The MCU’s Latest X-Men Debut Tease Makes One Avengers 6 Theory Even More Likely Now

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A new X-Men update makes an Avengers: Secret Wars theory more likely to happen, and it would be great for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Fox X-Men movies might not have always been the best, but they helped usher in the modern age of superhero films. The MCU did not have access to some of its biggest characters when the franchise was just starting, but even without heroes like Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men, many successful MCU movies came to be. Now, the franchise is entering a new era, with all of its biggest characters finally available.
2024 was a special year for the MCU. Marvel Studios released a single movie, which happened to be Deadpool & Wolverine, the MCU"s first movie starring characters who came from Disney"s deal to acquire 20th Century Fox. Deadpool & Wolverine has become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, with over $1.3 billion at the worldwide box office. The film"s success shows how future MCU movies starring X-Men characters are brimming with potential. The MCU"s X-Men movie is already in development, but before the project comes to life, the mutant team will likely play a role in the Multiverse Saga.
Kevin Feige Revealed New MCU X-Men Details Avengers: Secret Wars Marks A Turning Point For The Franchise

The X-Men"s possible role in the final movies of the MCU"s Multiverse Saga has always been a topic of interest, and it recently got a new chapter. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige shared an update on the X-Men"s MCU arrival. According to Feige, some X-Men players that fans might recognize will show up in the next few movies of the MCU"s Multiverse Saga, with 2027"s Avengers: Secret Wars serving as a major shift for the franchise. The film is meant to put an end to the Multiverse Saga, and it seems like the mutants will come from that.

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1 While Feige did say that X-Men characters are to be expected in the next few MCU movies, which could mean players like Hugh Jackman"s Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds" Deadpool, a reboot of the mutants will seemingly be set up by the sixth Avengers film. According to Feige, "The whole story of Secret Wars really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men." Feige also said that it is a dream come true for Marvel Studios to finally have the X-Men back home and be able to develop MCU stories with the team, which have started already.
Multiple X-Men Characters Have Already Appeared In The MCU Marvel Studios Is Slowly Introducing X-Men Characters Close The X-Men reboot might only happen after Avengers: Secret Wars, but Marvel Studios has been using the concept of the multiverse as the perfect way to bring back fan-favorite stars from Fox"s X-Men movies as their characters in the MCU. Marvel has even used a fakeout when it comes to Fox"s X-Men, as Evan Peters" version of Quicksilver was thought to be the first major multiverse character to pop up in the MCU. However, WandaVision revealed it was all a ruse conjured by Agatha Harkness, and Peters played Ralph Bohner, who has no relation to Quicksilver.
Aside from that instance, some fan-favorite Fox X-Men actors came back as either multiverse variants of their Marvel heroes or as the same versions that they previously played. After being one of the main faces of the X-Men franchise in live-action, Patrick Stewart played a variant of Charles Xavier in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. That was followed by Kelsey Grammer appearing as a Beast variant in The Marvels and all of Deadpool & Wolverine"s X-Men appearances. The movie had the core cast of mutants from the Deadpool films return, though most played a minimal role.
Channing Tatum also finally got to debut as Gambit after having been cast by Fox back in 2014 but never seeing his movie get made.
Characters like Ryan Reynolds" Deadpool, Hugh Jackman"s new Wolverine variant, and Dafne Keen"s returning X-23 were the Fox X-Men players that really got a chance to shine in their MCU debuts, as they played major roles in Deadpool & Wolverine. Channing Tatum also finally got to debut as Gambit after having been cast by Fox back in 2014 but never seeing his movie get made. The MCU multiverse will also get its own version of Storm in 2025, as the character will wield Thor"s hammer, Mjölnir, in What If...? season 3. Many X-Men characters play varied roles in the MCU.
MCU Theory: The Fox X-Men Return In Avengers: Secret Wars The MCU's X-Men Update Makes The Theory More Likely Close Based on how Feige teased that more familiar X-Men players will pop up in the MCU before Avengers: Secret Wars" story leads to the X-Men reboot, the theory that the mutant team will show up in a huge way to end the Multiverse Saga has now become stronger. Avengers: Secret Wars should be all about incursions — universes colliding — just like the comic book event the movie is based on was. As such, The Marvels seems to have set up the perfect way for Fox"s X-Men to get a send-off before the MCU reboots the mutants and recasts the characters.
X-Men Movies In Release Order
X-Men (2000)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
The Wolverine (2013)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Deadpool (2016)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Logan (2017)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Dark Phoenix (2019)
The New Mutants (2020)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
One of The Marvels" post-credits scenes featured Kelsey Grammer as a variant of Hank McCoy, aka Beast. More than that, the scene revealed that Monica Rambeau finds herself trapped in a universe where the X-Men are active. Based on Feige"s X-Men update and The Marvels" post-credits scene, the MCU theory that Avengers: Secret Wars will feature variants of Fox"s X-Men through the universe Beast is from makes a lot of sense. The theory also suggests that this new X-Men universe will collide with the MCU"s Earth-616, leading to a live-action version of Avengers vs. X-Men, which also connects to rumors.
How The MCU’s Next Saga Can Be All About The X-Men The Mutant Saga Has A Nice Ring To It

Kevin Feige said that, after Avengers: Secret Wars, "a new age of mutants and of the X-Men" will come to the MCU. Based on the characters" popularity and how fans want to see their favorite mutants join the action and interact with characters like Spider-Man and Captain America, it makes sense that Marvel Studios is ready to fully jump into the mutant side of the franchise after the Multiverse Saga is done. The first two X-Men-related projects created by Marvel Studios, the animated series X-Men "97 and the R-rated Deadpool & Wolverine, show that the mutants are in good hands.
X-Men "97 allowed Marvel to use many of the most popular X-Men characters and make them as compelling as the comics, spreading the focus around instead of only Wolverine shining. With Deadpool & Wolverine showing the live-action potential of the mutants in the MCU and so many X-Men heroes and villains now being available to Marvel, it makes sense that the characters need a whole saga dedicated to their arrival in the MCU. The Krakoan Age of X-Men comics could also inspire the MCU, adding expansive lore to the MCU"s X-Men after Avengers: Secret Wars possibly sends off Fox"s X-Men.

Avengers: Secret Wars Avengers: Secret Wars is the sixth Avengers film and takes place during phase six of Marvel's Cinematic Universe. The film will see several heroes from the prior phases return and battle against a cosmic threat to rival Thanos, and borrows elements of the Marvel Comics event of the same name.
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