cyclops
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On X-Men ’97, Professor X and Magneto Fiddle While Rome Burns
Marvel’s mutants are locked in a world of fighting—fighting to survive, fighting to push back against hate. But they’re also just as often fighting among themselves, and this week’s penultimate episode of X-Men ‘97 is no exception… except mutantdom’s two biggest drama queens couldn’t have picked a worst time for their latest squabble. Previously, I…
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X-Men ’97’s Final Trailer Gets Payback for a 24-Year-Old Joke
In all good X-Men stories, out of the fires of chaos something new and exciting is reborn in phoenix-flame. There’s perhaps no better example of that right now than the consolidation of the Fox X-Men movie era into mutantkind’s renaissance on the small screen for X-Men ‘97—and the latter is certainly cute about letting us…
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Cyclops Has Always Been This Good
When X-Men ‘97 hit Disney+ last week, enrapt viewers all shouted one thing—other than “To me, my X-men!”—as they saw Marvel’s mutants back in action: “Where has this Cyclops been?” The comics. He’s been in the comics. X-Men ‘97 has already proven to be a smash hit for Marvel, throwing audiences back to the heady…
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Captain Krakoa’s Origin Story Is All About How Cyclops Got Played
Ever since mutantkind became ascendant in the Dawn of X — and the establishment of the mutant nation state Krakoa — enemies of the children of the atom have been lying in wait to strike out at mutants all over the place. But one with sinister connections to mutantkind’s greatest foe has been revealed, and…