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While the MCU is effectively 98% of current Marvel content airing, we are now in an era where that 2% has been declared better than all of it. This is the era of X-Men \u201997, which has just set a Rotten Tomatoes score record for the entire brand.<\/p>\n
Season 2 of X-Men \u201997 began airing this week with a three-episode premiere; the season scoring a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from over two dozen critics. That, combined with the 99% of season 1, and the overall score is a 99.5%, though on the site, it is just displayed as a 99%. <\/a>Even still, that makes X-Men \u201997 the highest-scored Marvel project, show or movie, of all time. Here\u2019s the list, as it stands:<\/p>\n X-Men \u201997 \u2013 99%Ms. Marvel \u2013 98%Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man \u2013 97%Black Panther \u2013 96%Agents of SHIELD \u2013 95%Avengers Endgame \u2013 94%Iron Man \u2013 94%Logan \u2013 93%Thor Ragnarok \u2013 93%Spider-Man: No Way Home \u2013 93%Daredevil \u2013 92%Spider-Man: Homecoming \u2013 92%Shang-Chi \u2013 92%WandaVision \u2013 92%<\/p>\n As you see, there are two animated series on that list, both recent, two of the top three, in fact. Ms. Marvel remains the highest live-action project, a somewhat baffling situation in that she never got a second season, and the movie she co-led, The Marvels, was the lowest-grossing MCU feature ever. She deserved better.<\/p>\n X-Men \u201997 season 2 is starting out strong with a continuation of a cliffhanger from last season. Now, different groups of X-Men are split across three different timelines trying to stop Apocalypse in different eras. It\u2019s seen the introduction of new characters and new teams like X-Force and X-Factor, and it\u2019s only just getting started, as it will air weekly from here.<\/p>\n X-Men \u201997 has endured significant amounts of controversy after its creator, Beau DeMayo, was fired right before season 1 aired<\/a>. But his work has bled into season 2, already in place before that. He will not be involved in the already-greenlit season 3, however.<\/p>\n The actual MCU is gearing up for its own introduction of the X-Men, a new, younger version after it says goodbye (for the final time, this time) to the FOX-era X-Men who will appear in Avengers: Doomsday and probably Secret Wars. There is some theorizing that Sadie Sink is playing a young Jean Grey in Spider-Man: Brand New Day, somehow positioned as an antagonist.<\/p>\n It will be hard for any live-action rendition to top what we\u2019re seeing here in X-Men \u201997, which works for many more reasons than pure nostalgia, and it deserves its crown as being the best Marvel project out there.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series<\/a> and The Earthborn Trilogy<\/a>.<\/p>\n