Disney/Fox Merger: 8 Disastrous Implications It Has For The MCU

5. The X-Men Are Better Off With Fox

Although X-Men: Apocalypse didn't offer the greatest signifier of the X-Men's onscreen resurgence, it's plain for all to see that - in 2017 - Fox have done the mutants right.

X-Men: First Class, Days of Future Past, Wolverine, Logan and Deadpool have all intimated as much, marking the X-Men out as the innovators in the genre, dishing out R-ratings like nobody's business and deploying history to flesh out a universe audiences are still getting to grips with. Add to that a duo of fantastic X-Men TV shows in The Gifted and Legion, and you have a strong a case as any that the X-Men are actually better off with their current parent company, than the House of Mouse.

That might be a bitter pill for most Marvel fans to swallow, but it's true - right now, the X-Men are in the greatest state they've ever been, spurred on by an R-rated resurgence that's afforded them a boatload more creative freedom than any Marvel project could possibly hope to have, save for the Netflix series.

If the MCU were to impact negatively upon the X-Men, a cloud would hang over it for the rest of its existence. Granted, it's a storm Marvel could weather, but criticisms would almost certainly cross into the mainstream if it were the case.