10 X-Men Mistakes The MCU Must Avoid
6. Please, No More Tedious Love Triangles
Those early X-Men movies had a recurring problem: love triangles. Wolverine and Cyclops vying for Jean Grey's attentions proved to be beyond tedious, and bafflingly ended up tying into her descent into madness in the critically panned X-Men: The Last Stand. Even the comics have moved on from this and, believe it or not, they're now part of a "thruple."
The days of superhero movies needing a romantic subplot are gone (even the female-led Captain Marvel did perfectly fine without one and grossed over $1 billion), and love probably shouldn't be the first thing on the minds of these mutants. There's so much that can be done with the X-Men franchise, that this mid-2000s thought process of including a love interest for the leads should be left behind.
Sure, it would be fun to see these mutants develop relationships as time passes, but there should be bigger priorities for Marvel Studios, and the Scott/Logan/Jean dynamic is not one that needs to be revisited even if there is precedent for it in the source material. It's beyond stale at this point.