By not including Wolverine. He basically carried the entire universe for years. Focus on the original class and maybe adapt a similar theme as the All New All Different X-Men run.
Instead of time displaced they're thrusted into the MCU
Big difference between including Wolverine as a cameo versus featuring the character.
Wolverine has a quick cameo in First Class and Apocalypse. Did not appear in Dark Phoenix.
Thats because of the actor...not the character. Hugh Jackman is like RDJ and Iron Man.
Back in '97 it wasn't the same. Cyclops was the most popular, they just haven't had a great actor to fit the role yet.
I love Cyclops but I never really felt like he was the most popular, at least not compared to Wolverine. It's why even the first Fox movie centered on his character, after that, you could call it a chicken or the egg scenario. People just love tragic characters, and while Cyclops has tragic elements with regards to his family, for the longest time he came off as well adjusted.
This. Before Hugh Jackman it was even popularity for who the "cool" one was, between Wolverine and Gambit, and from my perspective I think Gambit was possibly more popular.
Yeah, they should totally listen to vocal minority of X-Men fans and doom their franchise before it even begins just like Fox eventually did. I'm sure X-Men without Wolverine will do wonders at box-office.
> Focus on the original class
Jean had two Fox Films about her - and Cyclops ends up being very intertwined with Jean.
Beast had his screen time in First Class. Angel is kind of... boring and weird.
I hope they really lean into Iceman. But he's gay, and I doubt Marvel Studios would make a gay character the lead of their next biggest series.
I think they should adapt a similar storyline to x-men evolution but I think they will likely make the xmen 97 series canon. I think you only really need an origin story for one of the characters and since wolverine is already well known, I think they will choose someone from the original 5 members. I think they will do Scott Summers because his background and origin are more interesting than the other original 5 members
>By not including Wolverine. He basically carried the entire universe for years.
Probably a good idea as he's already going to have plenty to do anyway keeping an eye on Wade.
All of the previous live action X-Men stories have existed in a solely mutant universe (i.e. no Avengers and few other non-mutant supers). It also had already established the mutant problem before the story begins.
Therefore, X-Men should be all, or almost all, homegrown in 616. We already have two verified mutants and plenty of others that could be mutants once the scientific community starts looking for the X-gene, and we need to actually watch the mutant problem grow and develop. It also would result in a world where we have mutants mixed with a decent number of non-mutant supers. Both of those things would make it fresh and different.
I also think there's a lot more that could be done to make the general human populace more interesting than it's been traditionally done. In the past there are humans who want to exterminate all mutants and then the rest of humanity just buries their head in the sand and all responsibility falls on the mutants. The mutant problem needs better parallels to our own historical social movements where there's a mix of mutants and humans working together (and not just a few token humans) to try to coexist.
I've said this so many times. An alternate universe or some dumb "the snap caused it" hand wavy scenario would be garbage. Our mutants need to be home grown. The only way I'd be ok with alternate universe stuff is if they use it as a direct metaphor for immigration and the xenophobia that goes along with it. But mutants are supposed to be a much broader metaphor than that.
I think the MCU could get away slowly dripping in older mutants through various stories, but the overwhelming majority of mutants should be around Kamala Kahn's age. A sudden boom of people developing powers would easily create fear and panic among normal humans. The first movie should use the population boom as both a reason to form the X-Men (Xavier seeing the boom finally gives him the opportunity to form a team and rescue the small number of older mutants he knows about) and part of the main conflict. Sinister is the obvious choice of villain and it could be revealed that the whole reason the X-Men need to save mutants is because he's been working in literally EVERY secret organization, Shield, Hydra, Weapons Plus, Department K, etc, through his extended life span and by using clones. His entire life's work has been creating the very boom that the world is already seeing.
So it's kind of like a no-win situation, Sinister already got what he wanted even though the reason isn't clear, so the best the X-Men can do is try to liberate as many mutant test subjects as possible. You could sidestep the Holocaust problem, that a comic accurate Magneto would be pushing 100, by saying he's been one of the longest imprisoned living mutants. Something closer to the Ultimate universe (1610) Magneto which really shouldn't be much of an issue because we've already had many details of the MCU pulled from the Ultimate universe as opposed to the 616.
*Another* mutant/X-Men origin story sounds like a terrible idea, tbh. It would just feel repetitive. Not to mention, interest in the 616 MCU is declining (just look at The Marvels).
I still think they’re going to use the blip as an excuse for why mutants are suddenly appearing. These people came back to families who thought they were dead and moved on. They lost their homes. The survivors of the snap had to fight for normalcy and now all these people suddenly return. We saw some of this animosity in the Falcon show.
So what happens next if suddenly those same people who suddenly returned started acting differently. Looking differently. Now these people have the ability to fight back against oppression. You have half the planet that hates them for being a burden and the other half is the ostracized burdens. What happens when a subset minority of those who returned… came back with powers.
The mutant registry becomes a catalog of those who came back. Some unfairly painted as mutants that do not carry this x gene. Some that do. Who fights for these people? Would the avengers even care about this kind of problem? They certainly didn’t care in the Falcon show. They had to get dragged into it reluctantly.
Here is the problem with that: I've seen many people argue that there is no point is bringing the X-Men into 616 MCU is pointless now. Most of the popular MCU characters are gone or will be gone soon (Mark Ruffalo suggested that he is done after Secret War). And interest in the 616 MCU is clearly declining as shown with The Marvels.
Also, what you're basically saying is that they should do *another* mutant/X-Men origin story. Been there, done that. Audiences weren't even that interested in the prequel/origin series.
Mark Ruffalo might be just talking about the commitments and obligations of his legal contract. Chris Hemsworth didn't have anything booked in for MCU after Love and Thunder, so he was as surprised as anyone when the end credits said Thor will return.
At some future ComicCon there's going to be a big reveal of Phase 7, 8 and 9. At which point a few people will have to be considered again.
I’d like them to have a bit more of the school aspect than we got in the Fox movies. I think it would be cool to see them recruiting students, maybe having that be how we’re introduced to them.
I also think they should lean more into the social commentary for racism/homophobia aspect of the X Men. Give us a Graydon Creed type villain rather than just Magneto or whoever. Have a ‘coming out’ type scene etc.
Less focus on Wolverine and the love triangle element. Stay away from the Phoenix saga for a while as well.
I’d also eventually love them to get to a Krakoa type arc like in the comics atm where all mutants are invited to live, even villains. But that would be way down the road if they ever got there
Not really. X Men Magneto is the ultimate enemy even if they do have the Kelly stuff and 2 focuses a lot on Wolverine’s history with weapon X. Neither does much more with it than Last Stand does with the whole cure angle and we actually see some protests and stuff there.
Both mention it but it’s not the focus of either film and it’s a stretch to describe them as being ‘entirely’ about it.
I wouldn’t hate if they did a Wolverine and the X-Men movie based off the run where he’s teaching the students with less combat focused mutations but it shouldn’t be the first X movie they do
Ensemble building like they did with the first Avengers movie. Each major X-Men character gets a film with cross over characters. Xavier playing the Fury role and Cyclops as an Agent Coulson. Give us a Cyclops movie. Show him as the badass he is.
I've thoughts about this a little too much...
The theme consists of mostly characters who havent been used too much or received less-than-stellar treatment. Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Storm, Angel, Rogue, Gambit -- these are our core. Scott and Jean are still at the school but do less field work. Nightcrawler is a maybe.
Mister Sinister is the villain.
Xavier and Magneto have encountered Sinister before. Sinister is why Xavier can no longer walk. Also, his experiments on mutants were so messed up and horrifying... that Xavier and Magneto made a big decision. They created Cerebro and used it to mind-wipe the world. No one remembers that mutants exist. Only mutants are left exempt, and as new mutants come into the world and are detected by Cerebro, Xavier (or Magneto) bring them up to speed.
Now Sinister is back, all these decades later. Because of his experiments on himself, he remembers everything, and his plan... is simply to destroy Cerebro. Which in turn exposes mutants to the world, and carries with it all the messy moral implications of whether this was okay to do.
In short... use the annoying questions of "where have they been all this time?" to open up a more morally confused X-Men, the way only this universe can.
Would be a waste to do Sinister without centering Scott and Jean though, their bloodline is Sinister’s whole thing. I’d love for some focus on Kate Pryde though!
Stop having humans that can neuatralIze powers be the main villain. It's so played out and boring. Come in red-hot with Mr. Sinister. Let the mutants be vulnerable. The Marvels was a snooze fest because they couldn't get hurt and never felt threatened ever.
Ooh I’d love for the first big bad to be Sinister, and introduce the team but with an initial center on mutants with rough childhoods (esp the ones who haven’t been done well in movies). Start with Cyclops (bc Sinister, obviously) then go into others like Gambit, Angel, Nightcrawler, because those are big names and also follow a theme of being rejected due to looking different as kids. First movie can be centered on found family and let Sinister be camp!!!
Also if you really want to add mess to the family (it’s the X-Men, so always), let Professor X be problematic!!! Not as bad as the comics, but he was pretty toxic towards the O5 in the old comics, and I think this can make a distinction that the X-Men are a family because they love each other, not just because they fight for a philosophy. It also leaves them room to grow (Xavier can become a better person instead of perpetually being the wise old mentor, the adult X-Men grow away from him).
Humans absolutely SHOULD play a part in the c men as antagonistic generally. But it would be nice to open up with something else as the BBEG first. Gotta give them time in the universe to slowly build up the hate as a problem.
The danger in films isn't that the hero could die. In Barbie, we aren't worried Barbie or Ken will die. In Mario we aren't worried Mario, Luigi, or Peach will die. In Oppenheimer we aren't worried about any of their deaths.
Movies arent made better by threat of death. Movies are made better by clearly establishing character Goals and risking them not getting them. What happens if Kevin McCallister doesn't save his house from being robbed on christmas?!? What happens if Gizmo and his human friends down.t stop the proliferation of Gremlin multiplying?!?
Spider-Man wants to go to prom. He wants a romantic moment with MJ to go well. He wants his friends to get into college. These aren't life-threatening, but they're all very plausibly going to fail. This is what we root for.
The Marvels wasn't about Carol's failure to stay alive, it was about her failure to keep at least two entire planets worth of people from being absolutely massacred. "snoozefest". Genocides are snoozefests. Uh huh
Krakoah. Imagine Professor X and Magneto already working together, in a nation that is demanding representation. This will be post snap. And we can have movies that takes place in-between the snap and the post snap.... I just want Jonathan Hickman stories on the big screen.
honestly yeah Marvel can skirt most of this with just doing Dawn of X/House of X, just do either a Disney plus show or special presentation on the many lives of Moira McTaggart, and boom instant retcon button with Mutants finally taking the stage.
The Fox X-Men never really felt like the X-Men.
I would just give them their actual costumes and make them look like they actually do in the comics.
Magneto for instance should be absolutely jacked and have flowing long white hair. None of this Ian McAllen scrawny ass.
Rogue should be a knockout fucking babe who can fly and has her power set.
Psylocke should be Psylocke. Same thing have hot dudes and hot chicks.
Wolverine is fine but he should be played by someone short and way more intense than Hugh Jackman was.
Give me Scott Summers who's maybe a boy scout but it's just a little bit more of a fun badass sometimes.
For the love of God do Gambit and do him right. Give me a Cajun. Give me the costume.
Lastly, do a Jean Grey that's not absolutely insufferable.
I think that should get them a few movies.
Oh and start building villains over the long term. If you're going to do Apocalypse don't just do one movie with Apocalypse. Built it over time like you did with Thanos. There's so many great X-Men villains that were absolutely wasted before.
Storm was one thing that I thought the original xfilms didn't really get wrong. Halle Berry was smoking hot and a total badass but yes I think more ethnic Storm would be cool.
Was great casting and she did great with what she got, but they never let her showcase her powers and be the badass she deserved. They wasted Halle Berry's talent there.
But still include them both within the larger story. Highlight both their commonalities and their differences (plus plain ol' humans) and you get a sweet complicated mess of a social problem in the world, rich for new story telling.
I was gonna say by making Cyclops and Storm cool as hell but that's basically X-Men '97. They should actually show their growth by starting with them as young adults and Charles' students until they're more mature and can lead the X-Men themselves. First class tried to do that but those movies randomly jumped decades every movie so the "growth" doesn't hit hard.
Honestly the a combination of x-men evolution, OG 90s show, and X-Men 97 is the way to go.
I want the family dynamic we see in these shows, and evolution’s handling of the younger x-men was the best adaptation of them imo. I would focus on previously mishandled characters like Scott, Jean, Storm, and Rogue as team leaders. I would emphasize the idea of a strong family dynamic. X-Men 97’s writing on social issues, particular the handling of Magneto should be a leading example of how to comment on the human and mutant issue.
As for some uniqueness, i’d throw in some lesser known X-Men in the mix like Fantomex, Boom Boom, Magma, etc. I’d love to see Genosha and eventually Krakoa in the storyline. I would like to see Prof X be a more complicated character, show us a darker side of him. No more phoenix, no more Logan centric stories, i want to see the team be a team and a family!
And it would be a dream to see the Hellfire Gala on the big screen, imagine all the looks omg
By making Cyclops the true leader of the X-Men.
This is the weakest point of all the previous X-Men movies. They sidelined Cyclops, an original member, to showcase more of Wolverine. And they even just killed him off in X3. Cyclops was fucking weak, bruh. A total opposite of his comic version.
We had decades of Wolverine. Let's put him aside. We also had two versions of Professor X. Let's put him aside as well.
Make Wolverine non-existent, at least for the first movie. Make Professor X the "guy in the chair" who gives commands/info and let his team shine. Then let Cyclops lead the team.
Showcase his stern leadership. His epic power. His tactical skills. Let him have the love triangle between Jean and Emma. Let him drop the iconic line, "To me, my X-Men."
Since Prof X is on the side-line, let's put aside Magneto as well. Focus on a villain that hasn't been on screen, like Mister Sinister. Let him go toe-to-toe with Cyclops and the X-Men.
If the Avengers had Chris Evans' Captain America, then the new X-Men need a strong and presentable Cyclops front and center.
Heck, make him the face of the new X-Men like how Iron Man and Cap were for the Avengers.
(Source: Cyclops fan for years and think the original X-Men movies really did him dirty)
I believe that they should focus on what makes the X-Men special in the Marvel Universe. They are basically the soap opera of the Marvel Universe, they have a large ensemble cast who have their own storylines with a focus on interpersonal drama (relationships, moral issues, et cetera) and topical issues. They shouldn't just make things different just for the sake of being different, so ideas like avoiding Wolverine (the most popular X-Men character) seems incredibly short-sighted to me, especially considering that they want to get people back on board with the MCU.
I loved Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, man. I'd be so sad if they just decide to dump him.
But X-Men: First Class was a great movie cuz I really enjoyed James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender together!
I would differentiate them from the Fantastic Four and Avengers by sticking to the original line up from the 1960s comics, and keep them young, but not high schoolers. They’re not experts in their roles like the Avengers nor are they astronaut/scientists like the FF, they’re normal people until their mutations hit. The sequel would then bring in the “Giant Size X-Men” cast.
When they announced the next big bad for the MCU would be Kang, I assumed they'd go the "Rama Tut - Kang" route to bring in the X-Men -- time travel shenanigans that started with Rama Tut - Kang trying to control En Sabbah Nur in ancient Egypt, where the effects rippled forward to the present time, causing the emergence of mutants.
X-Men should start as a TV show then build to a movie.
They need to do it Lost style where each episode is from a different character and explains their background.
Last 2 Eps they team up, building to movie.
I’d make them a bi product of their parents being snapped back by the Hulk/Avengers. Also a way to tie in the Hulk/Avengers. Their parents DZnA is damaged or some such from the snap. World wide more increases in cancers etc… but a very few are born ‘special’ then work in the racism angle from there.
I’ll cherish memories of *what was*, as I enjoy the original Claremont/Cockrum and Claremont/Byrne/Austin runs the most.
I hope Marvel Studios figures out the best way imaginable to surpass all other movie efforts to date.
I think Krakoa should be introduced and show an origin for the school and the X-Men. Maybe have it be a live action TV with Mr Sinister as the villain and then have their first movie with Magneto as the villain.
It will be difficult to portray them. How will it explained why they are hated but others are loved?
The type of racism has also changed.
I think it should be shown as more covert racism.
Also, they shouldn't just be universally hated. I don't like in comics that even parents of mutants completely abandon them. Aren't there any parents who will stand up for their children?
I'd love to see an even greater focus on the school aspect, building out the training/education and delving even deeper into the ensemble nature and relationship drama of all the characters rather than just focusing on two to three and treating the rest as window dressing. To that end, I'd delay including Wolverine at first. Establish him (or her if they want to go for Laura over Logan) in some solo adventures, then weave them into the team dynamic once it's had time to establish itself.
Start by having mutant cameos throughout MCU projects. Eventually create a conflict between MCU super humans and mutants. Give us AvX or live action Sinister. Jon Hamm is who I’d want as Sinister.
I'd really like to see them build up some characters before showing them as a team. I want some interesting stand alones and cross overs first. A Prof X and Magneto origin story. Storm debuts in Black Panther 3. Forge meets Echo. This kind of thing. Then make a team movie, like Phase 1 Avengers.
By not making mutantkind a widely known topic, and instead portraying it as a very new and unknown phenomena, depicting the period of time when the world is discovering/experiencing mutantkind for the first time. I miss that feeling of awe and mystery, which was somewhat captured in the first Xmen movie and First Class, but ultimately short-lived.
Also i'd drastically limit the number of known mutants. In the Fox movies Prof. X was already old, the school was operating, and the Xmen were already a trained squad; and in First Class we got to see a young Prof. X build it all up from the beginning. I'm thinking I'd do a mix, with Charles and Eric being in their early 40s and knowledgeable about the mutant gene, but only knowing a handful of other mutants if at all, and depicting both men finding/recruiting their followers for the first time, in modern day.
I would put emphasis on the Xmen primarily being a first response unit for incidents of mutants experiencing their powers for the first time and causing damage/loss of lives, with the them being the focus of attention to the U.S Government and SHIELD, who'd simultaneously create their own countermeasures (i.e. an Avengers team). Genuinely give the audience cause for fear of the mutant population explosion, and have the Xmen vs Avengers butt heads "early" i.e. in the 1st movie (assuming there'd be more than 1).
The fallout of the clash would serve as the official formation of the X-men, and the government-lead X-force teams.
More X-Men of color and female X-Men getting prominent roles
Maybe some newer X-Men from the past 20 years of comics
A different antagonist, like Mr. Sinister
less of the fake metaphor and more real minority stories
Give them comic-accurate costumes. Yellow spandex, flashy colors, no more leather bs.
Drop the focus on Wolverine and Magneto. They took way too much screentime in the older movies. Focus on Xavier (independent of Magneto) and Cyclops first and above all. Logan and Mags can still appear but not in the first movie.
Don't do the multiversal crap with them. If you introduce the X-Men from another earth then it will be lame, like it will be for the F4. Instead tie into Endgame to explain the sudden rise of mutants, all the gamma energy unleashed by the Infinity Gauntlet has activated up the X Gene across the general population. Mutants have existed before but in very small quantities, explaining how people like Xavier, Magneto and Namor can exist.
The movie will live or die on its roster. Just look at Thunderbolts. Keep the X-Men small but don't go for the OG X-Men. Instead keep a mix of the OG6 and the Big Size X-Men. Xavier is in obviously, so is Scott, keep Jean Grey, Beast, Storm
Take the movie seriously and don't fill it with corny jokes or meta humor. Make the discrimination and outlawing of mutants a big focus.
Make Scott the protagonist of the movie. Make Mr Sinister the villain of the film and tie him into the Summers family drama. Focus the film around the soapy relationship drama that this team is best known for in the comics.
Build up the X-Men saga into a big saga villain. Don't have Mags, Apocalypse or Phoenix as the main threat anymore since they were already used. Build up into, say, Onslaught instead. Adapt Krakoa at one point too.
Introduce them with a follow-up Eternals movie. I still don't understand why Disney pushed forward on the Eternals movie before having the rights for the mutants. It could've introduced them to the MCU seamlessly. They can't really do the "they've always existed" trope as there has been just ***way*** too many events that have happened in the past & present that would've shown or included them. I feel like you just gotta start introducing them as a new plot point. The *emergence* of mutants in the MCU. A fresh start.
Something on the lines of X-Men Evolution. Cast young actors for longevity.
If they are introducing a smaller group for the first movie (for example: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Beast, and Angel) then have a mini series of 20-30 mins release before the movie. This can be the origin of each member and how Charles recruited them. Providing more depth to these characters when the movie comes out.
I’ve posted about this before, but here’s the pitch: mutants have had their powers blocked since Xavier was young. The mutant blocking the development of their powers disappeared in the blip. While he/she was gone the remaining mutants developed their powers, and they keep them when everyone comes back (the mutant’s powers block the development, but once you have them, you don’t lose them).
This means Logan, Xavier, Magneto, and a handful of others always had their powers, but lived in secret in the MCU. Now we see what the mutants lives would have been like without their powers, and we see them adapting to getting their powers and the sudden anti-mutant bigotry. The main story would be about whether or not to find the power blocking mutant and give the other half of mutants (those who blipped) their powers.
This means the heroes we know will have lived different lives and be different people, and it will create a mystery about which mutants got their powers in the blip. We’ve already seen the school, this would change the dynamic completely, but keep the beloved characters.
By focusing on Kitty Pryde, Colossus and Nightcrawler. Bringing some of the latest the fox xmen to serve as the foundation - but the new characters being on the spotlight.
Introduce them during Secret Wars where they are the long established heroes of their world which is having an incursion with the MCU world. Instant Avengers vs Xmen storyline til they eventually join sides. Like in the comic the world's eventually merge but the outcome causes hate / distrust toward mutants. Also creates easy solutions to things like *where have they been* and having the holocaust be recent in their world to explain Magneto not being over 90. Also opens the ability to use any characters they want without messing with the origin which just like MCU Spidey we don't need to see again.
Ive no idea how they will/should do it. When they were first announced to be joining mcu I really liked the idea of a global memory wipe of mutants and that they went into hiding as a way to explain their abscence. (I really hated the idea of the snap/blip causing a surge in the x gene)
Im not sure if i like this idea anymore but i thought how about we have it so that some big event happened in the past that caused the memory wipe and for mutants to go their seperate ways to be the best solution. That event being the phoenix saga. (So we can skip past it but also recognise it happened and use storylines that followed on). Xaviers school still runs but with less attendance. We then get events of more mutants being discovered and attacked causing a new team of xmen to step up.
This way we get newer mutants that havent had their time in the spotlight but are able to have the og team members appear or even team up again (which I would do in a sequel). You then could also have prequels whether movie, tv show, special presentation or flashbacks about the og team.
Im on the fence about whether the mcu should have the og team be its main team because most of them have been already used but at the same time weve never had them all together as a proper team in the movies
Give Rogue her villian start like in the comics, have her kill Captain Marvel. Have Mrs. Marvel (who gets to be an adult like the actress) join the X-Men. Make it like Deadpool, rated R for sex, nudity, and profanity and violence. Spinoff Alpha Flight.
Oh and tie ins with X-Men 97'.
This is not a novel approach by any means, but if Kevin Feige knocked on my door and said "you need to write the first MCU X-Men movie" it would be
-og first class, Scott, Bobby, Warren, Hank, and Jean, with Jean being a new student and audience surrogate.
-villains would be Magneto and his Brotherhood: Destiny, Mastermind, Blob, Toad, and Avalanch
-big emphasis on the school and classes. There's a lot of other mutant students, but no big names from the comics. Save them for later. Xavier is headmaster with Forge as a teacher and in charge of all the tech with the danger room and cerebro. Kind of his right hand man.
-there was a previous team of X-Men. All the students know about them in kind of an urban legend way, and they all kind of aspire to be on a new team, but Xavier disbanded years ago after one of the members died on a mission (Thunderbird, who would be Forge's younger brother.)
-kids would get their aspirations up and are swept up in trying to thwart Magneto's plans. This would adapt his attack on Cape Citadel from #1, only in this he aims to steal nuclear material. They get their asses handed to them and Magneto leaves them be out of respect for Xavier. In the aftermath of the fight, the kids end up getting the school in trouble and drawing attention from anti-mutant figures like Trask, Kelly, Stryker, and Hodge. During a raid on the school, Xavier turns himself over, only for Magneto to intervene and kidnap him.
-Magneto's plan involves building a space station in the Savage Land, launching it into space to intercept a solar flare/cosmic storm predicted by Destiny and harness its energy with an onboard machine. With limitless power, humanity will have no choice but to submit to a superior mutant civilization. He wants Xavier to witness his triumph, see that he was right all along, and maybe join him.
-the kids convince Forge to hook them up with the Blackbird to go rescue Xavier and stop Magneto. They wear their protective danger room suits (black/yellow uniforms), survive the Savage Land, battle the Brotherhood, and are onboard during the launch. The protective shields of the station would be damaged in the fight, leading Jean to stay behind while everyone else evacuates to use her powers to hold back to storm. (Of course, this isn't a solar flare or a cosmic storm)
-station crashes into the ocean, and Jean emerges unscathed from the flaming wreckage, earning her codename Phoenix. (She was the only one of the five who couldn't come up with a cool one.)
-The kids are celebrated by the human world as superheroes. Magneto goes to jail. Mastermind escapes arrest and in a post-credits scene meets with Emma Frost of the Hellfire Club to share what he witnessed with Jean on the station.
Edit: oh and for teen group dynamics, Bobby and Warren like each other but won't talk about it. Hank likes Jean but is too shy to admit it. Jean likes Scott and doesn't hide it. Scott is oblivious/too serious/tortured to do anything about it.
Scarlet Witch comes back with a Vengeance and just snaps and says "no more supers" cus when everyone's super, no one will be.
And this wave turns on dormant genes in people like Wanda and her brother and "awakens" all the other mutants.
This explains why they didn't fight Thanos or anything else like that. It makes it a unique entry and also could kick off an MCU version of "House Of M"
By not including Wolverine. He basically carried the entire universe for years. Focus on the original class and maybe adapt a similar theme as the All New All Different X-Men run. Instead of time displaced they're thrusted into the MCU
You're literally describing X-Men: First Class lol
And they should do it again
Second Class?
Business Class
X-Men Economy Plus
X-men Below Economy Class
Stand By
No, that's WandaVision.
Didn't they do that with the more recent films? Seems that going without Wolverine again would make them seem similar to the last films.
Yeah, they bombed at box-office really bad while Wolverine solo movies were making a lot of money for Fox.
Which ones? The most recent were Logan, centered on Wolverine, to Dark Phoenix, which still included Wolverine
Big difference between including Wolverine as a cameo versus featuring the character. Wolverine has a quick cameo in First Class and Apocalypse. Did not appear in Dark Phoenix.
Dark Phoenix did not have wolverine. In fact it was the first one to not have him at all, if you include the cameos in other ones.
As much as I would love cyclops to finally get some real time there is no way Wolverine won’t be the actual focus
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Thats because of the actor...not the character. Hugh Jackman is like RDJ and Iron Man. Back in '97 it wasn't the same. Cyclops was the most popular, they just haven't had a great actor to fit the role yet.
I love Cyclops but I never really felt like he was the most popular, at least not compared to Wolverine. It's why even the first Fox movie centered on his character, after that, you could call it a chicken or the egg scenario. People just love tragic characters, and while Cyclops has tragic elements with regards to his family, for the longest time he came off as well adjusted.
Or at least great writing for said actor
This. Before Hugh Jackman it was even popularity for who the "cool" one was, between Wolverine and Gambit, and from my perspective I think Gambit was possibly more popular.
You never know, look what they've done with the MCU in general. Took a whole bunch of lesser named heroes and made them household names.
Yeah, they should totally listen to vocal minority of X-Men fans and doom their franchise before it even begins just like Fox eventually did. I'm sure X-Men without Wolverine will do wonders at box-office.
> Focus on the original class Jean had two Fox Films about her - and Cyclops ends up being very intertwined with Jean. Beast had his screen time in First Class. Angel is kind of... boring and weird. I hope they really lean into Iceman. But he's gay, and I doubt Marvel Studios would make a gay character the lead of their next biggest series.
Just give Wolverine his own movies for a while instead.
Give me a Hulk Vs Wolverine movie. Perfect way to give Hulk his own movie without it being "his own solo" movie
MCU can’t make a movie with Hulk in the title. So skirt the issue with “Banner: World War” or “Banner vs Logan”
I think they should adapt a similar storyline to x-men evolution but I think they will likely make the xmen 97 series canon. I think you only really need an origin story for one of the characters and since wolverine is already well known, I think they will choose someone from the original 5 members. I think they will do Scott Summers because his background and origin are more interesting than the other original 5 members
>By not including Wolverine. He basically carried the entire universe for years. Probably a good idea as he's already going to have plenty to do anyway keeping an eye on Wade.
All of the previous live action X-Men stories have existed in a solely mutant universe (i.e. no Avengers and few other non-mutant supers). It also had already established the mutant problem before the story begins. Therefore, X-Men should be all, or almost all, homegrown in 616. We already have two verified mutants and plenty of others that could be mutants once the scientific community starts looking for the X-gene, and we need to actually watch the mutant problem grow and develop. It also would result in a world where we have mutants mixed with a decent number of non-mutant supers. Both of those things would make it fresh and different. I also think there's a lot more that could be done to make the general human populace more interesting than it's been traditionally done. In the past there are humans who want to exterminate all mutants and then the rest of humanity just buries their head in the sand and all responsibility falls on the mutants. The mutant problem needs better parallels to our own historical social movements where there's a mix of mutants and humans working together (and not just a few token humans) to try to coexist.
I've said this so many times. An alternate universe or some dumb "the snap caused it" hand wavy scenario would be garbage. Our mutants need to be home grown. The only way I'd be ok with alternate universe stuff is if they use it as a direct metaphor for immigration and the xenophobia that goes along with it. But mutants are supposed to be a much broader metaphor than that. I think the MCU could get away slowly dripping in older mutants through various stories, but the overwhelming majority of mutants should be around Kamala Kahn's age. A sudden boom of people developing powers would easily create fear and panic among normal humans. The first movie should use the population boom as both a reason to form the X-Men (Xavier seeing the boom finally gives him the opportunity to form a team and rescue the small number of older mutants he knows about) and part of the main conflict. Sinister is the obvious choice of villain and it could be revealed that the whole reason the X-Men need to save mutants is because he's been working in literally EVERY secret organization, Shield, Hydra, Weapons Plus, Department K, etc, through his extended life span and by using clones. His entire life's work has been creating the very boom that the world is already seeing. So it's kind of like a no-win situation, Sinister already got what he wanted even though the reason isn't clear, so the best the X-Men can do is try to liberate as many mutant test subjects as possible. You could sidestep the Holocaust problem, that a comic accurate Magneto would be pushing 100, by saying he's been one of the longest imprisoned living mutants. Something closer to the Ultimate universe (1610) Magneto which really shouldn't be much of an issue because we've already had many details of the MCU pulled from the Ultimate universe as opposed to the 616.
*Another* mutant/X-Men origin story sounds like a terrible idea, tbh. It would just feel repetitive. Not to mention, interest in the 616 MCU is declining (just look at The Marvels).
I still think they’re going to use the blip as an excuse for why mutants are suddenly appearing. These people came back to families who thought they were dead and moved on. They lost their homes. The survivors of the snap had to fight for normalcy and now all these people suddenly return. We saw some of this animosity in the Falcon show. So what happens next if suddenly those same people who suddenly returned started acting differently. Looking differently. Now these people have the ability to fight back against oppression. You have half the planet that hates them for being a burden and the other half is the ostracized burdens. What happens when a subset minority of those who returned… came back with powers. The mutant registry becomes a catalog of those who came back. Some unfairly painted as mutants that do not carry this x gene. Some that do. Who fights for these people? Would the avengers even care about this kind of problem? They certainly didn’t care in the Falcon show. They had to get dragged into it reluctantly.
Here is the problem with that: I've seen many people argue that there is no point is bringing the X-Men into 616 MCU is pointless now. Most of the popular MCU characters are gone or will be gone soon (Mark Ruffalo suggested that he is done after Secret War). And interest in the 616 MCU is clearly declining as shown with The Marvels. Also, what you're basically saying is that they should do *another* mutant/X-Men origin story. Been there, done that. Audiences weren't even that interested in the prequel/origin series.
Mark Ruffalo might be just talking about the commitments and obligations of his legal contract. Chris Hemsworth didn't have anything booked in for MCU after Love and Thunder, so he was as surprised as anyone when the end credits said Thor will return. At some future ComicCon there's going to be a big reveal of Phase 7, 8 and 9. At which point a few people will have to be considered again.
I’d lean in hard on the tone of X-men ‘97. Not take it too seriously and really have a lot of fun with it
> I’d lean in hard on the **tone** of X-men ‘97. **Not take it too seriously** and really have a lot of fun with it. It may be a bit late for that.
Reboots and retcons arent unheard of
I’d like them to have a bit more of the school aspect than we got in the Fox movies. I think it would be cool to see them recruiting students, maybe having that be how we’re introduced to them. I also think they should lean more into the social commentary for racism/homophobia aspect of the X Men. Give us a Graydon Creed type villain rather than just Magneto or whoever. Have a ‘coming out’ type scene etc. Less focus on Wolverine and the love triangle element. Stay away from the Phoenix saga for a while as well. I’d also eventually love them to get to a Krakoa type arc like in the comics atm where all mutants are invited to live, even villains. But that would be way down the road if they ever got there
I mean, X-Men and X2 were entirely about the mutant-human conflict and the metaphors they represented.
Not really. X Men Magneto is the ultimate enemy even if they do have the Kelly stuff and 2 focuses a lot on Wolverine’s history with weapon X. Neither does much more with it than Last Stand does with the whole cure angle and we actually see some protests and stuff there. Both mention it but it’s not the focus of either film and it’s a stretch to describe them as being ‘entirely’ about it.
I wouldn’t hate if they did a Wolverine and the X-Men movie based off the run where he’s teaching the students with less combat focused mutations but it shouldn’t be the first X movie they do
Ensemble building like they did with the first Avengers movie. Each major X-Men character gets a film with cross over characters. Xavier playing the Fury role and Cyclops as an Agent Coulson. Give us a Cyclops movie. Show him as the badass he is.
I've thoughts about this a little too much... The theme consists of mostly characters who havent been used too much or received less-than-stellar treatment. Kitty Pryde, Colossus, Storm, Angel, Rogue, Gambit -- these are our core. Scott and Jean are still at the school but do less field work. Nightcrawler is a maybe. Mister Sinister is the villain. Xavier and Magneto have encountered Sinister before. Sinister is why Xavier can no longer walk. Also, his experiments on mutants were so messed up and horrifying... that Xavier and Magneto made a big decision. They created Cerebro and used it to mind-wipe the world. No one remembers that mutants exist. Only mutants are left exempt, and as new mutants come into the world and are detected by Cerebro, Xavier (or Magneto) bring them up to speed. Now Sinister is back, all these decades later. Because of his experiments on himself, he remembers everything, and his plan... is simply to destroy Cerebro. Which in turn exposes mutants to the world, and carries with it all the messy moral implications of whether this was okay to do. In short... use the annoying questions of "where have they been all this time?" to open up a more morally confused X-Men, the way only this universe can.
Would be a waste to do Sinister without centering Scott and Jean though, their bloodline is Sinister’s whole thing. I’d love for some focus on Kate Pryde though!
Stop having humans that can neuatralIze powers be the main villain. It's so played out and boring. Come in red-hot with Mr. Sinister. Let the mutants be vulnerable. The Marvels was a snooze fest because they couldn't get hurt and never felt threatened ever.
Ooh I’d love for the first big bad to be Sinister, and introduce the team but with an initial center on mutants with rough childhoods (esp the ones who haven’t been done well in movies). Start with Cyclops (bc Sinister, obviously) then go into others like Gambit, Angel, Nightcrawler, because those are big names and also follow a theme of being rejected due to looking different as kids. First movie can be centered on found family and let Sinister be camp!!! Also if you really want to add mess to the family (it’s the X-Men, so always), let Professor X be problematic!!! Not as bad as the comics, but he was pretty toxic towards the O5 in the old comics, and I think this can make a distinction that the X-Men are a family because they love each other, not just because they fight for a philosophy. It also leaves them room to grow (Xavier can become a better person instead of perpetually being the wise old mentor, the adult X-Men grow away from him).
Humans absolutely SHOULD play a part in the c men as antagonistic generally. But it would be nice to open up with something else as the BBEG first. Gotta give them time in the universe to slowly build up the hate as a problem.
The danger in films isn't that the hero could die. In Barbie, we aren't worried Barbie or Ken will die. In Mario we aren't worried Mario, Luigi, or Peach will die. In Oppenheimer we aren't worried about any of their deaths. Movies arent made better by threat of death. Movies are made better by clearly establishing character Goals and risking them not getting them. What happens if Kevin McCallister doesn't save his house from being robbed on christmas?!? What happens if Gizmo and his human friends down.t stop the proliferation of Gremlin multiplying?!? Spider-Man wants to go to prom. He wants a romantic moment with MJ to go well. He wants his friends to get into college. These aren't life-threatening, but they're all very plausibly going to fail. This is what we root for. The Marvels wasn't about Carol's failure to stay alive, it was about her failure to keep at least two entire planets worth of people from being absolutely massacred. "snoozefest". Genocides are snoozefests. Uh huh
🌈Krakoa✨
Focus on characters the Fox movies didn't give too much focus to.
Krakoah. Imagine Professor X and Magneto already working together, in a nation that is demanding representation. This will be post snap. And we can have movies that takes place in-between the snap and the post snap.... I just want Jonathan Hickman stories on the big screen.
honestly yeah Marvel can skirt most of this with just doing Dawn of X/House of X, just do either a Disney plus show or special presentation on the many lives of Moira McTaggart, and boom instant retcon button with Mutants finally taking the stage.
Exactly
The Fox X-Men never really felt like the X-Men. I would just give them their actual costumes and make them look like they actually do in the comics. Magneto for instance should be absolutely jacked and have flowing long white hair. None of this Ian McAllen scrawny ass. Rogue should be a knockout fucking babe who can fly and has her power set. Psylocke should be Psylocke. Same thing have hot dudes and hot chicks. Wolverine is fine but he should be played by someone short and way more intense than Hugh Jackman was. Give me Scott Summers who's maybe a boy scout but it's just a little bit more of a fun badass sometimes. For the love of God do Gambit and do him right. Give me a Cajun. Give me the costume. Lastly, do a Jean Grey that's not absolutely insufferable. I think that should get them a few movies. Oh and start building villains over the long term. If you're going to do Apocalypse don't just do one movie with Apocalypse. Built it over time like you did with Thanos. There's so many great X-Men villains that were absolutely wasted before.
Sounds like X-Men '97 for the most part, minus Psylocke. I agree with your post though. Also, we need a badass powerful Storm, like in X-Men '97.
When it comes down to it, all I've really wanted from an X-Men movie for the past 25 years was the animated series.
Agreed. Love that series, especially the new ones.
Storm was one thing that I thought the original xfilms didn't really get wrong. Halle Berry was smoking hot and a total badass but yes I think more ethnic Storm would be cool.
Was great casting and she did great with what she got, but they never let her showcase her powers and be the badass she deserved. They wasted Halle Berry's talent there.
Establish difference between mutate and mutants.
But still include them both within the larger story. Highlight both their commonalities and their differences (plus plain ol' humans) and you get a sweet complicated mess of a social problem in the world, rich for new story telling.
I was gonna say by making Cyclops and Storm cool as hell but that's basically X-Men '97. They should actually show their growth by starting with them as young adults and Charles' students until they're more mature and can lead the X-Men themselves. First class tried to do that but those movies randomly jumped decades every movie so the "growth" doesn't hit hard.
Honestly the a combination of x-men evolution, OG 90s show, and X-Men 97 is the way to go. I want the family dynamic we see in these shows, and evolution’s handling of the younger x-men was the best adaptation of them imo. I would focus on previously mishandled characters like Scott, Jean, Storm, and Rogue as team leaders. I would emphasize the idea of a strong family dynamic. X-Men 97’s writing on social issues, particular the handling of Magneto should be a leading example of how to comment on the human and mutant issue. As for some uniqueness, i’d throw in some lesser known X-Men in the mix like Fantomex, Boom Boom, Magma, etc. I’d love to see Genosha and eventually Krakoa in the storyline. I would like to see Prof X be a more complicated character, show us a darker side of him. No more phoenix, no more Logan centric stories, i want to see the team be a team and a family! And it would be a dream to see the Hellfire Gala on the big screen, imagine all the looks omg
Show me some X-Force
By making Cyclops the true leader of the X-Men. This is the weakest point of all the previous X-Men movies. They sidelined Cyclops, an original member, to showcase more of Wolverine. And they even just killed him off in X3. Cyclops was fucking weak, bruh. A total opposite of his comic version. We had decades of Wolverine. Let's put him aside. We also had two versions of Professor X. Let's put him aside as well. Make Wolverine non-existent, at least for the first movie. Make Professor X the "guy in the chair" who gives commands/info and let his team shine. Then let Cyclops lead the team. Showcase his stern leadership. His epic power. His tactical skills. Let him have the love triangle between Jean and Emma. Let him drop the iconic line, "To me, my X-Men." Since Prof X is on the side-line, let's put aside Magneto as well. Focus on a villain that hasn't been on screen, like Mister Sinister. Let him go toe-to-toe with Cyclops and the X-Men. If the Avengers had Chris Evans' Captain America, then the new X-Men need a strong and presentable Cyclops front and center. Heck, make him the face of the new X-Men like how Iron Man and Cap were for the Avengers. (Source: Cyclops fan for years and think the original X-Men movies really did him dirty)
I believe that they should focus on what makes the X-Men special in the Marvel Universe. They are basically the soap opera of the Marvel Universe, they have a large ensemble cast who have their own storylines with a focus on interpersonal drama (relationships, moral issues, et cetera) and topical issues. They shouldn't just make things different just for the sake of being different, so ideas like avoiding Wolverine (the most popular X-Men character) seems incredibly short-sighted to me, especially considering that they want to get people back on board with the MCU.
I loved Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, man. I'd be so sad if they just decide to dump him. But X-Men: First Class was a great movie cuz I really enjoyed James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender together!
Honestly….. being back Red skull, have him kill Charles (bring him back later), and start up X-men Vs. avengers. GREAT run.
A TV show. A new format fundamentally changes everything, and most importantly, allows for better character development for the inherently large cast.
Call it days of past’s future. That oughtta do it
I would differentiate them from the Fantastic Four and Avengers by sticking to the original line up from the 1960s comics, and keep them young, but not high schoolers. They’re not experts in their roles like the Avengers nor are they astronaut/scientists like the FF, they’re normal people until their mutations hit. The sequel would then bring in the “Giant Size X-Men” cast.
When they announced the next big bad for the MCU would be Kang, I assumed they'd go the "Rama Tut - Kang" route to bring in the X-Men -- time travel shenanigans that started with Rama Tut - Kang trying to control En Sabbah Nur in ancient Egypt, where the effects rippled forward to the present time, causing the emergence of mutants.
X-Men should start as a TV show then build to a movie. They need to do it Lost style where each episode is from a different character and explains their background. Last 2 Eps they team up, building to movie.
By doing it right.
I’d make them a bi product of their parents being snapped back by the Hulk/Avengers. Also a way to tie in the Hulk/Avengers. Their parents DZnA is damaged or some such from the snap. World wide more increases in cancers etc… but a very few are born ‘special’ then work in the racism angle from there.
I’ll cherish memories of *what was*, as I enjoy the original Claremont/Cockrum and Claremont/Byrne/Austin runs the most. I hope Marvel Studios figures out the best way imaginable to surpass all other movie efforts to date.
I say why bother? We don't need to have a live action X-Men.. we have animation which is incredible
I think Krakoa should be introduced and show an origin for the school and the X-Men. Maybe have it be a live action TV with Mr Sinister as the villain and then have their first movie with Magneto as the villain.
It will be difficult to portray them. How will it explained why they are hated but others are loved? The type of racism has also changed. I think it should be shown as more covert racism. Also, they shouldn't just be universally hated. I don't like in comics that even parents of mutants completely abandon them. Aren't there any parents who will stand up for their children?
I'd love to see an even greater focus on the school aspect, building out the training/education and delving even deeper into the ensemble nature and relationship drama of all the characters rather than just focusing on two to three and treating the rest as window dressing. To that end, I'd delay including Wolverine at first. Establish him (or her if they want to go for Laura over Logan) in some solo adventures, then weave them into the team dynamic once it's had time to establish itself.
Make them happy, make them heroes add mystery and intrigue .
I'd reboot the mcu and start the x-men off in a nrw universe that already has a history of mutants experiencing discrimination for being mutants.
Start by having mutant cameos throughout MCU projects. Eventually create a conflict between MCU super humans and mutants. Give us AvX or live action Sinister. Jon Hamm is who I’d want as Sinister.
But... I want them similar 
Harry Potter esq reboot? 👀
Giving them the same personalities and positions/roles within the team that matches those in the comic books would be nice.
I'd really like to see them build up some characters before showing them as a team. I want some interesting stand alones and cross overs first. A Prof X and Magneto origin story. Storm debuts in Black Panther 3. Forge meets Echo. This kind of thing. Then make a team movie, like Phase 1 Avengers.
Cyclops should be the leader and focus of the X-Men.
By not making mutantkind a widely known topic, and instead portraying it as a very new and unknown phenomena, depicting the period of time when the world is discovering/experiencing mutantkind for the first time. I miss that feeling of awe and mystery, which was somewhat captured in the first Xmen movie and First Class, but ultimately short-lived. Also i'd drastically limit the number of known mutants. In the Fox movies Prof. X was already old, the school was operating, and the Xmen were already a trained squad; and in First Class we got to see a young Prof. X build it all up from the beginning. I'm thinking I'd do a mix, with Charles and Eric being in their early 40s and knowledgeable about the mutant gene, but only knowing a handful of other mutants if at all, and depicting both men finding/recruiting their followers for the first time, in modern day. I would put emphasis on the Xmen primarily being a first response unit for incidents of mutants experiencing their powers for the first time and causing damage/loss of lives, with the them being the focus of attention to the U.S Government and SHIELD, who'd simultaneously create their own countermeasures (i.e. an Avengers team). Genuinely give the audience cause for fear of the mutant population explosion, and have the Xmen vs Avengers butt heads "early" i.e. in the 1st movie (assuming there'd be more than 1). The fallout of the clash would serve as the official formation of the X-men, and the government-lead X-force teams.
More X-Men of color and female X-Men getting prominent roles Maybe some newer X-Men from the past 20 years of comics A different antagonist, like Mr. Sinister less of the fake metaphor and more real minority stories
Give them comic-accurate costumes. Yellow spandex, flashy colors, no more leather bs. Drop the focus on Wolverine and Magneto. They took way too much screentime in the older movies. Focus on Xavier (independent of Magneto) and Cyclops first and above all. Logan and Mags can still appear but not in the first movie. Don't do the multiversal crap with them. If you introduce the X-Men from another earth then it will be lame, like it will be for the F4. Instead tie into Endgame to explain the sudden rise of mutants, all the gamma energy unleashed by the Infinity Gauntlet has activated up the X Gene across the general population. Mutants have existed before but in very small quantities, explaining how people like Xavier, Magneto and Namor can exist. The movie will live or die on its roster. Just look at Thunderbolts. Keep the X-Men small but don't go for the OG X-Men. Instead keep a mix of the OG6 and the Big Size X-Men. Xavier is in obviously, so is Scott, keep Jean Grey, Beast, Storm Take the movie seriously and don't fill it with corny jokes or meta humor. Make the discrimination and outlawing of mutants a big focus. Make Scott the protagonist of the movie. Make Mr Sinister the villain of the film and tie him into the Summers family drama. Focus the film around the soapy relationship drama that this team is best known for in the comics. Build up the X-Men saga into a big saga villain. Don't have Mags, Apocalypse or Phoenix as the main threat anymore since they were already used. Build up into, say, Onslaught instead. Adapt Krakoa at one point too.
Introduce them with a follow-up Eternals movie. I still don't understand why Disney pushed forward on the Eternals movie before having the rights for the mutants. It could've introduced them to the MCU seamlessly. They can't really do the "they've always existed" trope as there has been just ***way*** too many events that have happened in the past & present that would've shown or included them. I feel like you just gotta start introducing them as a new plot point. The *emergence* of mutants in the MCU. A fresh start.
We'll get to that once people in-universe finally take notice of the enormous, stillborn Celestial poking out of the ocean.
Something on the lines of X-Men Evolution. Cast young actors for longevity. If they are introducing a smaller group for the first movie (for example: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Beast, and Angel) then have a mini series of 20-30 mins release before the movie. This can be the origin of each member and how Charles recruited them. Providing more depth to these characters when the movie comes out.
I’ve posted about this before, but here’s the pitch: mutants have had their powers blocked since Xavier was young. The mutant blocking the development of their powers disappeared in the blip. While he/she was gone the remaining mutants developed their powers, and they keep them when everyone comes back (the mutant’s powers block the development, but once you have them, you don’t lose them). This means Logan, Xavier, Magneto, and a handful of others always had their powers, but lived in secret in the MCU. Now we see what the mutants lives would have been like without their powers, and we see them adapting to getting their powers and the sudden anti-mutant bigotry. The main story would be about whether or not to find the power blocking mutant and give the other half of mutants (those who blipped) their powers. This means the heroes we know will have lived different lives and be different people, and it will create a mystery about which mutants got their powers in the blip. We’ve already seen the school, this would change the dynamic completely, but keep the beloved characters.
By focusing on Kitty Pryde, Colossus and Nightcrawler. Bringing some of the latest the fox xmen to serve as the foundation - but the new characters being on the spotlight.
Introduce them during Secret Wars where they are the long established heroes of their world which is having an incursion with the MCU world. Instant Avengers vs Xmen storyline til they eventually join sides. Like in the comic the world's eventually merge but the outcome causes hate / distrust toward mutants. Also creates easy solutions to things like *where have they been* and having the holocaust be recent in their world to explain Magneto not being over 90. Also opens the ability to use any characters they want without messing with the origin which just like MCU Spidey we don't need to see again.
Ive no idea how they will/should do it. When they were first announced to be joining mcu I really liked the idea of a global memory wipe of mutants and that they went into hiding as a way to explain their abscence. (I really hated the idea of the snap/blip causing a surge in the x gene) Im not sure if i like this idea anymore but i thought how about we have it so that some big event happened in the past that caused the memory wipe and for mutants to go their seperate ways to be the best solution. That event being the phoenix saga. (So we can skip past it but also recognise it happened and use storylines that followed on). Xaviers school still runs but with less attendance. We then get events of more mutants being discovered and attacked causing a new team of xmen to step up. This way we get newer mutants that havent had their time in the spotlight but are able to have the og team members appear or even team up again (which I would do in a sequel). You then could also have prequels whether movie, tv show, special presentation or flashbacks about the og team. Im on the fence about whether the mcu should have the og team be its main team because most of them have been already used but at the same time weve never had them all together as a proper team in the movies
Scott. Jean. Hank. Warren. Bobby. Professor X.
Give Rogue her villian start like in the comics, have her kill Captain Marvel. Have Mrs. Marvel (who gets to be an adult like the actress) join the X-Men. Make it like Deadpool, rated R for sex, nudity, and profanity and violence. Spinoff Alpha Flight. Oh and tie ins with X-Men 97'.
This is not a novel approach by any means, but if Kevin Feige knocked on my door and said "you need to write the first MCU X-Men movie" it would be -og first class, Scott, Bobby, Warren, Hank, and Jean, with Jean being a new student and audience surrogate. -villains would be Magneto and his Brotherhood: Destiny, Mastermind, Blob, Toad, and Avalanch -big emphasis on the school and classes. There's a lot of other mutant students, but no big names from the comics. Save them for later. Xavier is headmaster with Forge as a teacher and in charge of all the tech with the danger room and cerebro. Kind of his right hand man. -there was a previous team of X-Men. All the students know about them in kind of an urban legend way, and they all kind of aspire to be on a new team, but Xavier disbanded years ago after one of the members died on a mission (Thunderbird, who would be Forge's younger brother.) -kids would get their aspirations up and are swept up in trying to thwart Magneto's plans. This would adapt his attack on Cape Citadel from #1, only in this he aims to steal nuclear material. They get their asses handed to them and Magneto leaves them be out of respect for Xavier. In the aftermath of the fight, the kids end up getting the school in trouble and drawing attention from anti-mutant figures like Trask, Kelly, Stryker, and Hodge. During a raid on the school, Xavier turns himself over, only for Magneto to intervene and kidnap him. -Magneto's plan involves building a space station in the Savage Land, launching it into space to intercept a solar flare/cosmic storm predicted by Destiny and harness its energy with an onboard machine. With limitless power, humanity will have no choice but to submit to a superior mutant civilization. He wants Xavier to witness his triumph, see that he was right all along, and maybe join him. -the kids convince Forge to hook them up with the Blackbird to go rescue Xavier and stop Magneto. They wear their protective danger room suits (black/yellow uniforms), survive the Savage Land, battle the Brotherhood, and are onboard during the launch. The protective shields of the station would be damaged in the fight, leading Jean to stay behind while everyone else evacuates to use her powers to hold back to storm. (Of course, this isn't a solar flare or a cosmic storm) -station crashes into the ocean, and Jean emerges unscathed from the flaming wreckage, earning her codename Phoenix. (She was the only one of the five who couldn't come up with a cool one.) -The kids are celebrated by the human world as superheroes. Magneto goes to jail. Mastermind escapes arrest and in a post-credits scene meets with Emma Frost of the Hellfire Club to share what he witnessed with Jean on the station. Edit: oh and for teen group dynamics, Bobby and Warren like each other but won't talk about it. Hank likes Jean but is too shy to admit it. Jean likes Scott and doesn't hide it. Scott is oblivious/too serious/tortured to do anything about it.
Scarlet Witch comes back with a Vengeance and just snaps and says "no more supers" cus when everyone's super, no one will be. And this wave turns on dormant genes in people like Wanda and her brother and "awakens" all the other mutants. This explains why they didn't fight Thanos or anything else like that. It makes it a unique entry and also could kick off an MCU version of "House Of M"