The latest X-Men ‘97 episode gets weird, but not nearly as weird as the comics that inspired it.
This X-Men 97 article contains spoilers.
They shall know my Inferno!
cries the Goblin Queen early inX-Men 97s third episode.
Her heel turn came so quick that she really didnt have time to workshop her villain monologues.
Whatever the shortcomings in her baddie banter, the Goblin Queen makes up for it with evil powers.
Wild as these transformations are, they have nothing on the comic book storyline that inspired it.
TheInfernocrossover from 1988 and 1989 was peak weird Marvel, something the cartoon adaptation doesnt quite match.
When theX-Men-focusedMutant Massacrecrossover from 1986 became a hit, Marvel started demanding yearly line-wide adventures for the mutants.
Comics publisher William Gaines) and melding his flesh until hes a grotesque minion.
The horror didnt remain contained among the mutants.
Some of the crossover comics took advantage of the spooky premise to enhance their characters.
Daredevil Hits Rock Bottom.
What is a surprise is the threat Daredevil must face: a vacuum cleaner.
As ridiculous as this sounds, it isnt quite as bad as all that.
Second, Daredevil had just been trounced by the Kingpins newest assassin, the mutant known as Typhoid Mary.
Matt Murdock being Matt Murdock, he uses his defeat by Dustbuster as an opportunity to go soul searching.
The Goblin Queens Inferno X-Tinguished
In X-Men 97,theInfernolasted half an episode.
In the comics, it lasted a year.
Madelyne doesnt meet as dark an end in the cartoon, though.
No, it wont be Adam X the X-Treme, but it will be cool.
However,X-Men 97will probably never get as nuts as the comics.
And thats probably a good thing.
After all, as long-time readers know, X-Men continuity can be its own kind of Hell.
X-Men 97 is streaming now on Disney+.
