X-Men’s Newest Mutant Team Is Way Too R-Rated for the MCU
Warning! This article contains spoilers for The X-Cellent #2
With the X-Men’s imminent inclusion in the MCU, fans are sitting at the edge of their seats waiting to see how and when they will be adapted, though no matter how Marvel Studios goes about bringing the X-Men into the MCU, one thing that is clear is that the newest team of mutants is way too R-rated for the big screen.
In The X-Cellent #2 by Peter Milligan and Michael “Doc” Allred, former X-Force leader Zeitgeist has formed a new team of mutants known as the X-Cellent and they are competing for fame, fortune, and overall public attention with the already established X-Statix. The X-Statix are a mutant off-shoot group of X-Force who are more of celebrities than actual superheroes. That celebrity status is what Zeitgeist is after, and with his new team, he proves he will do anything to get it.
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In this issue, Zeitgeist and the other X-Cellent members crash a concert in an effort to be more in the public eye. As a way to thwart their growing popularity, the X-Statix show up as well and challenge the X-Cellent to a fight on live television. While the issue starts off as a fantastical adventure between two X-Men-related teams, things get really dark really fast. One of the X-Statix members gets a hole blasted through his gut and his entrails splatter all over the stage. Then, Zeitgeist proves his sadistic nature by spitting acid on the face of his former lover all because she was happy with the X-Statix and didn’t want to join his team.
Not only was the brutality in this fight easily a bit much for a younger audience, but the overall tone of the comic and the world in which it is set is twisted and
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