{"id":121230,"date":"2024-05-08T12:41:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1692280"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:41:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T11:41:53","slug":"the-brave-always-die-first-x-men-97-episode-9-ending-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/08\/the-brave-always-die-first-x-men-97-episode-9-ending-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The brave always die first\u2019: \u2018X-Men \u201997\u2019 episode 9 ending, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Warning: This article contains full spoilers for <\/strong><\/em>X-Men ’97 episode 9. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

After nine epic episodes, the end is finally nigh for X-Men ’97<\/a><\/strong><\/em>‘s exemplary first season, so are you ready for the incoming finale? Trick question, of course you’re not. Penultimate installment, “Tolerance is Extinction – Part 2,” was so thrilling, dark, and dramatic that we’re even more reluctant to see this incredible show leave our screens than we were before. <\/p>\n

Previously on X-Men ’97<\/em><\/a>: Uber-villain Bastion, a human Sentinel<\/a>, had unleashed his Prime Sentinels upon the world, but an escaped Magneto stopped them dead in their tracks with an electromagnetic wave that covered the globe. This has just thrown the planet out of the frying pan and into the fire, however, as episode 9 reveals that the EMP blast has wrecked the Earth’s magnetic fields, meaning it’s now just hours away from destruction. <\/p>\n

The X-Men split off into two teams \u2014 Gold and Blue \u2014 in order to confront Bastion and his minion Mr. Sinister and talk down Magneto, who has recruited Rogue and Sunspot to his cause. But things, as ever, don’t go exactly to plan… <\/p>\n

Is Jean Grey dead (you know, again)? <\/h2>\n
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As part of the Gold team, Jean \u2014 dressed in her old-school Marvel Girl costume \u2014 battles Sinister, but the evil villain plays his cruelest trick yet by mind-controlling Cable (the time-traveling son of Jean’s clone, Madelyne Pryor<\/a>, don’t forget) into fighting her. Cable reveals that, like her and his mother, he’s a first-class telekinetic too before deploying a lethal wave of psychic power. <\/p>\n

In the midst of the fight, Jean sends out a psychic signal to Cyclops \u2014 who’s part of the Blue team fighting Magneto \u2014 and tells him “Scott… I love you.” The astral Scott is powerless to do anything as he witnesses the moment that his own son appears to vaporize the love of his life. <\/p>\n

After Erik Lensherr himself appeared to suffer a similar fate<\/a> only a few episodes ago, the lack of a body leaves us tempted to believe Jean isn’t really dead. Especially as this is Jean “I beat Death for breakfast” Grey we’re talking about. Even Rogue lampshaded the trope earlier in this same episode. “Who dies next?” she asked, when joining Magneto’s side. “Jean? Hah! Been there done that.” <\/p>\n

What did Magneto do to Wolverine?<\/h2>\n
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Meanwhile, things are looking dire for the Blue team too, as Magneto gains the upper hand when he places his own telepath-blocking helmet on Professor X’s head to stop him from meddling in his mind. Wolverine appears to save the day, however, when he sneaks up behind Lensherr and stabs him in the back. “Been in a lot of wars, bub. The brave always die first,” Logan tells him \u2014 a clever callback to the time Magneto said this himself back in X-Men: The Animated Series<\/em>. <\/p>\n

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