I agree, that's why it needs to be addressed before hand. It just being addressed connects mutants to the mcu. Like you said, just having mutants pop up would be jarring and lame imo.Hold on a sec man....
The Spider-Man thing they could do because he was out fighting purse snatchers and shyt. The Avengers were fighting aliens....so they could play it like "well, he slid under the radar until now".
You can't do that with a whole new species, mutants. And a whole team of them, the X-Men. Not to mention, all the villains.
The X-Men/mutants thing is supposed to be a metaphor for racism....so why haven't they been a problem up until now?
You get what I'm saying? Even if you make an X-Men movie, figure out their origin in the context of the movie....and that movie is GOAT level....you still gotta somehow connect all that to the MCU.
So IMO it's not possible to say they already existed. They gotta go the "alternate timeline/reality" route with the Quantum Realm, or the Reality Stone.
Fred.
No clue how they are going to do it, and with the mutant history being so rich and long it would suck for mutants to just start to show up.
But the start of the mutants need to be addressed before the xmen movie even drops.
Once the movie drops then I hope they slow build the mutants and not jump right into magneto or sinister. Again night of the sentinels would be amazing blue print start. Especially if the do some reset the mcu or mass merging of worlds like they did with ultimate.
I'd love for the opening scene of the xmen movie to be mutants running from sentinels. Even if it was on some days of the future past type stuff.