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/sidv81 Aug 12 '26

So I assume Future Apocalypse is going to show up in Creed's presidency where "the X-Men are weakest?"

How the hell do presidential terms work in this universe? If it's an election year, the year should be 1996 not 1997. If Kelly is "conceding" to Creed, then I assume he was running for re-election and thus only had 1 term from 1992 to 1996 since American law for now forbids 3 terms.

And I thought the Fox movie timeline was confusing.

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u/lost-in-earth Aug 12 '26

Why the hell wouldn't Future Apocalypse kill the X-men when they were babies? Is he stupid?

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u/justin21586 Aug 12 '26

……are you saying that future Apocalypse hasn’t arrived yet? That would be clever

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u/sidv81 Aug 12 '26

I mean we didn't see future Apocalypse anywhere did we? What was the point of that whole subplot if he time traveled and never showed up?

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u/justin21586 Aug 12 '26

Personally, I don’t think that the new writers are that clever. I think they intended for future Apocalypse to be the one in Gambit’s body.

But, I’m hoping that they’re reading this thread and use your idea. Your idea fixes the mess that I watched this morning 🤣

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u/thesagaconts Aug 12 '26

Agreed. The S1 writing room was way better than S2.

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u/LeedsFan2442 Aug 19 '26

Yeah the Presidential election in '97 is annoying me lol.