X-Men 97 renewed for Season 3, Season 2 arrives Summer 2026

Marvel and Marvel Animation announced at New York Comic Con on Saturday that X-Men 97 has been renewed for a third season and that Season 2 will arrive on Disney in summer 2026. Attendees at the panel were shown a trailer that teased the return of the villain Apocalypse and depicted the X-Men scattered across different eras, setting up the time-spanning storylines to come.

Season 1 of X-Men 97 premiered on Disney on March 20, 2024 and concluded its 10-episode run on May 15. The series continues narratives from the 1990s X-Men: The Animated Series, following the team as they grapple with public mistrust, the apparent death and eventual return of Professor Charles Xavier, and a climactic battle with the hybrid human-robot antagonist Bastion that hurled many characters through time. The first season ended with Cyclops and Jean Grey stranded in the year 3960 A.D., Rogue, Beast, Nightcrawler, Xavier and Magneto in ancient Egypt around 3000 B.C. where they encounter a young Apocalypse, and hints that Gambit may yet live. The penultimate episode also left Wolverine physically altered after Magneto removed his adamantium.

At the New York Comic Con panel, executive producers Eric Lewald...