“Weapon X, Lies, and DVDs” drops Wolverine right back into the lab that once fused adamantium into his skeleton, and about ten minutes in, the whole thing turns into a horror movie. A pretty great one, mostly. There is blood everywhere. Some of it is green.
If you watch X-Men ’97, you already know the show never sits still. It sprints. This week, it ditched the usual mutant drama for something closer to Alien with claws, and folks have been arguing about it online since Wednesday night. So let me break down what actually happens, and why the reaction is all over the place.
Wolverine Pulls His Old Crew Back Together
Remember that post-credits scene last week? Captain America slipped Logan a file on the program that made him. This episode runs with it.
Wolverine decides he is not going in alone. He rounds up his old hit squad instead. Sabretooth. Lady Deathstrike. Maverick. Garrison Kane. And Morph tags along, which matters more than you think by the end.
The sales pitch is simple. Dr. Cornelius is back, he is still running his sick experiments, and everyone on this team has a reason to want him dead. Nobody asks the obvious follow-up questions. Big mistake, as it turns out.
Things go wrong fast. Their aircraft gets rammed out of the sky by mutated birds, Kane dies in the crash, and the survivors have to fight off a mutated bear before they even reach the door. Then they get inside, and the “abandoned” lab is not abandoned at all. The Brood are there. If you do not know them, picture insectoid aliens that use human bodies as hatcheries. Charming stuff.
From that point on, the episode basically becomes a survival horror flick. Dark corridors. Jump scares. That trapped feeling where you know something is about to leap out. It borrows the dread of Alien and the loud, sweaty bravado of Predator, and it works.
Morph, though. Morph runs away with the whole thing. He shifts into Sasquatch, Guardian, Ben Grimm, Silver Samurai, and Spider-Man, and then he becomes the emotional anchor once the Brood get their hooks into Wolverine. That infected shot is a straight recreation of a famous 1988 comic cover, so longtime readers are going to grin. Omega Red thaws out for a fight too, and the crew barely gets out alive by grabbing a jet and blowing the place sky high.
Why This X-Men Season 2 Episode Splits Fans Down the Middle
Here is the thing. On spectacle alone, this episode rules. Watching the nastiest killers in mutant history shred alien bugs into paste is a good time, plain and simple. The animators clearly had fun.
But the pacing is where people start grumbling, and I get it. This is the first stretch of X-Men Season 2 that feels genuinely rushed. It plays like a side quest, a break from the Apocalypse story that has carried the whole season. Worse, it just expects you to accept that sworn enemies like Sabretooth and Wolverine would team up without a single scene explaining why. One more episode of setup and that reunion lands so much harder.
And then the ending sneaks up on you. Wolverine lied to get these people here, and that lie costs him. Morph walks out of that lab no longer sure Logan is his friend. That quiet gut punch is what keeps the whole thing from being empty popcorn, even though the story clearly blows past moments that deserved room to breathe.
So, final call? Episode 5 is not the best hour of X-Men Season 2. It might be the most fun, though. It trades depth for adrenaline, doubles as a love letter to the old Weapon X comics, and gives Morph the showcase he has been owed for years. Switch your brain off and enjoy the mess. Just walk in ready for a horror ride, not a slow character piece, and Wolverine’s trip back to Weapon X pays off in guts, gore, and a surprising little ache at the end.