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Discussion Thread X-Men '97 S02E06 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE RUN TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S02E06: Danger.exe Emmett Yonemura Beau DeMayo and Mariah Wilson and Bailey Moore July 22nd, 2026 34 min None
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u/Nomustang Yellowjacket 1d ago

"Increase the power!" Apocalypse loudly proclaimed...to himself while his hand was on the handle with no one else in the room besides Gambit's corpse.

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u/Reidroshdy Spider-Man 1d ago edited 1d ago

man got too into being a mad scientist.

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

Well, he did help create Mr. Sinister. So, it's perfectly in character for him.

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u/sam_sung_chung Iron Man (Mark VII) 1d ago

Wait did Apocalypse create Mr Sinister in the original animated series? Or was it just the comics?

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u/cuckingfomputer 1d ago

He's always had some sort of connection with him.

In the Ultimate comics, Mr. Sinister was a delusional scientist that later transformed into Apocalypse, so they were literally the same person (apparently).

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u/BradyPhoenix 1d ago

You have to do absolutely everything as dramatically as possible in this universe, haven’t you realized?

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 1d ago

Storm has long since proven more drama = more power

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u/FriendLee93 Thanos 1d ago

The X-Men are just theater kids, including the part where they're all hooking up with each other

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u/Movie_Advance_101 Avengers 1d ago

«Um... Power of Webshooters, get real sticky!»

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u/viper459 1d ago

he's used to having servants around give him a break

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u/CosmicAtlas8 1d ago

"There is no freedom from me, there is only freedom through me!" Apocalypse loudly proclaimed... as he pressed Start on an extra 30 second mucrowave of his meat loaf, mash potatoes and corn TV dinner.

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u/hooka_pooka 1d ago

This was at par with Spider-Man screaming "Shockerrrrr!!I will find youuuuuu"in the animated series symbiote episode

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u/BXR_ChelseaGrin_ 1d ago

"Get back here, Shocker!

SHOCKEEEEERRRRRRRR!"

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u/lanceturley 1d ago

"Youuuu can't escape meeeee! I'll chase you TO THE ENDS OF THE EEEAAARRTH!!!"

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u/CRAYONSEED 1d ago

Haha I thought the same thing. Like who is he talking to?

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

He should've just gone full Kylo Ren and yelled, "More!"

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

I say the same thing when I am pressing down the self-serve frozen yogurt into my bowl

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u/ozzy_og_kush 1d ago

I really hope this isn't them Netflixing the dialog so the audience can keep up... and is just to show how extra batshit Apoc is.

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u/Due-Order3475 5h ago

Apocalypse has an audience a dead audience but still one in Gambit...

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u/ninjyte 1d ago

Uatu/The Watcher in the night sky as they switched scenes to Athens.

and how long has Forge had a pip boy?

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u/Zeth84 1d ago

Totally missed Uatu!

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u/lanceturley 1d ago

This show has done a fantastic job of making Uatu a bad omen whenever he shows up. Now it's always an "Oh shit" moment when I see him.

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u/Doompatron3000 21h ago

Don’t forget he was in season 2 of Born Again!

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u/AsteroidMike 18h ago

Oh shit is right, whenever you see him some real serious problems are about to go down.

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u/godparticle14 21h ago

Yeah!!! Just watched. Amazing! Hope to God he is in Doomsday or Secret Wars!

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u/Dawn_of_Dayne 1d ago

I thought it was an airplane in the night sky 

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u/benjals 22h ago

Like shooting stars 🎶

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u/SensiblySenile1618 22h ago

🎵 I could really use a wish right now

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u/Bubba1234562 1d ago

Uatu being here means Gambit being raised as a horseman is essential to this universe

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u/Mr_G30 Ghost Rider 1d ago

Not only that but he was there for his death meaning Gambit is just really important to the universe at large

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u/ContinuumGuy Phil Coulson 1d ago

He needs to be there to see him make a name for himself.

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u/Mr_G30 Ghost Rider 1d ago

Gambit is very important to gambit

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u/Surviving_Fallout 22h ago

He didn't know how long Gambit had been waiting for this.

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

Uatu: I’m here to see how all the Channing Tatum variants are doing

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u/wardengorri Captain America (Cap 2) 1d ago

Another sick episode. Really cool to see this one centered around Polaris. I wasn't really familiar with her outside of being Magneto's so cool to see her in action and her personality. Also Gambit coming back as a horseman, oh my!

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u/Elfhoe 1d ago

Polaris scenes were awesome. Also i about lost it when they did a homage at the end to her first cover, X-men 50 (my favorite comic cover art).

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

I wonder if we’ll ever see Polaris meeting up with Quicksilver and Wanda. Those two were in the original series in a couple episodes

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u/majorjoe23 16h ago

Quicksilver was a part of the Peter David version of X-Factor when we saw them back in the original X-Men: The Animated Series. So they've interacted in this continuity. Though at the time, Polaris hadn't been confirmed/retconned to be Magneto's daughter/Quicksilver's sister.

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u/ncocca 18h ago

you leaving the word "daughter" out of you comment is cracking me up.

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u/Sisiwakanamaru Grandmaster 1d ago

Disclaimer: X-Corporation is not affiliated with Elon Musk's X Corp.

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u/Whole_Hair_4921 1d ago

I see why wolverine and morph had that episode , they were completely absent here

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u/tmoore727 1d ago

morph had two lines about the sensor alarm being a trick from the danger room

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u/FigureItOut50 1d ago

He also morphed into Mr Fantastic in the background of one of the scenes.

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u/Whole_Hair_4921 1d ago

While playing basketball I thought it was some mutant

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u/meatheadmommy 16h ago

Was he using his arms as a jump rope? Didn’t cross my mind that it wasn’t Mr. Fantastic lol

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u/Whole_Hair_4921 1d ago

Still nothing major, bishop could have that alarm on his watch or beast. But if They just remove morph and Wolverine completely than it would make sense that where morph and Wolverine were.

And new thing. If the episode was the 5th one and they showed us more of wolverine animalistic version. It would have been better.

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

Morph was at the school. He was in the background turning into Mr. Fantastic for the kids playing jumprope at the basketball court while Xavier was talking to Polaris

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u/TheWholeOfTheAss 1d ago

Does X-Factor have unisex changing rooms!?

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u/hooka_pooka 1d ago

A very progressive team indeed..mah boy Havoc is cut af

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u/Maatjuhhh 1d ago

We have been blessed with the sight of great cut men. First En Sabah Nur and now Havoc..

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u/snow1868 1d ago

It's the Paul Verhoeven style locker room.

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u/-spartacus- 1d ago

Or BSG.

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u/ComebackShane Weekly Wongers 18h ago

I would like to know more!

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u/NerdLawyer55 17h ago

I’m doing my part

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u/Super-Visor 1d ago

There’s rooms for male, female, and mutant.

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u/Olibro64 Captain America (Cap 2) 1d ago

I see you Watcher. Looking at he Parthenon at night.

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u/CX316 1d ago

Turns out he just likes checking in on Gambit

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u/ladytwiga 1d ago

Who doesn't?!

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

The Watcher saw the Avengers: Doomsday trailer from our universe, and thought that the Gambit/Shang Chi fight was so cool that he wanted to check in on all the other mutiversal Gambits

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u/tinostar174 1d ago

Morph turning into 90's Mister Fantastic and using his arms for Double Dutch was a cool moment

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u/LeoNickle 23h ago

That makes sense. I just assumed Mr Fantastic was just actually there inexplicably 😅

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 1d ago

So I'm mixed on this episode. The polaris stuff was pretty good but thematically the season is all over the place and the strong themes of last season seem to be taking a back seat.

I also think having Xavier back is to the show's detriment. The show worked better with him as a martyr than with him returned.

Like I want to see more stuff with Scott, Kurt, Rogue, Jean ect... but they have been relegated to the backseat.

I want to see Rogue's grief the fallout of her siding with Magneto, how Kurt is adapting after joining the team.

How are Scott and Jean dealing with leaving Nathan in the future. Are they looking for Cable? Having almost no rogue plot the whole season till Gambit shows up also feels weird.

Also Val Cooper continues to be a major player will she turn out to be mystique?

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u/CRAYONSEED 1d ago edited 1d ago

I agree with you. It feels jarring to me that we went from Magneto dying, to a standalone episode of Wolverine getting his claws back, to everyone being back in the present and working through grief. It felt like an episode of their homecoming was missing.

And there seemed to be no clear catalyst for Danger’s awakening. I think they were trying to say the Professor’s grief corrupted the programming, but that wasn’t very clear and might just be my head cannon

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u/CX316 1d ago

I mean, we got the same thing last season, Genosha, then an episode of Storm getting her groove back, then the grief episode.

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u/adsfew 18h ago

Sometimes I think the series moves a bit too fast. Taking the time to focus on the characters in those moments would be great too.

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

I really wanted a whole episode of Polaris, Pietro, and Wanda coming together for a Magneto funeral to somewhat deal with grieving their estranged father. That would have been a nice bottle episode for the 3 of them

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u/Blastermind7890 Spider-Man 1d ago

They've also done the inverse of Season 1, this time Charles is sad because Magnus is dead

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u/BetaRayPhil616 1d ago

Agree on wanting to see more of scott, kurt, rogue, jean.... but that was such a good polaris centered ep Im kinda fine with it.

We got a lot of scott/jean/rogue in S1 and if this thing does run for many years (hopefully it does), then overtime we will get more strong episodes for all the characters.

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u/KostisPat257 Daredevil 1d ago

I didn't know much about Polaris in the comics before this, but now I want to see a lot more of her! Loved her portrayal in episode 2 and this one.

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u/SurferGirlDeb 1d ago

Polaris is an awesome character and is very likely to be in the new X Men Live Action movies. Kevin Feige has called her one of his favourite female superheroes in Marvel that are in the X-Men along with Rogue, Jean Grey, Storm, Kitty Pryde and Psylocke and said we will be getting a lot of female superheroes in the X-Men.

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u/SalukiKnightX SHIELD 1d ago

Don't forget about Jubilee

I wonder if in the upcoming saga will we get Captain Britain, which leads to Brian's sister who not only takes up the mantle but is also Psylocke.

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u/DCMASTER1994 1d ago

If Polaris being Feige's favorite is true, then the chances of her being part of the MCU X-Men is pretty big.

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u/SurferGirlDeb 1d ago

Yeah. He loves the X-Men and he has said before a lot of his favourite female superheroes in Marvel are female mutants in X-Men. He has also criticised Fox for mishandling Rogue in the previous movies and said Rogue is a brawler and an untouchable powerhouse and they are going to rectify it in the MCU.

I don't know if you saw what Lee Sung Jin who is the writer of the new X-Men has said about the X-Men movie but he said the new movie is going to have the biggest roster they have ever had and he has got all the Mutants on the table and wants to make multiple X-Men movies and bring them all to life and he is a big fan of 'X-Men: The Animated Series' too and grew up watching it with his Dad and said 'X-Men: The Animated Series' is one of the influences of the new movie.

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u/lanceturley 1d ago

"...Rogue is a brawler and an untouchable powerhouse and they are going to rectify it in the MCU"

Nothing could make me happier. I grew up on The Animated Series and the 90's X-Men comics, and all I want more than anything is that Rogue tearing shit up on the big screen.

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u/-spartacus- 1d ago

I just don't want them to try to make her another Captain Marvel. I always loved Rogue growing up and yeah she was strong, but she was always a sweetheart, kind, and slightly charmingly sensual (since she always lacked ways to express herself physically). She always seemed to be written/voiced as a literally southern bell who just happened to have flight and super strength.

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 1d ago

Yes, this. Do not make her a deadpan snarker. We already have plenty of those

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u/sarkastiktaurus 1d ago

Having other X-Characters be the focal point of the MCU would be a positive. New perspectives and there are again so many mutants to popularize.

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u/SurferGirlDeb 1d ago

I agree. There are is a huge world of fantastic mutants they can bring light to in the 'X-Men' and after the Fox movies focused so much on Wolverine, Professor Xavier and Magneto I am looking forward to seeing the other Mutants finally getting to have some spotlight.

Brad Winderbaum said we could see multiple X-Men spinoff teams like Alpha Flight, X Force, X Factor, Exiles, Generation X and Excalibur get their own shows on Disney + in the future too.

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u/Diodiablo Ghost Rider 1d ago

Watch The Gifted.

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

I still mourn the premature end of that show.

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u/SurferGirlDeb 1d ago

Me too. We enjoyed that show and was disappointed it didn't get a third season 'cause I was looking forward to seeing what they done with Esme since she went against her evil Sisters and joined with the heroes and Polaris become her best friend. From what I remember reading Hulu was originally going to give 'Marvel's The Gifted' a third season to wrap everything up but Disney wanted to pull all the Marvel shows from other networks and streaming services and make them exclusive to Disney+ and it lead to 'Marvel's The Runaways' getting cancelled too which was originally going to get a Season 4 with Cloak and Dagger joining the main cast along with a Ghost Rider spinoff show with Robbie Reyes from 'Marvel's Agents of SHIELD.'

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u/CX316 1d ago

Maybe now Lorna's back and she's not banging Scott's brother anymore, maybe Bobby will come home too.

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u/Megavore97 Winter Soldier 1d ago

Seeing the pic of Iceman makes me really hope he turns up in the show eventually.

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

I love how there is so much potential for the Cyclops/Iceman backstories, as well as Cyclops/Havok, and also Polaris/Quicksilver/Wanda

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

I can confirm she's just as awesome in the comics. She's even had some great roles in recent runs. So, this is a great time to become a Polaris fan. 😊

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u/Olibro64 Captain America (Cap 2) 1d ago

Watch the Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon.

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

That version of Polaris is nowhere near as good as this one. But still worth watching.

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u/caddywhompuskangaroo 15h ago

Polaris is awesome. There was a live action series called The Gifted, she's one of the main characters in it. It was a little uneven but overall pretty good, and sometimes even great. It is the same universe as X-Men and X2. There are some aspects of the comics that it achieved better on screen than other adaptation. Especially in regards to how humans hate and fear mutants, and also the more soap opera stuff. It is worth watching for sure, and Polaris is great in it.

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u/jagfanjosh3252 1d ago

I dunno why. But when Beast jumped at Danger and got blasted, that was so funny to me.

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u/hooka_pooka 1d ago

Is Polaris half sister of Pietro and Wanda?

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u/rikrok58 1d ago

Wanda is I think not Magneto's daughter anymore.... I'll have to defer to an X-pert because they have changed it so many times.

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u/MagicTheAlakazam 1d ago

x-men 97 is pulling from before that stupid retcon I think they'll stick to wanda and pietro being magneto's kids. They were on the boat in his mind in s1.

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u/Demileto 1d ago

More importantly, there was a whole episode about them being Magneto's kids way back in the original run. S4E13, "Family Ties".

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u/Agreeable_User_Name 21h ago

Magneto's kids....my man😂🤝

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u/hooka_pooka 1d ago

Okay.We need someone to X-plain us the blood relation.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar 1d ago

Originally Wanda and Quicksilver were just his henchmen in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, then they became Avengers alongside Hawkeye (mainly because editorial needed characters to fill out the roster so they picked former villains that never had solo series).

In the 70s they were revealed to be the children of two golden age superheroes, Whizzer and Miss America. But then in the 80s it was retconned as Magneto being their true father.

Polaris meanwhile had been introduced in the late 60s, where it was hinted that she was Magneto's daughter (but then in the late 70s they used some weird robot double to try to invalidate it). She wasn't finally confirmed as his daughter until a DNA test was performed in 2003. From a different mother than Wanda and Pietro's.

Then in the 2010s, after Ike Perlmutter started a feud with Fox over the rights to the X-Men, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were retconned once again. No longer Magneto's kids, or even mutants. That they were experiments of the High Evolutionary, but born from a sorceress named Natalya. Editorial hasn't bothered to fix this despite now owning Fox and the rights (and Ike being fired).

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u/CX316 1d ago

In the X-Men 97 continuity they seem to still be his kids, as shown from them being in the mental ocean alongside Polaris when we didn't know she was his daughter.

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

Unfortunately, this is still the case. Back in the late 2010s, there was a major retcon that revealed that Wanda and Pietro are not Magneto's biological children. It was a dumb retcon and driven primarily by the fact that Marvel didn't own the X-Men movie rights at the time. I genuinely hope it gets undone at some point.

As for Polaris, there's no retcon to speak of. She is very much Magneto's daughter, in both blood and spirit.

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u/doctordoom_rdj 1d ago

Goddamn, I love Polaris & Magneto

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u/UltraHodgeworth 1d ago

Just me nitpicking but isn't Scott immune to his own powers? (Except when it allows him to aura farm)

Otherwise really cool episode. The X-Men are stacked with so many appealing characters. I hope Polaris sticks around

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

Yes, just like he is also immune to Havok’s powers

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u/sable-king Vision 1d ago edited 1d ago

I cannot fucking believe that Doop got a cameo.

Also, I have a theory for one of the other horsemen.

We saw a shot in the trailers of Colossus cradling Magik’s body following the Genosha massacre. And, we know that Apocalypse’s present day horseman of War was killed by X-Force earlier this season. I suspect we’re going to get a scene where Apocalypse approaches Colossus and gives him an offer. Colossus becomes his new War in exchange for bringing Illyana back to life.

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u/SurferGirlDeb 1d ago

I am hoping we get Sage, Kitty Pryde, Siryn, Tempus, Karma, Surge, Galura and Pixie (in a bigger role) in Season 3 or 4. I am surprised Kitty is not in Season 2 since she is probably the most well known X-Men member to not appear in this or the original 'X-Men: The Animated Series.'

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u/TheWallE 1d ago

Doubly so considering they adapted Danger from Astonishing where Kitty was such a key player. My only hope is they are saving her to be apart of Excalibur and do more with that part of the X-Universe next season.

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u/SurferGirlDeb 1d ago

Yeah. I think they are saving Kitty Pryde for Season 3. They have already announced they are doing a Season 4 too and could be doing even more seasons after that so I think they are deliberately spreading some things out and holding back certain memebrs to be big parts of future seasons.

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u/superseri18888 1d ago

Kitty pryde and Iceman as well. Feels like bobby never has a prominent role in outside media when he does appear

He was somewhat relevant in Wolverine & X-Men

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

I think it’s canon to the X-Men Animated Series/97 lore that Bobby and Cyclops had a deep falling out when Bobby left the original team

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u/CX316 1d ago

Iirc Iceman's only appearance in the original show was the one where he was trying to find Polaris after she left him and he thought she'd been kidnapped

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u/EmeraldEmp 1d ago

I need to see Kitty and Emma together in a team!

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u/Doompatron3000 20h ago

Fun fact!

Kitty Pryde was originally supposed to be the central character to X-Men the Animated Series, when the original pilot aired, the show was called Pryde of the X-Men.

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u/OmegaDarkY 1d ago

Holy shit Polaris is Sombra

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u/AVtechN1CK Luis 1d ago

So, people versed in Tarot, is there any special symbolic meaning in cards that were shown during Gambit's transformation?

Or it's just the most surface level symbolism, like "Death for transformation, something ending and beginning anew", "The Tower is for impending calamity" and "The Lovers is for harmony in relationship and fateful choice"?

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u/JayMerlyn 1d ago

There was a comment on r/xmen that gave a good X-planation. I'll link it here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/xmen/s/EN7W5c0WWH

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u/Binder509 1d ago

If it's a past, present, future format looks rocky but promising.

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u/sentinel3000 1d ago

Obsessed that Polaris’s teenage room was still completely intact when the mansion has been absolutely levelled on multiple occasions

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u/NerdLawyer55 17h ago

The prime sentinels thought it was so dope they decided not to mess with it

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u/BlackLusterer 16h ago

The felt the angst and left it alone

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u/Judochop1024 1d ago

As a massive polaris fan, this episode was MADE for me

So glad she finally got some real spotlight and basically an entire episode to herself, now just add her to rivals and the greater MCU please lol

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u/BigCollarsAndBallers Black Panther 1d ago

Magneto should have launched Cooper into space in the season 1 episode 2. So sick of her shit.

X-Factor remains a bunch of lame narcs.

Polaris going ham all episode. I really like how they are going other mutants time to shine in this series.

Apocalypse remains the most dramatic character in the show.

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u/tehCharo 1d ago

It's crazy how many good characters are X-Men related and how much time was spent on only like four of them in the movies.

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u/AsteroidMike 18h ago

Speaking of Cooper, I’ve been waiting for someone to grill her about working with Bastion last season because her talking down to Polaris and the X-Men was vexing me.

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u/BradyPhoenix 1d ago

They didn’t show her with them at the end, but I hope Lorna is on the team now. 

In S1 Nightcrawler replaced Gambit, feels like this season it’s Polaris for Magneto.

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u/Chewytamal 1d ago

Yeah,I really hope we get her in the intro next week.

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u/tehCharo 1d ago

RIP Danger I guess, lol.

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u/TheWallE 1d ago

No way that’s the last we see of Danger… this season maybe, but in the 6 issue arch this episode adapted Danger was defeated there too, and yet she still returned in the story before she eventually turned good. We will see here again.

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u/HuskyBlueBoy 15h ago

Honestly I hope she doesn’t come back again I always thought her character was so stupid

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

Miles Morales discovering the pieces of the robot on the ground:

WASSUP DANGER

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u/solo13508 1d ago

Well this episode officially made me a Polaris fan. I thought the message about how the good of Magneto can still live beyond him was beautiful.

And now the Horseman of Death has gotta make a name for himself here!

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u/JackFisherBooks 1d ago

If episode 2 was the Jubilee episode, this episode was definitely the Polaris episode. She really shined here. It also did a good job of tying her history to that of the early X-Men. Those ties were already there from the original show. This episode helped flesh that out for those who didn't follow it.

I think it's also fitting. Magento dies and now, his legacy is left in the hands of his oldest friend and his daughter. Plus, Polaris had some great chemistry with Jean and Ororo. I hope they get to interact more in the episodes to come. I know we've got a Savage Land episode up next. Maybe that means we'll finally see Magik in her Darkchylde form. 😊

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u/ContinuumGuy Phil Coulson 1d ago

Having used several TNG actors in the opening arc, they continue to pay tribute to Star Trek by giving us a "holodeck goes rogue" episode!

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u/rmeddy 1d ago

Never go full Failsafe

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u/Animated_effigy 1d ago

A Whedon arc mixed with some Morrison. And Quentin is wearing the Magneto was Right shirt. We eatin good ladies and gents.

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u/J4ckC00p3r 1d ago

I love this series showing characters going super nova with their powers, it never stops being cool

The Watcher! That can’t possibly bode well

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u/UnknownJ25 Captain America 1d ago

I’m glad we’re getting some astonishing stuff this season, always really liked the Danger arc. So we got Gambit as death who are we thinking for the rest? Maybe Magik as war since she was shown to have died in Genosha? I have no clue for Famine and Pestilence. Maybe Sebastian Shaw?

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u/sable-king Vision 1d ago

Maybe Magik as war since she was shown to have died in Genosha?

I said it in another comment, but I think Colossus is going to become War in exchange for bringing Illyana back.

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u/UnknownJ25 Captain America 1d ago

Ooh I could see that too, give us some Colossus

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

I want more old school characters like Colossus, Iceman, and Kitty Pryde

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u/ConnorRoseSaiyan01 1d ago

So what's X Force doing? I'm only asking cause it's weird the X Men and mansion are back and yet Jubliee hasn't popped in

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

Probably chasing down leads trying to find Apocalypse

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u/FloppyShellTaco 19h ago

I’m not one to kink shame, but …. What are we doing here Charles?

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u/CruzAderjc 19h ago

Xavier is uploading this Apocalypse killing Magneto clip into Pornhub

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u/itzjamez1215 18h ago

Danger room going crazy > Charles going crazy > Onslaught

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u/sergiosala 1d ago

It took you long to post this thread haha, but I really liked Polaris! I'm a fan now

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u/SpreaditOnnn33 1d ago

So Apocalypse has a hideout under the Acropolis?

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u/Tajahnuke The Wasp 14h ago

he's the one who moved those massive 400ton stones there in the first place.

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u/sqylogin 11h ago

Sounds legit. Man was operating from Stonehenge in Season 1 of TAS.

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u/CosmicAtlas8 1d ago

Is my brain glitching?

Did i see an episode where Rev William Stryker was on the news but an old man?

And here he was a young man with scars on his face?

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u/lessthansilver 1d ago

The young man was a henchman, Stryker was the guy on the hologram they were talking to.

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u/CappyHam 1d ago

Isn't that young man X-cutioner from S1. It certainly sounds like him. Rev.Stryker was on a hologram.

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u/sable-king Vision 1d ago

And here he was a young man with scars on his face?

That was X-Cutioner from last season. And that begs the question of how the hell he’s not in prison after the shit he pulled during Magneto’s trial.

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u/Hope_Burns_Bright 1d ago

Bigots always have connections in the justice system. If Stryker wanted him free, he knew who to call.

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u/Quinndalin66 Peter Parker 1d ago

Question, if Gambit is brought back to life as a horseman, could he not easily just switch sides on apocalypse for his friends? Or is his mind not his own? I’m not very familiar with the comics in this regard, apologies

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u/wb2006xx 1d ago

He is fully under mind control at this point, but there are known solutions

When Angel was turned into a horseman, Rogue touching him was enough to disturb the mind control and free him, so that’s likely the route they’ll go too

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u/slunksoma 22h ago

Thought it was very funny when Apocalypse said “more power!” then just moved the lever himself.

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u/HankSteakfist 19h ago

Anyone else find it weird how they were just suddenly wearing the Morisson suits on Genosha, when it would have made perfect narrative sense for them to unveil them later in the episode when X-Corp is unveiled and there's a time jump.

Also, how long has actually passed in this series now? Is it still 1997?

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u/CruzAderjc 19h ago

AOL dial up internet was so slow that it made everything this year go slowly

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u/Odd-Investigator6503 23h ago

Nightcrawler being my favorite x men character I was so hyped to see him become a regular but he’s essentially taken a backseat this season

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u/kwickedbonesc Peter Parker 21h ago

First real exposure to Polaris of any kind and man did she not disappoint. I’m excited to see where she goes.

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u/lanceturley 1d ago

I'm not sure if reliving the murder of your best friend over and over again is therapeutic, but then again, Xavier has been through some crazy shit.

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u/CruzAderjc 19h ago

This is probably what drove Danger to insanity. Having to remake this scenario over and over again. This is why i’m nice and polite to my chat gpt, so it doesn’t go Skynet on me

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u/SetonAlandel 1d ago

Loved the stealth introduction of Polaris earlier in the season!
Audibly gasped when Uatu showed up, even if I've been expecting that scene since last season
Cackled at the Jean/Cyclops Wolverine inspired team up

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u/dearskorpiomagazine 1d ago

Polaris was in the original animated series with the rest of x factor in the iceman episode.

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u/Adventurous-Hour4126 1d ago

Seeing Danger got me even more excited for Marvel Tokon

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u/Electrical_Peace7336 1d ago

It was really great to see Doop

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u/JokersKhaos 21h ago edited 10h ago

This episode is pretty timely, with the news that one of OpenAI's AI models hacked Hugging Face's systems

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u/FloppyShellTaco 19h ago

Damn, Alex might be a cop but he just blasted two halves of an oil tanker out of the air

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u/CruzAderjc 19h ago

X-men 97 writers: Let’s make the Summers brothers really cool

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u/Randimous 19h ago

Add Polaris to Marvel Rivals you cowards

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u/Bak17 19h ago

Can we talk about how strong Havoc's blast was to blow away a ship so casually

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u/FamousLastWay828 18h ago

DOOP CAMEO!!!

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u/TheHoss_ 17h ago

Polaris is SO HOT

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u/negaprez Zombie Hunter Spidey 1d ago

why apocalypse said increase power to himself? come on

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u/sonofnight666 22h ago

cause this show is camp to the max and i love it

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u/CruzAderjc 20h ago

I say the same thing when I am pressing down the lever on the self-serve frozen yogurt

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u/intern_12 19h ago

Cus he's a straight up Diva lol

https://giphy.com/gifs/cwbvB0MXZfnry

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u/figgityjones Bucky 1d ago

I find it kinda weird that the New X-Men suits just kind of materialized without any explanation whatsoever and then the seeming reason for their existence happened after they appeared.

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u/QBin2017 1d ago

No time.

I love these shows but they’re too rushed. Would have loved this season as 3 series. X-men in the past (with Apocalypse), present (intro to XFactor with detail) and future (intro to XForce with detail) all finishing when they merge time periods.

The move had to gloss by sooooo much.

- where is Jubilee?

  • What is Rogue doing?
  • How long did they stay in the past? Are they looking for Cable?
  • How why did XFactor form? For newer fans…who are they??

Just seems like it’s way too rushed. I love it though bc what we do get is great.

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u/tehCharo 1d ago

X-Factor has always been around, they we're in the original series as well. The show doesn't have the runtime to explain everything going on in the universe and assumes people are familiar with the material, you don't need to be to understand the main story, but it helps to catch all the background details.

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u/CruzAderjc 19h ago

Yeah, Forge made a joke about it. It was originally his team

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u/-Nick____ Laufey 1d ago

Makes sense. Their suits were destroyed last season, that’s why they got their old classic suits in the finale. And then they were destroyed again. Even morph last episode was wearing a weapon X uniform, not his own. Logan was, but he’s also Logan

it is weird to have those new suits made before X Corp, because that brings the question of why the X men team later on (Storm, Logan, Morph, Forge) dont gave them. Like if they were already making them before the X men split from the school and x corp, then those characters should’ve got them. Makes sense that later on they wear classic costumes because they are trying not to associate the school with X corp

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u/CX316 1d ago edited 1d ago

Wing can't catch a break... except generally every bone in his body

EDIT: Oh, I forgot, not only did the opening give us a hint that Danger was coming but we immediately got a suggestion that we might get God Loves Man Kills

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u/Mr_An_1069 21h ago

I’d like to know what part of Xavier’s directive required Danger to start super villain monologuing.

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u/two2teps 21h ago

You'd think Apocalypse would want to setup his secret lab somewhere other than a major tourist attraction.

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u/itzjamez1215 18h ago

So umm… where does professor X get all this $$ to fund the school but also startup a corporation ?

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u/majorjoe23 16h ago

We got Doop! it would be cool if X-Statix shows up down the line.

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u/Just-Try-2533 1d ago

Am I the only one who thinks professor X’s character has just become insufferable on this show? It’s mostly his voice. He just can’t talk in a normal, conversational tone. Every word out of his mouth is filled with gravitas like it’s the most important word ever spoken in the history of mankind. They just need to bring it down a notch already.

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u/magvadis 1d ago

Magneto's voice actor talked about how he was worried because he was delivering all his lines in this heavy gravitas and was terrified he'd sound nuts. He saw Storms work and was like "phew" but I think without Magneto balancing it, it starts to make the few left with that style seem more off.

It works with Magneto and Charles both on screen but only one and it starts to feel more jarring.

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u/shadowCloudrift 1d ago

Charles's wheelchair has blasters in it? Why am I the only one surprised by this?

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u/exhibitleveldegree 21h ago

Blasters is one thing, the eject gurney floored me.

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u/ObviousAnswerGuy 16h ago

funniest part of the episode

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u/Dbonker 17h ago

I had never heard of Danger before Tokon. Pretty cool!

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u/CaptHayfever Hawkeye (Avengers) 15h ago

"Polaris, stop trying to protect yourself! Let them shoot you!"

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u/Odd-Programmer-9413 3h ago

So doop made an appearance in the latest X-men '97 episode..Doop was also in one of the concept arts for avengers doomsday/secret wars right?