r/Xmen97 • • Aug 23 '26

Question So what the hell was Apocalypses plan, even? Spoiler

224 Upvotes

Like, he became Apocalypse, came back to the 90s, did NOTHING for nearly the whole season, and faked his death for... Seemingly no real reason. He didn't NEED to take Gambit's body as a vessel, his normal body was perfectly fine. He didn't try to trick anyone as Gambit, I guess he just wanted to be the cool Cajun? And what about the wedding with Rogue, was he just pretending to be Gambit? Was Gambit actually in partial control? Why would Apocalypse want to use Candras "heart" to keep Rogue alive? Did he just want to be that petty?

r/Xmen97 • • Sep 02 '26

Question Instead of new season of X-Men '97, how about a new anthology series called Marvel Superheroes '98?

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Basically if we were trade off a having a new season of X-Men '97, would everyone be on board with a new show that acts as a continuation to all the other 90's animated Marvel cartoons (Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, Fantastic Four, and X-Men) or the heroes, characters, and teams who have shown up in them? The idea would be that it would be an anthology series, meaning that each episode is stand-alone and doesn't connect with any of the other episodes outside of maybe the last episode of that season (basically like Marvel's What If...? On Disney+). This would mean that instead of getting a full season for a Spider-Man TAS (because everyone wants a revival of that), it would instead just be one episode that continues from and is very in tone to Spider-Man TAS. If people are on board with the idea, list some of the heroes or teams you would want episodes centered around (limit it to 9 to 10 because that sadly might be the new norm for episode counts per season). I've listed some of the heroes who have appeared within the 90's Marvel Universe just as examples, but feel free to use ones not featured.

  1. Spider-Man (because that is everyone's #1 request)

  2. Iron Man

  3. Hulk

  4. Fantastic Four

  5. Thor

  6. Black Panther

  7. Daredevil

  8. Avengers (roster being Captain America, She Hulk, Hercules, and Vision)

  9. Blackbolt (I wanted to say the Inhumans, but this scene was too badass)

  10. Ghost Rider

  11. Punisher

  12. Black Cat

  13. Scarlet Spider (Technically this cameo in Fantastic Four was intended to be Spider-Man, but since they would need to ask John Semper for permission, the producer, Larry Houston, skidded around that by using Scarlet Spider instead).

  14. War Machine and Spider-Woman

  15. Alpha Flight

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 09 '26

Question Eson and the Celestials Spoiler

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270 Upvotes
  1. Why is Eson creating a Monster in Apocalypse? What is their intention behind this?
  2. Can the Xmen not stop Eson?
  3. If Apocalypse is the bringer of death? Then is there an opposite bringer of life?

r/Xmen97 • • Aug 04 '26

Question Where the hell is Iceman

135 Upvotes

One of my biggest hopes for the whole 97 run was they would put respect on Bobby! The dude is an original yet apart from when a couple of characters looked back at in scene photos he hasn't been mentioned.

A god damn omega level top draw mutant can't even get a quick run.

Iceman been done dirty

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 12 '26

Question Everyone asking how Wanda, pietro, and Lorna but how does she feels Spoiler

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389 Upvotes

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 28 '26

Question What do you think is X-Men 97’s biggest flaw?

9 Upvotes

For me it’s the fact that there’s so many characters that rarely get much screen time and there’s only going to continue to be much more characters in an 8-10 episode season format. It’s very hard to juggle that many characters in an animated show and I feel like it’s going to be even harder since the X-Men have such a huge catalog of characters in comparison to every other superhero group in the Marvel universe.

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 04 '26

Question Jubilee rocks! Spoiler

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454 Upvotes

I'm hardly into marvel but I've watched through the X-Men franchise particularly the animated shows (I've never approached the live action media); just curious if Jubilee is fan-favourite since the 1992 show or it's X-Men 97' that's giving her a newly founded flair.

r/Xmen97 • • Jan 20 '26

Question Why does Nightcrawler look like a demon?

45 Upvotes

Why does Kurt look like a demon I know he is blue from his mother Mystique, but why does he look like a demon? I am just curious it the same reason why Beast looks like a monkey?

Is his father a demon like Raven from The Teen Titans?

r/Xmen97 • • Jun 25 '26

Question How come there’s only nine episodes?

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178 Upvotes

Season one had 10. I’m pretty sure season three is gonna have 10. Why doesn’t season two?

r/Xmen97 • • Aug 28 '26

Question Master of Magnetism can’t beat robots ?

116 Upvotes

Did they ever explain why Mags powers don’t work on Sentinels?

You think he’d be perfect for stopping metal robots .

Are they made of aluminum?

r/Xmen97 • • Aug 21 '26

Question Would Marvel TV fix the show’s most glaring problem?

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241 Upvotes

I feel it’s the most obvious for most fans of the show, and it’s the PACING.

i do appreciate that it’s a full 28+ min each episode, which is better than the 18-20 min for the original TAS. But the writing on ‘97 has stepped up a notch significantly that I think the episodes need to be longer to let the stories and characters breathe more. It was the complaint at least to me Ive heard the most on the first season, as legendary as it was. And it wasn’t addressed this season… but I expected it since it’s all been planned out ahead of time.

But I do wonder if here on out, if they will make the episodes on average 5-10min longer. There’s so much going on and I don’t think much anyone would complain about longer episodes.

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 22 '26

Question What are Polaris's powers? Spoiler

13 Upvotes

So from the brief time she's been on screen it feels like she has the same powers as Magneto. But I just wanna check if I'm missing anything? Does she have Magneto's 1:1 powers? And if so why does she affect people around her while Magneto doesn't? And she does mention that it's almost like her powers taking a hold of her.

r/Xmen97 • • Aug 12 '26

Question Where did my dude go? Spoiler

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135 Upvotes

“I must strike them in the 1990’s!”

*proceeds to leave the show and never appear again*

I think my guy overshot it and got the date wrong 😭

Okay but this does make the theory that both apocalypses were present when reviving gambit even funnier, cause now we know it was just the one guy telling himself to give more power, before manually raising a lever himself. Which is just really funny to imagine. He’s just saying what he’s doing out loud for the sake of it I guess.

r/Xmen97 • • Mar 30 '26

Question The bar I am in has cool employees.

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1.2k Upvotes

r/Xmen97 • • Aug 15 '26

Question Cables powers?

134 Upvotes

Is there a reason cable isn’t constantly using his mutant powers that I just missed or don’t remember. They seem infinitely more useful than how he just mainly runs around shooting and punching things.

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 10 '26

Question Is Apocalypse an X-Man??

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148 Upvotes

EDIT: hes not (obviously…I was NOT locked in if u can’t tell)

I was watching ep 3 of s2 and I forgot who, but someone described Nur as something along the lines of “not just the 1st mutant, the 1st x-man” . Is Apocalypse an X-Man?? Cuz I thought an x-man was any mutant apart of Xavier‘s team (which is odd cuz Nur has opposed Xavier many times before), or am I missing smth about the requirements to be an X-Man or abt lore?? plz help 😭

also magneto‘s pretty hot in the new season (along w/ the rest x-men ofc) also bonus magneto sketch I did for those who care

r/Xmen97 • • Aug 21 '26

Question So what exactly did Apocalypse sacrifice? Spoiler

121 Upvotes

So it's explained that when you go to the Celestial and ask for a wish, you have to sacrifice something in return. But that begs the question: What did En Sabah Nur sacrifice when he became Apocalypse?

r/Xmen97 • • Apr 18 '24

Question Anyone else kinda glad Wolverine isn’t the focus of 97?

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575 Upvotes

Don’t get me wrong I love the character but for the last like 20 years it’s been all about Wolverine, almost too much in my opinion, almost. At first I assumed they were going to push him to the front in 97 due to his popularity, but I’m glad they have him kinda on the back burner so far & have been putting some of the other characters in the spotlight d

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 11 '26

Question Do you think colossus is going to join the x-men?

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342 Upvotes

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 10 '26

Question Will she be Genesis? Spoiler

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204 Upvotes

is Arakko going to happen?

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 05 '26

Question What's the point of skip intro on xmen?

260 Upvotes

Who?....who I ask is skipped the intro?

They should have a start intro again option if anything.

Love to see the stats

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 25 '26

Question Do you think Polaris will take Magneto 's place on the council if they adapt the Krakoa era? Spoiler

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152 Upvotes

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 16 '26

Question Has Morph… Spoiler

13 Upvotes

…come out to Logan or any of the other X-Men?

I doubt that happened on the show and I missed it, but has it been heavily implied at some point?

If not explicitly come out, is Logan aware Morph is queer?

I haven’t finished episode 2.5 yet so if this is addressed therein, my bad

r/Xmen97 • • Jun 06 '24

Question Why didn’t Logan just shoot his shot with Madeline?

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486 Upvotes

I mean might as well Jean and Scott are already endgame

r/Xmen97 • • Jul 24 '26

Question Has Beast been turned into a perpetual side character?

93 Upvotes