They should spin Wolverine out into his own show. Then everyone gets what they want.
“Not as good as I once was… but I’m as good, once, as I ever was.”
It's impact on the rest of the Marvel universe was also close to nothing in the comics.
A whole nation of 16 million people gets wiped out by a giant killer robot in less than a day, which someone managed to build in complete secrecy without the help of any nation and their industry and the world just shrugs, while the geopolitical situation remains largely the same.
Apparently because the mutants are so supremely hated and disregarded by everyone else on Earth, that it doesn't matter and nobody is bothered that there are secret walking WMDs in the hands of an unknown group of extremist, with the possibility that more could just pop up from nowhere and destroy any other major city with millions of people around the globe next.
Meanwhile something much smaller in scope and death toll happens in New York and the world is thrown into chaos, with the after effects still lingering 23 years later.
Of course the reason for this lack of impact is that a. events in the X-men comics can't dictate the state of the entire Marvel comic universe and b. real world events and deaths take priority over fictional ones.
But a purely X-men focused adaptation like this could have that freedom.
To show how the world is shocked, confused and uncertain about what just happens and changing as a result. Even if it might just be a "future vision".
After all if a whole nation of super humans can be wiped out by it by someone so quickly, what chance would other nation with their conventational armies stand if the same happens to them?
However given that an adaptation of Operation Zero Tolerance is up next, where Sentinel technology is once again employed against mutants and on US soil too, it seems the opposite will once again be the case. The world will shrug, because it's "just mutants" and the survivors will have targets on their back.
Let's wait and see.
Last edited by Grunty; 04-11-2024 at 11:04 AM.
Looks like we're getting more Nightcrawler.
Well, there are rumors about Nightcrawler joining the X-Men. He will probably join the team by the end of the season. I have a feeling that we will also be seeing Colossus and Magik soon.
You know... on the whole adaptation debate that I missed, I believe people were just complaining a couple weeks back about Madelyn Pryor's name coming out of nowhere for the sole reason that it was like that in the comic. Or even complaints about Magik showing up as one of Morph's cameos when we last saw her was as a child. When it comes to an adaptation, especially one that is a continuation they have to still adhere to the continuity established in that world to have any cohesion (Honestly I would have just changed Jean's friend's name to Madelyn to give SOMETHING to work with on why Madelyn chose her name other than "it's like that in the comics").
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.