Welcome to the heavy spoiler show. I'm your host, Paul.
And this video breaking down X-Men 97,
the brand new episodes just released on Disney Plus.
And there's lots of cool Easter eggs and things we have to talk about.
This entry pulls from several different comics,
and there's also a big movie that helps inspire the plot.
As always, we're going to bring a scene by scene breakdown
to talk about everything that we think you guys need to know.
To me, my spoiler men and women.
Come with us as we journey through the episode.
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Now let's get into X-Men 97.
We all knew this goal.
Now, as always, we get some brand new shots in the intro
and shout outs to you guys for summing up this last week that had still missing
from the credits, which highlighted that she'd stepped away from the X-Men.
Brock in this episode follows the life death storyline,
which I think is one of her most iconic stories.
Why? Well, you say we'll talk about this later on,
but it's in that the characters stop relying on her powers.
Now, accompanying the guitar riffs of the Marvel Studios logo,
we now have Jubilee facing off against Mojo.
It sets up what's to come in the episode.
However, this is also a flashback to an earlier entry in which she faced off
against the character.
Mojo was created by writer Anna Santi and artist Art Adams
after making his first appearance in Long Shot.
Three Long Shot
gets reference right in this opening as we can catch him beside you.
There's also a typical later on and we can see a stuffed
toy of him coming from the dimension known as Mojo world.
It's a twisted realm where entertainment reigns supreme
and the population here are addicted to gladiator style television
shows, which builds off the back of stories like The Running Man.
Mojo is completely spinal.
In more ways than one.
And he has a mechanical lower half base off a spider and a scorpion.
He's ruled a mojo world, and he constantly seeks
to increase his ratings by any means necessary.
This includes putting people in the games themselves and basically doing whatever
he can to make sure people get the thumbs up.
Likes threatening to go around the house and kill them if they don't.
I'm being serious.
Now we once more have Fenix and the Sheer Empire
shots from last week and a callback to forge in the main series.
Lastly, we get Emma Frost and other scene from the show.
This is when Professor X tried to infiltrate the Hellfire
gala, but a psychic powers managed to hold him back.
And that's the last new shot I could find in the opening.
But obviously, let me know below if you spot any others.
The episodes titled Mo Tendo Life Death Part one.
We know that Episode six will be Life Death Part two and thus we've got a week
in between from where we leave things off.
The episode primarily centers around Jubilee on her birthday with a 16
bit video game, also playing a big part after getting trapped in this, we relive
some of the X-Men's greatest adventures and take a sort of trip down memory lane.
Now, the name Mo Tendo is, of course, a nod to Nintendo and the Super Nintendo
was the 16 bit console of the nineties that was your boy's way to play.
And I spent months of my life on Super Mario world.
Wouldn't have had it any other way and it was brilliant
seeing this sort of thing brought to life with the episode.
Of course, also playing from Tron, in case you haven't seen that movie,
we had a man being sucked into an arcade cabinet
and having to fight against the computer and various games.
Back in the day, kids.
We thought this was the future with it being like the most advanced thing
that anyone had ever seen. Look at it. Look at those graphics.
The look incredible.
Now, I love how the Xmas old brain dead and now game.
It's trying to please his woman Magneto.
He just has that magnetism.
Turns out that Jubilee's 18 and they kind of want to throw a party,
but Magneto wants to hit the danger room in case Sinister comes back.
Morph makes a little joke about Magneto not having fun birthdays,
and he then brings up how his parents perished when he was younger.
This scene was so important and impactful that they redid it, shot this shot in
first class, and it was probably the most defining moment in the character's life
coming in Jubilee
that wants to head up the arcade, which Magneto snarls at Jubilee's
birthdays popped him in the comics
before that being two stories that centered solely around it.
The first of these was X-Men Unlimited Infinity
Comic 41, which had her alongside Generation X.
In it, the group got trapped in an escape room that ended up
actively trying to kill them, sort of similar to what happens here.
And she has to work with the X-Men in order to escape the game.
The other major time came in
Curse of the Mutants, in which Jubilee was turned into a vampire.
The group weren't able to kill her,
but they try to take her mind off her by throwing a surprise party.
Didn't go down well because she was like, Well, I'm a vampire
and she hated them for acting like everything was normal.
She felt like she no longer belonged and had a bloodthirsty need
to feed on the living.
This would last
for an eternity, so obviously it made it a bit of a downer.
Professor Xavier showed up
and said that he knew of a vampire who only fed on animals
and that she didn't have to go around murdering people en masse.
Cool sabertooth could show up every year to fight you looking at you.
Wolverine, Happy birthday again for the Now he cut to Jubilee's room,
which feels like it's arrived right out of a teenager's bedroom from the time
we've got a Bruce Lee
inspired picture on the wall and also one that I think might be a nod to Sister.
Sister.
They talk about, you know, you're entering the UN as well.
And at the end of the video, we will be talking
about how this is going to impact things in the future of the series.
Now that Mo Tendo clearly has control, is based off a saga,
even though the name is a reference to the Super Nintendo, the console itself
is more in line with that, which includes the original logo too.
That's more in line with Nintendo's Mo.
Tendo is a nod to Mojo.
And like Bob Iger, he wants to move into the realm of video games.
Now, upon turning it on, they get transported into a VR world
and we even hear the old dial up sound grab by a sentinel, its hand
coming through and skipping someone up reminded me of the climax of King Kong
being forced into an alleyway.
We also have the Friends of Humanity once more,
packing their sweet Megaman gun arms hitting up a phone booth.
This transports them out of there, which is a clear
nod to how you escape the simulation.
In the Matrix, we learn that if they die here, they also die in real life,
which too is summing up, pulls from the movie, transported
to Gino's original form.
Jubilee talks about how she was stuck there once.
This is in the episode Slave Island, which was referenced back in episode two.
Magneto Imagine the mutants wearing power dampening colors,
which is something that we saw in the entry.
There's the Blob as well.
And what I believe is Domino.
At this point, a strange figure appears without costume
being a reference to an alternate one that Jubilee wore in the comics.
Finding out that Mojo is the one who is behind it.
Jubilee points out he's lost weight.
Mode is someone who feeds off rioting.
So makes sense that when they're down his way is to amongst the combination.
We also get enough to divorce Cole with it being Cyclops versus Jean Gray.
Now, this takes
us into the video game, which looks absolutely incredible.
Like if they said this is out now.
Yeah, I'd actually go and buy it.
And it took me back to the days in the arcades.
Might be showing my age,
but there's lots of clear Easter eggs in that with a pan down from the buildings
being similar to a classic from the decade that is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
which manages to perfectly recapture the opening of I know the opening was
the same in the cartoon as well, but yeah,
just brilliant seeing the little details like this brought to life in the show.
However, beyond that, it also riffs heavily off the X-Men arcade game.
That was a brilliant cabinet and it had Magneto as the villain with him
controlling the Sentinels in the opening cutscene.
That's sort of what we got here with him
appearing at the start and then us seeing the Sentinels later on.
You also get the play a select screen which has not only Colossus
but also Magic there as well to the dystopian
st stage, with the latter also being some of the streets are age.
As you pan down,
we see a poster of some faces clearly riffing off of Days of Future past.
Love how Jubilee even has a special move.
And yeah, what an absolute labor of love.
Going back to this,
I'm not sure how newer fans
are liking the series, but if you're from the nineties
then I think this is going to take you back a bit.
We even have the theme tune Recreate it like a video game too.
It takes me back.
Right.
Yep. Yep, yep.
X-Men Arcade Cabinet Now feeding off.
This gives Mojo more power and then transport to the Savage Clan.
This is a part of the Marvel Universe that wasn't affected by the extinction
event that killed the dinosaurs.
And thus they've continued to thrive.
The final and pterodactyl fight
also looks like Col, like those who appeared in the animated show too.
Jubilee's Revive with spiral flashing on screen.
And we see that she's providing them.
Chico's Spiral has appeared in the series before, with it
being whom of transformed into during the earlier episodes.
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Now lastly, we got an asteroid and which pulls from the comic show.
This is Magneto's
base in space and it was two shown during the introduction of episode two.
The X-Men ended up
sneaking into it in the animated series and I loved how they recreated here.
Magneto appears like a boss in the original arcade game and realizing
that he has cyclical attacks, Jubilee manages to beat him.
Unfortunately, Roberto is at death's door, but an extra life manages to save him.
He then starts speaking Portuguese with a character coming from Brazil.
Grabbed by Jubilee, they're taken to the broadcast server,
which is where we see versions of other characters.
Now, this mental old figure things sort of a staple of the Tron movies
with Jeff Bridges returning in the second one,
makes you realize, Yeah, you need to stop playing video games all day.
Don't you do something productive,
like watching TV shows and making YouTube videos about them.
Now we then get the old X-Men arcade cabinet, which has Cyclops on the side.
Bursting through it.
It's the final Boss battle against Mojo, which sees the older and younger jubilees
teaming up to take him down.
She drops a shade similar to how she defeated him in the intro
with these, of course, protecting her eyes from the powerful fireworks.
It's also what she did in the game.
Level one finish, and I love it whenever the character does it.
But this ends the first part of the episode with this thing
getting the double Bill of Life Death Part one.
This is a major story for Storm, and I'm so glad
that they brought it into the series.
I know a lot of people who are annoyed that storm got an old straight away,
but this is actually a pretty big story for the character.
The build up to it had Stone losing her powers
after being shot by a gun that we learned had been created by Forge
Forge, appearing at several points in the original series with him
also being the guy who sent Bishop back in time.
I think this is who Bishop was sacking Nathan too, with him
being a big advantage here during days of future past.
Now the full title of life death is Life or Death A Love Story,
But it goes beyond just storm and forge cooking up a storm.
I've always seen it as storm learning to love herself
as she believes that she's nothing without her powers.
Throughout her life,
she's been seen as a goddess who's able to change the weather on a whim.
However, without this, she's tumble back down
and this is highlighted by her getting frightened by lightning.
Now she has to learn that she's more than her abilities,
and it's all about really rebuilding his self esteem.
Now, the love story,
of course, is about storm and forge, with many thinking that he's
actually the love of her life.
In the comics, she's, of course, mighty to Charlie
and is one of the most important characters in Black Panther's life.
Still, there's some that believe that Forge was the one.
And yeah, let me know below exactly what you think.
Personally, I side with the Charlie but yeah there's definitely that debate
either way.
This is a story where she also had the Mohawk
which is something she's of course rocked in the season.
She found kinship and forge because they were both broken
mutants with the issue also filling in his origin story.
Turned out that he
lost his leg in Vietnam, which is a trauma that's stuck with him since.
Storm also felt that way, too,
as she had to watch her mother die when she was younger after an explosive.
Hey, Kyra leveled her home and the pair ended up being stuck in the rubble.
There she sat
watching her pass and feeling powerless as akin to what she feels now,
which ended up taking her to his home, which was a skyscraper overlooking
the city, was adorned with expensive and expensive rooms
that initially impressed her
getting close to stolen land to forge being behind the weapon
that took her powers away, which he explains is just following orders.
However, she sees him
as someone who turn on his people and berates him for ruining her life.
She tell them that
though his home seems special, that it actually summed up who he was.
It's cold, cruel, and almost like a high tower
in which he can look down on others and cast out judgment.
He can't live on the ground when the rest of the people
and that's he shot himself off and surrounded himself.
Been meaningless objects pretty deep.
And though he tries to weather the storm, it's clear that they'll never recapture
the love.
It'll be interesting to see where they're going to take things in the show.
And like I said,
we have that party coming in two weeks now rather than having a skyscraper.
Forge has a homely cabin out in the wilderness.
It makes sense as he's
part of the chain nation with them embracing more of his original character.
He seems homely and more grounded than his original comic
book counterpart, with him coming across like a genuinely nice guy.
Touching upon his Vietnam roots, the pair find kinship
in one another, wanting to feel a wind in her hair once more.
Storm rides a horse to try and recapture what she felt its soldier may
love seeing these scenes and it made me want a days of future past the world
to stop Botham now from doing Onlyfans shout outs to Matt for that one.
And we see his storm still afraid a thing.
She still embrace with a cliff edge stopping her.
Forge says she knows how fast the weather can change though,
which is a quote from Charles in the original X-Men film at his home.
You also see a picture of X Factor
with them being the only public government funded media team
that we catch Quicksilver, Polaris, Havoc, multiple man wolfsbane and strong guy.
There's also his army uniform as well, which highlights his past
and potentially a future enemy.
Going inside a machine that will hopefully reboot her power
as this unfortunately fails, breaking her even further.
This is made worse by the fact that Forge admits to being
the one who was behind the attack that stole her powers.
It's pretty heartbreaking, especially as Forge tries
to make it better by telling her she's a goddess.
Even professing his love doesn't do anything, though.
And we see she's seemingly racist into the night seeing a vision.
This is adversary, which is a great trickster
that appeared in a number of books and stories.
Going to be interesting to see where they go with it in part two.
And I will cover the character more in depth when we get into that video.
Either way, this was a really fun episode with an awesome concept
and some incredible artwork in it, really enjoying the series so far.
And I hope you guys, you know, you've been enjoying us going through it too,
and we know that next week's episode is going to be called Remember It
and have the description of what's going to be happening in that entry.
Please turn off now if you don't want to know.
And though there's not major spoilers, you might just not want to know.
Thank you for sticking with me until this point,
if you have, which you have because you seen this part
and hopefully I'll see you back next week.
Another description for the episode says that it's going to focus on
Gino Shaw attempting to join the UN.
This will see some select members heading out of the country
and they'll be discovering what's really going on there.
Now across from there.
So we know there'll be a press event at the mansion
and that some of the x-men's dirty laundry will end up being aired.
So lots of things
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