We have had a tough concept of what the animated collection’ storyline would entail when “X-Males ’97” Season 1’s episode titles leaked on-line, together with subsequent week’s “Shiny Eyes.” At first look, it felt secure to imagine that this was referencing Scott Summers, aka Cyclops (Ray Chase), aka “X-Males ’97’s” formally confirmed coolest mutant that is not Wolverine. Nonetheless, a fleeting second between Madelyn and Cable suggests in any other case. Earlier than her son is yanked again to his timeline, she realizes who she’s speaking to by wanting into his glowing eyes, suggesting subsequent week may throw us into the long run to comply with Cable (or “Shiny Eyes”) on his mission to cease the assault on Genosha.
Heading into the long run might open up a number of prospects, not solely by seeing Cable in motion but additionally by the return of Bishop (Isaac Robinson-Smith), who was final seen transporting Scott and Madelyn’s new child to the long run in Season 1, Episode 3 – “Fireplace Made Flesh.” Hopefully, with these two males out of time on the case, they will have the ability to work collectively to avert the assault and thereby save any mutants that have been zapped into oblivion by the Tri-Sentinel—Magneto and Gambit included. In doing so, it might additionally enable Cable to blow the whistle on whoever was behind the mutant bloodbath within the first place.
We’ll discover out who’s guilty for the mutant bloodbath in addition to if Cable can cease them when the subsequent episode of “X-Males ’97” drops on Disney+.