Redemption. No one ever said anything about surviving it. Angel faces the Reckoning this September! #BuffytheVampireSlayer
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A heart-breaking end to a season that felt like it should have been a lot more cohesive - but is it too breath-taking? The Season Finale of #XMen97 is here!
2×09: Survival of the Fittest
It’s always a strange feeling reaching the end of a season when you know there’s more to come. There’s comfort in it — a sense of relief and safety. Whatever chaos we’ve just watched unfold, the ma…
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Haven't laughed at #StarTrek like that since @robertpicardo.bsky.social's turn in 'Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy' Excellent episode! And kudos to @rebeccaromijin.bsky.social for doing that song - already hard to sing - in Klingon! Whoa!
Colossus is back - and so are the Acolytes! Taking Graydon Creed captive, can Nightcrawler plead for his brother in a kangaroo court - or will he be left disappointed with his brother's path. It's all in Strange Land, Savage Heart! #xmen97
2×07: Strange Land, Savage Heart
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 The X‑Men have crossed paths with countless mutants who had nowhere to go, and met allies who refused to fight for someone …
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This is my issue: In the comics, Jean's own telepathy is brought on by trauma. Blocked her own powers as a result. The trauma was a car accident that killed her best friend. Here, she's propelling innocents into traffic. That's no Jean I know... #SpidermanBrandNewDay #XMen97
It's the moment we've been waiting for... An X-Man returns as Cable and X-Force team up with X-Corp and the X-Men to confront one of their own gone bad... It's time to play THE DEAD MAN'S HAND! #marvel #xmen97
2×08: The Dead Man’s Hand
Death is a fact of life in reality, but in superhero fiction it often feels more like an administrative inconvenience. For decades, the old rule was that only Uncle Ben and Bucky stayed dead — unti…
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It's the moment we've been waiting for... An X-Man returns as Cable and X-Force team up with X-Corp and the X-Men to confront one of their own gone bad... It's time to play THE DEAD MAN'S HAND! #marvel #xmen97
2×08: The Dead Man’s Hand
Death is a fact of life in reality, but in superhero fiction it often feels more like an administrative inconvenience. For decades, the old rule was that only Uncle Ben and Bucky stayed dead — unti…
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This is my issue: In the comics, Jean's own telepathy is brought on by trauma. Blocked her own powers as a result. The trauma was a car accident that killed her best friend. Here, she's propelling innocents into traffic. That's no Jean I know... #SpidermanBrandNewDay #XMen97
Colossus is back - and so are the Acolytes! Taking Graydon Creed captive, can Nightcrawler plead for his brother in a kangaroo court - or will he be left disappointed with his brother's path. It's all in Strange Land, Savage Heart! #xmen97
2×07: Strange Land, Savage Heart
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 The X‑Men have crossed paths with countless mutants who had nowhere to go, and met allies who refused to fight for someone …
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The 90s was such a special time for animation - and the Marvel Animated Universe had it all! X-Cess Minutiae looks at every character and every story arc. Every episode, every beat. What are you waiting for? The Marvel Universe awaits! xcessminutiae.com #XMen97 #Marvel #SpiderMan #FantasticFour
The 90s was such a special time for animation - and the Marvel Animated Universe had it all! X-Cess Minutiae looks at every character and every story arc. Every episode, every beat. What are you waiting for? The Marvel Universe awaits! xcessminutiae.com #XMen97 #Marvel #SpiderMan #FantasticFour
After years away, Lorna Dane returns to the X-Men just in time for school to be in session for the next generation of gifted youngsters! But a new threat is soon to emerge... a very Dangerous one... All new X-Men '97 post!
2×06: Danger.exe
We have a confession to make here at X‑Cess Minutiae: we love Lorna Dane. From the moment this writer first met her during Peter David’s critically acclaimed X‑Factor run in 1991, she’s been a pers…
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Wolverine brings together a team of old Weapon X comrades to investigate an abandoned facility... But when they get there, they're confronted with an even bigger threat. High-octane horror in this week's X-Men 97 episode, 'Weapon X, Lies and DVDs'! #XMen97 xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/15/2...
2×05: Weapon X, Lies and DVDs
The original animated X‑Men series broke the mold when it came to continuity. Its first season was a fully structured arc, with each episode leading directly into the next — a common practice now, …
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Is anyone else thinking of so many ways he could just... come back...? #XMEN97
X-Cess Minutiae@xcessminutiae.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat an episode! What a battle! What an ending! Be warned, though, there's spoilers ahead! We examine Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2)! #XMen97 xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/08/2...
Wolverine brings together a team of old Weapon X comrades to investigate an abandoned facility... But when they get there, they're confronted with an even bigger threat. High-octane horror in this week's X-Men 97 episode, 'Weapon X, Lies and DVDs'! #XMen97 xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/15/2...
2×05: Weapon X, Lies and DVDs
The original animated X‑Men series broke the mold when it came to continuity. Its first season was a fully structured arc, with each episode leading directly into the next — a common practice now, …
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Is anyone else thinking of so many ways he could just... come back...? #XMEN97
X-Cess Minutiae@xcessminutiae.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat an episode! What a battle! What an ending! Be warned, though, there's spoilers ahead! We examine Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2)! #XMen97 xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/08/2...
It's probably best not to mess with time... after all, for their present to exist, Apocalypse must rise! #XMen97 continues with another stunning episode as we find our heroes in the past - at the start of his reign! It's part one of RISE OF APOCALYPSE! xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/05/2...
2×03: Rise of Apocalypse (Part 1)
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 You cannot tell a story about Apocalypse unless you start at the beginning, which I’m told is a very good place to start. T…
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What an episode! What a battle! What an ending! Be warned, though, there's spoilers ahead! We examine Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2)! #XMen97 xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/08/2...
2×04: Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2)
The X‑Men fail this week—catastrophically and devastatingly. As Hank suggests in Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2), perhaps they were always meant to be here; perhaps they had to be. Magneto’s naïveté, o…
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What an episode! What a battle! What an ending! Be warned, though, there's spoilers ahead! We examine Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2)! #XMen97 xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/08/2...
2×04: Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2)
The X‑Men fail this week—catastrophically and devastatingly. As Hank suggests in Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2), perhaps they were always meant to be here; perhaps they had to be. Magneto’s naïveté, o…
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It's probably best not to mess with time... after all, for their present to exist, Apocalypse must rise! #XMen97 continues with another stunning episode as we find our heroes in the past - at the start of his reign! It's part one of RISE OF APOCALYPSE! xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/05/2...
2×03: Rise of Apocalypse (Part 1)
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 You cannot tell a story about Apocalypse unless you start at the beginning, which I’m told is a very good place to start. T…
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With the X-Men gone, the present day is not doing so good... Mutants are hunting mutants - and it's time for a new team to come and play... #XMen97 continues with "A Force to be Reckoned With" xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/04/2...
2×02: A Force to be Reckoned With
If the season premiere was about scale, then this one is about differences — the ideological fractures between mutant teams, the moral lines they draw, and the consequences of crossing them.
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We're back, finally! #XMen97 is here for a new season, and we're kicking it off with a bang! xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/04/2...
2×01: Days of Past Future
After two years of waiting, X‑Men ’97 roars back into action for its second season, and this opening chapter throws us straight into a time‑travelling epic centred on one of the X‑Men’s most enduri…
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With the X-Men gone, the present day is not doing so good... Mutants are hunting mutants - and it's time for a new team to come and play... #XMen97 continues with "A Force to be Reckoned With" xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/04/2...
2×02: A Force to be Reckoned With
If the season premiere was about scale, then this one is about differences — the ideological fractures between mutant teams, the moral lines they draw, and the consequences of crossing them.
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We're back, finally! #XMen97 is here for a new season, and we're kicking it off with a bang! xcessminutiae.com/2026/07/04/2...
2×01: Days of Past Future
After two years of waiting, X‑Men ’97 roars back into action for its second season, and this opening chapter throws us straight into a time‑travelling epic centred on one of the X‑Men’s most enduri…
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It's the finale! Well, sort of. It's what we got anyway. The unfortunately end of one of Spider-Man's more interesting cartoons is nigh in DESTINY UNLEASHED! #SpiderMan xcessminutiae.com/2026/06/23/1...
1×13 – Destiny Unleashed
Destiny Unleashed isn’t an easy episode to sit with, and it certainly isn’t the kind of story you expect from a Saturday‑morning cartoon. It’s still a jarring episode if one considers the sta…
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Cry Vulture is the first episode of Spider‑Man Unlimited that genuinely pulls the rug out from under you.
1×07 – Cry Vulture
Cry Vulture is the first episode of Spider‑Man Unlimited that genuinely pulls the rug out from under you. Up until now, the series has been content to play with its setting — the dystopian skyline,…
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There's a new villain in town after Spider-Man - and this ain't you're daddy's Hunter... Spider-Man takes on a new Counter-Earth opponent in ENTER THE HUNTER! #SpiderMan xcessminutiae.com/2026/06/01/1...
1×06 – Enter the Hunter!
Enter the Hunter sounds like a straightforward villain‑of‑the‑week episode, but don’t be fooled. This isn’t just another costumed bruiser for Spider-Man to web up. The Hunter is something far nasti…
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