Originally Posted by
Grunty
Looking at the "Introduce the X-men to the MCU" discussion i got reminded how in the MCU they are currently trying to replace the older heros who died and/or who's actors might get too old to still convincingly carry the movies in the comming years with younger similar characters they are carefully introducing with "passing the torch" moments.
Which if it works out will make me chuckle, because of how the comics constantly failed to do so despite decades of tries.
Now obviously since the X-men are still fresh to be introduced in the MCU, it will be a while until Marvel might try to do something similar with them too, but it once again makes me look back at how the mess of aimless directions over the last 2 decades has created this massive pile of "junior" X-men who never even got the chance to properly cement themself as future teams or even core team members.
Which makes me think that when it comes the time to replace the X-men characters with the next generation, it will likely be a lot more unpredictable... well except for Laura Kinney.
Ironicaly while the New Mutants were the most successfull "next generation", they were so by becomming their own heros in form of X-force, making them another hero team, rather than a core team replacement. Akin to how the Guardians of the Galaxy managed to create their own claim of fame independent from the Avengers in the movies.
Similar while Generation X at least managed to finish their "school time" and graduate to adults, they did it more in a civilian way, rather than as super hero team. Mostly because their series got canceled and they then got reduced to civilian life and supporting roles in the other books. Similar their book never really had the air of them being the future of the X-men and more just mutant kids growing up while learning to use their powers.
Compared to that the New X-men (including Young X-men, Generation Hope and who ever got freshly introduced as part of the school afterwards) were settled with being directly under the wings of the core X-men all the time and therefor had this chip on their shoulder that some of them just "had" to graduate to X-men members eventualy (as illusionary as this sound to us longtime readers).
And to make matters worse, because the school had to be filled with backround kids, while Decimination declared no (or very few) new faces were allowed to be shown in the backround of the school, nobody was allowed to really grow up or form their own teams.
Which actualy makes me wonder how the comics would have been like if the "filled school" setting from the movies hadn't been forced into the comics a few years earlier and it instead would have only been a third generation junior team? But i digress.
Still. If the MCU survives long enough, it will be interesting to see who might suddently get elevated to actualy replace big name X-men heros. The beauty of the movie verse is that the audience is much more forgiving to replacements than the static and aging comic readership (and writers).