Headline : On X-Men 97, Professor X and Magneto Fiddle While Rome Burns

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Marvel’s mutants are locked in a world of fighting—fighting to survive, fighting to push back against hate. But they’re also just as often fighting among themselves, and this week’s penultimate episode of X-Men ‘97 is no exception... except mutantdom’s two biggest drama queens couldn’t have picked a worst time for their latest squabble.

Previously, I described last week’s “Tolerance is Extinction, Part 1” as the necessary “fight fight fight!” portion of X-Men ‘97's grand, three-episode finale, setting the stage for the ideological battleground to come as both Magneto and a returned Professor X made themselves known to the world once again, rising up to tackle the threat of Bastion from opposing fronts. But really, it’s much the same in “Tolerance is Extinction, Part 2” this week. The fighting is still here, there’s a lot of it, and it’s good. The threat of Bastion is still here, albeit paused by Magneto’s almighty EMP pulse, even it’s dulled slightly by the actual ecological threat his magnetic assault means for the world now. It’s just that that ideological schism is now firmly here too, and so far, mutantkind is facing it by, well, going “fight fight fight!”

The X-Men love this almost as much as they love working together. The franchise has always been as much a soap opera as it is a superhero story, and there is no greater, cattier drama than friends and allies getting digs in under the belt and turning on each other for a big bustup. It’s why it makes perfect sense, that even with Bastion lighting half the world on fire unleashing the Prime Sentinels, and with Magneto having shut down electronics regardless of the source worldwide to bring those Sentinels to heel, the real thrust of this episode isn’t how our heroes will stop Bastion, but how they’ll stop slapping each other about the face for five seconds and listen to the arguments everyone’s making.

So as Jean, Storm, Forge, Morph, Beast, and Cable lead one team to infiltrate Bastion’s stronghold in an attempt to dampen his technopathic powers, and Cyclops, Wolverine, Jubilee, Nightcrawler, and Charles head to a reforged Asteroid M to try and talk Magneto down from destroying the Earth as they know it—backed up by both Rogue and Roberto, who took Magneto’s potent offer of vengeance for Genosha in the face of Charles’ recalcitrance—we’re really getting more of what we already got. And once again, that’s not a bad thing: X-Men ‘97 is relishing in getting to let loose in its action, and an abundance of fight scenes is actually quite perfect for a show that’s always almost running a little too hot to slow down and let its ideas simmer a little. With not much else really going on in the narrative other than the ticking clock of Magneto’s magnetic field, it lets the thing that matters most rise to the surface. And what matters most to X-Men so much of the time than its two most prominent idealogues trying to cross the aisle?

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