X-Men 97 Images Reveal First Look At Classic Team & Villains
The first look at Marvel Studios' X-Men '97 show, the continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series, has arrived. The iconic 1990s animated series ran for five seasons before its conclusion in 1997, but Marvel Studios announced plans to bring the show back in 2021. The show is an iconic piece of Marvel content for comic book readers in the 90s, with its ambitious stories and instantly recognizable X-Men: The Animated Series theme song among the standouts.
X-Men '97's development comes on the heels of plenty of mutant activity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, leaving audiences even more curious about what Marvel Studios will do with the series and its possible connections to the multiverse. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' Professor X (Patrick Stewart) cameo was done with the X-Men: The Animated Series character design in mind, while Ms. Marvel used the theme song for Kamala Khan's mutant reveal. These teases only continued to build excitement for what X-Men '97 could deliver.
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Now, during Marvel Studios' animated panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2022, the first look at X-Men '97 arrived. This included the debut of the first images from the revival, which revealed the main X-Men team, and that Magneto is still leading the mutants. The X-Men '97 lineup for the team includes Rogue, Beast, Gambit, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Storm, Jubilee, and Cyclops, all of whom were main team members in the original series. Storyboards for one of their missions was also featured, which showed the X-Men fighting Trask and his Sentinels, where Jean destroys one robot using another's head, Wolverine attacks another, and Beast rips out its core. Check out some images of
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