X-Men 97 is in the endgame, now

[@bottomlesspitt7798]

Nightcrawler continues to be peak character in every way.

[@MrMelonGuy42]

kurt is the goat

[@Sasu123456789x1]

Yup, so true!

[@hellfish2309]

So much so, I feel like he’s gonna get Game of Throne’d

[@Tuaron]

Seeing the fuzzy blue elf triple wielding sabers is a dream, I was so happy. Just one step shy of full swashbuckler mode.

[@MoonlightMaskG]

His dialogue the way nightcrawler fights his mutant abilities they did him justice.

[@kapitankapital6580]

The reason why Bastion puts Magneto in a speedo is the same reason he shaves him and probably the reason he captured him in the first place; to humiliate him. Magneto is not only the mutant who poses the most danger to Bastion but also the one who most epitomises the idea that mutants will conquer humans, which Bastion is opposed to. We've seen that Bastion is clearly sentimental by the fact he uses his childhood home to trap the Summers, so humiliating his greatest enemy is entirely within his character.

[@hellfish2309]

He shoulda dressed him in a hospital smock w/ a barcode: easier to draw and much more poignant; I think whoever chose to man thong him got their wires crossed w/ slave references

[@HandOfVecna1188]

I worry that setting off Mags was part of the plan the whole time.

[@joelhenry5489]

Also it's clear someone on the creative team thinks Magneto is the zaddy of zaddies.

[@AngelusNielson]

@@HandOfVecna1188 It was. Why keep him alive otherwise?

[@dylpickle0927]

​@@joelhenry5489that's cuz he is 😭😭

[@Truck-kun11]

Nando every time a new episode of X-Men 97 comes out: "Okay, I didn't mean to make a video about this episode....BUT" Looking forward to the season review

[@YoureRightIThink]

Nando: "ok that episode was peak, surely next one is gonna drop a little bit" X-men 97: continues to be peak each episode

[@Tuaron]

I knew this was going to be a 3-part finale, so I was unsure whether he'd end up doing an ep-by-ep response or just wait, but...well, this was a big one, and I'm glad he responded to it.

[@largepurplemonkey]

Truck-kun! Hit me next, I don't want to go into work tomorrow

[@Truck-kun11]

@@largepurplemonkey Nop, you have taxes to pay!

[@jasonmarbach]

Not only would Bastion suss out a shapeshifter next to him right away, but Val’s monologue in this ep just hits so much better if it’s really her, not Mystique

[@mintybadger6905]

I agree with you but I keep waiting for Mystique to show up. Her presence is felt in every episode. It’s getting suspicious.

[@jasonmarbach]

@@mintybadger6905 With complete respect, I think the only folks who feel Mystique in every episode are the ones whose xmen exposure has been largely (not entirely! Just largely) influenced by the fox movies and her outsized role in them. She’s not usually that important or present a character, the fox movies made her seem like a much bigger player than she is

[@Icybubba]

​@@jasonmarbachMy issue is that where Rogue and Nightcrawler are together Mystique is usually not far behind

[@jasonmarbach]

@@Icybubba true, and she might still show up for *that* storyline. That would make sense - it might even be inevitable, really. I just don’t see any argument for her being Val Cooper. Much more likely is that she shows up for the first time in this show either as a “hello, children” cliffhanger of sorts to Rogue and Kurt, or she shows up next season along with a host of other characters and concepts who could ostensibly have appeared by now but haven’t yet

[@monolith_g]

@@jasonmarbachyeah maybe after the first couple eps but for sure Val is val

[@stealthmonkeydc2869]

The Nightcrawler stuff has been great. Especially the teleport scene with Wolverine.

[@Sasu123456789x1]

That was so awesome

[@ZachBobBob]

That was the coolest shit I've ever seen

[@mekiherring2088]

@@ZachBobBob he's literally pulling him through time and space

[@asiabrew81]

YEEESS! That scene! Its so fun watching this and knowing how giddy the creators likely were pitching that idea of the trip it must be accidentally traveling with Kurt as a 3rd wheel through dimensions.

[@kittycatmeowmeow963]

I hope the 2 guys fight together more often. Possibly even become BFF's!😊

[@MerlinCheng]

Morph is like that RPG character that can use any abilities but have very lousy stats to go with it lol

[@Tuaron]

Or poor rolls that ruin a totally OP build.

[@jasonsylvander3089]

Always rolling 1's

[@ghostygirl2395]

They're a Ditto!

[@Tortilla.Reform]

Like twice or toga in ultra rumble

[@joselebron3693]

I take it as Morph doesn’t have proficiency with everyone else’s powers. If morph were to fight someone as that person, the original probably wins every time.

[@asiabrew81]

X-Men'97 shows why X-Men works best as episodic TV and not so much the movies: The size of the cast. I'm glad you also pointed out that Wolverine is NOT heavily leaned on... because we've had that for almost TWENTY YEARS in the live action films, while every other mutant (not named Mystique) got nerfed, bankbenched or relegated to 1 moment per film based on star power or fan levels. Its great to see the everyone characterized accurately & get their moment per week instead of hoping every 3 years "Is (blank) gonna get their moment?" Its just so satisfying.

[@gateauxq4604]

I also appreciate how they’ve also been pairing Wolvie off when they’re featuring him because so many of his best moments have been when he’s being friends and comrades with other Xmen. They should make a limited series called ‘The Runt and the Fuzzy Elf.’

[@AsherV20]

You... You uh... You're not waking up and going on your phone in 1997 my guy. You're waking up and finding out on the emergency broadcast system that a bunch of planes fell out of the sky and thousands of people around the world are dead. If your TV still works at all.

[@Gangerworld]

Yeah, an EMP won't knock out your electronics for like 20 minutes. More like maybe 20 days or whenever they get the grid rebuilt and you purchase all new electronics... Also rip all the people with pacemakers or on life-support and refrigerated foods.

[@KAW101]

Magneto: To hell with humans!

[@Zoeila]

@@Gangerworld more like 20 years

[@eversondecarvalho6255]

Not to mention that he made an electromagnetic pulse that affected the entire world, soon most people in the world will be awake and realize that something very serious has occurred.

[@GomerJ]

Every little detail in this show is just pure gold. Nightcrawler hits the wall and 2 swords hit the floor next to him and you're already hyped even though nothing has happened yet. Kurt & Logan just hacking up a room of sentinels was peak. Every action scene was peak. Cable of all people gets in on the one liners. "You have a Porsche?" This show is a gift.

[@davee.7341]

Yes but cyclops response was the pinnacle for me!

[@joshmargolis1424]

Morph is the DnD player that multiclassed everything but never read the rules

[@GomerJ]

I found it hilarious that in the credits it listed "Latverian OZT Member" as if there was any mystery over who that was. Like Doom had the sharpest image on the zoom call, Latveria must have that good network infrastructure.

[@ILoveJamesFelt]

Could have been a Doombot. But I hear you.

[@thegreenrose147]

No fr especially since Beau DeMayo himself confirmed it was Dr. Doom. That’s odd to me 😂

[@Jgd3322]

Maybe it was a tongue in cheek nod to the way the original writers and show runners slipped in cameos of other Marvel characters in the original series without getting official permission. I remember seeing somewhere that Larry Houston slipped in cameos like Hulk or Spider-Man in the original series by calling them things like " Green Mutant " or " Web mutant" in the scripts.

[@CaptainBadNews]

Nightcrawler looked cool as hell this episode. I’m glad he got his moment to look cool AF like Cyclops, Gambit, and Rogue did!

[@letsgobrandon1906]

This show is excellent at showing montages during monologues. Magneto flying up to the North Pole and starting his emp while the blonde lady was talking was such a good scene. They did something similar in the episode where storm wrote the letter to the team.

[@solvseus]

*Val Cooper (or is she!?!)

[@mon_nobi]

@@solvseus beau confirmed Val is not mystique

[@alonsoarana5307]

That Doom and Zemo cameo was crazy

[@jokerz7936]

The thing that what makes what Magneto did so horrific wasn't just that those Prime Sentinels fell out of the air, but so did every plane on Earth. Every Hospital lost power Magneto killed thousands maybe millions of people.

[@no_nameyouknow]

Yeah, he says that exact thing in this video.

[@olabassey3142]

the planes run more on mechanical power than electrical power. the engines will work. the navigation won’t

[@Michael-bn1oi]

​@@olabassey3142 the *controls* are electric

[@gregorygeorge8695]

@@Michael-bn1oi Its 1997, and those planes would likely still be older models even then.

[@mosquitopyjamas9048]

@@gregorygeorge8695its 1997, they used to just blow on wings made of dandelions so I'd say they're fine. Also hospitals had mages not doctors so Magneto did nothing wrong.

[@dannyorange9023]

Crazy theory, Charles MERGES with Magneto in the end and seals both of their consciences away in his mind and/or exoskeleton, circling back to the Onslaught tease and setting up a version of Onslaught for next season.

[@kyledrury6396]

Am I the only one who’s frustrated by the assertion that “Magneto declared war?” No, BASTION declared war. I’d love some feedback on this cause everyone I’ve heard talking about it has no problem repeating the episode’s sentiment that it was Magneto’s act that was the first act of war (which to me is ABSURD, given Genosha and the events of Ep8.)

[@kyledrury6396]

Plus, Magneto’s “EMP” is very much an act of nonviolent defense. Simple: Man sends killing machine after you, you turn off machine. I get that his EMP might down every airplane in the sky, killing countless innocents, but the episode didn’t show this so I don’t think that’s the point. Maybe it will be elaborated on in subsequent episodes.

[@rosalie.e.morgan]

​@kyledrury6396 yeah I'm really not sure what the fallout from that action is likely to be in universe. Seems like it could either kill a lot of innocent people, or stop a zombie apocalypse with minimal casualties

[@Jgd3322]

Also, when Wolverine says Magneto declared war, how did they know it was Magneto? Weren't they all under the impression that Magneto was a casualty in the Genosha massacre? If they knew he was alive and captured, you'd think they'd have been looking for him.

[@carpedm9846]

​@Jgd3322 i guess they realized it was a magnetic power and went "ok, magneto is alive, and he is back on his bullshit again."

[@IAMTHESTARMAN]

“Magneto was right” was originally uttered in the last episode of the original X-Men TAS series (1997), which was later adapted back into the comics as Eve of Destruction (2001). But it wasn’t until Grant Morrison’s run that it was truly popularized.

[@rumncoke76]

This episode was actually bonkers. I hope to god that they're not gonna wrap this whole war thing up by episode 10, because episode 8 could be a set up to, like, 3 more seasons. Can't wait to see what they have in store!

[@KingsNJenssons]

This show was guaranteed to have two seasons before this season came out

[@OfficialDjTalksick]

@@KingsNJenssonsand now recently 4

[@AdmiralSpaceballs]

to go to the north pole in your underwear , there is no breaking that man that's for certain

[@ShadowProject01]

Beau Demayo probably low key simping for that silver fox of magnetism 😂

[@tamedthethreebears]

" I said I wouldn't make another X-Men97 video but ..." 😂

[@Ebonyleopard]

Take a drink.

[@therougechipmunk8058]

Xmen97 is some peak American cartoons. I'm a 30 year old man now and during this last episode I felt like a 13 year old kid again watching Xmen on a Saturday morning. Crazy how these show are running complex and dark story lines I'm loving it

[@JustinShaw89]

When Wolverine said that Magneto declared war, I didn't take that as "war on the X-Men". I saw that as a war on Bastion and the sentinels. So I don't think the show will reset things so easily with Magneto et al vs the X-Men. I think they'll form a superteam to fight the common foe, Bastion. And then in the final episode, maybe Magneto will go off on his own to hint at forming his own team. But the show has done a lot of work for Magneto's arc just to make him the "bad guy" again.

[@MegaPoliyo]

It's so good. Classic X-Men. Loads of good storylines covered in brief. Good beats. Fun. Corny. Not so many plot holes. Faithful. Just really well done.

[@PuellaRider]

Fatal Attractions being one of DeMayo's favorite stories is kind of wild given how much better this show is than that story arc.

[@LokiWyrm]

They’re definitely pushing Scott and some of the others towards the kind of revolutionary characters that could make AvX really work. And one of my all time favorite moments in comics is Scott telling off Cap at the start of AvX

[@Aureilius2112]

I feel like in your Schism divide, the Cyclops team is just infinitely more interesting. I like how Cyclops had to convince Storm to stay with him so he could have her presence there to keep his morality in check.

[@milkiassamuel780]

After watching this episode, Bastion quickly became one of my favourite X-Men villains. Bastion is such a great villain in this show, and his plan is genius yet horrific to think about. His being a mix of Nimrod & Master Mold is wild. I love how charismatic he is with his belief that mutants supposedly take away humans' chances of the future, like a twisted, charismatic entrepreneur/salesman pitching his belief onto your average human middle-class guy, spreading more fear and insecurities about mutants to inevitably get them to act on said fears. What's even worse is that there is a level of truth and meta-commentary from his philosophy and how he manipulates blue-collar class racism and the bigotry normal humans create based on their fears. Not to mention the fact that such a big part of the population are secretly Human Sentinel sleeper agents and didn't even know it is SCARY ASF! These things can also reproduce and extend the human population, making the implications even more terrifying. It's funny how Gyrich teased this fate in the first episode when he said, "Tolerance is extinction." This basically means that whenever humanity starts tolerating mutants, humans will inevitably believe they'll go extinct, therefore believing that whenever mutants start tolerating humans, mutants need to go extinct, hence what happened in Genosha. That Wolverine and Nightcrawler fight scene is some of the best Western animation I have ever seen in a comic book show like GODDAMN, THE SCENE WAS PEAK! I loved seeing the first-person perspective of what it's like to teleport with Nightcrawler. I love how much of an overprotective mom Jean was to Cable, and seeing the Summers family fighting together was cool and cute to watch. Dom Torretto would be proud. It was really surreal watching Dr Cooper become so numb to the death and misery humanity creates to make mutants suffer, ultimately coming to accept that Magneto was right about humans. Magneto also officially declared war on humanity after all the pain and death he witnessed and sending that EMP blast around the world, which no doubt caused hundreds of other deaths, like planes falling out of the sky, reactors losing power, and God knows what else was such a scary yet overpowered move! BTW, THE CAMEOS IN THIS EPISODE ARE INSANE; WE GOT SPIDERMAN, OMEGA RED, DOCTOR DOOM, BARON ZEMO, SILVER SAMURAI, etc...

[@feral_orc]

I find it silly that he's just doing the same thing he's claiming to be stopping. Like he's so obviously a hypocrite that it's not even subtle or interesting.

[@lonewanderer9982]

​@@feral_orc Good set up for the return of magneto.

[@deadmanwade3618]

Chuck shuts down magnetos brain and onslaught is born

[@juanperret7044]

i can't possibly see Scott go against Magneto, I think Cyclops will be on the same side as him

[@KingsNJenssons]

The dick Cyclops arc that leads into X-Men vs avengers

[@ZombieFarmboy666]

I think Dazzler died in the Genosha Massacre.

[@rsbeacham]

Also the political fallout of a mutant turning out all the power. This is going to be ammo and bastion's gun

[@zellcrs]

Wolverine is 100x more durable in this than the original show. Love that.

[@nancyjay790]

I just realised that Bastion's first art piece (crayon drawing) and his final artwork (the painting) are the same image: the destruction of the X-mansion from Sentinels.

[@Byronic19134]

Speedo Magneto is GOATed. I also can see Doom turning on Bastion because aint no way Doom is going to let somebody talk to him that dismissively like that. Bastion said he send memos next time, Doom thinking I’ll send Doom bots. I still think Val is Mystique because of the way she was begging for Mags to say something to her, and how unsurprised Bastion was that she let him go.

[@KAW101]

I like that it's X-MEN first, with cameos and it's not apart of that convoluted MCU, where everything has to follow elements of the movies, bogging it down. It is it's own thing.

[@MugenHeadNinja]

It's the same continuity as the original series, which means we can get Spider-Man and Avengers members from their 90s cartoon versions as cameos, like how we got Captain America in Ep. 7.

[@KAW101]

​@@MugenHeadNinja You can get any Marvel character that they want to include, regardless of universe, MCU, continuity, timeline or year. But they chose the 90s Spider-Man animation design from the animated series, because it's considered the most popular and success animated series.

[@jaylenjayden9305]

@@KAW101duh X-men and 90s Spider-Man exists in the same universe there was a 90s marvel universe

[@jaylenjayden9305]

@@KAW101you thought they chose him because of success and popularity 💀

[@KAW101]

@@jaylenjayden9305 Of course, Marvel is free to cameo any Marvel character in existence in X-Men 97. What's stopping them from adding a character or group who never appeared in Spider-Man or X-Men's 90s animated series, or so called universe?

[@xsanguine8]

I think the speedo implies that Bastion continued his exposition shave on Magneto, until Magneto had a complete picture of how he was played, and Bastion had run out of body hair to snip.

[@PathsUnwritten]

Elf on a shelf? No. Magneto in a speedo.

[@Robin0928]

Maybe I'm completely stupid about X-Men, but my thought was that Morph can replicate powers, but he's not as strong or powerful as the original version.

[@Shywhitefox]

So far, it only seems to be physical powers, such as speed, strength, wings, durability, and perhaps even healing, but nothing external, like eye beams or weather manipulation, and yeah, only a fraction of the real thing, as well as using extensions of his body for swords and other weapons and equipment like Psylocke's swords, or Omega Red's wrist tendrils, and even they may not be the weapons true durability. If anything, they would probably massively hurt him if they were shattered or ripped from his body.

[@joeljames2683]

Another story route they could go down would be the Onslaught saga, because weirdly enough, Onslaught first appeared in the same comic as Bastion. That would be next up on the timeline.

[@JaredRascher]

Yeah, the events are in slightly different order, but if you want a REALLY dark progression: Professor X "kills" Magneto, is taken into government custody, Onslaught is formed, Onslaught takes out the Avengers and the Fantastic Four so there are fewer "why don't they get involved" moments, and Bastion convinces the government to go full on into internment camps etc. Especially if President Kelly ends up dead as some aspect of this story.

[@lemonscentedzombie9080]

In a few minutes, this episode opened more the MAU than phase four ever did for the MCU

[@SeanBeanie4191]

The cuntification of Magneto this series was hilarious. Bro was mad sassy all season, down to his speedo fit

[@C-Bee]

Disney finally got a Game of Thrones level show and it’s animated I love it.

[@VunderGuy]

LOL. Edgy Lord of the Rings wishes it was this good.

[@BigPurp9]

I was looking forward to it but I didn’t think X Men 97 would be this good. Really reminded me why I love these characters and why they will always be my favourite superhero’s 🙏

[@Hawkstar270]

This is Andor erasure and I won't stand for it.

[@VunderGuy]

@@BigPurp9 The X-Men aren't superheroes tho. They're interesting characters, but they haven't been proper superheroes for a while now, and this show is transitioning them into their non-superhero phase.

[@dablackangel]

I love in the comics when Storm calls Emma an unregenerate slag 😂

[@jpsketch03]

"Why the black speedo?" Because it's HOT! :)

[@mon_nobi]

Right like uhm why not

[@kieferfulsom4432]

Also Chris Claremont’s X-Men, need I say more?

[@0li-0li28]

As a straight woman I rlly appreciate the gay sensibilities of this show lol

[@ellie8272]

​@@0li-0li28Pretty sure one of the lead writers is gay

[@mr_0n10n5]

Sometimes, I forget how powerful Magneto and Xavier are

[@blackshard641]

I'm glad you are finally reaching the acceptance stage of doing a new X-Men 97 video every week.

[@Beezle66]

The black bird crashing and then the Porsche coming out had me dying. I saw it come out and it looked exactly like a 911 or 993, and I said "ain't no way the just pulled out a Porsche" and cable said the same thing right after 🤣

[@ZachBobBob]

Been loving this journey of you not talking about X-Men 97' every week. Also OMG AvX would be amazing

[@LokiWyrm]

Scott is definitely swinging slowly closer to the revolutionary he was in AvX and after

[@philcorrigan5641]

I hated AvX, one of the worst crossovers ever . I don’t get how writers as good as Hickman and Fraction came up with something so bad. It’s an Avengers story really - most of the mutants are victims of character assassination, especially Cyclops.

[@ZachBobBob]

@@philcorrigan5641 I'll be honest I never read it 😂 But I love seeing the general concept get adapted into this animation style with these writers. They seem to be cherry picking the best bits of the source material and make it work

[@MugenHeadNinja]

@@philcorrigan5641They came up with it because they were told to and it's their job to do what they're told.

[@michaelmartinez3893]

This show is peak X-MEN and it's incredible

[@jackson_craft_gamingscates9324]

hearing the Demayo said Fatal Attraction is his favorite comic is just wild.... NOBODY says that is their favorite comic, people only know it because its the issue when Magneto rips Wolverine's adamantium out of his body....

[@BlackPantherN7]

And when Xavier put Magneto in a catatonic state, setting up Xavier's slow dark turn until he became Onslaught.

[@asiabrew81]

Sometimes obvious thing is obvious

[@yungc9050]

From the 90s series, when Nimrod seem to be destroyed by Bishop, it was still some part left that affected the janitor!

[@kuakilyissombroguwi]

Wait, wouldn't a worldwide EMP take out all airplanes, helicopters, cars, power plants, grocery storage, medical devices... Magneto probably killed millions of people by pulling that stunt.

[@UltraPrimal]

To be fair to Morph, there are thousands of superpowered individuals that they can turn into with entirely different power sets which function entirely differently from each other, and they have little to no experience with them. It's literally like every superhero origin story where they have that awkward period where they're still figuring out their powers, like Spider-Man swinging into the side of a building or Human Torch trying to fly and falling into a snow bank, but that's every single time Morph takes a new form. Should they maybe try and get some practice with a few particular transformations? Yes. Can they? No. As we saw in a previous episode, Magneto and Rogue had the Danger Room booked pretty solid. 😆 Also, I'm assuming that Morph doesn't get like the full power set of anyone they turn into. More like a watered down version. I imagine it's kind of like Forge's power where if he can build a machine to do anything, but he has to have some basic knowledge about how to do it first. Morph's probably works in similar way in which they have to see them used and have some idea of how the powers work in order to do it. Like I know what fire feels like. I can see wind bend the flame. So I have some idea how Pyro's powers work, but I don't know exactly how he does it. Like what does being invulnerable feel like? I know what not being hurt feels like. You can throw a pillow at me and I don't get hurt, but I still feel the pillow hit me. It's probably like that. Like Morph can turn into Juggernaut and be somewhat tough, but are they truly invulnerable? Probably not. I imagine it's like you're constantly flexing hundreds of muscles at once, both mentally and physically, and trying to maintain concentration on them. But in a fight, you might flinch for a second, and then you lose it.

[@LUWiseguy08]

I think I read or heard Demayo state Morph can duplicate any physical powers of others. Thus why he's been Colossus, Juggernaut, Magik (With no powers used), Lady Deathstrike, Pietro, etc.

[@burdnurd]

What if Morph is right and Logan is the sole survivor of a global extinction, letting his whole world down. And deadpool shows up with a TemPad.

[@rudrodeepchatterjee]

X-97 has been renewed for later seasons, right? I don't think the story would really continue well if we plomped this wolverine into another new group of X men.

[@olddangfool]

1st we had Thanos was right. 2nd we got Magneto was right. Now it's Morph!

[@okamifang4059]

It seems like Morph can only mimic physical abilities

[@fenzelian]

Only thing I’d suggest is story wise I think Roberto has to play a huge role at the end. The Roberto/Jubilee story has been running parallel to the main story the whole time and you’ve got to think at some point they’re going to come together and everything Jubilee has been leading Roberto through and teaching him is going to matter. He’s a possibility for the character who sacrifices himself to fix the big problem for the season.

[@davidbjacobs3598]

I care less about Sinister being British and more about him being flamboyant as hell. If they'd done him ten to twenty years ago, Tim Curry would've been perfect.

[@uncannydcmarvelous5732]

Pretty sure in the MODOK series, Sinister did sounded like Tim Curry voiced him (another voice actor dud a good Curry impression).

[@tjadenjason]

Way back in Uncanny #150 or so, Magneto also alters the Earth's magnetic field to limit the range of Charles' telepathy (and maybe teleportation as well; it's been a while).

[@Ebonyleopard]

Rachel returns from her original series appearance in Beyond, Good, and Evil part 3 episode.

[@acf5980]

Cyclops, Rogue and Beast are prime candidates for defecting to Magnetos cause

[@DougUnfunny]

Magneto causing EMP blast across the world for sure killed lots of people who were in planes.

[@VeggiePun]

Nightcrawler had always been my favorite. Im so glad we get to see him in action.

[@Mothcult0wner]

If it does split between the two teams I think that nightcrawler would go with Scott to help eith the religious aspects of utopia while Jean stays with storm to support newer generations

[@samuele.lewisjr.7710]

I think we're getting the Magneto mind wipe from Fatal Attractions which plants the seeds for Onslaught.

[@rachelespiritu4215]

Me, waking up every Thursday: yay new Nando X-men 97 video 😁

[@jeth3540]

The reveal that Nando was wearing Wolverine claws the whole time got me good 🤣🤣

[@Kollieprime9]

I’m kinda confused on what Coopers involvement with bastion was. She wasn’t aware he was going to attack genosha, she wasn’t aware he was making human hybrid sentinels, and she doesn’t approve of any of it and thinks he’s a monster So like what did she think was going on? I thought at first she had just been maybe abducted and brought to the base, but her apologizing to magneto probably means she was allied with bastion to some degree I’m not just sure what I’m supposed to take away as far as her involvement goes

[@lonerider4164]

My best guess is that Cooper was likely involved in the FOH plan to depower Magneto at the UN trial as well as financing other technology that Forge worked on for the government to detain mutants (remember in Forge's cabin, there is a photo he took with Bastion)

[@tasha7726]

I think that the X-Men 97 writers are making the same mistake with Morphe that the Star Trek the Next Generation writers made with Worf. It's the idea that if an opponent can one shot them then they must be dangerous. The problem with this idea is if you don't show Morphe being badass to balance this out they just look weak.

[@wisdommanari6701]

Yeah he needs some more wins.

[@mrshade810]

Maybe they're saving it for the season finale. So far he's been beaten by everyone he fought. Managed to throw a few hits but nothing major. I really hope they amend this cause it's getting annoying. I get that not every character needs to be a badass all the time, but at least every once in a while, otherwise it's just like you said, they just look weak and need saving all the time

[@Addy0302]

I hope sunspot gets a title card in the intro next week (but I've been thinking that for weeks now)

[@cdromXXXX]

With banshee and gambit dead we could see wolverine sacrifice himself and apocalypse bring all three and one other surprise mutant back as his horsemen Gambit could be death Banshee could be famine Wolverine could be war Who could be pestilence? We could see Polaris come in because of whatever may happen to magneto?

[@JasonBoyce]

Personally I wouldn't mind seeing the stress of all this and Xavier and Magneto coming together to create Onslaught, that'd be a hell of a cliffhanger

[@juanmacias5922]

Episode 8 was sooooooooooo crazy! I knew you'd have to make an episode for it!

[@AgusSkywalker]

I thought a lot about the "Val = Mystique" theory: At first I was skeptical since I took her hatred for Magneto at face value. I thought she genuinely had reasons to hate him, and so she couldn't be Mystique since last time we saw them together (ending of season 4) they had no problem working together. Then I started thinking about the possibility that she was secretly Mystique and she didn't hate Magneto at all, but was just playing the part of a mutant hater to push him into declaring war on humanity. She expected him to fight the soldiers who arrested him, but he surrendered peacefully. She expected the UN to condemn him, but he instead was pardoned. And then he was declared ruler of Genosha. With every step he got closer to Xavier's dream, and away from the mutant-human war she wanted. There was also that surprised face she made when he talked about marrying Rogue, the only person Mystique ever gave some semblance of care for. So this theory had a lot of possibility. But episode 5 also made me doubt it at lot. First there was the fact that she was constantly around two powerful telepaths: Emma and Madelyn. And even if Madelyn has a personal rule of not prying into people's head without a good reason, we see Emma has no qualms about using her powers that way in this same episode. It is also possible that Emma knew Val was secretly Mystique and didn't care, waiting to see where she was going with that. But then we have the attack on Genosha and we see lots of mutants being vaporized by sentinels around Val while she was being completely ignored. It's possible Mystique can mask her powers from the sentinels, but it's another piece of evidence against the theory. And finally we have episode 8 when I find it really difficult to still believe in this theory. Mystique was shown in the past working for Apocalypse, but out of self-preservation, not her own personal convictions, and she showed her true self when she was alone with him. Now I don't see why she would work with Bastion. If everyone else believe she is Val Cooper, I don't see why she would join them. And if everyone know she is Mystique and are forcing her to cooperate like Apocalypse, then this episode would have been the best opportunity to show it by showing herself in her true form in front of Bastion and Sinister.

[@jrsindone]

Not sure why Nando is completely ignoring the Onslaught Saga. If Fatal Attractions is the showrunners fav storyline, that is what directly led into the Onslaught Saga, which pretty much ended the 90's X-Men comic storylines and also dealt with altering the timeline, aka potential creating a new branch in the sacred timeline. I think you all catch my drift here...

[@Rare_Solstice]

The opening bit gets funnier each time he say “I know what yer thinkin” 😂 bravo

[@chriscascio3355]

What if Sinster is the Herny Calville role? Just throwing that out there.

[@gibberishname]

Maybe it's because the first X-Men story I read was Fatal Attractions (because I'm old and it was new when I was a kid) but I keep getting the vibe that they're setting up a combination of Onslaught and combining AvX and Bloodties for a future season.

[@KariIzumi1]

Naw, Magneto doesn’t need clothes at all but you know Disney wouldn’t let him go full frontal like the director clearly wanted 😜🥵

[@UltraPrimal]

Wait. Magneto is still a hero in my eyes. Obviously that may change once we see the next couple episodes. But he saved ALL the mutants around the world from the human-sentinels threat! I have absolutely zero sympathy for the techno-zombie bigots who died. They chose evil. They were monsters. Even before Bastion got his hands on them.

[@SuperSanity1]

Unleashing an EMP on the world would kill ALOT of people. Think of anybody on a plane. Anybody with a pacemaker. Anybody on life support. Most people undergoing surgery at the time. I'm probably forgetting more than a few scenarios to.

[@The_Mad_Titan_007]

this is war. innocent mutants were killed. magneto chose to protect his people. but that has also killed a shit ton of bystander humans. he's not a hero , just the protector of mutants

[@crackofdawn805]

@@The_Mad_Titan_007magneto chose to protect his people… and also kill thousands of innocent people, some of which could’ve even been mutants in all honesty

[@The_Mad_Titan_007]

@@crackofdawn805 yea... That's what I said. He isn't a "hero".

[@zachtaylor243]

I genuinely don't know how Nando watched episode 8 and came away thinking "yeah, Magneto's gonna be the villain again". Val Cooper looked us IN THE EYES and said Magneto was right, you don't write something like that for no reason. Not to mention the not whatsoever subtle messaging in the show about how Charles' vision was flawed and did not help mutants (e.g.; the group getting crushed under his statue in Genosha). I was going insane the whole video every time he mentioned Magneto. I think, especially with Charles back, we're going to see a schism in the X-Men between the ones that side with Magneto, definitely Cyclops and Rogue they've been getting radicalised throughout the series, and those that side with Charles, probably Wolverine, Jean (gotta have that interpersonal conflict), and Beast. Morph would probably go wherever Logan does, and I'm not so sure where Storm would side. Either that or all out war between humanity and mutants, possibly with more cameos or bigger roles for other superheroes and villains on either side cause I think the lead writer said that Spider-Man would have a bit of a bigger role in the coming episodes (I could be wrong), and all those other cameos kinda point to it as well. (begging that they have Spidey fight alongside the Mutants he would NEVER do them like that)

[@Matt-tg3vu]

Morph only gets the PHYSICAL powers associated with transformations (as is hinted by the end credits stat card). So he could transform into Scott but not get his eye beams while still transforming into Quicksilver and getting his superspeed.

[@dm_dude]

I could imagine Wolverine not going with Cyclops. He doesn’t like him very much and he would probably want to stay where Morph and Jubilee are. He sometimes is more radical, yes. But he stays with the team nonetheless. The others had eye opening moments, he has seen genocides. It’s nothing new to him. The world hasn’t changed for him as it has for the others.

[@camerongrow6426]

Finally Jean has a good codename; MOM-JEAN!

[@timogul]

They have to do the "Magneto removes Wolverine's metal" arc. They're also clearly setting Scott up as the sacrifice.

[@burnblue]

This isn't fair to Morph. His opps were formidably beating everybody

[@coribug42]

But realistically, he doesn't know immediately how to use the power sets. This was the silliest part about Disney's Secret Invasion finale.

[@2nd3rd1st]

That background piano going pling pling pling kept edging me by promising to break out into full-on Earth Song by Michael Jackson any time now.... 🥵

[@andrewshandle]

Beast saying that mutants will take over in 100 years was a surprise, so I think it's going to have to lead to "No More Mutants" sooner than later because they've kind of crossed into areas where there's no turning back

[@victorkain3500]

In Fatal Attractions, the Magneto barrier was earth saying 'you're not allowed to take our mutants.' That's what set him off.

[@CrownRock1]

We can't get a Generation X, sadly. The killed Banshee.

[@sionalarsen]

Astroid M was in the opening credits this week...

[@bambifufu]

counterpoint: magneto in the undies was working for me

[@deanospimoniful]

Bonk! Go to horny jail.

[@bambifufu]

can’t say i’d have magneto in much more clothing if he was tied up in my lair

[@KierTheScrivener]

I love the switch to 'I'll probably make one of these next week'

[@S2000Pat]

Morph would be OP if they could copy powers AND be really good at it. Jack of all trades, master of none.

[@tylerbrown5526]

I assumed the final person on the call is just a random human leader. Showing that it's not all just villains.

[@Zoeila]

the hilarious thing about that EMP is while cool would send humanity back to the stone age and takes decades to recover from

[@ssjgoku78966777]

Well y2k is only 3 years away

[@TheCre8iveType]

This is off topic but ever since '97 came out I was reminded of Cable's introduction in the original series when he saves Gambit. Gambit asks him who he is and he says "The wild man of Borneo". this always makes me laugh.

[@bet0v966]

Morph can turn & use physical powers but it does equate to skill. Doom said he not down with mass murder so just stay outta my block and we good

[@saulg6957]

Xavier whipes Magnetos mind and onslaught happens

[@tamarismorgan]

THIS IS BONKERS YO