Before we reunite with a handful of original X-Men film series actors in December 2026’s Avengers Doomsday, X-Men ’97 Season 2 will deliver the next chapter of this superhero saga that began in the ‘90s with X-Men: The Animated Series. Specific plot details are naturally still being kept secret so as to not spoil fans with a Disney+ subscription. That said, Ross Marquand, who voices several roles in X-Men ’97, shared how Season 2 will be “very, very dark,” and his statement reminded me of my favorite Season 1 episode, “Remember It.”
Along with chiefly voicing Professor X in Season 1, Ross Marquand also voiced Apocalypse, who was one of the main baddies in X-Men: The Animated Series and cameoed at the end of “Tolerance is Extinction Part 3.” During a Walking Dead panel at FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention moderated by Collider, Marquand (who played Aaron in the AMC series) mentioned that the next season of X-Men ’97 will be “very dark” and have “a lot of scenes” of him as Apocalypse, then said:
