SPOILER ALERT: This article details X-Men ’97 Season 1, Episode 5, “Remember it!” Beau DeMayo breaks his silence after exiting X-Men ’97.
The creator of the Disney+ animated series took to social media to discuss Episode 5, “Remember it!” and give context to the shocking episode. “Lotta questions and so I’ll momentarily break silence to answer,” he shared in a lengthy post shared on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “Episode 5 was the centerpiece of my pitch to Marvel in November 2020.
The idea being to have the X-Men mirror the journey that any of us who grew up on the original show have experienced since being kids in the 90s.” He continued, “The world was a seemingly safer place for us, where a character like Storm would comment on how skin-based racism was ‘quaint’ in One Man’s Worth [the season 4 premiere of the OG series].
For the most part, to our young minds, the world was a simple place of right and wrong, where questions about identity and social justice had relatively clear cut answers.” DeMayo said that everyone’s perceptions of the world changed following the attacks on September 11, 2001. “Things weren’t so safe anymore,” he said. “Grassroots populist movements began to rise around the world as a whole nation struggled to deal with collective trauma and fracture at the seams of every diverse demographic.
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