It’s not just Marvel villains who show up in “Tolerance is Extinction.” When Cyclops, Jean, and Cable visit Bastion’s childhood home, there’s a magazine with a cover labeled “Stark Expo,” as in Tony Stark. It makes sense that a technopath like Bastion would admire an inventor of Iron Man’s caliber.
“X-Men” and “Iron Man” never officially crossed over back in the day, but they were connected by association. The X-Men appeared in “Spider-Man” season 2 for two-parter, “The Mutant Agenda” and “Mutants’ Revenge.” Then, Iron Man appeared in “Spider-Man” season 3 episodes “Venom Returns” and “Carnage” to help Spider-Man fight the symbiote villains. Tony was voiced by his actor from the “Iron Man” series, Robert Hays, so it is the same Iron Man.
Speaking of Spidey, he shows up in person during a montage at the episode’s end (building on an Easter egg from episode 1). When Magneto unleashes a global EMP, Spider-Man is swinging through New York and notices the lights go out; he has same design as the ’90s series too. The last we saw of this Peter Parker, he was traveling through dimensions to find Mary Jane; we can only infer he’s back in NYC because he succeeded.
The montage also shows two X-Men villains, Kenuichio Harada/The Silver Samurai and Arkady Rossovich/Omega Red. They both appeared in the original “X-Men” series and are mostly enemies of Wolverine. Their appearance is likely just to reinforce the global scope of Magneto’s pulse (Silver Samurai lives in Japan and Omega Red lives in Russia).
Which, if any, of these cameos will have a bigger role to play in the last two episodes of “X-Men ’97” season 1? Watch and find out.
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