X-Men

Season 2 of X-Men ‘97 opens in 3969 AD, with the X-Men joining a group rebelling against Apocalypse’s control. That fight puts them up against a version of the Horsemen who look very different from the ones that appeared in X-Men: The Animated Series. This group is known as the Final Horsemen, and they were introduced in the 2011 Uncanny X-Force: The Apocalypse Solution arc. The Final Horsemen are powerful mutants Apocalypse gathered from across time and space to act as his last line of defense. In the comics, they work to resurrect their master in a new body and protect the child version of A

X-Men: The Animated Series had the X-Men face off against the original Horsemen of Apocalypse, first introduced in X-Factor in 1987. That group featured: Plague aka Pestilence: A Morlock with the power to spread disease Abraham Kieros aka War: A former soldier who could make explosions by clapping Autumn Rolfson aka Famine: A young woman with the power to cause organic matter to rapidly decay Angel aka Death: A former member of the X-Men who was brainwashed and had his feathered wings replaced with steel ones. You can expect some of these Horsemen to pop up in the sections of X-

Apocalypse’s obsession with recruiting the most powerful mutants means he often sets his sights on members of the X-Men. Wolverine has been turned into Death, which could be a way for him to get his adamantium skeleton back after Magneto ripped it out in season 1. Gambit has also been Death, and given that season 1 ended with a post-credits scene showing Apocalypse standing in the wreckage of Genosha and looking at one of Gambit’s playing cards, there’s a very good chance he’ll be resurrected to fill that role. Magneto’s daughter Polaris has been Pestilence, and she appeared in the trailers fo

In X-Men ‘97’s three-part season 1 finale, Magneto causes a worldwide blackout to stop an army of Sentinels, which also results in catastrophic death and destruction. The way Wolverine sees it, Magneto has declared war on humanity, and it's up to the X-Men to stop him. The X-Men nearly succeed too, with Wolverine managing to stab Magneto during part 2’s big showdown. But then Magneto lashes out at Wolverine and uses his powers of magnetism to pull the adamantium from Wolverine’s bones, nearly killing Wolverine in the process. Like so much else from X-Men ‘97, Magneto removing the adamantium fr