How do you think the X-Men will be introduced into the MCU?

[Spider-Fan]

As others have already pointed out, individuals like Dr Strange, Cpt Marvel, or a small nation deep in Africa hiding itself from the world with magi-tech aren't comparable cases to mutants popping up in the general population all around the world.

To be clear, I'm for mutants having existed for a long time in the MCU, just on a very small scale, a scattered handful like Logan, Prof X, Apocalypse etc.
Not a widespread, known phenomenon where organisations like the X-Men have existed off-camera the whole time and is just explained away with "oh they were there all along, we just haven't made a movie about them".

I think the mutant population explosion & foundation of the X-Men should be a post-Infinity War/Endgame thing.

Which is 100% something I have suggested

I just don't think it should tie into Thanos.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

I was almost thinking it might be a good opportunity to introduce mutants, though these events, cause "what if" mutants were some how not effected by the snapture? where before mutants only made up a small majority of the population and were able to keep hidden easier, now being a larger majority being amongs the surviving population... it'd only be a matter of time before people start to try to figure out who did or who didn't survive and why? and discover the X gen, causing mutants get outed...
as a way of explaining how or why we haven't heard of or seen mutants up to this point

 

[Spider-Fan]

I just don't think that is necessary or adds anything. I would prefer as opposed to Thanos if they're going to tie the mutant expansion into another property, use Eternals. Use the Celestials. I just don't find the idea of it being due to the IG appealing.

 

[Leo Zelinsky]

At this point imo idec anymore... Race bending, genderswapping, whatever they decide it will be Infinitely better than FOX-MEN. Nuff said

 

[Raiders]

Seems they are pretty obviously going there with Captain Marvel and Black Panther.

No, it's not obvious, X-Men was borned out of the Civil Rights Movement. Its mean storyline is about equality and integration. It's about saving the world from itself.
In the Avengers, the world is the victim.
In the X-Men, the world is the enemy.
Two different concepts.

 

[SirStrangefolk]

No, it's not obvious, X-Men was borned out of the Civil Rights Movement. Its mean storyline is about equality and integration. It's about saving the world from itself.
In the Avengers, the world is the victim.
In the X-Men, the world is the enemy.
Two different concepts.

Are you claiming Black Panther didn't deal with social issues?

 

[Dark Raven]

Being the least known group to headline a movie, one that wasn't chosen to headline a TV movie in the last century it was the success of Guardians Of The Galaxy which confirmed that being linked to the MCU was a license to print money. It has only been the Inhumans, another lesser known group IMAX which has been the exception to the rule

Inhumans definitely bucked the trend.

 

[Raiders]

Are you claiming Black Panther didn't deal with social issues?

I’m saying the MCU don’t deal with social issues. One movie out of twenty don’t make the MCU socially conscience.

 

[Phoenix_Flare]

Honestly I think the mutant world should be separate from the main MCU films. When you try to explain where mutants have been in the last ten years would be a bit far fetched. Just reboot the franchise just like they did with Spider-Man in Civil War. I wouldn’t mind little Easter eggs to the Avengers, Cap, Tony, etc but the main focus should be on the X-Men. Hopefully in a cross over event then you can bring in other MCU characters for example if they were to build to Age Of Apocalypse or Secret Wars.

 

[Raiders]

The only thing that would make sense to have one universe is to reboot both the X world and the MCU

 

[Marvel united]

The X-Men are coming to the MCU. It's been confirmed countless times. Also, there multiple ways to approach the mutant concept in the MCU and have it make sense

 

[Raiders]

The X-Men are coming to the MCU. It's been confirmed countless times. Also, there multiple ways to approach the mutant concept in the MCU and have it make sense

I haven’t read anything that makes sense on this tread. They will have to reboot the MCU too or have no crossover.

 

[Chiznuk]

I haven’t read anything that makes sense on this tread. They will have to reboot the MCU too or have no crossover.

Yeah, no. That's not how this works. Just because you can't see a way to make it work doesn't mean Feige can't. The X-Men will a part of the MCU.

 

[psylockolussus]

I voted for the obvious, they will all be rebooted!

 

[Flash525]

I haven’t read anything that makes sense on this tread. They will have to reboot the MCU too or have no crossover.

They'll never do that. The MCU is too much of a success and doesn't need a reboot.

 

[SumT]

Channing Tatum and his weird MCU ideas, lol

 

[Raiders]

They'll never do that. The MCU is too much of a success and doesn't need a reboot.

I actually agree, which is why I don't think there's going to be a same universe.

 

[Spider-Fan]

You're just fooling yourself if you think Marvel is not going to take their most marketable characters and put them in the MCU so they can throw in more team-ups we will give them 800+ mil WW to see. The X-Men have too much earning potential for the MCU. They won't keep them separate. Thinking they will be separate is just wishful thinking.

 

[Raiders]

Disney is great at marketing, the X-Men under Disney will make $800+
With or without the MCU.

 

[Spider-Fan]

It will make more in the MCU playing off the others. That's not even really up for debate at this point. Wolverine is one of Marvel's top characters. He's going to get a monster MCU push. To think otherwise is just foolish.

 

[SPO2 Dalisay]

The Disney marketing genius move is called it's all connected. In other words the MCU

 

[Leo Zelinsky]

Disney is great at marketing, the X-Men under Disney will make $800+
With or without the MCU.

I think it'll do 1bil... Alot of people skip FOX-MEN movies.

This is like X-MEN being introduced for the first time in the modern cbm era. It'll be glorious

 

[Raiders]

Only reason why MCU does $800+ is because of Disney’s marketing team. MCU is not only movies that does $800+ under Disney. Their marketing is by far the best in the business.
When Disney took over the marketing, that’s when the MCU’s box office seen a major increase.

 

[Flash525]

I actually agree, which is why I don't think there's going to be a same universe.

Oh I see.

Well there's several ways of going about it;

• The Multiverse
  • Have the Mutants exist on a parallel Earth to the Avengers Earth, which it'll be possible to crossover with (via the Quantum Realm?)
• Separate Universe
  • Continue the X-Men films separately from the MCU. No crossovers. No connection.
• Just add them into the MCU
  • Either they've always been there, but have gone unnoticed, or purposely hidden
  • Change their origins so it's only [after Thanos] that various mutants start getting their powers. They've played with the timing and origins of other characters, there's no reason they can't do the same with the X-Men.

 

[WereCoyote]

After re-watching the Avengers just now, I think they have already put subtle hints that Mutants exist in the MCU already. Like how the only one of the heroes the whole world was readily aware of was Iron-Man, and the quote Nick Fury dropped on why Phase 2 was necessary, because "the world is filling up with people who are uncontrollable." And then we actually saw 2 mutants, they just weren't called mutants, in Age of Ultron, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. What if the experiments on them didn't give them their powers, but merely activated their X-Genes? but the Hydra operatives didn't understand what an X-Gene is, so they thought the scepter gave them the powers. This wouldn't even require a retcon, it would just be further expounding on ideas that were laid all the way back in Phase 1.