10 Reasons X-Men Should Never Join The MCU

Sometimes, two good things are best kept apart.

Marvel X-Men
Marvel

With phase three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe well underway and the groundwork currently being laid for phase four, there is constant speculation among Marvel fans as to exactly what one of the most powerful entities in the film world today will throw at us next. After all, they already seem to be branching out from their traditional, marketable heroes, into their more outlandish properties.

Plus, with their recent deal with Sony that allowed them to add Spider-Man to the mix, there's also been talk over if and when they'll be able to acquire some of the other hot properties that currently reside with other studios. So, naturally, a prospect that has come up among fans is that of an MCU version of the X-Men series, the rights to which currently belong to 20th Century Fox.

Some appear to like the idea of Marvel taking a crack at the X-Men and the studio even reportedly has contingency plans in place for if and when they manage to acquire the rights. That said, however, there are some inescapable problems with the idea. Problems that, frankly, suggest that the two franchises should stay completely separate, lest both of them suffer the consequences.

Just because two things are great, doesn't mean that they should necessarily be mixed.

10. X-Men Is The One Thing Fox Does Well

Marvel X-Men
20th Century Fox

Sure, Fox has taken some missteps with the X-Men franchise over the years. A couple of the films have missed the mark and a couple were downright terrible. However, all things considered, there is definitely more good in this franchise than there is bad.

The Last Stand and X-Men Origins are abysmal and better off forgotten, that much is true. However, the original X-Men film is fantastic and holds up incredibly well considering its age and X-Men 2 is probably the single best Marvel film of its era. Moreover, The Wolverine was by no means great, but also wasn't terrible; Apocalypse was a decent film that, frankly, gets way more flak than it deserves; and First Class was every bit as great as X2, if not more so in certain respects.

Finally, Fox's X-Men series has also given us two of the single greatest comic book films ever made, Days of Future Past and Logan, not to mention the television series Legion, which is phenomenal in its own right. The point being that they are capable of doing the X-Men justice more often than not.

In addition, when you consider that just about all the other Marvel properties Fox has adapted over the years haven't exactly been that lucky, forking over the right to X-Men to Marvel would rob them of the one story they can actually do a great job with.

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