10 Marvel Super Teams That Should Be In The MCU
4. X-Factor
Along similar lines to Excalibur, the best iteration of the mutant X-Factor team was the private investigations service run by Jamie Madrox, the Multiple Man, and incorporated various characters from the X-Men family of titles who weren’t being used to their full potential in the books they’d debuted in.
Okay, X-Factor Have Definitely Always Been Mutants. What Are You Trying To Pull?
Again, as things currently stand there’s no possibility of X-Factor being a team of mutants. Nonetheless, the core principle is a good one, and it's nothing to do with where the team's powers come from.
X-Factor writer Peter David made the book about taking good but underused characters from other Marvel comics and giving them a platform to shine. An X-Factor TV show could be about doing likewise with MCU shows and films: taking one-off characters, guest stars and supporting cast members and breathing new life into them, turning also-rans into stars.
Further Marvel characters could appear on the show on a permanent or a rotating basis: the concept really does lend itself to anything and anyone, and it’s certainly not limited to being a mutant thing.
Okay, But If You Can't Use Any Of The Team From The Comics...
From the first few years of the MCU alone, possible additions to the team could include Lincoln, Mockingbird or Deathlok from Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Vin-Tak, the Kree warrior who guest-starred on that show; Sif, from Thor’s Asgard; Elektra from Daredevil... but really, with a bit of imagination and some left field thinking, there's no limit to who could turn up.
Want Kat Dennings on the show? Give her Darcy Lewis sidekick from Thor some weird-and-wonderful powers. Kate Mara played a U.S. Marshal in a scene in Iron Man 2: perhaps she went Inhuman and was run out of the Service. See what I mean?
Fundamentally though, X-Factor was a comic about a dysfunctional group of people trying to be better than they were, with all the comedy and drama that went along with that. It's perfect for television.