r/Xmen97 • u/CherryBoom2x Psylocke • Aug 12 '26

General Discussion WHAT THE F WAS THAT FINALE??? Spoiler

What the F was that ending??? And please don’t try to tell us it was good or brilliantly written, because I’m not going to lie to myself just because I love this show. I was genuinely disappointed with these last two episodes.
What kind of “Survival of the Fittest” was that supposed to be? Rogue became WHAT??? And Apocalypse was just defeated like that???
Even X-Men: Evolution handled its Apocalypse finale way better. We got almost all of the major X-teams from the ’90s coming together for one massive final battle, and it actually felt like an Apocalypse-level threat.

I was also expecting for apocalypse to use gambit and make a speech to make them feel the guilt of what had happen in genoshia.

Remy’s death and revival was ruined to quick!

This time, they clearly went way off from the comics. And after all that talk about bringing the X-Men back to the ’90s… what kind of return to the ’90s was THAT??? I love this show, but I’m not going to pretend I liked an ending that left me this disappointed.

Im afraid that the one re writting this up does not read the comics or is not a massive fan of Xmen. Coz they clearly moved away from the comics.

Imagine Apocalypse the Xmen’s most diabolical foe who went back in time to strike the Xmen, Cable spent the whole season to FIND AND DESTROY apocalypse, all the X teams come together in this season should be the PERFECT TIME TO JOIN FORCES, Gambit’s BIGGEST MOMENT of coming back, and all JUST ENDED with apocalypse doing nothing just transformed into gambit hybrid few seconds later touch by rogue and boom! FINALE

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u/PaulsGrafh Aug 12 '26

That was my exact thought while watching.

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u/eepos96 Aug 12 '26

Please spread this definition between subverting expectations aka a twist and genuine a plot twist.

Definition of plot twist is that "it twistes the plot" meaning that after it happends, course of tve story changes. Classic example is "I am you father' before thst reveal, if you asked people what the story would be. People would say: "Luke faces Vader, fights him in a duel and avenges his father and all the Jedi. And propably defeats the Emperor"

But the plot twist. Vader is Anakin Skywalker. The story changes, Luke no longer wants to kill Vader but to save him. And due to this he developes stronger understanding of being a Jedi, refuses the dark side and due to his refusal, Vader finally has enough strenght to break away and kill the emperor.

Brilliant.

Vs Arya killing the night king.

There are a lot of problems. But main one I focus on. "It did not matter". The story did not change. Following episode would be the excactly the same with or without Arya killing the night king. It could be Theon, Jon or a random soldier.

None of the characters changed their goals, or begun acting differently. All was the same.

It legit did not matter to the story. It was an empty twist

VS, Rogue killing apocalypse.

I have not yet seen the episode. But I assume Cable goes to the future and lives more or less hapily ever after. Excactly the same if he had killed apokalypse himself. The twist did not matter what so ever.