Nostalgia is a double-edged sword, but try to seek out a millennial who doesn’t experience a Winter Soldier-like activation after they hear the album’s opening riff X Men ’90s cartoon. Such was the atmosphere yesterday morning when Marvel Studios – along with a series of announcements this week – released the trailer X-Men ’97.
The recent Disney+ program, announced already in 2021 and at last debuting on March 20, is a direct continuation of X-Men: The Animated Series and features the return of most of the original voice forged from the popular Fox Kids animated series, including Cal Dodd as Wolverine, Lenore Zann as Rogue, George Buza as Beast, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm and Christopher Britton as Mister Sinister, with recent members joining forged: Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, Holly Chou as Jubilee and AJ LoCascio as Gambit.
The trailer focuses on the immediate aftermath of Charles Xavier leaving the X-Men as the group tries to determine what happens next. While the trailer keeps this story near the chest, there are a couple of jokes – including a shot of Magneto visiting the United Nations – before revealing in the trailer’s final moments that Charles Xavier’s final will has left every little thing to the X-Men’s best foe. Other notable jokes include pregnant Jean, a brand new tackle the famous Special Fastball game but with Gambit and Wolverine and a shot of the Daily Bugle’s windblown front page referencing the Hellfire gala, a detail taken from recent stories in X Men comics about an extravagant Met Gala-like event for the heroes and mutants of the Marvel universe.
Yesterday, on social media, the trailer met with the most universal approval today. Part of that is, after all, nostalgia, but the other contributing factor is the legacy of the series itself. For a generation of fans who might never have gone to a spinner or a comic book book store, X-Men: The Animated Series was and stays the definitive tackle Marvel’s flagship property. At a time when Marvel’s live-action efforts consisted entirely of cheesy TV movies and trash that might have been straight-up-to-video, the animated series was the MCU before the MCU, drawing on many years of classic comic book stories – including iconic X-stories Men akin to Days of Future Past and The Dark Phoenix Saga – and reworking them for a wider audience.
2024 is an enormous 12 months for mutants at Marvel Studios. X-Men ’97 is Disney’s first dedicated inclusive project X Men franchise since the Fox acquisition, with Deadpool and Wolverine will happen later this summer. But X-Men ’97 To achieve success, it must be greater than just a straightforward nostalgia game, especially considering the superhero offerings we have seen currently. This theme song, while rattling good, can only achieve this much if the next performance is not up to par. We’ll discover in March.
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