Disney closer to buying X-Men/FF back from FOX?

[Underseer]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/business/dealbook/disney-fox-murdoch.html

OK, that's dry and informative, but it's more fun to listen to this YouTube personality work himself into a fine froth over the possibilities of getting these properties back in the MCU:



He's just beside himself having one nerdgasm after another.

Anyway, as much as I admire some of the better FOX movies (let's be honest, Logan was far and away the best), I really look forward to what the MCU would do with these properties. Also, Marvel gets back many of their most popular diversity characters (except Miles Morales and Silk), and it also means that Marvel gets back their primary metaphor for racism.

Oh, and there definitely won't be any copyright limitations to their use of the Skrulls as villains in that upcoming Captain Marvel movie.

 

[Underseer]

There's so much that opens up if this deal happens.

Ororo can marry T'Challa. Misty Knight can once again be the only human hero trained by the X-Men. Once Peter Parker graduates high school, then we can laugh at Deadpool's sexual obsession with Spider-Man. We can watch T'Challa's little sister make Dr. Doom kneel in submission. Oh, and all the Galactus stuff. Reed Richards doing nerd-bro crap with Stark, Banner, Beast, and T'Challa. They can do a proper Illuminati storyline.

 

[Underseer]

Starjammers could show up in a Guardians of the Galaxy story. The Shiar could war with the Kree and the Skrulls and Xandar.

 

[Jayjay]

Quicksilver from X-Men could meet with Quicksilver from Avengers. But only briefly.

 

[Underseer]

Quicksilver from X-Men could meet with Quicksilver from Avengers. But only briefly.

Not unless MCU Scarlet Witch learns reality-altering powers or gets her hands on the Infinity Gauntlet. That's really too bad, because I liked the MCU version of Quicksilver. Sure, the X-Men version had cooler action sequences, but I thought the MCU version got the right mix of hero and asshole to do the character justice.

 

[PyramidHead]

They'd have to reboot all the Fox franchises except for Deadpool, as he exists outside of the both universes. Which would be fine by me, as the X-men movies we've had with the younger cast have all been a disappointment. But there's no way to incorporate the world-altering events of the Avengers stuff alongside the world- (and time-) altering events of the X-men stuff. Too crowded.

 

[Jayjay]

If all Marvel movies come under one all-encompassing umbrella of MCU, it's bad news for quality. There are only so many movies you can do per year, and it would be a shame if they are from exactly the same mold. At least having an independent X-Men franchise under Fox was theoretically something different from Marvel. Now there is only Disney vs. WB, and that's bad for diversity.

On the positive side, now that X-Men and Fantastic Four are coming back into the fold, Marvel can finally stop pissing on them. They can start inventing new mutants and stop using Inhumans as substitutes. And maybe now Fantastic Four will get treatment and attention they deserve as Marvel's first superheroes.