Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2054358-20150809032033/@comment-9062114-20160120171134

Greater good wrote: To be honest, I don't think the concept of mutants fits into the established MCU. It just doesn't make sense for them to have characters like Iron Man and Captain America be celebrated and glorified while the X-Men would be met with fear, hatred and bigotry.

Like you said, I like the X-Men movies for the most part. So, as long as Fox continue to put out quality movies, I say let them keep the rights and continue to build that universe (which they can, since the X-Men rights package contains literally hundreds of characters). On the other hand, Marvel should definitely get the Fantastic Four back, since Fox have made three attempts at that and screwed up all three times.

One more thing, it being in the MCU wouldn't guarantee that it would be good. I didn't like Iron Man 2 or the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Hell, I'm kind of worried about the new Spider-Man movie, since it's being written by the same guys who made that godawful Vacation movie that came out last year. Ah, the classic "Mutants are hated, heroes are not" argument. I don't think that's a huge contradiction actually, since heroes like The Avengers and whatnot don't really have "Mutant" abilities. Iron Man is just a guy in a suit, Captain America is just a peak human, same with Black Widow & Hawkeye. Thor is more an alien than anything, and you can apply this logic to most of the MCU's "respected" heroes. The more mutant ones like The Hulk or Spider-Man seem to have very similar distrust/hatred against them. The X-Men actually in the Comics, were originally a superhero team because they thought doing good deeds would raise support for Mutants as a species. So, maybe it has to do with being a hero or not. Anywho, the contradiction will still exist in the MCU regardless of the X-Men or not, just in the form of Inhumans.

This reason, I kind of get. Though, I think they could make good movies you do have a point it isn't exactly risk free. There is a chance the X-Men could be messed up if the MCU and Fox are both trying to make any further installments with them, and if the movies are good, why shake the boat? It's a valid point you made. We will have to see how Spider-Man does in the MCU to really know how they handle sharing popular Superheroes with other studios. If they can't make him Spider-Man, that will just give your argument that much more validity.