![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most mysterious things when it comes to Marvel, besides what will happen in Endgame next month, is what its film schedule will look like following this phase of the MCU. There are still a lot of other Marvel movies to be made Marvel Studios is left to face the dilemma of introducing a Magneto that may be too old to be a central villain or a Magneto that doesn’t possess his crucial origin story. In a movie set in 2018, he would conceivably be around 80 or 90 years old assuming he is 13 or so in the 1940s during WWII (mutants, according to the X-Men comic books, begin manifesting powers during puberty or adolescence). The latest X-Men movie, 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse takes place in the ’80s and Magneto, played by Michael Fassbender, is supposed to be in his 40s, possibly in his 50s. (Peggy Carter dies in Captain America: Civil War, which takes place in/around 2016.) Their peers are either very old or have already died. If the MCU wanted to keep Magneto’s origin story in line with its current chronology, it would then mean Magneto would be an old man in the current MCU while the same is true for Captain America and Bucky, they are only still alive are because of government experiments. Magneto, in the comics and now multiple movies, lived through the Holocaust as a young, Jewish boy, and the loss he experienced shapes his worldview. Mutants’ existence within the MCU would bring new continuity questions: How did they operate without SHIELD noticing all these years? Further, what were mutants doing during the major Marvel events, like the Chitauri invasion, Ultron’s assault on Sokovia, and Thanos’s snap? Marvel could write around that, but it would have to ostensibly create chronological alibis for each of the characters.īut the major difficulty is when a character’s origin story and real history are intertwined - as is the case with Magneto. This adherence to chronology would make it difficult to incorporate the X-Men characters. And events in Captain Marvel, like Carol Danvers meeting Nick Fury and then going off into space, led to the Avengers Initiative, which is set into motion in other MCU movies, taking place years later, in the present day. And there’s not much explanation for the “jumps” that connect the Guardians of the Galaxy to places like Xandar, Ego, and Sakaar.īut the MCU does make a concerted effort to stick to its established timeline.Įvents that happened in the 1940s-set Captain America: First Avenger, including Steve Rogers’s conflict of being a man from a different time, Red Skull’s disappearance, the power of and Howard Stark’s research into the Tesseract, have come back to factor in future movies like Captain Marvel, which is set in 1995. The limits of Thor’s survivability are unknown, as we last saw him drifting in space in Infinity War. Scarlet Witch’s powers have changed since her first cinematic appearance, when she had some kind of psychic mind control stuff in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The Marvel Cinematic Universe doesn’t have a hard set of rules that it abides by. The timelines don’t exactly add up, especially for Magneto ( X-Men: The Last Stand, W olverine Origins, and the 2015’s Fantastic Four are the unholy trinity of bad Fox’s bad Marvel superhero flicks, if you’re keeping track.)īut while the merger seems like a better home for the X-Men and Fantastic Four, and perhaps some better movies on the horizon, there are still some big problems - time, continuity, and fitting these characters into Marvel’s cinematic formula- that Marvel will have to deal with. Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition of 20th Century Fox means, among other things, that Marvel will now own the rights to the characters from the X-Men, as well as the Fantastic Four series - rights Marvel sold in the late ’90s to avoid bankruptcy.įor fans of the superheroes, the X-Men and Fantastic Four new home under Marvel’s cinematic supervision likely sounds great, considering how well Marvel makes movies - and how extremely bad some of the X-Men and Fantastic Four films have been. No, not home to the X-Mansion, but to Marvel Studios, the movie-making arm of the comic book juggernaut that created these characters in the first place. ![]()
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