MCU: 10 Underrated X-Men Who Should Lead Instead Of Wolverine
There’s a lot of talk about Wolverine in the MCU, but it’s not all about him... right?!
With Kevin Feige teasing mutants joining the MCU and rumours abound of a Taron Edgerton Wolverine, it feels like Marvel won’t be sitting on the X-Men too long after the Disney Fox merger. Though the FoX-Men franchise was deeply flawed towards the end, there were certainly some highlights and things for the MCU to take note of.
There’s also some things to be wary of; Magneto’s backstory no longer really works, for example, while Hugh Jackman feels irreplaceable as Wolverine. Edgerton is a great actor, but if he does get the part, he’s got massive shoes to fill.
Marvel may yet surprise us though. They’re no stranger to doing things a little differently, and they could cycle the X-Men in quicker if they didn’t have to worry about casual audience cooldown from the two franchises. Simply put, they could go for a left field version of the X-Men before bringing in the big guns.
As well as Wolverine, that means Phoenix, Storm, Cyclops, Beast, Mystique, Professor X and Magneto have been ignored here too; they’re hardly underrated. Basically, if they starred in a Fox movie, they’re out. If they only got a minor role or didn’t feature at all, they’re fair game.
10. Angel
Angel is perhaps not underrated in the way some of the later entires here are, seeing as the name will likely ring a bell for even the most casual comic book fans. However, after only minor appearances in the FoX-Men saga, here’s hoping the MCU gets him right.
He’s a major part of the Apocalypse arc, but because Fox didn’t seem to have any forward planning, Fox’s Apocalypse just didn’t have the weight. His story there simply wasn’t compelling because who he was had never been sold to the audience as it has in the comics.
In X-Men: The Last Stand, it’s even worse. They try to use him as a symbol for discrimination, never attempting to connect him to the main plot until right at the end. As a founder member of the X-Men, he deserves so much better.
Warren Worthington III’s self absorbed, overly privileged nature would be interesting in the MCU; he ticks a lot of the Tony Stark boxes but with none of the charm. His feathered wings are hugely cinematic too, and would provide quite the spectacle in the MCU, especially alongside Valkyrie’s Pegasus.