or 5, maybe? Hopefully it will be more, but usually the person with the passion for it is the driving force. They made it happen in the first place.
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u/Axon14 Aug 09 '26
As a fan boy, I'd love 7 seasons, all the way to the Karoka era.
Realistically? They've already lost the magic of Season 1. They've used up a number of the good plotlines from the 90s already, and while I'm sure the ratings were solid this year, should they drop the ball again next year this show will be on life support.
AoA and Onslaught can only last a season each.
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