Is the X-Men franchise more popular than ever now?

[Gnostic]

It feels like there is a X-Men renaissance happening right now with X-Men '97 and Deadpool & Wolverine.

Deadpool & Wolverine's teaser trailer had gained 242 million views in its first 24 hours (356 million with the Super Bowel views), which is on par with Avengers: Infinity War's 24 hour views (230 million). It looks like it might become the highest grossing X-Men movie ever if it is received well.

While X-Men '97 gained four million views on its first five days on Disney+. It had the most watched animated series premiere on Disney+ and was the #1 most popular show online at the time.

What are your thoughts?

[JB]

It feels like there is a X-Men renaissance happening right now with X-Men '97 and Deadpool & Wolverine.

Deadpool & Wolverine's teaser trailer had gained 242 million views in its first 24 hours (356 million with the Super Bowel views), which is on par with Avengers: Infinity War's 24 hour views (230 million). It looks like it might become the highest grossing X-Men movie ever if it is received well.

While X-Men '97 gained four million views on its first five days on Disney+. It had the most watched animated series premiere on Disney+ and was the #1 most popular show online at the time.

What are your thoughts?

Thanks for sharing these numbers. I love that X-Men is back in the public conversation again. I'm not sure if it's more popular now than ever before (X-Men #1 and the first animated series era was huge) but its popularity is definitely quickly growing again.

[Uncanny X-Man]

It's hard to measure popularity when different media across different decades are at play - X-Men was HUGE at their peak in the 90s in both comics and television. Nowadays, comics are a niche market, TV programming is more crowded than it ever was, but we have the movies which we didn't have until 2000 and which go a very long way towards solidifying a franchises popularity and launching it into the mainstream.

At the end of the day what matters is that the X-Men are on the upswing and I feel it's just the very beginning.

[ChildOfTheAtom]

if the reboot hits like it’s supposed too it’s a wrap X-MEN are unquestionably #1

[Galen Nycroft]

In mainstream media, yes, in the comics the X-Men brand has fallen out of favor with most readers.

[MVComics]

No but there's potential to surpass the 90's with them coming to the mcu

[Alan2099]

I don't think the current era comes anywhere near close to what the X-men where at their peak. They don't even have a hit videogame at the moment.

[Factor]

No way that their popularity now surpasses the 90s or the release of the first movie.
Sure, it’s great that the animated series is a hit, but the original show was HUGE.
They need to keep the quality high across other media to ensure the brand keeps improving.
They can’t botch their live action reboot like the last few MCU movies.

[Gnostic]

In mainstream media, yes, in the comics the X-Men brand has fallen out of favor with most readers.

Yeah. I think film/TV-wise the X-Men's popularity might be at their peak. Comic-wise, they're a shadow of their former selves.

[Jackraow21]

if the reboot hits like it’s supposed too it’s a wrap X-MEN are unquestionably #1

Yep. If they’re not back yet, they will be soon! Gonna be a great summer.

[Android 17]

I mean look, they are setting social media on fire with the memes, gifs and reactions to ‘97 and like you said, the Deadpool & Wolverine trailer did huge views.

I think it’s safe to say the X-Men are resurgent! Let’s keep it up.

[Ulysian_Thracs]

I see them trying to say the numbers for X-Men 97 are terrific, but the truth is that 4M views over two episodes (which really means 2 M viewers twice) isn't anything great. That doesn't even equal the first season of What If..., and that was a pretty niche audience itself compared to the popularity of the MCU movies. (At least past Endgame, when they started going...let's put it politely and say 'in a new direction'.)

https://cosmicbook.news/x-men-97-ratings-bomb-on-disney

That said, I'm curious what Deadpool does without being hampered by the bad publicity around X-Men '97, which drove away a lot of people my age who grew up on the originals and tuned out once we heard DeMayo talk about his vision for the series. (And Marvel is really going to have a problem if they go all the way and make Logan and Morph hook up or whatever. I don't know how many viewers they can afford to lose, but I'm suspect they'll lose a lot more than that number.)

[Jackraow21]

There are seriously people who think they might have Wolverine and Morph hook up? Lol. Jesus.…

[ChildOfTheAtom]

There are seriously people who think they might have Wolverine and Morph hook up? Lol. Jesus.…

i think it’ll be unrequited. i wish they’d verbalize it though instead and get it out in the open. sucks for morph though i really like this character

[Gnostic]

I see them trying to say the numbers for X-Men 97 are terrific, but the truth is that 4M views over two episodes (which really means 2 M viewers twice) isn't anything great. That doesn't even equal the first season of What If..., and that was a pretty niche audience itself compared to the popularity of the MCU movies. (At least past Endgame, when they started going...let's put it politely and say 'in a new direction'.)

https://cosmicbook.news/x-men-97-ratings-bomb-on-disney

That said, I'm curious what Deadpool does without being hampered by the bad publicity around X-Men '97, which drove away a lot of people my age who grew up on the originals and tuned out once we heard DeMayo talk about his vision for the series. (And Marvel is really going to have a problem if they go all the way and make Logan and Morph hook up or whatever. I don't know how many viewers they can afford to lose, but I'm suspect they'll lose a lot more than that number.)

I remember seeing a chart showing that What If only had 1 millions views. That page seems like clickbait if you ask me. It even makes that stupid complaint about Rogue's butt.