X-Men 97 Animated Cartoon Disney+

[ZariusTwo]

The latest promo teases that the Avengers, or at least Captain America, are turning up

[KROW]

I was fine with episode 4; felt like a classic Saturday morning cartoon. 5, though, wow. That just plunged straight into the dark, as great as it was.

[BornAgain]

This should just be the new MCU. The “live-action” films look like cartoons now anyway. At least this world has some solid writing.

[ZariusTwo]

More info dropping from Beau DeMayo and Rogue's Voice actress

1. The first four episodes were made to lull fans into a false sense of nostalgic security and then pull off a really dark turn to remind us all that 9/11 and other world tragedies have happened that eventually rob an idealised time of it's innocence

2. Jean and Scott's relationship is meant to be exploring themes of rape, abandonment, and mental/emotional trauma stemming from both


3. Rogue's VA recently lost her 17 year old niece to cancer, so her raw emotional performance in episode five was very real. She says the character's 'real journey' now begins so that indicates to me, unless it happens in the season finale, that no retcon is coming.

[FlawedCoil82]

“X-Men TAS” was the only show I loved even more than TMNT 2002. I watched the show religiously, as the X-Men was my life! So there was A LOT riding on “X-Men ‘97”. However, thus far, I have been pleasantly surprised. Yea, there have been a few things I have not liked (mainly political narratives that highly irritate me), but overall I am really loving this series! Episode 4 was definitely my least favorite, but man…what a great episode #5 was! Yet I will admit, I will be rather disappointed if we never see Gambit again in the series. He was one of the characters I was most excited to see in action with this newer animation style, and while it has delivered so far, I still want more! I also don’t want to see Rogue leave the team for a long period of time like she did in the comics immediately following the “Age Of Apocalypse” storyline. So hopefully some time travel or else something else some “Krakoa era silliness” will happen to bring them back eventually.

[XERO]

Bruh, episode 5 was insane. I haven't felt this way since the finale of Loki.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by FlawedCoil82

Yea, there have been a few things I have not liked (mainly political narratives that highly irritate me)

It's X-Men...

What political narrative in an X-Men story - in THIS X-Men story - could possibly highly irritate a self-proclaimed X-Men fan?

[ZariusTwo]

So Lifedeath part two again felt a bit like two episodes in one, only it didn't have two titles. Probably for the better this time.

Spoiler:

First plot deals with Professor Xavier's attempts to marry Lilandra, only for her sister Deathbird to demand he purge himself of all his memories of the X-Men and Earth in order to rule justly. Xavier taps into all of their minds and attempts to educate them on the themes of navigating through co-existence with the races they have conquered, then he has a vision of Genosha and decides to return to Earth, abandoning Lilandra.

B plot concludes Storm and Forge's encounter with the Affair, with Storm regaining her powers and her hair grows long again, she also now has her classic Claremont/Byrne 70s black costume with the tiara.

Final scene is Boliver Trask revealing he gave Mr. Sinister access to Master Mold.

[Autbot_Benz]

Great Episode Alison Sealy Smith is the GOAT

Glad

Spoiler:

Prof X

is coming back to Earth

[ZariusTwo]

That warm up act for the finale COOKED!

Spoiler:

Captain America, 'Thunderbolt' Ross, Amelia, President Kelly, Morph turned into Quicksilver. Maggot turned up at one point too.

I didn't expect a bit of 'Dark Beast' to come out of Hank, but it was a nice way of subverting expectations from Trish's interest in him. Morrison's run is where that relationship actually fell apart, and Hank was a dick to her there too, they've just decided to replace the end of an established relationship with the mere tease of it beginning.

Rogue's grief was handled well, and it does take her to every dark corner imaginable...just when you think Kurt and the X-Men can pull her out of the darkness, she allows it to swallow her whole by 'killing' Trask. Logan understands it the most, which I thought was a nice touch, but of course it activates Trask's dormant bio-sentinel programming and he beasts the X-Men in battle until Cable bails them out.

I think Cable's voice performance was stronger here than it was in 'Remember It', and there was a hint of his old 92 theme, he seems to harbour some resentment towards Jean for not being Madelyn.

Speaking of Jean, I'm glad there was more focus on her and Scott trying to confront what they're losing between one another and still being there for one another emotionally.

Emma survived, and is in her diamond form

And the big bad of the season reveals himself. BASTION. Sinister works for him, and boy has he got some trump cards up his sleeve. Magneto is alive, and Bastion's prisoner, the final scene with Bastion shaving Eric and a catchy showtune playing was super creepy. Doesn't seem that Mags eventual return to Villainy will be entirely up to him, I think they're going to adapt the 'Xorneto' thing by having Bastion stitch Erick up, as that was how they retconned his involvement in Morrison's era in the first place

[KROW]

Another great episode. I'm liking that Nightcrawler is getting more involved.

Spoiler:

I also had a feeling Magneto wasn't dead. I guess that means Leech is still alive?

[ZariusTwo]

Finale begins and boy does it over-deliver!

Spoiler:

90s Spider-Man is back! Nice of Marvel to give us the appearance that Invincible couldn't...

Several other characters appear, including Doctor Doom and Baron Zemo, they're working with Sinister and Bastion

We get a big data dump on Bastion's backstory, he was created by a future strain of the same virus that Sinister infected Nathan/Cable with.

Beast's reporter interest turns out to be a bio-sentinel and she leads a mass army of them into the mansion and levels it.

Bishop's lost in the timestream.

Magneto is freed by Valerie Cooper, the "Magneto is right" meme gets a shout-out, and Magneto releases an EMP wave that shuts down all electrical equipment on Earth. Xavier returns to Earth and begins reassembling the team

[Autbot_Benz]

ya X-Men was great this week.

**** Roberto's mom

Nightcrawler was a badass

Also the last scene was awesome besides the cameos

[ZariusTwo]

New clip

Spoiler:

Pryde of the X-Men/Arcade/Claremont and Byrne outfits



Also, Jubilee is mad at Roberto

[ZariusTwo]

Second part of the finale....holy s*it

Spoiler:

Super rushed but worth any minute, lots of action

Rogue and Roberto defect to Magneto and Wolverine gets his adamantium pulled out of his body

[Autbot_Benz]

ya this show is Top Tier and so good

[CyberCubed]

Caught up, yeah this is good. I hope Kitty finally gets introduced next season, so weird to have her not part of this universe at all this far even though I know the reason.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Caught up, yeah this is good. I hope Kitty finally gets introduced next season, so weird to have her not part of this universe at all this far even though I know the reason.

Weird they didn't incorporate her into the show before they did their "Pryde of the X-Men" homage in last week's episode.

[KROW]

I can't remember the last time I looked more forward to a television series.

Spoiler:

• It was cool seeing Spider-Man (obviously). The talk about a potential revival of his show has gone from a whisper to buzzing since.
• Magneto mentioning seeing a boy lose his life after giving him false hope leads me to believe Leech is in fact dead. But he was within Mags' shield. Odd.
• I do wonder if we will see Xavier mindwipe Mags out of anger, making way for Onslaught after Bastion is dealt with. A plan to introduce other Avengers later?

[ZariusTwo]

Good finale, one humongous boss battle

Spoiler:

Loads of cameos, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Captain America, Black Panther, Psylocke, Polaris, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Kitty Pryde, Daredevil

Rogue and Sunspot were all too easily forgiven and cooperative after last week, but I'll let it slide as the X-Men are more than understanding of phases of grief and Rogue kept Gambit in her thoughts and used it to motivate her assault on Bastion, Magneto obsessed over her more in this episode than she did him, we'll see what their relationship is like in Egypt of the past. I have some suspicions about where they're taking things here. Too early to tell if they'll go there (if you follow Age of Apocalypse, you may be thinking the same thing).

So has Asteroid M become the Technodrome of X-Men TAS? This omnipotent weapon that ends up being taken away and ends up in a different location? Who knows what Apocalypse will do with it in his own hands....presuming it survived the time scoop.

Spider-Man gets his closure. I saw DeMayo confirmed on social media this is post-Spider Wars and it's the real MJ Peter found also. There's even a cameo from Flash Thompson from the Animated Series...Marvel, if you have THIS much time animating three characters from the series, WHY DON'T YOU JUST ANIMATE THAT SERIES?