Disney/Fox Merger: 8 Disastrous Implications It Has For The MCU
7. A Ruck Of Forced Cameos
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Further to this X-based disruption, Marvel would have to bend their back to realign their future efforts to accommodate their newest arrivals. The easiest way to do this? Why, cameos and Easter Eggs aplenty, of course!
There's nothing wrong with a good cameo; Logan's First Class appearance lived up to that title perfectly, and Nick Fury's ending lecture in 2008's Iron Man was very much the game changer it was held to be. It's just that, despite cameos working in some respects (Doctor Strange's Ragnarok appearance made plenty of sense), they can prove to be distracting.
If Marvel were to ramp up their efforts to retrofit the X-Men et al. into the MCU, the frequency of these scenes would increase exponentially, distracting from the proceedings of a given movie and providing further ammunition to the franchises many detractors.
It's not the worst thing that could happen to the MCU - not by a stretch - but it would feel contrived to see all these new characters drop in out of nowhere.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
