{"id":205385,"date":"2025-12-28T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205385\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:17:07","slug":"marvels-2026-slate-can-finally-fix-the-biggest-mistake-in-x-men-movie-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205385\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvel’s 2026 Slate Can Finally Fix The Biggest Mistake In X-Men Movie History"},"content":{"rendered":"

The X-Men\u2019s return in 2026 in X-Men \u201997<\/a> season 2 gives one iconic Marvel Comics supervillain the chance for redemption, a decade after he was failed during his last movie appearance. X-Men \u201997 season 1 established the series\u2014a revival of X-Men: The Animated Series from the 1990s\u2014as one of Marvel Studios\u2019 most popular projects, despite being set outside the Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a>. Although there has been behind the scenes drama concerning series creator Beau DeMayo\u2019s messy departure from Marvel<\/a>, there is a huge amount of anticipation for X-Men \u201997 season 2.<\/p>\n

Following the finale of X-Men \u201997 season 1<\/a>, which saw the time-displaced X-Men team come face-to-face with several different versions of Apocalypse, this iconic Marvel villain is expected to have a prominent role in season 2. Giving Apocalypse such a key role in the critically-acclaimed series will finally redeem him from his disappointing appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse in 2016. Oscar Isaac played the ancient mutant villain in 2016 in 20th Century Fox\u2019s X-Men franchise, but the movie\u2019s version of Apocalypse was heavily criticized.<\/p>\n

X-Men \u201997 Will Finally Do Apocalypse Justice After His X-Men Movie Disappointment<\/p>\n

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En Sabah Nur\u2019s Apocalypse was one of the world\u2019s oldest mutants in Marvel Comics, whose abilities emerged during an altercation with Kang the Conqueror variant Rama-Tut, after which he also started to use Celestial technology. In the years since his first cameo appearance in X-Factor #5 in 1986, Apocalypse has become one of the X-Men\u2019s most powerful, notable, and terrifying antagonist. This made his disappointing appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse<\/a>, which completely altered his history, motivation, and relationship to the X-Men, incredibly controversial, but Marvel Studios can do better.<\/p>\n

While X-Men: Apocalypse might have failed to capture the essence of the villain, Apocalypse will have plenty of opportunities to redeem himself in X-Men \u201997 season 2. In the future, Cyclops and Jean Grey have come face-to-face with the Clan Askani and their son, Nathan, who was experimented on to become a weapon to use against Apocalypse. In the past, Professor X, Magneto, Rogue, Nightcrawler, and Beast have met En Sabah Nur before becoming Apocalypse. In the present, Apocalypse himself has found Gambit\u2019s body in the ruins of Genosha, and has teased the mutant\u2019s return as his Horseman of Death.<\/p>\n

X-Men \u201997 season 2 has the chance to develop the mythology surrounding Apocalypse in three different timelines, expanding on his story more than ever before and keeping his on-screen story faithful to Marvel Comics. 20th Century Fox failed at this, but Marvel Studios is gearing up to do better, and this spells good news for Apocalypse\u2019s possible upcoming live-action reintroduction to the MCU proper. Jake Schreier\u2019s X-Men reboot<\/a> is coming, and we don\u2019t yet know who will be opposing the MCU\u2019s first official new X-Men team, but Apocalypse has been the subject of speculation. X-Men \u201997 season 2 is scheduled to release in mid-2026, so we\u2019re excited about Apocalypse\u2019s future in Marvel Studios\u2019 hands.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The X-Men\u2019s return in 2026 in X-Men \u201997 season 2 gives one iconic Marvel Comics supervillain the chance…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[61212,125480,156,66294,3993,409,111,139,69,13272,27328,125481],"class_list":{"0":"post-205385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-answer-feature","9":"tag-apocalypse-en-sabah-nur","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-list-feature","12":"tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-oscar-isaac","18":"tag-x-men","19":"tag-x-men-97"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}