The following episodes of the Marvel Animation Disney+ animated series, X-Men '97. The first season premiered on March 20, 2024 with its first two episodes. The remainder of the first season will release weekly until May 15. A second season is in production and a third is in development.[1]
Series overview[]
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season premiere | Season finale | ||
| 1 | 10 | March 20, 2024 | May 15, 2024 |
| 2 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
| Total | Series premiere | Series finale | |
| 1-2 | 10 | March 20, 2024 | TBA |
Season One (2024)[]
| No. in Series |
No. in Season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original Airdate |
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| 01 | 01 | "To Me, My X-Men" | Jake Castorena | Beau DeMayo | March 20, 2024 |
| One year after Henry Peter Gyrich's assassination attempt on Professor Charles Xavier led to Xavier leaving Earth with the alien Shi'ar and being presumed dead, the X-Men continue his mission of defending mutants and humans alike. Xavier's supposed death has led to the X-Men being legally sanctioned by the United Nations. They save a young mutant, Roberto da Costa, from the anti-mutant group Friends of Humanity who are using Sentinel technology. To find Sentinel creator Bolivar Trask, the X-Men visit Gyrich in prison and Jean Grey probes his mind using the machine Cerebro to amplify her psychic abilities. She locates Trask at a junkyard in the Sahara, but also receives a horrifying premonition. The X-Men destroy the remains of several Sentinels and a Master Mold supercomputer at the junkyard and apprehend Trask. Cyclops and a pregnant Jean announce that they are leaving the X-Men to raise their son in safety. They are interrupted by their former adversary Magneto, who reveals that Xavier gave him control of the X-Men and Xavier's school for mutants in his last will and testament. | |||||
| 02 | 02 | "Mutant Liberation Begins" | Chase Conley | Beau DeMayo | March 20, 2024 |
| Magneto begins saving both humans and mutants, and refrains from killing anti-mutant militants. A distrustful Cyclops and Jean decide to stay with the X-Men while Rogue sympathizes with Magneto's struggles. When UN forces led by Dr. Valerie Cooper attempt to arrest Magneto for his past terrorism, he agrees to surrender and face trial to prove himself. During his trial at the UN's headquarters, the FoH stage an attack. Their leader, X-Cutioner, shoots at Magneto with a depowering radiation blast; Storm takes the hit for him and loses her abilities. Jean goes into labor and Rogue is forced to absorb an obstetrician's knowledge when he refuses to deliver a mutant's baby. Jean gives birth to a son whom she and Cyclops name Nathan. After Magneto apprehends X-Cutioner and stops the assault, he is pardoned and discussions begin for the mutant nation Genosha to join the UN. Beast tells Storm that the blast depowered her permanently, and she leaves the team to find new meaning in life. While discussing her decision, the X-Men are surprised by the sudden arrival of a woman who looks identical to Jean. | |||||
| 03 | 03 | "Fire Made Flesh" | Emi Yonemura | Beau DeMayo Charley Feldman |
March 27, 2024 |
| Beast determines that the Jean look-alike is actually the real Jean Grey. The villainous Mister Sinister contacts the other Jean, revealing her to be a clone he created to gain access to her and Cyclops's DNA. Sinister takes control of her mind, turning her into the Goblin Queen. She gives Nathan to Sinister and subjects the X-Men to horrific visions based on their own fears. Morph, who was previously corrupted and controlled by Sinister, leads the X-Men to one of Sinister's labs where they find him infecting Nathan with a techno-organic virus under the belief that it will make the child invincible. The real Jean confronts the Goblin Queen telepathically and uses their shared memories to free her from Sinister's control. The clone Jean and Cyclops save Nathan, who is left gravely ill, while Sinister escapes. The clone Jean gives Nathan to the X-Men's time-traveling ally Bishop so he can try to find a cure for the virus in the future. She then takes on the name Madelyne Pryor and leaves the team. Elsewhere, a mutant named Forge introduces himself to Storm and claims that he can restore her powers. | |||||
| 04 | 04 | "Motendo" "Lifedeath Pt. 1" |
Chase Conley | Beau DeMayo Charley Feldman |
April 3, 2024 |
| "Motendo": Jubilee wants to celebrate her 18th birthday at the arcade, but Magneto refuses and tells the team to focus on their training. Roberto consoles Jubilee, who is surprised to find a new "Motendo" video game console in her room. The pair are pulled into a video game based on her previous adventures, created by the alien slave-master Mojo who feeds off audience engagement. Jubilee enjoys reliving her past missions, but is convinced by Abscissa, an older digital copy of herself from the game's beta version, that she would be living an empty life. Abscissa helps Jubilee and Roberto defeat Mojo, and the pair return to the real world. Jubilee kisses Roberto. "Lifedeath Pt. 1": Forge takes Storm to his ranch where he has created a machine that can restore her powers, though it seemingly fails. Storm notices a strange owl flying around the ranch. When Forge admits that he designed the technology which mutant inhibitor collars and X-Cutioner's radiation gun were based on, Storm leaves in anger. The owl reveals itself to be a demon called the Adversary. It brings Storm back to the ranch and poisons Forge. | |||||
| 05 | 05 | "Remember It" | Emi Yonemura | Beau DeMayo | April 10, 2024 |
| After Genosha is admitted into the United Nations, Magneto, Rogue and Gambit head to the country, where the latter two are reunited with Madelyne and Nightcrawler. Magneto meets with Genosha's Council (consisting of Madelyne, Banshee, Moira MacTaggert, Callisto, Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw), who want him as leader of Genosha; he agrees on the provision that Rogue also leads by his side. Rogue tells Gambit about the plan, and admits her past romantic relationship with Magneto to him. At the inauguration, after Rogue turns down Magneto's proposal, Cable tries to warn of an impending attack, but is transported back to the future but not before Madelyne realizes that he is her son Nathan. Sentinels and Master Mold in a gigantic new body attack Genosha, causing massive death and destruction. Magneto sacrifices his life to save the Morlocks; in retaliation Rogue heads to confront Master Mold but Gambit stops her. After being impaled by one of Master Mold's tentacles, Gambit charges it up with explosive energy, destroying Master Mold but taking his own life in the process. Meanwhile, Cyclops and Jean have remained apart, unable to reconcile their separate lives, and Jean discovers that Cyclops and Madelyne have been communicating telepathically. The X-Men are left stunned by the destruction at Genosha. | |||||
| 06 | 06 | "Lifedeath Pt. 2" | Chase Conley | Charley Feldman | April 17, 2024 |
| During the Kree–Shi'ar War, Lilandra Neramani announces her engagement to Professor Xavier. Refusing to accept her sister marrying a Terran, Deathbird invokes the Rite of M'Dashaa, challenging Xavier to purge all of his memories of Earth to prove his loyalty to the Shi'ar Empire. Xavier's refusal to renounce his memories of the X-Men results in a battle between the Royal Guard and Deathbird until Xavier pulls everyone into an Astral Plane to educate them on coexistence. Upon learning of Gambit's death, Xavier calls off the engagement and requests to return to Earth. In Arizona, Storm and Forge search for a rare cactus to cure Forge of the poison from the Adversary's bite. Storm finds the cactus in a cave, but when she is cornered by the Adversary, she overcomes her fears and regains her powers to defeat the Adversary. Shortly after returning home, Storm and Forge learn of the massacre in Genosha, which is later revealed to have been orchestrated by Mister Sinister. | |||||
| 07 | 07 | "Bright Eyes" | Emi-Emmett Yonemura | Charley Feldman JB Ballard |
April 24, 2024 |
| As the X-Men hold a funeral for Gambit, Rogue angrily searches for Gyrich and Trask. After gaining information from Thaddeus Ross and Captain America, Rogue finds Gyrich in Mexico and absorbs his memories. Gyrich is killed later that night by a mysterious man who is working with Sinister. While assisting in the recovery efforts at Genosha, the X-Men are contacted by Trask who tells them that he is in Madripoor. They get Rogue on the way. Roberto and Jubilee visit Roberto's mother and tell her that he is a mutant. She asks him to keep his identity a secret. In Madripoor, the X-Men learn that Sinister and a mysterious "OZT" organization have been developing a highly advanced Sentinel program. Rogue drops Trask to his death, unknowingly activating programming that turns him into a human-Sentinel hybrid. Cable arrives, defeats Trask, and explains that Sinister is working with a greater threat that they must stop. This threat is Bastion, who reveals to Sinister that Xavier is alive in space and that Magneto, presumed dead in the Genosha attack, is also alive and is Bastion's prisoner. | |||||
| 08 | 08 | "Tolerance is Extinction Pt. 1" | Chase Conley | Beau DeMayo Anthony Sellitti |
May 1, 2024 |
| Cable reveals to the X-Men that in his timeline, Bastion used the Genosha massacre to receive backing for his Prime Sentinel program that resulted in a 300-year war and the enslavement of mutants in a human utopia. Furthermore, a temporal anomaly prevented him from stopping the Genosha massacre. Bastion exposes Xavier's whereabouts in the Shi'ar Empire, inciting an anti-mutant protest outside the X-Mansion. Cyclops, Jean, and Cable travel to Harmony, Pennsylvania, where Jean learns that Bastion was born a mutant after his father was infected with a techno-organic virus sent by Nimrod. Elsewhere, Bastion reveals Operation Zero Tolerance, a program that turns humans into Prime Sentinels. Beast discovers that hundreds of humans have their Sentinel genes awakened and tries to warn the X-Men, but Trish Tilby stops him and reveals herself to be one of them. As the X-Mansion burns to the ground, Wolverine and Nightcrawler protect an unconscious Rogue from an army of Prime Sentinels. After being released by Cooper, Magneto travels to the North Pole and activates a massive magnetic field that shuts down all of the Prime Sentinels. Following the attacks, Xavier returns to Earth and summons all of the X-Men back to the mansion. | |||||
| 09 | 09 | "Tolerance is Extinction Pt. 2" | Emmi-Emmett Yonemura | Anthony Sellitti | May 8, 2024 |
| Xavier is met with some distrust, but the X-Men focus on stopping Bastion and convincing Magneto to reverse his blackout. Magneto re-establishes his mutant haven on Asteroid M, choosing to leave Earth without power and reject Xavier's dream of mutant/human co-existence. He invites the X-Men to join him, which Rogue and Roberto do. The rest of the X-Men return to their former base on Muir Island to regroup, before splitting into two teams: Cyclops's Blue Team goes to Asteroid M to confront Magneto while Storm and Jean's Gold Team heads to Bastion's hideout in the Galapagos Islands with a collar that can block Bastion's technopathy, severing his control over the Sentinels. The Gold Team battle Sinister and an army of Sentinels that Bastion is powering himself. Sinister takes control of Cable's mind and uses him to overpower Jean, who sends a desperate psychic message to Cyclops. On Asteroid M, Xavier attempts to take control of Magneto's mind but is blocked. Wolverine stabs and seriously injures Magneto, who begins ripping the adamantium metal from Wolverine's skeleton. | |||||
| 10 | 10 | "Tolerance is Extinction Pt. 3" | Chase Conley | Beau DeMayo Anthony Sellitti |
May 15, 2024 |
| Shortly after Magneto critically injures Wolverine, Xavier uses his telepathic powers to override Magneto's mind and shut down the EMP. The Prime Sentinels are reactivated and continue wreaking havoc around the world. Just as Bastion prepares to execute Cable, Jean re-emerges as Phoenix and places the collar on Bastion, immediately deactivating the Prime Sentinels. She then takes away Sinister's powers and control over Cable before the Phoenix Force disappears. Bastion rips Cable's cybernetic arm and merges with it to upgrade himself and fly towards Asteroid M. Upon his arrival, he is confronted by Blue Team. Meanwhile, Xavier struggles to save Magneto's mind. Gold Team arrive on Asteroid M in a commandeered Sentinel to join Blue Team in the fight. Cyclops tells the X-Men to stand down before he attempts to reason with Bastion, but missiles launched by the U.S. military bombard Asteroid M. Bastion is killed by the core reactor's explosion as the asteroid descends back to Earth. The X-Men use their combined effort to stop the asteroid from crashing on the East Coast. Magneto regains consciousness and sends the asteroid back into space before it explodes, presumably taking him and the X-Men in the process. Six months later, Bishop pays Forge a visit and tells them the X-Men are trapped in time. Cyclops and Jean end up in 3960 A.D., where they encounter Mother Askani and a child Nathan. Meanwhile, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Beast, Xavier, and Magneto find themselves in Ancient Egypt in 3000 B.C., where they meet En Sabah Nur. | |||||
Trivia[]
- As with the original series, various comic storylines are adapted for the episodes, including "Lifedeath" from Uncanny X-Men #186 (1984).
References[]
- ↑ "Marvel animation head addresses X-Men '97 showrunner exit". Entertainment Weekly (March 15, 2024). Retrieved on March 20, 2024.
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