Marvel Renews 'X-Men '97' for Season 3, Debuts Comic-Con Teaser — SkimNews
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- Marvel renewed 'X-Men '97' for Season 3 on Disney+, with Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel television, animation, comics and franchise, debuting a first-look clip at New York Comic Con
- The Season 3 teaser opens with graffiti reading 'Where are the X-Men?' and depicts a city in chaos where police have sealed the borders and mutants need 'letters of transit' to reach Professor X's school
- A team of mutants rescues a stranded girl from authorities and tells her, 'No, we're the brotherhood,' formally introducing the Brotherhood as the new mutant heroes on the ground
- Storm and Professor X appear discussing their conflict with the U.S. president, then arrive at Gambit and Rogue's wedding — attended by Deadpool and She-Hulk — to round out the clip
- Season 2's Aug. 12 finale featured Apocalypse killing Magneto, Nightcrawler sacrificing himself to save Rogue, and Mystique assassinating X-Factor leader Valerie Cooper before assuming her identity
- Season 2's final twist revealed that Mystique's non-mutant son Graydon Creed was elected president of the United States, setting up the mutant-hostile American state now driving Season 3
Why it matters: Season 3 plants the X-Men in open conflict with American state power — a mutant-phobic U.S. president, sealed borders, transit papers, and government-sanctioned mutant squads like X-Factor. That repositions 'X-Men '97' well past '90s revival nostalgia into sustained political allegory, with a captive Disney+ audience built across two seasons ready for the escalation.
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