X-Men ‘97 Season 2 Assembles the Scariest Villain Team-up in Marvel History
Apocalypse assembles new Horsemen as the X-Men and X-Force fight him across three timelines, with the first three episodes now streaming on Disney+.
- X-Men '97 Season 2 premiered on Disney+, opening in 3969 AD with the X-Men joining a rebel group against Apocalypse's control across multiple time periods.
- Season 1 concluded with the X-Men scattered across time, teasing Apocalypse's emergence as the primary antagonist. Disney opted to debut the first three episodes together, each focusing on different factions and timelines.
- The Final Horsemen, introduced in the 2011 Uncanny X-Force, serve as Apocalypse's "last line of defense" across time and space. These powerful mutants battle the X-Men in the far future.
- Back in the present, adult Cable recruits Jubilee and Sunspot to join his new X-Force squad in "A Force to Be Reckoned With."
- Apocalypse frequently targets X-Men members like Wolverine and Gambit, brainwashing and modifying them into Horsemen. With Apocalypse spotted in the wreckage of Genosha, the team faces escalating threats across past, present, and future.
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