There are many fan theories on bringing the X-Men to the MCU, here is another. I think there should ONLY be four, young X-Men. The Fox X-Men movies had some of the X-Men from Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975) by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum that relaunched the comic book. The X-films also some of the new, plus hundreds more at the school, the Legion of X-Men approach. This does not make the X-Men unique, no loneliness, or exclusion.
The X-Men first appeared in X-Men #1 (1963) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and there was twelve years before Giant-Size X-Men. Ultimate X-Men, created by Mark Millar and Andy Kubert, may be looked at like the MCU Avengers refreshed with The Ultimates version of Avengers. It had Storm and Colossus. So this proposal will have an international and diverse cast, but not in new characters beyond the original members. If the studio wants to expand the cast, it can maybe done in the second or third movies.
Wolverine was part of the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy in Ultimate X-Men. So there will be no Wolverine until later, which gives some time for audiences to adjust to a non-Hugh Jackman Wolverine. The point is to break away from the Fox X-Men and start fresh. So let’s bring it back to the original team created by Lee and Kirby; Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Iceman, and Jean Grey. At the time it was nice kids, not unusual, but we need to bring some diversity into this line-up!
I would change gender and ethnicities. Angel can be African American, Beast, Latin, Cyclops, Native American, Iceman could be Asian, and Jean Grey, she’s redhead no matter what changes. I would cast actors in their 20’s to keep them away from the teens in New Mutants, the film was just out. Jean Grey is a young girl, red hair, is practicing the piano at home when she hears the distorted thoughts of her parents and then her entire neighborhood. She falls unconscious.
Charles Xavier, bald, middle aged, is there to help her and the parents agree to let her stay at his school. He has a support staff which will get to later. She settles into her new home at Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters in Salem Center, New York. Jean is taken to a room that blocks out mental signals from the outside. She is the most powerful telepath next to Xavier and also has telekinesis, she can move objects with her mind.
He is in a high-tech wheelchair and has to stay at the mansion since it has barriers to dampen the thoughts of the outside world. Jean Grey becomes the coordinator and basic team leader with her mental powers contacting other team members. Xavier has her test out her powers. She is learning to use her powers and starts to explore the school, Jean is a young adult now, and Xavier notes that the restricted areas are reserved for when the others arrive. The areas are of course Cerebro, which allows Professor X to tap into the minds of the outside world, and the Danger Room. We follow Jean and get her origin like the others.
In Alberta, Canada, Scott Summers, from the Sioux nation, is at a hockey rink. He is stricken with eye pains and fears he will go blind. Crimson blasts fire from his eyes. This empties the hockey rink. He is consoled by Moira MacTaggert who takes him to the school. Scott later takes the code name Cyclops. The character of Moira MacTaggert appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand (2008) and also X-Men: First Class (2011). Her character debuted in the comics with Uncanny X-Men #96 (1975). She is a geneticist and science teacher who works with Xavier to understand the students and their powers.
What makes Scott formidable is he is a tactical thinker. I would like to see him use his optical blasts like in the comics, deflecting all over an area to strike an opponent. Also, he should be effectively blind and not confident of being around others because of the power of his optic blasts. Of course, Jean taps into his mind and knows his fears. Later, of course we have the ruby quartz in his visor that neutralizes his blasts. He is thrown down at one point and a shard is examined by the villains who later bring in ruby quartz shields or gauntlets to deflect his blasts.
Henry Macaya is studying at the medical library in the University of New Mexico. He is suddenly stricken with body pains. Muscles bulge in his arms and legs. This might be on the body horror level, but the emergence of mutations should be painful and traumatic. The mutations should occur throughout the movie like body horror. The other students run from him. Henry is met by Xavier who gives a school invitation. He of course later becomes massive and muscular, super strong, but also agile. His code name is Beast which comes from Jean Grey surprised at his mutation like the Beast from the Disney movie.
Henry is brilliant as a researcher, he is able to understand the x-gene physically as well as mentally, and acts as an assistant to Xavier and MacTaggert. He is also the comedian of the team. He does not get the furry, blue mutation, that was a much later addition to the comics. This was in Amazing Adventures #11 (1972) when Hank McCoy was experimenting and transformed into the blue-furred Beast. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, at the University of Puerto Rico, the Rio Piedras Campus, is young Wanja Worthington. She is gracefully going through a gymnastics routine. Wanja is suddenly seized with back pain and falls!
Painful bone growths burst from her shoulder blades. The students panic and trample her to escape. Dance teacher, Stevie Hunter, checks on Wanja’s back, and then tells her about the school. She takes the code name Angel which is what her mother calls her. Stevie was a human ally to the team introduced in Uncanny X-Men #139 (1980). There needs to be two females on the team, it made sense to make Angel female, but there also was Angel Salvador in X-Men: First Class (2011) played by Zoe Kravitz.
A note on Angel’s mutant power, it isn’t simply wings. Her mutant power is also to alter her bone density, birds have hollow bones, so she is lighter and more flexible. If she was always light that would make her fragile. Wanja can also increase her bone density so she can punch not like brass knuckles like a brass arm! An opponent would break his hand hitting he! She can contort to yoga positions and would be the ultimate gymnast. Of course Angel and Stevie would help Beast develop as a gymnast. Also, Angel can retract secondary feathers on her upper arm, these are to help her maneuver in flight.
Another part of her power is visual acuity, she has binocular vision all the time. The last part of her powers is high metabolism. Angel is always active, she eats constantly and her metabolism goes to maximum for flight. This makes her the best scout and she can outfly and evade any superhero flier. At the Platinum Fashion Mall in Bangkok, Thailand, Bobby “Iceman” Devakul is skateboarding with his school friends. The speed and move from his ice slides of course comes from his love of skateboards. He is drinking a cold drink, but suddenly his hand constricts, the drink shatters, and the soda machine bursts. The shoppers are fearful of Bobby and throw trash at him.
His body seizes up and he collapses, his face rimed with frost, each mutation should be unique and more on the horror side than super hero. His code name comes from his nickname. Nurse Sharon Friedlander examines Bobby and when he recovers, invites him to the school. Sharon's first appearance was in New Mutants #19 (1984). The supporting characters; Moira, Stevie, and Sharon were all part of the Chris Claremont run so this is the support staff to help Xavier run the school. They are female, but also science teacher, dance teacher, and nurse, helpful staff for a school.
The point is to show an international origin of the mutants like the Giant Size X-Men team, but these locations may be generic so they may be filmed on set and local locations. Similar to the Avengers, it is to introduce the characters and what it is to be a mutant before getting into team action! So who are the villains? I imagine similar to X-Men: Evolution, bring in Toad as the outcast, then Avalanche and the Blob, of course there is a mastermind behind them. They are of course part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants from X-Men #4 (1964). The team name should just drop the "evil" part. The true villain is revealed at the end of the movie! If you are an X-Men fan, you will know who!
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