10 Facts About X-Men '97

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X-Men '97, known as X-Men '97: The Animated Series, is an animated superhero television series which debuted on October 31,1992, in the United States on the Fox Kids Network.

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X-Men '97 crossed over with the animated series Spider-Man, when Spider-Man seeks out the X-Men '97's help to stave off his progressing mutation.

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An earlier draft of "Secret Wars" involved all of the X-Men '97, but transporting the voice cast from Canada to Los Angeles, where production for the Spider-Man animated series was based, had been too costly in previous crossovers, so the episode was re-written to include only Storm, whose actress, Iona Morris, lived in Los Angeles.

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Original opening sequence features the X-Men '97 demonstrating their mutant abilities to a now very distinctive instrumental theme .

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X-Men '97 originally aired on TV Tokyo from 1994 through 1995.

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X-Men '97 was dubbed a second time in the early 2000s for broadcast on Toon Disney .

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In November 2021, a revival titled X-Men '97 was revealed to premiere on the service in 2023, which will continue the plot of the series.

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8.

X-Men '97 Adventures was a comic book spin-off of the animated series.

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Comic book series X-Men '97 '92 was first released as one of the many tie-in titles for Marvel's 2015 Secret Wars event, and continued in its second volume as a regular series in early 2016, starring characters of the TV show's reality.

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In 2017, series developer and showrunner Eric Lewald released the book Previously on X-Men '97: The Making of an Animated Series, which features his interviews with 36 of the staff and voice cast behind the TV series, as well as Lewald's personal experiences on the series' development and production.

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