Videos by ComicBook.com
*WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the two-episode premiere of X-Men ’97 on Disney+. Continue reading at your own risk!
With Professor X gone, it’s up to Scott Summers / Cyclops and Jean Grey to run the X-Men. Cyclops is bearing the weight of Professor X’s absence the most, which causes him to clash with his longtime rival and sometimes friend Wolverine. As viewers with eyes could clearly notice, Jean is sporting a baby bump in X-Men ’97, with Cyclops as the father. The couple is considering leaving the X-Men to start their family, but before that can happen, we get a glimpse of the baby when Jean uses Cerebro to search through the mind of Henry Peter Gyrich. Though the baby’s name isn’t referenced, readers of the X-Men comic will recognize the boy as Nathan Summers, aka the time-traveling Cable!
Cyclops and Jean Grey’s baby in X-Men ’97 explained
Cable made his animated debut in the first season of X-Men: The Animated Series, in the episode titled “Slave Island.” Though his origin slightly differs from his comic book counterpart, Cable is a clone of Cyclops and Jean Grey created by Mister Sinister. He fought alongside the X-Men throughout the five seasons of X-Men: The Animated Series, though it remains to be seen if X-Men ’97 will retcon his origin to match that of the comics, where Cyclops and Jean Grey had to send Nathan Summers into the future so he can be saved from the techno-organic virus.
Nathan was raised in the future, where he grew up to become Cable and fight against Apocalypse. Mister Sinister is the main villain of X-Men ’97 Season 1, so there is still time for this storyline to play out on the small screen.
