{"id":5572,"date":"2019-08-15T17:35:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/2019\/08\/15\/unpopular-opinion-theater-presents-marvel-movies\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:54:42","slug":"unpopular-opinion-theater-presents-marvel-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/?p=5572","title":{"rendered":"Unpopular Opinion Theater presents: Marvel movies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots and lots and\u00a0<em>lots and lots and lots<\/em> of people online champion the idea of Marvel somehow regaining the X-Men and Fantastic Four properties from Fox, so they can incorporate them into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fine with that, where the FF are concerned, but as for the X-Men&#8230; Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want Marvel to get them back.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not accurate. I&#8217;d be fine with Marvel getting them back if they kept them separate. What I do not want is mutants in the MCU.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;d be cool to see Logan and Cap meet in WWII, Beast banter with Spider-man, all of that. But the\u00a0<em>concept<\/em> of the mutants, as a hated minority, as a metaphor for PoC or gays or other marginalized groups? That just works better if they&#8217;re the only super-beings out there; and on the flip side, in the MCU, where everyone&#8217;s power has thus far has a source, the alien-blooded Inhumans are a more thematic fit.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, I&#8217;ve heard the arguments to the contrary. Some are even solid. I nevertheless feel that mixing mutants with other superhumans dilutes the &quot;mutant as other&quot; narrative.)<\/p>\n<p>Plus, frankly, the MCU is already getting crowded. It can&#8217;t handle as many characters as the comics can.<\/p>\n<p>I now step back so that you may yell and scream and throw tomatoes in polite disagreement. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots and lots and\u00a0lots and lots and lots of people online champion the idea of Marvel somehow regaining the X-Men and Fantastic Four properties from Fox, so they can incorporate them into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. I&#8217;m fine with that, where the FF are concerned, but as for the X-Men&#8230; Well&#8230; I don&#8217;t want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-old-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mouseferatu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}