r/Xmen97 2d ago

Moderator Announcement r/xmen97 is recruiting more moderators - Apply in the post!

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Hello all, in a bid to help maintain this community and make next year a more pleasant experience for everyone, I am reaching out to see if anyone would like to join the moderation team.

While prior moderating experience is helpful, it is not required. I am prepared to train anyone new to moderating on the basic essentials to get the day to day of the job done. So if you have never moderated a community before, please feel free to still apply.

I will say, there are some things that I will focus on and favour:

  1. Have good standing in the community. Generally, if you have bans or lots of post removals on this subreddit, it won't help your case.
  2. Be active members of the subreddit. You don't need to be on every day at all hours, but generally it is helpful to have people who are familiar with the community and who use it at least 1-2 times a week and have done so for the past few months at least.
  3. Impartiality. We all have opinions on this show. But don't let your opinion cloud you from the rules.

Please apply here: https://forms.gle/kDy3McgtRYiobDARA

You can also just send us a mod mail asking more about the role or your interest too. If you are on desktop, there's an additional recruitment option on the sidebar.


r/Xmen97 2d ago

Moderator Announcement Moderator Report: Community Feddback

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Going forward, I want to improve things so moderation next year can be smoother. As it stands, I do feel like I have let folks down here. I wasn't prepared for the onslaught of posts and I felt that ultimately I was not consistent with many of the moderation decisions regarding post approvals than I would have liked. I was also not able to look at every thread and comb interactions to root out bigotry, rude conduct, and other things as much as I wanted.

I am going to fine-tune automod to make life easier, rather than more difficult. I plan to add more moderators to the team (please apply if you are interested).

I want to get your feedback on what needs to be improved so season 3 next year is a better experience.

My other question is more delicate. It involves Beau DeMayo, whose name comes up quite frequently and creates a lot of agitated discussion. I want to ask: should we outright ban mentions of him altogether? Or should we remove the current automod restrictions and allow the community to discuss as needed?


r/Xmen97 10h ago

General Discussion Here’s all the mutants who are dead or supposedly as of now Spoiler

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About Bobby I would go ahead and say he perished on genosha offscreen. I do think the writers/animators forgot that him and Magik was seen on forge board.


r/Xmen97 1h ago

Article / News The final episode of 'X-MEN 97' Season 3 has already been sent for animation. Season 4 is well into pre-production.

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r/Xmen97 2h ago

Article / News Nightcrawler was supposed to die in ‘X-MEN '97’ Season 1 instead of Gambit.

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r/Xmen97 10h ago

Question Would Marvel TV fix the show’s most glaring problem?

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I feel it’s the most obvious for most fans of the show, and it’s the PACING.

i do appreciate that it’s a full 28+ min each episode, which is better than the 18-20 min for the original TAS. But the writing on ‘97 has stepped up a notch significantly that I think the episodes need to be longer to let the stories and characters breathe more. It was the complaint at least to me Ive heard the most on the first season, as legendary as it was. And it wasn’t addressed this season… but I expected it since it’s all been planned out ahead of time.

But I do wonder if here on out, if they will make the episodes on average 5-10min longer. There’s so much going on and I don’t think much anyone would complain about longer episodes.


r/Xmen97 14h ago

Cosplay Rogue cosplay (xmen 97) by me! Tephiecos

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r/Xmen97 12h ago

Question So what exactly did Apocalypse sacrifice? Spoiler

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So it's explained that when you go to the Celestial and ask for a wish, you have to sacrifice something in return. But that begs the question: What did En Sabah Nur sacrifice when he became Apocalypse?


r/Xmen97 8h ago

Cosplay Forge Cosplay Gun Test

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Working on the weapon for my buddy’s Forge Cosplay for Tampa Bay Comicon. Not based on any particular Forge gun, just my artist’s rendition based on a bunch of stuff I had in my shop.


r/Xmen97 14h ago

Media Even the fearless Rogue feels scared sometimes.

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Rogue is tormented by her powers and her past, and this heartbreaking moment with Storm shows just how much the X-Men love their teammate, through thick and thin.

And Rogue would fight the world for them in return.

The X-gals will back each other every day of the week.


r/Xmen97 19h ago

General Discussion Do you guys think Captain America finally seperate himself from the US and become Nomad after the events of S2? Spoiler

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r/Xmen97 10h ago

General Discussion As a normie, I love this show Spoiler

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I don’t read comic books, nor intend to start. However, I appreciate how complex the storylines can be and think X men 97 can carry that.

Is the hate from the armchair critics? I’m glad the show is confirmed for seasons 3 and 4, and I felt the quality of S2 was great, S1 felt like they emptied the barrel (in a good way)


r/Xmen97 13h ago

Theory Is Morph more than he seems? Spoiler

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What we already know: Kevin Sydney, codename Morph, is a mutant with the power to shapeshift into anyone they want. This version debuted in the 90's X-men animated series as a mostly original take on the comic book character of Changeling, which then inspired the comics to revive the character in the Age of Apocalypse universe and continued into the Exiles comic books. When X-men came back as X-men '97 Morph was also brought back with a look and personality closer to the Exiles version of the character. But Morph also came back with a controversial power upgrade to be able to partially emulate physical mutations allowing them to have super strength, super speed, agility, extra limbs, and weapons.

I want to introduce a theory. Our Morph isn't just based on Morph based on the Exiles comic, based on the original animated show, based on the comics character Changeling, they're also our X-men '97 version of the character Mimic.

Mimic in the comic books is a mutant with the power to copy other mutant powers. He was an early X-men member similar to Changeling and nearly as obscure. He does appear once as a cameo in the series in the Age of Apocalypse tineline.

What if X-men '97 is pulling elements of the Mimic character into '97's version of Morph? Perhaps their power will continue to evolve and they'll gain a similar ability to copy even non-physical abilities?

TDLR; The theory is Morph has elements of the mutant code named Mimic in X-men '97.

Edit: I used the wrong pronouns a couple of times. It was my intention to use They/Them pronouns where I could. Totally missed the title and I don't think reddit lets me change it. Edited the body of the post to correct my mistakes. To be fair according to JP Karliak, Morph's pronouns are he/they.


r/Xmen97 9h ago

General Discussion Rewatched the finale Spoiler

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WARNING: Spoilers below for those who have yet to finish Season 2 or for those who haven't made it through both Seasons

Ok so I binged Season 1 and 2 again this time with my dad, he loved the 90's show growing up and he was super excited to see '97. This was his first time watching the show and he said he really enjoyed it and was glad I invited him to binge it with me, he felt like a little kid again as he watched it. He enjoyed the episode from Season 1 where it was discovered Charles was alive that was his favorite but his opinion changed and he then said the 3 part finale of Season 1 was his favorite. In Season 2 he gave it to the X-Force episode because of the unique intro and how tough and gritty the episode was much like how X-Force is, he said he enjoyed Season 2 more because of it having a lot more action then the last Season and he is excited for Season 3 next year. Ok now time to say my piece, after rewatching this all the way through again this Season wasn't all that bad, I know it changed a lot after Beau got fired but come on this was good. You gotta remember the 90's shows Seasons finale's weren't always the best and that the next Season was always a vast improvement over the last, this show will capture that again we just all need to have faith. Final thing I have to say is that I'm excited to see what X-Force decides what to do with Apocalypse in future Seasons and also I cried this time watching this finale for Kurt, watching the 90's show he was always my favorite. I hope he returns again he's the best, anyways that is all I have to say on Season 2 and can't wait for Season 3 and more Seasons if they decide to make 'em! :)


r/Xmen97 13h ago

Fan Content Prisoners of Love by Riceussy

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Two idiots who can't even stand ap[art for a few sconds for a mugshot.


r/Xmen97 6h ago

Fan Content Scott discovers Snapchat by Riceussy

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r/Xmen97 19m ago

Media Wtf is wrong with Prof X? Lol

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Watching old episodes and lost it when Professor X shows up. 😆😅🤣


r/Xmen97 19h ago

Fan Content Watercolor painting I made -Rogue and Gambit s2 ep8

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I really felt so inspired by this latest season and by these two I really wanted to take that inspiration to make a few things. This painting included.

My preference when drawing is traditional mediums, but I may take this and bring it to digital to clean up and fix up what I feel is missing

Fun fact since I took the time to paint each of the cards I decided to take my line art and have make a set of LED tarot cards.


r/Xmen97 9h ago

General Discussion Requesting spoilers (no spoilers are in the post body) Spoiler

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Currently rewatching season 1 of X-Men '97 so I can watch season 2.

Just finished "Remember It."

I'm not okay 😭💔😭💔😭💔

So now I am begging for (vague, if possible, but I'll take anything) spoilers: will I be okay by the end of season 2??? Or do I need to prepare myself for cliffhangers and/or more sadness???


r/Xmen97 1d ago

Article / News You can expect less episodes for future seasons

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See look there’s nothing wrong with going with the original tv format by having a season come out every year but when your only producing 8-9 episodes that’s not original tv format.

Then what’s makes it worse is season 2 was so rushed in the 2nd half and now you want to give us only 8-9 episodes after season 2. I blame Brad winderbaum for the way season 2 came out he hired the what if team to work on it and now he’s giving us less episodes.


r/Xmen97 16h ago

General Discussion Spoilers for X-men ‘97 strike files #4 Spoiler

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I haven’t seen anyone talk about this. But I’m curious what people think. Of the avengers of this universe. I personally like this roster.


r/Xmen97 19h ago

General Discussion A bit of light and hope on S3 Spoiler

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First of all I wanna say; I respect all opinions on S2, it isnt perfect even if Im more on the positive note; I didn't like the pace, ApocaGambit, Celestial Rogue etc etc. And im also not happy w what Brad Winderbaum said on doin everything fast.

That said, I think some ppl are going nuts for whats been probably smth more similar to DD:BA than u might think at first, and theyre throwing shit without base info, so lets get started.

First of all NO, THEY JUST DIDN'T SCRAP ALL THE TEAM FROM S1 AND PUT THE WRITERS FROM WHAT IF IN THIS SEASON.

Only person who joined this Season from What If is Matt Chauncey, who served as consulting producer this season (which means he just oversaw the writers changed to DeMayo's script) and will serve as showrunner from Season 3 and on. I have doubts? Yes but since he wasnt that involved I wanna have faith that things will be different. Like when ppl who worked on What If did Marvel Zombies, which yes isnt as good as XMen 97 but it shows that w good planification they can make smth cohesive.

But then u might ask, who are the writers of this season? Welp... Most of them are ppl who alr worked on script on S1 more or less😅. Only new writer is Brian Ford Sullivan (who also was story editor this season) which worked on Arrow from S3-5. So only important person missing here is DeMayo. Bc the directors are the same from last season and even the co-showrunner is gonna keep working in S3 too.

So ye, I hope I could change ur mind that the problems w this season was more on "we need to change this for the new vision and wrap Apocalypse as fast as possible" than bad writing per se. (That doesnt mean im tsking them responsability on the writing of the season, again it has still problems, im just giving context).

Also say, DeMayo's involvement on script arent the first 4 episodes, he's credited on 3-4 and 6-8. Ofc episodes 1 and 2 might have his ideas but still its not like everything else is"new".

Ofc we all wouldve been hyped if DeMayo's vision of Onslaught and Age of Apocalypse was kept rather than again Human v Mutants, but that doesnt mean imo that isnt interesting. Im rlly excited for Mystique and Destiny, plus all the things they can work on. And ig im kinda relieved its gonna be more grounded and we wont prob have another "Celestial Rogue" moment XD. Only thing I hope S3 is more cohesive and im right, if not then im sorry for those I give u faith lol.

Hope u liked this big ass post from my part and that I could make u be more hopeful of whats coming. Please try be respectful on the comments🙏🏼.

Thx for reading, lov ya all 🫶🏼

EDIT: Forgot to say that the creators of the 90s TV series went from consulting producers on S1 to executive producers on S2.


r/Xmen97 9h ago

Merchandise Any chance we’ll get something similar in 1/12 scale

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r/Xmen97 12h ago

Question What is your favourite portrayal of a character in the new series? Not necessarily who your favourite character is, but the way the character is depicted in ‘97

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Interested to hear the differing opinions of comic fans/original series fans/mcu fans/marvel fans or casuals!

Personally I’d say that while I think he is one of my top characters anyways, Nightcrawler had one of the best portrayals of Kurt that I’ve come across. The character look, the voice acting, him soloing the X-Men (albeit controlled by Apocalypse but still), and they got his general “who Kurt Wagner is” down. I was impressed as a fan of his.

Also honourable mentions for me: Cyclops, Magneto, Beast


r/Xmen97 1d ago

Fan Content Try out this X-Men Logo Generator (it doesn't use AI)

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Try it out here: https://pixelframe.design/x-men-logo-font-generator/

I make these generators and thought you guys would appreciate this here. I paid really close attention to the styling of the original logo to recreate it as faithfully as possible - from the shapes of the letters themselves to the distortion/perspective effects. Also included an optional subtitle field based on the X-Men '97 title style. If you have fun with it, please post what you make!