Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-32343417-20171208204619/@comment-2112031-20171210120155

A rather popular idea that people have about making the Fantastic Four enter the MCU is to have them be from the 1960s, which would allow them to still be "Marvel's First Family" as well as reference their original appearance in the comics. Some have suggested that the accident that gives their powers could somehow send them forward in time.

Personally, I would prefer for them to actually be superheroes in the sixties, at least for a short while, in order to truly solidify them as the MCU's first superhero team. The accident that results in them ending up in the present could, for instance, be an accident caused by one of Reed's experiment, like the Negative Zone portal or something.

Mutants would be a bit trickier to introduce. I suppose they could just handwave that mutants had existed in small numbers for a while and managed to go unnoticed partially due to the Terrigen outbreak causing them to be mistaken for Inhumans. Perhaps someone, maybe SHIELD or something, could inadvertently discover a mutant while initially thinking they're an Inhuman.