Western Animation / X-Men '97

Warning: X-Men '97 is a sequel to X-Men: The Animated Series, so Late Arrival Spoilers for that series are unmarked on this page. You Have Been Warned.

"No matter how dark it is... we must believe in each other."

"We have to stay vigilant. The professor entrusted us with his dream."

— Scott Summers / Cyclops

X-Men '97 is a 2024 animated superhero series produced by Marvel Studios’ animation label, Marvel Animation. It is developed by Beau DeMayo (The Witcher, Moon Knight, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) and serves as a continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series.

In the wake of Professor Xavier’s departure from Earth, the X-Men continue their battle for justice and peace between humans and mutants—a battle made all the more difficult when it is revealed that Xavier has willed the school and everything he built to Magneto.

Returning cast members from the original series include Lenore Zann as Rogue, George Buza as Beast, Cal Dodd as Wolverine, Alison Sealy Smith as Storm, Adrian Hough as Nightcrawler and Christopher Britton as Mr. Sinister; while new additions include Holly Chou as Jubilee (replacing Alyson Court at the latter's request), Ray Chase as Cyclops (replacing the late Norm Spencer), A.J. LoCasio as Gambit (replacing Chris Potter), Matthew Waterson as Magneto (replacing the late David Hemblen), Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey (replacing Catherine Disher), Isaac Robinson-Smith as Bishop (replacing Philip Akin) and Ross Marquand as Professor Xavier (replacing Cedric Smith). Court and Disher stay on as new characters Abcissa and Valerie Cooper respectively, while Potter takes over from Lawrence Bayne as Cable (who now voices X-Cutioner).

The series' animation production is handled by Studio Mir (who is also one of the series' co-producers) and Tiger Animation, alongside in-house staff at Marvel Animation for additional animation support.

Similar to the original animated series, X-Men '97 has a core group the series follows:

• Scott Summers / Cyclops: The stolid, straight-faced field leader of the X-Men who can fire optic blasts.
• Logan / Wolverine: The antiheroic Badass Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Possesses a Healing Factor, razor-sharp claws, and an adamantium-infused skeleton.
• Jean Grey: telepath and psychokineticist extraordinaire, and married to Cyclops.
• Rogue: A Southern Belle with the ability to siphon the life force, as well as memories and abilities, of others via physical contact. Also a Flying Brick.
• Remy LeBeau / Gambit: The ragin' Cajun, a former thief from Louisiana and master at weaponizing playing cards by charging them with explosive energy. Also Rogue's on-again-off-again paramour.
• Ororo Munroe / Storm: Master of the elements whose command over the weather is matched only by her wisdom.
• Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast: A furry blue scientist with a genius-level intellect and unparalleled agility.
• Jubilation Lee / Jubilee: A spunky youth with the power to conjure and throw explosive plasma.
• Kevin Sydney / Morph: A quick-witted lovable goofball with the power to mimic the appearance, voice, and (to a limited degree) physical abilities of anyone.
• Lucas Bishop / Bishop: A time-displaced warrior, once an enemy of the X-Men, now an avowed ally. Has the power to absorb and re-direct energy attacks.
• Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto: The Master of Magnetism himself, the X-Men's most dangerous enemy... and in the wake of Professor Xavier's passing, their new leader.
• Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler: A mutant with a demonic appearance, a heart of gold, and the ability to teleport from place to place.

The series was released on Disney+ on March 20th, 2024, with a second and third season in development.

A prelude four-issue comic written by Steve Foxe and drawn by Salva Espin, also called X-Men '97, began publication in March 2024.

Previews: Trailer

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To me, my tropes!

• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: The series primarily uses 2D animation as a basis, much like the original series. However, unlike its predecessor, there are clear moments of using 3DCG cel-shaded characters for certain crowd or background character shots.
• The '90s: With the original series being a Present Day adaptation, '97 leans into the 90s anachronisms.
  • Fashion is wild, slang is rooted in 90s culture, cell phones are rare (the first episode even showing a pager store), tube TVs are the highest definition to be found, and the internet is basically non-existent for most people. The exceptions are alien and future tech and the 20 Minutes into the Future technology such as the Sentinels and the Danger Room which were present in the original series.
  • Episode 1's opening shot even shows Manhattan's cityscape with the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center still present.
  • Episode 5 includes music by Ace of Base being played at an event in Genosha.
• Anachronic Order: "Motendo/Lifedeath – Part 1", was immediately followed with the episode, "Remember It", before "Lifedeath – Part 2" aired.
• Adaptation Distillation:
  • The complex relationship situation surrounding Scott Summers, Jean Grey, and Madelyne Pryor is much more streamlined/simplified. In the comics, Jean (seemingly) died and Scott met and fell for Madelyne, an apparently unconnected woman who looked very much like Jean and was eventually revealed to be a clone created by Sinister to dupe Scott. In this show, Mr. Sinister swapped Jean and Madelyne at an unknown point in time with the latter believing that she was the real Jean until the truth was revealed.
  • Inferno is changed to a telepathic illusion caused by Madelyne's powers.
  • "Lifedeath Pt. 1" immediately segues into The Fall of the Mutants, while the original story took a few extra years to happen.
  • Genosha seems to composite many elements from the Krakoa period of X-Men, including a council that's membership is more-or-less the Quiet Council adapted to the 90s X-Men, mutant citizens who debuted much later than Genosha itself, and focus on the UN recognising it as an independent state and UN member. It also condenses much of Genosha's history into one episode, from it being founded and Magneto elected its leader, to the brutal genocide via a Wild Sentinel that claims six million mutant lives.
• Adaptational Gender Identity: Morph is depicted as being non-binary, a first for the character.
• Ambiguous Situation: The series opens after a noticeable Time Skip after the original show, leaving a few open questions about everything that happened in the interim. As yet, we haven't been told exactly what led to Bishop returning to the present day and joining the X-Men permanently, or why Morph's appearance is so drastically different. It's also implied that Illyana Rasputin unlocked her magical powers at some point (Morph is seen transforming into Magik in the third episode, complete with Russian accent), but none of the details have yet been revealed.
• Ascended Extra:
  • Bishop has been promoted as a proper member of the titular team in this series, rather than merely being a guest character.
  • Morph as well, who was initially a main team member in this canon from the pilot. They sat out due to a case of Heroic Sacrifice, leaving them for dead before Mr. Sinister put them into a Jekyll & Hyde situation for much of the series until the finale.
  • Forge in the original series was a recurring background character, but plays a central role in "Lifedeath – Part 1".
  • Appears to be the case with Nightcrawler as well. While in the original series he only made a couple of appearances, "Lifedeath Part 2" makes him a part of the opening sequence, meaning he's now a member of the X-Men.
• Audience Surrogate: Much like Jubilee before him, Roberto Da Costa is made into one in the first episode.
• Avengers Assemble: Before the series's title is shown in the trailer, we see Cyclops declaring "To me, my X-Men!" while the team assembles behind him.
• Backported Development: The show, even given its Sequel Series status, doesn't shy away from stuff introduced since the original series ended, including the Hellfire Gala and one of Mojo's mock title cards in "Motendo" featuring Darwin from X-Men: Deadly Genesis, a comic that came out nearly a decade after the original show ended, with later episodes including cameos and appearances by the likes of Pixie, Glob Herman, Sammy Pare, Nature Girl, and Cyclops and Havok's brother Vulcan, the last of whom was also introduced in Deadly Genesis.
• Breather Episode: "Motendo," a short episode that sees Jubilee and Sunspot trapped in a video game, is significantly lighter and less crucial to the ongoing plot than the first three episodes or "Lifedeath – Part 1", which it was released alongside.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S": Just like during the equivalent period in the comics, Magneto as the leader of the X-Men sports a new costume with a big "M" on the front.
• Combination Attack:
  • Episode 2 has Wolverine, Gambit and Morph taking down Master Mold through creative use of their respective talents. First, Gambit charges Wolverine's claws and then his staff, which he then chucks at Logan, using the the resulting explosion to launch him towards Morph, who transforms into the Blob, allowing Logan to bounce off his stomach. Logan uses his charged claws to decapitate Master Mold. To note, it's the closest we get to seeing a Fastball Special in the TAS universe thus far.
  • When fighting against demons in a psychic hallucination of Hell projected by the Goblin Queen, Cyclops uses his Eye Beams to power up Bishop who uses the energy boost to annihilate the demons.
• The Cameo: The Watcher makes a brief appearance in the sky in "Remember It".
• Continuity Nod: A copy of the Daily Bugle is shown blowing in the wind after Cyclops' optic eye blast decimates the Friends of Humanity's hideout in "To Me, My X-Men". One article title asks if Spider-Man is a mutant, alongside a story about the Hellfire Gala written by Eddie Brock with pictures by Peter Parker. This is likely an acknowledgment that the original show, and this series by extension, share continuity with Spider-Man: The Animated Series, as established in their crossover episodes.
• Darker and Edgier: While still an animated work and still part of the continuity started with X-Men: The Animated Series, the series leans heavier on the elder viewers who were fans of the original series, allowing for blood, light cursing, and even widespread death in the assault on Genosha, something that Saban and Fox Kids would have never done with the original series.
• Depower: Storm suffers this after Taking the Bullet for Magneto from Xcutioner's Radiation gun during his trial, losing her powers seemingly permanently as a consequence. She recovers from this after a combination of Forge's technological assistance and facing her demons in an almost literal fashion.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?:
  • In "Mutant Liberation Begins", there is a close-up of Magneto taking off Rogue's glove to touch her hand. If this were any other woman it wouldn't be a big deal, but the way it's presented, it being Rogue and the way she rejects it, it comes across like two people who are about to have sex.
  • Beast telling Storm about the loss of her powers is exactly like a doctor telling a person they will never walk again.
  • The sight of an army of angry protesters swarming a government building with the intent to depose the officials inside feels scarily reminiscent of the January 6 uprising against the US Capitol, which happened three years before the airing of the episode.
  • Morph's reaction in episode 3 to the vision of Mr. Sinister stalking towards them is reminiscent of an assault victim being caught and backed in to a corner again by their assailant.
  • The attack on Genosha was explicitly intended to evoke mass murder events by extremists, the most direct inspirations being 9/11 and the Pulse nightclub shooting.
• Evolving Credits: The X-Men title sequence is meant to be similar to the '92 show's title sequence for continuity, but changes with each episode. The one big change is at the end where the clash between Xavier's forces and Magneto's has Lady Deathstrike and the White Queen replace Warpath and a mysterious pink-skinned man (assumed to either be the Gargoyle or Gremlin by fans).
  • In episode 1, Jean moves over to be after Cyclops instead of Wolverine, Morph and Bishop join the cast, and the scene where Jubilee runs into a fence is replaced with Morph being haunted by the silhouette of Mr. Sinister.
  • In episode 2, Magneto replaces Xavier, the random scenes are replaced with Storm beating Callisto, the Dark Phoenix, Bishop traveling through time, and Magneto with Asteroid M.
  • In episode 3, Storm is removed from the cast list, Jubilee's scene is restored with Sunspot in her place, we see Magneto attacking Cyclops, Storm and Wolverine, Lilandra attacking the Dark Phoenix and Rogue kisses Gambit, using her hand to cover his lips.
  • In episode 4, Jean's card has her back with her ponytail over her cowl, Bishop is removed from the cast list., Jubilee protects Longshot from Mojo, Xavier is telepathically blocked by Emma Frost and Forge is focused on as we see Polaris caring for Havok.
  • In episode 5, Jubilee protecting Longshot is replaced with Cable fighting Apocalypse, and Storm fighting Callisto reappears.
  • In episode 6, Magneto and Gambit are removed from the cast list due to their deaths, Nightcrawler joins the cast, and also replaces Gambit in the mid-credits shot of the X-Men running across the screen in front of the title. Nimrod being created, then fighting Bishop, Storm and Wolverine, the X-Men fighting the Imperial Guard, and Xavier and Lilandra's romance.
• Foreshadowing:
  • Unlike the original series where it was always Cyclops who voiced the "Previously on X-Men" bit, this time it's a different character each episode, and it usually indicates which character will be the main focus.
  • Bastion was hinted at in previous episodes leading up to episode 7's reveal — he's seen at a table with Val Cooper and other soldiers in episode 2, he's on a photo with Dr. Adler and Forge in episode 4 and he's seen walking on an upper floor that Magneto notices in episode 5.
• Freeze-Frame Bonus: Like the original series, there are plenty of Easter eggs sprinkled about in blink-and-you-miss it cameos.
  • In the first episode, we see Calisto and Leech hiding in an alley outside the Friends of Humanity hideout.
  • After the destruction of the FOH hideout, a newspaper drifts by announcing a mutant fashion show and an article by Eddie Brock and Peter Parker.
• Important Haircut:
  • Storm now wears her hair in a large mohawk, most certainly inspired by her "Punk Storm Era" in the comics.
  • In an Inversion, Jubilee goes back to her classic hairstyle after the original series gave her a bob cut for the final season, likely because most remember her with the previous hairstyle rather than the latter.
• I Surrender, Suckers: In "To Me, My X-Men", we see a member of the Friends of Humanity take off Cyclops' visor. The X-Man begs that he surrenders…before he grins, opens his eyes, and says "Not!". This is a nod to a similar scene in the original series; in that one, Cyclops was speaking to a Sentinel.
• It Always Rains at Funerals: In the trailer, it is visibly raining as a coffin is lowered into its grave. The coffin turns out to be Gambit's in Episode 7.
• Love Dodecahedron: The regular Jean Grey/Cyclops/Wolverine Love Triangle, thought resolved with Jean choosing Scott and Logan choosing to let her go, gets a whole new wrinkle with Madelyne Pryor, a clone of Jean. None of them know when Madelyne replaced Jean and they have the same memories, leaving them uncertain if Scott fell in love with Jean or Madelyne, further complicated by Madelyne being the mother of his child. Meanwhile, Jean finally learns that Logan loved her while trying to use his memories to anchor herself. Scott loves them both, Jean isn't sure of anything, Madelyne loves Scott but also feels guilty about his love for Jean, and Logan still loves Jean but rebuffs her since it would only make her life more complicated when she's using her love for Scott as an anchor.
• Make Way for the New Villains: To show how powerful Bastion is, his introduction features him killing Peter Gyrich, turning Bolivar Trask into a cybernetic weapon and kidnapping Magneto.
• May–December Romance: Magneto and Rogue
• Mid-Season Twist: "Remember It" features a violent surprise Sentinel attack on Genosha. By the episode's end, Gambit, Magneto and the Morlocks have seemingly perished, with other character's fates left unclear.
• Mythology Gag: A few seen in the trailer and some outside of it:
  • Just like in the original cartoon, Wolverine makes his first appearance in the series during a Danger Room training exercise.
  • The Daily Bugle paper flying by makes mention of the Hellfire Gala and showcases a number of mutant characters from the comics who hadn't been created yet at the time of the original series' airing, such as Dust and Nature Girl. Similarly, Marrow’s face can be seen on a “missing” poster.
  • Wolverine getting his claws energized by Gambit seems to be a nod to his "Hot Claws" that resulted from Persephone ressurecting a deceased Logan and recharging his Healing Factor in the 2018 "Return of Wolverine" storyline
  • "To Me, My X-Men" shows the team in their outfits from the famous basketball game during the Chris Claremont Jim Lee run in the 90s.
  • "To Me, My X-Men" ends with Magneto holding The Last Will and Testament of Charles Xavier. This is the name of the long-running and maligned storyline that started in Original Sin, and ended before Secret Wars (2015), also involved a villain getting a hold of Xavier's legacy.
  • Magneto replacing Xavier as the X-Men's leader is also a nod to Uncanny X-Men #200 (1985). In that story, Xavier leaves with Lilandra and the Starjammers and cannot return to Earth. This leaves Magneto, on his way to a Heel–Face Turn, to look after the younger generation, the New Mutants, assuming the alias "Michael Xavier".
  • Magneto and Rogue having a romance is not new. In the comics it started as mutual desire in the Savage Land, they were married and had an infant son in the Age of Apocalypse alternate timeline. The dynamic in that timeline was similar. Gambit wanted Rogue, Rogue liked Gambit, but not as much as he liked her, but she also had an attraction to Magneto who could actually touch her. Just like in Age of Apocalypse, Rogue was the one who went after him, the same way she twice went to his office in the second episode. In the early 2000s, they became a couple for a while in the main 616 universe.
  • Storm loses her powers shortly after she adopts her mohawk look in the comics. She sports a mohawk in '97 and loses her powers in the second episode.
  • Regarding the above, Storm losing her powers due to taking a shot meant for Magneto, is not unlike what happened to Mystique in X-Men: The Last Stand.
  • In "Lifedeath - Part 2", Xavier refers to all living beings as "children of the atom", the original descriptor for the X-Men, as well as the subtitle of Capcom's licensed fighting game.
  • During Rogue's Roaring Rampage of Revenge in "Bright Eyes", she takes out a mech with a Diving Kick, similar to her Downforward Kick from X-Men vs. Street Fighter. She also blows away several soldiers using an Earthquake Punch, another move from the same game that she could use after using Power Drain on Juggernaut.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The first line of this series establishes that Henry Gyrich's apparent assassination of Charles Xavier in the finale of the original series has wound up providing a lot of sympathy towards the mutant community.
• Odd Friendship: In keeping with Wolverine's claim following Morph's apparent death in the original series that "He was the only one who could make me laugh," Morph is the only person who can talk to Wolverine without being scowled at. They can even take the form of Sabertooth as a gag and Wolvie takes it in good sport.
• Power Copying: Morph seems to have gained this ability between the series to a limited degree, allowing them to seemingly utilize other mutants' physical powers at a base level like Blob's bouncing fat, and Colossus's Extra-ore-dinary nature with their Voluntary Shapeshifting.
• Pregnant Badass: "To Me, My X-Men" establishes that Jean Grey is nine months pregnant, with a visible baby bump. However, she's still able to assist the X-Men remotely, such as using Cerebro to interrogate Henry Gyrich. She's also shown to have some level of control moving civilians out of Logan's wild driving to the hospital. Except "Fire Made Flesh" reveals that she wasn't Jean Grey but her clone.
• Promoted to Opening Titles: Morph and Bishop are added to the opening title sequence, complete with their own title cards alongside the rest of the X-Men. Magneto gets his title card in the second episode, replacing the departed Professor X. Nightcrawler also gets one from episode 6 onwards, replacing the deceased Gambit along with the departed Bishop and Storm.
• Recoil Boost: In the first episode, Cyclops is shown using the recoil from his optic blasts as a means to move about the battlefield when fighting against Friends of Humanity goons. When the Blackbird is later brought down by a Sentinel, Cyclops uses the recoil from a full-power optic blast aimed at the ground to slow his descent and safely land.
• Ret-Canon: Morph takes on a noseless, bald, blank-eyed off-white humanoid form. That look originated in the comics' Age of Apocalypse universe, which was popularized as the character's most well-known look in Exiles after the original show ended. However, they're occasionally seen in their original male design as one of their rotating looks. It's implied that the featureless humanoid form is their natural state, while the dark-haired young man is their default "normal" look when they need to blend in with humans.
• Retcon:
  • In the episode "Mutant Liberation Begins", Magneto recounts his history with Charles Xavier's telepathy. He remarks that he eventually made his helmet immune to Xavier's powers. While this is par for the course for modern interpretations, this wasn't the case for the original series, which predated the 2000 X-Men film making it a thing. The original series episode "Deadly Reunions" notably featured Xavier telepathically showing Magneto, with his helmet on, images of the Holocaust to persuade him against repeating past sins.invoked
  • A minor example, but the news photo of Gyrich from his arrest during “Graduation Day” shows him with his initial appearance from the earlier seasons (glasses and red hair) rather than his season 5 redesign (dark hair and no glasses). Like Jubilee, it’s likely due to his original design being more recognizable.
• Retraux:
  • The series' art style aims to mimic the '90s Jim Lee look of the original series, to maintain consistency. The brighter color palette, highlights, and usage of artificial grain, also play into comparisons of the generalized look of the 1990s OVAs. The end credits are also in the same style as the first season of the original 1992 show, with a render of the characters and and a pop-up stating their names and powers.
  • The writing is played very straight with virtually none of the postmodern wit that marks Marvel productions post-MCU apart from era-appropriate 90s snark and one-liners. When X-Cutioner introduces himself to Cyclops, no barbs are made against his Punny Name, and Scott takes him seriously as a foe. Likewise, codenames are used sans any hint of irony or shame.
• Revolving Door Casting: Each episode features different characters appearing in the Introductory Opening Credits, due to new members of the core X-Men, and other members leaving or even dying.
• Ruder and Cruder: Very much a downplayed case, but the show does feature mild profanity, which was not present in the original show. It also dispenses with Frothy Mugs of Water and makes it clear the characters are drinking alcohol.
• Sequel Series: The series is meant to be one to X-Men: The Animated Series, with the trailer opening on the original series finale with Xavier saying goodbye to the team.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Friends of Humanity Sentinel Blaster looks a lot like a Mega Buster.
  • "To Me, My X-Men" has Beast quote Rick Blaine's famous "friendship" line from Casablanca, while commandeering a Sentinel's chassis through reprogramming.
  • The third episode has a stereotypical "house of horrors" that includes a giant face taking up an entire elevator, looking like a yokai from Spirited Away.
  • The fourth episode sees Jubilee and Sunspot transported into a mock arcade game modeled after the 1992 beat'em-up. Some of the Sentinels fought in this simulation colored bright yellow and blue, referencing the memetic "Mango Sentinel" palette swap from Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
  • The fifth episode features Rogue cradling a dead Gambit the same way Lois Lane cradled a bloody Superman after his battle with Doomsday in The Death of Superman as well as generic Pietà Plagiarism.
  • In the seventh episode, one fight scene has Rogue doing her pre-fight intro and her diving kick from X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
• Smash to Black: Episode 5, "Remember it" has Rogue cradle the lifeless body of Gambit after his Heroic Sacrifice. We don't get to see her last actions as the screen goes black for her last line.

  Rogue: I can't feel you.

• Solemn Ending Theme: The ending of episode 5, "Remember It" is a sad version of the opening theme after the genocide the Tri-Sentinel inflicts upon Genosha and even moreso the deaths of not one, but two main characters. As both Magneto and Gambit die in their attempt to take down the manhunting machine.
• Sucksessor: A villainous example when Trask creates a back-up Master Mold to lead a new generation of Sentinels and fight the X-Men. The second Master Mold fairs poorly in battle with the seasoned X-Men and is destroyed when Wolverine decapitates it (something which the original Master Mold was able to recover from). When the third Master Mold is unveiled this trope goes out the window.
• Took a Level in Badass: Unlike the original series, Jubilee is no longer an underutilized hero, but is now powerful enough to be on par with her fellow X-Men.
• Time Skip: At least a year has passed between "Graduation Day," the last episode of the original series, and the premiere of this one. This gives enough time for several developments. Jean to become heavily pregnant and Bishop to join the team; Morph to resume active duty and become more comfortable with their featureless base form.
• Unexplained Recovery: And both involve characters from the original's sister series, Spider-Man: The Animated Series:
  • The aforementioned Continuity Nod with the Daily Bugle has an article written by Eddie Brock, so at some point, Venom managed to escape from the Dark Dimension and, despite being fired by J. Jonah Jameson twice and later attacking the man, managed to get rehired yet again.
  • Captain America in Spider-Man was depicted as trapped in a matter/antimatter vortex to stop the Red Skull, getting out twice (first to stop the Red Skull and Electro, and again, thanks to the events of the "Secret Wars" three-parter), only to go back in both times. "Bright Eyes sees Steve out again for good and implied to have hooked up with the Avengers.
• Vocal Evolution: Wolverine's voice is notably deeper and smoother, compared to the harsh growling one he had in the 90s series. It sounds like he's once again being voiced by veteran Wolverine voice actor Steve Blum, but he's still played by the original 90s series's Cal Dodd. Funnily enough, his delivery in this series makes him sound more similar to that of his performance in the character's early Capcom fighting game appearances such as Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Similarly, Rogue's has become raspier and scratchier, though clearly still Lenore Zann.
• Walking Spoiler: Jean Grey all through episodes 1 to 3.
• Wham Episode: "Remember It", as the definition of a Nothing Is the Same Anymore episode, solidifying the danger on display as a new generation of Sentinels arrive on Genosha and unleash untold catastrophe, leading to numerous on-screen deaths of many mutants in the process, culminating in both the death of Gambit and an Uncertain Doom for Magneto through their respective sacrifices to protect the people around them while the aftermath is broadcasted to the world, leaving the X-Men back at the mansion reeling in horror and despair.
• Wham Line: The first episode ends with Magneto in Xavier’s office, revealing to the gathered X-Men who Xavier has willed everything to.
  Magneto: The last will and testament of Charles Francis Xavier, as you all will see. His fortune, his school. Everything he built. Everything he fought for...now belongs to me, my X-Men.
• Wham Shot: During the midseason trailer, War, we see a very familiar shield slam into the ground after being thrown.
• Wolverine Publicity: Actually averted. Despite a lot of media being heavily focused on Wolverine (with the first post-Fox purchase animated work, LEGO Marvel Avengers: Code Red, featuring Wolverine), the cartoon actually puts the Canadian on the backburner for the most part, letting his teammates shine instead.

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"To me, my X-Men."