Marvel Animation has released the trailer for X-Men ’97 season two, the follow-up season to the revival of the original X-Men: The Animated Series from the 1990s, based on the Marvel X-Men comics, presenting a gang of superheroes born with the X-gene, which causes superhuman abilities.
The series features the voice work of Ross Marquand as Professor X, Matthew Waterson as Magneto, Ray Chase as Cyclops, Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm, Cal Dodd as Wolverine, Lenore Zann as Rogue, and George Buza as Beast.
Season two “continues with the heroic mutant team of X-Men, divided and thrown across different eras in time as they struggle to navigate their return home.”
“Meanwhile, back in the 1990s, suspicious foes and new strains of mutant intolerance are on the rise in the wake of the X-Men’s absence.”
Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt, Julia Lewald, Eric Lewald, Larry Houston, and Beau DeMayo share production credits, alongside Emmett Yonemura and Chase Conley working as episode directors. JB Ballard, Beau DeMayo, Bailey Moore, Antony Sellitti, Brian Ford Sullivan, and Mariah Wilson are responsible for the scripts.
X-Men ’97 season one debuted in 2024 to 4 million views worldwide in the first five days of the first two episodes being released, making history as the largest first-season premiere seen by an animated series on Disney+ since 2021’s What If…? The finale then went on to garner 3.5 million views globally, again topping the record previously held by What If…?
Additionally, the show holds a 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 79 critics, hailing X-Men ’97 as Marvel’s greatest visual storytelling in years. 14 users from Metacritic helped the show land a score of 82 out of 100 on the site.
Meanwhile, the original X-Men: The Animated Series landed over 23 million viewers during its original run, gaining impressive ratings for a Saturday morning cartoon and launching a comic book series based directly on the show in 1992.
The X-Men comics began in 1963 as created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first appearing in The X-Men #1 and overcoming initial low sales and a cancellation to be revived in 1975 and become one of Marvel’s most beloved creations.
Joining the animated series and comics is a film franchise beginning in 2002 under director Bryan Singer, comprised of the original trilogy, a prequel trilogy, a spin-off Wolverine trilogy, two Deadpool films and a stand-alone spin-off, all released under 20th Century Fox.
The film characters are due to make their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut with Avengers: Doomsday.
Marvel Animation’s X-Men ’97 returns to Disney+ on 1st July.
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