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The government has been performing experiments on them. Magneto faced persecution in World War II. To put it another way: the very concept of The X-Men, as a social and political allegory, relies on them having been around for a while. They sprang, in the comics and in the movies, out of a sociopolitical environment, not just out of a standard origin story involving accidental exposure to radiative waste. The X-Men are mutants, representative of a massive evolution in the global gene pool, which left a significant percentage of the Earth’s population with superhuman abilities. The X-Men aren’t just a bunch of superheroes who happened to get powers, band together and fight bad guys. The problem is the Marvel Cinematic Universe itself, which is very clearly defined in a way that leaves no room whatsoever for the X-Men as characters… or even as a concept.Ģ0th Century Fox Also: Dear Fox: Just Reboot the X-Men Already (You Know You Want To) If the rights to the X-Men movies did come “back” to Marvel Studios, then Marvel would certainly find something to do with it, and probably even do a good job.īut the problem doesn’t have anything to do with the rights to the X-Men, or even with sound business strategies. The X-Men movies are based on Marvel comic books and yet they remain outside of the studio’s control, made by 20th Century Fox, and not always made terribly well (although Deadpool of course kicked ass).

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Regardless, once again we’re hearing the clarion call of the fanperson, and my Twitter feed is once again full of comments about why this franchise would be better off if the rights were held by Marvel Studios, where they arguably “belong.”Īnd make no mistake: Marvel would like this to happen. I didn’t care for it and I wasn’t alone on that, although the film does seem to have its admirers.

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