X-Men ’97 might skew closer to an adventure-of-the-week series for the titular team, but its writers have always had a plan. That’s become abundantly clear as the revival rounds up its second season. Sure, the X-Men were scattered across time and space for a great deal of Season 2, but all those disparate roads have led to one particular villain: Apocalypse. In a sense, the team has been fighting this formidable mutant from what feels like the very beginning of time. His reign over mutantkind really begins in the far-off future, but the X-Men might have the opportunity to defeat their mortal enemy in the “present day” — that is, if they play their cards right.
At the end of Episode 7, Apocalypse returned to the present day to hit the X-Men at “their most vulnerable,” and in Episode 8, we see just how devastating his latest scheme really is.
