Marvel's Mutant Reveal Teases How MCU’s X-Men Will Differ From Fox
Ms. Marvel has introduced mutants into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Kamala Khan's surprising origin twist teases how their version of the X-Men will differ from Fox's franchise. Ever since Disney acquired the studio, there has been great speculation about how Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige would handle mutantkind. Feige teased the MCU was beginning to plan for their introduction all the way back in 2019, but it was not until Ms. Marvel's finale mentioned the mutation in Kamala Khan's DNA and the iconic X-Men: The Animated Series theme began playing that the main MCU timeline officially included a mutant.
The revelation that Ms. Marvel is a mutant marks the beginning of Marvel's plan to bring the X-Men to the MCU. However, introducing mutants is easier said than done. There have been over three dozen MCU projects, but Kamala Khan is the only one audiences have met so far—not counting multiverse Professor X (Patrick Stewart) in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. This means that Marvel Studios has to answer a lot of questions about where the X-Men have been, how mutants are created, and so on.
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Of course, there is also the pressure of bringing the iconic characters to the shared universe and making them different from how they were portrayed in Fox's nearly two-decade-long X-Men franchise. The X-Men will inherently be different thanks to their new MCU setting, while there have been many suggestions that the team could be more diverse and focus on more obscure characters that Fox did not fully explore. Thanks to the brief information about mutants revealed in Ms. Marvel, there is already a potential tease for one major way that the MCU's X-Men will differ
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