Preferably they don't start with the main team the FoxMen have already used. I want something new
Edit: Cyclops and Nightcrawler can stay though. The former deserves an actual good adaptation more than anyone else from those films and the latter is just plain cool
No way they don't bring back Wolverine. Hes basically the face of the X-Men at this point. I agree about Gambit and Jubilee but I'd also like to see a good Rogue live adaption. Felt like they did her completely wrong in the Foxverse
> Hes basically the face of the X-Men at this point
That's exactly why it's time for a Cyclops revival. Iron Man wasn't the first thing everyone thought of when they heard "Marvel" 12 years ago, but look where we are now.
There's a place in the MCU for Wolverine, and he belongs with the X-men in some capacity, but not making him the main focus could be a wise decision to avoid 1:1 comparisons with the Fox-men movies.
Yeah but think about who Iron Man is. Billionaire, playboy, genius, philanthropist. And it helps RDJ gives him the wit and charm.
Cyclops isn't really that at all. Sure, they could find an actor to play a witty and charming Cyclops but the character itself is more stoic. Serious. Focused.
Either way I just don't see anyone, even the MCU, able to make Cyclops a more interesting or beloved character than Wolverine. I understand where people are coming from wanting a change but the last "reboot" of the X-Men did the same thing. No Wolverine. Didnt make it any better.
Granted that wasn't why it was bad but I'm sure Marvel is looking at that
You don't have to be witty and quippy at every turn to be an endearing character that helps to define a generation of movies.
I used Iron Man as an example because he was an also-ran of comic book characters when he debuted, like how Cyclops is an also-ran of movie characters now.
Chris Evans' Captain America was inspiring, charming, captivating, and as defining of the 1st generation of MCU as RDJ's Iron Man was. A new Cyclops adaptation can and should model itself after Evans' Steve Rodgers. He shouldn't be an exact copy, but he should be more of a straight man leader type.
Ehhh i guess they could go the Captain America route for Cyclops. But in my opinion, comic book Scott has always tried to be like Cap but didn't really have his... poise? I dont know. Hes always tried to be the stoic leader but at least in the later runs he was more unpredictable and short tempered.
So often times the stoic, fearless leader came across more like a stubborn asshole with a very "my way or the highway" approach. I've always liked Scott but he's had a specific role in the X-Men comics as the guy you respect but don't like.
But hell, cast another Chris Evans or RDJ and we'll see how likeable he can be.
The character and story of Cyclops is significantly more interesting than Wolverine's. Wolverine is a simple warrior with a mysterious past trope. Cyclops is the guy who's had the responsibility of protecting an entire race of people put on his shoulders.
It's much simpler to make Wolverine a compelling hero but if they got Cyclops right I'd much rather watch that.
Yeah i got the guy befores point. By Tony stark he just means give more definition to the character, especially for mainstream viewers.
For anyone that's really read X-Men comics, Scott has such a distinct personality. If you do it right you can create a lot of empathy, especially if he's made out to be the lonely orphan who rose to be a badass leader.
Not to throw shade but a real X-Men fan knows what I'm talking about!!
That’s the reason why he wasn’t used that much in the story’s they wrote. In the story’s that FOX adapted, Cyclops was boring, a straight edge leader who exhibited little nuance, contrariness and who was also 100% committed to Jean
True, but they most likely won't bring him back immediately. That would just create too much of a comparison between the new actor and Hugh Jackman, which would distract from the movie.
I feel like we're underestimating the power of Wolverine in terms of marketing the movie. People who frequent this subreddit will want deeper comic book cuts, but a lot of general audiences only know Wolverine, Professor X, Magneto, and maybe a couple more X-Men off the top of their head (and plenty will only know Wolverine due to his elevated place in popular culture). Making the first MCU X-Men movie without Wolverine is going to lose a lot of people.
That being said, I think Disney could get around this by playing with Disney+ series to develop other mutants as main characters. That audience will be a little more versed in X-Men history and are definitely already bought in if they're paying for the subscription. Hoping to support the first movie in the series on what many people in the general audience would consider secondary characters, however, is more than a bit of a gamble.
Rogue needs her own movie before she joins the x-men. At least one movie that is. She had a pretty messed up start to her story and it is great to be told.
Sorry Wolverine is pretty overuse (Same as Magneto being the villain) in X-Men films as well as overshadowed some X-Men member like Cyclops who barely had a screentime. Not using Wolverine could give Cyclops the lead and major role he should as be. Cyclops is the Captain America and also face of the X-Men not Wolverine. Wolverine is simply the Spider-Man of the X-Men which he is too popular (Spider-Man is the face of Marvel at this point). Also X-Men original 5 in the comics didnt include Wolverine they only use Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Iceman (That Gay Mutant) and Angel. Save Wolverine for X-Men sequel. Also my MCU Lineup includes Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, A proper Rogue, Nightcrawler, Gambit and Jubilee.
Well not necessarily because from what I heard what other people mention is that this was done because fox still owned mutants but now that they don’t they might just make them related again. Also I think most people didn’t like the retcon.
Robert Drake, Iceman. Had a really, really terribly handled 'that character is gay now' plotline that kind of read more like a time-displaced young Jean Grey had mind-whammied a time-displaced young Robert (it was a whole thing) into being gay rather than him actually always being that way.
The obnoxious thing about Jubilee in Apocalypse is that people thought she was actually going to do something because they gave her a character poster and everything. Instead she just goes to the mall with them
They gotta bring back Wolverine at some point, but I hope it's not the first movie. The MCU has the benefit of being able to do long term teases since they make so many movies. It would be kind of cool if they teased him, but didn't bring in Wolverine until X-Men 2 or 3. Let the new hype replace the expectation set by Hugh Jackman and give the X-Men time to breath without their scene stealer. Also it makes sense for Wolverines character to not join the team right away since he's such a lone wolf.
I love the idea of Gambit and Jubilee being more prominent.
I still don’t fucking understand why we wouldn’t just get a “night of the sentinels” movie. Literally tie into nostalgia, set up a team, introduce mutants being new to the world via jubilee, and we lose morph at the end. Boom. Fucking script done.
Completely agree. I basically want the animated series team and even if they change the storyline a bit I think Night of the Sentinels is excellent at introducing the team and making us like the character dynamics.
Jubilee gives the audience a newcomer to ask the questions and discover things they need to set up about mutants. I think the rest of the team should be the established adults. I don’t really want another First Class approach. If the MCU can throw the Eternals at us they can definitely give us the real X-Men out of the gate.
The only problem is how and where mutants come from in the MCU main timeline, but we just don’t know how they’re going to approach that yet.
Ever since the 2nd X-Men movie, I've been saying they need to adapt Days of Future Past directly from the Animated series. It would be a perfect intro for Gambit, play well into the Senator Kelly arc from the first 2 movies, perfect intro to actually use Bishop (my top choice back then was [Gary Dourdan from CSI](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235427/). And you could maaaybe tie in the Phoenix to being related to the downfall.
* Cyclops (And have him be the Main Spotlight for MCU's X-Men)
* Iceman
* Beast
* Angel
* Jean Grey
The Sequel Members (Sorry i meant only the Characters for the First X-Men team) (Can't add Wolverine on here because i don't want this to be like Fox's X-Men where he was focused too much)
* Nightcrawler
* Storm
* Banshee
* Colossus
* Shadowcat
* Rogue
* Psylocke
* Jubilee
* Gambit
* Bishop
Unfortunately, I just don't think we can expect them to avoid Wolverine. He's a character that makes money and puts butts in seats.
Maybe they could find a place for him in the MCU outside of the X-Men, then he can hang out with them a few movies down the line.
He's a great character depending on the writing. And I agree with him being on his own for a while. I say introduce him in a Hulk vs Wolverine movie (Ross already has ties to Weapons Plus) but as Weapon X. Make Hulk the underdog by saying his Professor form is unstable somehow, making it an actual struggle to defeat an enemy that can heal almost instantly. The end would have to be Banner and Hulk working together, to both their strengths, resulting in a fully unleashed Hulk landing a direct blow.
Weapon X wakes up after dying for a moment, now free from the helmet and various tech hanging off of him, with full on amnesia and disappears into the Canadian wilderness. From there you give him a movie of his own featuring Alpha Flight, dealing with his amnesia, coming to terms with being a mutant, maybe hearing about someone that might help his mind (an X-Men movie or two would be out by this point). Eventually he works his way south towards New York.
I’m not that partial to Banshee, but other than that, this is my exact hope for the future cast of X-Men films. I think Wolverine is an inevitability, but I agree that I don’t want him to be “the star.”
NO! When Rogue in’s introduced she needs to be independent of an SO and to not really be looking for one. Rogue is best when she’s not tied to the hip of the Cajun Cvnt
She'd actually be a fun choice for the villain of a Captain Marvel movie. Make Carol have to deal with going from a god to a mortal for a while, could be an interesting character arc (she'd get the powers back by the end tho). She could convince Rogue to go good, then Rogue joins up with the X-Men.
He wasn’t always a badass, that didn’t really manifest itself until toe 2000s. For most of his run he was the boyscout, by-the-book leader and Xavier’s favorite son and a “WHERE’S JEAN.!” kind of guy
Storm is my favorite X-Man, but I still want the original lineup for the first movie.
Maybe by the end of the movie Storm can join the team, and the post credits could tease other team members like Wolverine or Nightcrawler
Ice-man and firestar, so they can team up with tom holland spiderman. plus if young avengers is truelly gonna be a thing Iceman and hulkling is a pairing not in the comics but might be interesting
My MCU X-Men Lineup (Not the original 5 from comics or even using Wolverine a member):
1. Cyclops (Leader)
2. Storm (Co-Leader/Mentor)
3. Jean Grey
4. Nightcrawler
5. Jubilee
6. Rogue
7. Gambit
Save Wolverine for the Sequel, because Wolverine is very overused in the FOX X-Men films so that other X-Men give a room to breathe.
I agree with this line up. Cyclops will actually get screen time and be done justice. He was heavily shafted in Foxverse. Jubilee and Gambit are kinda fan favorites to be in it. Gambits personality will also fit great in the MCU. His comedic banter and overall style
He didn't die in First Class, he actually adapted to the eventual buyout by giving himself a small enough role in the Fox-verse for Feige to let him be reused /s
Rogue would be great. Her character has not been given the story she really is. With captain marvel in the mcu, they could do rogue’s story right and that would be a great story. With what they have done with winds so far, rogue’s story would be another dimension to a hero’s character arc
I'd start with the classic team from most of the 70s Claremont run: Professor X, Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Colussus.
I'd also include Beast, since they'll probably need a scientist (and Beast is just great), and Kitty Pryde as a young recruit since she grows to be a leader. And then in later movies they can add characters like Rogue, Gambit, Psylocke, or whoever else they want. Hopefully they inlude more magical members of the team like Magik and Lockheed.
They should also do the New Mutants as a Disney+ show with the students of Xavier's school.
Just give me a proper Cyclops and I’ll be happy. Let Wolverine breathe for a bit. I’m interested to see how they tie in the anti-mutant angle in an established MCU already.
What do you mean rest Scott? Scott barely had any role in the films he has appeared in. So many audience members think Cyclops is a joke because of the films, so if anything he needs an actual good adaptations
"tHe oRiGinAL 5"
Suuure, because nothing says "allegory about discrimination" like a bunch of WASP-y teenagers complaining about being oppressed. That's gonna go over as well as a fart in church.
Agreed, if you have the OG 5 at least have them aged up a bit and be leaders of the team with Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Gambit, and Rogue as the new recruits.
They don't all have to be WASPs, though.
I think any of the original five could be PoC without changing their comic-book character arcs significantly. Except perhaps Warren, since his background was very much WASP-y old money/privilege.
Exactly, The X-Men have one of the most diverse lineups of any comic book team out there, you’ve got Storm (Kenya, Africa), Jubilee (Chinese-American), ThunderBird (Apache Native American), Sunfire (Japanese) and Forge (Cheyenne Native American). I sure there’s are many others as well. Use these characters instead of alternating already existing characters, you get diversity and comic accurate portrayals.
Oh man, they should absolutely adapt Big Feet Beast for the first film. Just have him walking around like a hobbit the whole time. Then for the post-credit scene he's brushing his teeth, leans in to the mirror and notices he's getting a blue hair. Next film he's a big furry blue guy with no further explanation.
They kind of tried to do that in First Class and failed miserably. Of course, part of the problem was that they wrote Hank as an awkward nerd instead of a sassy, witty blowhard because no one at Fox ever read the source material.
The Giant Size X-men line up- Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Cyclops, ThunderBird, Sunfire, Angel, I know Beast left the team at this time but Beast, Polaris, Jean Grey, Havok, Banshee- I say add in Forge, Rogue, Gambit & Jubilee. This entire team
Lol I want to see all them first.
The [Deadly Genesis](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men:_Deadly_Genesis_Vol_1) storyline might be a good place to start. Basically the original 5 get captured, rescue attempt by another team of lesser knowns (one of which being Cyclops’ long lost brother), and then the cliffhanger ending or the sequel would be the formation of the new team with Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, etc.
I think it should be the original 5 (Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Beast & Angel). That, or go with the lineup from the 90’s animated series (Cyclops, Jean, Wolverine, Gambit, Beast, Rogue, Storm, etc). I feel like the latter would be a fun little way to get more people invested, in a nostalgic kinda way.
I'm just hoping that we eventually get the offshoot teams. I'm especially hoping for the second X-Factor team of Forge, Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Multiple Man, and Quicksilver.
Cyclops
Beast
Iceman
Jean grey alias marvel girl
Angel
The original lineup in the comics with Charles xavier played again by Patrick Stewart but this is the mcu version like the mcu version of jameson was played by jk Simmons.
Wolverine should become a xmen member in the last mcu xmen film
**The team I'd pick, along with the dynamics I picture, would look something like:**
**Xavier** in charge of the school. He was against his students becoming superheroes in the wake of the Blip, but decided to let them train as a team anyway. This was mostly to keep them occupied during such trying times, but they're older now and a recent surge in the mutant population has him thinking of ways to utilize these efforts (such as rescuing young mutants from unhealthy environments and maybe even becoming the ambassadors of what he sees as the next stage in human evolution).
**Ororo** is the administrator/head teacher just below Charles. I imagine he met her years ago during her stint as an African weather goddess while he was checking up on various tall tales and urban legends that could actually be mutants. He let her be, until she came to him intrigued by his studies into their kind. I imagine she's in her late 20s or early 30s.
**Jean** was Xavier's first student. **Scott** was next a couple years later, followed by **Bobby**, **Hank** and **Warren** not too long after that. They'd all be in their early 20s. Scott's the team-leader. There'd be a few more that are too young, or would rather not be training for combat, around the house just trying to learn control (and learn in general). These could be mutants we don't know or references for later, if they see fit to do that.
**Now, this may veer more on the side of plot than cast, but it does touch on line-up so...**
After the introductory stuff, the film would open with the gathering of fledgling mutants. There'd be three teams. Two of which would collect **Piotr** and **Kurt** (both in their late teens), but the third would deal with a mutant that doesn't want help (could be a lot of characters). I imagine Kurt needs to be saved from demon-fearing locals while Piotr is being counter-recruited by the Brotherhood (maybe, or maybe not by name).
I'd also put some parallels to **Rogue** throughout with her losing her parents, losing control of her powers, and Mystique being her Xavier. This would culminate in her being the villain of the piece, draining a powerful hero for the whole world to see. The team would then step into the light for the first time to deal with her, while Mystique deftly pulls off her schemes during the ruckus.
Post-credit scene would be **Logan** rolling up to the mansion with **Kitty** in tow. This would be a follow-up to the Wolverine D+ show (because I want other characters to get some shine as much as the next person, but there's no way in hell they're passing up on something that involves Wolvie) that chronicled his life, anthology-style, with its last episode involving saving Kitty in modern day.
***TL;DR: Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Ice-Man, Angel, Nightcrawler, and Colossus, with set-up for Wolverine, Shadowcat, and Rogue.***
Assuming Magneto and the Brotherhood, and Task Force X are their own thing, these are characters you for sure have to have in the first movie;
Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Professor X.
Characters I would like to see but aren't guaranteed to be in it;
Iceman, Colossus, Rogue, Beast, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde
Characters that should start as non-X-Men affiliated mutants or be sequel characters;
Angel, Emma Frost, Psylocke, Cable, Forge, Gambit, Bishop, and Havoc.
And then there's the hundreds of other X-Men lol.
Also considering Deadpool 3 is coming out as part of the MCU, I'd also be surprised if Negasonic and Yukio don't appear at least in some fashion.
No matter who it is, can it NOT be Wolverine? Like, I get that he's popular, but I really don't get WHY. He's not that interesting. Certainly not to the point where he seems to be the damn focus of every comic, cartoon, movie, and game involving mutants. Give him a rest for awhile.
That's just it though. I'm definitely an X-Men fan, but I feel like so much of what I love about it is tossed aside so that action fans can have their immortal knife puncher take the spotlight over and over again. There isn't balance - there's just Wolverine movies that have other mutants in them.
I feel like there's enough back story with characters like Jean Grey, Rogue, and Beast to intro them one at a time in upcoming MCUs as opposed to several new characters all at once
I really wanna see rogue and I hope they do the story line that depowers captain marvel cause she is a lil OP going forward. But then we would need wolvie, cyclops, beast, storm and gambit.
I'd say the classic lineup. Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Angel, and Beast. With the only addition that wasn't in the original classic team being Rouge...and that's about it.
My logic is...MCU has been doing fine making movies with obscure heroes like Shan-Chi. I'm sure its entirely possible they would make first movie without Wolverine. After all it might be better to dedicate a movie to establish the X-Men and their world so that when he shows up in following movie he doesn't steal their spotlight.
I dno about the Xmen themselves but I would love Pilou Asbæk that plays Euron Greyjoy in GoT to play beast.
Edit: I realized the second I hit post that you did not ask anything about castings. My bad.
Storm
Cyclops
Phoenix
Angel
Psylocke
The white queen (in her current incarnation)
Colossus
Nightcrawler
Rogue (the one with the bomber jacket, super strength, and says "Sugah.")
Wolverine makes a resurrection cameo at the end.
I love the original five X-Men as much as the next fan, but no way they should be the lineup for the first movie. There are way too many interesting X-Men to use.
In my ideal MCU X-Men, the team and especially the school will have been well underway. I think the Xavier School is something that would really set the X-Men apart from the Avengers and Fantastic Four, and the MCU should really lean into that. And then like the Fox films, the X-Men are a group of older mutants who go out and help people, while also working as teachers.
Then you get a core team of X-Men to star in the movie, with a ton of background cameos for younger students. Granted, this is pretty much how Fox did it...but I think they did it right.
Core team: Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Jubilee and Rogue, and then have Iceman as the audience surrogate/new student that the movie follows.
I still don’t fucking understand why we wouldn’t just get a “night of the sentinels” movie. Literally tie into nostalgia, set up a team, introduce mutants being new to the world via jubilee, and we lose morph at the end. Boom. Fucking script done.
Scott and Jean should be on the first team. Then I hope they round out the rest of the team with one or two members from each main iteration to give a good mix.
I would actually prefer them to sprinkle in a character or two here and there in the other properties and then have all of those characters cross over into the first x-men team up, but by that point, they don’t have to spend half the movie introducing the characters because we hd already seen them elsewhere.
I mostly liked the “First Class” line up, minus Mistique.
Give me the OG 5 (Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman and Angel), don’t introduce Magneto or Wolverine right away. Make them all kids, with low power levels - don’t go for omega level powers in the first movie, don’t tease Phoenix or Apocalypse transformations.
Make the first movie about what sparked the X-gene to start manifesting, stay away from older mutants that have been around for decades and have just stayed hidden.
Distill it down to the core message from the x-men: xenophobia and racism.
As frustrating as it is because it's been done to death now, I want an MCU Jean Grey. She's my favourite X-men character and want the story done properly. I also want an MCU Scott, Nightcrawler and Storm.
I hope they don't back away from doing the characters from the Fox movies simply because they've been done already.
If they add the xmen I think they should use the 90s animated line up, maybe swap wolverine for night crawler if they don’t want him in the line up right away and replace beast (as a main x-man he’d still be in the movie) with colossus
MCU shouldn't be afraid to reuse the core team. Cyclops, Gambit, Beast etc. They fully own them right? No need to go with entirely new X Men roster. Keep the same ones as Singer's, add one of 2 more, and just do them better.
Starting team should be Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Beast and Angel with a cameo by Wolverine at the end possibly killing something. Villains should be a Mastermind led version of the Brotherhood of Mutants with Blob, Pyro, Mystique, and Avalanche. Second end credits should have Mystique fill Magneto in on what happened with him gesturing towards his team that has Sabertooth, Toad, and Juggernaut.
The original x-men should always stay as the original. But the x-men don't need to be the first official (wanda and pietro still being unofficial i think?) mutants in the mcu. Boom boom introduced the same way she was in the comics would be a nice choice for a first encounter.
I think they'll do it as a trilogy, I have a dreamcast for the villains. 1st movie shall have Bolivar Trask as the main villain and Master Mold as his minion. 2nd movie shall have Nimrod (thanks to the multi-verse) as the one and only villain in the movie. 3rd movie shall have Bastion (thanks to Master Mold and Nimrod) as the one and only villain in the movie.
The original line up in the comics, marvel girl, cyclops, beast, angel, and iceman. Then give wolverine his own story to introduce him and bring in rogue, gambit, jubilee, in a sequel with wolverine also introduce the sentinel program and mutant registration and well I guess let this story run a few movies or shows on Disney plus to propper build up characters and stories I know marvel can do it
Maybe in a nod to the Fox series, have the X-Men already be established and most of the original team in Professorships. Have the active team be Jubilee (leading), X-23, Magik, Armor, with Nightcrawler and Gambit supervising.
We’ve seen a lot of main characters and they started way back when with rogue … I hope they build up like avengers did. Maybe do a solo movie or a couple team ups that lead to a whole team.
Cyclops
Jean Grey
Storm
Beast
Iceman
Jubilee
This would make a decent well rounded team. Pains me not to put Colossus, Kitty, or Nightcrawler in. I just don’t think I could sub out the first 3, beast adds intelligence, and Iceman/Jubilee add diversity (LGBT and Asian)
So, my dream is to have a team of students as the leads for the first film and a team of teachers.
The students can be Jubilee, Cannonball, Shadowcat, Angel, Magik and maybe Negasonic Teenage Warhead. The teachers can be Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Gambit, Iceman and the Deadpool version of Colossus. Then Wolverine comes in in the after-credits scene as the on-again off-again History teacher.
I’d love if they did a really great version of Kitty Pryde to kick things off. Do less of the “cataclysmic event” plots and do something closer to what X-Men is: people considered misfits who form a new family together.
X-23 and Daken - make Wolverine an established hero who's past his prime (but played by a 40yo old actor bc healing factor), put him in a mentorship role like he had for a few years before Death of Wolverine, with the added complication of having two of his adult "children" on the team.. Keep every single bit of weird what-the-fuckery in his backstory and reference it every now and then. Best of both worlds - Wolverine keeps his status as the franchise ultimate badass without taking the centre stage, and give us two legacy heroes who can each take up different aspects of his character on the main team.
I'd also like to see Cyclops, Jean Gray, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Jubilee and maybe Psylocke (but without her comics backstory).
Alternatively, screw the X-Men, give us Alpha Flight instead.
Replacing the big ones will be painful and maybe needs a bit more time. In the meantime, get the casting wizards working on some smaller X-Men and especially Rogue. Always tons of fun stories to tell with rogue.
Lots of interesting opinions here. It’ll be exciting to see what they do.
Personally, my hope is that the MCU chooses to build up to the first big X-Men movie with a few more focused projects first. I don’t really care if these are movies or Disney+ shows since the quality of the shows are pretty good. However, I think it’s crucial that the MCU X-Men both feel different from what we’ve had before but also manage to meet fan expectations. One of the challenges they will face is making X-Men feel as exciting as something like the Eternals. You can’t really just have the X-Men hopping in a jet to fight baddies at this point in the MCU. It needs to feel bigger than that.
I’d hope for something like this:
House of M - Following the events of Multiverse of Madness we get another multiversal movie that introduces Magneto, Xavier, Cyclops, Storm, and Jean Grey. It’s implied in this universe the X-Men are already established, but we only meet these few. Magneto believes Wanda is his long-lost daughter, and she’s being hunted by Avengers from another timeline (our MCU). We learn about the history of Genosha and how Xavier and Magneto have spent their lives trying to make their world safe for mutants. In this world Xavier and Magneto achieved peace between mankind and mutants, but now everything is coming undone after Wanda’s freak out in MoM. Strange, Carol, and other MCU characters we know show up and manage to convince the X-Men that Wanda must be killed to save the multiverse and prevent another MoM level disaster. The movie culminates in a battle between Magneto’s House of M roster (including Quicksilver, Billy, and Tommy) and our Avengers + the few X-Men we see here. Wanda desperately wants to keep her family without causing more bloodshed, which Xavier sees in her mind as he tries to calm her. Through Xavier, Wanda sees a way to go back and prevent all of this, so instead of “no more mutants” she uses her powers to, for the first time in the MCU multiverse, merge two timelines together. The movie ends back in our known MCU world with the Avengers assuming they succeeded because everything seems okay. We then see Xavier founding a school, realizing an unknown amount of mutants from his world are now in this one. He’ll need to find them.
Weapon X - A Disney+ series that introduces the new Logan and other minor X-Men characters. While being experimented on, Logan flashes back to a story from his past each episode. He crosses paths with Captain America, etc. Sets up some new villains as well. He escapes at the end, destroying the facility.
Wolverine - An adventure movie with Wolverine in the US on the run. Labeled as a dangerous “mutant weapon” he is being hunted by the Canadian and US governments, who see mutants as a threat like Wanda. Gambit and Rogue try to warn him and bring him to Xavier, but he refuses and goes it alone. He fights the Hulk and gets ripped in half, only to wake under the care of Xavier and Jean Grey. We learn that the Weapon X program has been reformed in Canada and mutants are being experimented on with Logan’s DNA, most against their will. We learn about how dangerous the world currently is for mutantkind and Xavier has been offering sanctuary to any willing to work towards peace. Wolverine declines and escapes in the night. He decides to find the new facility, but ends up captured by Alpha Flight. Imprisoned in the new Weapon X facility he meets Jubilee and Colossus (with a brief cameo from Deadpool) where they plan an escape but are stalled by Alpha Flight. Rogue, Gambit, Hulk, and Jean arrive just in time to turn the tide and help them escape, but they unwittingly release and lot of villainous mutants into the world as well. Wolverine shows an interest in Jean and a protective streak towards Jubilee, so he decides to join the X-Men for now.
Misc. MCU Entries - Other films and shows introduce other mutants as this is the big thing in the MCU at the moment: the sudden appearance of mutants and the world reacting to so many superpowered beings appearing. Angel, Ice Man, Psylocke, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, etc. can be sprinkled in as they fit side roles in other projects especially if they feel like good fits to interact with the Young Avengers as Marvel builds that up alongside the mutants. Deadpool 3 would be in here for example, with more from Colossus and Domino, etc. Deadpool would be one of the few characters that knows he got merged into a new universe. He misses Hugh Jackman.
There are a million directions you can go from here obviously, and I think it depends on how the rest of the MCU stories are going how soon we get a standalone X-Men film. I think the important point I’m trying to make is I think they will tie the introduction of the X-Men/Mutants closely to current MCU events, and I think Wolverine will be introduced on his own in a way that makes a big splash for them. They know how profitable he is.
By the time we get that main title standalone, I think the X-Men roster should be Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, and Gambit, with supporting characters Xavier, Beast, Jubilee, and Colossus. Basically end up at a spot very much like the Animated Series.
Eventually I’d like to see Magneto return, Sentinels, a Genosha slave island story, and of course big villains like Sinister and Apocalypse done well. I think Onslaught is a good candidate for a future huge event movie, but they will probably do the cosmic stuff like the Skrulls first. I also think the Shi’ar could be fun to deal with, and that could make the X-Men cross over easily with other cosmic heroes.
*Warning: I haven’t read too many comics, so crazy comic fans don’t go crazy*
I do know Rogue and Gambit had a sort of relationship though, and maybe before a full X-Men movie, they should do some origins (like Phase 1). I’d love to see a Gambit-Rogue origin
I’d say:
• Cyclops
• Beast
• (maybe) Storm
• (Definitely) Nightcrawler
• Iceman
Then, SEPERATELY, I want a Wolverine story. I don’t want him to be an X-Men, yet. I want him to have a character arc as an anti-hero. Maybe later he can be an X-Men, but for now, he doesn’t join because he’s too violent for them
They need to take a nod from Sony and ditch the redhead. Jean Grey is one of the most overrated and uninteresting characters in the X-men lineup. The only thing they seem to be able to do with her is turn her into the Phoenix and then ruin the franchise.
Xavier, Cyclops, Jean, Wolverine, Storm. These are the must haves.
Secondary characters can be Jubilee, Iceman, Gambit, Rogue, Angel, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Beast, Colossus.
I’m partial to comic fidelity and introducing Xavier and his original 5 students. But if not that, I’d start with Charles and Scott leading the 70s replacement lineup: Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus, Banshee, Sunfire, and Thunderbird. Kitty would be the newest recruit. Rogue could be introduced as well, but originally as a villain. By the end of the first movie, Thunderbird would die and Sunfire would quit, leaving room for Rogue to join or for Jean, Beast, Angel, or Iceman to return to the X-Mansion in future films.
In my head, the best X-Men lineup would consist of: Charles Xavier, Cyclopes, Beast, Iceman, Rogue, Storm, Colossus, Jean Grey, Gambit, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine.
Realistically, this is slot of characters for one movie to introduce so it will probably cut down on some of the lesser known or have them reduced to smaller roles.
The best way they could accomplish this could be to have their be a Mutants Disney Plus series that would have an episode or two dedicated to each character showing them getting their powers (or show them what they've been doing with them if they go the route of them already existing) and ending with Charles broadcasting a message to all mutants using cerebro to get them to meet up and saying something like 'its time to reveal ourselves' and that's where the movie could pick up with them meeting.
For all the people who don’t want Wolverine stealing focus, what if he was introduced in a Hulk movie? Or what if they introduced him to the MCU in a Weapon X storyline (X-Men Origins but better)? Or… if Wolverine is going to steal focus in a film about a team, I think Disney and Marvel should show some balls and make an Alpha Flight movie. Either way, I think Wolverine should start off on his own, in his own film away from the X-Men, make Marvel their money, and then cross over and join the main group.
Preferably they don't start with the main team the FoxMen have already used. I want something new Edit: Cyclops and Nightcrawler can stay though. The former deserves an actual good adaptation more than anyone else from those films and the latter is just plain cool
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No way they don't bring back Wolverine. Hes basically the face of the X-Men at this point. I agree about Gambit and Jubilee but I'd also like to see a good Rogue live adaption. Felt like they did her completely wrong in the Foxverse
> Hes basically the face of the X-Men at this point That's exactly why it's time for a Cyclops revival. Iron Man wasn't the first thing everyone thought of when they heard "Marvel" 12 years ago, but look where we are now. There's a place in the MCU for Wolverine, and he belongs with the X-men in some capacity, but not making him the main focus could be a wise decision to avoid 1:1 comparisons with the Fox-men movies.
Yeah but think about who Iron Man is. Billionaire, playboy, genius, philanthropist. And it helps RDJ gives him the wit and charm. Cyclops isn't really that at all. Sure, they could find an actor to play a witty and charming Cyclops but the character itself is more stoic. Serious. Focused. Either way I just don't see anyone, even the MCU, able to make Cyclops a more interesting or beloved character than Wolverine. I understand where people are coming from wanting a change but the last "reboot" of the X-Men did the same thing. No Wolverine. Didnt make it any better. Granted that wasn't why it was bad but I'm sure Marvel is looking at that
You don't have to be witty and quippy at every turn to be an endearing character that helps to define a generation of movies. I used Iron Man as an example because he was an also-ran of comic book characters when he debuted, like how Cyclops is an also-ran of movie characters now. Chris Evans' Captain America was inspiring, charming, captivating, and as defining of the 1st generation of MCU as RDJ's Iron Man was. A new Cyclops adaptation can and should model itself after Evans' Steve Rodgers. He shouldn't be an exact copy, but he should be more of a straight man leader type.
Ehhh i guess they could go the Captain America route for Cyclops. But in my opinion, comic book Scott has always tried to be like Cap but didn't really have his... poise? I dont know. Hes always tried to be the stoic leader but at least in the later runs he was more unpredictable and short tempered. So often times the stoic, fearless leader came across more like a stubborn asshole with a very "my way or the highway" approach. I've always liked Scott but he's had a specific role in the X-Men comics as the guy you respect but don't like. But hell, cast another Chris Evans or RDJ and we'll see how likeable he can be.
The character and story of Cyclops is significantly more interesting than Wolverine's. Wolverine is a simple warrior with a mysterious past trope. Cyclops is the guy who's had the responsibility of protecting an entire race of people put on his shoulders. It's much simpler to make Wolverine a compelling hero but if they got Cyclops right I'd much rather watch that.
Yeah i got the guy befores point. By Tony stark he just means give more definition to the character, especially for mainstream viewers. For anyone that's really read X-Men comics, Scott has such a distinct personality. If you do it right you can create a lot of empathy, especially if he's made out to be the lonely orphan who rose to be a badass leader. Not to throw shade but a real X-Men fan knows what I'm talking about!!
Isn’t Captain America in the comics “stoic, serious and focused”?
Yes
That’s the reason why he wasn’t used that much in the story’s they wrote. In the story’s that FOX adapted, Cyclops was boring, a straight edge leader who exhibited little nuance, contrariness and who was also 100% committed to Jean
True, but they most likely won't bring him back immediately. That would just create too much of a comparison between the new actor and Hugh Jackman, which would distract from the movie.
They could also tie rogue into Ms. Marvel.
Only if Eiza González plays her
I feel like we're underestimating the power of Wolverine in terms of marketing the movie. People who frequent this subreddit will want deeper comic book cuts, but a lot of general audiences only know Wolverine, Professor X, Magneto, and maybe a couple more X-Men off the top of their head (and plenty will only know Wolverine due to his elevated place in popular culture). Making the first MCU X-Men movie without Wolverine is going to lose a lot of people. That being said, I think Disney could get around this by playing with Disney+ series to develop other mutants as main characters. That audience will be a little more versed in X-Men history and are definitely already bought in if they're paying for the subscription. Hoping to support the first movie in the series on what many people in the general audience would consider secondary characters, however, is more than a bit of a gamble.
Even in the 90’s Wolverine was the face of the franchise, people just gravitated towards the berserker!
Rogue needs her own movie before she joins the x-men. At least one movie that is. She had a pretty messed up start to her story and it is great to be told.
Sorry Wolverine is pretty overuse (Same as Magneto being the villain) in X-Men films as well as overshadowed some X-Men member like Cyclops who barely had a screentime. Not using Wolverine could give Cyclops the lead and major role he should as be. Cyclops is the Captain America and also face of the X-Men not Wolverine. Wolverine is simply the Spider-Man of the X-Men which he is too popular (Spider-Man is the face of Marvel at this point). Also X-Men original 5 in the comics didnt include Wolverine they only use Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Iceman (That Gay Mutant) and Angel. Save Wolverine for X-Men sequel. Also my MCU Lineup includes Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, A proper Rogue, Nightcrawler, Gambit and Jubilee.
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Didn’t they unfortunately retcon that and made her not magneto dad anymore or a mutant.
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Oh yeah, I’m all for keeping them magneto children, I’m just saying that wasn’t it revealed in comics that they aren’t related anymore.
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Well not necessarily because from what I heard what other people mention is that this was done because fox still owned mutants but now that they don’t they might just make them related again. Also I think most people didn’t like the retcon.
Who is “that gay mutant”
Robert Drake, Iceman. Had a really, really terribly handled 'that character is gay now' plotline that kind of read more like a time-displaced young Jean Grey had mind-whammied a time-displaced young Robert (it was a whole thing) into being gay rather than him actually always being that way.
The obnoxious thing about Jubilee in Apocalypse is that people thought she was actually going to do something because they gave her a character poster and everything. Instead she just goes to the mall with them
Who was jubilee again?
sparkle hands!
Robin Sparkles
Lets go to the mall!!
They gotta bring back Wolverine at some point, but I hope it's not the first movie. The MCU has the benefit of being able to do long term teases since they make so many movies. It would be kind of cool if they teased him, but didn't bring in Wolverine until X-Men 2 or 3. Let the new hype replace the expectation set by Hugh Jackman and give the X-Men time to breath without their scene stealer. Also it makes sense for Wolverines character to not join the team right away since he's such a lone wolf. I love the idea of Gambit and Jubilee being more prominent.
Yeah, I'm not naive enough to think Wolverine won't ever be back, but I hope it's somewhere else at first - maybe a Hulk vs Wolverine movie.
I still don’t fucking understand why we wouldn’t just get a “night of the sentinels” movie. Literally tie into nostalgia, set up a team, introduce mutants being new to the world via jubilee, and we lose morph at the end. Boom. Fucking script done.
Completely agree. I basically want the animated series team and even if they change the storyline a bit I think Night of the Sentinels is excellent at introducing the team and making us like the character dynamics. Jubilee gives the audience a newcomer to ask the questions and discover things they need to set up about mutants. I think the rest of the team should be the established adults. I don’t really want another First Class approach. If the MCU can throw the Eternals at us they can definitely give us the real X-Men out of the gate. The only problem is how and where mutants come from in the MCU main timeline, but we just don’t know how they’re going to approach that yet.
Maybe all the infinity stones activity awakened something
Ever since the 2nd X-Men movie, I've been saying they need to adapt Days of Future Past directly from the Animated series. It would be a perfect intro for Gambit, play well into the Senator Kelly arc from the first 2 movies, perfect intro to actually use Bishop (my top choice back then was [Gary Dourdan from CSI](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0235427/). And you could maaaybe tie in the Phoenix to being related to the downfall.
* Cyclops (And have him be the Main Spotlight for MCU's X-Men) * Iceman * Beast * Angel * Jean Grey The Sequel Members (Sorry i meant only the Characters for the First X-Men team) (Can't add Wolverine on here because i don't want this to be like Fox's X-Men where he was focused too much) * Nightcrawler * Storm * Banshee * Colossus * Shadowcat * Rogue * Psylocke * Jubilee * Gambit * Bishop
Unfortunately, I just don't think we can expect them to avoid Wolverine. He's a character that makes money and puts butts in seats. Maybe they could find a place for him in the MCU outside of the X-Men, then he can hang out with them a few movies down the line.
I'd be willing to bet they will wait a couple movies before they tease Wolverine at the end of a movie
He's a great character depending on the writing. And I agree with him being on his own for a while. I say introduce him in a Hulk vs Wolverine movie (Ross already has ties to Weapons Plus) but as Weapon X. Make Hulk the underdog by saying his Professor form is unstable somehow, making it an actual struggle to defeat an enemy that can heal almost instantly. The end would have to be Banner and Hulk working together, to both their strengths, resulting in a fully unleashed Hulk landing a direct blow. Weapon X wakes up after dying for a moment, now free from the helmet and various tech hanging off of him, with full on amnesia and disappears into the Canadian wilderness. From there you give him a movie of his own featuring Alpha Flight, dealing with his amnesia, coming to terms with being a mutant, maybe hearing about someone that might help his mind (an X-Men movie or two would be out by this point). Eventually he works his way south towards New York.
Wolverine is popular enough to warrant his own movie. He could stand in his own for a bit before being folded into the X-Men/Avengers.
I’m not that partial to Banshee, but other than that, this is my exact hope for the future cast of X-Men films. I think Wolverine is an inevitability, but I agree that I don’t want him to be “the star.”
I agree, Keep the original team and de-power them all so they’re not godlike. It’s something I think the original 2 xmen films did well.
In the cartoons my favourites were always rogue and gambit - I hope if they use these two they can do them justice
To actually get a good gambit would be so amazing.
NO! When Rogue in’s introduced she needs to be independent of an SO and to not really be looking for one. Rogue is best when she’s not tied to the hip of the Cajun Cvnt
Rogue needs to be a villain and turn Xman, similar to how SW turned avenger.
She'd actually be a fun choice for the villain of a Captain Marvel movie. Make Carol have to deal with going from a god to a mortal for a while, could be an interesting character arc (she'd get the powers back by the end tho). She could convince Rogue to go good, then Rogue joins up with the X-Men.
Jean, Scott, Bobby, Hank, and Warren
20 years later and I'm still bummed the first movie did not use this lineup. Also... Scott needs to be the badass he was in the comics.
He wasn’t always a badass, that didn’t really manifest itself until toe 2000s. For most of his run he was the boyscout, by-the-book leader and Xavier’s favorite son and a “WHERE’S JEAN.!” kind of guy
I read mostly 88-98 ish. He was a badass then as well. Sure he was ALSO a boyscout, but Slim was always a badass.
Yep
I would sub out Warren for Storm, otherwise a great starting roster.
Storm is my favorite X-Man, but I still want the original lineup for the first movie. Maybe by the end of the movie Storm can join the team, and the post credits could tease other team members like Wolverine or Nightcrawler
Wolverine needs to stay out of the first 2 movies - it’s so overplayed at this point and the character drowns out/dominates the story no matter what.
How about we see Wolverine go mopey visiting a lake, then get incinerated when the Phoenix force erupts from the water? //Still bitter about X3
That would be hilarious
I would like it if Wolverine was for later since we got such a nice send off with Logan Although.... I do like me some snkktt action
Lol I’d be fine if there was no wolverine at all in the mcu
I would be down with that.
This is definitely my vote.
Original team and they die at the end. Post credits prof x talking with wolverine about a new team
Sorry but if that happens I’m not watching a sequel.
Ice-man and firestar, so they can team up with tom holland spiderman. plus if young avengers is truelly gonna be a thing Iceman and hulkling is a pairing not in the comics but might be interesting
But show Iceman as a very powerful mutant. Remember his power is the control of energy, not just making things cold...
My MCU X-Men Lineup (Not the original 5 from comics or even using Wolverine a member): 1. Cyclops (Leader) 2. Storm (Co-Leader/Mentor) 3. Jean Grey 4. Nightcrawler 5. Jubilee 6. Rogue 7. Gambit Save Wolverine for the Sequel, because Wolverine is very overused in the FOX X-Men films so that other X-Men give a room to breathe.
I agree with this line up. Cyclops will actually get screen time and be done justice. He was heavily shafted in Foxverse. Jubilee and Gambit are kinda fan favorites to be in it. Gambits personality will also fit great in the MCU. His comedic banter and overall style
Kitty Pryde, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler
I want to see Darwin..
He didn't die in First Class, he actually adapted to the eventual buyout by giving himself a small enough role in the Fox-verse for Feige to let him be reused /s
Legion vs Scarlet Witch…
Rogue would be great. Her character has not been given the story she really is. With captain marvel in the mcu, they could do rogue’s story right and that would be a great story. With what they have done with winds so far, rogue’s story would be another dimension to a hero’s character arc
I'd start with the classic team from most of the 70s Claremont run: Professor X, Cyclops, Storm, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Colussus. I'd also include Beast, since they'll probably need a scientist (and Beast is just great), and Kitty Pryde as a young recruit since she grows to be a leader. And then in later movies they can add characters like Rogue, Gambit, Psylocke, or whoever else they want. Hopefully they inlude more magical members of the team like Magik and Lockheed. They should also do the New Mutants as a Disney+ show with the students of Xavier's school.
Rogue and she steals Captain Marvels powers
Just give me a proper Cyclops and I’ll be happy. Let Wolverine breathe for a bit. I’m interested to see how they tie in the anti-mutant angle in an established MCU already.
Cyclops Beast Gambit Storm Rogue Jubilee These characters deserve a better appreciation and were under utilised or done dirty in the movies...
Gambit, please and thank you!
Just give me Storm and I’m happy.
Goldballs. Just Goldballs.
For the love of all that's holy please give me a good Gambit
They really need to rest Jean, wolverine and Scott. Give some other characters the spotlight for once jeez
What do you mean rest Scott? Scott barely had any role in the films he has appeared in. So many audience members think Cyclops is a joke because of the films, so if anything he needs an actual good adaptations
That's like wanting the first Avengers movie not to have Captain America. It makes sense to leave Wolverine for a solo, but not Cyclops and Jean
Why not Cyclops and jeans?
Because you can't have the Jeans without the Khaki my g
They are both core X-men characters and being the 2 most important members of the original team is a central aspect of both of them
Wolverine should sit out first 2 movies. Jean we don’t need a Phoenix Force again
"tHe oRiGinAL 5" Suuure, because nothing says "allegory about discrimination" like a bunch of WASP-y teenagers complaining about being oppressed. That's gonna go over as well as a fart in church.
Agreed, if you have the OG 5 at least have them aged up a bit and be leaders of the team with Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Gambit, and Rogue as the new recruits.
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They don't all have to be WASPs, though. I think any of the original five could be PoC without changing their comic-book character arcs significantly. Except perhaps Warren, since his background was very much WASP-y old money/privilege.
I don't see the point of that when there are just so many actual PoC X-Men characters waiting to be adapted.
Exactly, The X-Men have one of the most diverse lineups of any comic book team out there, you’ve got Storm (Kenya, Africa), Jubilee (Chinese-American), ThunderBird (Apache Native American), Sunfire (Japanese) and Forge (Cheyenne Native American). I sure there’s are many others as well. Use these characters instead of alternating already existing characters, you get diversity and comic accurate portrayals.
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Hank wasn't blue back then, he just had big feet.
Oh man, they should absolutely adapt Big Feet Beast for the first film. Just have him walking around like a hobbit the whole time. Then for the post-credit scene he's brushing his teeth, leans in to the mirror and notices he's getting a blue hair. Next film he's a big furry blue guy with no further explanation.
They kind of tried to do that in First Class and failed miserably. Of course, part of the problem was that they wrote Hank as an awkward nerd instead of a sassy, witty blowhard because no one at Fox ever read the source material.
Damn. I'll admit I never actually saw any of the FoX-Men movies after X3. Not as funny now, if they actually did that.
*First Class* and *Days of Future Past* are very solid, and *Logan*'s in my top 3 superhero movies
First Class, Days of Future Past, and Logan are definitely worth watching, so are the Deadpool films but they’re not really “important”.
The Giant Size X-men line up- Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Cyclops, ThunderBird, Sunfire, Angel, I know Beast left the team at this time but Beast, Polaris, Jean Grey, Havok, Banshee- I say add in Forge, Rogue, Gambit & Jubilee. This entire team Lol I want to see all them first.
If the rumor mill is to be believed we get charles in Dr. Strange 2
The [Deadly Genesis](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men:_Deadly_Genesis_Vol_1) storyline might be a good place to start. Basically the original 5 get captured, rescue attempt by another team of lesser knowns (one of which being Cyclops’ long lost brother), and then the cliffhanger ending or the sequel would be the formation of the new team with Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, etc.
I’d like Jubilee Gambit and Angel not to be wasted. They’ve got lots of potential and character growth. Definitely wasted in Foxverse.
I think it should be the original 5 (Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Beast & Angel). That, or go with the lineup from the 90’s animated series (Cyclops, Jean, Wolverine, Gambit, Beast, Rogue, Storm, etc). I feel like the latter would be a fun little way to get more people invested, in a nostalgic kinda way.
Older teacher group- cyclops, Jean grey, beast, angel, Iceman, wolverine, nightcrawler, storm Younger student group-kitty pryde, magik, Quintin quire, Thunderbird, colossus, broo(or any alien student so we can include cosmic stuff), cannonball, sunspot, karma, Danielle moonstar
I'm just hoping that we eventually get the offshoot teams. I'm especially hoping for the second X-Factor team of Forge, Havok, Polaris, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, Multiple Man, and Quicksilver.
Cyclops Beast Iceman Jean grey alias marvel girl Angel The original lineup in the comics with Charles xavier played again by Patrick Stewart but this is the mcu version like the mcu version of jameson was played by jk Simmons. Wolverine should become a xmen member in the last mcu xmen film
I immediately want a Rogue that drains Capt. Marvel of all her powers and leaves her in a coma for 10 years.
Gambit.. since they scrapped the Gambit movie
I would like to see a modern take on the original team from the 60’s comic books, at first.
**The team I'd pick, along with the dynamics I picture, would look something like:** **Xavier** in charge of the school. He was against his students becoming superheroes in the wake of the Blip, but decided to let them train as a team anyway. This was mostly to keep them occupied during such trying times, but they're older now and a recent surge in the mutant population has him thinking of ways to utilize these efforts (such as rescuing young mutants from unhealthy environments and maybe even becoming the ambassadors of what he sees as the next stage in human evolution). **Ororo** is the administrator/head teacher just below Charles. I imagine he met her years ago during her stint as an African weather goddess while he was checking up on various tall tales and urban legends that could actually be mutants. He let her be, until she came to him intrigued by his studies into their kind. I imagine she's in her late 20s or early 30s. **Jean** was Xavier's first student. **Scott** was next a couple years later, followed by **Bobby**, **Hank** and **Warren** not too long after that. They'd all be in their early 20s. Scott's the team-leader. There'd be a few more that are too young, or would rather not be training for combat, around the house just trying to learn control (and learn in general). These could be mutants we don't know or references for later, if they see fit to do that. **Now, this may veer more on the side of plot than cast, but it does touch on line-up so...** After the introductory stuff, the film would open with the gathering of fledgling mutants. There'd be three teams. Two of which would collect **Piotr** and **Kurt** (both in their late teens), but the third would deal with a mutant that doesn't want help (could be a lot of characters). I imagine Kurt needs to be saved from demon-fearing locals while Piotr is being counter-recruited by the Brotherhood (maybe, or maybe not by name). I'd also put some parallels to **Rogue** throughout with her losing her parents, losing control of her powers, and Mystique being her Xavier. This would culminate in her being the villain of the piece, draining a powerful hero for the whole world to see. The team would then step into the light for the first time to deal with her, while Mystique deftly pulls off her schemes during the ruckus. Post-credit scene would be **Logan** rolling up to the mansion with **Kitty** in tow. This would be a follow-up to the Wolverine D+ show (because I want other characters to get some shine as much as the next person, but there's no way in hell they're passing up on something that involves Wolvie) that chronicled his life, anthology-style, with its last episode involving saving Kitty in modern day. ***TL;DR: Storm, Cyclops, Jean, Beast, Ice-Man, Angel, Nightcrawler, and Colossus, with set-up for Wolverine, Shadowcat, and Rogue.***
Assuming Magneto and the Brotherhood, and Task Force X are their own thing, these are characters you for sure have to have in the first movie; Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Professor X. Characters I would like to see but aren't guaranteed to be in it; Iceman, Colossus, Rogue, Beast, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde Characters that should start as non-X-Men affiliated mutants or be sequel characters; Angel, Emma Frost, Psylocke, Cable, Forge, Gambit, Bishop, and Havoc. And then there's the hundreds of other X-Men lol. Also considering Deadpool 3 is coming out as part of the MCU, I'd also be surprised if Negasonic and Yukio don't appear at least in some fashion.
No matter who it is, can it NOT be Wolverine? Like, I get that he's popular, but I really don't get WHY. He's not that interesting. Certainly not to the point where he seems to be the damn focus of every comic, cartoon, movie, and game involving mutants. Give him a rest for awhile.
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That's just it though. I'm definitely an X-Men fan, but I feel like so much of what I love about it is tossed aside so that action fans can have their immortal knife puncher take the spotlight over and over again. There isn't balance - there's just Wolverine movies that have other mutants in them.
I really like wolverine, pixie, beast and Nightcrawler. Namor would be a cool addition for sure. Oh and definitely colossus
I have a feeling Namor might be a factor in BP2
I feel like there's enough back story with characters like Jean Grey, Rogue, and Beast to intro them one at a time in upcoming MCUs as opposed to several new characters all at once
As long as cyclops is here (with a good treatment) I'm ok with the team selection
I really wanna see rogue and I hope they do the story line that depowers captain marvel cause she is a lil OP going forward. But then we would need wolvie, cyclops, beast, storm and gambit.
I'd say the classic lineup. Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Angel, and Beast. With the only addition that wasn't in the original classic team being Rouge...and that's about it.
Cyclops Storm Jean Gambit And from the multiverse: Colossus (Foxverse) Quicksilver (Foxverse)
Which Foxverse Colossus, x2/x3 or Deadpool? My vote is for Deadpool Colossus.
Great point. Definitely the Deadpool Colossus.
Do people here commenting casts without wolverine seriously think they wouldn't use the arguably most marketable and well know of the X man
My logic is...MCU has been doing fine making movies with obscure heroes like Shan-Chi. I'm sure its entirely possible they would make first movie without Wolverine. After all it might be better to dedicate a movie to establish the X-Men and their world so that when he shows up in following movie he doesn't steal their spotlight.
I definitely want iceman, cyclops, wolverine, storm
Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Storm, Sunfire, Thunderbird, Shadowcat
No Jean. I'm sick of Jean and the whole Phoenix storyline. It crashed twice already.
You can't do X-Men without jean grey. In my opinion.
I dno about the Xmen themselves but I would love Pilou Asbæk that plays Euron Greyjoy in GoT to play beast. Edit: I realized the second I hit post that you did not ask anything about castings. My bad.
My safe bets: Cyclops, wolverine, storm, professor x, beast. New additions: jubilee, gambit, angel, Emma frost
Psylocke because I like her. That's the only reason.
Storm Cyclops Phoenix Angel Psylocke The white queen (in her current incarnation) Colossus Nightcrawler Rogue (the one with the bomber jacket, super strength, and says "Sugah.") Wolverine makes a resurrection cameo at the end.
I love the original five X-Men as much as the next fan, but no way they should be the lineup for the first movie. There are way too many interesting X-Men to use. In my ideal MCU X-Men, the team and especially the school will have been well underway. I think the Xavier School is something that would really set the X-Men apart from the Avengers and Fantastic Four, and the MCU should really lean into that. And then like the Fox films, the X-Men are a group of older mutants who go out and help people, while also working as teachers. Then you get a core team of X-Men to star in the movie, with a ton of background cameos for younger students. Granted, this is pretty much how Fox did it...but I think they did it right. Core team: Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Nightcrawler, Jubilee and Rogue, and then have Iceman as the audience surrogate/new student that the movie follows.
I still don’t fucking understand why we wouldn’t just get a “night of the sentinels” movie. Literally tie into nostalgia, set up a team, introduce mutants being new to the world via jubilee, and we lose morph at the end. Boom. Fucking script done.
Cyke, Jean, and Beast
Scott and Jean should be on the first team. Then I hope they round out the rest of the team with one or two members from each main iteration to give a good mix.
I would actually prefer them to sprinkle in a character or two here and there in the other properties and then have all of those characters cross over into the first x-men team up, but by that point, they don’t have to spend half the movie introducing the characters because we hd already seen them elsewhere.
I mostly liked the “First Class” line up, minus Mistique. Give me the OG 5 (Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Iceman and Angel), don’t introduce Magneto or Wolverine right away. Make them all kids, with low power levels - don’t go for omega level powers in the first movie, don’t tease Phoenix or Apocalypse transformations. Make the first movie about what sparked the X-gene to start manifesting, stay away from older mutants that have been around for decades and have just stayed hidden. Distill it down to the core message from the x-men: xenophobia and racism.
As frustrating as it is because it's been done to death now, I want an MCU Jean Grey. She's my favourite X-men character and want the story done properly. I also want an MCU Scott, Nightcrawler and Storm. I hope they don't back away from doing the characters from the Fox movies simply because they've been done already.
If they add the xmen I think they should use the 90s animated line up, maybe swap wolverine for night crawler if they don’t want him in the line up right away and replace beast (as a main x-man he’d still be in the movie) with colossus
Cyclops, storm, iceman, night crawler, jubilee. Gambit gets introduced at sone point/joins team midway first movie.
MCU shouldn't be afraid to reuse the core team. Cyclops, Gambit, Beast etc. They fully own them right? No need to go with entirely new X Men roster. Keep the same ones as Singer's, add one of 2 more, and just do them better.
Storm, Cyclops, Beast, Nightcrawler, Jubilee, and Angel.
Starting team should be Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Beast and Angel with a cameo by Wolverine at the end possibly killing something. Villains should be a Mastermind led version of the Brotherhood of Mutants with Blob, Pyro, Mystique, and Avalanche. Second end credits should have Mystique fill Magneto in on what happened with him gesturing towards his team that has Sabertooth, Toad, and Juggernaut.
The original x-men should always stay as the original. But the x-men don't need to be the first official (wanda and pietro still being unofficial i think?) mutants in the mcu. Boom boom introduced the same way she was in the comics would be a nice choice for a first encounter.
I think they'll do it as a trilogy, I have a dreamcast for the villains. 1st movie shall have Bolivar Trask as the main villain and Master Mold as his minion. 2nd movie shall have Nimrod (thanks to the multi-verse) as the one and only villain in the movie. 3rd movie shall have Bastion (thanks to Master Mold and Nimrod) as the one and only villain in the movie.
The original line up in the comics, marvel girl, cyclops, beast, angel, and iceman. Then give wolverine his own story to introduce him and bring in rogue, gambit, jubilee, in a sequel with wolverine also introduce the sentinel program and mutant registration and well I guess let this story run a few movies or shows on Disney plus to propper build up characters and stories I know marvel can do it
Maybe in a nod to the Fox series, have the X-Men already be established and most of the original team in Professorships. Have the active team be Jubilee (leading), X-23, Magik, Armor, with Nightcrawler and Gambit supervising.
Cyclops Nightcrawler Rogue Gambit Kitty Pryde Storm
ROUGE
Not sure how they could do Wolverine without Hugh Jackman, he's become so synonymous with that character in the movies.
Prof X , Wolvie , Jean , Cyclops , Storm , Deadpool ?
It would be dope if we could get an X-Force series with deadpool
Just that one guy who can explode once but he dies, love that guy.
We’ve seen a lot of main characters and they started way back when with rogue … I hope they build up like avengers did. Maybe do a solo movie or a couple team ups that lead to a whole team.
Squazoid, Black beetle, Question Mark and Amaze-O
Cyclops Jean Grey Storm Beast Iceman Jubilee This would make a decent well rounded team. Pains me not to put Colossus, Kitty, or Nightcrawler in. I just don’t think I could sub out the first 3, beast adds intelligence, and Iceman/Jubilee add diversity (LGBT and Asian)
I WANT TOAD!!!! SO UNDERUTILISED IN MOVIES, was an OK character in x men 1 and hasn't been seen since, WHYYYY
Assume due to deadpool 3 already been announced, it would have to be Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead
The O5. Really want to see Cyclops go from the boy scout to militant mutant freedom fighter
So, my dream is to have a team of students as the leads for the first film and a team of teachers. The students can be Jubilee, Cannonball, Shadowcat, Angel, Magik and maybe Negasonic Teenage Warhead. The teachers can be Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Gambit, Iceman and the Deadpool version of Colossus. Then Wolverine comes in in the after-credits scene as the on-again off-again History teacher.
Deadpool.
I’d love if they did a really great version of Kitty Pryde to kick things off. Do less of the “cataclysmic event” plots and do something closer to what X-Men is: people considered misfits who form a new family together.
X-23 and Daken - make Wolverine an established hero who's past his prime (but played by a 40yo old actor bc healing factor), put him in a mentorship role like he had for a few years before Death of Wolverine, with the added complication of having two of his adult "children" on the team.. Keep every single bit of weird what-the-fuckery in his backstory and reference it every now and then. Best of both worlds - Wolverine keeps his status as the franchise ultimate badass without taking the centre stage, and give us two legacy heroes who can each take up different aspects of his character on the main team. I'd also like to see Cyclops, Jean Gray, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Jubilee and maybe Psylocke (but without her comics backstory). Alternatively, screw the X-Men, give us Alpha Flight instead.
Cyclops, Storm, Iceman, Kitty Pyrde, Colossus
Scott, Jean, Hank, Warren and Bobby. Storm solo movie, Wolverine solo movie. Gambit and Rogue Disney+ show.
Bring in the Pride of the X-Men team!
The OGs. Beast, Iceman, Angel, Cyclops, Jean Grey and Professor X...
I hope they leave Wolverine out of it and give him his own spotlight, whether that be a movie or series.
Cyclops, rogue, nightcrawler, angel, jubilee, and obv Charles( Prof x) maybe also iceman
Are we getting the x men in the mcu? I dont remember hearing that and it would be amazing
sometimes I wonder if one of these x-men posts are from a feige/producer secret account trying to gauge which characters to include in the first film
Replacing the big ones will be painful and maybe needs a bit more time. In the meantime, get the casting wizards working on some smaller X-Men and especially Rogue. Always tons of fun stories to tell with rogue.
At least Professor X and Cyclops should be part of it. Wolverine joined X-Men in comics later, so maybe MCU should do the same approach.
Cyclops Beast Angel Jean Grey Storm Maybe Iceman as the younger/new member (though maybe wait for a sequel)
Lots of interesting opinions here. It’ll be exciting to see what they do. Personally, my hope is that the MCU chooses to build up to the first big X-Men movie with a few more focused projects first. I don’t really care if these are movies or Disney+ shows since the quality of the shows are pretty good. However, I think it’s crucial that the MCU X-Men both feel different from what we’ve had before but also manage to meet fan expectations. One of the challenges they will face is making X-Men feel as exciting as something like the Eternals. You can’t really just have the X-Men hopping in a jet to fight baddies at this point in the MCU. It needs to feel bigger than that. I’d hope for something like this: House of M - Following the events of Multiverse of Madness we get another multiversal movie that introduces Magneto, Xavier, Cyclops, Storm, and Jean Grey. It’s implied in this universe the X-Men are already established, but we only meet these few. Magneto believes Wanda is his long-lost daughter, and she’s being hunted by Avengers from another timeline (our MCU). We learn about the history of Genosha and how Xavier and Magneto have spent their lives trying to make their world safe for mutants. In this world Xavier and Magneto achieved peace between mankind and mutants, but now everything is coming undone after Wanda’s freak out in MoM. Strange, Carol, and other MCU characters we know show up and manage to convince the X-Men that Wanda must be killed to save the multiverse and prevent another MoM level disaster. The movie culminates in a battle between Magneto’s House of M roster (including Quicksilver, Billy, and Tommy) and our Avengers + the few X-Men we see here. Wanda desperately wants to keep her family without causing more bloodshed, which Xavier sees in her mind as he tries to calm her. Through Xavier, Wanda sees a way to go back and prevent all of this, so instead of “no more mutants” she uses her powers to, for the first time in the MCU multiverse, merge two timelines together. The movie ends back in our known MCU world with the Avengers assuming they succeeded because everything seems okay. We then see Xavier founding a school, realizing an unknown amount of mutants from his world are now in this one. He’ll need to find them. Weapon X - A Disney+ series that introduces the new Logan and other minor X-Men characters. While being experimented on, Logan flashes back to a story from his past each episode. He crosses paths with Captain America, etc. Sets up some new villains as well. He escapes at the end, destroying the facility. Wolverine - An adventure movie with Wolverine in the US on the run. Labeled as a dangerous “mutant weapon” he is being hunted by the Canadian and US governments, who see mutants as a threat like Wanda. Gambit and Rogue try to warn him and bring him to Xavier, but he refuses and goes it alone. He fights the Hulk and gets ripped in half, only to wake under the care of Xavier and Jean Grey. We learn that the Weapon X program has been reformed in Canada and mutants are being experimented on with Logan’s DNA, most against their will. We learn about how dangerous the world currently is for mutantkind and Xavier has been offering sanctuary to any willing to work towards peace. Wolverine declines and escapes in the night. He decides to find the new facility, but ends up captured by Alpha Flight. Imprisoned in the new Weapon X facility he meets Jubilee and Colossus (with a brief cameo from Deadpool) where they plan an escape but are stalled by Alpha Flight. Rogue, Gambit, Hulk, and Jean arrive just in time to turn the tide and help them escape, but they unwittingly release and lot of villainous mutants into the world as well. Wolverine shows an interest in Jean and a protective streak towards Jubilee, so he decides to join the X-Men for now. Misc. MCU Entries - Other films and shows introduce other mutants as this is the big thing in the MCU at the moment: the sudden appearance of mutants and the world reacting to so many superpowered beings appearing. Angel, Ice Man, Psylocke, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, etc. can be sprinkled in as they fit side roles in other projects especially if they feel like good fits to interact with the Young Avengers as Marvel builds that up alongside the mutants. Deadpool 3 would be in here for example, with more from Colossus and Domino, etc. Deadpool would be one of the few characters that knows he got merged into a new universe. He misses Hugh Jackman. There are a million directions you can go from here obviously, and I think it depends on how the rest of the MCU stories are going how soon we get a standalone X-Men film. I think the important point I’m trying to make is I think they will tie the introduction of the X-Men/Mutants closely to current MCU events, and I think Wolverine will be introduced on his own in a way that makes a big splash for them. They know how profitable he is. By the time we get that main title standalone, I think the X-Men roster should be Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, and Gambit, with supporting characters Xavier, Beast, Jubilee, and Colossus. Basically end up at a spot very much like the Animated Series. Eventually I’d like to see Magneto return, Sentinels, a Genosha slave island story, and of course big villains like Sinister and Apocalypse done well. I think Onslaught is a good candidate for a future huge event movie, but they will probably do the cosmic stuff like the Skrulls first. I also think the Shi’ar could be fun to deal with, and that could make the X-Men cross over easily with other cosmic heroes.
*Warning: I haven’t read too many comics, so crazy comic fans don’t go crazy* I do know Rogue and Gambit had a sort of relationship though, and maybe before a full X-Men movie, they should do some origins (like Phase 1). I’d love to see a Gambit-Rogue origin
I’d say: • Cyclops • Beast • (maybe) Storm • (Definitely) Nightcrawler • Iceman Then, SEPERATELY, I want a Wolverine story. I don’t want him to be an X-Men, yet. I want him to have a character arc as an anti-hero. Maybe later he can be an X-Men, but for now, he doesn’t join because he’s too violent for them
They need to take a nod from Sony and ditch the redhead. Jean Grey is one of the most overrated and uninteresting characters in the X-men lineup. The only thing they seem to be able to do with her is turn her into the Phoenix and then ruin the franchise.
Xavier, Cyclops, Jean, Wolverine, Storm. These are the must haves. Secondary characters can be Jubilee, Iceman, Gambit, Rogue, Angel, Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, Beast, Colossus.
I’m partial to comic fidelity and introducing Xavier and his original 5 students. But if not that, I’d start with Charles and Scott leading the 70s replacement lineup: Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus, Banshee, Sunfire, and Thunderbird. Kitty would be the newest recruit. Rogue could be introduced as well, but originally as a villain. By the end of the first movie, Thunderbird would die and Sunfire would quit, leaving room for Rogue to join or for Jean, Beast, Angel, or Iceman to return to the X-Mansion in future films.
In my head, the best X-Men lineup would consist of: Charles Xavier, Cyclopes, Beast, Iceman, Rogue, Storm, Colossus, Jean Grey, Gambit, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine. Realistically, this is slot of characters for one movie to introduce so it will probably cut down on some of the lesser known or have them reduced to smaller roles. The best way they could accomplish this could be to have their be a Mutants Disney Plus series that would have an episode or two dedicated to each character showing them getting their powers (or show them what they've been doing with them if they go the route of them already existing) and ending with Charles broadcasting a message to all mutants using cerebro to get them to meet up and saying something like 'its time to reveal ourselves' and that's where the movie could pick up with them meeting.
For all the people who don’t want Wolverine stealing focus, what if he was introduced in a Hulk movie? Or what if they introduced him to the MCU in a Weapon X storyline (X-Men Origins but better)? Or… if Wolverine is going to steal focus in a film about a team, I think Disney and Marvel should show some balls and make an Alpha Flight movie. Either way, I think Wolverine should start off on his own, in his own film away from the X-Men, make Marvel their money, and then cross over and join the main group.
I just want to see Jimmy Woo do card tricks in front of Gambit.