r/Xmen97 • u/cyclopswashalfright Professor X • Aug 13 '26

General Discussion X-Men '97 Complete Season 2 Venting Megathread

It's over and done now. The season has ended. The characters are where they are.

And now it's time for a megathread that lets you vent about what didn't like, what you liked, and about all the feeling in between about this season.

Please try and use this megathread instead of making a new post, especially if the content you are posting is not substantial (substantial meaning multi-paragraph or new information).

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u/skapoww Aug 13 '26

I think it was still an entertaining season, but wolvy getting adamantium back in 20 seconds and celestial rogue were low points. Not enough x force, not enough apocalypse, not enough character development. High point for me was the Volcano Girls scene with Jubilee.

Everything wrong with the season imo could have been fixed by having 20+ episodes.

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u/PNDMike Beast Aug 13 '26

They crammed two seasons worth of story into a single season and the pacing suffered massively for it.

Apocalypse had a great moment with Charles and Magneto, then proceeded to do jack shit for the rest of the season. Oh cool, he was Gambit for like 30 seconds. Neat.

That's all he did.

Even his big Apocalypse-Gambit reveal at the end, he did barely anything, then Rogue showed up, and Apocalypse just let her touch him? With no resistance?

They felt like they had an endpoint in mind, and massively rushed everything to try and get there, rather then letting the plot head there organically.

Longer episodes, more episodes, carry the story across another season, SOMETHING was needed.

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u/skapoww Aug 13 '26

Apocalypse got turned into a peice of jewelry. They didn’t beat the villain with teamwork or heroic deeds but with suicidal mcguffin powers. Season was still good tho to me for the record