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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Word of God has confirmed that Talos was only disguised as Fury for the duration of Far From Home.
I'm such a bad comic fan. I can't really muster much excitement for whatever Fury is doing. I'm still not 100% sure what the point of the switcheroo was. If it's because there's no way the REAL Fury would've fallen for Beck, then doesn't that make Far From Home something of an Idiot Plot in retrospect? If the only way it works is to take a character and replace them with what's essentially a stupider version of themselves?
I guess it could be to reinforce the whole "Nothing is at it seems" theme that Mysterio tends to leave in his wake
Edited by GNinja on Nov 23rd 2019 at 7:51:45 PM
Kaze ni Nare!Well there's Secret Wars, and then there's also Secret Wars. Neither are which are to be confused with Marvel's other miniseries Secret War.
... You think comic writers have problems coming up with original names for events?
How many crises happened after Final Crisis, anyway?
But also, there's an entire trope about how original names are hard.
Secret something-or-other.
Battleworld is probably another ten years off. What a bummer. Would be a really good basis for the next Endgame-level movie.
But it’s possible. I’d argue it’s even likely if the multiverse is gonna be an aspect of this particular “saga”.
Would it be weird if Marvel used the multiverse to introduce the Fox X-Men universe through a Secret Wars sort of thing? They did Age of Apocalypse and Days of Future Past so.. yanno..
“If you have a message for the devil give it to me and I’ll take it to him.”What’s funny is that Secret Wars was titled because focus groups indicated that children responded to the words “secret” and “wars” and since the event was initially intended to sell toys, that’s what the name became
And also influenced which characters would be in it and all the toyetic secret bases and vehicles
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Given that Endgame was itself the culmination of over 10 years of buildup, we shouldn't expect the next Endgame-level movie for another 10 years anyways.
As for Mutants, I think they are going to just do a straightforward reboot. They'll find some way to explain why they've thus far flown under the radar and that will be that.
I think the best way might be for mutants to have always been around, but extremely rare So rare that that even people who made it their business to know didn't know about mutants so much as a few random individuals with inexplicable abilities but not how those individuals are related. However some event, possibly one that has already occurred, causes a massive surge in mutant population in the years following Endgame. That way we can still have historical mutants when it's especially vital to the specific character's backstory, but have a sizeable modern mutant population.
So, she'd be the mutant Messiah.
At least they'd hate her a bit less than they do in the comics, what with calling her a pretender and all.
One Strip! One Strip!All I ask is to give a damn about mutants that aren't Wolverine, Professor X and Magneto. In fact, I'd be just fine with holding off on including those three for a while.
Something something Cosmo the Space Dog?
Edited by AyyItsMidnight on Nov 23rd 2019 at 6:11:34 AM
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)The first movie is literally about the original five Xmen.
It's never been done before in any media since the comics. It could work.
One Strip! One Strip!I think all of this speculation about how mutants are going to appear in the MCU is just kind of silly. I bet you that mutants will show and...that's it. Someone will say "After the Blip, there was a massive uptick in genetic mutation" and that'll be that. Nothing to do with Wanda or Doctor Strange or whathaveyou. There would still be mutants pre-Blip, but they would be rarer.
If you say the mutant population was say... in the low thousands, then I'd say that's plausible enough for mutants to lay low for as long as they have. That still gives you large number of characters to work with, but still keeps the mutant population a definite minority among the world populace.
From what I can gather, the comics had a mutant population that was around 30 million, which would be a harder sell for a world where mutants are just now coming into the public eye. Of course, post-House of M reduced that to a few hundred, which I think might be a bit too small for the series to start off with.
Of course, there's the real possibility the MCU won't address how large the mutant population is, but it's something to speculate about.
I'd honestly like it if, in the MCU, "mutant" was simply used as a catchall term for "humans with superpowers".
You get injected with the super soldier serum? You're a mutant. You get bitten by a radioactive spider and gain spider powers? You're a mutant. Some weird quirk in your DNA lets you move objects with your mind? You're a mutant, too.
Throw in some mention that, with so many science experiments run amuck and cosmic energy explosions hitting the Earth lately, and superpowered folk are turning up all over the place, and boom: there you go.
Just seems like it'd simplify everything a great deal.
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That's more or less what I'm suggesting, except perhaps with the blip replaced by some other recent-ish event.
Mutants need to be simultaneously so obscure in the 90's that even someone working for SHIELD (albeit at a fairly low level) had seemingly no idea they were a thing, and common enough in modern day for them to be a meaningfully distinct category from the random superheroes we already have.
There are many ways to achieve that, some are subtle and only explained in retrospect, and some are direct and would be better explicitly shown onscreen. The best way is ultimately going to be determined by the story they want to tell.
Is that a thing? How far back does the "enhanced" label go in the MCU?
We definitely know they've had people with superpowers for ages, even before Captain Marvel.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Nov 24th 2019 at 1:15:31 AM

The most likely explanation is that the switch happened post-Endgame and pre-Far From Home.