Earlier this week came a report that the second season of Marvel’s “X-Men ’97” animated series won’t be returning to the streaming platform until 2026. Former showrunner Beau DeMayo’s writing commitments towards the second season were completed before he was let go, with Matthew Chauncey taking over as new head writer for the third season. However the report indicted Chauncey is reworking the scripts DeMayo penned before being dismissed with the delay due to the changes being made to them.
Now, DeMayo has responded to that story on and revealed one of those changes in a posting on social media. He claims the episode count for the second season is being cut by one as they’re canning his original second season finale which includes the supervillain Onslaught: “Season 2 is also only 9 episodes because of this and them canning my Onslaught/Age of Apocalypse finale. But Marvel loves shooting themselves in the foot, especially with certain directors and execs pushing their backwards ‘we know better than the comics’ agenda.
” In the comics, Onslaught is a merging of Professor X and Magneto. DeMayo was let go after an internal investigation revealed several instances of sexual misconduct perpetrated by the writer who was stripped of his credit on the upcoming second season..