Quote Originally Posted by Overhazard View Post
Even if they did buy fox, how would the X-men be folded into the MCU anyway? I would imagine after infinity war there would be some kind of cosmic retcon, "the mutants were always here, the X-men are a super secret covert ops team that were invented by the Canadians...please don't think about it too much and just enjoy the films, look, bloopers, references, classic rock soundtracks!"
The X-Men don't work in the MCU because there is no way to incorporate their overarching story where the MCU heroes don't look either ineffective in combating or complicit in prejudice.

The closest thing we have is The Hulk, and the only reason he gets a pass is because he palls around with the Avengers. If you bring in the X-Men you basically are just redoing Civil War but on a much larger scale and with clear lines about who the villains are.