Based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men, X-Men ’97 is an American animated television series produced by Beau DeMayo for the streaming service Disney+. This is a return to X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997), which picks up where the team left off after Professor X passed away. The X-Men now confront new obstacles in their journey. Under its Marvel Animation banner, Marvel Studios produces X-Men ’97. Jake Castorena serves as the show’s supervising director and DeMayo serves as the show’s lead writer for the first two seasons.

The X-Men ’97 finale skillfully concludes the plot arcs that we committed to across ten episodes, while also providing enough information to hint at the upcoming second season, which has already been given the go-ahead (yeah). Marvel Studios’ animation division is in charge of producing this revival of the 1992–1997 animated X-Men series. With its thirty-minute segments, the show evokes the excitement and delight of spending Sunday afternoons curled up on the sofa watching animated films.

A. J. LoCascio, Holly Chou, Matthew Waterson, Ross Marquand, Adrian Hough, Ray Chase, Jennifer Hale, Alison Sealy-Smith, Cal Dodd, J. P. Karliak, Lenore Zann, George Buza, and Isaac Robinson-Smith are the X-Men’s outstanding players. Along with Christopher Britton, Sealy-Smith, Dodd, Zann, Buza, and Hough all returned to their original series roles. Stars of the original series Ron Rubin, Alyson Court, Chris Potter, Catherine Disher, and Lawrence Bayne came back to voice new roles.

First proposed in June 2019, the reactivation was finally announced with DeMayo and Castorena attached in November 2021. Episodes were also directed by Chase Conley and Emi Yonemura. DeMayo finished the first two seasons of the show before being let off as chief writer in March 2024. Marvel Studios’ first X-Men project after regaining the film and television rights to the characters is the series. Tiger Animation and Studio Mir contributed the animation, which is a more contemporary take on the original series’ aesthetic.

The plot of X-Men: The Animated Series (1992–1997) is continued in X-Men ’97. People having extraordinary talents from birth, which often appear throughout adolescence, are called mutants in both series. Professor Charles Xavier assembled a group of superheroes with mutant abilities called the X-Men to defend both humans and mutants. At the conclusion of The Animated Series, the extraterrestrial Shi’ar Empire transports Xavier to space in order to cure him after he almost perishes in an assassination attempt. A year later, in X-Men ’97, Magneto, their erstwhile foe, leads the X-Men as they take on new tasks in the absence of Xavier. Similar to the first season, X-Men ’97 blends drama in the vein of a soap opera, action, and the examination of weighty subjects.

On March 20, 2024, the first two episodes of X-Men ’97 debuted. Up to May 15, the remaining ten episodes of the first season were published every week. A third season is being developed, and a second is now in production.