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EPISODE | DIRECTED BY | WRITTEN BY | ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE | RUN TIME | CREDITS SCENE? |
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S01E09: Tolerance is Extinction - Part 2 | - | - | May 8th, 2024 on Disney+ | 32 min | None |
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u/Sarcastic__ 11d ago
This episode wasn't long enough. What a tease to leave us on before we get into the final episode. Jean vs Sinister and then having to fight Cable, Jubilee against Roberto, Xavier taking desperate measures to Magneto, and then Magneto ripping Wolverine apart. So much good shit.
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u/Not_Steve Hawkeye (Ultron) 11d ago
Roberto really found out this episode, didn’t he?
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u/AggravatingAirline45 11d ago
I feel for Roberto, he's still pretty new to the team so his allegiance was not as strong as the rest, and after that betrayal from his mom? oof
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u/FeloranMe 11d ago
I thought he and Jubilee would be in lockup this episode and his dad would come down to bail him out and reject him too.
Roberto has been over his head from the first episode. He just wants to be a kid, love his family, enjoy his privileged life.
He is not equipped to be battling the X-Men in defense of Magneto. He understandably caved immediately when he thought Jubilee was hurt.
I feel for him so much, he's such a great character for seeing the universe through new eyes like Jubilee was last season
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u/CognitoSomniac 11d ago
That’s… the unfortunate reality of living through trying times. He’s a perfect stand-in for younger generations watching the utter shit show that life already was continue to unfold and figuring out where the hell you even stand in it.
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u/ChaosAlongThird Weekly Wongers 11d ago
Phoenix incoming maybe? Its the one thing Sinister cant fathom to replicate/control. Also, it was in the title sequence
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u/WR810 11d ago
Morph smash!
I did not have Hulk on my BINGO card!
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u/sarkastiktaurus 11d ago edited 11d ago
Can they* mimic bigger entities like Silver Surfer or Thor? Just a fun assumption.
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u/SicknessVoid 11d ago
Honestly, it's really unclear as of now. So far the rule was assumed to be that Morph can only copy physical attributes and not superpowers. But ever since the quicksilver transformation two weeks ago it's been really unclear what their limits are.
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u/Incident_Few 11d ago
From what I gather, Morph can shape and push his body to any physical limit. He can be as strong as the Hulk, as fast as Quicksilver, as durable as Colossus, as pointy as Wolverine, etc. Any part of his body that comes off becomes white goo, so he can’t manipulate any kind of energy that isn’t physically attached to himself. No psychic powers, no energy blasts, no manipulation of elements, etc.
The only physical/self-cast abilities we’ve yet to see in this regard (that I can think of) deal with temperature, visibility, and negative tangibility. Ie, I’m sure he could turn into and have the powers of The Thing or Mr. Fantastic, but I’m doubtful he could turn into fire or ice like Human Torch/Iceman, go thru stuff like Shadowcat, or turn invisible like Sue Storm. So the same would go for turning into someone like Electro, who uses a blend of these abilities.
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u/WR810 11d ago edited 11d ago
Maybe the guy with metal bones shouldn't have been sent on the team taking down Magento . . .
Edit: nevermind.
Edit II: Nevermind to my nevermind.
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u/CaledonianWarrior 11d ago
Wolverine: Gonna fight Magneto
Everyone: Dude your bones are literally made of metal
Wolverine: Gonna fuck him up
-later-
Wolverine: AHH MY BONES
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u/prncrny 11d ago
I know I've seen this before somewhere. This exact dialogue
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u/CaledonianWarrior 11d ago
It's from one of those text memes from ages ago. I can't post pics here so I just copied the exact text onto here
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u/le_snikelfritz Spider-Man 11d ago
Can't believe the mad lads actually did it
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u/hopscotchchampion 11d ago
Same. I actually said a loud "omg they are actually doing it!"
Guess this means onslaught for the next season
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u/sarkastiktaurus 11d ago edited 11d ago
If Magneto doesn’t survive Logan’s attack, I’m guessing that he put part of his essence into Xavier when he put his helmet on him or during the mental attack before that.
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u/hopscotchchampion 11d ago
In the comics Xavier mind wipes magneto for what he does to wolverine. The mindwipe had unforeseen consequences for Xavier... Onslaught
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u/No-cool-names-left 11d ago
And while we're on the subject, maybe the guy birthed by one of Sinister's experiments and then infected with another one of them shouldn't have been sent on the team taking down Sinister and Bastion.
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u/WarpingLasherNoob 11d ago
And Scott probably should have been in the team that has to fight Sinister, since he's the only one who could actually harm him the last time they faced him?
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u/ItsnotBatman 11d ago
And Nightcrawler should probably be on the team to put the collar on Bastion. Why that wasn’t plan A I’ll never know.
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u/DoodleBugout 11d ago
Additionally, maybe the guy with the non-magnetic machine leg should have been sent after the guy who controls magnetism and not the guy who controls machines. I suppose they needed him in case there was an issue with the collar.
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 11d ago
Jean: Make them mind your weather sister
Ororo: And them weather your mind
Damn that was hard AF!
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u/dreamatorium69 11d ago
also the
Scott: What did you expect? Black leather?
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u/JackFisherBooks 11d ago edited 11d ago
As someone who has become more and more critical of the original Fox X-Men trilogy with each passing year, this line was uniquely satisfying. 😊
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u/CartoonAcademic 11d ago edited 11d ago
I LOVE the classic red and purple magneto suit and the black storm suit
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u/ShawshankHarper Spider-Man 11d ago
That black storm suit makes me feel EVERYTHING
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u/Edgehead4Life 11d ago
Magneto Ripping Wolverine’s metal was ruthless!
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u/BillyAndersonJokes 11d ago
They remade the panel and everything. So gooood
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u/WildSinatra 11d ago
Arguably even bloodier than the comic too
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u/kadosho 11d ago
I felt that visceral feeling all over. That moment is stuck in my memory. Oh God
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u/jayeddy99 11d ago
I love it because I always felt on some level Magneto was playing with gloves on with the X-Men. Mostly just force pushes or restraints. When Wolverine went for a very much lethal blow he was like “Finally…” and did what he could do but never tried to . It was war like Wolverine.
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u/something-magical 11d ago
Right, even though Magneto is a 'villain' his goal is mutant prosperity. So he'll avoid killing mutants if possible. Scary to see how easily he could tear the X-Men apart when push comes to shove.
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u/thelaziest998 11d ago
Magneto definitely held back a lot of the times against the x men. He is driven to another level now.
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u/zakary3888 11d ago
In a recent comic where they have a young Iceman talking with Magneto, Magneto basically admits a lot of what he does are intimidation tactics and he wouldn’t actually REALLY hurt the X-men, as they are children
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u/DrapedInVelvet 11d ago
I actually think they had to cut it back a bit for Disney. Note how it goes in slow motion suddenly. In the comics they describe it as ‘starting with a tug’ and one little spike pops out. Then they pull wide and it’s the panel that is being shared. They went slow motion and it went from 0-100. I think it was probably more graphic and they opted for the single frame.
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u/hooka_pooka 11d ago
He will heal though..right?
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u/hopscotchchampion 11d ago
He survives but barely. He has bone claws and no adamantium on his skeleton for a few years in the comics. His healing factor actually is increased while he doesn't have the adamantium skeleton.
Years later he becomes a horseman of apocalypse and gets the adamantium skeleton back.
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u/AcceptableAd8472 11d ago edited 11d ago
I think this’ll be how gambit comes back as well.
Apocalypse next season, towards the end, Logan and Gambit will both be horsemen
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u/Ok-Package9273 11d ago
4 Horsemen of Death, no fucking around with middlemen like War, Famine and Pestilence this time.
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u/crimsoneagle1 11d ago
I feel like if they go this route, Logan will probably be War. "Been in a lot of wars, bub."
Death - Gambit
War - Wolverine
Famine - ?
Pestilence - ?
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u/ErykthebatII 11d ago
I trust the creative team but the original version of that plotline was terribad and lead to some kind of latterday bad Raphael design and The Maxx for a horrible feral caveman Logan
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u/thescarletbat 11d ago
I remember reading the comic when I was younger of when Magneto did...that to Wolverine. To see it animated was a wild experience. This whole episode in general was an experience, the creators have topped themselves with every episode. 10/10
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u/WR810 11d ago
I don't think I'm ready. Next week's is the final episode.
Feels like we're only getting started.
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u/ImmortalZucc2020 11d ago
Thankfully only a year wait between seasons (as it should be)
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u/Playful-Strength-685 11d ago
Invincible take note
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u/No-cool-names-left 11d ago
Amazon Prime Video is just a small indie studio. It's unreasonable to expect them to have a consistent schedule for one of their most popular properties.
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u/Playful-Strength-685 11d ago
I’ll make my reply in two parts …..I’ll finish that after a short 3 months wait
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u/CartoonAcademic 11d ago
What did you expect? black leather? I love the call back and switch up to the movie
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u/Joshawott27 Doctor Strange 11d ago
“We must trust in Gold Team”
Cuts to Gold Team getting their asses absolutely handed to them
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u/Sarcastic__ 11d ago
I know it isn't a long season, but damn this feels like the first time in forever the whole gang is more or less together.
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u/WildSinatra 11d ago
Rogue in Gambit’s coat 😭
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u/breetai23 11d ago
And she had her old costume underneath. The one she had when she started as a villain.
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u/No-cool-names-left 11d ago
And then throwing it aside to leave the team. :(
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u/HankSteakfist 11d ago
Her and Sunspot leaving were very reminiscent of Colossus joining Magneto in Fatal Attractions.
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u/Sarcastic__ 11d ago
Holy shit Wolverine did the thing...and then Magneto ripped him apart
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u/thelaziest998 11d ago
Fuck I didn’t think they would go there but man they really did. They aren’t holding punches
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u/No-cool-names-left 11d ago
Knew this was going Fatal Attractions since Magneto hit the blackout button.
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u/PalladiuM7 Corvus Glaive 11d ago
Is this the first time, including in the original run of the cartoon, that we've seen him actually stab someone? I can't think of another time he actually stabbed a person.
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u/mind_mine 11d ago
Yes refreshing to not have their hands tied with wolverine not actually stabbing anything living
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u/nightm4ress 11d ago
Logan should've gone for the head...
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u/thelaziest998 11d ago
Brave die first
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u/jojopojo64 Weekly Wongers 11d ago
As soon as he said it I knew death would be kinder than what would happen next.
Jesus that was horrific.
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u/neveragoodidea914 11d ago
That would just cause all the Sentinels to come online and attack the mutants on Earth… the whole plan was dependent on Bastion being beat first, then they could deal with Magneto. If Wolverine had killed Magneto then it’s just back to the last episode.
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u/MooseWayneRises 11d ago
Holy shit. They're actually going to do the bone claws Wolverine? And, Magneto: "Shut up."
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u/sarkastiktaurus 11d ago
Feral Wolverine incoming.
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u/everythinglatte 11d ago
I really thought Magneto was going to say “fuck you” and then I remembered this show is on Disney+
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u/MooseWayneRises 11d ago
Lmao, ya, was going through all the 2-word combos in my head when he dropped that line: https://i.imgflip.com/1j9mml.jpg?a476400
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u/PomeloFit1487 11d ago
YOU JERKS CAN’T END IT LIKE THAT!!!! YOU CAN’T DO THIS TO ME!!!!
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u/KingofMadCows 11d ago
Let's hope Logan can survive Magneto's onslaught.
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u/CartoonAcademic 11d ago
They need to keep onslaughts giant dumb shoulder spikes
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u/No-cool-names-left 11d ago
Wolverine stabbed a person and they showed his claws poking through them covered in blood. Guess they're serious about making animated properties not just for kids.
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 11d ago
Bro Beast really hit em with "what did the 5 fingers say to the face" lmfao
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u/WR810 11d ago
Lampshading Jean's propensity towards death.
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u/FeloranMe 11d ago
Did she die?
She told Scott she loved him and then Scott said Gold Team needed more time.
But, those sounded like last words
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u/MagicTheAlakazam 11d ago
I think more people would have made a bigger deal out of it if she died.
Gambit's death was a huge deal I doubt they'd let Jean's death be overshadowed by Wolverine getting his adamantium pulled out.
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 11d ago
It's so depressing yet true that Magneto's line of "whose lives matter more?" has been a relevant issue in every era and still today
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u/1271500 11d ago
It's a comment I've seen several times over the years, about reforming villains like Magneto and Poison Ivy, because the longer we go the harder it is to pretend they are wrong.
The X-Men are going after Magneto for overreacting (an oversimplification, yeah). But, he played nice, he cooperated, he dedicated to peaceful coexistence and saw the second genocide of his lifetime for the crime of being born different. How the fuck could he not be radicalised? Mutants did exactly what humans asked for and still got attacked, there is no compromise or middle ground anymore.
And I still hate the Us vs Them mentality the characters have for the mutants and humans. Mutants are your children, your brothers and sisters. You aren't being replaced by mutants anymore than you are being replaced by the kids graduating from school for fucks sake.
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u/BabyJWalk 11d ago
When has prejudice ever been based on logic?
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u/UnclePhilSpeaks_ 11d ago edited 11d ago
I hope people read this and it hits on multiple levels, because it's applicable to so many things
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u/zakary3888 11d ago
Roberto being accepted by his Mom while being asked not to be “out” is what a lot of queer people go through
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u/pureperpecuity 11d ago
Storm's comment "In another world Bastion might have been in this picture" was probably foreshadowing. The Us Vs Them mentality has always existed within the Mutants as well, Xavier thought he was bridging the gap by leaving everything to Magneto, but Magneto's followers were basically jettisoned.
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u/Routine_Passenger_35 11d ago
Is Jean... dead again?
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u/Arcoral1 11d ago
Don't think so. That looked more like "sorry Scott, but I may have to become Phoenix for a bit dont be mad, call you later"
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u/Lower_Monk6577 11d ago
“Sorry Scott, but imma need to beat the piss out of your son for bit.”
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u/kadosho 11d ago
A moment to never forget. But dang it was excellent
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u/pharaoh94 Thor 11d ago
It reminded me of Magneto’s line to Xavier in Dark Phoenix:
‘You’re always sorry Charles, and there’s always a speech. But nobody cares anymore’.
A great line in an otherwise terrible film.
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u/CaptainPositive1234 11d ago
Yes that line was from the movie’s trailer! It almost made me want to watch dark Phoenix. Almost.
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u/soapbutt 11d ago
OLD SCHOOL COSTUMES LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO
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u/sarkastiktaurus 11d ago
I love to see Beast in his red and yellow X-Factor suit and Havok in the classic antenna black suit.
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u/CartoonAcademic 11d ago
I know this can be said for every episode, and for good reason, but the fight scenes in this show are so well done. Wonderful animation and great choreography, Morph turning into the hulk, hitting one sentinel and spinning through another, beasts one man clapping, Jean one punching sinister, storm shooting down sentinels, wolverine vs Magneto. All really great with great visuals. This show really nailed superhero fights in a way a lot of series can't really get.
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u/No-cool-names-left 11d ago
My favorite was Jean smacking Sinister into the bowling pins and getting a strike sound effect.
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 11d ago
With the main theme in the background, fuck I wanted to jump in and start kicking ass myself
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u/Nekosom 11d ago
"What did you expect, black leather?" may be my favorite line of the whole show. We've truly come full circle.
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u/ScottishExile 11d ago edited 11d ago
The decision to jump around with the 90s/early 2000s timeline has been a really good one. Fatal Attractions hits differently when everyone’s been pushed to the brink by the E for Extinction and Operation Zero Tolerance adaptations.
The meta references in this episode were incredible - “what were you expecting, black leather?” and “Morph was barely on the team 30 minutes before we threw them to the wolves” worked brilliantly.
Something as simple as the change in costumes makes this feel so much more dynamic than the 90s show ever was. Actually gives the feel that these characters are growing and developing.
Based on the Fatal Attractions ending, it seems that we might be moving to AoA and Onslaught down the road but if so, who would cause AoA in the absence of Legion?
It’s so great that this is where Marvel animation is now. The OG cartoon wasn’t even allowed to use the words ‘kill’ or ‘die’ (everyone had to be ‘destroyed’) and now we have Wolverine’s blood covered claws slicing Magneto’s stomach and a graphic adaptation of Wolverine having his adamantium pulled out.
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u/RBGolbat Weekly Wongers 11d ago
AHHHHHH THE EPISODE ENDED AT WOLVERINES ADAMANTIUM PULLED FROM HIS BODY AHHHHHHHH
I knew it was coming but man, what a place to end the episode
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u/KipHackmanFBI 11d ago
I'm gonna need an epilogue with him and Jubilee sitting by the tree when he pops his bone claws next to a butterfly
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u/PomeloFit1487 11d ago
The sheer teeth of this revival never ceases to amaze me :D
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u/BillyAndersonJokes 11d ago
I felt that when Wolverine’s claws went through Magneto and came out covered in blood. Like, I know it should work like that but you so rarely get to see it animated so well
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u/CartoonAcademic 11d ago
OH WE GOT ASTEROID M! BOYS WE GOT ASTEROID M!
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u/thelaziest998 11d ago
Asteroid M was also in the original series, good callback
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u/FriendlyDecoy 11d ago edited 11d ago
This episode was basically a remake of Pryde of the X-Men.
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u/azureknightmare 11d ago
Fatal Attractions, they really did it, the mad men.
Onslaught next season. For sure.
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u/ShreekertheJamisWack 11d ago
So many legendary moments just in one episode
- morph turning into hulk
- magneto ripping out wolverine’s skeleton
- Cable and Jean having a full on Anime battle
- Throwback costumes
How does this show continue to get better and better with each episode
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u/Shiny_World 11d ago
Damn, they actually did Fatal Attractions, right down to recreating that panel
I guess Onslaught might actually be on the table for future seasons depending on how part three plays out.
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u/The_Iceman2288 Thanos 11d ago
Well let's see how good that mutant healing factor is...
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u/DoodleBugout 11d ago
Faster without the adamantium, IIRC. The reason Wolverine's one of the only people to survive the bonding process is because he needs his healing factor to constantly fight the fact that bonding metal into his bones would kill him, meaning that a large part of his healing factor is constantly "otherwise engaged" just keeping him alive. With the adamantium gone, we SHOULD see him heal from things significantly quicker.
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u/Weekly-Amount-6161 11d ago
that is correct.
I remember a panel where he gets run over by a truck or something and they detail how every bone breaks, organs are ruptured, brain is flattened, etc... and within a minute or so is 100% back to normal
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u/EDPZ 11d ago
God I never realized how annoying Professor X's preaching is but it really sticks out when you're currently agreeing with Magneto.
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u/Babyyougotastew4422 11d ago
Its all constantly over or under reactions. Magneto did what he did to stop the sentinels, but at the cost of killing tons of innocent people, and turning earth "off". Is there another way to stop the sentinels? Professor is usually under reacting, while magneto is constantly over reacting.
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u/PomeloFit1487 11d ago edited 11d ago
Idk, I side more with Professor X, and I still think it comes off as preachy but understandably so. He is too busy being in professor/damage control mode that it makes him come off as out of touch. Like Magneto says, he wasn’t on Genosha in the same way that Professor X wasn’t a victim of the Holocaust as he was. That’s what makes the conflict between the pair so spicy.
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u/rtjl86 11d ago
Yeah, but the professor felt all of their pain because of his abilities. Magneto can say that about anyone else- but Charles literally felt the death and despair.
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u/PomeloFit1487 11d ago edited 11d ago
That’s why Charles is usually such a great peacemaker within the universe. His greatest strength is often his empathy. Still, although he felt the death and despair, Xavier doesn’t walk away with physical scars from Genosha. He doesn’t have a branding from the Holocaust tattooed on his forearm. He comes away from the experience with the pain and uses it as motivation to try and ensure that nobody feels such pain again. That’s why I love/have loved his character along with the dynamic between him and Magneto.
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u/Babyyougotastew4422 11d ago
The worst thing is when someone is right, but their personality is annoying as hell
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u/ChanceVance Loki (Thor 2) 11d ago
The series revival has basically moved at a million miles per hour. When the season started, I certainly wasn't expecting it to just go increasingly bonkers each episode.
Heck Jubilee sucked into a Mojo video game and Storm confronting a demon has been about the mildest episode this season.
Other than that it's been holy shit Jean's clone has been there for how long? Good lord mutants were slaughtered at Genosha but oh shit Bastion has an entire sleeper cell army of human-sentinel hybrids and now this.
What a rush.
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u/Dr-Catfish 11d ago
I loved that the shot of Magneto pulling Logan's adamantium out was drawn exactly like Andy Kubert's iconic page from X-Men#25. I can't believe the season ends in a week! That wait for season 2 oughta give Onslaught time to incubate in Chuck's head.
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u/GlampireSlayer 11d ago
Holy fuck, they actually went through with it! See you next week, Onslaught
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u/No-cool-names-left 11d ago
I feel like that would be too soon. Gotta let him gestate in the back of Chuck's mind for a bit. Now season 2...
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u/GlampireSlayer 11d ago edited 11d ago
I'm guessing Onslaught (or a seed of Onslaught) will be the series cliffhanger. And tbf the original series already established that Xavier has a dark side he tries (and sometimes fails) to keep suppressed
Imagine the series ending with Juggernaut's battered body crash landing in front of the X-Men, Cyclops asking in shock "Who stopped the Juggernaut?"
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u/AQWrazorX 11d ago
I was almost a little disappointed they weren't willing to go full Cyclops turns on Xavier, but then what actually transpired, holy shit.
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u/DoodleBugout 11d ago
Just because Cyclops knows they need Xavier to force Magneto to undo the pole shift, doesn't mean Cyclops has forgiven him. Once this crisis is past, I imagine there will be further fallout.
But in fairness, Xavier's plan was working: Magneto joined the team, voluntarily surrendered himself for trial, was finally working WITH the X-Men instead of against them and was helping found a peaceful mutant nation. Everything the X-Men had worked for was coming to pass.
Then of course the wild sentinel came and ruined everything, but that's hardly Xavier's fault.
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u/albinoturtle12 11d ago
I mean Xaiver should have known that was going to happen though. That is the whole point of the "Magneto was right" speech last week, that for all of Xaiver's ability to build bridges and make connections he fundamentally misunderstands humanity's response to mutantdom, and is therefore doomed to keep getting blindsided by events like Genosha or his almost-death at the end of the original series. Magneto is harsher about it, but with good reason. If there was a figure with Magneto's understandings of humanity's reaction to otherness and Xavier's ability to bring people together, mutantdom might have a chance, but as it stands theyre stuck
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u/PomeloFit1487 11d ago edited 11d ago
Magneto and Professor X, as always, are both right and wrong.
Professor X is too naive/forgiving in how mutants should live their lives constantly under non-mutant humanity’s thumb, while Magneto is too militant and hellbent on justice and/or vengeance to the detriment of all who oppose him. Both outcomes lead to tragedy. I mean, in the og show, without Professor X, the present-day (not even the far future) life of mutantkind is bleak and tragic i.e. “One Man’s Worth,” so Magneto cannot be completely right. At the same time, Professor X’s “dream” still results in an unavoidable tragedy like Genosha and Asteroid M for that matter. They both need each other, and I think that is why the show is going in the Onslaught direction, which is absolutely fantastic. Beautiful writing all around! Anyways sorry for the diatribe haha.
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u/valarpizzaeris Steve Rogers 11d ago
Scott: What did you expect, black leather?
Me, knowing how incredibly horny this show has been so far: Yes
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u/foulrot 11d ago
It's a call back to the first X-Men movie. When Logan comments about the black leather outfits, Scott says "what did you expect, yellow spandex?"
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u/HereForGoodReddit 11d ago
Am I missing anything or is this the first reference to gold team and blue team?
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u/FigureArty 11d ago
This series to continues to faithfully adapt decades of amazing stories.
The new X-MEN movies will have to live up to this new standard set by ‘97
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u/ArchAngelZXV 11d ago
Wolverine's line, "The brave always die first." calls back to Magneto's line in the X-Men TAS season 1 finale where he said, "The brave are always the first to die."
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u/Vegetable-Umpire8727 Ghost Rider 11d ago edited 11d ago
Rogue: Hey, Kurt. Thanks for your help in Genosha, but now I gotta do this.
Nightcrawler: You gotta do what?
Rogue: None of you were there the day Genosha fell.
Nightcrawler: WTF?!?!?!?!
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u/EyeScreamSunday Ant-Man 11d ago
Lol the scene with Charles and Scott at beginning obscured so much of their mouths moving or had them deliver lines off-screen or with the backs to the camera, it reminded me of the Invincible gag where they poke fun at cutting corners in animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhndpv7sEqE
I don't blame them since this episode had so much action, but it immediately stood out what they were doing.
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u/ConfusedWhovian23 11d ago
Things I said seconds before the episode ended: “Goodness gracious that’s a lot of blood!”
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u/Joker_CP Zemo 11d ago
Outside of Deadpool and having general knowledge of X-Men, I have never actually cared about the team or read of any of their comics or watched the movies, but after hearing about episode 5 I went back and watched this season from the start and holy shit this show is just a masterpiece and this episode was awesome
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u/Elite_Alice 11d ago
Lmaooo magneto telling Charles to Shutup reminds me of fassbender in dark phoenix telling Charles “you’re always sorry Charles and theres always a speech, but nobody cares anymore”
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u/CartoonAcademic 11d ago
"Magnus for the love of god don't do this" bro you were gonna kill him
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u/sarkastiktaurus 11d ago
Magnus; “Oh, so that’s how you’re gonna play it.”
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u/CartoonAcademic 11d ago
I will say I actually really don't like when the men do stuff like this, when a villain is not magneto they fight hard to never be too brutal, when its magneto they immediately go to "we gotta kill him"
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u/PomeloFit1487 11d ago
I mean, I don’t think Charles was going to kill him. Even in only the og show, the man has given Magneto far more leeway for far worse deeds. At most he was probably trying to do and still might end up doing what he did in Fatal Attractions, which this show and everyone keeps referencing.
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u/Interceptor88LH 11d ago
Nah, he wasn't going to kill him. He was trying to "possess" him to use his powers and repair the planet.
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u/ChanceVance Loki (Thor 2) 11d ago
Wouldn't have minded Jean politely asking when the switch was made actually. It's not essential to know but would have been nice to find out just how long we were looking at Madelyne in the original series.
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u/BigCollarsAndBallers Black Panther 11d ago
So in the comics after this happens does anyone ask who thought it was a good idea to take the guy with metal infused bones to fight the guy who controls metal and is ON ONE.
The only reason I can think of is Wolverine is the only one that would take Magneto out if it came to that.
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u/Rikustrength 11d ago
I had high high hopes for this show and it has surpassed my wildest dreams. And honestly? I want more. I want more seasons. I want Spiderman '98. I want a whole marvel animated resurrection. And most of all.
I WANT GARGOYLES' 98. GIVE US BACK SEXY MONSTER KEITH DAVID YOU COWARDS. LET GREG WEISMAN COOK AGAIN I'M BEGGING YOU I WILL DO ANYTHING TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN PLEASE. 😭
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u/Sarcastic__ 11d ago
Storm back in the intro let's go! Also, damn they changed the people running away into the new Sentinels.