The first look at X-Men '97, the upcoming sequel series to X-Men: The Animated Series, will be revealed at Marvel Studios' San Diego Comic-Con animation panel.

As revealed in an official SDCC event listing, X-Men '97 will be among Marvel's showings at its 90-minute long panel on Friday, July 22. The first look at the show will be joined by teasers for other animated Marvel Studios projects, including a peek at the next season of What If...? and an exclusive look at What If...? spinoff series Marvel Zombies.

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X-Men '97 was announced at Disney+ Day in 2021 and given a 2023 release window. The series will bring back many of the voice talents behind X-Men: The Animated Series, including Cal Dodd, Lenore Zann, George Buza, Adrian Hough, Christopher Britton, Catherine Disher, Chris Potter, Alison Sealy-Smith and Alyson Court. Most of the performers will be reprising their original roles (Dodd in particular seems especially excited to be voicing Wolverine once more), but Court will be playing a new character in order to allow an Asian voice actor to portray Jubilee.

The new series is expected to pick up where the fifth season of X-Men: The Animated Series left off. X-Men '97 will release exclusively on Disney+, like most of the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV series, although head writer Beau DeMayo has been cagey regarding whether or not it will exist in the MCU alongside shows like Moon Knight and Loki.

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X-Men '97 isn't the first attempt at continuing the story X-Men: The Animated Series. In 1996, shortly before the series aired its final season, a comic series titled Adventures of the X-Men was published, telling new stories in the world of the TV series. The original animated incarnations of the X-Men have appeared in various comics since then under the name "X-Men '92," a reference to the show's original 1992 air date. The first animated X-Men also nearly made a major appearance in a different Marvel cartoon, Avengers: United They Stand. Unfortunately, because Avengers: United They Stand deviated from its source material in so many ways, the classic X-Men were deemed too tonally at odds with the series, and they've been absent from the screen ever since.

Aftera decades-long absence, X-Men: The Animated Series will finally return to screens sometime in 2023. Audiences can expect their first look at the upcoming series on Friday, July 22, during Marvel Studios' San Diego Comic-Con panel.

Source: San Diego Comic-Con