X-MEN '97 Season 2 Episode 6 Reaction — The Danger Room is ALIVE! Review

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[00:00:34]>> Count it down. Oh, go.

[00:00:36]>> Here we go. In [music] 3 2 1 go.

[00:00:41]>> Are we going back?

[00:00:42]>> No, I don't need to relive this trauma.

[00:00:46]>> One of them.

[00:00:47]>> But you failed to see.

[00:00:49]>> Oh, here you go. He's going to suck up his uh spirit or whatever. [laughter] >> Subconscious. Yeah, >> girls. Yep, there it is.

[00:00:58]>> Absorb me. [groaning and screaming] >> Oh [ __ ] >> Got him the moment before death. Got him right there. Put him in your brain, Charles. You got him in there now.

[00:01:09]>> Mhm.

[00:01:13]>> But his helmet was on Hector. Uh-oh.

[00:01:17]>> Only a coward feels mighty.

[00:01:20]>> I might be incorrect, but the helmet thing did not happen until the X-Men movies. So, because this is X-Men 97 based from the ' 90s series, I don't think that that >> room factory >> reset.

[00:01:32]>> Oh man.

[00:01:33]>> Oh, he's reliving it.

[00:01:35]>> Teacher.

[00:01:36]>> Oh, man.

[00:01:37]>> But you failed.

[00:01:38]>> Sucks.

[00:01:39]>> You would have found a way to save us both.

[00:01:43]>> Why would you do this to yourself? God.

[00:01:46]>> Yeah.

[00:01:47]>> You claim to be a teacher, but you failed. Fail.

[00:01:52]>> Here's what's happening. Danger room's about to come alive and go bet. Charles, you got it. Chuck, I'm about to you up, Chuck.

[00:02:01]>> Danger room aboard. I'm aboard.

[00:02:03][screaming and groaning] [laughter] >> She's coming alive. Charles, >> I adapted.

[00:02:13]>> This was intended to be a therapeutic exercise, not a training one.

[00:02:17]>> Therapeutic.

[00:02:19]H >> I will continue to prepare you and your students as directed.

[00:02:25]>> I really do wish I could feel his presence. You're not paying attention, Xavier.

[00:02:33]>> Mhm.

[00:02:35]>> Danger Room's about to do some weird [ __ ] >> Yeah. It's called Danger.exe. That's the name of the episode. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

[00:02:44]Danger Room is a usable character in the new Marvel and Capcom Hilcon game.

[00:02:51]>> Cool.

[00:02:52]>> She's a sentient fighting character.

[00:02:54]>> Cargo secured, Reverend [music] Striker.

[00:02:57]>> Time to rain fire and vibranium down on the abomination.

[00:03:00]>> Striker, >> who told you to depart? That would be me.

[00:03:08]>> The name's Polaris.

[00:03:11]Oh, she's got Auroras around her.

[00:03:14]>> Bargain with mutants. Never.

[00:03:18]>> That's fine. Up to you.

[00:03:22]>> Cool. She's so cool.

[00:03:24]>> I love it. I love it.

[00:03:26]>> No bargaining.

[00:03:30]>> Damn.

[00:03:32]>> It's an unequivocal surrender is what she needs, you guys.

[00:03:38]>> Whoa, she flipped the ball. What the hell are you doing?

[00:03:42]>> This is supposed to be a covert intercept, not search and destroy.

[00:03:46]>> You know me.

[00:03:47]>> Valerie, shut up. Valerie, >> you are out of control. Stand down.

[00:03:54]>> Yeah, sure. No problem. Let me just drop the boat on them.

[00:03:59]>> You just don't know when to quit.

[00:04:01]>> Oh [ __ ] >> Wow.

[00:04:06]>> I am not the one who needs TO BE CONTROLLED. POLARIS. NO.

[00:04:12]>> WHAT?

[00:04:12]>> God damn. [laughter] >> Oh my god.

[00:04:19]>> Okay. Havoc >> command. This is X Factor 1. Crisis contained. No casualties detected.

[00:04:27]>> Oh, cool.

[00:04:28]>> That was the Scottish wolf's bane.

[00:04:35]>> Shut up, Havoc. Are you insane?

[00:04:39]>> Yo, this feels cinematic as right now.

[00:04:42]>> You know they're calling you the next Magneto >> because we share a power set.

[00:04:46]>> You and I both know that's not all you share.

[00:04:51]>> You share some of that DNA.

[00:04:58]>> Guys, she's just like Rod of the Hut.

[00:05:00]>> Stop working against us.

[00:05:02]>> I'm not apologizing when your father's Magneto.

[00:05:06]>> [laughter] >> The president and I thank you for your service. But with the stakes this high, you've become a liability.

[00:05:13]>> They're firing.

[00:05:14]>> You're dismissed.

[00:05:16]>> She going back to the X mansion.

[00:05:20]>> You got someplace safe to crash.

[00:05:22]>> Oh, didn't you hear? Mutant strays have a place to run away to again.

[00:05:27]>> Nice.

[00:05:28]>> Okay.

[00:05:29]>> And an ally yet he gave his life to be >> rebuilding that mansion, dude.

[00:05:35]>> [laughter] >> Yeah.

[00:05:37]>> And there is no one I trust more to guide you than Storm. But remember >> Oh, what the hell?

[00:05:48]>> Whoa, >> bro. This is This is straight out of Astonishing X-Men.

[00:05:52]>> Straight out of Astonishing X-Men with the art by John Cassidy. Amazing.

[00:05:57]>> You will be ready to carry on the fight.

[00:06:00]Welcome to the danger room.

[00:06:04]They're all dead.

[00:06:04]>> What was that eye there at the end?

[00:06:06]Yeah.

[00:06:09]>> The professor insisted we not change a thing. [laughter] >> Jean, >> that's her old room left the same. Yeah, dude.

[00:06:16]>> Every partying is a form of death as every reunion is a type of heaven.

[00:06:21]>> Try on Edwards.

[00:06:24]>> This guy.

[00:06:25]>> Not the homecoming I expected.

[00:06:27]Everything we learned, all the training, just to end up right back in the same place. She's like the sixth original X-Men. But at least here, our students have a place to call home again.

[00:06:38]>> When you and the X-Men were gone, there was nowhere for these kids to go.

[00:06:41][laughter] >> How are you, sir? I heard what happened with Magneto.

[00:06:48]>> Girl, I'm depressed.

[00:06:51]>> Yeah. [laughter] >> I had hoped a piece of Magnus might still linger somewhere inside mine.

[00:06:59]>> Oh, don't you worry, Chuck. We all must face the truth of whatever or whoever it is that haunts us. A group of us are leaving to tour the wreckage of Janosha.

[00:07:12]>> Sure you want you freshman hanging out with the unstable school dropout.

[00:07:16]>> Please. They met Wolverine.

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[00:08:42]>> There's danger in the danger room.

[00:08:46]>> Storm, hit me.

[00:08:47]>> Everyone, stand back.

[00:08:49]>> Oh, okay. We're just doing it like that, HUH?

[00:08:52]WHOA.

[00:08:52]>> OH [ __ ] >> OOH. DEFI.

[00:08:57]>> That bro's heart did not >> blow out of his chest cavity. That's a shocker to me.

[00:09:04][laughter] >> Perimeter breach. Front gates.

[00:09:07]>> Forge. Morph with me. Bishop. It's >> God damn. Those X-Men left literally 45 seconds ago.

[00:09:13]>> Bro, that's how it [laughter] goes, baby.

[00:09:16]>> Then maybe they'll open up about what happened.

[00:09:18]What the? That door sounds very locked.

[00:09:22]>> All right, we're well past this.

[00:09:24]>> Quinton choir.

[00:09:25]>> What's going on?

[00:09:26]>> Great. Now there's no doors at all.

[00:09:28]>> The room's electromagnetic field.

[00:09:30]>> Danger.exe.

[00:09:32]>> Or Forge's safety protocols fell asleep.

[00:09:34]>> Let's try waking it up.

[00:09:36]>> When in doubt, open fire.

[00:09:38]>> This is a great adaptation of one of my favorite X-Men comics.

[00:09:42]>> How many X-Men does it take to find an exit to their torture chamber?

[00:09:46]Uh, funny.

[00:09:49]>> Calm down, brother.

[00:09:51]>> Jeez. Ow, dude.

[00:09:55]>> He's wearing the shirt that says Magneto was right. That's great. [laughter] >> Wait, did Jeff the Land Shark get out of the room? What happened? Jeez.

[00:10:06]>> The professor used them to rank new students and find a baseline >> or a breaking point.

[00:10:13]>> Oh no. Whoa. spreads beyond these walls as they have strengthened.

[00:10:20]>> Wow.

[00:10:20]>> Sick.

[00:10:22]>> And now so must you.

[00:10:25]>> Oh, gracias.

[00:10:27]>> Yo, >> the danger room has locked down the school.

[00:10:31]>> Don't think we're in the mansion anymore.

[00:10:32]>> Yo, Bishop.

[00:10:34]>> Danger room has cerebrro tech. It's mining your memories. Take it you don't spend much time.

[00:10:39]>> Cerebro tech.

[00:10:40]>> CRIME SENTINELS.

[00:10:42]>> OH. Oh [ __ ] Sebastian.

[00:10:48]>> I'm so badass, dude. The streets were my danger room. That's great, dude.

[00:10:57]>> Prefer to deliver the punches.

[00:10:59]>> Stop slapping yourself. [laughter] >> You remain the A+ student. To continue.

[00:11:04]>> Oh, gee. Thanks.

[00:11:06]>> A liability to mutants feared by humanity. The naturalb born villain desperate to play.

[00:11:14]>> This danger room sucks.

[00:11:16]>> To fail just your father.

[00:11:22]>> Oh no. Oh no.

[00:11:24]>> Oh [ __ ] >> They're going to have to rebuild again.

[00:11:27]>> Mom is that [ __ ] Polaris.

[00:11:37]Oh.

[00:11:39]Oh. There she is. She's building your body.

[00:11:43]>> Coded to evolve. Engineered for survival.

[00:11:49]>> What the hell?

[00:11:51]>> Always a damn killing machine.

[00:11:53]>> Now, [laughter] shall we begin?

[00:11:56]>> Holy Christ, that's terrifying.

[00:12:00]>> Yeah.

[00:12:02]>> Oh, an entity moves across their entire history. Like, no, dude. They're cooked. What about the breach?

[00:12:11]>> A false alarm designed to divert the team's attention. Whatever this program has become, it has stolen one of our >> Yo, what the hell?

[00:12:18]>> Yep.

[00:12:19]>> Dang it.

[00:12:20]>> Oh, going after the others.

[00:12:22]>> If it's headed where we think it is, I need a partner who ain't going to hold back. [laughter] >> That's fair.

[00:12:32]>> Oh, man. Ah, the devotion.

[00:12:36]>> Magnus told me >> the gods always be in my favor >> to build a nation where my dream could become their reality. I knew it would be painful.

[00:12:47]>> Oh, the new suits. The new suits.

[00:12:50]>> It appears to share a striking resemblance to that of our very own danger room.

[00:12:58]>> That's right.

[00:12:59]>> Knows exactly what's happening.

[00:13:01]>> But she knows all our moves. Maybe not all of them.

[00:13:07][laughter] >> Oh, come on.

[00:13:11]>> Risk computer. Do you think you can >> My best friend taught me this reprogrammed with fresh >> best friends forever.

[00:13:17][laughter] >> And where better to begin than in the ashes of your greatest failure?

[00:13:25]>> Dang.

[00:13:29]>> Oh, you got the blicky on the wheelchair.

[00:13:32]>> [laughter] >> Yo, >> you got the blicky on the lift. But what the hell? [ __ ] >> He got ejectto cuz on that damn wheelchair, too. [laughter] >> It's all right, child. You did bring me another ride.

[00:13:50]>> Oh my god.

[00:13:53]>> Oh, dang.

[00:13:54]>> I need Xavier to have like 15 vehicles out of that damn wheelchair. Yeah, >> Charles is made of sterner stuff than most give him credit for.

[00:14:05]>> Professor, [laughter] >> okay, [gasps] the axe wielding maniac.

[00:14:12]>> SCOTCH JEAN BEAST, CAN YOU HEAR ME? I fear I cannot hold her off much longer.

[00:14:18]>> Oh.

[00:14:19]>> Oh [ __ ] >> I might go for your head.

[00:14:25]>> Okay, Thor. Polaris.

[00:14:30]Wow.

[00:14:31]>> I'm just a product of what I am molded from.

[00:14:34]>> Dude, just crush her head.

[00:14:36]>> Destined to repeat the sins of the ones who made us.

[00:14:40]>> Stop listening to her.

[00:14:41]>> Creators.

[00:14:44]>> Two daughters. One of Charles.

[00:14:45]>> Just waiting for that theme to kick in.

[00:14:48]>> Mhm.

[00:14:51]>> Oh, cool.

[00:14:53]>> Nice.

[00:14:56]Oh, okay.

[00:14:59]>> Holy [ __ ] bro. They're cooking.

[00:15:05]>> Wow.

[00:15:07]>> Survival.

[00:15:08]>> She's super ultra megazord. Okay.

[00:15:11]>> She's being torn apart and re >> She's channeling the energy.

[00:15:15]>> Wa.

[00:15:16]>> If you summon all the electromagnetic energy that you can, >> I'll absorb the spilloff. Balance you out.

[00:15:22]>> Lorna.

[00:15:23]>> Wow.

[00:15:24]>> Okay. You are your father's daughter. I have seen him do the incredible [ __ ] >> Yeah. Yep. Let's go.

[00:15:33]>> She was like, I was barely half power.

[00:15:38]>> Oh man, >> that's sick, dude. The editing. The editing. [screaming] >> WHOA.

[00:15:46][laughter] WOW.

[00:15:51][screaming] >> Oh [ __ ] Bishop.

[00:15:57]>> No, not this. All those kids died. Don't do this again. Don't do this to me again.

[00:16:02]>> Oh my god. Oh my god.

[00:16:05]>> You never did. You just need to embrace all of who YOU ARE AND UNLEASH IT.

[00:16:12][screaming] >> WOW. [laughter] [screaming] >> Oh my goodness.

[00:16:22]>> Wow. Ah >> yeah, I guess she she got her like directive completed. You know, somebody was strong enough to defeat Earth.

[00:16:30]>> I felt him, Professor.

[00:16:32]>> My father >> inside of you.

[00:16:35]>> I think I finally understand what we must do next.

[00:16:40]>> When danger before danger died and she said finally strength.

[00:16:44]>> It's that referring to Too late >> or Charles.

[00:16:49]>> No idea. Or Magneto. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you exorbit.

[00:16:56]>> What? Ooh.

[00:16:59]>> There's a little thing called jurisdiction. And if Charles Xavier thinks he has it, >> you can jurice my diction.

[00:17:08]>> Cooper is not backing down.

[00:17:10]>> It only proves that we are doing something that matters.

[00:17:13]>> Sick.

[00:17:14]>> Mhm.

[00:17:14]>> Yeah, dude. These suits are awesome.

[00:17:16]>> And the threats are only growing by the day. I can sense it.

[00:17:21]Since what? Professor >> apocalypse.

[00:17:24][ __ ] Let's go.

[00:17:25]>> Oh, baby. We're not done, baby.

[00:17:29]>> Oh, he's coming back.

[00:17:31]>> Hey, there's that.

[00:17:34]>> No, it's going to be Piccus, you guys.

[00:17:36]>> Piccus.

[00:17:39][laughter] >> Could be.

[00:17:43]>> This the second time the Watchers appeared.

[00:17:47]>> Rogues and boyfriend.

[00:17:49]>> I'm sorry. Storm's other boyfriend.

[00:17:51]>> Uhoh.

[00:17:53]Recreating his horseman.

[00:17:56]>> Whoa.

[00:17:57]>> Is that Magneto?

[00:17:58]>> Yeah. Is that Magneto's body?

[00:18:02]>> Yeah, but it wasn't like Oh.

[00:18:08]>> Oh, Gambit.

[00:18:09]>> Oh, it's Gambit. Oh, no.

[00:18:15]>> Gambit is death. Gambit is death. Oh, yep. Oh, no.

[00:18:26]>> Oh, no.

[00:18:29]Holy [ __ ] >> Such a good >> Oh my god. Holy [ __ ] >> Oh my god. I can't do this again, you guys. I can't go through Gambit being God again. Oh, I can't do it. There was like there was one little [laughter] like minuscule moment that I was like I wonder if we'll revisit Gambit because we're going back to Janosha and I thought ah it seems it doesn't really seem like the story is kind of heading in that direction. It doesn't seem like we're going to be touching some of that and we're going to be sort of honoring the events of the whole thing. But that that got that got me good. That got me good. I mean we were kind of waiting, right? Like I think everyone's kind of been waiting to see what what the next evolution or step for that character story was going to be cuz who actually believed that um Gambit was gone forever. I don't I mean I mean at least like the character is no longer going to be in the show. Obviously there's an evolution to the character happening but you know I think that's going to be that's that's good. It's about to it's like it's about like which method because these are Marvel comics we're talking about and so many characters have died in the Marvel universe and found some way to come back the same as DC comics superheroes the same as any of these longunning characters except for like you know something unique like invincible when they kill off a character that character stay dead because it's only a story comic book run that's like 15 years or so versus the 60 70 80y year thing so it was a it was a question of like well which method could Gambit come back with like which one would be >> right >> best and work best for this iteration for this version of the X-Men and I should have known it was going to be Apocalypse because this season has been so apocalypseheavy that it makes the most sense right and like I was I was thinking with last season when he died the moment he died I was like okay the thing that's happened in X-Men comics recently that is that was super popular and like is now very famous is the House of X powers of KCOA, you know, [clears throat] the the 2019 comic series that kind of relaunched X-Men in a way that had that introduced like now if X-Men characters die, they figured out a way to just resurrect that spirit in a new clone body all with like a couple of mutant characters like combining their powers to make it all make sense within the X-Men like mythology. But that doesn't quite that's not where we are. So this is Apocalypse. It makes sense. I mean, when when Apocalypse appeared at the beginning of the season, we were like, his four horsemen are going to be, you know, we were like, it's Archangel. It's going to be Wolverine. That's how he's going to get his claws back. Like, it's always about which of the four characters, you know, pestilence, death, famine. Which one's going to be which?

[00:21:07]>> Yeah.

[00:21:08]>> Now, we know that Gambit's going to be death. And I think Gambit was at one point one of the four horsemen of Apocalypse, I feel like. So, >> interesting.

[00:21:15]>> It's a duh, duh, dude. Duh.

[00:21:17]>> Makes sense. But three more to go. Would not be surprised if these next three are like a three-parter.

[00:21:22]>> Yeah. I also just can't get over the fact that you just said it's 2019 since Hickman's run of X-Men started.

[00:21:29]>> Yeah.

[00:21:29]>> Mhm.

[00:21:30]>> Yes, dude. And it feels new to us.

[00:21:33]>> Seven years.

[00:21:34]>> That era is over, bro. That era is over.

[00:21:37]We're already into the next era.

[00:21:38]>> Yep. It's disgusting. And I'm talking about it like it's a new thing. Like, no, it's not. I'm stupid.

[00:21:44]>> Wow. No. No. [laughter] >> That is insane.

[00:21:46]>> Yeah. I know. I know. [clears throat] >> Exciting, though. Really looking forward to seeing what's going to happen in the next episode. But of course, let us know your thoughts and theories in the comments below. What do you think is going to happen to Gambit? Will he be brought back to the X-Men? Or is he forever forever going to be death? We'll have to die again. Let us know. Check out everything else for watching. We'll see you guys in the next one. Bye bye.

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