The third and remaining episode of “Tolerance Is Extinction,” the season finale of X-Males ‘97, had lots to repay—not simply from the plot threads it wove all through its own debut season, however in bringing to a head years of lingering character work courting again to the unique X-Males: The Animated Collection. However in only a few brief moments, the episode managed to tug off a quiet victory for one other piece of Marvel animated history, too.
Half approach by “Tolerance Is Extinction, Half 3” viewers are handled to a veritable host of ‘90s animated cameos, as we see the world start to react to Asteroid M seemingly inevitably coming crashing down on the Earth, wiping out life as we all know it. From Silver Samurai in Japan, to Physician Unusual attempting to mystically carry out surgical procedure underneath fluctuating energy, to the Avengers in President Kelley’s briefing room, to Daredevil combating looters within the streets, it’s a veritable who’s who of ‘90s Marvel animation. After which, among the many chaos within the streets of NYC, watching information protection of the X-Males combating to cease Asteroid M’s descent, is Peter Parker… and Mary Jane Watson.
Viewers will keep in mind that the climactic fifth season of the ‘90s Spider-Man sequence noticed the surprising revelation that the Mary Jane that Peter had been with all through the sequence was, in truth a clone—created from a droplet of a cloned model of Hydro Man developed by the sinister Miles Warren. After Peter was forced to horrifically watch the Mary Jane clone dissolve earlier than his very eyes, he was visited by Madame Web, who provided to assist him find the actual Mary Jane, in change for his assist in the dimension-hopping 5 episodes that ended the sequence, “Secret Wars” and “Spider Wars.” The final scene left Peter’s emotional turmoil over Mary Jane unresolved—ending the sequence proper as Madame Internet makes good on her promise to assist him begin looking out the multiverse for the actual Mary Jane.
Ousted showrunner Beau DeMayo took to social media after the finale aired to confirm that the cameo did certainly imply that Peter’s search was profitable, and this was the actual Mary Jane Watson, moderately than her clone. Spider-Man concluded on the finish of January 1998, so if we make the belief that it it was set in a recent interval—and X-Males ‘97, because the title implies, picked up chronologically the place X-Males: The Animated Collection left off, give or take a couple of months—it looks like it didn’t really take Spider-Man all that lengthy to search out her. However what may very well be a extra excellent instance of “Parker Luck” than Pete discovering the love of his life alive and nicely, just for them to seemingly nearly instantly face sure doom by the hands of a large asteroid smashing into the U.S. East Coast?
Thank god for the X-Males saving true comedian ebook love, I suppose.
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