User blog comment:Zippertrain85/United Marvel Cinematic Universe/@comment-24675861-20150829200405

If Marvel studios had had all their properties back in 2000, the MIX would have started with X-Men. The Avengers probably would not have had individual movies BEFORE being a team, other than Captain America, who would have been found and used as "exposition character" (the character everyone explains stuff to when they are really telling the audience). Mutants were hot and the Avengers were "c-list" characters. There would have been an X-Men/Spider-Man crossover movie in-between (Xavier sends the X-Men to learn why the web shooter is Not on Cerebro).

The biggest problem with this monopoly would have been the writing. The MCU had to come out with their best writing in our timeline, so Iron Man is one of the best, if not the best, written superhero movies in history. In the new timeline, writing would have sucked and everything would have been like Batman and Robin, trying to be serious, but really a joke...