In a 2004 interview with Lisa Terrada for the Archive of American Television’s Living Television Collection, X-Men co-creator Stan Lee said about the creation of the team,

…I wanted to do another group, another group of superheroes, but I was getting tired now of figuring out how they get their superpowers. I couldn’t have everybody bitten by a radioactive spider or exposed to a gamma ray explosion. And I took the cowardly way out. I said to myself, Why don’t I just say they’re mutants. They were born that way. We all know there are mutants in real life. There’s a frog with five legs, things like that. So I won’t have to think of new excuses. I’ll get as many as I want and yeah, he’s a mutant, that’s all.

X-Men 97 (S1:E1-E6)

“X-Men ’97,” developed by Beau DeMayo, represents a revival of the renowned “X-Men: The Animated Series” from the 1990s. The show continues the storyline from where the original series concluded, following The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them. The iconic era of the ’90s is revisited as they face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

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