LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 22: (L-R) Actor Elizabeth Olsen, President of Marvel Studios and Producer Kevin Feige, and actor Mark Ruffalo at the Avengers: Infinity War Press Junket in Los Angeles, CA April 22nd, 2018 (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Disney)
Which Marvel Cinematic Universe movies would make for quality add-ons after the Disney-Fox merger?
The Fox and Disney deal has finally gone through. Walt Disney Company purchased some of 20th Century Fox’s properties for $71.3 billion! While there are a lot of movies and shows that go into this deal, comic book fans are excited for one main reason. The X-Men franchise is finally going back home to Marvel Comics. The X-Men, Deadpool, and the Fantastic Four are all under the Marvel/Disney Umbrella.
What this means for comic book fans is we will get to see some crossovers we’ve been waiting to see. Secret Wars (the 1984, 2004, or 2015 version), Utopia, The Asgardian Wars, are just a few of the titles that we could see in the future. Imagine Avengers 4 if we could have seen Wolverine taking a chunk out of Thanos or Silver Surfer joining in like he did in the Infinity Gauntlet comic. Here are four exciting Marvel Comics crossovers that could break records if they’re made into movies.
Avengers vs. X-Men
In 2012, Marvel pit the X-Men and the Avengers against each other. The Phoenix Force was on its way to Earth and Cyclops and Captain America had different plans on how to handle the situation.
The mutant community all knew that the host was going to be Hope Summers. Cyclops wanted to use her to reactivate the mutant gene after M-Day. Captain America wanted to keep Hope from away the Phoenix Force so it wouldn’t destroy the world. With two strong minded leaders doing what they thought was best, there was no way this didn’t end up in a fight.
Let’s get the easy one out the way first. The first thing that came to mind when the 20th Century Fox deal was going through was Avengers vs. X-Men. Two of the premier Marvel Comics teams fighting on screen would be the biggest event in comic book movie history.
Not only that, it could take the number one spot in terms of box office earning. You get Captain America fighting Cyclops, Iron Man against Magneto, and Wolverine against Spider-Man (if The movie puts Logan on the X-Men and not as an Avenger). This is the movie everyone has been waiting for and that was before AVX was even a comic book.
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House of M
It was known as the darkest day in Avengers history. The Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff lost control of her reality-altering powers and destroyed the Avengers mansion and killed some of her teammates. Thankfully, Dr. Strange intervened before she could cause any more damage. After that, Magneto took his daughter away to Genosha where he hoped his friend Profesor Xavier could help her.
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After a while, Xavier realized that he couldn’t help her. He went to New York and organized the X-Men and Avengers in hopes to find a way to help Scarlet Witch. Wolverine and Emma Frost voted to kill her. Since Xavier and Dr. Strange couldn’t help her, then she should be, as Emma said, put down. They were outvoted by the rest of the Avengers.
Before the two teams could get together and see Wanda in Genosha, her brother Pietro (Quicksilver) talked her into remaking their reality and giving all the heroes what they always wanted. It ends with Wanda putting the world back and destroying the mutant gene in 90% of the world.
This was an event that set the Marvel Universe on its head for seven years. Having House of M in the Marvel Cinematic Universe could bring an event that spans every movie and show. At the very least it could be a two part event. It’s a great way to incorporate the Netflix crew like Luke Cage and Danny Rand into a movie without making them a focal point. Also, this movie would make Avengers: Infinity War money with all of the star power and characters that would be involved.
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Secret Invasion
This was a series that took years to come to fruition. The Skrulls found a way to make their presence undetectable by science, magic, and even Wolverine’s mutant senses and Daredevil’s radar. Once the Skrulls got enough of their race in place they set their plan in action. Skrull spies infiltrated everywhere on Earth from the Avengers to the governments of the world.
If that wasn’t bad enough, they found a way to produce Super Skrulls with the powers of both heroes and villains of Earth. With their superior skills from being a warrior race and outnumbering the heroes, it was going to take an act of god to save the Earth. Luckily, Thor just made his return.
There have been rumors that the Skrulls are going to appear in Captain Marvel. This could be the beginning of the Secret Invasion. Even if the 20th Century Fox deal didn’t go through this could have been a movie eventually.
Now, we could get the crossover when the X-Men demolished the Skrulls in San Francisco and Wolverine could be part of the team fighting in New York. And since the Fantastic Four are a major part of the Skrulls, this could be a great way to introduce Marvel’s First Family. Deadpool could have a tie-in as well since he was one of the reasons the Skrulls lost.
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Old Man Logan
After decades of losing, the villains got their act together. Led by Red Skull, the villains organized and defeated the heroes of Earth. They realized that they outnumbered the heroes and took advantage of that. Almost all the heroes were killed and the villains divided the United States among their generals and ruled the world. One hero that survived was Wolverine. They did something so heinous that he quit the superhero life and refused to pop his claws.
After his family was killed, Logan popped his claws once again, Avenged his family, and went on to try and save the world on his own.
This may be a shot in the dark because the series is so grim, but this would be an amazing story to tell. Old Man Logan makes Avengers: Infinity War look like a Nick Jr. show. The heroes in that world were brutally killed and they didn’t come back from the dead. Obviously, this would have to be an alternate reality since killing the heroes of the MCU would be ridiculous and suicide for the franchise. Nevertheless, people would flock to the theaters for this R-rated movie.