Marvel Animation has released the first trailer for Season 2 of X-Men ’97, revealing a much larger time-hopping adventure that sends Marvel’s iconic mutant team into the distant past, the far future, and everywhere in between.
Following the emotional fallout of Season 1, the latest trailer shows the X-Men fractured across multiple eras as they attempt to reunite and return home. While the mutants struggle across timelines, the 1990s timeline they left behind appears to be spiraling deeper into anti-mutant paranoia and rising hostility.
Visually, the trailer doubles down on the show’s blend of retro animation aesthetics and cinematic scale, while also teasing massive battles, alternate timelines, and more emotionally damaged versions of familiar characters. Watch below:
Season 2 will consist of nine episodes and once again features a stacked returning voice cast including:
- Ross Marquand as Professor X
- Matthew Waterson as Magneto
- Ray Chase as Cyclops
- Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey
- Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm
- Cal Dodd as Wolverine
- Lenore Zann as Rogue
- George Buza as Beast
The series remains executive-produced by Kevin Feige alongside Brad Winderbaum, Louis D’Esposito, Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt, Julia Lewald, Eric Lewald, Larry Houston, and Beau DeMayo.
Marvel also unveiled a new poster paying tribute to Wolverine #1 by legendary artist Frank Miller, continuing the series’ ongoing love letter to classic X-Men comic history.
Season 1 became one of Marvel Animation’s biggest critical successes in years by balancing nostalgia with surprisingly mature storytelling, emotional stakes, and comic-accurate character work. Based on the new trailer, Season 2 appears ready to go even bigger, and much weirder, with its timeline-shattering premise.
For longtime fans, the biggest thrill may simply be seeing the series continue to embrace what made the original X-Men animated show resonate in the first place: superhero spectacle mixed with political tension, soap-opera emotion, and mutants being perpetually miserable no matter what century they land in.
The new season premieres July 1 exclusively on Disney+.
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