Idea: Summers-Grey family as a lynchpin of the MCU X-Men plotline

[Hybrid]

You know: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Corsair, Havok, Rachel Summers, Madelyne Pryor, Cable, Nate Grey, Vulcan, Hope Summers etc...

... and it all goes back to one Mr. Sinister, who I believe will be a huge MCU villain by way of being a major X-Men bad guy that the Fox movies never used, and thus completely new and an easy way to separate themselves from them.

Obviously, this wouldn't be the only thing about MCU X-Men, as it's massive and will have many plots like the rest of the MCU. I can see them tying the whole (confusing) family together as a major force in the ongoing storyline until the conclusion. I feel like that kind of tight-knit storytelling and continuity would be a step up from Fox. I also remember an Endgame writer saying they wanted to reinvent Cyclops and make him cool again, so it's totally possible.

Granted, the family tree is very infamously convoluted in that it involves clones, aliens, interdimensional beings, time travel, and so on. I wouldn't be surprised if they simplified things just a little bit for convenience.

What would you think?

[Agent Z]

After all the criticisms of the Fox movies for focusing on Logan. Xavier, Magneto and Mystique to the exclusion of everyone else, I can't see this being received any better. Especially with how convoluted the family tree is.

[Hybrid]

After all the criticisms of the Fox movies for focusing on Logan. Xavier, Magneto and Mystique to the exclusion of everyone else, I can't see this being received any better. Especially with how convoluted the family tree is.

As I said, it amounts to execution. I even said it wouldn't be the only plot, but one of them, because the MCU has always been good about balance (most of the time). There are numerous arcs that reach their conclusion without invading or taking away from anyone else.

[jwatson]

You know: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Corsair, Havok, Rachel Summers, Madelyne Pryor, Cable, Nate Grey, Vulcan, Hope Summers etc...

... and it all goes back to one Mr. Sinister, who I believe will be a huge MCU villain by way of being a major X-Men bad guy that the Fox movies never used, and thus completely new and an easy way to separate themselves from them.

Obviously, this wouldn't be the only thing about MCU X-Men, as it's massive and will have many plots like the rest of the MCU. I can see them tying the whole (confusing) family together as a major force in the ongoing storyline until the conclusion. I feel like that kind of tight-knit storytelling and continuity would be a step up from Fox. I also remember an Endgame writer saying they wanted to reinvent Cyclops and make him cool again, so it's totally possible.

Granted, the family tree is very infamously convoluted in that it involves clones, aliens, interdimensional beings, time travel, and so on. I wouldn't be surprised if they simplified things just a little bit for convenience.

What would you think?

No thanks.

[AHRNIHAL]

X-men lore much bigger than that. So no. Specially no to Nate grey, Pryor and Vulcan in MCU. Rachel can kinda work.

[powerpax]

LOL I like them in moderation but **** no. I had enough of the Summers-Grey Brady Bunch family as the most important part of the X-Men **** in the 90s.

[jwatson]

LOL I like them in moderation but **** no. I had enough of the Summers-Grey Brady Bunch family as the most important part of the X-Men **** in the 90s.

And i really can't see it happening after a whole movie about Jean/Phoenix

[Purplevit]

No thanks.

[Hybrid]

Do people miss the part where I said it wasn't the only plot?

Because that's what moderation is. It's a plot that gets resolved in the end but there are tons of others that don't get intruded or anything.

[jwatson]

Do people miss the part where I said it wasn't the only plot?

Because that's what moderation is. It's a plot that gets resolved in the end but there are tons of others that don't get intruded or anything.

Ok here we go. So they have to go out of their way to adapt a story. So now we have to figure out how to explain Jean and Maddie in a movie where neither of them will be known. Sounds like a lot of screen time.

Then we have to explain nate. So now there is a child involved which already ages the characters even if it's a sinister creation.

Throw Rachel on top of that with Nate and now your looking at 3 children between 3 characters that has to be explained, two from an alternate timeline.

There just doesn't seem to be any point to it when there is literally thousands of other material that can be touched on.

personally i wouldn't touch Nate, Rachel, Cable, or MAdelyine with a ten foot pole, especially not when i'm just trying to establish a franchise in the MCU. It doesn't make sense it would take WAY too much time.

Then you have the "source material" crowd that will proably go crazy over too many changes.

There is absolutely no advantage to trying to do this story. none.

[Hybrid]

I think Kevin Feige made it clear that he'll use any character he can, so don't be surprised if Nate shows up at some point.

[jwatson]

I think Kevin Feige made it clear that he'll use any character he can, so don't be surprised if Nate shows up at some point.

Some point maybe. But definitely not in what will proably be the first trilogy or introduction of the x-men. Best to keep it simple and focus on deep story rather than how to alter a whole family for no other reason than for them to be there.

[teapartyofthedead]

Deleted because the right picture doesn’t want to load. It was Kitty and Illyana btw.

[powerpax]

Do people miss the part where I said it wasn't the only plot?

It's a no!

[CRaymond]

1. I don't think a Dragonball eugenics storyline is good for America.

2. I don't think Mister Sinister is a good villain to tell X-Men themes.

3. I don't think Scott <3 Jean stories are all that compelling.

4. I think all their time-traveling, dimension-hopping children are extraneous wastes of time.

What else you got?