Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie • Page 149

It'll be really interesting to see if they introduce Magneto as Wanda's father in the MCU. I mean, she's an orphan and doesn't know her parents so I'm sure it'd work fine

Maybe say he ditched the kids because he was disappointed they didn't have mutant powers, not knowing they would be activated later on

 

Give Rogue and Gambit their own D+ show.

 

If I recall correctly, Magneto’s place as her father in the comics was messy continuity-wise even before that one event retconned it out (when Marvel was trying to downplay mutants & the Fantastic Four ‘cause they didn’t have the movie rights). So, it’d be in character for them to just toss out some convoluted explanation, lol.

Oh my gosh, yes, please.

Not that I really care that much, but you could even have her get her strength & flight from Carol Danvers, lol. And... what if they used Channing Tatum for Gambit? I still think he would’ve been great in that role, even if that film idea was always doomed to fail.

 

I’ve gotten used to Polaris being the only child of Magneto in the comics.

 

Heh tbh I have never read an X-Men comic outside of some crossovers, so I didn't know that was a thing!

 

I would like for it to be simple but doing their own thing off screen when someone like Thanos erased half of all life on the planet just doesn't seem logical or right. They'd have to have a really good reason not to go out and try to help things get back to normal.

 

If the snap caused latent mutations in the population to suddenly activate, creating mutants, that would definitely be acceptable. With the near collapse of society in the five years following the snap, it would make sense that they’ve flown under the radar for that long. I actually like that theory a lot.

Especially as opposed to “lol they’ve been there the whole time for thousands of years! Nothing matters!” which is preposterous and would not be narratively satisfying at all.

 

They retconned Ant-Man, & later Captain Marvel, into their pre-Iron Man history.

They retconned the Ancient One & other magic users into the Battle of New York.

They had the president get captured in Iron Man 3 without anyone else showing up or addressing why. And, had stuff happen on earth in Guardians 2, set in 2014, without showing any Avengers react. Who knows how many other comparable instances exist.

Wakanda was eased into the MCU as something that was always there, with people even ending up in the States. The Eternals are about to do the same thing.

Remember when Hydra spent decades inside SHIELD?

And, we only saw, what, ten minutes of the world as it existed during the 5 years between snaps?

I cannot imagine the lack of imagination it takes to not see how, in a world of wizards & aliens & genocidal robots, it’d be easy for mutants to be a thing that’s just existed on the fringes of society for all this time.

Especially when Marvel also hasn’t shown any nonbinary people, Palestinians, people with Aspergers, etc., lol. These films haven’t formed a comprehensive look at every fucking nationality, sexuality, political ideology, religious belief, occupation, sport, genre of music, etc.

If you take this series of films based on colorful disposable entertainment for children, & say, “hey, there’s one more group of colorful super people who occasionally like to wear capes,” any reasonable person is gonna just go “...cool.”

 

What exactly do you expect them to have been doing that they weren’t? And, why?

 

"Why are y'all taking this stuff so seriously lmao anyway here's my dissertation on why my opinion is right and yours is wrong."

 

Because after an event like that humanity would be at its lowest and the remaining people would need all the push and help they could get. I just think if there were mutants and they had powers they would use it to help the world at that time. I mean, if there is any time to come out of hiding to help humanity it would be then.

 

That’s not what I was saying. But, you’re consistently one of the worst regular posters on this site, whether we’re talking superheroes or real world politics & whether I agree or disagree with where you’re coming from. So, hey, whatever.

 

hahahaha damn you got me!

Anyway sorry to take you away from writing your novella-length fan fiction pitches about movies you keep saying aren't supposed to be taken so seriously

 

anthony is a good poster except for when he isn’t

 

no one “cares” but it’s definitely dumb and showing your ass online for free

 

and this isn't

 

People, let's just wait and see. Marvel has an entire team who will decide how to handle mutants and I'm sure it will be great.

 

i mean, no. i charge.

 

That could actually be really cool if they set up the X-Men as already having been around for a while. Let the original 5 be doing X-Factor (could be a series on Disney+?) and the "Giant Size" team be in the mainline X-Men movies with the original team popping in every now and then.

 

Not a fan of blocking people (I think Vase is the only other person I’ve blocked on this site), but it does feel good knowing I don’t have to see Anthony’s posts anymore.

Not sure how “it’s silly to think mutants need an explanation to show up” got misconstrued as “it’s silly to have any thoughts about superheroes,” especially when I infamously spend a lot of my time on this site having thoughts about superheroes, lol.

 

I also absolutely fail to see how "mutants have been around forever, just not in the public eye for fear of being hated/feared" is any more unreasonable than "the snaps made/activated mutants". Especially when the former was, you know, the status quo for years.

 

It's because the amount of people that are mutants is too large for that to be practicable for thousands of years of human history. It's not like the Inhumans who control access to terrigen and a significant portion of whom live in a hidden city. People's mutations just manifest constantly and outside of their control. It would be impossible to have kept the scale of that hidden for that long.

 

It's not like there's precedent for a certain mutant psychic to use his powers "for the greater good" (read: for his own personal agenda) that could make for an interesting morally gray character down the line and be the catalyst for two mutant leaders' trajectories to diverge or something like that...

 

Even if they decided to overpower Professor X to the point that he could do a daily memory wipe of the entire world to erase mutants, that wouldn't account for the entire recorded history of humanity up to the point where Professor X obtained his powers and trained them to the point that he could do that. Mutants would be in the history books.

 

Yup. Like how Apocalypse was in the history books, right? And how Namor and Wolverine were widely known as mutants prior to being affiliated with the X-Men? "Mutants being around forever" does not mean "There have been thousands of mutants for centuries". They're an evolution. Overtime, there were more and more. Mutants weren't known to the world until the X-Men came on the scene in a public fashion. And it's VERY much within Xavier's powerset to wipe a mass amount of people's memory. Especially if he has Cerebro.

It very much feels like you've just filled in the gaps with your own wild ideas on how "mutants always having existed" would work when there's 0 precedent for what you're saying at all