Animated shows don't always have big endings. They usually just taper off and disappear due to the weird schedule for producing these shows and renewing them. Most shows don't plan a finale for every season, so it often ends up biting them in the ass. Only later shows like Justice League realized what they had to do on a regular basis. They were not the first to do this, however. This same thing was also done for one of the most iconic cartoons of the 1990s...
X-Men
How do you end a show that has had mutants battling in Washington D.C., Magneto attacking the Earth from space and Mojo's reality show (pre-dating so much of our modern ones)? By literally having someone try to rape the time-space continuum! Suck on that, reality!
The story involves Mr. Sinister kidnapping Jean Grey after her marriage to Cyclops- not again! This is inter-cut with not one, but TWO parallel stories- one involving Bishop and the other involving Cable in the future. They all tie in eventually (although the first one is done kind of lazily), but really just pad out the story into four parts.
A Saturday morning cartoon ends with what is basically an Animated Movie (with the total equaling out to around 80 minutes)- that is epic!
A Saturday morning cartoon ends with what is basically an Animated Movie (with the total equaling out to around 80 minutes)- that is epic!
Apocalypse gets the help of nearly every major X-Men villain (Magneto, Mystique, Sinister, etc) and kidnaps all of the most powerful psychics in the galaxy. Why? It is part of an elaborate plan to stop time and rework it in his image.
How does this work? Your guess is about as good as mine. It has something to do with Psychics apparently having the will power to affect time (huh?!?), so, by killing all of them in one burst, it will undo everything.
You had me and then you lost me, Show. The whole thing is a pretense for some fan service, whether it is introducing Psylocke or giving us cameos by characters such as Mesmero and Stryfe. They also set-up Archangel joining the team, but, of course, this is the last Episode.
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Oh wait, apparently the studio ordered a bunch more after this. The only problem is that the Animation Studio behind the show had folded. This gave us several sub-par looking episodes made in-house by Saban. Oops.
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