A new trailer for the highly anticipated second season of X-Men '97 has leaked online after debuting during Comic Con Revolution Ontario.
In the Season 1 finale, the team managed to defeat Bastion and prevent Asteroid M from destroying the planet, but in the process, the heroes were somehow transported through time. Some of them encountered a younger En Sabah Nur, and it was heavily implied that Apocalypse will ultimately assemble his Horsemen, which could include a resurrected Gambit.
This trailer features an older, fully powered-up Apocalypse, as well as a first look at Nathanial Richards, aka Rama-Tut, and several other new characters.
As Bishop sets out on a mission to bring the X-Men back to the current timeline, two new mutant teams will be formed: X-Force, with Cable, Archangel, Psylocke, Sunspot, and Jubilee, and X-Factor, consisting of Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Multiple Man, and Val Cooper.
Though a release date has yet to be announced, Marvel's Brad Winderbaum recently confirmed that X-Men '97 will return to our screens this year.
"Season 2 of X-Men ‘97 is going to be in ‘26. We're working on it now," he told Collider. "It's exciting. That world of the ‘90s is just… Honestly, I can't believe they let me make it. I grew up at Marvel, as you know, clocked a lot of time here, and I feel like I used a lot of currency to revive this thing that I loved watching after school. So, the fact that we get to play in that universe with those actors is honestly why I went into this business in the first place."
X-Men '97's voice cast 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.
Episodes are directed by Jake Castorena, Chase Conley and Emi Yonemura. Larry Houston, Julia Lewald, Eric Lewald, Brad Winderbaum, Kevin Feige and Louis D’Esposito produce, with Matthew Chauncey on board as a consulting producer.
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"A band of mutants use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them; they're challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future. New Episodes, New Era," reads the official synopsis.