X-MEN 97 EPISODE 4 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Opening Credits
1:55 - Gambit and Magneto at Breakfast
2:56 - Genosha and the UN
3:31 - Motendo Gaming Console
5:09 - Sentinel Attack
6:27 - Mojo Returns
9:35 - X-Men Shows
10:38 - Sponsor
11:53 - X-men The Rise of Jubilee Game
13:05 - Days of Future Past Poster
14:09 - Jubilee in the Game
14:55 - Savage Land
15:25 - Asteroid M
16:02 - Abcissa
17:18 - Magneto Was Right
17:33 - Mojo Defeated
18:16 - Lifedeath
19:30 - Forge’s Workshop
20:49 - The Adversary
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[@NewRockstars]

Corrections: Bastion is in the photo with Forge and Adler. (Important time travel guy, we’ll get to him.) Also, Apocalypse is on the game cartridge, not a Sentinel. Also, Mojo gets fatter because he’s feeding on the surge ratings. I probably missed other stuff too. I’m technically supposed to be on vacation but I took on too much trying to get this breakdown done on limited sleep.

[@hidden317]

We forgive. Thanks for all the hard work.

[@Icemanjd]

I was literally about to post about Bastion specifically!

[@027BIRDMAN]

The game label looks much more like the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game X-Men.

[@CrezetheousV]

We forgive, go vacation and sleep please

[@KingTwonB23]

We appreciate you workin on your vacation… take time and enjoy it

[@josephpleimann6600]

14:50 Pretty sure that was him getting good ratings again, "feeding" him. Not him sucking it in.

[@mesieurt2]

And him being skinny was from the lack of good ratings. Starving him essential

[@christopherb6232]

100%

[@Joseph-qj2ge]

Yes I thought that too

[@r.pinheiro549]

Yes my thought lol

[@coloredbandit]

Pause

[@jtorch917]

It was the 1993 Sega Genesis game. Literally the same poses...just different places.

[@stephenoliveau]

This 💯

[@PatchesMcGee]

Thank you!! I noticed that right away.

[@blerdrotic]

And that’s also Apocalypse. Not a sentinel.

[@maybachyard]

It's Konami's X-men arcade game. Most games were ported from Arcade to Sega and Nintendo consoles back then.

[@PatchesMcGee]

@@maybachyard that one wasn’t ported to home consoles until the PS3/360 generation. @jtorch917 is correct. It’s literally the Genesis game in a Genesis console that they called a Motendo.

[@DemiDemon94]

There's one little detail you got wrong mojo wasn't sucking in his gut he literally feeds off the mental energy of his audience. He said as much not only in this episode but in the original series as well. Thats y he was as big as he was in the first place, n y became skinny. After losing longshot no one watched his series anymore he lost his source of food so he pivoted to videogames n as the audience started to grow so did he that's what the yellowish green energy surge around him was, his dinner.

[@andyhannon255]

That was my interpretation of that as well

[@somedude693]

💯

[@taj3618]

I thought the same thing

[@denniscool6224]

Glad someone was paying attention.

[@donwmartens]

In the picture with Forge and Dr. Gottfried Adler, there is another person who is cut off. I looked closer, and its Bastion. Now that's an Easter egg.

[@ThreeFourNine]

I noticed that too!

[@nailinthefashion]

I was wondering who that was, I knew it’d be important later

[@duhimdave]

Yea surprised the NR crew didn't even mention it

[@franciscojrmalavet3471]

​@@duhimdavesame

[@zatransis]

That’s who I thought he was going to mention, lol. That’s the bigger Easter egg!

[@LAJohn]

#11 The selection screen has LONGSHOT not GAMBIT… You can see his mullet and 3 fingered hand

[@ice9planet]

Came here to say the same.

[@MorningStarNews]

14:48 - Mojo feeds off ratings (he says so during the episode), and ratings were down. The ratings got good, so he gained the weight back. He wasn’t just sucking in his gut.

[@gibbie63]

I’m taking care of my mom she has ALS. This episode was in the background as I was getting her ready for her shower and Forge dropped the line ‘You are a Goddess!’ And she just couldn’t stop laughing. Like the sands through the hourglass…

[@M32Mirach]

Yeah that got real soapy

[@robertperales9911]

Love this 💛 sending so much love and peace to you and your family. There is nothing like ALS 😢

[@akilcharles3473]

That's not a Sentinel that's Apocalypse 4:04 Also when discussing Forge's connection to Dr Adler there someone else in that picture that has his arm around Forge. I couldn't make it out at first but it does look to be another possible villian by the name of Bastion aka Sebastian Gilberti.

[@BobbyMattson]

It is 100% Bastion.

[@dangerfly]

Why are Sentinels designed with human faces? Worst robot design evar.

[@Joseph-qj2ge]

Yes I noticed that too

[@iyell220]

I also thought it was Apocalypse.

[@nailinthefashion]

@@dangerflythey’re supposed to be appealing to humans, not be intimidating, they’re essentially automated police officers lol they gave them uniforms and everything

[@user-zf2ru4eq4w]

That videogame cartridge actually looks more like the X-Men Sega Genesis game that came out in 1993 to be honest. Both have Gambit and Wolverine pretty much in the same pose. The way the series is handling Mojo; can we just get Deadpool to cameo in an episode? The 90s cartoon run does have the X-Men intro playing in the background constantly in the Mojo world. Or at the very least have a live action Deadpool movie with Ryan Reynolds entering Mojo's world to kill Mojo and Mojo makes a reference to the cartoon and Deadpool being in the same universe.

[@nailinthefashion]

I think Deadpool will be a reference in the last episode, directly tying into the film by there being some timeline shenanigans. Why else would they send Cable and Bishop away so early on? I believe they’ll be back and talk about incursions or something

[@hall230]

It's Prof. X & Polaris on the poster, not Cassandra Nova & Gold Balls. Just like on the 141 cover

[@jlo1195]

Just saw epd 5....it was EPIC MIND BLOWING!!!AF!!!

[@kepeboi]

Just wanna point out that the opening also updated Jean Grey's hair to reflect the ponytail of the real Jean as to supposed from the previous Madelyne Jean style. Cheers! 🥰

[@damagedgears]

No one else caught this either. Not just this one, but all of the other major ones. Good eyes!

[@nailinthefashion]

It’s crazy that they’d invest that much detail into something a lot of people skip lol

[@quarter_cab]

There’s so many wrong details and air grabs in this video and I usually don’t have that problem on this channel, the X Men arcade machine doesn’t feature Gambit, that was Jean. Mojo wasn’t sucking in, and he didn’t have plastic surgery, that was a joke of sorts, he was malnourished because he feeds off ratings, and didn’t regain his original form until his ratings went back up

[@user-wf7qo9nt5y]

Don’t get your panties in a twist

[@tylertetrault9293]

Camp Cretaceous is also a Jurassic park spin off series but the 90’s X-men series came out first. Just thought I’d mention it cause not a lot of people know about it. Great video, love your content!

[@jameschulo8187]

The double rasengan finish gave me life!

[@nailinthefashion]

Oodama …… RASENGAN!!!

[@iamdrick]

I was speechless

[@elywahl9520]

That's great... although it wasn't a resengan... they can't be thrown... your think of the wind style rasenshuriken, that can be thrown and also takes 2 people to make

[@lamontbailey4166]

Wednesdays have become my favorite days of the week!!!! ❤

[@sketchmasterskillz]

12:20 pretty sure that's Longshot, not Gambit lol

[@sfkd119]

Or Jean Grey

[@oranjmusemeyer968]

It's Longshot!

[@ahmadamsyarrafiffaiqi8187]

13:35 I think that one is polaris because you can kinda see the last words in the days of future past poster being "ris" and also the green hair in the poster

[@joshbruner3349]

When I saw Mojo blow up in size I interpreted that as him being skinny from the bad ratings and low energy but when the action starts and his views and ratings get a spike so does his intake, restoring him to his gluttonous form.

[@MatheusOpa]

We Brazilians are lovinnnnn Sunspot.

[@hamhockbeans]

He is a powerful mutant.

[@mikeazzanego]

O cara é brabo, famoso Betão

[@oz420ct9]

Can not wait to see him let his power lose!!!!!

[@Sleep-yg2wu]

Who cares

[@gabrielcarelidealmeida7055]

@@Sleep-yg2wu we care... next question?!

[@tiago9977]

17:44 I *love* when movies/ shows come up with creative uses for powers.

[@brandonstumpf5269]

I am not sure how you got him starving for ratings so wrong. He clearly explained that he had a rough quarter and his weight loss was the result of that. As soon as he got the crowd hyped up he began to feed and quickly regained his form.

[@NewRockstars]

Because I just misinterpreted an outspoken vain character. Chill.

[@intothefrayyo]

@@NewRockstarsJust take the L 😂

[@rhinoman86]

@@intothefrayyohe literally said it was a misinterpretation, how is that not taking the L

[@bensenzo]

​@@intothefrayyowhat L?

[@thelostborough5214]

"I'm not gonna build you a faster horse" is a deep cut. Forge is a genius inventor, quoting a famous line usually attributed to Henry Ford (though unlikely he actually said it), another pioneer of technology: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

[@lady_draguliana784]

15:00 pretty sure mojo was literally starving lacking the views that feed him. his bulking back out was supposed to be him rejuvenated by the ratings spiking back up

[@leonyparham574]

Don't know if anyone noticed but the scene where storm and forge are sitting at dinner table eating chili. The adversary was watching them the whole time on the ceiling. Gave me chills.

[@chadgeraghty3144]

It looks like Bastion next to Forge in the photo that was mostly clipped

[@curtbousquet3215]

Glad someone else noticed!

[@chadgeraghty3144]

@@curtbousquet3215 the costuming is some distinct

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

My nostalgic sense went crazy seeing that the motendo basically had a copy of xmen mutants apocalypse in it. Cool little easter egg 😁.

[@michael21674]

For Missable Detail #16: notice in ep 2 just after Storm is shot by X-Cutioner an owl can be seen in the sky.

[@andrewpearson3516]

How do you mix up a sentinel with Apocalypse that's who's on the cover

[@marioq8395]

This one reminded me of rollerblading to the Sun Valley Mall with my friends after school and playing the X-Men arcade game. Good times.

[@MathewWoodard]

I want to go to there

[@dranksinatra2493]

Worth noting… at the 19:43 mark, the picture with Forge and Addler had a third person that looked to be Bastion, which is both a callback and potential precursor to Sentinel/Nimrod adventures ahead…

[@FizzyEEEEE]

I liked the details of the fireworks after Jubilee and Sunspot kiss, just a fun detail

[@DinoRicky]

8:17 Jurassic Park writers in the 2010s: Write it down, WRITE IT DOWN

[@doodoobutter101]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed when I was rewatching the original series 🤣

[@kristaelizabeth9877]

Thought they would have highlighted more Storm’s Claustrophobia when she entered the machine Forge had for her. She did breath deeply before going in but no big deal made of it

[@jdm314]

14:48 my reading was not that he had been sucking in his gut, but that he was, quite literally, feeding on ratings. The third quarter had been lean, but now he was getting so many viewers that he was well fed and gorged again.

[@Mister_Prime]

On the game cartridge, they combined the artwork from the SNES game, X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse, and the SEGA GENESIS X-Men game into one. That was pretty cool of them to do that.

[@Karmix03]

A correction: you referred to Forge's team as X-Force, when they are actually called X-Factor.

[@LonewolfKhujo]

4:05 X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse

[@PatchesMcGee]

Wolverine, Gambit, and Cyclops are all clearly from the Genesis X-men game.

[@LonewolfKhujo]

@@PatchesMcGee I never said they weren't. They're all also in Mutant Apocalypse, the cover of which more closely resembles what was used in the Motendo. Didn't think I'd need to clarify that...

[@PatchesMcGee]

@@LonewolfKhujoI’m saying the art is from the Genesis X-men cartridge not Mutant apocalypse. You can check for yourself. The art for Mutant Apocalypse is different.

[@Meanfeen]

@@LonewolfKhujoyeah facts the game ur talking about looks similar but the xmen genesis game they talking bout is the exact cover they use in the episode u can check for yourself

[@LonewolfKhujo]

@@PatchesMcGee 🤦🏿‍♂️

[@alexc.7375]

A few errors. 4:00 is an amalgamation of retro X-Men video game covers. Mainly splicing both the Genesis and Super Nintendo games' cartridge and box art. 12:20 That's clearly Longshot and not Gambit. 17:38 That's not Gambit. That's Jean Grey taking the spot of Dazzler. Dazzler in the original arcade game, being based off the original X-Men animated pilot Pryde of the X-Men, was set up to be Cyclops' love interest. So even logically it makes sense that's it's Jean.

[@marvellady]

As a Jewish person, I kind of liked the Yiddish Mojo referenced. I promise you, old Jewish people do talk like that often.

[@nicholasgarrick8855]

I wish they could have had magneto to say " master of magnet" or " welcome to die!"

[@prcruz]

Too perfect. Would've collapsed the simulation. Lol

[@jacobwoods2044]

In motendo, I thought mojo was starving to death, and spun it as glow up like a vain Hollywood person when he decided to pivot to video games, and when the broadcast went live , he got an influx of nutrients and dropped the glow up act.

[@dennissandford7552]

That game cartridge cover reminded me of the original X-men game of the early 90s

[@ivanlane4588]

I thought it was Apocalypse in the background.

[@solesoulsorrow]

Video game Magneto referred to himself as the "Lord of Magnetism" which isn't a _nom de guerre_ that he uses. That would be a translation error that would occur because the production team isn't in the Western Hemisphere.

[@LuqqApple]

@12:19 The characters on the screen, Gambit is not there, thats clearly Longshot!!

[@user-gs1mg2ig3e]

If rogue and gambit don’t fix their issues ima start a revolt. Rogambit forever!!

[@nailinthefashion]

I actually like they aren’t just constantly boning in the background yet

[@user-gs1mg2ig3e]

@@nailinthefashion post ep 5* WANT TO SAY THAT NOW PUNK? I’m sad now.

[@nailinthefashion]

@@user-gs1mg2ig3e yeah I wish they were constantly boning in the background now lmao

[@nicholasmcelroy603]

I remember waiting on new episodes of xmen when i was a kid and now 30 years later im doing it again

[@MathewWoodard]

It’s a great time to be alive innit

[@yghostest]

Camp Cretaceous is ironically the name of Jurassic Park/World's first animated series, premiered back in 2020, lasted 5 seasons, and is now getting a slightly more mature sequel series

[@DKTijam]

17:46 That RasenShuriken (Naruto reference) was an amazing power upgrade for Jubes! 10/10

[@nailinthefashion]

It’s like mixing oodama rasengan and rasenshuriken too! Twice the power, via connection! So cute but also bad ass

[@DKTijam]

@@nailinthefashion Oh that’s right! Woot! 🫡

[@W1lluminati]

Nobody noticed the Owl in the raftors of the cabinwatching Storm eat at the table then being gone in the next scene? I can't be the only one. The Owl been in the cabin the whole time.

[@brandontijerina7103]

Adler isn't the craziest easter egg. To the left of Forge, that looks like Bastion, Nimrod's future humanoid self.

[@christopherb6232]

I feel like you guys got a lot wrong on this one…let’s try again

[@Partinaire]

Him not recognizing Mango Sentinel kinda hurt my feelings lol

[@SWOTHDRA]

Yup

[@brandonnewby178]

I love how the 1999.Pivot reference could totally work in x men ninety seven because light takes so long to travel across space

[@TheGeneralLazy]

the game cart comes from the xmen game for genesis. i had it and its the exact line up and color scheme.

[@jeremyblankenship961]

Bastion is also in the photo with Forge and Adler (Though most of him is covered up). The presence of Adler and Gyrich in this season means I don't think they are going to do Operation: Zero Tolerance. (Notice the later episodes are called "Tolerance Means Extinction") That was the post-Onslaught story where Bastion and Gyrich started turning regular people into Prime Sentinels. In case you didn't know, Bastion is a time-travelled Nimrod. So this whole season has been showing the miniaturization process of sentinel tech with hand blasters for regular people to use. So we are going from sentinels, to humans using sentinel stuff, to humans BEING sentinels.

[@codyfaughender8744]

The mountains were also in the shape of an owl face when storm was talking about the owl.

[@solesoulsorrow]

Bison chili sounds amazing!

[@greengomarx1248]

Mojo wasn’t sucking in his gut his rating were low and he was withering away as he started to get power from the viewership from his strength returned that’s why they had the energy around him he was soaking it up

[@CrazedCreative]

Also, can't tell if you were joking or not. Mojo wasn't sucking in his gut. He was starved of ratings as he pointed out earlier that he feeds off of, and him gettting big again was a hint at how Jubilee was an INSTANT hit. ^_^!

[@jpswart9782]

Absolutely incredible review!! Have learned so much, incredible knowledge you have to share!

[@VINCENTDRAWS10]

On the game cartridge that head is not a sentinel it’s apocalypse

[@MoGreen301]

‘The name’s Cable, remember it’ was his catch phrase from the cartoon. Said in at least two episodes. It’ll def be a Cable episode.

[@williamhudson9386]

The game cartridge is the exact image from the genesis first X-Men game. That’s not a sentinel it’s apocalypse.

[@burneyboys02]

I definitely got the Jumanji and Zathura vibes from the Motendo story. Getting sucked into the game and then getting help from a future version of yourself I think that was very well done. I really hope Storm gets her powers back in pt.2 and something will probably trigger their reemergence.

[@xXMorgasmicXx]

That “Random, creepy human doctor“ is Jack Kirby. It’s a confirmed reference. Put respect on his name.

[@Krad720]

The alternative colored Sentinels is a reference to Mango Sentinel from Yipes

[@leviathan_is_me]

The game cartridge in the beginning is "X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse" for SNES, lol. Exact copy almost.

[@moonskeetz]

Dazzler is also a reference to the XMEN arcade beat 'em up.

[@reecewilliams8349]

Was that boba fett in the background behind blob? Hahahaha

[@thewheatharvester9156]

Had to back it up, thought the same thing!

[@chadgosier4999]

I didn’t like the two story episode it felt entirely too short

[@landino4624]

4:04 that is 100% Apocalypse on the game cover, he has the blue lipstick-like lining around his mouth

[@onslaughtyou]

Great attention to details, as usual, that is why I love your channel! However for detail 17, did you mean X-Factor instead of X-Force?

[@maybethisthishelp767]

That is definitely apocalypse on the game not a sentinel

[@MyRetroLife]

The cover art on the Motendo cartridge more closely resembles the Sega Genesis "X-Men" game.

[@tameblue]

That Longshot plushy is definitely a Cabbage Patch Kid…another throwback.

[@_Tree]

This episode brought back so many memories of the 8-bit video games that I played

[@challiray]

The adversary took the form of an owl. Which many tribes see as bad luck. Owls are also nocturnal. So seeing one in broad daylight was a bad omen.

[@murk4552]

Fascinating how different cultures interpret animals. In Greek mythology they represent wisdom

[@fleabag6477]

Magneto was so smooth with that order line lmao

[@grizzadams5490]

The cartridge art looks taken directly from the Sega Genesis game cart titled X-Men. The game style is similar to the Arcade side scrolling game titled X-Men but, the stages and items look a lot like the Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles side scrolling Arcade game.

[@TeddyBear850]

The X-Fans noticing every mistake you’ve made in this video. 😂😂😂

[@juiceesaucee9775]

I most definitely said that reference when he said PIVOT 🤣😂

[@joshtworzydlo]

The car the Sunspot hits when dropped by the Sentinel is from Street Fighter 2.

[@curlAlldizzle05]

What about the infection the Owl left on Forge before tossing him aside? During the bite you can see a type of infection going into his shoulder.

[@DaKareerKilla]

Personally I’d would’ve liked the Magnito robot to say “Magnito master of magnet” from the x-men arcade game.

[@amirsadeghzadeh1952]

The game was actually called " X Men Mutant Apocalypse" not X men MOJO world

[@purplecraft_1079]

No way he just called x-factor x-force

[@GenJuhru]

At least he didn't called them Mephisto.

[@sandeeprajput7097]

​@@GenJuhru😂

[@twiztid-n-torn9502]

I dont know why everyone is getting the game cartridge cover wrong. The cover is the X-Men Game from the Saga Genesis but the apocalypse head is from the SNES X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse

[@yseson_]

Crazier still from thar Forge/Adler photo is Bastion with his arms around Forge. Bastion is a living Sentinel, a next generation version of Nimrod

[@royalfamily7950]

As much as I'd love for the main antagonist of this season to be Cassandra Nova, I feel as though them having Bastion covered and the three part series finale having "Tolerance" in the title may lead to Bastion really coming through. He lead and was a part of "Operation Zero Tolerance" in some of the issues.

[@KwamiB]

Hey I just watched XMen97 ep. 5… words can’t describe it.. 🔥… but I noticed something that I realized others don’t, if you listen to the voice of when they say “Previously on X-men” it’s the voice of the character the episode is focused on. Episode 5 uses Gambit’s voice. I’m pretty sure episode 6 will use Storm’s. As ep. 2 used Magneto’s, ep. 3 used Madelyne, ep. 4 used Jubilee… This to me is the best episode of all.. how will they top this.

[@matthewgerhardt0518]

did no one else think that Mojo saying Dazzler had a gig might have to do with the rumor of Dazzler in DeadpoolxWolverine

[@dreampsi2]

that's a Longshot

[@matthewgerhardt0518]

your a longshot

[@Gooberguy8705]

I'm disappointed that they didn't use Magneto's "Welcome to die!" line. Would've been a perfect opportunity.

[@EpicMuttonChops]

13:34 you can see a bit of the name of the bottom left corner person in the comic version, and it doesn't match up with either prof x OR cassandra nova

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Mojo is a great villain

[@thepubknight6144]

I predicted he'd be a villain in Deadpool and Wolverine I mean that's right up his alley

[@graydenday3760]

He's one of my favorite X-Men villains

[@SirsasthNigam.]

Winderbaum discussed said conditions in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, recalling, "Following the success of What If…?, when we were able to make more animated shows, [X-Men '97] was my first idea out of the box. And Kevin [Feige] was like, 'Alright, if we can get the [original] cast and we can get the song, let's do it.' And fortunately, we were able to do that."

[@marcusyates3044]

Oh great writers of the MCU, if I can tell you in person, please make a great character out of my favorite heroine of the X-Men: Jubilee!

[@HALOX30]

The cover of the cartridge is nit the X-men fleeing a sentinel but Apocalypse. It is a reference to the Super Nintendo game: X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse Also Mojo is thin because he feeds on ratings. The whole Wolverine abbs is nonsense. 17:38 looks more like Jean then Gambit.

[@Who_JJonnnnnes]

At the 5:02 mark, looks like the car from Street Fighter that just so happens to be randomly parked at the pier & in the perfect spot to get kicked into oblivion by a character in story mode lolololololol

[@27retrodaze]

Was so cool to see Gladiator in there for a quick second... And the Bruce Lee poster!