X-MEN '97 Images Reveal The Debut Of A Fan-Favorite Mutant In This Week's Episode

X-MEN '97 Images Reveal The Debut Of A Fan-Favorite Mutant In This Week's Episode

The fifth episode of X-Men '97 hits Disney+ this Wednesday, and these images reveal that a fan-favorite mutant hero (or more than one) will be making their debut...

By MarkCassidy - Apr 09, 2024 09:04 AM EST
Filed Under: X-Men '97
Source: Via Toonado.com

A GIF and some images from this week's episode of X-Men '97 have found their way online, and they reveal that a fan-favorite character will be making their debut in "Remember it."

Though this will likely be revealed in today's promo clip, anyway, if you'd rather not know who it's going to be beforehand, best to stop reading now.

As you'll see below, the fifth episode of the animated revival series will feature Alison Blair, aka Dazzler, who can be seen performing onstage while several other characters, including Rogue and Boom Boom, look on from the crowd. 

The musical mutant did appear in the original '90s series (voiced by Catherine Disher), but wasn't heavily featured.

Rumors that Taylor Swift might play a live-action take on Dazzler in Deadpool and Wolverine did the rounds last year, but there doesn't appear to be any truth to them - although the pop megastar may still appear in some capacity.

UPDATE: The images were taken from this now officially-released teaser, so we're not actually sure if Dazzler will make her debut in tomorrow's episode, as these shots could be from later in the season.

The voice cast for X-Men '97 includes Ray Chase as Cyclops, Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm, Cal Dodd as Wolverine, JP Karliak as Morph, Lenore Zann as Rogue, George Buza as Beast, AJ LoCascio as Gambit, Holly Chou as Jubilee, Isaac Robinson-Smith as Bishop, Matthew Waterson as Magneto and Adrian Hough as Nightcrawler.

Beau DeMayo, who was recently fired, serves as head writer of X-Men ’97, while episodes are directed by Jake Castorena, Chase Conley and Emi Yonemura. Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso and DeMayo executive produce.

The titles for all 10 episodes were recently revealed.

While the titles don't appear to give too much away at first glance, some of them definitely offer hints at what the episodes in question could focus on, and those familiar with the X-Men's comic book history are sure to pick up on a few things.

For that reason, potential spoilers follow.

E1: To Me, My X-Men

E2: Mutant Liberation Begins

E3: Fire Made Flesh

E4: Motendo

E5: Remember It

E6: Bright Eyes

E7: Shine With Strength Reborn

E8: Tolerance is Extinction - Part 1

E9: Tolerance is Extinction - Part 2

E10: Tolerance is Extinction - Part 3

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WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 4/9/2024, 9:11 AM
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HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 4/9/2024, 9:12 AM
I dont get the hype for Dazzler
mountainman
mountainman - 4/9/2024, 9:13 AM
Boom Boom! They are absolutely setting up the New Mutants! They can’t use Wolfsbane because she is older and in X-Factor, but we have gotten multiple members of the team in this show, and a few others in the original show.
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 4/9/2024, 10:30 AM
@mountainman - They could still use Wolfsbane. Just say she was the Jubilee of X-Factor making her the youngest least experienced on the team.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/9/2024, 10:37 AM
@comicfan100 - I could see that. The X-Factir episode happened in season 3 or 4, so hypothetically she’s only been on the team a few years.

The bigger seeming inconsistency I’m seeing is with Ilyena’s aging. She went from a young girl in the old series to now looking like an older team in the few cameos we’ve had in this show.

Either way, the New Mutants are such a cool team and could give Marvel a great teen team to build up.
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 4/9/2024, 10:59 AM
@mountainman - Also a way around that. If memory serves, wasn't she ages up while in Limbo?
mountainman
mountainman - 4/9/2024, 11:16 AM
@comicfan100 - Yes. It would have been nice if Inferno was a 2 parter so they could have fleshed that storyline out a bit more.
WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 4/9/2024, 9:15 AM
Selfishly, I want Dazzler to get more popular because I'm sitting on a really nice copy of X-Men 130.

But do Disco Dazzler. With the roller skates and shit.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/9/2024, 9:23 AM
Just caught up with this a few days ago.

I didn't really have opinions until Ep. 3, and then I had two. One positive one negative.

Episode 3 is where the series kicks into high gear. It's awesome, it's sexy, it's bloody, it's genuinely horrific, all of which is a great direction to take the show in. I doubt there are many if any actual kids watching the show, so I encourage them to move in this direction. It kicks all kinds of ass.

But this same episode also shows that this is not the same show as the original. If the original show had done Inferno, it would have done a multi-part arc, faithfully adapting the main arc in the comics and it would have had some montage sequences showing how this affected the rest of the Marvel Universe (such as Daredevil and Typhoid Mary fighting in a hellish New York City). Rushing through it all in one episode is more of an '80s cartoon thing rather than a '90s cartoon thing (unless you count things like the Bane episode of BTAS, but that was done on purpose and with disdain).

So I'm here and there with it. I'm enjoying it and all the geeky candy, I loved seeing Savage Land Rogue and Magneto for example, but it is not what the original was.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/9/2024, 9:42 AM
@ObserverIO - There have been pacing issues, which are most obvious in episodes 3 and 4 so far.

But the old show condensed stories too. Everyone always thinks back to the Phoenix Saga, which was told over a very long format, but they condensed the Phalanx covenant, the Genosha episode in season 1 seemed to try to adapt X-Tinction Agenda, and more.

It feels like a spiritual successor to me, but I’m afraid that the show runner may have tried to cram too much in and that means we will get a lot of rushed plots.

Still a great show and I can look past this issue.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/9/2024, 2:56 PM
@mountainman - They did condense a lot of the stories they adapted, but they were mostly faithful. The Phalanx Covenant was at least a multi-parter.

Hopefully he finds the balance between more faithful multi-part adaptations and more looser reworkings like the Genosha stuff (which was at least part of the overarching Season 1 arc based mostly on the original Master Mold storyline from the Lee/Kirby era).

We just haven't seen them do a more faithful adaptation yet. But then we haven't seen all of Season 1 and it does look like they'll be doing the X-Tinction Agenda at the end of the season, so maybe I'm speaking too soon and the Goblin Queen arc will be the only big story that they rush this season.

mountainman
mountainman - 4/9/2024, 3:03 PM
@ObserverIO - I am predicting a bit of the Fall of the Mutants for that end of season arc. Maybe mix that in with some elements of X-Tinction Agenda, but it would have to be reworked quite a bit with the mutants running Genosha now.
litobirdy
litobirdy - 4/9/2024, 9:24 AM
oh no, is this ANOTHER jubilee? ahhhhhhhhhh we don't need another useless mutant ahhhhhhhh
Vigor
Vigor - 4/9/2024, 9:44 AM
@litobirdy - maaaan... future Jubilee was kicking all kinds of ass
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 4/9/2024, 9:45 AM
@litobirdy - I like Jubilee, but Dazzler feels a bit derivative and I never cared for her outside of a background character.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 4/9/2024, 3:07 PM
@Vigor - She was also fully preying on underaged ass. Jubilee is a pedo.
Vigor
Vigor - 4/9/2024, 4:13 PM
@ObserverIO - lol that did seem a wee bit weird
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 4/9/2024, 9:28 AM
Man, episode 4 was very clunky. Especially the Storm/Forge stuff which was just rushed and a bit silly overall.
GameOn
GameOn - 4/9/2024, 9:59 AM
@MarkCassidy - I agree. Felt like Storm was with him for maybe two days and he’s already saying he loves her. Motendo was kind of fun but could have been a short and the Storm-Forge plot could have been more fleshed out.
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/9/2024, 10:02 AM
@MarkCassidy - It's nowhere near as good as the two issues it was based on but I thought it was better than Montendo.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/9/2024, 10:18 AM
@marvel72 - Motendo wasn’t even cool from a cameo and easter egg perspective.

I think the Storm storyline should have been peppered in slowly over the season with little scenes here and there to show the passage of time. Kind of like how Prof X and Magneto’s Savage Land story in season 2 was played out over the whole season.
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/9/2024, 10:28 AM
@mountainman - I agree, it was like a bar scene cameo the week before then Forge telling Storm he loved her the following week.
mountainman
mountainman - 4/9/2024, 10:34 AM
@marvel72 - There was an implied passing of time, they just didn’t show it well. I assume they’ve been together for weeks at least.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 4/9/2024, 9:38 AM
Wasn't Dazzler in X-Men Dark Phoenix?
marvel72
marvel72 - 4/9/2024, 10:05 AM
Fan favourite? Her first appearance is increasing in value because of the rumour that she is in Deadpool And Wolverine but that is all, I don't think she's as popular as the rest of The X-Men.
ZomZom
ZomZom - 4/9/2024, 10:06 AM
I gave up on this after one episode as anything from the 90s belongs in the past but reading all the positive feedback here has me reconsidering. I'm loving Invincible, is this series likely to get anywhere close?
The1st
The1st - 4/9/2024, 10:58 AM
@ZomZom - It's like comparing apples and oranges though. You wouldn't watch a BTAS revival? Admittedly though, I'd rather see more YJ at this point, and we're technically getting Bats w/Caped Crusader. I'd watch a JLU revival though too. I feel like there's too much emphasis on violence/graphic content equating to realism and by extension quality these days. Invincible seems like very much the exception due to the character development, but other than that that seems to be a lot of modern stuff imo.
Kadara
Kadara - 4/9/2024, 11:15 AM
@ZomZom - Invincible has been really good so far. X-Men is not bad, maybe I'm still nostalgic from my youth days but I've been loving the return so far.
ZomZom
ZomZom - 4/9/2024, 12:17 PM
@The1st - I hear what you're saying but tbh anything I found cool in the 90s is very much of it's time. I've grown up and my expectations are VERY different. I'm not looking for nostalgia.
The1st
The1st - 4/9/2024, 3:16 PM
@ZomZom - I can understand that and there's obviously plenty of room in genre for both. I hope 97' isn't just pure nostalgia and it loses its momentum though.
Kadara
Kadara - 4/9/2024, 11:13 AM
I thought you were going to say Apocalypse, Dazzler how is she a fan favorite 🤦🏽‍♂️
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