X-Men ’97 Season 2 Debuts on Disney Plus July 1 2026

The second season of the acclaimed animated series "X-Men '97" premieres on Disney on Wednesday, July 1, 2026, continuing the story after a two-year hiatus. The new season picks up from the first season's cliffhanger finale, which left the heroic mutant team scattered across different eras of time.

The dispersal occurred during the climax of Season 1, when the X-Men prevented the space station Asteroid M from colliding with Earth. The event triggered a temporal rift, pulling multiple team members into the past and future. One group, consisting of Rogue, Magneto, Beast, Nightcrawler, and Professor X, was transported to ancient Egypt in 3000 B.C. There, they rescued a man who revealed himself to be En Sabah Nur, the future mutant tyrant Apocalypse.

Cyclops and Jean Grey landed in the distant future of 3960 A.D., where they were met by a figure known as Mother Askani and a young Nathan Summers, who would one day become the time-traveling soldier Cable. It was later revealed that Mother Askani is Rachel Summers, the future daughter of Cyclops and Jean.

Meanwhile, in the present-day timeline of 1997, new threats and anti-mutant sentiment are rising in the wake of the team's...