X-MEN '97 Star Ross Marquand Talks AVENGERS VS. X-MEN Possibilities And A Surprising MCU Red Skull Detail

X-MEN '97 Star Ross Marquand Talks AVENGERS VS. X-MEN Possibilities And A Surprising MCU Red Skull Detail

Ross Marquand has played Red Skull, Infinity Ultron, and Professor X in the MCU, and addresses the possibility of X-Men '97 adapting Avengers vs. X-Men. He also reflects on his time working on Avengers...

By JoshWilding - May 05, 2024 12:05 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men '97
Source: Toonado.com

X-Men '97 has featured a handful of memorable cameos from some high-profile Marvel characters, including Spider-Man and Captain America.

The latter is best known for leading The Avengers, and with everything this world's mutants are going through - including Magneto seemingly declaring war on humanity - could a clash between them and the X-Men be on the horizon? 

Talking to ComicBook.com (via Toonado.com), Professor X actor Ross Marquand shared his belief that there's "a real chance" the two teams go head-to-head in an animated adaptation of Avengers vs. X-Men

"You saw what happened in the last episode [with] Rogue and Captain America," Marquand started. "There's a real chance that that could happen. He can't fly. Captain can't fly. She threw that in the side of a snowy mountain."

"I'm sure it's lodged in there 50 feet deep. He ain't gonna find that shield," he joked. "It's not like Mjolnir where you can just like pull it back, it's stuck in that thing. He's gonna be pissed at Rogue for a while."

It would be epic to see the X-Men and Avengers do battle in X-Men '97, particularly as there are hints the mutants will be radicalised in the wake of the attack on Genosha (which would follow the comic books, to some extent). 

While Marquand is optimistic it could happen, for now, he's just happy to be involved with the X-Men: The Animated Series revival. "I say this to my manager all the time...if this is the last thing I do with my career, I'd die a happy man. I really would."

Elsewhere in the interview, Marquand reflected on another of his MCU roles. While he previously voiced Infinity Ultron in What If...?, The Walking Dead star made his Marvel Studios debut as Red Skull in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame

Hugo Weaving originally played the villain, but declined the offer to return. Marquand stepped in with a pitch-perfect impression and confirmed his scenes were shot in a single day! 

"It was a helluva of a way to work, and I really like that style of filming," Marquand explained, revealing he received his scenes on the day. "I think we finished it in eight hours - both films, back-to-back, in one day. I mean that's unheard of."

X-Men '97 revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

Eight episodes of X-Men '97 are now streaming on Disney+ with new instalments following weekly. 

X-MEN '97: Beau DeMayo Says Marvel Scrapped His Plans For Onslaught And AGE OF APOCALYPSE Season 3
Related:

X-MEN '97: Beau DeMayo Says Marvel Scrapped His Plans For Onslaught And AGE OF APOCALYPSE Season 3

X-MEN '97: New Report Reveals When The Show Will Return To Disney+ With Season 2
Recommended For You:

X-MEN '97: New Report Reveals When The Show Will Return To Disney+ With Season 2

DISCLAIMER: As a user generated site and platform, ComicBookMovie.com is protected under the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) and "Safe Harbor" provisions.

This post was submitted by a user who has agreed to our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. ComicBookMovie.com will disable users who knowingly commit plagiarism, piracy, trademark or copyright infringement. Please CONTACT US for expeditious removal of copyrighted/trademarked content. CLICK HERE to learn more about our copyright and trademark policies.

Note that ComicBookMovie.com, and/or the user who contributed this post, may earn commissions or revenue through clicks or purchases made through any third-party links contained within the content above.

WhatIfRickJames
WhatIfRickJames - 5/5/2024, 12:08 PM
Rogue did chuck that shield a couple of miles away. Unless hes got an Apple tag on it, Cap’s going to be futzing around for a while trying to find it
Vigor
Vigor - 5/5/2024, 1:57 PM
@WhatIfRickJames - I've been thinking about this an embarrassing amount. Unless he has rhe vibranium finder introduced in black panther 2, he's gonna pull all his hair out trying to find it
Mortagon1978
Mortagon1978 - 5/5/2024, 12:15 PM
It would be hilarious if the catalyst for Avengers v. X-man was because Rogue tossed away Cap's shield.
Vigor
Vigor - 5/5/2024, 1:57 PM
@Mortagon1978 - wars in game of thrones have been started over worse!
Arthorious
Arthorious - 5/5/2024, 2:03 PM
@Mortagon1978 - Cap is like you know that you started this Rogue. Now it’s personal
Vigor
Vigor - 5/5/2024, 3:30 PM
@Vigor - I meant less**
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 5/5/2024, 12:15 PM
Pick a side, Cap...Muggas or Flatscans?
OmegaEffect
OmegaEffect - 5/5/2024, 12:36 PM
Cap calls Stark to locate the shield. Then cap has the shield back 5 minutes after.
OmegaEffect
OmegaEffect - 5/5/2024, 12:37 PM
I'd rather see more of the xmen world since there is so much rich history than a shallow avengers vs xmen hero ve hero crap.
ATrueHero1987
ATrueHero1987 - 5/5/2024, 12:38 PM
So since this is the same universe as Spider-Man:TAS, wonder how Cap escaped being trapped outside of time? Or after the Secret War, The Beyonder sent him back to Earth?
Amaru
Amaru - 5/5/2024, 12:42 PM
@ATrueHero1987 - I made the assumption that after Secret Wars that The Beyonder threw every one of them back on Earth, even Cap and Red Skull.
TheManWithoutFear
TheManWithoutFear - 5/5/2024, 12:43 PM
@ATrueHero1987 - I think the Beyonder put them back there they were, with no memory of what had happened. So he must have found some other way out of the vortex. Presumably Red Skull got out as well.

If they ever do Spider-Man '98 then it would be a cool 2 episode arc.
ObserverIO
ObserverIO - 5/5/2024, 2:37 PM
@ATrueHero1987 - In the comics there was a Steve Rogers running around as Captain America in the '50s. Then Stan revealed that he'd been trapped in ice since WWII. So they just said that he was a different guy who took on the persona of both Captain America and also Steve Rogers, so that the American people still had their icon.
They could do the same here.

It's interesting though, because all of the '90s Fox cartoons were supposed to be in the same universe, but because Cap is around in the present day in some of them, the Marvel database splits them up into two separate universes. But including Cap in the recent episode means that they no longer have to.

And the ex-showrunner, Beau DeMayo considers them all a part of the same universe which is probably why he snuck Cap in there.

Now they just have to reveal the reason he's there and not stuck in the time vortex.

It could just be a simple matter of being spat back out of the time vortex at the same time he went in there in the '40s.
MarvelZombie616
MarvelZombie616 - 5/5/2024, 12:54 PM
Ross Marquand is a cool guy.
He should certainly return as Red Skull in a MCU movie.
TK420
TK420 - 5/5/2024, 12:56 PM
Cap is not pleased...
mountainman
mountainman - 5/5/2024, 1:49 PM
As long as the Hope storyline plays out.
MyCoolYoung
MyCoolYoung - 5/5/2024, 7:07 PM
@mountainman - over the next two episodes? Had she been teased? And you’d want that before house of M?
mountainman
mountainman - 5/5/2024, 7:20 PM
@MyCoolYoung - No, I wouldn’t think AvX would happen this season either way. They are wrapping up the Bastion/Sentinels storyline.

I could see AvX being a Season 3 or 4 storyline though.

Season 2 could adapt House of M and the Mutant Decimation.

Season 3 could adapt Messiah Complex/War and the future Cable/Bishop stuff (although I’d rather see that as its own show).

Then we could see AvX either capping season 3 or in season 4.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/5/2024, 1:54 PM
Avengers Vs X-Men will happen, we may even get Avengers Vs Fantastic Four and X-Men Vs Fantastic Four.

Then the ultimate triple threat movie Avengers Vs Fantastic Four Vs X-Men.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/5/2024, 3:21 PM
User Comment Image
AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 5/5/2024, 3:36 PM
Off topic but RIP to Bernard Hill.
He was an amazing talent.
User Comment Image
JobinJ
JobinJ - 5/5/2024, 6:11 PM
Tony will locate the shield in like 3 minutes.
Yetiman
Yetiman - 5/5/2024, 9:56 PM
Man anyone else want to see Cap A with classic protruding wings on his helmet in a future MCU film or is it just me?

Please log in to post comments.

Don't have an account?
Please Register.

View Recorder