Get ready to say goodbye to the X-Men.

[Dashan]

But Inhumans isn't selling. Is it gonna be "look, we know we got rid of the mutants, but here's something that's like that except not"

[Darknessatnoon]

There's no way this is true. Marvel is NOT going to reboot. They may retcon and readjust the timeline. They do it all the time. But there's no way they would reboot or ditch the X-men. The X-men comics are still high sellers. All-New X-men, Uncanny X-men, and Amazing X-men are all still top 50 sellers. Getting rid of them would be very bad for business, no matter how much they hate Fox for having the movie rights in perpetuity. I suspect you might be relying on the rumors reported by Bleeding Cool. While Bleeding Cool does have a track record of getting some things right, such as the Death of Wolverine, this just doesn't make business sense from Marvel's perspective. And since Marvel is a business last I checked, I think it's a pretty safe assumption they're not going to risk the integrity of their line just to spite Fox.

Poison pill tactic. Eliminate part of your portfolio to deter others. With the x-office gone, there is no alternative to the avenger super team. Thus making the avengers the most important team and highest selling franchise.

All the current team are interested in is movie revenue, which this provides none of.

This move is creatively devoid, morally bankrupt, but makes financial sense for the movie department.

[Optic Rage!]

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[cc008]

They will hope to gain that back with Inhumans and other properties. There are a lot of people reading X-Men who probably will find something else Marvel to read instead and even people looking for something else that might find it once X-Men is not hogging the talent it has been.

Inhumans flopped so big they shoved it in the back of Amazing Spider-Man #1 so people would read it.. If x-readers wanted to read Inhumans, they'd be reading it now.. not just when they take the X-Men off the board.

[AcesX1X]

here this woman mentions a reboot.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/06/...y-next-summer/

[Punisher007]

Yeah it does. Because if he loses the company money, then he's gets booted out. Disney has done it before, and they'd have no problem doing it again.

[ImprobableQuestion]

It's one thing to not want to promote another studio's movie. It's another thing entirely to cancel a third of your line just to spite another studio's franchise. That would be like Sony saying "people keep buying Samsung TV's, so we're just not going to make TV's anymore and hope people forget TV's exist. Dollar for dollar it's simply implausible. Whether or not there's a reboot, there will be X-Men. Even if they're now Inhuman rather than mutant.

[Runarc]

Stop the non movie-viable comics like the X-men, and let the creative talent focus primarily on the Avengers.

Plus perhaps some X-men readers that will be forced to start reading Avenger titles at the lack of a better alternative. This might be what they are hoping for.

A pity if it would happen, but the whole franchise has been steer-less for ages. Constant rehashes of fights no one gives a damn about, and sales that put even the best x-men titles in the top-20 at best.

The profit generated by a few top-20 comics won't be enough for Disney not to do this (despite what people seem to think), but does Disney hate FOX enough to do this out of pure spite?

Would an Avengers focus really be enough for this?

[Daymare]

The writing is on the wall. It may not be a complete dismissal (or not originally intended as such), but the current events in yhe series...past, future, the timequakes are obviously leading to something. Wolverine will return in some form, he has a logo on their promotional banner...the X-mem were missing, plus the colorist did say Disney was rebooting the Marvel books. Sad to lose characters such as this but as long as they do not wipe out the back catalogue of published works, I am oddly ok with this based on current state of x-men.

[Optic Rage!]

Yeah it does. Because if he loses the company money, then he's gets booted out. Disney has done it before, and they'd have no problem doing it again.

Except thanks to the popularity of Marvel's movies, he's making them a TON of money. He can do as he likes.

but does Disney hate FOX enough to do this out of pure spite?

What they're doing with the FF seems to be motivated by spite, so yeah, pretty much.

[ImprobableQuestion]

None of this matters if the CEO is a spiteful loon, which he is well known to be.

Marvel is a public company. The CEO cannot just say e'tat est moi and overrule the other major shareholders that would cry foul.

[cranger]

Inhumans flopped so big they shoved it in the back of Amazing Spider-Man #1 so people would read it.. If x-readers wanted to read Inhumans, they'd be reading it now.. not just when they take the X-Men off the board.

As an X-reader, I do not have any interest in reading a knockoff. There are enough X-books out that, if I wanted to read more than two, I could find more. With the X-Men out of the way, there is no competition for them to actually have the inhumans replace mutants in the MU. The flop of the Inhumans just proves my point. Come reboot, they put a team like Bendis and Immonen on Inhumans and it looks like the next big thing.

[Punisher007]

Being CEO doesn't give you carte blanche to do whatever the heck you want. You still have to answer to your investors and board of directors. If you lose them money, they fill fire you and find someone else. So him "being spiteful" could very well cost him his job and Disney a lot of bad press (they also care A LOT about their public image).

[AcesX1X]

if cyclops goes full on villain i hope he kills as many avengers as he can.

[TheCatBastet]

So if Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are going to be turned into Inhumans, does this mean Magneto won't be their father after all? Or are they going to say that Magda was secretly an Inhuman?