Avengers: Infinity War Theory - How An Infinity Stone Could Explain Mutants And The Fantastic Four

1. How To Bring In The X-Men And Fantastic Four

Phase 4 should be focused on the fall-out from the Infinity Sage more than anything else - albeit with individual stories intertwining that wider narrative - with the surviving heroes picking up the pieces and trying to exist in a world where superheroes are (hopefully) no longer regulated and are free to protect the universe.

But what if that fallout is extended to include the appearance of more heroes and mutants generally. What if the Infinity Gauntlet triggers a global event whereby people wake up to find that they're suddenly mutants? It would be a difficult thing to pull off in terms of establishing a back-story for the X-Men (since so many of them are tied to historical points), but would having a whole new origin for all of the X-Men really be that much of a problem? We've just seen them leaping through time at speed - maybe it's time to try a different angle?

The change to reality could also be used to account for the sudden changes to a group of scientists who were all working together. Again, we've now seen the traditional Fantastic Four origin twice (and neither worked all that well), so maybe replacing the accident in space with something like the Reality Stone's powers is a better idea.

No matter how it plays out, Marvel Studios should realise that they have the key to bringing those characters into the existing timeline without compromising on any ongoing series beyond adding things to it. After all, who wouldn't want to see Deadpool suddenly existing in the Spider-Man universe? Or Wolverine and The Thing being available to join the Avengers for a version of Brian Michael Bendis' New Avengers?

And frankly, not having to build another decade of establishing work into the MCU at this stage would really not be a bad thing.

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