Breathe, Nick. We don't know what's being "scrapped" & while I haven't spent time w/ @Kevfeige yet, he's a smart man doing some cool things & I bet he doesn't know yet either. Let's not mirror our nation's capitol & break into suspicious factions! Looking forward!
For some weird reason I feel like he typed 'D.C.' and then reread it and was like 'oh, no, that'd just make it worse!' and rewrote it.
I get your overall concern about the MCU showing a distinct lack of interest in R-rated subject matter, preferring to stick with what works and simply add in a bit of weight for flavor as needed. That is a loss, however 'people won't make movies I like' is a pretty poor motivation to start attacking people.
Agreed. Much ado about nothing.
I will admit I love the "solution" of having Prof X wipe the memory of mutants from the human race and then having that act be revealed and spur some kind of conflict between humans and mutants.
Then he can just wipe their minds again.
If the debut of the X-Men is what we're going by, then the X-Men have not previously existed simply old mutants with distinct reasons for not being noticed by the public (ie, existing before cell phone footage was everywhere). If we want to use the fact that the public didn't know about a buried guy named Apocalypse to make it sound like the public not knowing a guy blew a crane off its hinges with a giant red beam, we're selling apple juice as though its orange juice, and I assure you not everyone will buy it.
Why do we need ANYTHING to implement mutants? Just say they exist, problem solved. Gauntlets, wiping reality, mind warps, etc. All this is too complicated and can just be simplified by saying they have always been there but only a small number.
Show don't tell. "Just say" Lex Luthor turns Zod into Doomsday. "Just say" . The problem is not the audience accepting that your contrived storyline (as all storylines are) could happen, it's caring about storyline, and that means making it natural. A bunch of teenagers with destructive powers raging out of control and that not being a big deal until now doesn't and can't feel natural. Nor does it need to. The comics start as these mutants are just emerging, the movies can too, and no one seems to have a reason why mutants
need to be previously existing (outside of Xavier, Magneto, Selene and Apocalypse), or even how that helps the story AT ALL.
Exactly. It's like being back in phase one saying "Oh they never mentioned Inhumans so therefore they don't exist" or "Oh they've never mentioned Skrulls so they can't have them in the 90's without some complicated reality altering thing. Just they've been around but most people never knew. With mutants you can even point out that they may have been found a few times but no one understood the real cause of their mutation.
Big difference: The Inhumans and Skrulls' basic storyline is that they're hidden. You don't have to come up with some storyline to explain why we don't know about some people cloaked on the moon or some shapeshifters who are spying on us.
The X-Men's basic storyline is that teenagers get superpowers at random. Trying to come up with some storyline why that's been happening for years and no one noticed or cared leads to problems, like giving Xavier the power to erase the memories of his enemies when things are really tough.
Instead of trying to 'solve' problems that are created by changing the concept of the X-Men story, just do the X-Men story.
Mutants are a new phenomenon. Everyone's young or young-ish. Start at the beginning, because that is the strength of the MCU, not having to retcon stories into the past, but letting the audience get in the ground floor like we did so many years ago.
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