“Let them thunder, for I am lightning!” I love the message in this show. No one should make themselves smaller to comfort anyone else

I just loved that Storm had her Sailor Moon moment and literally willed herself a "new" look. You can tell those animators were just living their inner Sailor Moon dreams with that whole sequence. Absolutely love this show ❤

Gambit being the only showing up is definitely a sign of Magnus not being dead

Storm’s regeneration with that music gave me chills. Let the writers of this show oversee the mutants in live action. This is what you get when people that really care about the material.

“What are demons but reflections of our fears and shame. Things we bury within us, hide from loved ones even as they poison our hearts… until we finally heal our adversary by embracing it”-Storm This writing is so GOOD! 😭🙏🏽

"Didn't your brother nearly destroy the universe with the M'kran Crystal?" "Exactly. I said families are black holes, keep up sweetie."

Loved the line "Milky Way Ghetto" 😭😂😂

Episode 2 Magneto: "Be animals and be caged!" Episode 6 Xavier: "Be children and be schooled!"

Storm going Magical Girl was great.

I feel so bad for Charles. He spends the episode talking about the X-Men like their his children, and him sensing that Gambit died is basically him sensing that one of his children perished. Its no wonder he wants to go there asap.

You have to remember this was the professors first time using his psychic powers since he “died”, and when he did, his vast connection to the universe and every mutant (heightened by his frequent use of cerebro over the years) was restored once more, and he felt all the tragedy from Genosha hit him hard. Shout out to Storm and her resurgence….and the restoration of not only her mutant powers, but her OG X-men debut uniform. People need to remember she’s also mystical in nature too, separate from her mutant abilities (her blue eyes, white hair, and her ability to alter her uniform and hairstyle signs of her magical affinities). Her sequence reminded me of Man of Steel, when Superman first flew…awesomely done!

Deathbird is racist aganist her sister marrying an Earthling but she is doing it with Vulcan who is an Earthling also

This show just became a must watch event every week just like Game Of Thrones.

It was pretty heartbreaking and horrifying to have Charles feeling “the massive disturbance in the Force” the Genosha Holocaust caused… especially Gambit’s death… calling them all his “Children of the Atom”. I’m still shook from last week… I just can’t believe Gambit is gone. He’s my favorite X-Man, right next to Wolverine. Seriously, if I ever got dropped into an X-Men Universe, I would want Gambit as my mentor to train me on how to use my mutant powers. Also, now we know that Mr. Sinister is involved/responsible for the Genosha Holocaust. It’s very possible that Magneto survived it. If he did, he will very likely hunt down Trask… but if he finds out about Sinister… there will be extreme hell to pay. Especially since Magneto really hates Sinister for what he did to him, Charles, the rest of the X-Men and the people of the Savage Land in Season 2 of X-Men: TAS.

I'm just glad Death bird invoked the right of M'DASHA instead of SHAMON'AH. Charles would've been screwed if she did that.

Magneto is alive. I’m calling it

This eps. just showcases how truly Epic Storm and Charles are .

Vulcan is just chilling in this ep like it’s no big deal 🤯

It was great seeing Charles Xavier again. Class is in session baby lol. Storm ⛈️ is such a goddess. Omega Level Mutant detected. I love this freaking show. I loved the original series despite the limitations but 97 is peak awesomeness.

I wanna hear Charles Xavier to utter the words: Magnus was right. And just have a melt down when he returns. This show is CRAZY

Having Vulcan there completely terrified me. He's Stoopid powerful.

As a reminder, in the last episode Cable said _"he_ is coming." I think this lends credence to them folding Cassandra's story into Mister Sinister.

Holy I did not expect this episode to get this philosophical

Magneto is still in the intro. He's alive.

Milky Way Ghetto sent me 😅😅😅😅😅😅

I love watching these reactions because we also get treated to a deep dive into lore and speculations and so much post-show info!! The heroes are 🔥🔥

I can fix Deathbird, y'all.

Hector's my dude for taking those action figures OUT of their packaging. And hello, a Hector reaction on Patreon for episode 5? Heck yeah!

This show is now among the top 5 best animated shows ever.

The Goddess Ororo returns.

Magneto is alive because he had ERG and LEECH with him....ERG is the mutant with "Guile" hairstyle with one eye-patch, he can absorb energy blast and channel it back through his eye with the eye-patch at will. I'm guessing, Erg stood up and absorb the Wild Sentinel beam blast and Leech masked everyone from detection by remove all or just Magneto's powers. cross fingers.

Hector I totally forgot about onslaught. That’s probably why we saw caps shield in that recent X-men 97 teaser last week. The avengers and X-men have been known to mix it up with onslaught 🤯🤯🤯

im sure it was just mutant magic BUT for a "scientific" reason: the electricity from that MASSIVE surge of lightning stimulated her hair follicles.

I love that they brought back the 1970s goddess suit from when she first joined the X-Men. I love that suit so much. Storm always looked better in black anyway. The "say the quiet part out loud" did take me out of the episode because this is supposed to be 1997. That's too modern a phrase.

I don't appreciate that they say Terran with the hard R! 😂

This show is a spoil of riches! Love yall discussion on the recent CzechXicans. Storm soaring felt like seeing Superman or Iron Man flying for the 1st time.

I wonder if Charles vision was a reference to the time Gambit became the Horseman of Death.

He's back! Glad to have the trio back!

Mis Hermanos.....I'm so happy that Hector got to have some good time away, but I love All of You when You're together!!! And Hector, I'm right there with You! My heart is still torn the "eff" up since Episode 5!

Welcome back Héctor back from Genosha!!! 😂😭😭😭😭

Storm is such a baddie ⚡️🖤

gambit's skull was not realistic as the professor's in that vision. it looked like paint. that could be gambit's death horseman form. sinister will take his body and give it to apocalypse for him to ressurect him and turn him into death.

I wish I had a teacher as amazing and empathetic as Professor Charles Xavier

The Big Bad for X-Men 97' season 1 is Mister Sinister, that's already been confirmed by the show runners themselves a while ago.

Deathbird's challenge for Charles was kind of reminiscent for what they originally planned for Phoenix with the psychic lobotomy.

Bolivar felt so horrible about Genosha that he asked to die.

Yep. I've been saying that for weeks. The reason Xavier would give everything to Magneto is if he left a "copy" of himself in Magneto's head. Then the stress from Genosha, boom, there's Onslaught. Now, I hope they give that the proper time to incubate, deal with Sinister this season, and make Onslaught next season.

That "Heehee" Nebula was hysterical

I don't know why, but i fucking love storm's maw hawk hair. I like it more than extremely long hair.

Was that Gambit or Death 👀. God help the world if Magneto is alive. God bless.

11:40 I wonder what kind of costumes Storm & the rest of the X-Men will have when they finally join the live action MCU.

I'm just in awe on how the writing of this is so damn good I'm even watching the original show and my mind is still blown lol. Like X-men fans eating good this year! S2 im loving the whole Cable 2 parter i love now im on S3 the Phoniex saga is wild

Hector just lit the spark 💥 Totally forgot about Onslaught 🤯 With the last 3 eps being a 3-parter named "Tolerance Is Extinction", Onslaught makes total sense ✅️ Can't wait to see Sinister succumb to that entity, forcing Apocalypse's hand 👍🏾👌🏾 #ThanksLordFeige #XMenForever #MakeMineMarvel

2:33 And Deathbird's lover.

ONSLAUGHT as the series grand finale against the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. I've dreamed of this since 98 😂

I wish you included the opening. I want to see your reaction when Nightcrawler replaced Gambit and Magneto in the opening credits.

I also think storm will be gifted forge book of spells she will learn them and be a powerfully weather witch

Another note...I loved the original X-Men & love all of your thoughts & jokes! ✊🤩

GAMBIT I think will turn into a soldier of APOCALYSE new 4 Horsemen

"OH..... MY..... ....... GODDESS!!!!

Gambit is gonna get revived by apocalypse and become his horseman! Those intro scenes with cable in every episode are signs.

What if(Yes I Realize the Pun...) Sinister planned this whole thing and is using it to make Clone Magneto, the one who strips Wolverine of His Adamandium. Or as you say to make something worse like Apocolypse...

Somebody was like “ well we only need one Jean Grey”

Bastion. Is. Coming.

charles not sensing Magneto dying meant he is alive.... Gambit is permanently dead according to the director of the series, because he wants it to be real that there are consequences to every action/decision made... he also stated that they have another character who is suppose to be dead instead of gambit but did not say who it is...

I loved how she got her powers back and her original suit. I would of waited those and made her powers return last longer.

Professor X bringin that BIG TEACHER ENERGY

The biggest mystery of the show for me, isn’t who is behind the attacks, but why Disney even bother with the ‘skip intro’ button. Who in their right mind is gonna skip over the awesome theme tune 🎶🎶 Not in this house.

I realized the voice actor for Professor X also does the voice for Rudy in Invincible and now I can’t unhear it

Em-kron crystal? I've being calling it McKran crystal!

17:15 Hector might have a point, that's why we got Cap. America's shield in a official preview, they're saving something big for this season's finale!! 🤔

But I do like the idea of Xzavier training the Army of mutants for genosha.

That’s Vulcan aka Gabriel Summers…the lost Summers brother

Gambit and Xavier are nowhere near as close as Xavier and Magneto. Gambit is so guarded and busy keeping his secrets that it would be impossible to truly be close to him

Storm and that music gave me MAN of steel vibz

PURE SPECULATION, but I’m calling it… the Wolverine in Deadpool/Wolverine is the Animated Wolverine. What’s coming in the next few eps will lead into the film AND we’ll see Monica Rambeau show up before the Season Finale

I think people forget that information in the 90s was primarily through TV/radio. So totally unplugged from the rest of the world until you turn the TV on. Landlines and TV and radio.... that's all we had back then

Remember that show M.A.N.T.I.S.? He was a paraplegic whose super hero armor was an exoskeleton. Early 90’s TV

Gambit is coming back as one of the horsemen of Apocalyse just watch!!

I also believe we’re seeing the makings of Onslaught here. But to undo all this, I also see Wanda saying a certain phrase

Yeah, Hector is the first reviewer to mention Vulcan....

Beau and the writers room went wild, love it

I agree with you and think there will be an Onslaught story line. Here's my question: Do you think it will be the 3 episode season finale ep 8-10? Maybe Onslaught happens because Magneto is seriously injured near death and deeply comatose. Xavier has to try and telepathically reach him and their mutual grief, guilt and rage cause the merging to happen. As I recall the original Onslaught saga took a while to unfold with Xavier slowly becoming corrupted over several issues. I might be wrong, haven't read that arc for a few years.

The Leech theory doesn't track for me, because they were actively under assault so any lowering of Magneto's powers would have lowered the shield and blasted them even sooner before the Sentinel's scanners would detect an absence of mutants (assuming Leech's power even works by masking the X-gene rather than just muting its effect). That said, i DO think Magneto and some other mutants we saw "die" are still alive. With Sinister involved (tying it slightly into the Mutant Massacre in the comics), i think the overt and apparent genocide was also masking a mass abduction of mutants for experimentation. I really hope they don't do Onslaught, or if they do find a more satisfying way to pull it off than the disappointment of the comics... but then i felt the same way about Operation: Zero Tolerance and I've seen so many people online drooling for freaking Bastian to show up, so who the hell knows? I'd prefer Cassandra to either of them (and thought we might be getting her with the Shi'ar showing up in this episode, but alas the word "mummudrai" was never uttered!), but it really does seem like Sinister is taking her role in this (masterminding the destructuon of Genosha by coopting the DNA of a Trask to control the Wild Sentinels). Which will probably have more emotional resonance than suddenly introducing Xavier's evil twin when he's been absent for half thr season, lol!

I Loved Vulcan!!! And how Xzavier had not made that a deal because in the comics he was in the “first Class” with sway, Darwin and some other characters but they all died the first mission. Also that it’s very interesting knowing he’s there because it show that the shaier are despots!

Professor X’s line was taken directly from e is for extinction. Deathbird was violating with her lines and the shi’ar are space racists lol

Age of Apocalypse is coming

You may be right about Magneto and that is likely the outcome, but it could also be that he did die and that green blast that hit Charles (and turned him into a skeleton) was the same one that hit Magneto, representing his death. Either way we'll find out next week I suspect.

The thing I like about the “Story Board” is that it creates animation .

13:59 Sinister : Give me your DNA so i can access Master Mold ! Trask : What 4 ? Sinister : I want to fill it with poison Candy and collar all mutants who taste it Trask : Please kill me for what happened in Genosha Me : What the hell did you expect was gonna happen?

So much Ross Marquand makes me soooo happy 🥰

Her conjuring her new suit is like the one in the 90"s cartoons in the first episode when Jubilee was attacked by the Sentinels. I think she was able to do that because of her affinity to magic, that's my opinion though 😉

I'm just happy to see you guys. Love ❤

I remember when the silver surfer came out and everyone that that Xzavier was Norman radd.

Always love watching your reactions. Been waiting.

Trask is working with Sinister because he wants him to cure his son Larry Trask because he s a mutant ! Perhaps Sinister gives him the medallion to hide him from Sentinels and Master Mold.

I think with Moira on the council & Gambit gone, they're inching their way toward the Krakoa story, like the Genosha incident being the catalyst for the world's mutants to gather on Krakoa, and Gambit/Anyone else we lost will be revived by the 5. I'm going to be on the lookout for flowers in the finale.

Genosha on vacation 😂

What an episode! Great reaction! My goddess is back and she looks so good! Things are definitely going to interesting!

Imagine Marvel Studios hiring Chris Claremont!