If Phase 7 and beyond is going to include mutants and feature X-Men, who do you think would be the big bad?
Going by the comic books, it feels like it should either be Mister Sinister or the Sentinels. I understand that Sentinels have been presented onscreen in X-Men: Days of Future Past but they were secondary antagonist and Bolivar Trask was the main antagonist. There was a post credit scene in X-Men: Apocalypse referencing Mister Sinister but that went nowhere.
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(I’m not trying to rag on the Thunderbolts/New Avengers specifically - I *love* them… it’s just that they’re all pew pew characters except for Bob.)
We have seen enough Magneto and Phoenix so please no.
personally I'd love to see some Mojoverse so they can introduce Longshot
if they do Sentinels again, we need Nimrod
And it totally doesn't need real significant MCU connections, just throw some Xmen and heroes in some insane situations and ship it
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seriously, if they aren't already thinking about this, they absolutely should be.
they could introduce New Mutants like Magik into the MCU through it..
that's good shit
So I can see things starting off with Magneto as usual, Sinister in the middle to stoke anti-mutant sentiment in-universe leading to the Sentinel Program, the Genosha Massacre happens, then Avengers vs X-Men as a result of the fallout.
Although if they want to play things less safe I can see a meta commentary filled movie with Mojo as the villain.
*I think they're going to be avoiding anything related to the Phoenix Force after Fox's attempts.*
https://www.reddit.com/r/MCUTheories/s/J2RiuqC6gR
Best choice to have them as the main villain's Saga is Mister Sinister
For villains of individual movies, I'd say Mystique's Brotherhood, the Sentinels, the Hellfire Club, and Cameron Hodge are the best choices, all leading to Mister Sinister as the final villain of the saga.
He's probably the biggest and most iconic X-men villain who hasn't been adapted for the big-screen yet. And there's a *lot* of interesting stuff you can do with the character, in terms of his ties to the Summer family, Jean Grey, and even Wolverine/Weapon X stuff. What better way to introduce the concept of mutants and mutation to the MCU than with a story involving a geneticist studying (and causing) mutations!
Why not multiple not-big bads?
I’m a casual so can’t rattle off any names of evil team ups. Children of Thanos is one? Legion of Doom is DC.
The big question is do we get a "new" X-Men team or dive into a team that's already done things (kind of like how we jumped into Fantastic Four a few years into their heroics)? A fresh team can cut their teeth on the likes of Mojo, but they still technically would have Magneto somewhere as a villain. A veteran team can let us skip the Magneto drama (and they can still get sucked into the Mojoverse) and let us see villains we haven't had before.
also, I wrote this a few times including just before the last movie adaptation dropped. The presence or absence of gladiator is obviously what would define a good Dark Phoenix adaptation. The latest fantastic 4 movie really showed you can easily do "going to space and FTL travel" very well , which every previous Dark Phoenix just totally ignored.
IN fact, the hilarious thing is that every previous Dark Phoenix has actually been the plot of Fantastic 4. "we went to Low Earth Orbit and we got hit by Energy, now we are special" plot.
However, I wonder how a Moria X storyline in live action plays out. Going from longtime, stalwart ally only to break bad in an attempt to save mutants. I mean on screen, we've seen the first group killed in Days of Future Past multiple times, have them weeded from existence through GMO's in Logan and through regular folks in Deadpool & Wolverine. For a person, who has lived and died and is reborn and remember their past lives in vivid detail multiple times only to see the same outcome every time how do you break the cycle?