10 Steps To Successfully Reboot The X-Men Into The MCU

9. Make Sure The Villains Are Up To Scratch

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Villains have always been a recurring problem for the comic book genre, with many movies so pre-occupied with their heroes that they forget that a solid bad guy is just as important to the story. The X-Men franchise has fallen victim to this practice on numerous occasions, and during Fox's tenure they never delivered another antagonist that came close to making the same impact as Ian McKellen's Magneto.

By and large, any X-Men villain that isn't Magneto has tended to be completely forgettable, and outright terrible in the case of Sophie Turner's trip to the dark side in Dark Phoenix. Despite casting actors as talented as Liev Schrieber, Kevin Bacon, Peter Dinklage, Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain over the years to provide thorns in the sides of the heroes, they've all been wasted in generic and thankless roles. Could you even name off the top of your head who the big bad of The Wolverine even was?

The MCU has always faced criticism from certain sections for their underwhelming villains, and with their rebooted X-Men under more pressure than usual to deliver as a fresh take on a franchise that spawned a dozen movies across two decades, the studio needs to make sure that they don't pick up any bad habits from Fox when it comes to the mutants' first major rival.

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