‘X-Men ’97’ Season 2 Episode 6 Release Date and Time
Marvel Animation is keeping the momentum going for ‘X-Men ’97‘ Season 2, and fans are already circling their calendars for the next chapter in this time hopping saga. After a three episode premiere and a steady weekly rollout, the show is proving it can hold its own against some of Disney+’s biggest live action offerings. The season premiered on Disney+ on July 1, 2026, with its first three episodes, and the remaining episodes are rolling out weekly through August 12.
Episode 6, titled ‘Danger.Exe,’ is the next stop on that journey, and it arrives at a moment when the show’s mutant ensemble is scattered across timelines and stakes have never felt higher. Here is everything currently known about when ‘X-Men 97’ Season 2 Episode 6 drops and what else is worth knowing before it lands.
‘X-Men ’97’ Season 2 Episode 6 Release Date
X-Men ’97 Season 2 Episode 6, titled ‘Danger.Exe,’ is set to release on July 22, 2026. That keeps the show on the weekly Wednesday cadence it has followed since its three episode premiere earlier in the month.
Following the show’s three episode premiere, new episodes of the Marvel Phase 6 production have been arriving every Wednesday, a pattern that will continue until the season finale airs on August 12. That means episode 5, ‘Weapon X, Lies, and DVDs,’ releases the week prior on July 15, setting up whatever cliffhanger leads directly into ‘Danger.Exe.’
The full season 2 schedule places episode 4 on July 8, episode 5 on July 15, episode 6 on July 22, episode 7 on July 29, episode 8 on August 5, and the season finale on August 12. For a show that has dealt with wildly inconsistent release patterns across other Marvel Animation projects, this steady weekly drop has been a welcome change for fans trying to plan their viewing schedule.
Unlike other Disney+ originals that have jumped between single and double episode weeks, ‘X-Men 97’ has kept things simple since its premiere, and episode 6 continues that consistency without any surprise scheduling shifts so far.
“Danger.Exe” Release Time on Disney+
New episodes of X-Men 97 Season 2, including the premiere batch, have been dropping at 12am PT, which translates to 3am ET. Fans in different time zones have used that baseline to calculate their own local release windows for each new episode.
Based on that established pattern, ‘Danger.Exe’ should follow the same early morning rollout on July 22, giving West Coast viewers a midnight drop and East Coast fans a 3am wakeup call if they want to be first in line. International viewers will need to calculate their own local time difference from that Pacific Time anchor point.
Since Disney+ has stuck to this same release window for every episode of the season so far, there is little reason to expect a change for episode 6, though streaming platforms have been known to occasionally adjust timing without much warning.
What “Danger.Exe” Might Explore
The episode title lineup for the back half of the season teases the return of Weapon X, the villain Danger, and a major character many fans have been eager to see again. That naming pattern alone has fueled plenty of speculation among the fandom about what ‘Danger.Exe’ could bring to the table.
Given that ‘Rise of Apocalypse’ dominated the season’s early episodes, ‘Danger.Exe’ appears positioned as a shift toward a different corner of X-Men lore, one that digs into the Danger Room mythology that longtime comic readers and animated series fans will recognize immediately. The title alone suggests a more technology focused threat compared to the cosmic scale villain the team has been contending with.
Season 2’s earlier episodes have leaned heavily into fractured timelines and personal fallout from the previous season’s finale, and ‘Danger.Exe’ looks likely to continue picking up threads from that emotional wreckage while introducing its own standalone conflict.
Full ‘X-Men ’97’ Season 2 Schedule Breakdown
For anyone trying to keep track of the entire season, the rollout has been refreshingly straightforward. The full episode list runs from the July 1 premiere through episode 9, the season finale, which is set to arrive on August 12, 2026.
The season includes nine episodes total, following Days of Past Future, A Force to Be Reckoned With, Rise of Apocalypse Part 1, Rise of Apocalypse Part 2, Weapon X Lies and DVDs, Danger.Exe, Strange Land Savage Heart, The Dead Man’s Hand, and closing with Survival of the Fittest. That nine episode count is actually shorter than the first season’s run.
Season 1 of the animated revival featured ten episodes, making this second season’s slightly tighter structure a small but notable difference for fans comparing the two runs. Whether that shorter episode count means a faster pace or a more condensed story remains to be seen once ‘Danger.Exe’ and the episodes following it have aired.
The response to the season so far has been overwhelmingly positive among critics, and with ‘Danger.Exe’ bringing fresh mystery into the mix, mutant fans everywhere are bound to have theories about what Danger’s return really means for the team. What do you think ‘Danger.Exe’ has in store for the X-Men, and which returning face are you hoping shows up first?
