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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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A Complete, Unhinged Guide to the X-Men Movie Timeline Before Deadpool & Wolverine
The chronology of any comic book storyline or character—woven throughout decades of creative teams, retcons, and realignments to the narrative—is always a complicated affair. But there are few mainstream adaptations with a more convoluted mess of timelines and canons than Fox’s X-Men movies. Now, nearly two and a half decades after it began, as we…
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X-Men ’97 Just Sped Through One of the Greatest Stories in Comics History
Adaptation is always a challenge—but it’s a particularly daunting one in the case of comic books, where a new medium has to reckon with translating sagas told across years of issues and continuity fluxes. For the most part, X-Men ‘97’s latest episode navigates this task the best it can, but the sacrifices it makes come…
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X-Men ’97’s Director Talks Mutant Circuits, Morph, and More
Gizmodo sits down with X-Men ’97 director Jake Castorena to talk fastball specials and revisiting one of X-Men: The Animated Series’ unsung heroes.