So, while "mutation" may have already been introduced into the MCU, the full roster of X-Men and their world could be saved for the Phase 7 arc.Īny Multiverse Saga projects before Avengers: Secret Wars wouldn't have to really introduce new THE new MCU X-Men: Doctor Strange 2 has taught us that Marvel Studios is game for using previous franchises as cameo surprises in the MCU, even if they won't really be part of the franchise, afterward. Marvel Secret Wars are stories about different Marvel Multiverse realities being brought together to fight for survival – the biggest fringe benefit of those stories are that they offer the cleanest and easiest narrative path for Marvel Studios to retire any actors that want to be done with the franchise recast or re-introduce those empty character slots, and completely re-introduce the "rules" of the franchise universe with any amendments they want to make. The business realities that kept the X-Men and Fantastic Four out of the MCU have changed and decisions like killing off Iron Man and/or Captain America have become somewhat less popular since Avengers: Endgame. Marvel has learned that even the best-laid plans have to be revised and that the whims of the fans can redefine the plan entirely.
And while it hasn't been said out loud, a lot of Marvel fans have long believed that the entire purpose of the Multiverse Saga is to set the stage for a total soft-reboot of the MCU franchise.Ī lot has changed since Marvel Studios started building its Juggernaut MCU franchise from the slow, humble beginnings of Phase One.
Marvel Studios' Comic-Con 2022 panel made it clear that "The Multiverse Saga" of Phase 4, Phase 5, and Phase 6 is going to be much quicker than the Infinity Saga before it. The Fantastic Four are going to be arriving in Phase Six – so why wouldn't the X-Men (the other Marvel property Disney bought from 20th Century Fox). The seeds of the X-Men have already been sewn into the MCU – it would be easy to harvest them sooner before later. We also know that Deadpool 3 is already in production with Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy. The team itself has already been indirectly referenced in the MCU by having Patrick Stewart's Professor X appear in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Establishing mutants as a thing seems like a major step toward introducing mutantkind's greatest heroes (the X-Men). It also seems likely that Marvel Studios will debut the X-Men in the MCU before Avengers: Secret Wars as the studio has already introduced the concept of mutants (or mutation) into the franchise, during the Ms. There is a lot of room for that slate to be filled in with a new X-Men movie project Marvel Studios revealed the entire Phase 5 slate during Comic-Con 2022, but left a whole lot of the Phase 6 slate blank, save that it ends with Avengers: The Kang Dynasty and Avengers: Secret Wars.
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