X-Men '97
Every verdict, newest first. 18 on the record.
Mr. Know-It-All has scored X-Men '97 15 times on the Know-It-All Index, averaging 8.6 out of 10, from a low of 6 to a high of 10.
The reviews
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Real Problem Isn't That It Was Rushed
All nine episodes, receipts on the table. Season 2 of X-Men '97 wasn't rushed, it was paid for twice, and we got the half they'd already bought.
August 15, 2026 →
6/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Why "Survival of the Fittest" Won't Get Away With This
In July I let X-Men '97 get away with a big swing. The season 2 finale isn't swinging, it's hoping you won't look. A sourced breakdown of where it was built wrong.
August 12, 2026 →
9.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Every Hero Got Dealt a Losing Winner
Rogue finally touches Gambit and it's the most horrifying moment of the episode. Season 2, episode 8 is six people being handed exactly what they wanted, in a shape they can't use.
August 5, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Best Scene This Show Has Ever Written, Almost Buried
The trial of Graydon Creed is the strongest twelve minutes X-Men '97 has ever produced. The episode around it keeps getting in its way. A spoiler breakdown of Strange Land, Savage Heart.
July 29, 2026 →
Reviews X-Men '97 Four Horsemen Said Yes in 39 Years, Remy Never Got the Question
The Gambit reveal wasn't a twist, it was a payoff 39 years in the making. The file runs from X-Factor 24 through Blood of Apocalypse, and the Know-It-All Nation called it before I did.
July 25, 2026 →
8/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Mansion Turned Reasonable, and That's Scarier
The Danger Room didn't catch a virus. It learned from watching Charles Xavier grieve, and by the end of the episode, nobody had actually beaten its argument.
July 22, 2026 →
The Files X-Men '97 Onslaught, the Villain Marvel Tried to Bury
The comments called it: Onslaught is coming. The full story behind him runs through a thrown-away 1977 fill-in issue, a Saturday morning cartoon, and a Marvel bankruptcy.
July 18, 2026 →
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Why I Let This Show Get Away With It
Episode 5 assembles a strike team in 90 seconds, kills a legacy character in half a sentence, and runs almost entirely on trust. The review is whether that credit was spent well.
July 15, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Origin Story the Original Show Was Never Allowed to Tell
Episode 4 finally closes a 30-year gap in the franchise, and it makes a trade nobody's talking about yet: Apocalypse doesn't seize his power. He gets handed a job.
July 11, 2026 →
9/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Question Isn't Whether It's Good, It's Whether Marvel Knows Why
Episodes 1 through 3 are confident, emotional, and dense without being muddy. The real test is whether the creative intelligence of season 1 survives the handoff.
July 7, 2026 →
10/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Tolerance Is Extinction Part 2 Went There With Wolverine and Magneto
Magneto didn't set off a pulse, he killed the planet. Then the penultimate episode of X-Men '97 gave us Jean Grey versus Sinister and the Fatal Attractions moment on the asteroid. It's a 10.
May 8, 2024 →
9.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Tolerance Is Extinction Part 1 Sets the Stage Beautifully
The run-up to the season 1 finale starts here. Bastion is the villain just like we knew he was, Operation Zero Tolerance gets said out loud, and the Marvel animated universe gets a whole lot fuller in one episode.
May 1, 2024 →
9/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Rogue Is on Fire, and the True Villain Is Bastion
Rogue tears through a military prison, throws Captain America's shield into the mountains, and drops Bolivar Trask. Then the last scene shows you the real villain, and my theory was wrong.
April 24, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Storm Gets Her Lightning Back While Genosha Burns
Lifedeath, Part 2 brings X-Men 275 to life, puts Storm and Forge in a house with the Adversary, and sends Xavier to the Shi'ar throne room. It's a filler episode, and it's a good one.
April 17, 2024 →
10/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Remember It, and You Will
X-Men '97 Episode 5 packs a UN recognition, a proposal, Rogue's full backstory and the fall of Genosha into about 28 minutes. It's appropriately titled, and it's a solid 10 out of 10.
April 10, 2024 →
7.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 Mojo Comes Back and Forge Has a Secret
Motendo / Lifedeath Part 1 is one short story and half of the next one, a trick the old show borrowed from comic book backup stories. Mojo is an incredible callback, and Storm's story finally moves.
April 3, 2024 →
8.5/10 Reviews X-Men '97 The Truth About the Goblin Queen
There are two Jeans, one of them is a clone, and Mister Sinister has been pulling the strings the whole time. Fire Made Flesh runs the entire Inferno saga in one episode, and that speed is my one real complaint.
March 27, 2024 →
Reviews X-Men '97 They Did Worse Than Kill Storm
I woke up and watched both episodes like it was Saturday morning. Episode 1 couldn't have started better, and Episode 2 takes something from Storm that's built into her DNA. Two episodes, two numbers.
March 20, 2024 →