10 Things The MCU Should Steal From X-Men: The Animated Series
3. Time Travel Doesn’t Need To Be One And Done
The film version of Days of Future Past was fantastically translated to the screen, but the MCU has the opportunity to be much more ambitious. With time travel already established, and Kang and the multiverse incoming, bouncing around the timeline(s) could become the norm.
X-Men: TAS did not shy away from incorporating time travel into their series. Bishop and Cable were permitted to pop into the current storyline as their own present changed. Their presence wasn't a distraction and it never convoluted the other storylines.
A glimpse into multiple futures and the “random” appearance of time travellers would help make the X-Men world unpredictable without changing the present-day story too dramatically. While X-Men: Days of Future Past hopped back and forth, Deadpool 2 dealt with Cable's future much more casually.
Such an approach would be ideal for the MCU. There are already too many moving parts to give every time travelling occurrence world-ending stakes. Simply going back in time in hopes to spare the death of a loved one is perfectly acceptable.