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As cool as Genosha and the Morlocks are, they don't even make sense in the actual comics when you really think about it.
In the classic years, it was a big deal when they could use Cerebro to discover Nightcrawler from the other side of the planet. But Cerebro never tipped them off to the existence of an entire community of hundreds of underground sewer-dwelling mutants right underneath the noses of the heroes? If the morlocks had always been there, then why didn't Professor X try and recruit some of them for the X-men before flying all the way out to Kenya to holler at Storm?
The old comics made it seem like it was a big deal to get eight or nine mutants together, let alone hundreds.

How come Cerebro never tipped them off to the existence of Genosha? An entire country that sustains itself almost entirely on mutant slave labor doesn't just magically pop up overnight. What kept Professor X from doing something about Genosha before it got that bad? (I can accept it if they explained this in the comics though.) You'd think Magneto would have been heated over Genosha's existence and gone off to annihilate everyone running the place ages ago. To my understanding, the OG comics up until Genosha and the Morlocks, treated mutants as if they were extremely rare, and the books were written as if there were only 2000 mutants in the entire world (or 1 out of every million people tops). For that reason, it was always a big moment when they discovered a new one via Cerebro.
That's how it was for the first two decades or so. Mutants were an extreme minority so it was a big deal when a new one popped up and that mutants had only existed since the early 20th century. I remember reading in a old Wizard magazine from 1991/1992 when Claremont left and John Byrne came back briefly to write that he wanted to do a real mutant massacre and eliminate like the majority of the mutant population. Basically get it back to their roots of the X-Men and evil mutants in a race to find the newest mutant. It got worse when Morrison came along and made so that their were millions of mutants and that they were a larger minority than what they were.
 

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Idk about deadpool 2 but ryan Reynolds as deadpool should def carry over if they do wind up merging universes
 
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Maybe rather than Magneto being WW2 holocaust victim you could do a post WW2 or late 70's rebirth of a Nazi group (or Hydra faction) that killed his family and in the 90's he met Charles....

I like this idea. They could have a Hydra faction that existed and operated post-WWII. Reveal that Hydra ran concentration camps around the world that killed many innocent people, including Magneto's family. Have Magneto meet Charles in the 90s, and the rest will be history.

For the MCU X-men treatment, I would make mutations a rare and semi-recent phenomenon. Have them be an extreme minority with only a handful in existence initially. In the beginning, Xavier and Magneto should be only ones who know the truth about the X-gene. The writers could show that Professor X has been using his telepathic powers to wipe people's memories and hide the truth about his school (and about mutants as a whole) from the world because he thought they weren't ready to handle it.

However, some past traumatic event involving one of the infinity stones can rear it's ugly head. Maybe some kind of radiation explosion involving one of the gems can mark the birth the X-gene (the initial radiation victims would remain human, but their unborn future kids would be affected). What could happen is that the mutants who were born right after that incident will eventually get old enough to have powers, making it impossible for Charles to telepathically hide everything. This would force him to go public with the X-men and the school.

They could explain that the original 5 X-men have been training in the mansion ever since the beginning of Phase 2, but didn't get involved in any fighting because they weren't ready for the field yet (and because of Xavier's powers). Logan, Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and the others have always existed, but don't know the origins of their powers. They won't find out that they're mutants (or even know what a mutant is) until they eventually meet Charles.
 

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How do you explain discrimination against mutants in a world where Super powered people are loved. It never made sense in the comics and it won’t in this universe, where a majority of heroes could fall under the mutant label.

Because mutants can pop up anywhere with varying powersets. You liked the Johnson kid down the street, then one day he turns into a clay monstroncity that manages to level the neighborhood before the xmen manage to calm him down. Or what about the engler girl who one day during school manifests her powers as blades that can come from her exposed skin, but she has no control over it and kills so many kids at the high school. Many mutants are either hormonal time bombs, or on the path to transforming into something seen as a monster. And there's no telling whos kids gonna turn until it happens. At least with inhumans they're in coc00ns before they change. And with other super heroes their powers are isolated to personal incidents that the public is unaware of.
 

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Because mutants can pop up anywhere with varying powersets. You liked the Johnson kid down the street, then one day he turns into a clay monstroncity that manages to level the neighborhood before the xmen manage to calm him down. Or what about the engler girl who one day during school manifests her powers as blades that can come from her exposed skin, but she has no control over it and kills so many kids at the high school. Many mutants are either hormonal time bombs, or on the path to transforming into something seen as a monster. And there's no telling whos kids gonna turn until it happens. At least with inhumans they're in coc00ns before they change. And with other super heroes their powers are isolated to personal incidents that the public is unaware of.
I think if the majority are just physical mutations and not given "super powers" that are made for fighting like Toad's tongue or no powers at all they might be able to push the discrimination angle.
 

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I think if the majority are just physical mutations and not given "super powers" that are made for fighting like Toad's tongue or no powers at all they might be able to push the discrimination angle.

Most that fall under the deformity route end up morlocks. If they have powers that they can hide they either don't announce it or go the xmen route. Deformities with powers can go morlock or X-Men, but there's more morlocks than xmen
 
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If mcu going to be doing X-men this they better have wolverine in that brown and yellow costume. Otherwise :camby:

Logan was dope but we need to see Wolverine in his authentic form.

Brown/Yellow = the GOAT Wolverine costume hands-down :banderas:

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