X-Men ’97 season two has come to a close, and unlike last time, we won’t have to wait that long for season three. It’s expected to drop on Disney+ in the summer of 2027. Given the final scene of the season, we know Mystique is going to make trouble under the guise of government operative Valerie Cooper, and that her bigoted son, Graydon Creed, has won the United States presidency. Something that cannot bode well for mutants at large. We expect government-sanctioned Sentinels, more religious Purifiers, and much chaos. But as longtime Marvel mutant fans, we have some requests for the creators of X-Men ’97 year three when it arrives.
1. More Episodes
This is perhaps the most important thing X-Men ’97 needs to do next season, and that is to add more episodes. Even if it’s just one or two more. The stories this past season, while good, all felt rushed and skipped over important emotional beats. We do enjoy some of these stories told in a far more abbreviated form than in the comics. For example, Storm lost her powers for years in the comics; we’re glad they didn’t stretch that storyline out too long in season one. But these plotlines still need more time to develop. Whoever the showrunner is on year three, or maybe it has to be year four, we certainly hope they find a way to add more episodes. If only to allow these plotlines to breathe a little.
2. Cyclops Discovering Havok Is His Brother
X-Factor’s field leader is the plasma energy-wielding Havok, who appeared several times in season two. The Flash’s Teddy Sears voices him. The character actually appeared before, on the original X-Men: The Animated Series. But although the show dropped broad hints, it never confirmed Alex Summers is the brother of Scott Summers, aka Cyclops. We’re now two seasons into X-Men ’97, and these two still don’t know they’re related. Cyclops has already encountered his space pirate dad, Corsair, and his adult cyborg soldier son, Cable. Hopefully, by next season, these two finally realize they are each other’s long-lost sibling.
3. The Arrival of Rachel Summers
Speaking of the complicated Summers family tree, season two introduced us to yet another Summers. Mother Askani, the powerful psychic who led the fight against Apocalypse 2,000 years in the future. But she never confirmed who she really was to Cyclops or Storm. Even though they both knew there was more to her than she was admitting. Comics fans know that Mother Askani is actually a (much) older version of Rachel Summers. Rachel is the psychic daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from a dystopian timeline, who sometimes hosts the Phoenix. The teenage version of Rachel traveled to the 20th century and joined the X-Men. Mother Askani implied that version of Rachel is her younger self. So that’s a storyline we need to see play out on X-Men ‘97.
4. Emma Frost Joins the X-Men
So far, Emma Frost, the telepathic White Queen of the Hellfire Club, has made two brief appearances in X-Men ’97. Even though she nearly died in Genosha, that experience has not seemingly made her a better person. We know she’s not suddenly a noble hero thanks to her selling out X-Force this season. Our understanding is that former showrunner Beau DeMayo was not a very big fan of modern “heroic” Emma. But she’s one of the most popular X-Men ever, so she needs to appear at some point.
In the 2000s era New X-Men comics by Grant Morrison, after Apocalypse possessed Cyclops’ body, he had serious PTSD issues. Now a teacher at the Xavier Institute, Emma Frost psychically nursed him back to a more functional state. And this “psychic therapy” did kind of lead to a psychic affair. Well, didn’t Gambit just get possessed by Apocalypse on X-Men ’97? Maybe the Scott/Jean/Emma triangle in the comics becomes Remy/Rogue/Emma for the series. Talk about a soapy twist to a classic storyline.
5. The Return of Iceman
X-Men: The Animated Series brought in Iceman for one episode, titled “Cold Comfort,” establishing Bobby Drake as a founding member of the team. A member who left Xavier’s School under unhappy circumstances. Eventually, Cyclops invited Iceman back, but Bobby chose to turn down the offer. But given that in the years since X-Men: TAS, Iceman has come out as a gay man. And he’s become one of Marvel’s most prominent LGBTQ heroes. Yes, we acknowledge the X-Men ’97 team is a bit overcrowded right now. But we should at least get an episode that focuses on one of the team’s most iconic members.
6. A Proper X-Men History Explained
When we first met the X-Men in the first episode of X-Men: The Animated Series back in 1992, they were already a well-established team with some history. And over the course of the series, we learned a bit of that history. They eventually showed us how Iceman and Angel were in Xavier’s first class, and eventually Polaris joined too. But we don’t really know the team’s full timeline, and how it does (or doesn’t) match up with Marvel canon. In the comics, after Jean Grey died, Uncanny X-Men #138 featured Cyclops reflecting on the team’s history as he mourned his love. An episode like this, finally clarifying the history of the X-Men, should be produced at some point.
7. The Introduction of Excalibur
Back in the ’80s and ‘90s, the X-Men got several spin-off teams, starting with X-Factor, and then X-Force. And both appeared in X-Men ’97 season two. But another major X-Men satellite group was established in 1987, and that’s the British team Excalibur. Established after the X-Men were believed dead, Excalibur operated out of a lighthouse off the coast of England. Their expertise was in more trans-dimensional and just weirder adventures, kind of like a mutant Doctor Who team.
The core team of Excalibur, consisting of Nightcrawler, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers, Captain Britain, and his girlfriend Meggan, would be a little difficult to pull off right now. Nightcrawler is dead, the younger Rachel Summers has yet to arrive in the ‘90s, and it doesn’t seem like the X-Men ’97 producers are very eager to introduce Kitty Pryde. But we’d like to think somewhere down the line, maybe in season four, we can finally see Excalibur on the series. We all know Nightcrawler is going to get better eventually. That’s just how mutant deaths work.
X-Men ’97 seasons one and two are currently streaming on Disney+.
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This articles is written by : Nermeen Nabil Khear Abdelmalak
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