Marvel's 2015 Line-Up! (Guess who is not on the poster)

[Darthkostis]

My boy Moon Knight gets a semi-whole bodyshot, hells yeah! Same goes for Johhny Blaze, niiiice!

[MyriVerse]

To be honest, this poster seems like something a fan Photoshopped piecemeal.

[autbey]

I don't think they are refusing, I just don';t think Marvel are promoting the characters they don't own 100% of the merchandising rights to.

From what I am to understand the movie rights and non comic merchandising rights are tightly linked with Fox and the X-Men / FF franchises, with Marvel only getting a small percentage of the money from those opposed to all from the other characters.

Only if the movie likenesses are used.

[Holt]

Disney has increasingly been trying to downplay the X-Men and FF in their other media so the poster is par for the course. There's no X-Men or FF characters in Disney Infinity.

[Derek Metaltron]

Ms. Marvel is there. She's right in the middle, just above Falcon.

Ah, so she is, my mistake (I swear I was looking for nearly five minutes too!).

[Emma's Midriff]

X-men and Fantastic Four are still BIG parts of the Marvel Universe, you guys! Just not quite as big as Hydra mooks!

[dragonmp93]

X-men and Fantastic Four are still BIG parts of the Marvel Universe, you guys! Just not quite as big as Hydra mooks!

Well, Bob is kind-of popular.

[protege]

I need to know where i can find these posters.

[ZNOP]

So... they found a way to bring Doc Ock back from the dead? Or... is that some kind of alternate version? I'd rather see Rhino back from the dead, if I'm 100% honest.

What?!? Wait! When did Aleksei M. Sytsevich die?

[Tofali]

X-men and Fantastic Four are still BIG parts of the Marvel Universe, you guys! Just not quite as big as Hydra mooks!

Hail Hydra mooks lol!

[protege]

So... they found a way to bring Doc Ock back from the dead? Or... is that some kind of alternate version? I'd rather see Rhino back from the dead, if I'm 100% honest.

Yeah, and what are Skaar and red hulk doing there? Aren't they depowered?

[XPac]

Well, Bob is kind-of popular.

Bob's cool. He needs to get more love in the comics.

[dragonmp93]

Yeah, and what are Skaar and red hulk doing there? Aren't they depowered?

And the Celestials are dead isnt it ?.

[Derek Metaltron]

To be serious though it still looks like the X-Men (and Fantastic Four as characters) are going to around in the comics post Secret Wars. We just had an X-Men editor announced. Hell the FF and Doom are predominant characters in Secret Wars and there's a ton of X-Men domains and comics. If Marvel has to lessen their use in promotional material, it doesn't mean they're not going to be around in the comics somewhere.

And let's face it, we're going to see the X-Men films. Might even see Trank's FF if it's not the trainwreck we think it could be. Marvel taking them off promotional stuff doesn't change that those films are happening and we'll likely see them.

So if this is official, it's pretty pointless, but it also doesn't mean we'll be losing the characters.

[Emma's Midriff]

To be serious though it still looks like the X-Men (and Fantastic Four as characters) are going to around in the comics post Secret Wars. We just had an X-Men editor announced. Hell the FF and Doom are predominant characters in Secret Wars and there's a ton of X-Men domains and comics. If Marvel has to lessen their use in promotional material, it doesn't mean they're not going to be around in the comics somewhere.

And let's face it, we're going to see the X-Men films. Might even see Trank's FF if it's not the trainwreck we think it could be. Marvel taking them off promotional stuff doesn't change that those films are happening and we'll likely see them.

So if this is official, it's pretty pointless, but it also doesn't mean we'll be losing the characters.

This poster proves what Marvel wants it's universe to look like. The X-men and Fantastic Four seem to have no place there.