| Bastion |  This is what she was protecting me from? I massacred you freaks and you're recruiting me? You're suicidal!  |
| Rogue | Fella, we could say the same about you and this dyin' duck fit of yours. |
Appearances
Featured Characters:
- X-Men
- Cyclops (Scott Summers)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Comatose or unconscious)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
- Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)
- Jean Grey (Possessed by Phoenix)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe)
- Cable (Nathan Summers)
- Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy)
- Forge (Daniel) (Name revealed)
- Morph (Impersonates Mister Sinister, Sauron, Mister Fantastic and Jean Grey)
- Rogue (Anna Marie) (Rejoins)
- Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa) (Rejoins) (First appearance as Sunspot)
- Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) (Rejoins)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Silver Samurai (Kenuichio Harada) (Cameo)
- Iron Man (Tony Stark) (Cameo)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers)
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Cameo)
- Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange) (Cameo)
- Black Panther (T'Chaka) (Identity revealed)
- Dora Milaje (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Cloak (Tyrone Johnson) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Dagger (Tandy Bowen) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna) (Cameo)
- Crimson Dynamo (Valentin Shatalov) (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich) (Cameo)
- Alpha Flight (Cameo)
- Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier) (Cameo)
- Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier) (Cameo)
- Puck (Eugene Judd) (Cameo)
- Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock) (Cameo)
- Cipher (Alisa Tager) (Cameo)
- Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) (Vision or hallucination) (Photo)
- Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff) (Vision or hallucination) (Photo)
- Polaris (Lorna Dane) (Vision or hallucination)
- Nazis (Voice only) (Vision or hallucination)
- Yashida Corp (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- WHiH (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Stark Industries (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- VistaCorp (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- United Nations
- Peter Parker (Cameo)
- Mary Jane Watson (Cameo) (Return)
- Flash Thompson (Cameo)
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin) (Photo)
- Dust (Sooraya Quadir) (Photo)
- Archangel (Warren Worthington III) (Photo)
- Magik (Illyana Rasputin) (Photo)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake) (Photo)
- Havok (Alexander Summers) (Photo)
- Exodus (Bennet du Paris) (Photo)
- Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) (Photo)
- Emma Frost (Photo)
- Clan Askani
- Edie Lehnsherr (Mentioned)
- Jakob Lehnsherr (Mentioned)
- Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (Mentioned)
- Rose Gilberti (Mentioned)
- Madelyne Pryor (Mentioned)
- Christopher Summers (Mentioned)
- Graydon Creed (Mentioned)
- Forge (Future) (Mentioned) (Name revealed)
- Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- Mutants
- Sentinels
- Horses (Mentioned)
- Neanderthals (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth-92131
- Earth
- United States of America
- Washington, D.C.
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Manhattan Memorial Hospital
- United Nations Headquarters
- Times Square (Cameo)
- Hell's Kitchen
- Josie's Bar (Cameo)
- Manhattan
- Westchester County
- X-Mansion (Wreckage, ruins, debris, fragments)
- New York City
- Kansas (Referenced)
- Genosha
- Hammer Bay (Wreckage, ruins, debris, fragments)
- Galapagos Islands
- Japan (Cameo)
- Tokyo (Cameo)
- Tokyo Tower (Cameo)
- Tokyo (Cameo)
- Russia (Cameo)
- Muir Island (Mentioned)
- Santo Marco (Mentioned)
- Greece (Referenced)
- Wakanda (First appearance)
- Royal Palace of Wakanda (First appearance)
- Egypt
- United States of America
- Earth Orbit
- Asteroid M (Destruction)
- Moon
- Astral Plane
- Germany (Vision or hallucination)
- Earth
- Earth-121893 (Referenced)
- 3960 A.D.
- Crestcoast (Mentioned)
Items:
- Magneto's Helmet
- Silver Samurai's Armor (Cameo)
- Inhibitor Collar
- X-Uniforms
- Cyclops' Visor
- Wolverine's Suit (Wreckage, ruins, debris, fragments)
- Crimson Dynamo Armor Mark V (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Iron Man Armor Model 13 (Cameo)
- Captain America's Shield
- Captain America's Uniform
- Daredevil's Suit (Cameo)
- Daredevil's Billy Club (Cameo)
- Techno-Organic Virus
- Panther Habit
- Cloak's Cloak (First appearance) (Cameo)
- Cloak of Levitation (Cameo)
- Eye of Agamotto (Cameo)
- Mnemonic Scrambler
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Referenced)
Vehicles:
- X-Men Blackbird
- X-Men Stratojet (Wreckage, ruins, debris, fragments)
- Trojan Horse (Referenced)
Synopsis
The X-Men's dream is put to the test as mutant-human relations reach a tipping point.
Notes
- Forge's board consists of 24 mutants.
- Row 1: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Beast, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, and Sunspot.
- Row 2: Xavier, Scarlet Witch, Colossus, Morph, Rogue, Dust, Archangel, and Magik
- Row 3: Wolverine, Iceman, Havok, Cable, Exodus, Quicksilver, Shadowcat, and Emma Frost.
- Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Beast, Magneto, Nightcrawler, Xavier, Morph, Rogue, Archangel and Wolverine are all listed as MISSING PRESUMED DEAD in red text.
- Jubilee, Sunspot, and Cable are listed as AWOL in red text.
- Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are listed as OFF WORLD in black text.
- The board references the cover of X-Men #141, marking the second time it has been referenced this season.
- This is the second appearance of Shadowcat on Earth-92131 and her first appearance where she's properly distinguishable.
- Shadowcat's costume is based on her Excalibur costume.
- Colossus is in his Bronze Age costume. Further indicating he might've joined the X-Men in the year long gap between "Graduation Day" and "To Me, My X-Men".
- Magik is seen in her New Mutants uniform, confirming she has since grown up and taken on the name Magik.
- This is the first time Archangel has been mentioned since the attack on Genosha, indicating that he could've been one of the many casualties.
Trivia
- Similar to Hulk's cameo in the prior episode, Iron Man and Mister Fantastic's designs are taken from the Marvel Action Hour, which was previously suggested in guidebooks to be on a separate Earth from Earth-92131. However, Iron Man: The Animated Series and Fantastic Four are still considered a different reality and do not work within the continuity of Earth-92131, as this episode adds another discrepancy to the list: it shows T'Chaka being the king of Wakanda and the Black Panther in the 90s, contradicting the Fantastic Four animated series, where he was killed a decade before the events of the cartoon.
- Showrunner Beau DeMayo directly stated on Twitter that he personally considered both universes as a shared continuity when working on '97, though he couldn't speak to what Marvel considered canon. Additionally, he implied that the Black Panther being T'Chaka instead of his son T'Challa wasn't a choice he made, which suggests it may have been a mandate rather than a creative decision.