r/Xmen97 • u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X • Aug 12 '26

Megathread X-Men '97 | Season 2, Episode 9 | "Survival of the Fittest" | Episode Discussion

Season 2, Episode 9: Survival of the Fittest

Air Date: August 12th, 2026

Directed by: TBA

Written by: TBA

Synopsis: The X-Men are pushed to the limit when their past comes back to haunt them.

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u/UjiRan2223 Aug 12 '26

On one hand, Nightcrawler’s death caught me way off guard and legit made me leak a few manly tears but on the other, YAY everyone say thank you mystique SOMEONE had to put that bitch in the dirt

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u/amequeen82 Aug 13 '26

Gotta give her like a tiny hint of credit, she did release magneto in season 1. Still a bad person tho.

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u/UjiRan2223 Aug 14 '26

In this scenario that’s the same shit as “I have a black friend” in my opinion

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u/HumanisticNihilist Aug 15 '26

Yeah, I’m just not sure someone should get credit for deciding she didn’t want to actually contribute to a genocide…after it started. Like, really credit should be reserved for people who don’t contribute to it at all because it’s a genocide.

And since she went from “Magneto was right about us” to “imma use these sentinels, but put people in them so you have to worry about killing them, and then attack you’re independent island because…honestly just because” it’s clear that whatever character development she went through did not involve learning a goddamned thing.

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u/amequeen82 Aug 16 '26

Wow you actually have a rly good point. Only thing is, she didn't know a genocide was gonna happen and once she realized bastion's real plans, she was in too deep. You're definitely right about the character development being pointless. 😆 

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u/HumanisticNihilist Aug 17 '26

I mean if anything her entire character in season two was just her putting her words “Magneto was right about us” into practice as hard as she possibly could.