X-Men ’97 is Marvel’s omega-level nostalgia play

TV Show ReviewsDisney Plus’ new X-Men animated series is a throwback to the days when comics adaptations could focus on their own stories instead of cinematic franchises.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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Outside of a few recent cameos, the X-Men have been conspicuously absent from Marvel Studios’ projects thanks to a yearslong corporate beef with Fox, which used to own the characters’ rights. It has been fascinating but weird to watch Marvel build an entire cinematic multiverse with nary a mutant

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