We know that a long-term project for Disney right now is getting the X-Men into the MCU now that they have purchased the rights to do so through 20th Century FOX. There has already been a lot of talk about who would be cast as the new crop of MCU X-Men, and yet…everything I’ve seen makes me wonder if they are actually going to get a new cast at all.
Time after time, every time the X-Men come up in the MCU, both in obvious ways and in secret credits scenes now, there is a common thread. These are already the X-Men we very much know from the FOX era. Cases in point (spoilers for The Marvels follow):
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