Thought I'd post this just to demonstrate what the Fox buyout truly means. When most people talk the buyout, they mainly center it around the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and the existence of mutants. However, that's really only scratching the surface of what's possible on the big screen. They don't just have their most famous characters and mutants, but they have nearly all the factions, important cornerstones, worldbuilding elements, and locations that are core in the Marvel Universe. As it turns out, that amounts to a lot. The fact that they were missing have made the MCU incomplete for the longest time.
These include:
- Galactus, the Silver Surfer, and the other Heralds
- Doctor Doom and Latveria
- X-Men adjacent teams: New Mutants, X-Factor, Excalibur, Alpha Flight, X-Force etc.
- Weapon X
- Hellfire Club
- Exiles
- Mojoworld
- Cyttorak
- Phoenix Force
- Age of Apocalypse
- Kang the Conqueror
- The Sentinels
- Annihilus and the Annihilation Wave
- The Negative Zone
- Moloids
- Most of the named Skrulls
- The Shi'ar
- The Brood
- The Phalanx
- The Savage Land
- S.W.O.R.D.
- Otherworld and the Captain Britain Corps
- The Thieves' Guild and the Assassins Guild
- Limbo
- The Future Foundation
- Mr. Sinister and the Marauders
- The Molecule Man
- The Galactic Council
- The Beyonder
Look at all this, and be amazed that the MCU has been able to be this good and this successful while severely handicapped. How much bigger can the MCU get now? I feel like this accounts for at least 40% of Marvel. Can't wait to see them cut loose!
Only thing missing at the moment is Spider-Man and his mythos, sadly.
But anyways, it's pretty unbelievable and I'm very much looking forward to the future. If the MCU was ever at the risk of going stale after Endgame, the buyout ensures the well doesn't run dry.
What do you hope to see out of the massive expanded MCU? Discuss.