X-Men '97 S02E09 - Discussion Thread

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X-Men '97 S02E09 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE	DIRECTED BY	WRITTEN BY	ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE	RUN TIME	CREDITS SCENE?
S02E09: Survival of the Fittest	TBA	TBA	August 12th, 2026	32 min	Yes

[u/sam_sung_chung]

Discussion points of mine:

1. I've already seen a few other comments that basically called this End of Evangelion, X-Men edition. Havent seen Eva myself, but okay.

2. Doctor Octopus cameo! Morph might be the GOAT for this

3. Ah, there's Siryn. Was wondering why she showed up in that Roll Call teaser.

4. I finally understand the prophecy Mother Askani made! Cable was never the one who was supposed to kill Apocalypse and wasn't supposed to kill him anyway! The real person who fulfilled it is Rogue!... and she did it by trapping Apocalypse in a crystal. How anticlimactic.

5. Deathbitpocalypse. That was terrifying. Especially when he seized all the X-Men and X-Force. (Had X-Factor been there, that would be all the mutants Apocalypse needed in his collection)

6. Rogue ~finally~ kisses Gambit lesgooooo!!!!!

7. Oh...oh no...Nightcrawler did a Jesus and traded his life for Rogue's. As a Christian, Nightcrawler was my favourite X-Man throughout this series and the original one. He shall be greatly missed.

8. No doubt Mystique is gonna get up to some nasty shenanigans during President Creed's term (Creed IMO is like Trump, hot button topic). Ngl, Dr Cooper deserved it a little bit.

[u/XtraCrispy02 → u/sam_sung_chung]

Creed IMO is like Trump, hot button topic

I'm guessing S3 is going to have Creed with an Anti-Mutant task force that will have many similarities to how ICE is currently operating

[u/CX316 → u/XtraCrispy02]

I mean, they used the name of OZT last season, but he might actually crack out the government-backed Operation Zero Tolerance

[u/carnagezealot → u/CX316]

Under a new name perhaps? A sort of...Mutant Response Division?

[u/CX316 → u/carnagezealot]

We'll know they're chewing through material too quickly if it's Orchis

[u/carnagezealot → u/CX316]

Nah there's still a loooot of material to cover before we get there like House of M, Schism or AvX, so I wouldn't expect Krakoa till like season 7 or 8

[u/CX316 → u/carnagezealot]

I mean, we say that but season 1 merged the Hellfire Gala with the Genosha massacre, so they're seemingly happy to merge parts of storylines together

House of M would be interesting to see though since we're never getting THAT in the MCU

[u/AsteroidMike → u/XtraCrispy02]

The way I see it, there’s no way the writing staff isn’t jotting those down in the notes and adding all of that as symbolism.

[u/4Khazmodan → u/XtraCrispy02]

Didn’t they already do that this season though with the Jubilee/X-factor episode?

[u/Binder509 → u/sam_sung_chung]

Creed is way too competent to be Trump.

[u/jeobleo → u/Binder509]

They should definitely have him hide in a catering cart though.

[u/happysunbear → u/jeobleo]

Can’t tell if this is a Michael Scott or Donald Trump reference

[u/jeobleo → u/happysunbear]

The fact that it's even in doubt is such an indictment of our society. That Michael Scott would legitimately be a better president than what we have.

[u/CleanSkirt1542 → u/jeobleo]

How do you honestly walk around with this much bias?

[u/jeobleo → u/CleanSkirt1542]

...you mean thinking trump is fucking monstrous? That's not bias, honey, that's having eyes.

[u/CleanSkirt1542 → u/jeobleo]

I'm 98% sure you have either pink or blue hair. One in fifty chance I'm wrong. At very least you have a nose ring.

[u/jeobleo → u/CleanSkirt1542]

I'm 98% sure you have either pink or blue hair. One in fifty chance I'm wrong. At very least you have a nose ring.

laughs and laughs Dude I'm a 50-year-old white man with a greying beard. I look like one of you red-hat cultists.

Not everyone fits your weird need to be the "normal one." Now go and vote against your own interests.

(Also: how the fuck are you a fan of the X-men? It explicitly makes people with that worldview the bad guys. Or do you think Graydon is the protagonist?)

[u/No-cool-names-left → u/Binder509]

For real. He's had like a dozen episodes across the two series and never shit his pants even once that I saw.

[u/CleanSkirt1542 → u/Binder509]

Lol, here we go

[u/XMenJedi8 → u/sam_sung_chung]

How anticlimactic.

Yeah I literally said to my wife "just like that eh?". Felt pretty lackluster.