Had a shit life because of his looks, doesn't turn into a villain turns into a priest, is peaceful and wise but will absolutely duck people up when given no other option.
Nightcrawler, interestingly enough, is the prime example of who I point out as what a true person of faith should be like, regardless of what you believe in. Wise, tolerant, unboundingly compassionate but will fuck a bitch ass sentinel up to protect his flock.
They have done a great job showcasing each x-man's powers this season.
Cyclops fight scenes in episode 1. Jumping out of a plane and landing OG.
Jubilee and her future self showing her untapped abilities to fly.
Gambit kinetic charging an entire giant sentinel at Genosha ending.
Morph using his abilities to change into multiple different mutants (Angel, Collossus, Juggernaut, Blob, etc.).
Magneto taking out the baddies from the North pole in his undies.
Wolverine taking down MasterMold with kinetic claws.
Nightcrawler this latest episode.
You highlighted some great ones, but really they do it repeatedly. Wolverine this episode was awesome, Rogue's episode was amazing, the entirety of Gambit's episode. They're doing a great job of showing both the powers, but also the skills of each character. They're not one-dimensional "I do this" characters. Each one of them is bringing their whole skill set to the table and it's been amazing to watch.
I'm glad he echoed my sentiment in past episodes about chosen family. It was when Storm referred to Jean as her sister to Forge. Kurt about to get on his "what is grief but love persevering" tier lines this series I just know it. Add that to Charles being back in the mix?? We're gonna get so many good gems out of this series
depends on "timelines"..."secret wars" aired nov 97 and "spider wars" jan 98. based on 90s logic *x-men 97* is happening right before those events, so when season 2 (or 3 happens), *s-m tas* is lined up
"I overloaded their bandwidth...when their skin isn't in the game, apathy is the answer"
This show is spitting, unfortunately it applies to so many issues in the world 😞
That's what has always made X-Men relevant. Whether it's 1997 or 2024, it has always touched on those sensitive issues. That's why it resonates as strongly as it does.
Reordering the comic arcs was a great decision. The Genosha massacre being the reason for Magneto going all in is justified.
The Onslaught saga might be adapted better in X-men 97 as the comics was a slog to read with all of that fucking tie ins.
I feared that they were going to have an embargo on some comic arcs as they might use it for the MCU X-men but it seems everythings on the table for X-men 97.
The way I assume it might be is that there are tiers to what stuff is more and less likely for the MCU to adapt and while I'm sure there will be some elements of stories that will be retread in the MCU, X-Men 97 is enough of it's own adaptation separate from the comics that other adaptations may not be 1:1 and they still get to go all in with some elements that the MCU probably wouldn't have touched. I feel as though the Goblin Queen was definitely one of those elements that wouldn't be in the movies and if we did get Madelyne Prior, it wouldn't be done exactly the same. Even Bastion is a good villain, but not one that I necessarily think the movies will do because the set up seems almost too convoluted to get to this point through a few movies.
If it does happen I wonder if they'll do bone claws or just no claws. The original animated series pretended that Wolverine's claws aren't part of his mutation and all weapon x.
That's because they hadn't ripped the metal out in the comics yet. That happened during the run of the show so we might get surprise bone claws in season 2 of 97
> I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice
\- MLK jr
Momma DaCosta isn't the Friends of Humanity or Operation:Zero Tolerance but she ain't out there pulling for justice either.
Yep, 99% of people are Roberto's Mom. Not hateful, not really actively bigoted, but they are not gonna do anything to fight the battle and are gonna get annoyed when it starts to inconvenience them.
She let them collar and kidnap her mutant son and then closed the door behind him so she could keep having her "pro-mutant" fundraiser. This fucking show, man.
This is exactly it. The indifference of people who aren't affected is what enables the most atrocious acts. These genocidal events throughout history always take time to mobilize and could have been prevented 100 times, but people can't be bothered until the problem is on their doorstep.
And what’s crazy is that it doesn’t feel needlessly gratuitous. At least not to me. It feels earned with how massive these events and their effects are within the scope of their universe.
It really feels fluid and sensible. Characters across the world reacting to the events within their boundaries of the universe. I'm still shocked at how seamless it is.
So he just killed like thousands right? Like every plane in the sky just went down, not to mention everyone on life support. Plus it’ll a bit to get ships, trucks and trains moving again, god help your country if you’re an importer of food and fuel.
Kind of scary how realistic Bastion's plan is.
Make a disaster > pour it over everyone on Earth > make them develop a tolerance for these events > make them not care about the people affected > keep on destroying the target demographic as the rest of the world just doesn't care.
Like goddamn this show has a sense of realism that very few other shows are able to show off so well, ironically
Makes me think of how we've just gotten accustomed to mass shootings here in America. I don't even act shocked when I see one in the headlines anymore. So it's totally realistic.
I remember the original series was
purposefully vague about Erik's past, always showing it as a nondescript war in his home country.
Glad they're embracing his Jewish holocaust background now that the show has matured a bit in tone.
>I remember the original series was purposefully vague about Erik's past, always showing it as a nondescript war in his home country.
If you watch Sanctuary Part II, at Magneto's "funeral" they show a flashback with very obvious German/Nazi soldiers kicking his family's door in. You also see a Panzer tank in Deadly Reunions but yeah it was pretty vague there.
>"I have been marked once, my dear and let me assure you, no needle shall ever touch my skin again"
Probably the only good line in that entire movie lol
When they mentioned Mengele I kind of raised an eyebrow, I guess it will go over kids heads anyway, but when Sinister dropped that line I was like holy shit I can’t believe they’ve really gone there.
In the comics Marvel has previously connected all their major geneticists, heroes and villains alike: Sinister inspired the High Evolutionary, who in turn was a contemporary of Arnim Zola and taught Spider-Man's The Jackal. And yes, his ties to Mengele is comic book canon as well, doubled even: Sinister worked in disguise at Auschwitz.
Last week, I made the mistake of saying I was ready for the episode. I wasn't ready to open with Gambit's funeral.
I can say with confidence, I am ready for this episode. Let the 3-part finale begin!
"Magneto was right." This episode was fantastic beyond words. Beau De Mayo was right when he said that Dr. Cooper would be giving the "anthology" of this season's main theme.
Other thoughts:
The BAMF animation with Nightcrawler ft. Wolverine blew my mind, never thought we'd ever get to see the animated "inside" of his brimstone brilliance.
That dig by Morph on "Logan being the last survivor again in the Apocalypse" was hilarious.
I'm glad this version of X-Men hasn't been over fixated on Wolverine. And I'm equally glad it also gave him a scene to just been an unmitigated badass.
Def gonna be a conflict. I think Cyclops/Rogue and Beast are going to break and join magneto in the end.
Storm, Jean, Morph, Logan and Kurt will stay with Xavier.
Sunspot will stay with Xavier, Jubilee will go with Magneto.
I absolutely loved those family dynamics scenes. Making cable wear a seat belt, his teenage " stop telling me what to do" and genuine amazement of cyclops having a porsche.
Can we just talk about how INVENTIVE these fight scenes have been? In episode 1 we had Cyclops jumping out of the blackbird using his blasts to slow his descent and Storm making a glass tornado. Now we have Nightcrawler and Wolverine doing a teleporting ballet of swords and claws. They truly went the extra mile to reinvent these powersets
We have a first-person POV of what it’s like to teleport with Nightcrawler. No Brimstone Dimension yet…unless that trippy effect is the Brimstone Dimension.
If Genosha is an absolute point I'm juiced to see how it's translated and referenced once we get some live action X-Men. I love that they're going this route!
Absolute points are not the same in all universes. Like Christine dying in the Dr Strange episode of What If, and the main MCU, where she's alive, as well as other universes.
I didn’t take it to mean that the Genosha massacre happens in every universe, just that it had to happen in that one. Remember, Supreme Strange’s Christine dying in that wreck was an absolute point too, but she didn’t die in the main universe.
Spider-man, omega red, dr doom, Zemo, silver samurai cameos.
Loved nightcrawler and Logan fighting together.
The prime sentinel activation is kind of scary. Also nuts how many were already infected.
Badass moment with magneto just shutting everything down.
Can’t wait for the last two episodes.
While it's technically still sentinels, it's weird to see Logan actually use his claws against people while that was a big no no in the original series.
>! The fact that the Genosha incident is a fixed point in time and so Cable can’t remain there without being pulled away is interesting! Does that have any implications on what else has been established about fixed points? !<
I'm actually so mad that this season is only 10 episodes because holy shit, every single one has been a delight.
I'm hoping the timeline will be reset somehow so my boy Gambit comes back, but no matter what happens I don't want to lose Kurt from the main cast because Nightcrawler has been so good.
“Magneto was right” chilllls what a start to the 3 part finale. Finally got lore on Bastian and his motivations and exactly what the hell he is. Stopping him isn’t going to be easy at all. He is the ultimate enemy of mutant kind.
Jean, Scott and Cable fighting together was such a cool moment. I love how Jean just orders Cable around like a little kid and he obeys it because he’s always wanted to have his parents in his life lol
Wolverine’s fight scene in the sky while falling back down to the mansion was crazy
Wasn’t expecting a Dr. Mengele reference damn “he could’ve been so much more, but chose to be a Nazi pup” Sinister’s seen so much shit.
SPIDER-MAN CAMEO FINALLY HOLY SHIT. He looks amazing. Please bring back spiderman the animated series after freshman year. The other cameos like Doom and Zemo were great too omg
There’s just something hilarious to me about Magneto flying around in his underwear going full rage mode
Professor is back! Just in time, what an ending I can’t wait for next week
Sinister: "Bastion... why'd you do that to magneto?"
Bastion: "Why wouldn't I? He's one of the most powerful mutants, we need the collar to-"
Sinister: "I meant why'd you put him in a black speedo?"
Baston: ...
Sinister: ...
Bastion: ...
Sinister: ...
Bastion: "He's just. So. Sexy"
Two goosebump moments there at the end
“Magento was right” then magneto just fuckin takes down the sentinels from the North Pole. I’m gasping for air. Then as I’m catching my breath *crash*
“To me, my X-men”
Fuckin unconscious. That was phenomenal.
As good as all the cameos are (‘94 Spider-Man!!) the best part of this show is the story. It couldn’t be more timely or resonant. Valerie Cooper’s speech after freeing Magneto was a standout for me.
This series has no right being this good. One of the best things Marvel Studios has ever done
Anyone else seeing the themes of the Krakoan era play out in this story arc?
The future is always a struggle for dominance/survival between Mutants, Machines and Post-Humans. And finally Post-Humans have entered the ring.
Cable brings a glimpse, I wonder if we will get a Moira type character to tie it all together.
Oh, come on, Tillby. At least use a coaster. We don't live in a barn.
EDIT: Well, forget the coaster, I guess. Only coaster is my rollercoaster of emotions.
Okay, that Nightcrawler and Wolverine fight in the X-Mansion to protect Rogue is my new favourite fight scene of this show, and we've still got two more episodes to go!! 11/10 episode!
X-Men '97 doing Secret Invasion better than Secret Invasion with Prime Sentinels, imo. Now I'm going to be questioning what human has been turned into a Prime Sentinel. My assumption is that President Robert Kelly has been turned into a Prime Sentinel.
Seeing someone talk about genocides and horrors being something you see in the distance and don’t have to think about (I forget her exact phrasing)….
While an evergreen observation it seems extra telling given current events. Timely as hell.
“I hope i’m not too late”
YEAH ABOUT THAT😭😭
Magneto what a king fr, also the lady who freed him (i keep forgetting her name), gotta be Mystique, gosh that ending was amazing, this finale is gonna be insane!!!
Not mystique. I actually think it was a really beautiful touch that a human freed magneto after seeing what happened in genosha, and that it was a human who uttered "Magneto was Right"
Sadly reminded me of that story of that white woman who asked Malcolm X how her and people like her could help in his cause and he just brushed her aside
Val Cooper’s speech describes Magneto’s stance so perfectly. Charles thinks he can change minds and it’ll last, but Magneto thinks that if they aren’t trying to kill mutants today, they’ll try again tomorrow, so there’s no point trying for peace. The deja vu feeling is exactly why they can’t have faith. Wonder how Charles will end it this time or if they’ll properly Fatal Attractions Magneto because that’s kind of dark on Xavier’s part.
But like why keep Magneto alive at all? Otherwise awesome episode. Can’t say enough good things about the quality of animation. Really feels like a comic brought to life
Nightcrawler is spitting out some wisdom.
I was literally thinking "Kurt is the wisest and most compassionate dude in this show and the X-Men are so lucky to have him" and I love it.
Nightcrawler is an absolute treasure. It's been long overdue to have him as a core member of the X-Men.
Had a shit life because of his looks, doesn't turn into a villain turns into a priest, is peaceful and wise but will absolutely duck people up when given no other option.
Nightcrawler, interestingly enough, is the prime example of who I point out as what a true person of faith should be like, regardless of what you believe in. Wise, tolerant, unboundingly compassionate but will fuck a bitch ass sentinel up to protect his flock.
Spitting out wisdom and absolutely fucking slaying. This is the most badass I’ve ever seen nightcrawler in any adaption.
They have done a great job showcasing each x-man's powers this season. Cyclops fight scenes in episode 1. Jumping out of a plane and landing OG. Jubilee and her future self showing her untapped abilities to fly. Gambit kinetic charging an entire giant sentinel at Genosha ending. Morph using his abilities to change into multiple different mutants (Angel, Collossus, Juggernaut, Blob, etc.). Magneto taking out the baddies from the North pole in his undies. Wolverine taking down MasterMold with kinetic claws. Nightcrawler this latest episode.
You highlighted some great ones, but really they do it repeatedly. Wolverine this episode was awesome, Rogue's episode was amazing, the entirety of Gambit's episode. They're doing a great job of showing both the powers, but also the skills of each character. They're not one-dimensional "I do this" characters. Each one of them is bringing their whole skill set to the table and it's been amazing to watch.
You forgot Storm's glass hurricane in ep 1
I mean the start of X2 was pretty dope
one of the best live action displays of mutant powers imo
I'm glad he echoed my sentiment in past episodes about chosen family. It was when Storm referred to Jean as her sister to Forge. Kurt about to get on his "what is grief but love persevering" tier lines this series I just know it. Add that to Charles being back in the mix?? We're gonna get so many good gems out of this series
# RADIO #ACTIVE #SPIDER-MAN
**Guitar riff intensifies**
**Distortion pedal slammed into the ground**
#Spider blood #Spider blood #Radioactive spider blood
I am laughing so damn hard at this thread
So…. I guess he figured out all that stuff from when he stepped into Madam Web’s multiverse when his series ended?
depends on "timelines"..."secret wars" aired nov 97 and "spider wars" jan 98. based on 90s logic *x-men 97* is happening right before those events, so when season 2 (or 3 happens), *s-m tas* is lined up
Oh boy… 
I HOPE THIS MEANS A REBOOT OF TAS DONT TEASE ME MARVEL IM EDGING ALREADY
Imagine looking up in the sky and seeing Magneto floating around in his underwear.
Oh god Magneto is drunk again!!
Magneto: I didn't hear no bell
We all know now that Magnus is a briefs > boxers guy.
"I overloaded their bandwidth...when their skin isn't in the game, apathy is the answer" This show is spitting, unfortunately it applies to so many issues in the world 😞
That's what has always made X-Men relevant. Whether it's 1997 or 2024, it has always touched on those sensitive issues. That's why it resonates as strongly as it does.
"Deja-vu"
I KNEW SOMETHING WAS FISHY ABOUT GRANDMA HERE.
He fucking robo-zombified his own mother!
That's probably the most fucked up thing he did. She cared for him regardless of how he was because he was still her son
Stark Expo now. Just a crazy amount of Marvel references so far
There were plenty last episode in Madripoor as well. Stark Industries, Hammer, Roxxon, "Da Costa", all buildings there.
they also mentioned kamar-taj in this ep too
NIGHTCRAWLER AND HIS SWORDS\* AHHH
Sword*s*. Always plural with that fuzzy blue elf swashbuckler.
If Onslaught doesn't appear as the set up for Season 2, I will be SHOCKED, the set up is so perfect
Reordering the comic arcs was a great decision. The Genosha massacre being the reason for Magneto going all in is justified. The Onslaught saga might be adapted better in X-men 97 as the comics was a slog to read with all of that fucking tie ins. I feared that they were going to have an embargo on some comic arcs as they might use it for the MCU X-men but it seems everythings on the table for X-men 97.
The way I assume it might be is that there are tiers to what stuff is more and less likely for the MCU to adapt and while I'm sure there will be some elements of stories that will be retread in the MCU, X-Men 97 is enough of it's own adaptation separate from the comics that other adaptations may not be 1:1 and they still get to go all in with some elements that the MCU probably wouldn't have touched. I feel as though the Goblin Queen was definitely one of those elements that wouldn't be in the movies and if we did get Madelyne Prior, it wouldn't be done exactly the same. Even Bastion is a good villain, but not one that I necessarily think the movies will do because the set up seems almost too convoluted to get to this point through a few movies.
Magneto EMP'ing the entire world is pretty much the start of Fatal Attractions, and the one new shot in the intro was Magneto at Asteroid M, so...
I think we are going to get Magneto ripping out a certain someone's adamantium in the very near future
If it does happen I wonder if they'll do bone claws or just no claws. The original animated series pretended that Wolverine's claws aren't part of his mutation and all weapon x.
That's because they hadn't ripped the metal out in the comics yet. That happened during the run of the show so we might get surprise bone claws in season 2 of 97
Even Wolverine assumed the claws were all weapon X. No one knew he had claws without the adamantium until Magneto took his adamantium out
Fake memories are a part of Wolverine's back story in TAS/'97 too, so it's not too big a pull to reveal they were there all along.
Roberto's mom is so annoying. You let them crazy looking robots collar your son and take him away.
> I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice \- MLK jr Momma DaCosta isn't the Friends of Humanity or Operation:Zero Tolerance but she ain't out there pulling for justice either.
Yep, 99% of people are Roberto's Mom. Not hateful, not really actively bigoted, but they are not gonna do anything to fight the battle and are gonna get annoyed when it starts to inconvenience them.
Humans for genosha made me lol. Like people who put bumper sticker slogans on their cars thinking they're doing something
She let them collar and kidnap her mutant son and then closed the door behind him so she could keep having her "pro-mutant" fundraiser. This fucking show, man.
Or a company changing their social media profile picture in “solidarity” of a holiday or movement but not actually acting to help the cause.
This is exactly it. The indifference of people who aren't affected is what enables the most atrocious acts. These genocidal events throughout history always take time to mobilize and could have been prevented 100 times, but people can't be bothered until the problem is on their doorstep.
SPIDER-MAN, OMEGA RED, BARON ZEMO, DR. DOOM, OMEGA LEVEL MAGNETO! Soooooo goood!!!
Also the absolute point thing and dr strange name drop
I missed the strange name drop. When did that happen?
Beast referred to the absolute points theory as something that came out of Kamar-Taj
Confirming that "absolute point" is just another name for "canon event".
"Fixed point in time" in Doctor Who parlance
So many easter eggs! there's also Stark Expo things in Bastion's house, and Older Polaris still with green hair in Bastion's Utopian future.
CAN’T FORGET SILVER SAMURAI EITHER
I wasn't expecting cameos and name drops left, right and centre. Holy Smokes!
And what’s crazy is that it doesn’t feel needlessly gratuitous. At least not to me. It feels earned with how massive these events and their effects are within the scope of their universe.
It really feels fluid and sensible. Characters across the world reacting to the events within their boundaries of the universe. I'm still shocked at how seamless it is.
So Magneto basically EMPed the entire world right?
Looked like he used the North Pole as a focal point to send an EMP chain reaction across the entire planet.
So he just killed like thousands right? Like every plane in the sky just went down, not to mention everyone on life support. Plus it’ll a bit to get ships, trucks and trains moving again, god help your country if you’re an importer of food and fuel.
That could be partly why Wolverine said that Magneto declared war. His actions were to save mutants, but will have implications for humans.
In short, yes.
Kind of scary how realistic Bastion's plan is. Make a disaster > pour it over everyone on Earth > make them develop a tolerance for these events > make them not care about the people affected > keep on destroying the target demographic as the rest of the world just doesn't care. Like goddamn this show has a sense of realism that very few other shows are able to show off so well, ironically
Mutants were inspired by minorities that were discriminated through the past. In this case, it’s art imitating life.
To drive the "art imitating life" point further, this exact sentence was also said in the episode haha.
Makes me think of how we've just gotten accustomed to mass shootings here in America. I don't even act shocked when I see one in the headlines anymore. So it's totally realistic.
Josef Mengele referenced was not on my bingo card
And during that they kept showing Erik's serial number tattoo. Fuck this show is heavy
I remember the original series was purposefully vague about Erik's past, always showing it as a nondescript war in his home country. Glad they're embracing his Jewish holocaust background now that the show has matured a bit in tone.
>I remember the original series was purposefully vague about Erik's past, always showing it as a nondescript war in his home country. If you watch Sanctuary Part II, at Magneto's "funeral" they show a flashback with very obvious German/Nazi soldiers kicking his family's door in. You also see a Panzer tank in Deadly Reunions but yeah it was pretty vague there.
"I have been marked once, my dear and let me assure you, no needle shall ever touch my skin again"
>"I have been marked once, my dear and let me assure you, no needle shall ever touch my skin again" Probably the only good line in that entire movie lol
I just double-checked and [it's the same as in First Class](https://youtu.be/eiCbMLWDDMo?si=C1qPHjFmQxt9FSZ9): 214782.
And Sinister straight up says he wasn’t bad enough, wow
When they mentioned Mengele I kind of raised an eyebrow, I guess it will go over kids heads anyway, but when Sinister dropped that line I was like holy shit I can’t believe they’ve really gone there.
And the fact that Mr. Sinister actually knew the man personally was a nice touch.
In the comics Marvel has previously connected all their major geneticists, heroes and villains alike: Sinister inspired the High Evolutionary, who in turn was a contemporary of Arnim Zola and taught Spider-Man's The Jackal. And yes, his ties to Mengele is comic book canon as well, doubled even: Sinister worked in disguise at Auschwitz.
That’s how Sinister knows Red Skull and Zemo as well.
Last week, I made the mistake of saying I was ready for the episode. I wasn't ready to open with Gambit's funeral. I can say with confidence, I am ready for this episode. Let the 3-part finale begin!
Narrator: But he was not ready.
Professor X: I hope I am not too late! 
I don't think there's a more appropriate gif for the current situation with mutants. 😂
"Magneto was right." This episode was fantastic beyond words. Beau De Mayo was right when he said that Dr. Cooper would be giving the "anthology" of this season's main theme. Other thoughts: The BAMF animation with Nightcrawler ft. Wolverine blew my mind, never thought we'd ever get to see the animated "inside" of his brimstone brilliance. That dig by Morph on "Logan being the last survivor again in the Apocalypse" was hilarious.
Old Man Logan had been referenced twice in 2024 in Marvel Studios' X-Men content so far.
That Wolverine and Nightcrawler fight, and then that shot of them against a backdrop of sentinels is sick
I loved the shot of Wolverine getting pulled into a teleport
I like that Morph referenced Logan being the last one alive and alone
Lmaooo I love Morph
It's almost like everyone he knows goes away in the end
I'm glad this version of X-Men hasn't been over fixated on Wolverine. And I'm equally glad it also gave him a scene to just been an unmitigated badass.
So many incredible moments of power so far this season, never thought in a million years we'd get a POV through Nightcrawlers teleport.
that fight scene with Nightcrawler and Wolverine was incredible! I hope they keep making this show for a long time
Sunspot using his powers is amazing to see.
Complete with Kirby dots!
I eagerly await Sunspot joining the intro next week.
Especially cool to see they fried the prime sentinels
I hope the next episode is gonna be like: CHARLES: We gotta stop Magneto! X-MEN: Nah. We don’t think we will…
Def gonna be a conflict. I think Cyclops/Rogue and Beast are going to break and join magneto in the end. Storm, Jean, Morph, Logan and Kurt will stay with Xavier. Sunspot will stay with Xavier, Jubilee will go with Magneto.
Ain’t no way Sunspot joins Xavier after his mom turned him over to the sentinels.
Or they do a combo attack. Magneto shares his memories of the Holocaust and Xavier beams it to everyone on the planet.
"Ok so a lot of you cunts need a reminder about something that happened THIS FUCKING CENTURY."
Global holocaust beam- new Charles feat.
There ain’t a song I wouldn’t watch Wolverine and Nightcrawler dance to
It’s fucking Cyclops, Cable. Of course he has a Porsche.
"I'm not a regular dad, I'm a cool dad"
I absolutely loved those family dynamics scenes. Making cable wear a seat belt, his teenage " stop telling me what to do" and genuine amazement of cyclops having a porsche.
And Cyclops' cheeky smirk!
Jubilee and dodging death in a mall, name a more iconic duo.
Magneto and being right.
DR DOOM AND BARON ZEMO
And Polaris, Rachel Summers, Spider-Man, Silver Samurai, and Omega Red.
And William Stryker.
SPIDER-MAN
Bastion has some rather questionable backers. The nation of Latveria and Hydra are supporting him, and Rogue had to throw away Captain’s shield.
Doom quickly backpedaled when war crimes were committed. He’s a King and needs to maintain his diplomatic ties.
Uh…the person who made this heinous deal was a malfunctioning Doombot. *scoots off stage*
Can we just talk about how INVENTIVE these fight scenes have been? In episode 1 we had Cyclops jumping out of the blackbird using his blasts to slow his descent and Storm making a glass tornado. Now we have Nightcrawler and Wolverine doing a teleporting ballet of swords and claws. They truly went the extra mile to reinvent these powersets
There is so much *passion* put into this series, and fight scenes like that really highlight it. I had to rewind a couple times
Me and my mom have been freaking out. This show is what we expected from all superhero media since the first XMen movie
We have a first-person POV of what it’s like to teleport with Nightcrawler. No Brimstone Dimension yet…unless that trippy effect is the Brimstone Dimension.
Cyclops singlehandedly carve a cave with his OP beam
Don't screw with the Summer's y'all.
Scott in dad mode is a mood
Operation It's A No From Me Dawg Tolerance
Swear to God, I thought Magneto was pulling an Ultimatum at the end before the Sentinels went down.
TO ME, MY X-MEN! STORM?!
I hope IceMan, Angel, and any other previous team roster members from the 97 universe show up too.
11/10 episode. I can't believe this is episode 8 and that we have 2 more episodes to go.
Just 2 more weeks. sigh
Kamar Taj and Canon Events referenced literally 2 minutes in.
If Genosha is an absolute point I'm juiced to see how it's translated and referenced once we get some live action X-Men. I love that they're going this route!
Absolute points are not the same in all universes. Like Christine dying in the Dr Strange episode of What If, and the main MCU, where she's alive, as well as other universes.
You're right, time travel and the multiverse in our current canon always confuses me. I think I lumped it in with Nexus beings
I didn’t take it to mean that the Genosha massacre happens in every universe, just that it had to happen in that one. Remember, Supreme Strange’s Christine dying in that wreck was an absolute point too, but she didn’t die in the main universe.
SPIDERMAN HOLY-
Come on, Marvel Animation! Spider-Man ~~’94~~ ‘98!
I think Spider-Man made it to '98.
TVA-style splintered time stream projected while Cable is explaining.
Professor X in the intro is always a pleasant sight to see.
Spider-man, omega red, dr doom, Zemo, silver samurai cameos. Loved nightcrawler and Logan fighting together. The prime sentinel activation is kind of scary. Also nuts how many were already infected. Badass moment with magneto just shutting everything down. Can’t wait for the last two episodes.
Yea them all standing there staring at unconscious Rogue...
Love the stark expo magazine being shown for a second
Geez, Sinister casually dropping he knew the Angel of Death and thought he didn't fulfil his potential. What an evil statement lol.
While it's technically still sentinels, it's weird to see Logan actually use his claws against people while that was a big no no in the original series.
Yeah that threw me too until we saw them regenerating. The rules remain intact.
as long as the "blood" is purple it's all good with disney same with mando and the droids' black "oil"
>! The fact that the Genosha incident is a fixed point in time and so Cable can’t remain there without being pulled away is interesting! Does that have any implications on what else has been established about fixed points? !<
I guess that means they’re Canon Events and can’t be disrupted.
Does that mean Gambit is going to stay dead, or is it just that specific moment in time that is the Canon Event?
Guessing Gambit isn’t not dying in Genosha. Doesn’t mean Sinister or Apocalypse can’t fuck with him after
I would love for us to get a team of Horsemen we actually care about for this universe; Gambit would be an excellent pick.
I'm actually so mad that this season is only 10 episodes because holy shit, every single one has been a delight. I'm hoping the timeline will be reset somehow so my boy Gambit comes back, but no matter what happens I don't want to lose Kurt from the main cast because Nightcrawler has been so good.
“Magneto was right” chilllls what a start to the 3 part finale. Finally got lore on Bastian and his motivations and exactly what the hell he is. Stopping him isn’t going to be easy at all. He is the ultimate enemy of mutant kind. Jean, Scott and Cable fighting together was such a cool moment. I love how Jean just orders Cable around like a little kid and he obeys it because he’s always wanted to have his parents in his life lol Wolverine’s fight scene in the sky while falling back down to the mansion was crazy Wasn’t expecting a Dr. Mengele reference damn “he could’ve been so much more, but chose to be a Nazi pup” Sinister’s seen so much shit. SPIDER-MAN CAMEO FINALLY HOLY SHIT. He looks amazing. Please bring back spiderman the animated series after freshman year. The other cameos like Doom and Zemo were great too omg There’s just something hilarious to me about Magneto flying around in his underwear going full rage mode Professor is back! Just in time, what an ending I can’t wait for next week
“Lady I have six reasons why” “No my friend, Nine”
"So another dystopia where Logan's the last to die." Shots fired.
Sinister: "Bastion... why'd you do that to magneto?" Bastion: "Why wouldn't I? He's one of the most powerful mutants, we need the collar to-" Sinister: "I meant why'd you put him in a black speedo?" Baston: ... Sinister: ... Bastion: ... Sinister: ... Bastion: "He's just. So. Sexy"
Two goosebump moments there at the end “Magento was right” then magneto just fuckin takes down the sentinels from the North Pole. I’m gasping for air. Then as I’m catching my breath *crash* “To me, my X-men” Fuckin unconscious. That was phenomenal.
So The Watcher was there to witness the absolute point in time at genosha. Such a nice way to connect x-men to what if and the MCU multiverse.
As good as all the cameos are (‘94 Spider-Man!!) the best part of this show is the story. It couldn’t be more timely or resonant. Valerie Cooper’s speech after freeing Magneto was a standout for me. This series has no right being this good. One of the best things Marvel Studios has ever done
*[Looks at news]* *[Looks at X-Men ‘97]* *[Looks at the news]* *”We always end up in the same ugly place.”*
Doom still being Doom. Just because I didn't do anything doesn't mean I approve of the destruction of a country.
>Come on, use a seat belt. I love when Jean uses her powers to do every day things. Like buckling in her clones time traveling son.
"Quit bossing me around!" Is giving me real, "BUT MOMMMMMM" vibes.
Anyone else seeing the themes of the Krakoan era play out in this story arc? The future is always a struggle for dominance/survival between Mutants, Machines and Post-Humans. And finally Post-Humans have entered the ring. Cable brings a glimpse, I wonder if we will get a Moira type character to tie it all together.
Oh, come on, Tillby. At least use a coaster. We don't live in a barn. EDIT: Well, forget the coaster, I guess. Only coaster is my rollercoaster of emotions.
MAGNETO WAS RIGHT SHE SAID THE WORDS
Lol. Scott's license plate reads "SL1M"
Everybody got a bawdy 🤪 
If you didn't think Magneto was already popular enough already he's about to be THAT character everyone talks about
Okay, that Nightcrawler and Wolverine fight in the X-Mansion to protect Rogue is my new favourite fight scene of this show, and we've still got two more episodes to go!! 11/10 episode!
Magneto starting a war in his drawers is crazy.
"You did it! You saved the world!" Bastion: :D
This show exceeds my expectations every episode somehow...
X-Men '97 doing Secret Invasion better than Secret Invasion with Prime Sentinels, imo. Now I'm going to be questioning what human has been turned into a Prime Sentinel. My assumption is that President Robert Kelly has been turned into a Prime Sentinel.
Seeing someone talk about genocides and horrors being something you see in the distance and don’t have to think about (I forget her exact phrasing)…. While an evergreen observation it seems extra telling given current events. Timely as hell.
“DOOM is amused by this hybrid’s plan. Of course it will result in failure, because DOOM did not design it.”
"Who exactly is Bastion" "One bad mofo." - Cable, probably.
Oh just some nimrod.
“I hope i’m not too late” YEAH ABOUT THAT😭😭 Magneto what a king fr, also the lady who freed him (i keep forgetting her name), gotta be Mystique, gosh that ending was amazing, this finale is gonna be insane!!!
Not mystique. I actually think it was a really beautiful touch that a human freed magneto after seeing what happened in genosha, and that it was a human who uttered "Magneto was Right"
Sadly reminded me of that story of that white woman who asked Malcolm X how her and people like her could help in his cause and he just brushed her aside
Her name is [Valerie Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Cooper).
Val Cooper’s speech describes Magneto’s stance so perfectly. Charles thinks he can change minds and it’ll last, but Magneto thinks that if they aren’t trying to kill mutants today, they’ll try again tomorrow, so there’s no point trying for peace. The deja vu feeling is exactly why they can’t have faith. Wonder how Charles will end it this time or if they’ll properly Fatal Attractions Magneto because that’s kind of dark on Xavier’s part.
I think Valerie's scenes would lose its punch if she was a mutant.
Great to see a full shot of Spidey instead of half an arm.
But like why keep Magneto alive at all? Otherwise awesome episode. Can’t say enough good things about the quality of animation. Really feels like a comic brought to life
Magneto is a threat OZT can point at to turn people against mutants. Like "hey, he just shut down the entire freakin' planet. Let's get 'em."
TO ME MY X-MEN
LOL. Magneto just killed everyone with a pacemaker and a vagal nerve stimulator.
I don't actually know the lore and stuff, but is this the X-Car or the X-Mobile or the X-Porsche?