"The X-Men are gone," says The Gifted showrunner Matt Nix in a new interview, confirming that the heroes were part of this world in the not too distant past. The team's role has been something we've all been wondering about for a while now and it turns out that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants also existed before the events of the premiere so why are all these famous mutants M.I.A. from The Gifted?
Well, the obvious answer is because Fox doesn't wish to muddy the waters between their big and small screen X-Men related offerings but it turns out that there's a story reason of sorts for their absence.
"Most of the powerful classic mutants are not around. People don’t know where they’ve gone. They are shrouded in mystery. It comes out gradually over the course of the series that there’s been a cataclysmic event, a bit of a 9/11 event, that caused enormous social upheaval and a lot of hatred towards mutants. It’s somehow related to the disappearance of the X-Men and the Brotherhood."
While there's no denying that the premise of The Gifted is interesting, this vague explanation for why the X-Men and Brotherhood are nowhere to be seen is eye-roll worthy when we all know that it boils down to Fox wanting to keep its mutant related projects separate. It's sort of like all the vague Batman references we get in The CW's DC TV shows when it's clear that he'll never really show up in them!
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