What Does X-Men '97 Season 2's Post-Credits Scene Mean for Season 3?

Obviously, you’re present due to the fact that you privation to cognize if the X-Men ‘97 Season 2 finale has immoderate post-credits scenes. We tin archer you it has 1 astatine the precise extremity of the credits, truthful instrumentality around!

Full spoilers follow…

X-Men ‘97 Season 2 has wrapped, giving fans 1 past (and successful immoderate ways anticlimactic) confrontation betwixt the X-Men and the time-travelling tyrant known arsenic Apocalypse (Ross Marquand). But adjacent arsenic the particulate of that conflict settles, the bid is already looking up to caller conflicts. In the process, it teases the instrumentality of a fan-favorite radical of villains who amazingly haven’t appeared successful the revival bid earlier now.

Let’s interruption down what you request to cognize astir this last-minute tease and what it means for the ever-darkening scenery of X-Men ‘97 successful Season 3.

X-Men ‘97 Season 2 Post-Credits Scene Explained

X-Men ‘97 Season 2 ends connected a mostly blessed enactment for our mutant heroes. Sure, Professor Xavier’s (Marquand) shiny caller X-Corps office is obliterated, but Apocalypse is defeated and Rogue (Lenore Zann) and Gambit (A. J. LoCascio) are reunited astatine last. Only the noble sacrifice of Nightcrawler (Adrian Hough) casts a shadiness implicit this lighthearted reunion.

That said, the finale makes it wide that acheronian days prevarication up for Xavier and his team. The post-credits country reintroduces Mystique (Randall Carpenter), a villain who played a cardinal relation successful the archetypal X-Men: The Animated Series but had been sitting retired X-Men ‘97 up till now. Mystique is shown infiltrating Dr. Valerie Cooper’s (Catherine Disher) bureau and rifling done her machine files. She adjacent kills Cooper, with the accusation being that she’s going to beryllium impersonating this authorities liaison successful Season 3. How overmuch harm tin a self-serving shape-shifter bash successful a presumption of powerfulness similar this? We’re astir to find out.

As if that weren’t atrocious enough, we tin overhear a broadcast successful this country that reveals that Graydon Creed (Ben Pronsky) has conscionable been elected President of the United States. As atrocious arsenic things were for mutantkind, astatine slightest they had a reasonably sympathetic receptor successful the White House successful the signifier of Robert Kelly. Now Kelly has been replaced by a virulently anti-mutant firebrand, 1 who’s definite to disturbance up a caller question of hatred and fear.

Sidebar - This uncover calls into question erstwhile precisely the bid is taking place. There was nary US statesmanlike predetermination successful 1997. Is the amusement really acceptable successful 1996, oregon has much clip passed than we realized, and we’re already retired of the ‘90s and successful the twelvemonth 2000?

All successful all, this is simply a precise foreboding look astatine what’s up for the X-Men. For each measurement guardant they instrumentality successful defeating an imminent menace to the world, they look to instrumentality different measurement backmost successful their combat for peaceful human/mutant coexistence.

What We Know About X-Men ‘97 Season 3

Fans needn’t interest astir whether this post-credits country volition beryllium followed up. X-Men ‘97 Season 3 is decidedly happening. In fact, the writers and animators are hard astatine enactment connected some Seasons 3 and 4 arsenic we speak, and enforcement shaper Brad Winderbaum is hopeful we’ll spot arsenic galore arsenic 10 seasons earlier each is said and done.

At SDCC 2026, we learned that Season 3 is presently successful the last stages of animation close now, portion Season 4 is successful the animatics stage. Season 3 should beryllium connected way to deed Disney+ successful 2027, followed by Season 4 successful 2028, meaning fans don’t person to hold aggregate years betwixt seasons anymore.

Also astatine SDCC, we got our archetypal look astatine Season 3 successful the signifier of a clip focused connected Mystique and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The characters are shown successful the streets coating pro-mutant graffiti and battling a caller fleet of patriotic-themed Sentinels (no uncertainty a merchandise of the caller Creed administration). Interestingly, portion the Brotherhood roster is akin to that of the archetypal bid (including Blob, Pyro, Avalanche, and Toad), it besides includes a astonishment summation successful the signifier of the electricity-powered teen mutant Surge.

Based connected that clip, it seems we tin expect Mystique to origin into the struggle from aggregate angles, some successful her relation arsenic person of the Brotherhood and her concealed relation impersonating the precocious Dr. Cooper. No uncertainty the caller play volition besides delve deeper into the twisted household dynamic involving Mystique, Sabretooth, Rogue, and Graydon Creed.

It seems we tin expect Mystique to origin into the struggle from aggregate angles, some successful her relation arsenic person of the Brotherhood and her concealed relation impersonating the precocious Dr. Cooper.“

Beyond that, we tin lone conjecture astatine the storylines the bid volition research successful Season 3. Based connected however Season 2 wraps, we’re assuming that Xavier’s little flirtation with overseeing X-Corps has ended and that helium and his squad are returning to the Xavier Institute to go teachers again. It besides looks arsenic though we tin expect Colossus (Robert Cait) to play a bigger relation successful the bid present that he’s finally, officially joined the X-Men. That could precise easy impact an occurrence focused connected his sister Illyana (Courtenay Taylor), whose psyche whitethorn present beryllium trapped successful the realm of Limbo.

We besides wouldn’t beryllium astatine each amazed if Onslaught is positioned arsenic the main villain of Season 3 oregon 4. For those unfamiliar with the character, Onslaught is simply a psychic demon birthed from echoes of Xavier and Magneto’s (Matthew Waterson) minds. The bid has seemingly been laying the groundwork for Onslaught since precocious Season 1. In fact, erstwhile caput writer Beau DeMayo has suggested that Season 2 was primitively intended to diagnostic Onslaught successful its 10th occurrence earlier the play was shortened. Plans whitethorn person changed, but perchance lone to prevention Onslaught for a aboriginal date.

There mightiness besides beryllium further fallout from Magneto’s decease successful Season 2, Episode 4. Perhaps the bid volition present Joseph, Magneto’s young clone? It besides seems lone a substance of clip until the bid introduces its instrumentality connected much modern X-Men villains similar Cassandra Nova, Orchis, 3K and the Chairman, and the Children of the Vault. As accelerated arsenic this bid moves, there’s inactive a wealthiness of classical X-Men worldly worthy adapting. Maybe 10 seasons isn’t specified a brainsick idea…

For now, brushwood up connected each Marvel movie and bid presently successful the works.

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