{"id":634121,"date":"2026-08-13T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/634121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:57:13","slug":"rip-x-men-97-spoiler-you-will-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/634121\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP [X-Men ’97 Spoiler], you will be missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: spoilers for the X-Men ’97 season 2 finale are ahead!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, one X-Man arises, and another one falls – but not who we were expecting.<\/p>\n

This week on X-Men ’97<\/a>, Rogue was successful in saving Gambit from Apocalypse, but at great personal cost. After finding out from the Celestial, Eson, that her Celestial power-up would require her to sacrifice herself after saving Remy, Rogue was at peace with what appeared to be her immediate fate. But that would not come to pass.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because Nightcrawler stepped in and sacrificed himself to Eson so that Rogue would not have to die after saving Gambit – which is very sweet of him, but very sad for the rest of us. And to be clear, we didn’t want to see\u00a0any\u00a0of the X-Men hit the dust, but there’s something moving about Kurt pulling off the most high-stakes Irish goodbye in history to help two of his friends reunite.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As he floats in front of Eson, Nightcrawler drops some poignant bars: “I know they will grieve. But I also believe with time, my memory will be a seed from which new ones will grow. Each day, a new blessing to share with one another, learn from one another, and to build a better future with the hearts that they inspire, together – as they were always meant to be.”<\/p>\n

As sad as this ending is for Kurt, it’s okay because he’s a man of faith – a fact he’s quick to remind Eson. He accepts his decision to die instead of Rogue without any trepidation. As a Nightcrawler fan myself, I take comfort in that fact, even if I am sitting here wringing my hands a little over the growing body count of my favorite mutants who have been killed off by this show so far: Banshee, Magik, Magneto, now Nightcrawler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Could someone place a protective sphere around Glob Herman, Forge, Sunspot, Chamber, Doop, Dust, Nature Girl, and Beak, please?\u00a0<\/p>\n

All episodes of X-Men ’97 season 2 are streaming on Disney+ now.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: spoilers for the X-Men ’97 season 2 finale are ahead! Well, one X-Man arises, and another one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,20033,19,17,268050,327,268051,133053],"class_list":["post-634121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-film-tv","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-marvel-animation","tag-movies","tag-nightcrawler","tag-x-men-97"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117085486864277828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}