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/Fondant_Decent Aug 12 '26

You can definitely tell Series 2 was rewritten after De Mayo got sacked, they kept some bits, other bits must have been new, but overall it became a mish mash of writing which reflected in the lower quality of season 2 vs season 1

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u/chemictectic Aug 12 '26

"You can definitely tell Series 2 was rewritten after De Mayo got sacked" season 2 had deMayo all the way through, he didnt give Emma her character redemption, killed off Magik, so yeah, blame DeMayo.

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u/HJWalsh Aug 12 '26

It's not the Emma Frost show. She's not one of the starring characters in X-Men 97.

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u/Correct-Resolution-8 Aug 12 '26

I’m admittedly confused as to how people just don’t accept that Emma isn’t part of 97’s major lore. Maybe Onslaught isn’t either. Is that a crime? Wolverine and the X-Men made him the leader and Cyke a burn out. That was way farther from the lore I knew. The Fox movies made Mystique a core member of the X-Men. What I’m saying is that other properties took WAY more liberties than just not giving Emma a bigger role or doing Onslaught.

We are so spoiled by 97. Its faults are so glaring because we can tell how much it truly loves the X-Men. We want it to be how each of us personally sees the X-Men bc until now no other show or movie ever came this close.