Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of X-Men '97

The film highlights the intentional inclusion of LGBTQ+ narratives within the mythos. It explores how the production uses the mutant metaphor to center non-straight relationships as essential structural components.

Discussions focus on the ability to act of female leads like Storm, Jean Grey, and Rogue. The production emphasizes their intellectual and tactical leadership rather than traditional submissive roles.

The documentary underscores the importance of diverse casting for the ensemble's multi-ethnic texture. It highlights characters like Storm as central, actively leading components of the team's power structure.

The film examines the franchise's critique of systemic power structures. It explores themes of underrepresented groups resisting dominant social hierarchies through the lens of the mutant struggle.

The documentary treats the mutant condition as a broad metaphor for neurodivergence and physical difference. It centers on the lived experience of those existing outside the biological norm.