The agreement also provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-MEN with the Marvel family under one roof and create richer, more complex worlds of inter-related characters and stories that audiences have shown they love. It only makes sense for Marvel to be supervised by one entity. There shouldn't be two Marvels.
I highly doubt MCU X-Men are going to revolve around original "diverse" characters like Neal Shaara and Frenzy. It won't be the end of the world if they have POC Scott and/or Jean. After decades of both Marvel and Fox focusing almost only on white characters as "minority allegories", it would actually be refreshing.
Great to have this topic already, hopefully we get first bits of news once Dark Phoenix is released, or a few months after.
about diversity on Marvel's take, it would be stupid to change race, when Marvel can use Storm, Bishop, Jubilee, Sunfire, Warpath all at the same time.
Turning the iconic white characters where you have a avalanche of popular, well rounded black characters would only further take away attention from characters who have had a minority following and connection. It's not worth it. If you wanna centralize the plot through a minority character- there's storm. There's bishop , there's jubilee, all three have been central to different plots you can retell through film. Plus the Goal of the XMEN is not to centralize a plot through one or two characters but thru3-7
Cyclops was right
Josh Brolin is already Thanos in the MCU. And Deadpool 2 or a pre-MCU Deadpool 3 or X-Force could already establish his Cable as Tye Sheridan and Sophie Turner's son. So that's complicated as it is and even if Scott/Jean are racebent in the MCU, Deadpool could just use it as joke fodder, "Your parents are now black, and you are a giant purple elf!" *shrug*
Where's this avalanche of black characters? Storm, Bishop (who needs the entire timey wimey deal to appear), Monet (who is the younger generation) and... Frenzy. Maybe Synch too.
I would love it if all these characters appear in the first MCU film but it doesn't seem very feasible. If Scott and Jean (or heck, even Charles) are going to be played by a third set of actors, may as well have them be different races. What's "iconic" about their skin color anyway?
Avalanche of minority characters not black ones hence jubilee.
Also Characters and their distinctions are iconic.
Cyclops was right
The difference between the MCU & FOX is that Marvel can make character's popular that aren't popular with casual fans.
Groot, Rocket, Korg etc
Marvel can make anything popular so yes Oya, Bling, Darwin, Triage, Prodigy, Bishop, Shard, Synch, Frenzy etc can flourish under Disney.
Don't raceswap Iceman, Beast, or Angel it's just idiotic. This is just like when everybody was calling for Miles instead of Peter. MCU hasn't raceswapped any top level Character yet. Only lower tier like Valkryie or Heimdall. There's no way they are making Cyclops or Marvel Girl another race just to be different from FOX. Those movies will be a non factor going forward like the old Spiderman movies.
If they wanna raceswap then make Storm darkskin instead of light skin that'll be an iconic change for once
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The agreement also provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-MEN with the Marvel family under one roof and create richer, more complex worlds of inter-related characters and stories that audiences have shown they love. It only makes sense for Marvel to be supervised by one entity. There shouldn't be two Marvels.
I think Disney is giving a lot of the spotlight to female and minority characters lately. The X-Men have plenty those and I figure Disney would definitely use them, there is no need to raceswap. If they give more prominence to Storm and Kitty Pryde over Wolverine or Xavier that's already an improvement from before.
the only 2 examples coming from Fox lol
Marvel on the other hand: Guardians of the galaxy, Antman, Doctor Strange and soon to be added Black Panther, Captain Marvel.
Fox has yet to make Rogue a fan and general audience favourite after 17 years.