• Marvel Animation has released the first trailer for X-Men ’97 Season 2, confirming that the Emmy-nominated Disney+ series will return on July 1 — two years after the first season concluded
• The trailer confirms Deadpool will appear in Season 2, making it his first animated appearance in the current Marvel continuity; the character’s inclusion had been teased ahead of the trailer’s release
• Season 2 also introduces Danger — a character from the X-Men comics — and features new character costumes; the episode count for the season has been revealed alongside the premiere date announcement
• X-Men ’97 has been described as the most-watched Disney+ animated series; the Season 2 trailer dropped to significant fan response

The X-Men are back — and they brought Deadpool. Marvel Animation released the first full trailer for X-Men ’97 Season 2 this week, and it confirmed what many fans had been hoping for: Deadpool will appear in the new season, marking the character’s return to animation in Marvel’s current continuity, per Collider.

The season premieres July 1 on Disney+. The trailer is dense — new costumes for the core team, the introduction of Danger (a synthetic being from X-Men comics lore capable of generating lifelike simulations), and what appears to be a substantially elevated threat scale from Season 1. Season 1 ended on several unresolved cliffhangers that the second season will be expected to address, per Comic Book Movie.

Deadpool in the Animated Universe

The Deadpool confirmation is the headline grab. Ryan Reynolds voiced the character in the live-action films, but this appearance is in the animated context of X-Men ’97 — a separate continuity. Two years after Season 1 wrapped, the show returns as one of Marvel’s more critically lauded recent projects, per MovieWeb. The July 1 premiere drops X-Men ’97 into a crowded summer streaming landscape — but given the response to that trailer, it has the attention it needs.

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