Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-216.106.107.82-20150413001337/@comment-1298029-20150415130130

So, Magneto's real name in the comics is Maximoff? Cause in the movie franchise, it was Lensherr...

Anyhow, I'm guessing that in CU we won't see X-Men any time soon -- I think I even remember Feige stating somewhere that he didn't want the MCU full of millions of powered people. Which I think is smart; part of the MCU's appeal is its (relative) credibility. I may have a biased POV here, as I never read the comics (in fact, never read comic books, period; where I live it's not such a cultural staple as in the US), but I think any attempt to transfer the entire Marvel mainstream universe (say, E-616) to the MCU would fail spectacularly. From what I can tell, in comic books continuity is, by universal understanding, taken pretty lightly, and the world is populated by anything and everything from a guy in a robotic suit to a straight-up wizard to radioactive mutants to the king of bloody Atlantis. And I'm sure there's plenty wierder stuff there that I don't even know about.

In the MCU, I think the requirements on believability are somewhat higher, and so far they've been pretty careful not to transform E-199999 into a fairyland (although the trailer shot of Ant-Man riding an actual flying ant (to dramatic music) is, admittedly, pushing it :) ). Feige himself stated they select carefully among the myriad heroes and myriad plots they have in the comics only the stuff they can credibly fit into the MCU. And I think, judging by the pattern so far, they're looking for strong stand-alone heroes, rather than large hero communities. Which makes sense considering an effective movie has to have a limited number of protagonists (just putting the Avengers credibly together when most of them were previously sole protagonists of successful movies must have been a royal job -- which is why I guess they hired Whedon, the master of character writing, to pull it off).

They've already got an exception with a mid-sized hero community in the Inhumans, but so far only a few were seen on Agents, and most of their powers seem to be rather low-key compared to the main Avengers. Also, the Inhumans kind of occupy the X-Men's spot (they both got their powers as a result of some weird DNA mojo, and their typical abilities even look kinda similar (in that any given Inhuman apparently gets a unique power, and actually a few of them closely match the X-Men -- Gordon's teleportation is just like that tattooed German dude on X-Men, and the young bloke who can generate electricity is kind of a cross between Jean Grey and Storm; I'm sure there was an X-Man with roughly what Raina got? Maybe Beast?). Since there's also an Inhumans movie slated, I don't think there's much room for X-Men in any traditional rendition in the current MCU.