Name: X-Men '97
Genre: Animation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 2024-03-20
Rating: 8.5

The '90s cartoon you rewound finally grew up and it's MESSY in the best way.

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Saturday morning traumaNostalgia napalmMutant melodrama

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Season 2 • Episode 1

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Episode 1

Jul 1, 2026

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Overview

Animation Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy

The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

Content warning

1990s sequel superhero superhero team super power based on comic mutant discrimination

Found family under siegeGenerational trauma and legacyRadicalization and political scapegoatingIdentity as both gift and burden

Standout Aspects

Direction

Seamless time-travel between '90s aesthetic and modern stakes.

Writing

Episode 5's wedding-to-apocalypse pivot: certified unhinged.

Best for:Binge·Friends·Rewatch

Heads up:Emotional·Disturbing

First AiredMar 20, 2024

Status●Airing

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Pacefast

Intensityhigh

Tonedark

Feelheavy

Seasons2·Episodes11

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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Cal Dodd recorded Wolverine's lines from a home closet to match the original's cramped booth energy. Method acting for voice work.

Cultural

The show deliberately mirrors post-2016 political rhetoric around 'othering,' with Bastion's propaganda machine drawing from real-world radicalization pipelines. The '90s X-Men finally caught up to their own allegory.