Episode 429 – Unexpected Visitors to Close to Home

One is Mostly Good, Whilst One is Great!

This week on the Toonsday Animation Reviews, Brian and Darryl are talking about the most recent episodes of Invincible and X-Men ’97.

Episode Index

Intro: 0:07 Invincible: 3:16 X-Men ’97: 19:17

Invincible (Amazon Prime)

Out of 5 Who Doesn’t Have Agency Now Ambers Darryl: 3.25/5 Brian: 3.55/5

Title: “I’m Not Going Anywhere” Directed by: Ian Abando Written by: Simon Racioppa Date Aired: March 28, 2024 Summary Mark and Amber attend a comic convention, but he leaves to help Rex. After Cecil puts the Immortal on temporary leave, Rudy returns as the Guardians’ leader. Donald discovers that he has died numerous times and that the original ordered the memories to be erased. Nonetheless, he later overcomes the trauma while dissuading Rick from committing suicide. While on a date, Mark is confronted by the Viltrumite Anissa who tries to remind him to have Earth join the Viltrumite Empire. When Mark abruptly leaves to save a cruise ship from a kaiju, Anissa joins him and effortlessly kills it, saving the passengers. Despite proving Earth’s weakness, Anissa fails to convince Mark to complete his mission and grievously beats him before ultimately sparing him and leaving to report back to Kregg. Amidst this, the Viltrumites confront a passing Allen, who feigns defeat and allows himself to be captured. After breaking up with Amber, Mark is called by Angstrom who has taken Debbie and Oliver hostage.

X-Men ’97 (Disney+)

Out of 5 Is The Inferno Upon Us Darryl: 4.3/5 Brian: 4.35/5

Title: “Fire Made Flesh” Directed by: Emi Yonemura Written by: Beau DeMayo and Charley Feldman Date Aired: March 27, 2024 Summary The X-Men take in the Jean look-alike, who Beast determines is the real Jean. Mister Sinister contacts the other Jean, revealing her to be a clone he created, before asserting control of her and turning her into the Goblin Queen. She kidnaps Nathan and hands him off to Sinister before subjecting the X-Men to horrific visions until the real Jean confronts her telepathically, during which the latter reminds her of their shared memories. Morph leads the X-Men to one of Sinister’s labs, where they find him infecting Nathan with a techno-organic virus under the belief that it will turn him into the ultimate mutant. Free of Sinister’s control, the clone turns on him, but Nathan is left gravely ill. The clone and Cyclops task Bishop with taking Nathan to the future in the hopes of finding a cure there. Afterward, the clone leaves the X-Men, taking the name Madelyne Pryor. Meanwhile, Storm meets with Forge who tells her he can restore her powers.

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