Pretty much what it says in the title.
We're seeing the introduction of mutants into the MCU on multiple levels. Both on the main Earth Prime/616/Sacred Timeline, and through multiversal shenanigans in three different Marvel productions.
On the Earth of the MCU's main narrative, we have Kamala Khan being revealed as having a mutation, the first such character to be described as such, which might imply that such things are a recent development.
However, then we had Wakanda Forever and Namor's revelation that his mutation manifested centuries ago.
I have always believed that these two moments were set up for the audience for future X-Men projects in which mutants had indeed somehow managed to stay under the radar. Mutations were few enough and far enough in between, and in a world like Marvel Earth not necessarily an uncommon occurrence, that they just didn't register on the public radar. Perhaps, and this is all fan wank speculation at this point, Charles Xavier, with his unique abilities already has his school for the gifted in operation. But, initially, rather than teaching his students how to defend the planet, leaving such to the Avengers and their like, he instead teaches them how to blend in with society.
But then we started to get the aforementioned multiversal shenanigans that began to introduce the old school X-Men characters from the Fox movies into the mix.
And, of course...
Now, both the Doctor Strange and Deadpool and Wolverine appearances of X-Men characters can be written off as one-offs. However, the Beast scene with Monica from The Marvels points to a future story to be told with some iteration of the Fox X-Men team.
I don't imagine that we will pick up with Monica again until Avengers Secret Wars, where all of this multiversal stuff is supposed to come to a head. But the question that comes with that is, what X-Men team would we theoretically see?
If we were to see X-Men in Secret Wars, which comes out in 2026, they can still maintain the timeline as depicted in Logan, which takes place in 2029 with things starting to go downhill in 2028, if that is what they want to do. That way they can bring back all of our old X-Men friends for one last hurrah without upsetting the nerds who worry too much about timeline issues. (I can already hear the cries of "gutless fan service")
However, I think they would be better off separating from the main FoX-Men universe entirely and bringing in new variants from another, similar, Fox based X-Men universe. That way, they can do unexpected things with the characters without being limited by what was established in Logan.
At any rate, none of this will be relevant post Secret Wars. The X-Men moving forward will have to have a different approach and different actors in the roles. Which brings me back to my earlier musings of Professor X already running his school in secret.
What do the rest of you think, what direction should the MCU take moving forward with mutants, both pre and post Secret Wars? What mistakes should they avoid? What beats are just too primal to the X-Men to exclude?
The FoX-Men movies were far too focused on the dynamic between Professor X and Magneto in my opinion, and while I'm certainly not suggesting that that dynamic or one similar be excluded entirely from the equation, I would prefer the larger philosophical questions to, at least at first, be background fodder between Charles and Erik. I want to see young kids coming to terms with what it means to be a teenage mutant first, and a superhero second. Here's a radical idea. Don't have Wolverine in the first X-Men movie. Give him his own solo movie and have the two dovetail into a third movie to make a trilogy.
Thoughts? Opinions? Insights?
We're seeing the introduction of mutants into the MCU on multiple levels. Both on the main Earth Prime/616/Sacred Timeline, and through multiversal shenanigans in three different Marvel productions.
On the Earth of the MCU's main narrative, we have Kamala Khan being revealed as having a mutation, the first such character to be described as such, which might imply that such things are a recent development.
However, then we had Wakanda Forever and Namor's revelation that his mutation manifested centuries ago.
I have always believed that these two moments were set up for the audience for future X-Men projects in which mutants had indeed somehow managed to stay under the radar. Mutations were few enough and far enough in between, and in a world like Marvel Earth not necessarily an uncommon occurrence, that they just didn't register on the public radar. Perhaps, and this is all fan wank speculation at this point, Charles Xavier, with his unique abilities already has his school for the gifted in operation. But, initially, rather than teaching his students how to defend the planet, leaving such to the Avengers and their like, he instead teaches them how to blend in with society.
But then we started to get the aforementioned multiversal shenanigans that began to introduce the old school X-Men characters from the Fox movies into the mix.
And, of course...
Now, both the Doctor Strange and Deadpool and Wolverine appearances of X-Men characters can be written off as one-offs. However, the Beast scene with Monica from The Marvels points to a future story to be told with some iteration of the Fox X-Men team.
I don't imagine that we will pick up with Monica again until Avengers Secret Wars, where all of this multiversal stuff is supposed to come to a head. But the question that comes with that is, what X-Men team would we theoretically see?
If we were to see X-Men in Secret Wars, which comes out in 2026, they can still maintain the timeline as depicted in Logan, which takes place in 2029 with things starting to go downhill in 2028, if that is what they want to do. That way they can bring back all of our old X-Men friends for one last hurrah without upsetting the nerds who worry too much about timeline issues. (I can already hear the cries of "gutless fan service")
However, I think they would be better off separating from the main FoX-Men universe entirely and bringing in new variants from another, similar, Fox based X-Men universe. That way, they can do unexpected things with the characters without being limited by what was established in Logan.
At any rate, none of this will be relevant post Secret Wars. The X-Men moving forward will have to have a different approach and different actors in the roles. Which brings me back to my earlier musings of Professor X already running his school in secret.
What do the rest of you think, what direction should the MCU take moving forward with mutants, both pre and post Secret Wars? What mistakes should they avoid? What beats are just too primal to the X-Men to exclude?
The FoX-Men movies were far too focused on the dynamic between Professor X and Magneto in my opinion, and while I'm certainly not suggesting that that dynamic or one similar be excluded entirely from the equation, I would prefer the larger philosophical questions to, at least at first, be background fodder between Charles and Erik. I want to see young kids coming to terms with what it means to be a teenage mutant first, and a superhero second. Here's a radical idea. Don't have Wolverine in the first X-Men movie. Give him his own solo movie and have the two dovetail into a third movie to make a trilogy.
Thoughts? Opinions? Insights?
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) keeping track of mutant activity over the past decades. The numbers might be low enough as to not be overly concerned but a new spike will raise alarms. 
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