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The X-Men came to WonderCon and they brought some pretty massive treats with them. To promote the upcoming movie Dark Phoenix, the cast of X-Men shared some brand new footage at their WonderCon panel. Beware: The following contains spoilers for Dark Phoenix.

All told, there were two different–and lengthy–clips shown. The first, which clocked in at around 10 minutes, sent the X-Men to space. Pieces of this sequence have been seen in trailers, but there’s quite a bit more context to be had. As it so happens, the X-Men are tasked with rescuing a NASA shuttle, which was struck by the Phoenix Force, essentially leaving it dead in the water.

Though she ultimately absorbs the Phoenix energy–and it looks very cool–it’s not just Jean (Sophie Turner) getting in on the action in space. The clip shows just how great a team the X-Men has become, with everyone knowing their role and working together. The clip also shows Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) calling the shots in the field, giving the idea that she’s second in command behind Charles Xavier (James McAvoy).

That’s explored even further, when back on Earth she accuses Charles of sending the team into a dangerous situation, putting their lives at risk to save the lives of non-mutants. According to Charles, he’s just trying to keep the peace.

Mystique also points out–after Jean essentially saved them all in space–that the women on the team are the ones doing the heavy-lifting. “The women are always saving the men around here,” sher said. “You might want to think about changing the name to X-Women.” This potential divide in their relationship is especially intriguing, given what we know about Mystique’s fate in the film.

The second clip finds the X-Men at their lowest. Jean, who’s done full-on Dark Phoenix by this point, has been tracked down in New York City. Beast (Nicholas Hoult) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) are determined to kill her after the death of Mystique, which was previously revealed in a trailer.

Meanwhile, Charles, Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), and Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) plan on stopping them. What follows is a mutant fight on the streets of NYC. It’s the kind of thing that, for comic book fans, is a sight to see. If you’ve been waiting to see Cyclops vs. Beast, this is going to be something you’ll enjoy.

If the clips are any indication, the tone of an X-Men film has never been darker than in Dark Phoenix–and the scale has never been more epic. What remains to be seen is if this is the final chapter in the franchise, following Disney’s acquisition of Fox. If this is the end of the road for the X-Men as we know it, at least it’s finishing with a story as massive as the Dark Phoenix Saga.

Dark Phoenix is in theaters on June 7.

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We’re smack in the middle of PAX East 2019, and we’ve spent our time getting hands on with exciting new games like Katana Zero and Cyber Shadow. That’s on top of arguably the biggest news of the conference: Borderlands 3 is finally happening.

PAX East has always been a convention packed with talented cosplayers. During day two, we caught up with some characters from Metal Gear Solid, Persona 5, League of Legends, and more. We’ve got plenty of rad cosplay from day one for you to check out too.

[Above: Raiden (Metal Gear Solid), by @vulpirecosplay]

FX’s Legion panel at WonderCon 2019 kicked off with an exclusive look at the upcoming Season 3, which the network has stated will be the show’s final season. The clip was from the new season’s opening episode.

The lengthy footage starred a new addition to the cast in Season 3, Lauren Tsai, who plays a character named Switch. The clip didn’t have a lot of dialogue or many clear connections to the story as we know it, although we can infer some things. We essentially followed a day in Switch’s life: She eats breakfast with her father via teleconference on the screen of a 1960s style TV (the show remains era agnostic, as always), she goes to school, she listens all day to an audiobook called “Lessons In Time Travel.”

In the footage, we only got one glimpse of her using that power–as she encounters increasingly strange coincidences throughout her day, including mysterious flyers posted around the city, she eventually tunes a radio to a specific station to catch a secret message. Having missed it by seconds, she draws a line in the air, and the scene apparently rewinds a few seconds to her plucking the radio from a closet again. A voice tells her without ambiguity: “Follow the yellow bus.” And the voice sending the message? It sounded a whole lot like Dan Stevens’ protagonist-ish hero-turned-villain, David Haller.

The bus led her to a back alley door leading into a bright white room filled with racks of clothing, shifting desks, and singing hippies. After a funky musical number, the desks all shifted together to form a tunnel. As Switch crawled on her hands and knees, she passed through skyscrapers, office buildings, a forest, a ship, the bottom of the ocean, and more, the scene shifting around her in a kaleidoscope of weirdness. Finally, on the other end, she was greeted by an unfamiliar woman, and the scene ended.

Tsai shared during the panel afterward that this is her first work in scripted entertainment. “It’s crazy for me to watch it now,” she said. “I’m really excited for you all to see and get to know Switch. It’s going to be a very interesting season, and it’s been a crazy time of learning for me.”

The panel included Tsai and Stevens, as well as Amber Midthunder (Kerry), Jeremie Harris (Ptonomy), Navid Negahban (Amahl Farouk), Aubrey Plaza (Lenny), Rachel Keller (Syd Barrett), Dan Stevens (David Haller), Marvel Television’s Jeph Loeb, executive producer Lauren Schuler Donner, and creator Noah Hawley. They spent the first part of the panel reminiscing about how they started on the show, and various moments from the previous two seasons.

For example, Plaza said she wasn’t initially interested in the role of Lenny, a character who was originally written as a man. That was until Hawley told her that her character would eventually be killed, and her body taken over by a psychic mutant.

They did tease a few extremely tantalizing details, though: Legion Season 3 may be the show’s last, but it might not be the final collaboration between Hawley (also known for FX’s Fargo) and Marvel. Loeb himself raised the prospect of Hawley working on another Marvel show, or even something else within the Legion universe–eliciting cheers from the crowd.

“[Legion Season 3] is the end of this particular story,” Loeb teased. There’s a lot to potentially read from that statement, including the real possibility that Legion will somehow continue after the end of Season 3. Unfortunately, that was the extent of the tease.

Hawley also spoke at length about ending the story of Legion–or at least this chapter of it. “In looking at a story about a character who is mentally ill, there was a sense of kind of the path of the illness and recovery that [David] goes on,” he said. “I feel like where we left him at the end of the second season, again at his lowest point, there’s only two ways that he can go–he can either get back to a healthy place, or he can go off the bottom of the map. And once we decided which one of those he’s gonna do, it felt like the end of the story, because otherwise you start the loop all over again. But it’s not an easy decision to end a story.”

“Obviously it’s bittersweet, but a story has no meaning without its ending,” he continued. “And the old paradigm of television was, major corporations don’t usually do a mic drop after a success–you have to keep going, and there’s something about being allowed to tell a story, where the length of the show is dictated by the length of the story, that makes television better.”

Besides being Legion’s alleged final season, Season 3 will also introduce a beloved X-men character: Professor Charles Xavier, who’s being played by Game of Thrones’ Harry Lloyd. When an audience member asked what other Marvel characters they’d like to fold into Legion’s world, Stevens issued his own tease: “You might be pleasantly surprised by Season 3.”

Lastly, a question for Aubrey Plaza at the end stole the show, as far as any Parks and Recreation fans in the audience were concerned: How would her character April Ludgate react to being possessed by Legion bad guy Amahl Farouk? “I think she’d like it,” Plaza said. “I don’t think she’d be very different. And she’d probably be better at her job. And she’d probably kill Jerry once and for all.”

Legion Season 3 premieres on FX this June.

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