Beau DeMayo, the ex-showrunner of Disney’s hit animated show X-Men ‘97, has decided to go full scorched earth on the media giant following his recent dismissal.
DeMayo’s firing is, in itself, a whole different kettle of fish. According to Disney’s legal team, the showrunner was removed from X-Men ‘97 following several accusations of sexual misconduct.
As a result, DeMayo was immediately fired from his role (that he was set to reprise for the second season of X-Men ‘97) following a lengthy investigation.
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Rather than, y’know, not draw attention to himself in the midst of several reports of sexually inappropriate behaviour, DeMayo has instead opted to take to Twitter and spill the beans on everything that he had planned for the show’s next season.
The showrunner and writer revealed in a tweet that X-Men villain Onslaught was set to appear in the finale of the next season, until the plan was scrapped entirely by “Marvel”.
“Yep, pretty sad…” he said in the recent tweet, “Season 2 is also only 9 episodes because of this and them canning my Onslaught/AoA finale. But Marvel loves shooting themselves in the foot, especially with certain directors and execs pushing their backwards “we know better than the comics” agenda.”
For those not in the know, Onslaught is the literal fusion of Magneto and Charles Xavier, first appearing in X-Men vol. 2 #53 back in 1996.
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Although the character has quite a lengthy history in the comics, Onslaught is probably best known to a lot of people as the final boss in Capcom’s 1998 fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.
It’s more than likely they have plans for the character somewhere down the line in X-Men ‘97, regardless of DeMayo’s angry Twitter waffling. We’ll have to see what the next showrunner can bring to the job when they do,