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X-Males ’97: 10 Burning Questions After The Season 1 Finale
X-Males ’97 had the arduous job of following up on X-Males: The Animated Collection, some of the beloved Marvel cartoons ever made. However as a substitute of bending beneath the burden of fan expectations, X-Males ’97 exceeded them with some of the thrilling and daring superhero diversifications in years. The primary season masterfully remixed storylines from the ’80s and ’90s, together with Lifedeath, Deadly Sights, and Operation: Zero Tolerance with a couple of fashionable touches and animation that far surpassed the unique X-Males animated collection.
Fortunately, X-Males ’97 already has a second season within the works. As a result of after the Season 1 finale, we have 10 burning questions on what comes subsequent for Marvel’s mutant heroes.
Warning: The next incorporates spoilers from your complete first season of X-Males ‘97 on Disney+. When you aren’t updated on the present and do not need to know what occurred, cease studying now.
1. What was the fallout from Xavier leaving the Shi’ar empire?
Earlier than Charles Xavier headed again to Earth to reunite along with his college students, he left behind a probably harmful state of affairs with the Shi’ar and Empress Lilandra, who might now not be his beloved. The Shi’ar folks had been decidedly cool to the notion of Xavier and Lilandra getting married and sharing the throne. That was sufficient for Lilandra’s sister, Deathbird, to brazenly defy her empress in a bid to grab energy for herself.
Xavier was within the means of successful over the Shi’ar council to vary the very nature of their empire when he obtained the psychic backlash from the mutant bloodbath in Genosha. Lilandra warned Xavier that if he left, every thing Deathbird mentioned about him could be validated. And he left anyway. Whereas Lilandra nonetheless has the loyalty of Gladiator and the Imperial Guard, it is seemingly that Deathbird will make one other play for the throne. With out Xavier, can Lilandra maintain her empire collectively? The present’s heroes might have larger issues to face first, however that is one thing which will come again to hang-out all of them.
2. Will Wolverine devolve with out his adamantium skeleton?
The three-part season finale recreated the scene from Deadly Sights the place Magento ripped the adamantium from Wolverine’s skeleton. Even along with his therapeutic issue, Wolverine did not get up within the season’s final episode. If the present follows Wolverine’s development from the comics, it means he’ll quickly uncover that he is nonetheless bought bone claws.
However the greatest difficulty dealing with Wolverine now’s whether or not the lack of his adamantium may have the identical antagonistic results that it did within the authentic comics. With out having to compensate for the steel in his physique, Logan’s therapeutic powers had been amplified and he started devolving right into a extra animal-like state. Wolverine ultimately bought his steel again, nevertheless it took a couple of years for that to occur.
3. Did Bastion survive the destruction of Asteroid M?
Bastion was a reasonably convincing option to be this season’s huge dangerous, and he needs to be thought of one of many deadliest enemies that the X-Males have ever confronted. That is very true now that Bastion used the longer term tech from Cable’s arm to rework himself into one thing extra machine than man.
Though Bastion scoffed on the group’s try to recruit him, he did attain for Cyclops’ outstretched hand when Asteroid M was hit by missiles. The finale left Bastion’s closing destiny ambiguous. But as comedian followers have mentioned for years, if there isn’t any physique, then he isn’t useless.
4. The place are Magneto’s kids?
The final episode of the season briefly acknowledged that Magneto’s children–Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Polaris–are nonetheless on his thoughts, despite the fact that none of them instantly appeared this season. We do not even know if Polaris is conscious that she’s Magneto’s daughter. The one clue that we’ve to work with is that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver had been each marked as “off world” on Forge’s chart of mutant heroes. Why are they in area? And when will they return?
5. Will Graydon Creed turn into the subsequent President of america?
Graydon Creed, the son of Mystique and Sabretooth, additionally skipped this season, however he was prominently talked about as working for President in opposition to the incumbent, Robert Kelly. President Kelly got here to workplace on an anti-mutant platform earlier than embracing the X-Males as heroes. Within the ’90s, it was unthinkable for a Presidential candidate to return to energy who brazenly spewed racism and division. However in 2024, it is now not such a far-fetched idea.
As President, Graydon Creed might be even deadlier to the X-Males than Bastion. Until Mystique takes the identical step to stop that from occurring as she did within the comics…
6. Who kidnapped the X-Males by time?
As Bishop mentioned on the present, this is not the primary time that the X-Males have been lacking and presumed useless. The finale has some echoes of The Fall of the Mutants, a storyline the place the X-Males appeared to die saving humanity from the Adversary, solely to be rapidly resurrected and allowed to take care of the phantasm of their dying. Forge was additionally left behind that point.
The important thing distinction right here is that Bishop is satisfied that one thing or somebody kidnapped the X-Males and scattered them in time. If that’s the case, who might have pulled that off and why?
The widespread denominator between two time frames up to now and the far future are Apocalypse. The group up to now has now met En Sabah Nur when he was nonetheless mortal, whereas Apocalypse is the enemy of Clan Askani sooner or later. We’re additionally curious if Mom Askani is Rachel Summers, Cyclops and Jean Gray’s different youngster from an alternate timeline. Rachel was briefly glimpsed in Episode 8 throughout Cable’s description of mutantkind’s future beneath Bastion’s management. Till now, that was the one affirmation that Rachel existed on the planet of the present. And if younger Nathan is sooner or later, can his clone Stryfe be far behind?
7. What occurred to Wolverine, Morph, and Storm?
Three of the X-Males are presently unaccounted for after the time-travel shenanigans. Morph stayed by Wolverine’s facet as he was comatose, whereas Storm was outdoors of Asteroid M through the occasion that ripped it from the current. None of these three had been proven alongside their teammates in both the previous or the longer term.
Did that trio wind up in one other historic period or future? And if that’s the case, the place are they?
8. The place are the lacking mutants?
Forge’s board famous that Cable, Jubilee, and Sunspot are all AWOL, which suggests they went their separate methods after E Day. However the more-alarming replace on the board was Archangel, who was famous to be lacking and presumed useless. He was one of many authentic X-Males, and a key participant within the comics for many years. It is unlikely that the present would kill off somebody that vital off-screen, particularly given his connection to Apocalypse.
9. Who will likely be on Forge and Bishop’s new group of X-Males?
The concept of Forge placing collectively a brand new group does have some precedent within the comics, despite the fact that he solely teamed up with Banshee with any regularity earlier than each of them had been reunited with their mates. On this continuity, it seems to be like Bishop will play the function of Forge’s companion as they seek for the X-Males. But what we actually need to know is easy: Who will be a part of their group within the current?
This scene marked the primary time that the present has acknowledged Kitty Pryde aka Shadowcat, and it is unclear if she has the identical reference to the group that her comic-book counterpart did. Different potential members listed had been Iceman, Havok, Mud, White Queen, Colossus, Magik, and even Exodus. Bringing a few of these characters collectively might be very fascinating.
10. Will Apocalypse resurrect Gambit?
Regardless of the suspicion that X-Males ’97 would undo Gambit’s grand sacrifice by time journey, the favored X-Man stays useless on the finish of the season. However most likely not for lengthy. The post-credits scene actually appears to be establishing Apocalypse to resurrect Gambit as Loss of life, a member of his 4 Horsemen. Gambit was additionally Loss of life for a quick interval within the comics, however he didn’t need to die for that to occur.
Mister Sinister already resurrected Morph within the authentic collection, and if he can do this, then so can Apocalypse. The actual query is why would Apocalypse solely resurrect Gambit? With so many useless mutants on Genosha, he might have his choose of latest Horsemen from the victims.
