The Illuminati thread [spoilers]

Children of the Atom.

 

No way. It’ll be X-Men—the name sells.

 

Doesn't Xavier have a falling out with Scott Summers and the X-Men during the Joss Whedon Astonishing X-Men storyline? Maybe he wasn't part of any existing mutant group for whatever reason at the time of the movie?

 

Raimi's new comments on Fiege casting Krasinski for the cameo definitely make it sound like he isn't in fact the main MCU Reed.

 

Doctor Strange 2's Illuminati Nearly Featured Thor's Brother Balder

So it was true!

 

This is just a big, big missed chance. They should have used the Fox Mainstream Xavier, and debunk the Logan 2017 future as an alternate universe.

 

Exactly.

Mutants are mutants.
X-Men are X-Men.
Agents of Xavier.
They work for Xavier and his dream. In the movie, they are teachers, Xavier's bodyguards and members of a special strike force all rolled into one.

 

These are the official designations:

Earth-10005 - Earth-assignation for the first seven X-Men films. Reality destroyed when Wolverine traveled back in time in order to prevent Mystique from killing Bolivar Trask.

Earth-TRN414 - Earth-10005's dystopian future averted. The new timeline of the three 2014-2019 X-Men movies, as well as "The New Mutants".

Earth-41633 - The two Deadpool movies.

Earth-17315 - "Logan". Alternate X-Men film universe, where mutantkind has become endangered by 2029.

Earth Unknown 1 - The (main) universe of "Legion".

Earth Unknown 2 - The universe of "The Gifted".

Earth-700029 - The universe of "Generation X" (television movie).

Earth-704509 - The universe of "Mutant X" (TV series).