AVENGERS: SECRET WARS Rumor May Explain How Movie Sets-Up The X-MEN - Possible SPOILERS

Earlier today, Kevin Feige confirmed that the events of Avengers: Secret Wars will lead directly into a "new age of mutants" in the MCU, and we now have some rumored details...

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By MarkCassidy - Nov 20, 2024 08:11 PM EST

Filed Under: Avengers: Secret Wars

Previous rumours have claimed that the events of Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars will lead to a "soft reboot" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and there's been a lot of speculation that this reset will facilitate the introduction of the X-Men.

We have seen some characters from the 20th Century Fox era in the MCU already, but the likes of Charles Xavier (Sir Patrick Stewart), Beast (Kelsey Grammar) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) all appeared in alternate Multiverse timelines.

Earlier today, Kevin Feige spoke about Marvel Studios' plans for the X-Men the opening of the Disney APAC Content Showcase in Singapore.

"I think you will see that continue in our next few movies with some X-Men players that you might recognize. Right after that, the whole story of Secret Wars really leads us into a new age of mutants and of the X-Men."

According to scooper MTTSH, this will be accomplished by the creation of "a new universe where Mutants/X-Men have always existed in the MCU."

If accurate, this wouldn't exactly be a huge surprise. We have seen several reality-warping events in the MCU at this stage, most notably the "Blip" (or Decimation) caused by Thanos and Tony Stark's reversal in Avengers: Endgame.

Secret Wars is believed to bring multiple characters and timelines together, so it's reasonable to assume that an attempt to stop the Incursions from, say, the Scarlet Witch (in a kind of reverse House of M move) could result in the creation of an entirely new MCU.

If this is how the X-Men/Mutants are to be introduced, how would you feel about it?

Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters on May 1, 2026, followed by Avengers: Secret Wars on May 7, 2027. Both films will be directed by the Russo brothers, who also make their MCU return after helming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

"Being able to create stories and explore characters within the Marvel Universe fulfilled a life-long dream of ours, and we discovered a powerful connection with audiences in each film that we made. We’re thrilled to collaborate once again with Kevin, Lou and the entire Marvel team to bring this epic adventure in storytelling to new and surprising places for both the fans and ourselves”, said The Russos in a statement after the SDCC panel.

Have another look at some photos Downey Jr. shared to Instagram after the big reveal along with a new look at the Doom mask via Phase Hero below.

A good time was had at AGBO’s offices last night. pic.twitter.com/884HJo3gpK
— Phase Hero (@PhaseHero) November 20, 2024

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Gambito - 11/20/2024, 8:05 PM

MyTimeToShine GO TO [frick]ING HELL!!!

Se4M4NSt4ine - 11/20/2024, 8:08 PM

I really love Jackman, I really love most of the original X-Men cast. But I really hope this isn’t a shoddy way of them bringing those actors into this universe without having to recast them. I want a brand new X-Men team, with a brand new original X-Men cast.

TheVisionary25 - 11/20/2024, 8:42 PM

@Se4M4NSt4ine - agree , I hope that’s not the case either…

I love Jackman & co but they had their time so it’s best to bring in new blood now which I think they will do.

I think this is just a way to bring those characters into the MCU and not the actors

LogansRazor - 11/20/2024, 8:10 PM

So looking at his words and not the scoop, he says in the next few movies X Men players will pop up. So we will get some people before the soft reboot.

And also, DC seemed to have an issue with telling the fans they rebooting, and ppl lost interest in the movies...is the same happening with MCU? If they introduce a few characters (or Madripoor for example), why care if they might disappear in the new MCU??

TheVisionary25 - 11/20/2024, 8:22 PM

@LogansRazor - depends on how much they reboot

I don’t expect the changes to be anything more then the integration of the FF and mutants coming into existence.

Feralwookiee - 11/20/2024, 8:13 PM

Once again, it's that ultra reliable journalistic news source MTTSH.

OriginalGusto1 - 11/20/2024, 8:28 PM

@Feralwookiee - [frick], that's on hot .gif.

OriginalGusto1 - 11/20/2024, 8:28 PM

one*

Feralwookiee - 11/20/2024, 8:33 PM

@OriginalGusto1 - Yeah. She's a looker all right.

MotherGooseUPus - 11/20/2024, 8:13 PM

Mind blown.... NOTTTTT. Stupid f*cking rumors from this clown.

Anyways I take it we'll see a few Xmen in Doomsday then see a bunch more in SW. Pretty sure we all knew that but good to hear lord Fiege confirm.

JobinJ - 11/20/2024, 8:20 PM

RDJ as Doom is so lame

WruceBayne - 11/20/2024, 8:24 PM

Well I guess it’s time to integrate the old FoXmen into the MCU huh?

TyrantBossMedia - 11/20/2024, 8:24 PM

It's pretty obvious how they are going to handle it.

1) The MCU (MSheU) is in desperate need of a reboot since Marvel fumbled the ball on their properties in Phase 4.
They should have scaled back to only street-level heroes (Spider-Man, Shang Chi, Luke Cage, Daredevil, Punisher, etc.)

2) RDJ is most likely going to play the Tony Stark version of Doctor Doom from Earth 11029. And I think either another variant of Tony Stark will be drawn in for the Secret War. That alternate Tony Stark may end up being the new MCU Tony Stark and the RDJ Tony Stark will also make an appearance but choose to go back because he has obligations in his own universe. Or....the Tony Stark Dr. Doom will have a change of heart when confronted by the Real Dr. Doom.

In my opinion Dr. Doom should have been introduced as a result of the events after The Snap where there was a void in world leadership and he rises to power.

3) The X-Men will of course be brought in via the Secret War and will seek out other mutants that exist in the current Earth (which Marvel calls 616 but is actually supposed to be Earth 99999 because 616 is the Comic book Earth.

In my opinion, their could have been some mutants already but the Reverse Snap caused the DNA to reassemble through the power of the Infinity Stones and that caused some people to develop the X-Gene which then increased the population of Mutants.

The Avengers could have caused....The Multiverse....The rise of Dr. Doom...The rise of Kingpin (after Ronin took out so many crime bosses)...The rise of the mutants.

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda.

JFerguson - 11/20/2024, 8:40 PM

I really hope there's a culling in this movie. Preferably 616 natives biting the dust, but if they choose to off Fox studio and sony variants, I won't complain. There's too many heroes roaming around. Doom need to kill at least more than 2.

TheVisionary25 - 11/20/2024, 8:41 PM

I mean , that’s been the theory more or less so not exactly a scoop lol.

Regardless , I’m cool with them explaining mutants in the MCU this way (this’ll likely be how they integrate the FF aswell).

The MCU is so far in now that it’s gonna be hard to explain a phenomenon like mutants emerging now without any reason

SonOfAGif - 11/20/2024, 8:44 PM

It's simple. Battleworld will be an amalgam of the best aspects of each universe after they collide together. One universe where a fully formed X-Men team exists will merge with Battleworld along with Earth 616 and so on. Loki, Scarlet Witch, Kahorri, and other Infinity Beings will come together and create an illuminati of sorts to create the one true rebooted universe of which rebooted actors will coexist with prior actors whom choose to remain and reprise their characters. This will allow "The New Marvel Cinematic Universe" to have Fantastic 4, Guardians of the Galaxy, X-Men, and The Avengers coexist on the same Earth.

elcapitan - 11/21/2024, 1:53 AM

@SonOfAGif - exactly. They also have some wiggle room with recasting stark, rogers and natasha, if they want to bring any of them back. Maybe an ultimate version.

elcapitan - 11/21/2024, 1:54 AM

@SonOfAGif - i wonder if inhumans will also exist

BruceWayng - 11/20/2024, 8:46 PM

So why introduce Adamantium in CABNW if you’re just going pull the X-men over from another universe. Marvel either has something really special planned out with Secret Wars and have a full game plan for after that saga ends OR they are completely lost and just throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks

What an absolute shitshow they have created for themselves

AC1 - 11/20/2024, 8:46 PM

There are already mutants in the MCU, why would they need to rewrite reality specifically to introduce the X-Men?

TheVisionary25 - 11/20/2024, 8:48 PM

@AC1 - besides Kamala , who else?.

KennKathleen - 11/20/2024, 8:50 PM

@AC1 - To explain their absence in every MCU Crisis thus far.

WruceBayne - 11/20/2024, 9:17 PM

@TheVisionary25 - wasn’t Wanda and Pietro insinuated to be mutants, that’s why they were the only two to survive being enhanced by the stone?

TheVisionary25 - 11/20/2024, 9:20 PM

@WruceBayne - I think so but in terms of Wanda , you could retcon that because of her magical ability

DocSpock - 11/20/2024, 9:01 PM

here we go....

6 bazillion bogus how the X-Men join the MCU rumors incoming.

There is no way Feige would reveal one iota of info on this before he's ready.

RolandD - 11/20/2024, 9:22 PM

It seems clear to me from the statement that Feige made that we may see some of the Fox men in the next movie or two, but after that, it will be the new age of mutants, so I am expecting new actors playing the mutants we saw on the Fox movies as well as many that we did not see in the Fox movies.

TheVisionary25 - 11/20/2024, 9:32 PM

@RolandD - agreed though it might not even be Fox Men

The next few movies are Captain America ,Thunderbolts & FF and I don’t see multiverse shenanigans happening in the former 2 so it could be we get supporting cast members from those comics like Henry Peter Gyrich or Senator Kelly etc.

RolandD - 11/20/2024, 9:39 PM

@TheVisionary25 - True. If we see any more Fox Men, I think it would one or both of the next two Avengers movies.

TheVisionary25 - 11/20/2024, 9:44 PM

@RolandD - yeah , I think so too

FrankenDad - 11/20/2024, 9:23 PM

ElJefe - 11/20/2024, 9:36 PM

Anyone reading this? I’m enjoying it. Reminds of an 80s storyline. The art is freaking so clean and cool, though. It’s the real show stopper.

Batmangina - 11/20/2024, 10:03 PM

Sigh. There is nothing left in the tank.

The MCU was a spectacular achievement the likes of which we will never see again.

They had it and lost it. It's not coming back.

Knightrider - 11/20/2024, 10:27 PM

I feel like this is an obvious thing that every scooper will say it to claim it.

Feels certain that Secret Wars will see the end of the current universe and launch a new one where Avengers (Iron Man, Cap etc) exist but recast, same with X-Men.

What I see happening is the new Universe building around the X-Men, while the new universe phase one, before reintroducing Iron Man and Cap back into the story for a probable X-Men v Avengers movie

Vigor - 11/20/2024, 10:49 PM

@Knightrider - love thissssss

JDL - 11/21/2024, 12:45 AM

@Knightrider - I don't think so unless it's less of a reboot than I think you are suggesting. Right they are risk adverse and what you suggest is very risky. Remember if the idea doesn't play overseas abd with non comic savvy people it's no good with the shrink in the theater going audience after Endgame and Covid. Just playing well in the US and Canada at the is cost level for amovie is not enough.

EskimoJ - 11/21/2024, 1:10 AM

@Knightrider - And then they'll reintroduce Kang? 🥺

YonnyLayna - 11/20/2024, 11:14 PM

The New world= MCU + Fantástic 4 + Xmen 97

Doodoopaypa - 11/20/2024, 11:25 PM

Thanos and Smart Hulk's* reversal in Endgame.

TheFinestSmack - 11/21/2024, 12:15 AM

So basically one of the predominant fan theories ever since the Fox acquisition. Amazing.

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