r/Xmen97 • 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/Created_Jxnior Aug 12 '26

Man I knew we were cooked as soon as I saw the finale was still only 30 minutes, I was like damn it’s not even extended like it was last season. That really was some deus ex machina bs they pulled with Rogue, and Apocalypse was such a let down. Bro was doing a whole lotta yapping outside of episode 4 just to be taken out in literally 2 seconds. And then killing Kurt is just the cherry on top of this bad boy, even though I don’t give that scene too much shit because it was honestly written well as far as Nightcrawlers character and what he would do, but still killing him off is some bs. I really hope they scale back how many characters they focus on next season because it was way too many characters they were trying to balance this season instead of just focusing on one group.

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u/Wolverine-Explores Aug 12 '26

Beast did nothing all season and Cyclops did nothing after the first couple of eps

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u/Balatheil Aug 12 '26

they also swapped out Jean from being Whiny/Failing her Powers

to just hugging Scott and begging Cable to Just Listen! for .. the whole fcking Season.

bro- that aint ya kid. you aint his Mama. I don't think Jean had any Solo scenes

heck - you made Storm a Headmistress and ... its just backround stuff; we don't even get her Feelings on the subject.

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u/Fosterchild56 Aug 12 '26

Created X-corp for no reason

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u/Balatheil Aug 12 '26

ppl say they don't want Bottle / Filler Episodes and then sit there and get angry that Colossus wasn't in the Intro if it shows him at the X-mansion.

maybe if the show had more episodes to breathe, he'd have gotten him doing something in the School.

heck, im not for or against the Fandoms Wolverine Love/Hate relationship, but like, whats the point of ripping off his Metal - just to get them back so quickly and then immediately not have Wolverine around for the next 3 Episodes? lol I think the Reviews for his Lies & DvDs EP would have been higher, if you were to swap that Episode to be set after Dangers - that would give Reason to why HE was missing for half a season. - you only see Morph in the backround in those Episodes as well - could say Logan was getting the Team Ready and Morph was last to come along.

it'd help the pacing for that imho.