Previously On
The trailer opens with an elaborately staged look back at the series finale of X-Men: The Animated Series, “Graduation Day.” Through the hazy faux-filter of a CRT TV, we see clips from the episode, which saw Charles Xavier on death’s door after being assaulted by government agent Henry Peter Gyrich—before being forced to go with his lover, Lilandra, into the stars to seek medical help from the Shiar Empire, leaving the future of the X-Men and mutantkind in his students’ hands.
Although that episode ends with Charles still alive and just seemingly not capable of returning to Earth for a very long time, a lot of this trailer goes on to act as if everyone is treating it like Charles is really, really dead. An unwise thing to assume of Charles Xavier, or anyone related to the X-Men, really!
