The end of the MCU?

Marvel Studios Could Drop The ‘Men’ From ‘X-Men’ Over Concerns Title Is Not ‘Inclusive’: Report

http://www.tathasta.com/2021/09/marvel-studios-could-drop-men-from-x.html

They are some of the most recognizable names in the Marvel cinematic universe (even if they aren’t necessarily part of the MCU itself just yet), but the X-Men are now under criticism from Marvel Studios’ new president of Physical, Post Production, VFX, and Animation, Victoria Alonso for having a non-inclusive team moniker.

According to the entertainment outlet, We Got This Covered, Alonso did an interview with the sci-fi and film YouTube program, Nuke the Fridge, where she “hinted that internal thinking is that the name ‘X-Men’ isn’t sufficiently inclusive.”“I don’t know where the future is going. It’s funny that people call it the X-Men, there’s a lot of female superheroes in that X-Men group, so I think it’s outdated,” she said.

Alonso quickly segued into a discussion of non-movie Marvel universe expansions, but the quote seems to link up with earlier reports that MCU primary, Kevin Feige, wanted to bring the cinematic universe into line with the comic books, which have trended “woke” in recent years. Alonso also seems to be a driving force behind pushing the MCU in a more “woke” direction, recently promoting a decision to make perpetual villain Loki “gender fluid,”

But while Marvel could claim the shift is related to a more “progressive” approach to the characters and the MCU as a whole, it is more likely that a new “woke” X-Men (or X-Persons) would solve issues related to pulling a group of characters who already have a successful movie franchise of their own into a more expansive universe of films.Disney acquired the rights to the X-Men in 2020 when it acquired 20th Century Fox, and, according to Screen Rant, Marvel Studios has been working on incorporating characters from the X-Men into the larger Marvel universe, pulling from some deeper cuts from the comics.

The Disney+ series, “Wanda-vision” introduced SWORD, the space-based companion organization to SHIELD, familiar to MCU fans and first a part of the X-Men universe. “Falcon and Winter Soldier” showed viewers the criminal-run island of Madripoor, which served, at one point, as a base for the X-Men.

More familiar characters though, like Charles Xavier, Storm, Cyclops, and Wolverine, have will be more difficult to reintroduce, which may be why Marvel Studios is, in fact, appears to be branding their initial X-Men installment as “The Mutants.”

I guess the word “women” should be dropped as well since it has “men” in it as well.

Anytime I give Hollywood another chance, I feel burned. The Mutants is not such a bad name, but in conflicts with tradition. The Mutants, the X-Men, were never supposed to be inclusive, in fact, the whole point of the propaganda of the series is that they were supposedly the most marginalized people on earth.

Well, you can’t then use many things.

You can’t use Cyclops, as it offends people with only one eye.

You can’t use telepath, as that is an invasion of privacy.

You can’t use the term mutants, as that suggests you are different.

etc.

You can’t have Professor Charles Xavier with a position of power/influence over non-males.

You can’t have Mystique as this mutant doesn’t really wear clothing.

etc.

I can see them then degrading this to be the X-lgbtqia2s+