Warning: this article contains full spoilers for X-Men ‘97: Season 1! If you haven’t already, be sure to check out IGN’s X-Men ‘97: Season 1 review . X-Men ‘97 may have just wrapped its first season on Disney+, but we already have a pretty good idea of where Season 2 is headed . Season 1 ends with the X-Men scattered across time and encountering the mighty Apocalypse at different points in his immortal life.

It’s clear that this long-time X-Men villain has a big part to play in Season 2. Just how does Apocalypse factor into Season 2? What’s next for Wolverine following his near-death experience? IGN spoke with several of the minds behind the series, including executive producer Brad Winderbaum, supervising director Jake Castorena and episodic directors Chase Conley and Emi/Emmett Yonemura, to learn more about what’s next for the series. Read on to learn why all roads lead to Apocalypse.

Revealing the Origin of Apocalypse The X-Men clearly aren’t being given much opportunity to rest following their climactic showdown with Bastion. Season 1 ends with most of the team still aboard Asteroid M when it implodes. One group - Xavier, Magneto, Beast, Rogue and Nightcrawler - is dragged backward in time to the year 3000 BC.

Cyclops and Jean Grey, meanwhile, are thrust forward to the year 3060 AD. The rest - Wolverine, Morph and Storm - are still MIA, but, presumably, they’ve also traveled in time. The common thread linking past, present and future is none other than.