The MCU Already Has The Perfect Setup To Fix An Old X-Men Movie Problem
WARNING: This contains SPOILERS for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
How and when the MCU will properly introduce the X-Men is still a mystery, but the franchise already has the perfect setup to improve a character the Fox films failed. While the X-Men franchise was solid enough to endure for two decades, the movies had their up and downs – especially regarding how certain characters were treated. At the same time that names like Professor X and Magneto were front and center in almost every film, the portrayal of many mutants never lived up to their comic book potential.
Now that the original X-Men franchise has ended with The New Mutants, a movie that was released after Disney's acquisition of Fox, the X-Men will have a new home in the MCU. Although Patrick Stewart reprises his role as Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it is a variant that was not the same character as the ones in the Fox films, and it is likely that the MCU's X-Men will be a complete reboot. Either way, the question remains of how the concept of mutants will be introduced, and options like the radiation emitted from Thanos' snap activating the X-gene or the X-Men being a result of a multiversal incursion have been speculated.
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Whatever option the MCU chooses, the X-Men movie reboot will have the opportunity to avoid the previous' films' mistakes regarding one of the most important X-Men: Rogue. In the X-Men films, Rogue was never able to be part of the action as her mutant powers were not really suitable for battle. Therefore, the character spent the original X-Men trilogy and X-Men: Days of Future Past in the background. The MCU can
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