What are your hopes for the MCU X-Men in 2028

Hopefully something as good as X-Men the animated series.

People need to let this weird dream of the O5 die. There’s a reason that iteration of the team is always skipped over.

We will be seeing Storm and other later additions in the reboot.

X-Men movie focuses on the adult team. As we'll have seen a lot of 'evergreen' team in both X-Men 97 and Doomsday, I wonder if the roster will either be (a) unconventional, or (b) start from the ground up with the 60s team.

X-Men series focuses on the students, with a few 'graduating' to the movies each season. More focus on life at the mansion / teen drama. The 70s team would be the first generation of students to graduate and join the main team, which would make T'Challa Jr and Storm around the same age (to utilise that relationship).

Wolverine movie or series, with him joining the team down the line.

That i live long enough to see it

And don't forget Angel.

* Lowered emphasis on Wolverine. I know he's still the most popular X-Men character, arguably in all of Marvel, but given his unrelenting dominance of the franchise for the last 25 years and Jackman's iconic depiction, I feel it's best to put Logan on the backburner for a while.

* Starting small and building out. Make the first X-Men movie about either recruiting the core team, or an established team recruiting new students. Focused on young, on-the-ground mutants, showing their place in the world and struggles from a personal perspective.

As long as I get a Gambit and Rogue duo movie, they can do whatever they want

GIVE ME MAGIK FOR FUCKS SAKE PLEASE

X Men v Avengers sometime down the road.

I want then to leave the Fox era cast behind and start from scratch with new actors and new stories.

I know everyone says they want the x-men to be built up to like the avengers each getting their own solo movie which leads up to an x-men movie but personally I don’t think that’ll work.

Many of the x-men are written for being in this team, their introductions are they’re members of the x-men I feel like giving the x-men solo movies is like giving the fantastic 4 solo movies that result in a fantastic 4 movie.

I hope after the reboot they introduce x-men/mutants as something that has always existed within this world but just in their own corner staying relatively separate from the rest of the world because they know they’re feared and they believe their best course of action to be trusted is to keep a low profile and try and showcase they’re not a threat.

Why are humans untrustworthy of mutants but like other heroes because mutants can be anybody and have immense power, sure vigilantes may appear quite frequently but they’re not as high a threat because most of them are just skilled fighters.

Basically I hope they don’t try and explain why we haven’t seen mutants and instead just reboot the universe with they’ve always existed as I think that’s simpler than doing something like oh the snap activated the x-gene, when the multiverse was destroyed it altered the universe and introduced this new DNA. No just reboot the universe and set up mutants like an existing concept

A great movie and cast just like he provided with Thunderbolts previously.

Small cast. O5 is the dream.

Sentinels. I want superheroes vs giant robots in NYC.

Integration with the shows. I want to watch an X-Men film, and then I want there to be a tv show that interacts with the movie. Give us a tv show with Xavier and company keeping mutants hidden from the public for years BEFORE the movie. Star Wars Rogue One and Andor is the perfect relationship.

I want competent leader Cyclops. That’s all I ask.

I want the focus on international mutants and the coming together of people without safe refuge. The Claremont run with Storm, Nigjtcrawler, Colossus, etc. deserves focus as their own team without returning yet again to the well of Jean/Scott/Logan drama. 

Don’t get me wrong, the OGs are great characters when done well but we need something new. I want diversity of stories, and real meat to the struggles of being a mutant. 

For the whole 2000s cast to return and for Sir Patrick Stewart die doing what he loves. Being on set as Professor X

O5 + Storm, Wolverine, Rogue, Gambit, and Shadowcat

I know it's too much to ask for, but please..... don't forget about Gambit

they don't stuff the moves with other non x character the xmen universe is big enough doing them justice will be hard enough.........not overly quippy character personalities esp for characters who personality is not that in the comics or overly preachy.....ofc the message of the xmen should ring through but how you do it is key the best xmen comics balance this nicely.......also some off the wall stuff like arcade and murder world...the brood...the phalanax...lean into the soap opera nature of the x comics let it be different then the avengers and other teams in the comics its one of the things unique about xmen...try to keep the characters fairly heroic like beast, prof x, cyclops I don't need saints but the overvillfication of certain characters and things I think have hurt the larger appeal of the franchise....little to no scarlet witch I feel like they have done her plenty enough already and hopefully no house of m that story which is heavily overrated imo was a damaging one in the comics have no desire to see out play out and certainly not how it did in the comics esp when the xmen actually have a treasure trove of great material to use........also hope to see some heavier stories done justice not turned into a joke and played for laughs like they did thor......mutant massacre for example....one last thing I hope they don't make it to youth based esp for characters like cyclops etc I cld see that for the new mutants etc or characters like kitty, jubilee, boom boom etc but there needs to be some balance to the age range not evo style with just about everybody younger....and just more accurate character personalities they shld all feel unique given the heavy emphasis on character development in the x books......gambit for example is not like cyclops or wolverine he is mysterious, a charmer, a flirt, often hides alot of things even from his friends, and is kind of shady but also won't back down either...and overall has a mostly good heart even though he is also a crook.

That they don't shy away from the harsh themes of X-Men.

Something different.

I want to grow with these characters in a “First Class” sort of way, but with more of the child mutants hiding and being found, brought to the mansion, and the trials and tribulations of adolescence mixing into their growth.

A world building show similar to Game of Thrones.

Please please pleaseeee let other X-Men besides Wolverine have moments to shine. Wolverine is great and all, but I love the X-Men not "Wolverine and those other guys"

AXE eventually

That it's still good.

My hope is to make Scott Summmers the front and center of this film, with Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts\*, A24's Beef, Kidding) is directing the film, I have hope for him to make a character storytelling similar to how he did with his projects 🙏🏻🤞🏻


They show it. They show all of it. 

Don’t make them teenagers. Please. The rumor of Sadie Sink playing Jean Grey makes me very nervous for the franchise.

A new cast - I grew up with the Fox X-Men and I love them, I’m even really excited to see some of them return in Doomsday and probably Secret Wars, it makes sense as part of the Multiverse Saga. But this should be their last appearance and once the MCU properly begins its Mutants Saga, I want a new Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean (though we might already get her in Brand New Day), Professor X, Magneto and so on.

Both generations of the cast we’ve gotten through the original foX-Men and the First Class reboot have been largely excellent and particularly the younger cast members like James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender could theoretically be kept around, but I want a completely fresh start with a new vision that meshes well with the MCU as a whole. Some cameos such as Ralph Bohner in Wandavision and Charles Xavier in Multiverse of Madness were fun and we got a great appearance of Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine (which I never knew I wanted after Logan), but these upcoming two Avengers films should be the final victory lap for these iterations of the characters.

The one exception, naturally, would be Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds should play this role until he’s 90.

Hope there’ll be a utopia arc and a karkoa arc bring in villains like orchid

No expectations. Because then I will definitely be disappointed. They will most likely ruin the cast for me as Marvel has a terrible habit of changing genders, among other things.

Well, I like to go back to what worked so well in the first *X-Men*:

Trauma. Injustice. Bigotry. Tragedy. Hope.

The first few minutes of the film are set in the fucking Holocaust.

Rogue discovers her powers by kissing a boy and putting him into a coma, "get *away* from me!!!!!!".

"People like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child".

Logan is experiencing night terrors due to his foggy memories of being experimented on, to the point that he impales Rogue through the chest in his sleep.

Basically, almost every character is carrying heavy, Wanda-level baggage, but they're inspired by Professor X to believe they can be a unified force for change.

Now, am I saying that I want *Dancer in the Dark* meets *X-Men*? No. The first films dealt with very heavy subjects in a way that is both digestible, but difficult to eat if you like to chew more thoroughly. Balancing the darker subject matter with color, levity and camaraderie is the way to make these characters and stories truly shine.

On one page, you're thinking, "Man, there really is no depth to which humanity is unwilling to sink"; and on another, "Gambit just kinetically charged Wolverine's claws wtf dude let's go!!!!!!".

I guess I want the same things that I want from any story: a creative vision that either has something poignant to say, or an important question to ask.

A highly stylized animated film like Spider-verse but for the X-Men. Modern animation is so dynamic and I want to see the characters powers and proportions in ways that live action simply can’t deliver.

Also, I enjoy the comic-esque fictional anatomy. Even Batman the animated series can show how attractive non-standard proportions can be.

Wait. 2028? Not 2027?

So many “less focus on Wolverine” comments.

Did you all see the last 4 team movies?

FC - 30 second cameo
DOFP - big role (even if he was literally thrown out of the movies climax ha)
Apocalypse - one scene
Dark Phoenix - no appearance

For all their faults the Fox movies actually did do a solid job of getting away from him being the focus.

Comic accurate Sentinels, Omega Red, and no more Phoenix Saga.

You really believe after secret wars we are getting this. X-men is not happening in 2028. The cast would need to be announced in 2026. And then shoot in 2027. And release in 2028. Im sure they want sequels so X-men two would need to be already in the works. No actor or actress has signed on for that much time. They would need to be locked in for 10 years minimum.

That window keeps shrinking. You guys are delusional. We are getting X-men in 2030 tops.

Today’s kids just wouldn’t understand how cool and genuinely uplifting it felt to have a Cyclops action figure back in the day.

Just don’t. People simply do not learn. At some point there is just too much to care about. Infinity War and Endgame worked because it was the story of a few key people. Right now there aren’t any key people in the MCU. That’s why people stopped caring. The answer to return to the glory days is not to introduce new timelines in new universes so you have to decide each time whether you should csre. Have a select few and build your story/universe (singular) around them.

So right now you have a bunch of characters nobody is invested in and the next logical step isn’t to introduce even more

Let’s get though 2026 first.

That all of them have new actors. No shade on the old ones but with the rumor of Hugh's solo MCU movie I'm a bit over the nostalgia traps rather than doing what they used to do and find great actors who may not be super well known but fit the mold well.

Additionally, I want them to directly exist in the main 616 universe. I really hate the F4 is in a different universe. I think they can find a way to tell a story with maybe the X Gene being unlocked via the snaps or something, idk. I know Wolverine and Magneto's history will make that hard but I just want them to be a part of this world that was built.

Granted, its likely all going to be rebooted anyway but you know

This might be a hot take but I hope they bring back (or keep if they appear in Secret Wars) James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender as Prof X and Magneto. The actors are now literally the perfect age to play the characters on their prime plus they did they a magnificent job as them already. Those two only though, the others idgaf if they recast lol.

I need them to stay as close to the comic and animated series as possible with that being said I would like to see


Cyclops as the tactical leader he is, and Storm 2nd in command


Comic acurrated suits


sticking to the family tree, take for example Mystique and Nightcrawler being mother and son, and Scott being the OLDER brother to Alex


proper introduction to X- Force and the new mutants.