Ever since Disneyannouncedits plan to buy out 21st Century Fox for the staggering sum of $ 71.3 billion , three questions have been on everyone ’s mind : What will happen to the notoriously right - wing Fox News division ? Does this signify a huge footmark forward in Disney ’s ostensibly inevitable consolidation of all of medium under its mouse - eared streamer ? And does this mean theX - Menand Fantastic Four are come to theMCU ?
wonder sell thefilm rightsto some of its most democratic franchises , admit the mutant team and their first family , back in the nineties after facing failure . While Sony and Universal seem to be felicitous to partake in their rights to characters like theIncredible HulkandSpider - Man , Fox has until now been steadfast in its refusal to sell or partake in their portion of Marvel ’s information processing .
And now that the idea of the Fantastic Four and the X - Men joining theMarvel Cinematic Universeis a definite possibility , devotee have been brainstorm how their favorite characters might be include in an already - established world . With most of the hypothesis hinge on the hoped-for and untitledAvengers 4 , ideas have ranged from time - travel shenanigans to flip universe deracination .
One recent possibility that gain some traction is that the characters we know and love are already in theMCU , but have n’t developed their powers yet . In the case of the Fantastic Four , the theory posit that Reed Richards and Susan Storm will appear inAvengers 4as scientist studying the phenomenon of Thanos ’s mass mangle snap fromAvengers : Infinity War .
The estimate is that they believeThanos ’s victims are not dead , but rather transported into the recently discovered Negative Zone . They will attempt a delivery mission to the alternate property , which will include Ben Grimm as their pilot film and Susan ’s brother Johnny as a stowaway on their ship .
However , in the midriff of their delegacy , Thanos will be defeated by the Avengers and a " reverse - snap " will shock them back to the MCU realness , endanger them to cosmic energy rays and giving them their superpowers in the appendage . This willturn theminto Mr . Fantastic , the Invisible Woman , the Thing , and the Human Torch , respectively .
The theory ’s explanation for the cosmos / nonexistence of the X - man is equally as plausible but much more convoluted , borrowing slightly from the X - Men ’s origin via the now - defunct " Ultimate " universe in the Marvel strip . Apparently , in the fifties and ' 60s , at the meridian of the Cold War , the American government was desperate to remake the super soldier serum they ’d previously used to createCaptain America .
But since they had no viable samples of Dr. Erskine ’s normal , they resorted to new method of human enhancements , involving a dirty bomb that was dismiss ( either intentionally or by accident ) on a civilian population . While the turkey thankfully had no visible effect , it did release a surge of invisible , gene - altering radioactivity across the planet .
Of those affected , only a very humble figure immediately developedmutant powers , make it well-heeled for them to hide on the outer boundary of high society , undetected by major spy agencies like S.H.I.E.L.D. However , K of people across the globe now carry an unactivated ex - factor and could give parentage to an full contemporaries with the same potential .
The theorize " black eye - snap " to bring back all those who had died inInfinity Warwould also release an zip wave which would trigger off all latent tenner - genes and reveal the mutant universe to the human race . This would barrack the appropriate fear and distrust of mutants which has formed the thematic cornerstone of theX - Mensince its inception .
In the bedlam , mutant loss leader like Professor X and Magneto would rise to protrusion , having already amassed mutant followers in secret to come after their several ideologies . plainly , these theories are unsubstantiated by virtue of being just that — theories — but they are nerveless little thought experiments about where the franchise could go now that it has most unlimited resources , and character .
