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Under the direction of writer Jonathan Hickman, this relaunch has completely redefined the X-Men's world throughout 2019.
The X-Men are bigger, scarier, and prouder than they've ever been before. It's a bold new take on the franchise, and it's set up a new status quo that could fuel years of future stories.
While the X-Men's traditional private school and their status fearful minority of mutants are gone, it's been replaced by Krakoa, a sovereign island nation for mutants. Professor X and Magneto have gathered all of mutantkind there, even some of the X-Men's worst enemies, and they've developed a process to revive dead mutants to help their numbers swell even more.
With their own government, laws, exports, culture and language, Marvel's mutants have the best home they've ever had, and they'll defend it by any means.
The core spirit of the X-Men is still alive and well, albeit in a recontextualized form. While there is no school, it still has the soap opera romance and family drama that's long defined the franchise.
These X-Men are still fighting against discrimination, though on a much more economic and political stage. The X-Men are even still space-faring heroes, which is something the movies were afraid to emulate until Dark Phoenix.
If these ideas were adapted into the MCU, this new focus on a culture of super-powered people would create a huge contrast with the Avengers. Instead of constantly fighting with each other between global threats to humanity, the mutants are fighting for their country. They aren't a government-sponsored superhero team made up of spies, soldiers and aliens —
the X-Men are the misfits of the world, and they're fighting for their right to exist with more global influence than ever before.
This could make the X-Men franchise the cooler, darker, edgier alternative to the Avengers. What's more, the Avengers almost certainly wouldn't just sit by as a super-powered nation sprouts up, and this would make a solid premise for an Avengers vs. X-Men movie.
This approach to the X-Men is also very much of its time. As they deal with a world that hates and fears them,
the X-Men are proudly living in their own society' they're not hiding in a boarding school. It's a modern parallel to all kinds of oppressed peoples, in line with classic X-Men motifs that still hit hard in today's sociopolitical climate. ...