Your X-Men Theories Are Being Proven By The MCU Each At A Time

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The Marvel Cinematic Universe is simultaneously confirming all of the widely held ideas about how Marvel Studios will debut the X-Men to be accurate. The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) has not yet revealed any projects centered on the mutant superhero group more than three years after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox and subsequently let Marvel Studios use the X-Men-related characters. Still, Marvel is already incorporating the X-Men and other mutants into the MCU, and they are doing it in a variety of ways.

By the time the Marvel Studios could employ mutants in the MCU, the Infinity Saga was finished. As a result, the franchise was faced with the very challenging task of integrating the X-Men into the Marvel world, which had previously been around for ten years. Explaining why mutants were never featured in the MCU would be more challenging if Captain Marvel vanished in the 1990s and didn’t come back to aid Earth until Avengers: Infinity War. As a result, there has been much discussion about how the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) will effectively negotiate this narrative issue since the news of the Fox/Disney merger, with various hypotheses arising.

One theory for how the X-Men will be included in the MCU was that the multiverse would play a major role. The multiverse idea would establish the tone for the MCU following Avengers: Endgame, allowing the X-Men to be introduced to the series without retconning the primary chronology, as was obvious even before the Multiverse Saga announcement. Another idea, on the other hand, proposed that the MCU would not immediately use the X-Men but would instead gradually introduce mutants before confronting Xavier’s heroic group. Both of those X-Men hypotheses were tenable and well-liked among the audience, but they appeared to be at odds with one another.

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Phase 4 of the MCU is Gradually Introducing Mutants

The MCU is only establishing that mutants have always been rather than immediately introducing the X-Men or attempting to offer an overly complicated explanation for how the X-gene came to be. At the conclusion of Ms. Marvel, it was revealed that Kamala Khan is a mutant, marking the MCU’s Earth-616’s first official inclusion of a mutant. Since Kamala had been Inhuman ever since her introduction, Ms. Marvel’s reveal represented a huge departure from the comics. The X-Men ’97 theme was played in the Ms. Marvel conclusion after the phrase “mutation” was eliminated, so the MCU left no mistake that its version of Ms. Marvel is a mutant.

The last film in Phase 4, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, will also introduce Namor, another mutant, to the MCU. Namor is a mutant in the MCU, according to an interview with actor Tenoch Huerta (via Empire), which adds up to Namor being born with gills as seen in the Wakanda Forever trailer. It comes as no surprise that Namor is one of the first mutants to be introduced in the MCU because he is perhaps one of the most significant Marvel mutants who are not closely associated with the X-Men. Ursa Major, a mutant in the comics, made an appearance early in Phase 4 of Black Widow, although there was no indication that she possessed any special abilities.

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