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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Remember when people joked how House of M should've ended with Wanda saying "No, more mutants" instead of "No more mutants"? I wonder if the MCU will actually use that as an opportunity to bring mutants into the series.
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Hell nah, Scarlet Witch is my favorite female hero in the MCU, I wanted her to get the first solo female-led MCU film, before even Black Widow. I love Carol, but Wanda's my favorite. I want her to stay as a major character in the MCU for years more.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Sep 21st 2020 at 11:31:31 AM
What’s funny is that panel is Rogue screwing up everything forever
Because everyone but especially Rogue was insufferable in early uncanny avengers
Edited by Bocaj on Sep 21st 2020 at 2:39:42 PM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYou say that, but all MCU shows made for Disney+ are said to factor into the movies, lest we forget that Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness will picking up the pieces from WandaVision.
That said, I'd expect mutants to be established via some cosmic stuff like Eternals. (Mutantkind started with the Eternals, right?)
Or maybe it will start with WandaVision after all? It's so hard to tell.
I doubt that the series will end with Wanda wiping out 99% of all mutants like in the comic. The MCU's too kid-friendly for that.
As for introducing mutants, maybe they'll go the "enhanced human" route again, maybe a Terrigen Mist thing like in Ao S. Who knows at this point.
So, let's hang an anchor from the sun... also my TumblrPeople really want mutants to just materialize in the world a la cosmic retcon, I notice. I don't really think it's necessary, since there is nothing whatsoever stopping them from having mutants just be a thing for a while (if anything, since many mutant characters require having a history to work, it's better overall) and become recently discovered / recognized in-universe, but there's been theories about it for pretty much every major film or tv event in the last few years.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 21st 2020 at 12:36:13 PM
The Inhumans in the comics have already been majorly wiped out back to basically the Kirby cast plus some that managed to catch on like Kamala or Lunella.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersThe reason I don't think it's likely for WV to introduce mutants is that it's a bit of a hard sell to ask people to watch a whole season of a TV series as preparation for a movie - especially when modern MCU movies tend to draw from at least two prior MCU movies as a baseline these days.
Small references can and probably will happen. For Doctor Strange 2, I'd imagine it would be something like, "Hey Strange, there's been a(n unspecified) disruption in reality that's caused some problems, now we need to fix things using plot devices that may or may not contain easter eggs for the show but ultimately don't require knowledge of the show to make sense as mcguffins." Kind of like Agents of Shield explained how Fury got a helicarrier for Age of Ultron, but the specifics of how Fury got that helicarrier were completely unimportant in the context of Age of Ultron.
Introducing mutants is way too significant of an event to happen in a side-story, though. Marvel will definitely want to hold onto that for the next big Avengers/etc. crisis crossover, or even just for the first Disney X-men movie, whenever that'll happen.
They probably won't drop mutants wholesale on us in the next Avengers film either, since those films are more culminations than introductory stories.
Most likely (or at least, the best way forward) is we'll get hints of a rising "gifted" population in individual films, maybe a few mutant characters in ways unrelated to the main X-Men story (like possibly an appearance of Whirlwind in Ant-Man 3, or Mystique in Captain Marvel, a reference to Wolverine being originally a Hulk villain in She-Hulk, etc and so on), and then a movie that's actually about the mutant situation once those building blocks have been established. Helping that build is one of the (several) reasons I think an Alpha Flight movie would be great.
They really shouldn't do "poof, now there's mutants" either literally or figuratively, though. Easing things into the universe is how Marvel has gotten its success so far, there's no reason to stop now.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 21st 2020 at 1:19:09 AM
I really like the idea of introducing individual mutants here and there rather than going straight to the X-men.
Honnestly I want Storm and Nightcrawler solo films prior to an X-men film but that seems unlikely.
And oh damn that IS Monica Rambeau in the trailer! Oh I am so excited. Love that gal.
I really do like the idea of Mystique and Rogue debuting in a Captain Marvel film.
Wolverine debuting as a random nobody trying to take down the Hulk would be amazing, but I have no idea when that could happen.
Edited by Whowho on Sep 21st 2020 at 9:33:18 AM
Oh really? Wiped out as in, directly through some sort of cosmic event, or just left to flounder in the background now that their biggest advocates have lost steam, while only the success stories receive a continued push?
As much as I suspect the Big Bad of She-Hulk will be The Leader, it'd be a cool plot to have a secret semi-government organization trying to hunt down Jennifer and Bruce in She-Hulk, which everyone suspects might be HYDRA or AIM, but then the reveal at the end is that its Weapon X.

I'd rather have it end like this
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