X-Men "97 Creator"s New MCU Multiverse Comments Change How You"ll View Loki"s Ending

Summary

• X-Men '97 creator Beau DeMayo says he views the series as existing in its own Marvel universe adjacent to the MCU multiverse tree.
• DeMayo's comments suggest the existence of multiple multiverse trees outside the one created by Loki in the season 2 finale.
• The possibility of a crossover between X-Men '97 and the MCU is hinted at through the concept of leaves from different trees mingling.

X-Men '97 creator Beau DeMayo shared comments on where his show takes place in the greater MCU multiverse, and it raises interesting questions about the Loki season 2 ending. X-Men '97 exists within its own Marvel universe, as seen in episode 8, which included cameos from many Marvel heroes and villains. However, many have questioned whether it exists within the larger Marvel multiverse, which includes other universes like Sony's Spider-Man Universe and Fox's X-Men Universe.
At the end of Loki season 2, Loki pulls all the separate universes together, creating a tree that links them all under one branching multiverse. On X, DeMayo was asked if X-Men '97 exists in this tree. DeMayo suggested that this series exists within a neighboring tree and that sometimes "leaves from one tree can mingle with another." Read his comment in full below.

I think it’s very much dealer’s choice on some levels. I know all my discussions were to view it as its own neighboring tree, not a branch of the multiverse MCU tree. Sure a few leaves from one tree can mingle with another at some point.

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How X-Men '97 Creator's MCU Multiverse Comments Change Our Understanding Of Loki's Ending There May Be More Than One Multiverse Tree Close DeMayo's comments mean that Loki didn't place every single branching timeline under one tree. Several multiverses exist outside the tree in Loki and could exist under another tree, or may still be flowing independently. Loki's ending saw that many of the strands were dying until Loki grabbed them, and they would glow once more. So, if DeMayo's comments are real, that means the timeline X-Men '97 exists in wasn't dying and Loki didn't need to revive it by placing it in his tree.
The one detail that makes this tricky is that X-Men '97 episode 5 featured a cameo from Uatu the Watcher, the all-knowing narrator of Marvel's What If...? This suggests that X-Men '97 exists within the larger MCU multiverse, but it's also possible that a different Uatu monitors the multiverses within each tree. A neighboring tree does change the meaning of Loki's ending, but it doesn't immediately affect the MCU's multiverse, since it's disconnected.
One interesting detail of DeMayo's comments is that he said leaves from different trees could "mingle" sometimes, which may explain Uatu the Watcher's cameo. This little phrase could also tease that a crossover between X-Men '97's universe and the MCU isn't out of the picture. Some have speculated that the version of Wolverine in Deadpool & Wolverine could be the same one from X-Men '97. While unlikely, DeMayo's leaf statement does keep this theory alive.
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