The Illuminati In MCU Explained - What To Expect!

Rather than Tony Stark merely getting a bunch of fellow heroes together and all immediately agreeing with Stark's plans, there was instead initially a major amount of pushback towards ol' Shellhead's ideals from his cohorts.

Sowing the seeds for what would eventually be the Civil War story arc a year later, Tony believes that superheroes need to be governed, and that's what he thinks the Illuminati should be doing.

For Namor, he baulks at Stark's proposal of governance due to how certain superheroes operate as aggressive outsiders. In the case of Professor X, he doesn't want heroes to have to face the kind of hatred he and his mutants have at times faced. As for Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards questions how viable it realistically would be to run such an organisation. For Doctor Strange, he believes that such governance would go against the anti-establishment fundamentals of some.

While Black Bolt remains as quiet as ever on these matters, Black Panther goes one further than all of his other heroes and outright refuses to participate in any of these Illuminati plans. In T'Challa's eyes, such an arrangement will eventually lead to selfish, self-serving actions from those running the group.

Still, Iron Man, Namor, Black Bolt, Mister Fantastic, Professor X and Doctor Strange do at least agree to secretly meet in the future to exchange information.