Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
Mutants aren't just the 'next stage of evolution'. They are the result of the Celestials leaving the x-gene in protohumans aeons ago. I hope they introduce this concept in the Eternals movie, as the Eternals, the Deviants, and the mutants are essentially 3 forms of the same experiment.
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Exactly! The X-Men are part Science Fiction, and this aspect of the X-Men shouldn't be ignored, just as the social aspect. My idea is that the X-Men are a balance between SF, Social issues, Superheroics and Soap Opera. And a good X-Men story needs to find the good balance between all these elements. FOX-Men lacked the superheroics part and the SF part was really underwhelming. A good exemple for me is the Whedon run on comics, I think it had a good balance of those elements.
But should a writer really address all these aspects? Someone could only be more interested by one or two of them… X-men has a long history and each writer has added one layer and some of them don't work well with the rest.
Wanting to digest all these aspects could result in an unpalatable cake…
Even Claremont hasn't worked with all these aspects in the same time, he has done it successively and the time in a movie is short…
Naw, the best X-Men combines all those elements in one. Phoenix/Dark Phoenix sagas era covers sci-fi(space empires, giant robots, robotic X-Men clones, Savage Land dinosaurs and supertech), social issues(racism and classism as manifest through the Hellfire Club, Lang's fanatical government spending on existential "threats" to humanity), superheroics(saving the universe, fighting Magneto in an under volcano lair, coordinated teamwork), and soap opera(Scott and Jean's love, Wolverine's unrequited love for Jean, Piotr's threeway with the Savage Land girls) etc, etc.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
The problemo is that the Ultimate line never got the chance to actually explore what this would mean before the cure shrank the mutant pop to like 30 weirdos in a desert, essentially making mutants just a military cock-up like radiation poisoning or something. The few issues we did get exploring it do prove it was really cool and foundation-jiggling, but it's very alternative and I wouldn't want it for the movies which define the franchise for the mainstream.
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To me more than it is due to the Celestials I like the version "shit happens".
Why explain it. Weird shit happens.
Personally, I wasn't all that fond of Ultimate and I would not care for having the X-Men introduced in the MCU through an AU form of the 616.
I also hope that Wolverine isn't thrown into the mix immediately since I don't want to see another "Wolverine and the X-Men" like the Fox-Men.