Current Events > How can X-Men be introduced into the MCU?

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How can they explain the lack of X-Men involvement in global crises?
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They should really keep them separate. It'll be awkward as hell to have it be like "mutants were here in the background the whole time" when mutants are a fairly sizable minority group with a lot of political and social issues surrounding them.
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the crisis of infinite worlds
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Have the firsr X-Men movie be House of M.

Its revealed that Wanda "no more mutants"'d the universe before the MCU started. And the movie can be about confronting her and "fixing" the time stream to re-integrate mutants into the MCU.
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I kind of liked them to be seperate. The x men world itself feels just as large as the rest of the superhero world. Marvel movies have been good so far though so I'm sure I'll be proved wrong.
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Professor X blocked the memories of mutants from the population, Thanos somehow causes that block to break.
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It seems like it would be pretty simple to just move the timeline up. Yeah, SOME mutants have been around but have been hiding their powers, but for whatever reason--I suppose they could blame "the incident" from Avengers bringing weird space radiation to earth--mutations are suddenly cropping up at a faster rate.

I also hope the Fantastic Four's first film is set in the 1960's, with the finale in the Negative Zone, and when they exit, time has happened faster in our dimension and its modern day.
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Dr Strange alternate dimension portal.
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X-Men aren't the problem, mutants are. You could either introduce the X-Men as a new team or an older team operating in secret, but it's harder to incorporate an entire minority or super-powered people that society hates and fears.
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Gheb posted...

X-Men aren't the problem, mutants are. You could either introduce the X-Men as a new team or an older team operating in secret, but it's harder to incorporate an entire minority or super-powered people that society hates and fears.

Of course Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine and others are pretty old and been around a while, but I'd really like them to finally introduce the proper first team lineup in film, rather than having them have been around a long time before or whatever.
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The X-Men movies have fucked about with the timelines enough that continuity concerns don't really matter.

I kind of hope it could be brought about from infinity stone shenanigans.
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Just introduce them?

Like make it so that Xavier and Magneto and a few others have been around but super low key and now a big boom of mutants pops up for whatever reason.

People make it harder than it is.
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AlecSkorpio posted...

Just introduce them?

Like make it so that Xavier and Magneto and a few others have been around but super low key and now a big boom of mutants pops up for whatever reason.

People make it harder than it is.

Sneak it in via the low-key Deadpool depiction of Mutants. There didn't seem to be much overt public "hatred" of mutants during the first film.

Infinity stone shenanigans.
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I'm more worried about casting Wolverine. Really think Disney has to hand Jackman a blank check and hope that it convinces him to come back. Just can't imagine anyone else in that role.
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mew4ever posted...

Just can't imagine anyone else in that role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Bryan

mew4ever posted...

I'm more worried about casting Wolverine. Really think Disney has to hand Jackman a blank check and hope that it convinces him to come back. Just can't imagine anyone else in that role.

He said he would come back if they were in the MCU right? Although age has got to be a factor at this point
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Very carefully.
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Darkninja42 posted...

mew4ever posted...

I'm more worried about casting Wolverine. Really think Disney has to hand Jackman a blank check and hope that it convinces him to come back. Just can't imagine anyone else in that role.

He said he would come back if they were in the MCU right? Although age has got to be a factor at this point

That was a while ago. He's completely done with the role now. And yeah, he did cite age as a factor.
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Infinity Wars is a great way to throw in mutants.
House of M is another.
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Mutants are practically in their own world in the comics as well. Thats the premise for Avengers vs. X-Men.
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CA Civil War already noted the presence of 'altered' humans so just go from there.
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MangaFan462 posted...

CA Civil War already noted the presence of 'altered' humans so just go from there.

A handful of altered people known only by a small portion of the government is tonally very different than the millions of mutants that everyone knows about and the vast majority of the population is at least uncomfortable around.

Society's long-standing feelings of distrust, fear, and hatred of mutants is a core setting for the X-Men franchise. I'd say even having a "boom" in the mutant population curiosity of The Incident/Thanos/Infinity Stones/whatever still wouldn't quite create the atmosphere the franchise needs. I think you basically need full-blown reality manipulation stuff to retroactively add them, which is obviously not ideal for the movie-goer.
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Gheb posted...

MangaFan462 posted...

CA Civil War already noted the presence of 'altered' humans so just go from there.

A handful of altered people known only by a small portion of the government is tonally very different than the millions of mutants that everyone knows about and the vast majority of the population is at least uncomfortable around.

Society's long-standing feelings of distrust, fear, and hatred of mutants is a core setting for the X-Men franchise. I'd say even having a "boom" in the mutant population curiosity of The Incident/Thanos/Infinity Stones/whatever still wouldn't quite create the atmosphere the franchise needs. I think you basically need full-blown reality manipulation stuff to retroactively add them, which is obviously not ideal for the movie-goer.

To be fair, mutants weren't originally in the millions. One of the reasons for House of M was because Marvel wanted to fix the "mutant bloat" they ended up with after decades of writers introducing so much.
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Yeah people need to remember being a mutant was used as a crutch and they tried to retcin it.

Everyone is making this more difficult than it really is.
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Probably some reality warping at the end of A4 using the infinity gauntlet. Someone does something and causes the Fox universe to merge with the MCU
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Gheb posted...

MangaFan462 posted...

CA Civil War already noted the presence of 'altered' humans so just go from there.

A handful of altered people known only by a small portion of the government is tonally very different than the millions of mutants that everyone knows about and the vast majority of the population is at least uncomfortable around.

Society's long-standing feelings of distrust, fear, and hatred of mutants is a core setting for the X-Men franchise. I'd say even having a "boom" in the mutant population curiosity of The Incident/Thanos/Infinity Stones/whatever still wouldn't quite create the atmosphere the franchise needs. I think you basically need full-blown reality manipulation stuff to retroactively add them, which is obviously not ideal for the movie-goer.

I think you're overthinking it.

They don't need to retroactively add them to the MCU. They could add some infinity stone power surge near the end of A4 that alters a a lot of humans. Then make the first X-Men movie about the emergence of mutants and how the public at large reacts with fear and distrust. Use it to establish the tension between humans and mutants with a focus on a handful of young mutants (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Storm, etc), Xavier, and probably Magneto.

That's how I'd imagine it happening anyway.
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Multiverse. Do something like Fringe and have 2 universes merge into 1 or some shit. It really wouldn't be that difficult.
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It's really not that hard. The X-Men focus primarily all their attention on mutant related crisis. The Omega level mutants are also notoriously unreliable/prone to going off on weird adventures. Not to mention that some of them are far, far more useless than some of the current MCU heroes (like, what use is Toad compared to Iron Man or Professor X compared to Doctor Strange). Also, pretty much every depiction of the X-Men during a crisis has them focusing on disaster relief. Half of them are children, after all.