Multiverse of Madness showed us the first real X-Men in an MCU film, Professor X – unfortunately in an alternate universe. Ever since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, fans have been wondering when the superhero group of mutants would find its way into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And that time is now within reach.
In just one word, the Ms. Marvel series recently changed the MCU forever. Kamala Khan is the first confirmed mutant. The foundation for the era of mutants was laid. But what does the future of the X-Men really hold?
X-Men in the MCU: The mutants are closer than we thought
The grand master plan for the Multiverse Saga or phases 4 to 6 of the MCU was recently announced at the San Diego Comic-Com. In the next three years, the Multiverse will play an even more important role than before, before the two Avengers films The Kang Dynasty and Secret Wars represent the culmination of this new Marvel era. But there is no trace of the X-Men.
Of course, that could change soon – as early as September at D23, when Disney and Marvel Studios are almost certain to announce more films and series for the coming years. Especially in phase 5 and 6 gape still some gaps in the big MCU plan. Until the start of Secret Wars, the end of the Multiverse saga, there are even three cinema dates that have already been announced without a fixed title.
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Whether one of the still untitled MCU starts could be an X-Men film is currently still pure speculation. Rumor has it that Marvel Studios has been working on a movie project called The Mutantswhich would be Disney’s very first standalone mutant project.
But fans don’t have to wait that long to see new X-Men characters in the MCU. Two upcoming performances have already been confirmed. Back in November, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever will be the Marvel character Namor (Tenoch Huerta) to be seen. This appeared in the comics for the first time in 1939 and is there a human-mutant hybrid. It is still unclear whether this will also be the case in the live-action version.
Still without a theatrical release but already confirmed is the Return of Ryan Reynolds in Deadpool 3, which will bring super-mercenary Wade Wilson straight from Fox’s former X-Men cinematic universe to the MCU. Strictly speaking, Deadpool is though not a mutantbut a mutant human with no inherited X gene.
The future of the X-Men: This is how it could continue with mutants in the MCU
Mutants exist in the MCU. That much is already certain. However, it is unclear how Emergence of this all-new group of meta-creatures is explained. Have there been mutants that have been hiding for a long time? Or was there an event that suddenly caused genetic mutations?
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How did the X-Men get into the MCU?
There are now two basic ways that Marvel could establish the group of mutants in the MCU. On the one hand, individual films and series isolated mutant characters in the years to come (like most recently Ms. Marvel), before an independent The Mutants film will bring these and new ones together at a later date.
It could be years before enough mutants are established before they can start their own superhero team called the X-Men. A more effective and for the current saga a more appropriate variant would be the multiverse. A spectacle like Avengers: Secret Wars could easily bring the alternate reality X-Men squad into the main MCU canon.
It is still unclear whether Disney will bring the X-Men known from the Fox films (which, according to Doctor Strange 2, exist) to the MCU or whether characters such as Charles Xavier, Mystique and Magneto will be completely recast. The multiverse solution at least offers the possibility of one Mix of known and new stars to be introduced as the new X-Men of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Now fans can only hope that Kevin Feige will soon reveal his plans for the mutants and we will don’t wait until phase 7 have to. But who knows: Maybe the Multiverse Saga will follow directly the mutant saga. Luckily we won’t have to do without X-Men entirely until then: the X-Men ’97 cartoon series will start next year. But it’s not a real replacement.
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How would you like the introduction of mutants and X-Men in the MCU?