It’s always a relief to see the X-Men saga continuing in some form, but the return of X-Men ’97 is downright exhilarating. The animated reboot covered a lot of ground in its first season, capping things off with an ambitious finale that scattered the team to the winds. That two years have passed between Season 1 and its upcoming return might make fans’ memories all the fuzzier, even if the conflict for Season 2 couldn’t be clearer. The X-Men have been sent to different eras in history — some stuck in the future, others stranded in the ancient past — but there’s one villain who unites their efforts in every timeline: Apocalypse. X-Men ’97 Season 2 is adapting a handful of storylines that feature the world’s original mutant, forcing the X-Men to launch a kind of temporal pincer movement to put an end to his reign.
Apocalypse is one of the X-Men’s fiercest adversaries, if not their most ruthless, so it’ll take more than a time-travel advantage to stop him from achieving world domination. Fortunately, our heroes might already have the key to their success. It comes in the form of a weird, timey-wimey twist — one that audiences tuning in might need a refresher on ahead of the new season.
