X-Men `97's seventh episode nears the close of season one and the battle to save everyone splits the X-Men into two teams! In “Tolerance is Extinction - Part 2”, the X-Men are pushed to the limit and now have to fight the two greatest threats to save the Earth! Bastion is ready to fulfill his apocalytpic vision and Magneto has shut down all power on Earth! This has taken down all of Bastion’s Prime Sentinels, but the disruptions endangers mutant and humandkindThe last episode finished with the return of Professor Charles Xavier from Shi’ar space. The second part of the three episode finale is directed by Emi-Emmett Yonemura and written by Anthony Sellitti. Morning, we see the ruined X-Mansion, closeup of Professor Xavier as he wakes up in his bed.
At a Genoshan seashore, the cave where Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Wolverine found Magneto in the X-Men: The Animated Series finale, Magneto holds his helmet. He sees the cargo ships carrying relief supplies. The townspeople transformed into Prime Sentinels are frozen like statues, Bastion carries his mother’s body, he is tearful, but he did turn her into a killing machine. An angry mob is chasing after Roberto and Jubilee angry at the loss of power. Irrational, they are obviously not part of the power loss, and instead the power should be solar and wind generated. The two young mutants are cornered in an alley and activate their powers. Xavier wipes the dust off his old hoverchair.
Magneto puts on his helmet and then uses his powers to lfit up rocks. The mob is stopped by a lightning strike and rain, they turn to see Stom and Forge on a rooftop! The seas boil, the relief ships are pushed aside as a giant rock formation rises pulled up by Magneto. The crowd disperses as Forge and Storm descend. Jubilee hugs Storm. I love that there is little dialogue, but so much is written on the characters’ expressions. Jean says the world is going to end in 12 hours! Scott is angry at the professor putting Magneto in charge. Xavier, in his wheelchair, says he wanted them to be a family apart from the school. Scott replies they would have to return to face threats like Bastion.
Xavier confides that he worried about them not being able to enjoy a future safe for mutants that they fighting to build. He holds out his hand, but Scott walks away! Maybe Xavier should have explained that he gave up an empire, the love of his life, and legs with his cybernetic suit. Rogue calls out Remy’s name and suddenly wakes up! She has been unconscious since Prime Sentinel Trask blasted her in the seventh episode. Nightcrawler is there and bampfs over to her. He updates her about the situation and Rogue that Gambit is gone. The doors of the X-Mansion crash down and Jean flies over to hug Ororo. Beast is impressed that Forge’s bionic leg is still working, and he has that he had an “electrostatic deflector” installed. Could be good tech to use against Magneto.
Jean tells Storm that they are moving to Muir Island, the former base of Moira MacTaggert. Cyclops also tells Storm that thousands might be dead, there would be crashed planes and vehicles along with medical devices and surgeries losing patients. This would also be true of the mutants in Genosha. Storm says she can sense the Earth’s magnetic field dying! Jean wants to talk to Magneto to undo the damage. Wolverine says Magneto declared war on the planet! Xavier enters saying he is the one who should be punished. Cyclops wants Rogue on Blue Team to deal with Magneto. He has Gold Team with Storm and Jean going to the Galapagos Islands base of Bastion. The two X-Men teams began in X-Men #1 (1991). I’m not certain how they worked out Basion’s location when they went to his childhood town.
Xavier asks about returning the Prime Sentinels back to humans. Beast tells him that he is working with Forge and it will take years to remove the nanotech, shorted out it shouldn’t be a problem de-cyborging them. Still, he says he can bring back their humanity, the control signal must be found, any transmission would be down. Xavier says it is Bastion. He saw Bastion’s mother, Rose, when Cerebro detected him. Rose didn’t want him at the school and Xavier thinks that Magneto will be reasonable if they stop Bastion. I think Magneto would take care of the person who was torturing him. Roberto questions the professor after he turned over the school to Magneto. Cyclops ends the blame game and they get to work.
Storm walks into Beast’s lab as he is working with Forge on changing the “mneumonic scramber” used on Dark Phoenix. They are using it to cut off Bastion’s control with the Prime Sentinels. Beast is intrigued at using neutralizer tech to stop Bastion, but there is a flash of lightning, Storm is not happy! It is night when Xavier rolls his wheelchair over to talk to Rogue alone. She says he thinks of them as students and not people. Which is not what he had said to Jean and Scott. She is still grieving about Gambit, but didn’t go to his funeral and instead went on her hunt for revenge. He tries to apologize. Then, lightning flashes as Asteroid M, the base of Magneto, descends from the cloudy sky! It appeared in X-Men: The Animated Series and debuted in comics with X-Men #5 (1964)!
Magneto flies to the dock. Xavier and Magneto talk, Professor Xavier says they can stop Bastion, and Magneto brings up his promise to Leech before he died. He poses to the X-Men which one will be next to die for Xavier’s dream. Magneto offers a home to those who will go with him. He floats before them and Rogue walks over to Xavier giving her jacket. Roberto then starts to walk towards him, Jubilee tries to stop him, but activates his Sunspot powers and the trio leave. Muir Island, the bagpipes are not really needed to know when we are in Scotland. The latest X-Jets are in the hangar as well as cars, a motorcycle, and hover chairs. I can’t believe there are billions here without a corporation. Cable readies his rifle by the classic uniforms in cases.
Scott brings up Jean, and Cable quickly replies she is not his mother, and tells him, “Give `em hell.” The slogan shouted out during Truman’s 1948 campaign. He tosses his son the X-Men uniform, Cable says it’s for a circus, funny!, and Scott says does he expect black leather, a nice jab by the writers to the live action films! President Kelly on the astral plane brings up the Magneto Protocols. Xavier says everything ends in an hour, but the X-Men will save the day. The X-Men put on their classic uniforms. Beast holds the hand of Trish Tilby in recovery. Jubilee burns Roberto’s card. Kelly says he will be forced to act, Xavier says if the president doesn’t trust him, trust his X-Men. We see a somber group shot of the best X-Men team of all time!
Jean and Cyclops embrace for one last time before boarding their jets. Bastion detects them and activates his Sentinels. Forg mentions that Bastion controls them through his technopathy. Storm is ready to hold them off with Forge while she sends the team to take Bastion. She says she thought of Jean, “a survivor, a phoenix”, they are ready for this battle. Great music for this fight, Storm brings her full power, a cyclone that fills the sky!, Beast detects Bastion’s signal in the jungle with a fallen Sentinel head. He has tracked it to a volcano, classic supervillain hideout! Cable finds that Bastion’s base is a recreation of his hometown. This is similar to Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) complete with jungle and diner. The Sentinels appear with Basion’s voice.
Morph changes into his ultimate form, The Hulk!, “Morph smash!” Plus, we get the theme song to keep things going! Cable blasts the face of another Sentinel and Beast rips off its arm to smack it with “the sound of one hand clapping”, funny! Still, Cable is blasted, and Jean turns to face Mister Sinister! He says he knows her strengths and weaknesses, but attacks her from behind, cowardly. Mister Sinister dodges Jean’s telekinetic blasts, an action highlight for her! He knocks her back and says he will tell her when he switched Jean and Madelyne. She tells Sinister that she fights with Madelyne and sends TK bubbles that make him cry in pain! Asteroid M, the X-Jet lands in the hangar, Rogue in her green outfit from X-Men #171 (1983) and Roberto, in X-Men uniform from the New Mutants enter.
She tears into the X-Jet, but finds they are gone, teleported by Nightcrawler! They bamf to Magneto. He sends out fragments that Wolverine slices! He is caught by Rogue who slams him down. Cyclops blasts Magneto’s metal pieces while Nightcrawler bamfs around them! Jubilee sends out her pyrotechnics as Xavier tries to reason with Magneto. He is told about the dead on Genosha. Jubilee is thrown by Sunspot who reverts back to check on her. He gets a pyrotechnic blast that sends him back! They start to exchange blasts, mutant vs. mutant! Charles continues to try to reason with Magneto who says he waited to say two words to him - “Shut up” - slamming a metal plate on his mouth! Xavier sends a mental message to Cyclops saying that Magneto’s helmet needs to be taken away. He can take his magnetic powers and save Earth! X-Men `97 has the teams facing villains from their past to save the future in their greatest battle!
Four Sentinel Blasters out of Five!
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