X-Men '97 Episode 2: Why The Arrival Of [SPOILER] Could Change Everything

For fans that may not have watched “X-Men: The Animated Series” before “X-Men ’97,” Sinister always had his blood-red eyes on Cyclops and Jean. In the past, Cyclops and Jean were on the top of Sinister’s hit list, even using Morph, the shape-shifting mutant returning as the show’s first non-binary character, to infiltrate the team. If the new series really is following the comics and this Madelyne has been living her life as Jean, there’s really no telling what that could do to the original romance between Scott and his presumably lost love. More importantly, it sparks concerns about what the future holds for the newborn baby of the house, Nathan.

In the comics, the little scamp grows up to be grisly, time-traveling mutant Cable, voiced in the original series by Lawrence Bayne, who has already returned to the show to voice mutant-hating antagonist Carl Denti. Might Bayne put in a double shift and reprise his role of Cable, particularly given that the show’s other time-traveler, Bishop (Isaac Robinson-Smith), is now a prominent presence on the show? We’ll have to find out when the cloning issue is hopefully cleared up on “X-Men ’97” next week.