Kevin Feige Comments On The Importance Of X-Men & Mutants In The MCU's Future

Summary

Kevin Feige hints at the importance of mutants for the MCU in the future and the X-Men reboot movie.
The MCU has been laying the foundation for mutants through several characters & connections to past properties.
A mutant arc is expected to become a central point in the MCU after the Multiverse Saga, which is exciting for the future.

The X-Men and mutants will be very important for the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Kevin Feige teases their role in the franchise. After years of waiting to see the X-Men join the MCU movie timeline, Marvel Studios is closer than ever to finally making that happen. While Deadpool & Wolverine will be a taste of that concept, an X-Men reboot movie is also in the works, since the mutants will get a bigger role in the MCU going forward.

In a new interview with Variety, Feige was asked about how central mutants will be for the MCU as they get ready to introduce the concept more fully. Without getting too specific, or addressing anything new about the MCU’s X-Men movie, Feige made it clear that they have been laying the foundation for mutants for quite some time, sharing the following:

I wouldn’t say
when
but we’ve already hinted over the past few years at certain people possessing what will one day be known as the mutant gene. We’ll be very excited when we tap into it.

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The MCU’s X-Men & Mutant Hints Explained

Even though Marvel’s X-Men movie is likely a few years out at this point, Feige is right about how the MCU has already been planting the seeds for the X-Men, and the mutant concept in general. To begin with, the continuous nods to X-Men: The Animated Series have not gone unnoticed, including the iconic theme song being included multiple times. Sir Patrick Stewart’s Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was also seemingly inspired by the animated show.

Then there are the mutants that have made their way into the MCU franchise already, which are setting up a bigger exploration of them in future installments. Ms. Marvel was the first property to change the game for the MCU’s mutants, as it was revealed that Kamala Khan is a mutant, which has now been reflected in the comics, where she’s a mutant/Inhuman hybrid. Another mutant in the MCU that was introduced in recent years was Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as the Marvel movie established his mutant roots.

It would not come as a shock if it’s revealed that other established characters in the MCU are actually mutants rather than being defined as enhanced people. It also makes sense that the mutant arc becomes a bigger central point after The Multiverse Saga, once the MCU is done dealing with the concept of alternate realities. But with Feige’s new X-Men comments, it will be an exciting thing to look forward to in the MCU in the future.