Thanks to Disney`s acquisition of Fox, the X-Men are now under the Disney/Marvel umbrella. And due to the sheer amount of time it takes to make movies, it will have to be years before we see them on the big screen as an integrated part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe--if we ever do. There`s already a slew of movies slated for the next era of the MCU, known as Phase 4: a Black Widow solo film, a Guardians of the Galaxy three-quel, and a Black Panther sequel, just to name a few. There`s even a Shang-Chi film in its planning stages. And none of those involve the X-Men.Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, who is notoriously cagey about the future of the MCU, was clear on the X-Men`s hiatus in an interview with io9, where he discussed the new merger:`It´s all just beginning and the five-year plan that we´ve been working on, we were working on before any of that was set. So really it´s much more, for us, less about specifics of when and where [the X-Men will appear] right now and more just the comfort factor and how nice it is that they´re home. That they´re all back. But it will be a very long time.`It`s probably for the best; fans will need some time and space to accept anyone as Wolverine other than Hugh Jackman.But Avengers: Endgame may have already set some X-Men-related plot points, though we may not see them pay off for another decade. And they have everything to do with the three Snaps in Infinity War and Endgame: the first by Thanos, the second by Hulk, and the third by Iron Man.The Hulk had a potentially key line of dialogue, right before he performed the second Snap at the Avengers compound. He explained to the group that he must be the one to do use the Infinity Stones, because the resulting, massive amounts of gamma radiation they release would kill the average person. And since it was gamma rays that created the Hulk, he would stand the best chance of survival. But just because everything looked normal on the outside, doesn`t mean it was. What if these ...
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