Marvel Animation’s Brad Winderbaum discusses Spider-Man’s surprise appearance in X-Men ‘97, the potential for another revival, and the possibility of a shared animated universe for these characters.
In the first chapter of X-Men ‘97′s epic three-part finale, “Tolerance Is Extinction,” fans were thrilled to see the wall-crawler from Spider-Man: The Animated Series make a surprise appearance. The original show, which aired from 1994 to 1998, ended on an open-ended note, making this reunion a significant event.
The finale delivered an even bigger surprise by revealing that Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson had been reunited. Resolving a decades-old cliffhanger, it was revealed that Spider-Man had successfully tracked down Mary Jane after she was lost in the Multiverse.
In an interview with Screen Rant (via Toonado.com), Marvel Studios Head of TV, Streaming, and Animation, Brad Winderbaum, discussed the excitement surrounding this moment. He hinted that it might be setting the stage for a potential Spider-Man ’98 revival on Disney+.
“It is amazing to see them back on screen together, I wish we could tell that whole adventure with Madame Web and figure out how exactly he did it!” the executive explained. “Maybe one day, we as fanboys could certainly dream.”
“There is always potential, right? I don’t want to close the door on anything. But I think that for now, for the foreseeable future, X-Men 97 will own the 90s and how much we bring in guest stars or tell stories from other Marvel characters from that era is TBD, but it will be seen through that lens of the X-Men,” Winderbaum added.
While a revival of Spider-Man: The Animated Series isn’t currently in the works, recent cameos suggest that all Marvel animated shows from that era share the same continuity.
As for whether this means we’re getting a new animated shared world, the producer added,
“Well, I think to me, X-Men ’97 is the window into the 90s and into that universe. We can see how much that window expands over time perhaps. But there is a value to focusing on that era because it unlocks you from any other show.”
“You get to explore this universe from this one perspective, which is basically what every episode of What If…? does to a certain degree,” Winderbaum continues. “But those are one-and-done ones, an anthology, this is actually a universe that gets to exist for multiple seasons, which is one of the things most exciting about it.”
With multiple seasons in the pipeline for X-Men ’97, the future looks promising for further crossover opportunities. Fans are eagerly anticipating the possibility of Christopher Daniel Barnes lending his voice to the web-slinger in future episodes.
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