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Only 1 MCU Release In 2024 Isn’t A Spin-Off



The Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 5 will continue in 2024, but only one of its forthcoming properties is not a spin-off. Amidst a variety of shakeups and delays, 2024’s slate of MCU Phase 5 properties will include several TV shows and one highly anticipated movie, continuing the MCU’s Multiverse Saga as it builds towards its finale, which will likely be altered significantly following the firing of Jonathan Majors as Kang the Conqueror. 2024’s MCU properties will, fittingly, take place across various realities, with most tying into the main MCU timeline.

2024 was initially set to include Captain America: Brave New World – a film that continues the saga of Sam Wilson as the new Captain America following the Avengers: Endgame ending and The Falcon and the Winter Solider – which would itself lead into Marvel’s Thunderbolts. With both films delayed, the only MCU movie releasing in 2024 is Deadpool 3, a film that will bridge the MCU to the Fox X-Men universe and potentially many other familiar realities. As for the rest of 2024’s MCU releases, they will be spin off TV shows based on previous MCU properties.

Deadpool 3 Is The Only MCU Release Of 2024 That Isn't A Spin-Off


The MCU will begin its 2024 slate with Echo, a series centered on Maya Lopez, who was introduced in 2021’s Hawkeye. Agatha: Darkhold Diaries will see the return of Agatha Harness, the antagonist and breakout character of WandaVision. Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man – fascinatingly – is an animated series based on Spider-Man: Homecoming, featuring an alternate version of the MCU in which Peter Parker is mentored by Norman Osborn instead of Tony Stark. The upcoming Eyes Of Wakanda animated series will further explore the history of Wakanda established in Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Marvel Zombies will be based on an episode of Marvel’s What If…? season 1.

Deadpool 3, however, will not be a spinoff of a previous MCU property. The film will likely have massive ramifications for the main MCU timeline, bringing not only Deadpool into the MCU but also potentially many other X-Men characters. The X-Men’s introduction to the MCU is inevitable, but with the Fox X-Men universe being bridged to the MCU, it is now possible that the MCU’s mutants (other than Wade Wilson) may come from multiple realities.

X-Men '97 Is A Sequel (But It's Not In The MCU)


One highly anticipated Marvel property due to be released in 2024 is X-Men ’97, which, notably, is not a spinoff but rather a sequel to the beloved X-Men Animated Series. X-Men ’97, despite being produced by Marvel Studios Animation, is not set in the MCU, though considering the multiversal premise of Marvel’s current properties, it is safe to assume that its reality may be referenced in future MCU properties. As it stands, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Ms. Marvel each reference the original X-Men Animated Series.


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An Original X-Men Hero Just Figured Out How to Beat Deadpool's Healing

Warning! This article contains spoilers for X-Force #42

Deadpool is effectively immortal within X-Men canon, however, there is one original X-Men hero who discovered that - while impressive - Deadpool’s healing isn’t totally unbeatable, as he finally figured out how to kill the seemingly unkillable Merc with a Mouth. That X-Men hero is none other than Beast.

Hank McCoy aka Beast was one of the founding members of the X-Men alongside Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, and Iceman under their leader, Charles Xavier. Beast began his Marvel Comics career as a hero, fighting alongside like-minded mutants who used their powers to do good for all humanity, while fighting back against dangerous mutants who wanted nothing more than to see human society crumble. However, in the current state of X-Men canon, Beast is far from the hero he used to be. Hank has grown obsessed with ensuring not only mutant survival, but mutant supremacy, and he’s using ‘clones’ of himself to do so. While some are biological, others are mechanical, like the Nimrod Beast fans are introduced to in the latest X-Force issue. And it is in that form that Beast discovered how to finally kill someone who can heal from practically any injury.

X-Men’s Beast Figured Out How To Finally Kill Deadpool


In X-Force #42 by Benjamin Percy and Paul Davidson, readers are shown the birth of a new Beast clone: Nimrod Beast. This one imbued Beast’s consciousness into a body modified to be identical to the Nimrod Sentinel - which, as shown in House of X/Powers of X, has the power to kill Apocalypse. Needless to say, this version of Beast is the strongest one yet, and its purpose is to ensure the survival and supremacy of mutantkind, even going so far as to eradicate Homo sapiens and keep the remaining mutant population under constant surveillance. Right now, X-Force is traversing the timeline, finding and defeating Beast clones that have been scattered throughout history. When they encounter this one, they find that Nimrod Beast has kept Deadpool as a personal jester, forcing him to make jokes for Nimrod Beast’s entertainment. While that may seem risky to keep a seemingly immortal assassin as little more than a pet (which actually ends up being Nimrod Beast’s undoing), Nimrod Beast is confident that he can keep Deadpool in line under constant threat of atomization.

One of Nimrod Beast’s powers is the ability to atomize people in an instant, and he claims that this process is enough to surpass Deadpool’s healing factor, killing him for good - and this may be something fans have seen before. By all counts, Nimrod Beast has all the same powers and capabilities as the original Nimrod, the same Nimrod who has killed Wolverine many times throughout the different alternate futures in which the Sentinels conquer the planet (most recently in Inferno). Could Nimrod have been using this atomization power on Wolverine just as Nimrod Beast threatened to do to Deadpool? If so, then fans won’t have to take Nimrod Beast’s word for it that this attack will work, even though it definitely seems like reducing Deadpool to atoms would do the trick, no exhibition necessary.

Nimrod Beast was defeated before fans got to see his allegedly Deadpool-killing weapon in action. However, the fact that the original Nimrod killed Wolverine over and over again in a nearly identical fashion, along with the fact that breaking someone apart at the atomic level is something seemingly no one could ever come back from (plus, simply taking Nimrod Beast’s word for it) is enough to assert that an original X-Men hero did, in fact, figure out how to beat Deadpool’s healing.

X-Force #42 by Marvel Comics is available now.
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Endgame & Kang Make 1 Awesome X-Men Character More Likely In The MCU


Thanks to Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: The Kang Dynasty the MCU has the cool opportunity to introduce a specific popular X-Men member. Questions and theories have persisted relentlessly as to how and when the MCU would finally give audiences their fan-favorite mutants, and the time is certainly soon coming. Phase 4 steadily incorporated mutants with Namor in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Mr. Immortal in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and remarkably, Kamala Khan in Ms. Marvel. Phases 5 and 6 will certainly continue the trend, and given the rise of Kang as the Multiverse Saga’s big bad, time travel could play a key role in their integration.

Avengers: Endgame exponentially expanded the MCU by unlocking time travel, and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania enhances that by fully introducing Kang the Conqueror, a time travel aficionado. The MCU can lay further foundation for the X-Men in upcoming projects such as Deadpool 3, which is theorized to incorporate the TVA as Deadpool and Wolverine cross over from the Fox X-Men Universe. Furthermore, due to Kang’s machinations throughout the ongoing Saga, Avengers: Secret Wars can culminate with a united Multiverse, opening up the possibility for a team without any of Fox’s baggage. Whatever the case, interesting possibilities abound for an exciting X-Men lineup across time and space.

Endgame & Kang's Time Travel Open The Door To Bishop In The MCU


An intriguing option the MCU can easily take advantage of is Bishop. He first debuted in 1991’s The Uncanny X-Men #292 and hails from a horrific dystopian future in which mutantkind has been segregated into concentration camps. Bishop eventually traveled back in time on the hunt for a criminal. That’s how he came to join the X-Men, and that’s how he could come to join the MCU. Thus far, the MCU’s mutant introductions have been somewhat weird, and time travel certainly can’t be out of the question. In fact, the MCU will soon have a time- and universe-hopping criminal perfect for Bishop to track down with Deadpool.




Incorporating Bishop into the MCU with time travel is quite easily done. It’s simply a matter of when to do it. Time travel must play a pivotal role in Kang's role throughout the MCU, from his actions in the Quantum Realm to the rise of his Dynasty and finally to his downfall. Bishop would be a very surprising addition as part of that, but still a welcome one, and it could therefore open the door to other X-Men, whether from the past, future, and/or across the Multiverse.

Why The MCU's X-Men Should Include Bishop


As Kevin Feige and Marvel executives decide who should be part of the MCU’s X-Men, they have so many options available that they should essentially consider giving the X-Men their own universe within the MCU. Such would allow for the franchise to really showcase all facets of the X-Men from the other related teams like X-Force or Excalibur to focusing on singular characters like Bishop. Intriguingly, Marvel Studios’ Nate Moore has even expressed specific interest in Bishop getting his own project down the line. With his capability to time travel, the MCU could even showcase stories farther across the timeline to showcase a more expansive universe.

Bishop stands out from his fellow X-Men for more than the brand on his face and his unique powers, but also in how he relates to his teammates. As a kid, Bishop grew up idolizing the X-Men. When he falls into their time and ends up working with them, he must confront whether they’re the heroes of legend or simply survivors in a world that hates them, people just like him. That’s certainly a ripe narrative just waiting to be played with, and when the time comes, Bishop’s inclusion can critically and beneficially help expand the role, purpose, and scope of the X-Men in the MCU.
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X-Men's New Explosive Team Are Violently Adorable in Variant Cover

An adorable new variant cover for the upcoming X-Terminators #1 showcases the epic all-female X-Men team consisting of Wolverine, Jubilee, Dazzler, and Boom Boom, at both their cutest and most explosive!

The name X-Terminators has a long history in the X-Men universe, dating back to the 1980s when the original 5 X-Men first used the team name after leaving the Xavier's School when they were posing as mutant-hunters but were secretly collecting young mutants, including Boom Boom. Most recently used for a short-lasting team introduced in Cable Reloaded #1, the X-Terminators team introduced in X-Terminators #1 will be the first all-female version of the team, and the third iteration to include the explosive mutant Tabitha Smith, or Boom Boom.

All four of the powerful X-Women featured in X-Terminators are fan favorites, and while Wolverine and Jubilee have had some spotlights in the Destiny of X era in X-Men and Excalibur, this will be the first time in ages that Alison Blaire (Dazzler) and Boom Boom are featured prominently in an X-Book. All three of the main mutants featured, Dazzler, Boom Boom, and Jubilee, all have abilities that include explosions or pyrotechnics, a similarity that actually made Tabitha and Jubilation teenage rivals when they first met on the island of Genosha in the 1980s event X-Tinction Agenda. X-Terminators - written by Leah Williams (Trial of Magneto, X-Factor) with art by Carlos Gomez (Marvel UK Spectacular Spider-Man, America Chavez: Made In The USA) - focuses on the apparent kidnapping of Tabitha, Alison, and Jubilation, after Jubilee and Boom Boom take Dazzler out for a night on the town to cheer her up after a bad breakup. Laura Kinney, once known as X-23 and now going by Wolverine alongside her father Logan, goes on a mission to rescue the kidnapped mutants and all four end up trapped "elaborate death traps by a mysterious new army of enemies."


The adorable variant cover for X-Terminators #2, illustrated by Skottie Young, perfectly honors the ridiculous and explosive nature of the new series while also making three of Krakoa's most bombastic mutants into epically cute babies. Skottie Young most recently illustrated all 18 issues of the acclaimed Strange Academy series, but is also known for creating "baby variant" covers featuring pretty much every Marvel Comics character, from Black Panther, to The Fantastic Four, to even someone managing to make a baby Galactus look adorable. Young's disarmingly cute covers are always a brilliantly ironic twist on the comics, that are often quite violent, intense, and adult and X-Terminators is no different. The writer of the series Leah Williams has called the plot and writing "gleefully transgressive," that is all at once, "...sexy, stupid, and chaotic." With Marvel promising that the series will be a grindhouse-inspired action packed adventure, sure to be filled with explosive mutant fighting and bloody, gory battles, Young's baby variant cover is the perfect juxtaposition for the series.

The X-Men's newest team, featuring the all-female cast of Wolverine, Boom Boom, Dazzler, and Jubilee, are going to make a wild splash on the scene when their new series debuts, and Skottie Young's "baby variant" cover is the perfect way for fans to celebrate the absurdity and explosiveness of these epic women.

X-Terminators #1 from Marvel Comics is out September 21st, 2022.


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Thor Love and Thunder Concept Art Included a Major X-Men Connection



As the Marvel Cinematic Universe dives further and further into Phase 4, more and more powerful gods and beings have been introduced. Concept art for Thor: Love and Thunder shows some of the deities being considered for the screen included a major X-Men connection.

Artist Sung Choi shared concept art from the recent MCU film online, depicting Omnipotence City and some of the many deities that might have been intended to appear. Among the crowd of gods are Galactus and none other than Cyttorak, who comic book fans will recognize as the creator of the unstoppable Juggernaut.




Created by Roy Thomas and Geof Isherwood, Cyttorak, also known as the Destroyer, is an extremely powerful being from the Crimson Cosmos. Though he was once worshipped as a god and feared as a demon on Earth, he was eventually banished. To continue sowing destruction, he bestowed his power on to an avatar, allowing them to become the unstoppable force known as Juggernaut, whose current host is Cain Marko, brother of the X-Men's iconic head, Charles Xavier.

Cyttorak and the X-Men in the MCU
The character ultimately did not appear in Thor: Love and Thunder, though several X-Men characters are beginning to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Aside from the faux-Pietro in WandaVision, Sir Patrich Stewart returned as a variant of Professor X in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and it is known that Deadpool, whose films once belonged to Fox's X-Men franchise, has a new film in development set in the MCU. Whether or not Deadpool 2's version of Juggernaut will make a return has yet to be revealed.

Cyttorak has been mentioned many times since Strange Tales #124 (written by Stan Lee, illustrated by Dick Ayers with lettering by Artie Simek) in 1964, but only made a full appearance in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #44 (written by Roy Thomas, artwork by Geof Isherwood and George Roussos with lettering by Pat Brosseau).

The fourth instalment in the Thor film saga is enjoying relatively modest success at the box office. It recently passed the $700 million mark at the worldwide box office, though in earnings it continues to fall behind its predecessor, Thor: Ragnarok. In terms of critical reception, Love and Thunder has been met with generally positive reviews, though some criticize the number of gags and focus on jokes and levity, rather than high stakes and emotional substance.

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Thanos Grand Uncle Gets His Own Gauntlet To Kill The X-Men


In a cool reference to Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet, Uranos the Undying just received his own gauntlet that he used to help kill the X-Men. In X-Men: Red #5 by Marvel Comics, The Mad Titan's recently unleashed grand-uncle attacks Arakko, decimating the planet and its mutant inhabitants. The assault features Uranos pulling out his own gauntlet, which, while not powered by Infinity Stones like the Infinity Gauntlet, proves to be a more than powerful enough weapon.

In the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event from Marvel Comics, Uranos the Undying was unleashed against the mutants, as the Eternal's new mission to wipe them out led to Druig setting free one of his most dangerous, unstable weapons. After being stuck in captivity for his genocidal ways, Uranos, the grand-uncle of Thanos, was given an hour to show much destruction he could cause to the mutants believed to be forms of excess deviation. In X-Men: Red #5, readers see the full might of Uranos' attack on Arakko, as the villain even pulls out a gauntlet of his own, somewhat similar to the Infinity Gauntlet, in his quest to destroy the mutants.

In X-Men: Red #5 by AL Ewing, Stefano Caselli, Federico Blee, and VC's Ariana Maher from Marvel Comics, Thanos' grand-uncle arrives on Arakko and makes his presence known immediately. Uranos murders thousands of mutants while barely exalting any of his forces. One of the most brutal moments comes when Uranos walks through mutant gunfire towards Ora Serrata the Witness and manages to construct a gauntlet that punches and kills the mutant with a single blow.


While not worn by Uranos, the gauntlet does serious damage against Ora Serrata the Witness, as it delivers a direct hit into the giant eye. While it's not as powerful as the Infinity Gauntlet, nor does it have the same reality-shaping power as the gauntlet worn by Uranos' ancestor Thanos, it's a great reference to the Mad Titan's own similar weapon. Like his grand-nephew, Uranos used a gauntlet to help him kill thousands in the attack - showing the apple does fall too far from the tree when it comes to the previously outcast Eternals.

The gauntlet helps highlight what a threat Uranos the Undying truly is, as he wipes out the mutants on Arrako with barely using any of his armory or forces. Like Thanos, Uranos is a horrifying threat to the cosmos. Unfortunately, now that he's unleashed, the Marvel Universe has another dangerous villain - in this case, a genocidal maniac - on the loose. God help the universe if Uranos ever gets his hands on Thanos' Infinity Gauntlet, as he wouldn't hesitate to end all non-Eternal life in an instant.
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