X-Men 97 Is Amazing! | Absolutely Marvel & DC 

The cyclops finally being seen as cool is like when the MCU did winter soldier and everyone and their mother’s, like hold the fuck up Captain America is amazing

After 32 years, Cyclops is finaly gain some respect.

Ray Chase putting in work to make everyone a Cyclops fan. As expected of the voice behind such heroes as Bruno Bucciarati and Tengen Uzui. But, if they decide to go another route with Cyclops, also the voice of great villains like Sukuna. I know some people were disappointed with how quickly Maddie's Inferno was wrapped up, but I kinda appreciate that someone saw the inherent tragedy of Madelyne Pryor's story of being a clone, her husband and father of her child clearly not wanting her anymore, being the product of a guy literally named Mister Sinister, etc. and letting her have her villain arc but treating her like a person and immediately giving her redemption arc. Because it doesn't make the X-Men seem like monsters to just immediately villainize one of their own for decades. And it doesn't make them seem like hypocrites for trusting Magento's redemption arc over one of their own.

I cant believe tht my favorite X-Men Warren Worthington the 3rd Angel/Archangel is the most underrated X-Men character with a vastly underrated powerset

Speaking of blink and you'll miss it moments, I loved how Spidey showed up too. Early on as a newspaper blows past the screen, its The Daily Bugle and one of the headlines "Is Spider-man a mutant?" I loved that. One of my favourite things from the 90's cartoons is when Spidey meets Beast, and they just instantly become nerd bros over their love of science.

Sal, give us the forecast!

My favourite moment is so basic, but I loved it in ep 1 where the team just started ending Sentinels. The theme kicked in and we just saw them go at it. I’m a sucker for that sort of thing, but then I grew up on Power Rangers so I’ve got no chance.

I think the tell that Magneto is going to change in the show again, is the fact that he is in the opening title credit as a member of the X-Men but at the end he's still on the brotherhood side running at the X-Men to fight.

Stg I was never a cyclops fan until this show. The way he used his optic beams is next level

THE ARCHER POINT, I'm so glad that was a common thought, I thought I was crazy.

Cyclops was always my favorite. Im glad hes getting some of the spotlight!

Cyclops is the best X-men mane

I never like cyclops but watching this made me think he badass and i was sleeping on him

Both wolverine and rogue are original VA remember it’s been 30 years obviously voice got harder at there prime

Great job as always, Sal and Dan! Cyclops is my spirit animal. I grew up wanting to be as cool as Cyclops. They did him justice here! X-Men Gold depicts Gambit and Rogue being married too. Magento turning on the X-Men is very tragic. They might do a “Fatal Attraction” saga where Magento takes out Wolverine’s adamantium from his body. That was brutal. 😨

I have always felt that the X-Men should fight like a well coordinated basketball team, knowing where each teammate is and anticipating each other's next move. The episode 1 fight against the sentinels where Wolverine, Gambit, and Morph all used their powers to take out Master Mold was top notch. I'm really stoked to see how they continue those types of fights.

As someone with no nostalgia for the old show (I grew up with evolution and watxm) but it was pretty good still holds up and the revival is 1000x better

Yea, they did it right. The fact that X-Men has ALWAYS revolved around the Summers family show in this series. I love it.

14:50 - When I was reading the books I was thinking poor Leach sitting in the closet or on the other side of a wall while they are together.

The women of this show have a chokehold on me

Wow. Yall got me interested. I haven't been an xmen fan. I do read a lot of comics, but when i try reading xmen comics i feel like i need to read and study 100s of back issues! If you read FF or Spider-Man or the Hulk or many others back in the 60s and 70s, you can read and enjoy modern comics of these characters. But modern Xmen comics seem to be puposely overly convoluted and complicated. Xmen comics feel like the creators do NOT want you to read unless you are part of the "in crowd" that has read all the xmen titles. Furthermore, back when i did read Xmen, Cyclops was cool. The coolest of the group. The Fox movies made me never want to read or watch Xmen stories. There is no comicbook character i hate more than wolverine....thanks Fox! But I really enjoyed the new Ultimate Xmen comic, and you've convinced me to try this show which i had no plans of watching.

Ep 3 felt so rushed. Surprised that’s his favorite ep. Especially after 2

Right now I hope they make Storm arc good and dont rush it.Because my only issue about show they rushing little bit.That Goblin Queen arc completed in one episode.I wish we could see her abandon to X-men,join to Sebastian Shaw and establish Hell fire Club and manipulate to politics undercover.Because right now Magneto is a good guy (for now) and we need a replacement for him and Sebastian Shaw might be a good villian for X-Men.Also he will be awesome villian because of his history with Magneto.Also once a while if they focus on solo stories it will be great. Like Wolverine and Sabretooth,what Deadpool,Colossus and others doing.This 3 episodes pretty awesome I wonder how Mcu will rival with that?😊

Its almost like if you put action figures and comic adds into your kids shows kids will see it in something they like and start asking there parents for it.

Episode 4 is released right now?! Please release these sooner!❤ no worries though, be happy

I saw someone, I think it was sal, say morph is Darwin, and I was like no, it's morph, finally it's morph like actual exiles morph

I’d never actually watched 90s X-Men, I watched X-Men Evolution but i was always more of a DC person. The hype of this continuation made me check out the original, and I’m hooked. What run of X-Men comics do I read to get into this specific era of X-Men?

X-Men 97 is what action superhero shows should be: well directed and produced, actually managing time correctly to what is important and make each episode count while also not feeling like writer just tries to just say what he thinks about superhero tropes though plot device of a character directly **cough** Invincible show **cough** but actually highlight the drama through character interactions.

So I just watched the first episode and came away with 3 questions. Since we started with Bobby Dacosta are we getting the New Mutants? This might be the best start I personally could have asked for because things like my favorite character showing up is a quick way to keep me coming back. Then we saw Jean pregnant and I immediately wondered which baby that was. The episode answered it showing a baby Rachel, confirming my suspicions. I already thought it was most likely Rachel since this is Jean and not Madeline, but that comes with some serious implications. Very, very serious implications. If I remember my X-Men history, and I should since Rachel is in my top 3, Rachel is a multiversal anomaly. She only exists in a singular universe. There is only one of her that was ever born in the multiverse. Baby Rachel is a harbinger of Days of Future Past. Why is no one discussing this? Originally I didn't put much stock into this series, but the first 5 minutes put whatever trepidation I might have had to rest. Just showing the momentum and spacial awareness that is an inate part of Cyclops' ability set is far more work than Fox did with him since the original X-Men movie came out, and shows that things like abilities and power sets have been given more thought than that other studio cared to do. Moreover, they chose to show it through his movement, which is different than it was shown in the original series which was through optic blasts or pool games. This is just a short section within the first scene, but it stuck out sharply to me because of how badly these characters were handled in the past.

I was very nervous when I heard they were continuing this show. Having not been a fan of alot of the stuff from Disney/Marvel lately, I was happy when I watched and found myself loving this show a lot. I felt like a kid again.

*pulls out cigarette* yup gambit is gonna be just fine🫠

i love this show

Dan, you should watch Avatar: The Airbender. I will say it isn’t a 1 to 1 adaptions, just shows you the classic anime in a new perspective.

Didn't they fire the producer

Fixing all the damage fox in the original cartoon did to cyclops, letting people love both Jean Grey and understand!? Magneto's speech, you haven't even gotten to Emma Frost yet, Spider-Man freshman year has a lot to live up to now😂

I want an Avengers, Thunderbolts, or X-Force cartoon.

Some of the people morph shifts into have voice actors and some don't. Maybe they wouldn't cast a voice actor for just a few seconds of screen time.

I have always been Cyclops fan especially because of X-men animated series but the fox movies merc his core character unceremoniously.

X-Men the animated series, was a seminal show for me growing up and it’s what got me into comics, mainly Marvel, for 30 years now. So I’m approaching this extremely skeptical. The animation looks like a choppy CG downgrade. And the behind the scenes Disney mucking around isn’t winning me over. I’m going to waiting till the whole season has been released and watch the reviews before investing my time into this.

Will we ever get Kitty Pryde?

After episode 4 I cancelled Disney plus that isn’t for kids anymore

Hey everyone welcome to Hamlet! I’m Guildenstern?? No I’M Rosencrantz!

The only thing about 97 that bugs me is a lack of punch in the sound effects, I noticed it in the intro and it's a minor thing.

MORE X-MEN!

I'm sure the data from the views on Disney plus warrants all the x-men pushing but hell even without that people have been waiting for the x-men mcu debut for years .

The Age of “FOX-SCOTT” is OVER!! Welcome to the REIGN of “DISNEY-SLYM”!!!

The way they just go "Yeah, this is the X-Men. Deal with it." Is so refreshing. Every character is perfectly realized. My favorite thing is how absolutely OP Storm is shown to be. Shes so fuckin badass.

Okay dumb question, has anyone actually drank This Hot Sauce Is(TM)?😂

No-one forget 'bout Gambit fo' too long, eh?

cyclops was always my favorite, I never even understood the hype arround wolverine, the man is straight up the least interesting x-men.

0/10 no Dazzler

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So far 8.5/10

This show has been Astonishing! As a die hard life long x-fan, this show has completely blown me away and has me exited for the future, but the third episode was extremely disappointing, I felt like it was 4 episodes worth of content slammed into 30 minutes, I still have high hopes for lifedeath now they’ve brought in Forge, but man did that episode sting. The biggest thing that hurt was morph turning into Magik and dark child, guess no issue 160 adaptation. Man, that was a huge missed opportunity, but the first two completely blew me away. I really just have to temper my X-pectations, and take what I’m getting because everything else has been perfect!

It's a bit of a weird show lol. I enjoyed it but I find the OG show, had some adult themes but was mostly a kid's show. This kinda goes overboard with the adult themes, and even imagery ex Rogue & Magneto merging into one another, Wolverine in the shower (weird...). But out of all the X-Men stuff they could have done I wish they created a new show (with a better creative team) in the tone and quality of X-Men Evolution but with the style of X-Men TAS. X-Men Evolution also had the perfect tone and respected it was a children's show and had no adult imagery and wasn't really divisive. I would also argue Evolution was also the best adaptation of X-Men especially how it handled its themes of racism, people who are handicapped or disabled and religious intolerance.

I had no expectations. I wasnt even gonna watch but i decided, hey why not 1 episode. And i was HOOKED. It blew my fuckin mind. But i must say, this Cyclops propaganda will not work on me. He's a dork and always will be.