[0:00] Previously on X-Men.
[0:02] >> Welcome back to Screen Crush. I'm Ryan
[0:03] Ary and this is everything you need to
[0:05] know before X-Men 97 season 2. Now we
[0:08] are not just recapping season 1 of this
[0:10] incredible show, but we are running
[0:11] through the original series and all the
[0:13] details about Magneto Apocalypse and
[0:15] time travel that will be a part of this
[0:17] new season. So, let's get started.
[0:23] Several decades ago, two mutants,
[0:25] Charles Xavier and Eric Lynch, became
[0:27] friends, even though they had
[0:28] differences on how mankind could coexist
[0:30] with mutants.
[0:31] >> We must use our special gifts to bring
[0:33] peace to mankind. You're a fool,
[0:36] Charles.
[0:37] >> Eric, a Holocaust survivor, becomes the
[0:39] super villain Magneto, while Charles
[0:41] founds a school for mutants and the
[0:42] superhero team, the X-Men. His first
[0:44] students are telepath Jean Gray and
[0:46] Scott Summers. Now, when Scott was a
[0:48] child, he and his brother, Alex, barely
[0:49] survived a plane crash that killed his
[0:51] mother. But his father was kidnapped by
[0:53] aliens and became the space pirate known
[0:55] as Corsair, leader of the Star Jammers.
[0:57] Afterwards, he was raised at an
[0:58] orphanage that was secretly run by the
[1:00] super villain Nathan Essex, aka
[1:02] >> Mr. Sinister.
[1:04] >> Sinister is actually over a hundred
[1:06] years old, and his experiments with
[1:07] genetics have given him shape-shifting
[1:09] powers, and he is obsessed with the DNA
[1:11] of Scott Summers and Gan Gray. and from
[1:13] your offspring, I will control the
[1:16] future of all human creatures on Earth.
[1:19] >> Many of the original X team go their
[1:21] separate ways. Iceman leaves with his
[1:23] girlfriend Lorna, aka Polaris, while
[1:25] Warren Worthington III, aka Angel, goes
[1:27] off to enjoy being rich and doesn't
[1:29] really want to be a mutant any longer.
[1:30] They are replaced by new team members
[1:32] like Wolverine, Gambit, Storm, and
[1:34] Rogue, who is also raised by the villain
[1:36] Mystique, and has a secret romantic past
[1:38] with Magneto.
[1:39] >> Oh, that's not appropriate. Then a
[1:41] teenager nicknamed Jubilee manifests
[1:43] mutant powers, freaking out her foster
[1:44] parents. So they notify a group called
[1:46] the Mutant Control Agency. The agency is
[1:48] actually a front for a sinister
[1:50] organization controlled by Henry Peter
[1:52] Guy, who has enlisted a man named
[1:53] Boliver Tras to build an army of giant
[1:56] mutant hunting robots called Sentinels.
[1:58] >> Surrender, mutant.
[2:00] >> Of course
[2:02] not.
[2:04] >> The X-Men save Jubilee from the robots
[2:06] and then take her in. Then they take out
[2:07] all the files storing the names of the
[2:09] registered mutants. However, on the
[2:10] mission, one team member, Morph,
[2:12] apparently dies.
[2:13] >> I'll avenge you, my friend.
[2:16] I swear it.
[2:18] >> Magneto reveals himself as a villain and
[2:20] attacks a military base, but the X-Men
[2:21] stop him. Reeling from the experience,
[2:23] some of the team members take a vacation
[2:25] to Janosha, which turns out to be a
[2:27] nation that enslaves mutants to help
[2:28] build Master Mold, a giant sentinel
[2:30] building robot. With help from the time
[2:32] traveler Cable
[2:33] >> my name's Cable.
[2:34] >> They liberate the slaves and expose
[2:36] Janosha to the world. Then Warren
[2:38] Worthington seeks out a clinic on Mure
[2:40] Island that claims they can cure
[2:41] mutations, but it is secretly run by an
[2:43] immortal super villain named Apocalypse.
[2:46] >> Look upon the future
[2:48] and tremble.
[2:49] >> He transforms Warren into his
[2:51] brainwashed fourth horsemen of the
[2:52] apocalypse, nicknamed death. Warren,
[2:54] however, breaks free from the mind
[2:56] control and swears vengeance on
[2:57] Apocalypse, who barely escapes the
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[4:05] back to what I was saying. Then we flash
[4:07] to a not too distant future where the
[4:08] Sentinels have overrun mankind and the
[4:10] X-Men are either dead or on the run. The
[4:12] Inventor Forge creates a time machine
[4:14] that sends a soldier named Bishop to the
[4:16] present day where he reveals that Gambit
[4:18] will assassinate Senator Robert Kelly
[4:20] and this will lead to their dystopian
[4:21] future. But the actual assassin turns
[4:23] out to be the shape-shifting super
[4:25] villain Mystique. and they prevent the
[4:27] apocalyptic future. And then Bishop is
[4:29] sent home.
[4:30] >> Nothing's changed. It's all just like I
[4:32] left it.
[4:33] >> Master Mold comes online and orders the
[4:35] Sentinels to kidnap world leaders like
[4:37] Senator Kelly. Magneto and the X-Men
[4:38] team up to finally destroy Master Mold.
[4:40] Senator Kelly becomes president. And
[4:42] then Scott and Gene go off for a retreat
[4:44] together, but they are being watched by
[4:45] Mr. Sinister.
[4:46] >> Sinister knows what your future holds.
[4:49] >> It turns out that Morph was rescued and
[4:51] then brainwashed by Mr. Sinister, who
[4:53] turned him into a villain. However, he
[4:55] is conflicted. Sinister kidnaps Scott
[4:57] and Gene and they are rescued by the
[4:58] X-Men. Meanwhile, Xavier and Magneto are
[5:01] stranded in the Savage Land, a
[5:02] prehistoric area hidden in Antarctica.
[5:05] >> It's a dinosaur.
[5:07] >> And they are under constant threat of
[5:09] being captured by Mr. Sinister's forces.
[5:11] Back in the distant future, Bishop
[5:12] returns home to find that all is not
[5:14] well. Although he averted one dystopian
[5:16] future, now mutants are being wiped out
[5:18] by a devastating plague. So he returns
[5:21] to the 1990s to discover that the virus
[5:23] was actually engineered by Apocalypse.
[5:25] But when he stops the plague, it
[5:27] destroys another timeline. These
[5:29] timelines are so confusing.
[5:31] >> Thousands of years in the future, Cable
[5:32] is fighting a war against Apocalypse.
[5:34] But Bishop's actions cause a time
[5:36] vortex. So Cable has to travel back in
[5:38] time, fight Bishop, and then they work
[5:40] out a way to use Wolverine's antibodies
[5:41] to cure the plague, and everybody wins.
[5:44] >> Time travel.
[5:45] >> The X-Men arrive in the Savage Land to
[5:47] rescue Magneto and Charles. Then Morph
[5:49] switches back to the good side and
[5:50] Cyclops uses his powers to completely
[5:52] decimate Sinister and turn him into goo
[5:54] for now. Out in space, the Shar Empire
[5:57] rules over a vast number of planets and
[5:59] they're being led by the power mad king
[6:00] Den. His sister, Deathbird, comes to
[6:03] Earth to find a crash ship, but this
[6:04] awakens the power of the Macron crystal,
[6:06] which basically is super powerful and
[6:08] can reshape reality. Alandre, the sister
[6:10] of the mad king, steals a piece of the
[6:12] Macron crystal and flies to Earth. She
[6:14] is saved by the X-Men, but Gene has to
[6:16] pilot a shuttlecraft and appears to
[6:18] sacrifice her life to save Landre and
[6:20] the team. However, Gene was actually
[6:22] possessed by an awesome cosmic entity
[6:24] called the Phoenix Force, and she
[6:26] basically becomes the most powerful
[6:27] person on Earth.
[6:29] >> I am Phoenix.
[6:33] >> The Ken sends the Shi Imperial Guard to
[6:34] Earth to kidnap Landre and bring her
[6:36] home. So, the X-Men pursue them into
[6:38] space where they meet Cyclops's father,
[6:40] Corsair, but neither of them will know
[6:42] about their connection till later in the
[6:43] series. Turns out Corsair's group is
[6:45] fighting against the evil Shi emperor
[6:47] Den. The Phoenix ultimately saves the
[6:49] universe by destroying the crystal. And
[6:51] afterwards, Landre is made queen of the
[6:53] Shar. Archangel is obsessed with
[6:54] vengeance against Apocalypse, but has to
[6:56] learn to let go of his hatred and his
[6:58] quest for vengeance. At least for now.
[7:00] >> Don't you know WHAT HE IS? DON'T YOU
[7:02] KNOW WHAT HE'LL DO?
[7:03] >> EASY, SUGAR. Iceman returns to the
[7:05] X-Mansion and asks for help hunting down
[7:06] his girlfriend, who has disappeared. It
[7:09] turns out that she is working with a
[7:11] government sponsored team called
[7:12] XFactor, which is being led by Cyclops's
[7:14] brother, Havoc. Their chief engineer is
[7:16] an old friend of Charles, the mutant
[7:17] named Forge, who has the power to invent
[7:19] anything his mind can conceive of. The
[7:21] Phoenix begins to corrupt Gene, making
[7:23] her more evil and aggressive.
[7:24] >> It's hopeless. How can anyone live
[7:26] possessed by another being? After she is
[7:29] manipulated into joining the villainous
[7:30] hellfire club, Gene breaks free from
[7:32] mind control and becomes the dark
[7:34] phoenix, an unstoppable cosmic force for
[7:36] destruction. After she consumes an
[7:38] entire star system, the shi march her
[7:40] for death. The X-Men intervene to stop
[7:42] the shar from executing Gene. They are
[7:43] sentenced to trial by combat on the blue
[7:45] area of the moon, where Gene ultimately
[7:47] sacrifices herself to save the X-Men and
[7:49] the universe. However, she does later
[7:51] return, but without the power of the
[7:52] Phoenix, Magneto builds a mutant
[7:54] sanctuary called Asteroid M, where he
[7:56] will rule a mutant society. where any
[7:58] mutant may live apart from humanity free
[8:01] from its cruelty.
[8:02] >> However, one of his acolytes, Fabian
[8:04] Cortez, betrays him and attempts to
[8:06] murder him. Magneto returns to the
[8:07] asteroid, defeats Cortez, and destroys
[8:09] his base, now abandoning his dream of
[8:11] creating a mutantonly society. A hyper
[8:13] advanced sentinel from the future called
[8:15] Nimrod travels back in time to
[8:17] assassinate young Charles Xavier.
[8:19] >> It can't be bargained with. It can't be
[8:21] reasoned with. It succeeds and creates
[8:24] an apocalyptic present day where Magneto
[8:26] leads the X-Men against the forces of
[8:28] humanity. Wolverine and Storm travel
[8:30] back in time with Bishop to help prevent
[8:31] the assassination, but Nimrod stays
[8:34] behind and attaches himself to a
[8:35] janitor, which will later cause a
[8:37] mutation in his son, Bastion. But more
[8:39] on him later. Next begins an arc titled
[8:41] Beyond Good and Evil, which is an epic
[8:43] four-parter that was originally meant to
[8:45] end this series. In the far future of
[8:47] Cable's timeline, Apocalypse takes
[8:48] control of a place called the Axis of
[8:50] Time, a kind of junction point for all
[8:52] timelines, and he begins to rewrite the
[8:54] entire flow of time. He recruits all of
[8:56] the X-Men villains, including Magneto
[8:58] and Mr. Sinister, who then helps to
[9:00] kidnap psychics from across the galaxy.
[9:02] This interrupts the wedding of Scott and
[9:03] Gan Gray, who feel like they can never
[9:05] live a normal life. Then, Bishop's
[9:07] sister, Shard, arrives in the present
[9:09] day to guide the X-Men. Warren and
[9:10] Psylock join the team to help eliminate
[9:12] Apocalypse while Bishop is stranded at
[9:14] the Axis of Time and gets help from this
[9:16] weird little guy.
[9:17] >> Oh, nothing much. He's just screwing
[9:19] around with THE WHOLE SPACE-TIME
[9:21] CONTINUUM.
[9:22] >> IN THE DISTANT FUTURE, Cable leads an
[9:24] assault on Apocalypse's rejuvenation
[9:25] chamber. But when the attack fails, he
[9:27] travels to the past to work with the
[9:29] X-Men to attack the same chamber in the
[9:31] present day.
[9:32] >> They're going to get temporal pins
[9:33] movement.
[9:34] >> This attack also fails. Meanwhile, at
[9:36] the axis of time, Apocalypse begins his
[9:38] final plan to rule over all of reality.
[9:41] >> Recreating the universe in my own image,
[9:45] a perfect universe, a grateful universe.
[9:48] >> However, when Magneto learns that
[9:49] Apocalypse intends to erase all of
[9:51] realities, he secretly turns against
[9:53] him. The X-Men along with Magneto,
[9:55] Archangel, and Cable infiltrate the axis
[9:57] of time and stop Apocalypse's plans.
[9:59] Sinister escapes into the time stream
[10:01] while Apocalypse appears to be
[10:02] destroyed. It turns out though that the
[10:04] weird little guy that was helping Bishop
[10:06] was actually Immortis in disguise. And
[10:08] Immortis is the future version of the
[10:10] timetraveling villain King the
[10:11] Conqueror.
[10:12] >> I AM KING.
[10:13] >> And Charles and Magneto seem to be close
[10:15] to putting aside their differences.
[10:17] >> Perhaps if we could start the world
[10:18] over, it would be possible again.
[10:21] >> Aliens called the Failance invade Earth,
[10:23] forcing Wolverine, Beast, Magneto,
[10:24] Cable, and Forge to work together to
[10:26] save the world.
[10:27] >> I never thought I'd see the day when we
[10:29] would all be working together.
[10:31] Apocalypse is now a bodyless spirit who
[10:33] inhabits the body of Magneto's former
[10:35] acolyte, Fabian Cortez. Then on the
[10:37] recently liberated island of Janosia,
[10:39] Apocalypse conducts a ceremony to give
[10:41] himself a new form so he can return.
[10:43] >> Somehow Palpatine returned.
[10:45] >> But then Henry Peter Guyrich, the
[10:47] hatemonger who pioneered the Sentinel
[10:49] program, assassinates Charles Xavier on
[10:51] live television. The event sparks mutant
[10:53] outrage, especially on Janosha, which
[10:55] has become a haven for mutant society.
[10:57] Mutants gather on the island and beg
[10:59] Magneto to lead them in a war against
[11:01] humanity.
[11:02] >> Nature has made us superior. This world
[11:05] is our world now. Take it.
[11:08] >> However, Xavier is not dead yet. The
[11:10] X-Men know that the Shar have technology
[11:12] that can save his life, but they need
[11:14] Magneto's help in order to summon them.
[11:16] Magneto is now forced to choose, and he
[11:18] abandons his war against humanity to
[11:20] help summon the aliens to save his best
[11:22] friend's life.
[11:24] I am proud of you all, my X-Men.
[11:35] So, one year goes by with the world
[11:37] believing that Charles Xavier is dead,
[11:38] and this has ushered in an era of good
[11:40] feelings between mutants and humans.
[11:42] Cyclops is leading the X-Men, and Gene
[11:44] is 9 months pregnant with their son.
[11:46] Privately, though, they begin to wonder
[11:48] if it's time for them to move on from
[11:49] the team and start a new life together.
[11:51] The team rescues a teenage mutant named
[11:53] Roberto Dcasta from anti-mutant humans
[11:55] who have been adapting sentinel
[11:56] technology.
[11:57] >> No, don't. I surrender.
[12:00] >> Not.
[12:02] >> And this leads to the X-Men
[12:03] interrogating Guy to find out where
[12:05] these sentinels are.
[12:07] >> Tolerance is extinction. But when Gene
[12:10] touches his mind, she sees disturbing
[12:12] visions. But with the information they
[12:14] gather, they're able to track down a new
[12:15] Master Mold and its creator, Boliviver
[12:17] Tras. They defeat Master Mold and return
[12:19] home to discover that Charles has left
[12:21] his mansion and leadership of the team
[12:23] to their old enemy, Magneto.
[12:25] >> My X-Men.
[12:27] >> Magneto works to turn over a new leaf as
[12:29] the leader of the X-Men, but he is
[12:31] arrested by the UN for all of his past
[12:33] crimes. While he is standing trial, Gene
[12:35] goes into labor at a local hospital
[12:36] where the human doctors refuse to treat
[12:38] her.
[12:39] >> I'll show you a C-section B. Meanwhile,
[12:42] protesters stormed the UN with part of
[12:44] the team helping to stem the riot until
[12:45] an assassin with a gun that's adapted
[12:47] from a power dampening collar penetrates
[12:49] the assembly, trying to shoot Magneto,
[12:51] but instead robs Storm of her powers.
[12:54] >> The breeze is gone. I cannot feel it,
[12:58] nor the moisture, nor the air.
[13:01] >> In a fit of rage, Magneto raises the
[13:02] judge's panel high above Earth to give
[13:04] an impassion speech about the value of
[13:06] working together. that this is a shared
[13:09] world with a common future and that my
[13:12] kind like yours have the right to live
[13:15] in it.
[13:16] >> But then he ends with a threatening
[13:17] plea.
[13:18] >> Do not make me let you down.
[13:21] >> Afterwards, a woman who looks exactly
[13:23] like Gan Gray appears on their doorstep.
[13:25] After conducting extensive tests, Beast
[13:27] confirms that the woman on the doorstep
[13:29] is actually the original Gan Gray and
[13:31] the gene who gave birth to Nathan is a
[13:32] clone.
[13:33] >> I'm the original. So, the process was a
[13:36] success.
[13:37] >> Furthermore, he can tell that Mr.
[13:39] Sinister is the creator of the clone.
[13:41] Then, clone Jean's mind suddenly flips
[13:43] and she is under Sinister's control when
[13:44] she attacks the X-Men. The real Gene
[13:46] tries to fight her off, but she delivers
[13:48] baby Nathan to the super villain, Mr.
[13:50] Sinister. Sinister's plan is to create a
[13:52] genetically superior child with the DNA
[13:54] of Scott and Gene, but then expose it to
[13:56] a technoorganic virus to strengthen its
[13:58] DNA even further. Sinister was likely
[14:01] exposing Nathan to it in the hopes of
[14:02] making him invincible.
[14:06] So, Clone Gene fights the X-Men, but
[14:08] overcomes Sinister's control long enough
[14:09] to save baby Nathan. However, Sinister
[14:12] has infected Nathan with this virus, and
[14:14] he will die. Bishop then offers to take
[14:16] the baby into the future, where his
[14:17] advanced technology can save his life.
[14:19] Clone Gene leaves the team and gives
[14:21] herself a new name.
[14:22] >> Call me Meline Prior.
[14:24] >> While Storm also leaves the team to cope
[14:25] with not having powers, Jubilee and
[14:27] Roberto want to celebrate her 18th
[14:29] birthday, but instead they are pulled
[14:30] into another dimension called Mojo
[14:32] World. It is run by a mega maniacal
[14:34] villain who is always chasing higher
[14:35] ratings.
[14:36] >> They want entertainment.
[14:39] >> He makes Jubilee run through video game
[14:40] levels of her past before they are saved
[14:42] by an older version of herself from the
[14:44] simulation. And then she and Roberto
[14:46] escape together and make out.
[14:50] >> Meanwhile, Storm meets Forge who offers
[14:52] to attempt to restore her powers. The
[14:54] two of them begin to have a romantic
[14:56] interest in one another until Forge
[14:58] reveals that he was partially
[15:00] responsible for creating the weapon that
[15:01] robbed her of her powers. This dramatic
[15:03] moment is interrupted though when a
[15:05] demon arrives and attacks Forge. Months
[15:07] go by and Magneto is invited to the
[15:09] island of Janosha, which has become a
[15:11] safe haven for mutants and the UN is
[15:12] about to recognize it as an official
[15:14] nation. Reporter Trish Tilby is at the
[15:16] exion interviewing the team for a fluff
[15:18] piece while Scott is still coping with
[15:20] losing his son. I gave him up because
[15:22] you can't say thank you. Because I have
[15:24] to stomach your questions and prove that
[15:26] I'm a person.
[15:27] >> Jean also discovers that Scott and
[15:29] Meline are having secret intimate
[15:31] meetings via telepathy and this strain
[15:33] starts to hurt their relationship. She
[15:35] even kisses Wolverine.
[15:37] >> You're Jean Gray. He's Scott Summers.
[15:39] Those are the rules.
[15:41] >> Jean shares a psychic report with
[15:42] Meline, so she has all of her memories,
[15:44] but Scott is not sure which of them he
[15:46] actually loves.
[15:47] >> This is brilliant, but I like this.
[15:50] Meanwhile, on Janosha, Magneto is
[15:52] offered a seat on the ruling council and
[15:53] accepts only if Rogue will join him. In
[15:56] a tearful scene, she tells Gambit about
[15:58] her secret past relationship with
[15:59] Magneto and says that she is going to
[16:01] join him.
[16:06] >> The mutants have a grand gala and Cable
[16:08] shows up to warn that something awful is
[16:10] about to happen. And then Meline touches
[16:12] his mind and realizes that this is her
[16:14] long-lost son, Nathan, from the future.
[16:16] Then the party becomes a catastrophe
[16:17] when a giant kaiju sized sentinel
[16:19] attacks. Magneto then leads the fight,
[16:22] but he is presumably killed defending
[16:23] the Morlocks. Rogue is ready to die to
[16:26] win the fight, but she is saved by
[16:27] Gambit, who then sacrifices his life to
[16:29] save the island.
[16:31] >> Remember it.
[16:32] >> And afterwards,
[16:33] >> you know what happens when I touch
[16:34] somebody? You want to end up in the
[16:36] hospital.
[16:37] >> I need a minute.
[16:38] >> Gambit loves you.
[16:41] >> Rogue is finally able to touch him.
[16:44] I can't feel you.
[16:47] >> Moving away from that, Storm and Forge
[16:49] are able to fend off the demon's
[16:50] influence over them while Storm has to
[16:52] overcome her fear of close places to get
[16:54] a rare plant to save Forge's life.
[16:56] Facing her fears and her trauma restores
[16:58] her powers. But then she sees Janosha on
[17:00] the news and knows that she has to
[17:02] rejoin the team. Meanwhile, in space,
[17:04] Charles has been cured and he has fallen
[17:06] in love with Landre, Queen of the Shar.
[17:08] >> To the might and glory of the Imperium.
[17:12] However, the racist colonizing Shi
[17:14] empire doesn't take well to having their
[17:15] new emperor be a human. So, Deathbird
[17:17] demands that Charles erase all memories
[17:19] of Earth and the X-Men from his own
[17:21] mind. Charles chooses another way to
[17:23] educate the Shar that colonialism is
[17:25] stupid. But the psychic classroom is
[17:27] interrupted by visions of Janosha, and
[17:28] he decides to return home.
[17:30] >> It is time I return to my X-Men.
[17:34] >> The X-Men bury Gambit and are still
[17:35] reeling from the aftermath of Janosha.
[17:37] Nightcrawler has joined the team,
[17:39] helping them dig Meline's body out of
[17:40] the rubble. While Rogue tries to hunt
[17:42] down the people responsible, Roberto and
[17:44] Jubilee return to his home where his
[17:46] wealthy mother admits that she always
[17:48] knew he was a mutant. But she still
[17:49] wants him to keep his abilities a
[17:51] secret.
[17:52] >> Have you tried not being a mutant?
[17:55] >> The X-Men successfully hunt down Bolivar
[17:57] Tras, but after Rogue throws him off a
[17:58] building, he is resurrected as a living
[18:00] sentinel.
[18:01] >> What in the name of all heaven?
[18:03] >> It turns out that someone else has been
[18:05] behind all of these events. This
[18:07] somebody killed Guy, and he's holding
[18:08] Magneto captive. And his name is
[18:11] Bastion. He was born as a mutant with
[18:13] Nimrod's advanced technology attached to
[18:15] his body, giving him the abilities of a
[18:17] technopath to control machines. And he
[18:19] has a plan to end mutant kind. Cable
[18:22] returns to explain what's at stake. In
[18:24] the future, Bastion builds an army of
[18:26] humanoid sentinels, and mankind is
[18:27] enslaved to build a human utopia.
[18:29] >> So, another dystopia where Logan's the
[18:31] last to die. Cable has tried to prevent
[18:34] this future, but we learned that Janosha
[18:35] is what's called an absolute point in
[18:37] time that can never be altered. More
[18:40] importantly, it's revealed that he is
[18:41] actually Scott and Jean's son, Nathan
[18:43] from the distant future, although he's
[18:44] got a chip on his shoulder about this at
[18:46] first.
[18:47] >> A couple centuries late in the
[18:48] overprotective dad bit, huh?
[18:50] >> Both of you, stop it.
[18:51] >> All around the world, the Sentinels are
[18:53] activated and the divided X-Men fight
[18:55] them off on several fronts. The
[18:56] Sentinels wreck the X-Mansion and Cable
[18:58] begins to accept his long-lost family.
[19:00] Let's show these toasters why you don't
[19:02] screw at the summers.
[19:04] >> It turns out that Mr. Sinister has been
[19:06] working for Bastion to help create these
[19:07] organic sentinels. And Bastion also has
[19:10] the support of the world's governments.
[19:11] However, UN worker Val Cooper has a
[19:13] change of heart and frees Magneto from
[19:15] Bastion's jail because she has a
[19:17] realization.
[19:18] >> Magneto was right.
[19:22] >> Enough.
[19:24] >> Magneto goes into space, resurrecting
[19:26] his base, Asteroid M, and knocks out all
[19:28] of the electronics on planet Earth.
[19:30] temporarily shutting down the Organic
[19:31] Sentinels. Charles then returns to Earth
[19:33] and finds that the X-Men resent his
[19:35] absence and that he gave control of the
[19:36] team to a super villain.
[19:38] >> Well, you were wrong.
[19:39] >> Magneto then arrives at the X-Manssion
[19:41] and offers the team a choice to defect
[19:43] and join his war against humanity. And
[19:45] Rogue and Sunspot accept his offer.
[19:47] Beast and Forge create a power dampener
[19:49] to defeat Bastion. And they decide to
[19:51] fight a war on two fronts. One team will
[19:53] take out Magneto while the other fights
[19:55] off Bastion.
[19:56] >> Am I going to war or a circus? What' you
[19:59] expect? Black leather
[20:01] >> on Asteroid M. Magneto lashes out
[20:03] against Wolverine, ripping the
[20:04] adamanthium from his body and forcing
[20:07] Charles to shut down his mind and enter
[20:09] Magneto's psyche. So, this reactivates
[20:11] all the electronics on Earth and unlocks
[20:13] all of the organic sentinels, just as
[20:14] Mr. Sinister takes control of Cable and
[20:16] forces him to fight Gene. Bastion helped
[20:19] his army of Sentinels attack all over
[20:20] Earth and announces his plans to control
[20:22] every world government.
[20:24] >> Tolerance is extinction.
[20:28] Then when all seems lost, Gene calls on
[20:30] the power of the phoenix to burn the
[20:31] mutant DNA out of Sinister, making him
[20:33] look his age.
[20:34] >> And just die already.
[20:37] Die.
[20:38] >> And then she places the dampener on
[20:39] Bastion, which ends his control of the
[20:41] organic sentinels. But Bastion will not
[20:43] accept defeat. He rips off Cable's arm,
[20:46] hits him with it a little bit, and then
[20:47] uses it to evolve into a higher form.
[20:49] His new plan is to hurl Asteroid M at
[20:52] Earth to destroy everyone on the planet.
[20:54] >> They stole IT FROM ME, CARMINE. THEY
[20:56] TOOK IT. THAT WAS TODAY. TODAY
[20:59] >> IN SPACE, the X-Men fight off Bastion
[21:01] while the world governments decide to
[21:02] send nuclear weapons to destroy Asteroid
[21:05] M.
[21:05] >> New gun.
[21:06] >> This plan fails. Asteroid M is still
[21:08] falling to Earth and it's soon to be
[21:09] destroyed. But then Scott tries to
[21:11] reason with Bastion, explaining that,
[21:13] hey, you're a mutant just like us.
[21:15] >> You're not alone.
[21:16] >> But Bastion would rather destroy the
[21:18] world than admit who he really is.
[21:20] Bastion disappears in an explosion, but
[21:22] Asteroid M is still hurtling toward
[21:23] Earth. So, the X-Men decide to sacrifice
[21:25] themselves to save the world. So, Scott
[21:27] and Jean share one last telepathic
[21:29] conversation with their son.
[21:30] >> They're good eyes.
[21:32] >> And now they're yours.
[21:35] I love you, son.
[21:37] >> This whole time, Charles has been inside
[21:38] Magneto's mind where they finally come
[21:40] to an understanding and decide to work
[21:42] together.
[21:42] >> A dream that made us a family. And like
[21:46] that dream, any family worth having is
[21:49] worth fighting for. Eric wakes up, helps
[21:52] the X-Men stop the asteroid, but then
[21:54] everyone mysteriously disappears. 6
[21:56] months later, Bishop arrives at the
[21:57] X-Mansion to tell Forge that the X-Men
[21:59] are lost in time. Then we see 3,000
[22:02] years in the past that rogue
[22:03] Nightcrawler Xavier and Magneto arrive
[22:05] in ancient Egypt to encounter a young
[22:07] apocalypse.
[22:08] >> My name is N Sabanor.
[22:12] Thousands of years in the future, Scott
[22:14] and Gene meet young Nathan while in the
[22:16] present day, Apocalypse visits the ashes
[22:18] of Janosha and digs one of Gambit's
[22:20] playing cards out of the Rebel.
[22:21] >> So much death.
[22:24] >> Guys, that's everything you need to know
[22:26] before X-Men 97 season 2. Is there an
[22:28] important detail I forgot? Is there
[22:29] anything else you want to know? Let me
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