The goriest moment of "X-Men '97" season 1 will assuredly go down as episode 5, "Remember It," which saw the mutant nation of Genosha wiped out just as it was in the dark "X-Men" comic arc "E is for Extinction."

The penultimate episode of X-Men '97 probably just showed the origin of one of the X-Men's most notorious enemies from the '90s.

This piece contains spoilers for “Tolerance is Extinction - Part 2,” the penultimate episode of X-Men ’97 season 1.] What happened was that we were all discussing how we were going to have Magneto’s return be a big deal.

This article contains spoilers for X-Men ’97 X-Men ’97‘s Episode 9 saw Wolverine and Magneto play out one of their most brutal battles from the comics, which ended with Magneto ripping out the adamantium from Wolverine’s skeleton,

The second part of ‘Tolerance is Extinction’, the X-Men split off into Gold and Blue teams, with the latter – consisting of the likes of Cyclops and Wolverine – heading off to Asteroid M to face down Magneto after his actions at the end of the previous episode.

X-Men '97 episode 9 was quite a doozy – and its ending sets up two major comic book-accurate storylines that might very well be the focus for (a yet to be greenlit) season 2. Warning: major spoilers for X-Men '97 episode 9 below!

So in Part 2, the X-Men go to an old base on Scotland's Muir Island (cue the bagpipes), once owned by Professor X's old friend Moira MacTaggert (who died in the Genosha massacre back in episode 5, "Remember It").