It’s been a while since I last posted. Soon after my first retraction this blog is in neglect, things are really not looking good. I am renovating my home at the moment so it’s been very busy and tiring. Today I have a bad headache, so I am in bed, and then I read this:
Avengers: Infinity War may be gearing up to fix Marvel’s X-Men continuity problem
This blasphemy made me crankier than I already am, so when life gives me crankiness I turn it into verbosity.
One of the the lesser known fact is that I am the world authority on X-Men comic, Fox’s X-Men movies, and MCU. Nobody knows this, but it doesn’t mean it is not true.
I hereby declare that this is bull shit, based on one single line of dialogue from 1 episode out of the whole 5 seasons of the least popular part of the MCU, Agents of SHIELD.
Phil Coulson: There are no psychic.
Nobody cares or notices or remembers this line, and I bet the writer too. But because I am the world authority on the subject matter, I am able to decipher the importance of this line.
Professor X is a psychic (I am acutely aware the preferred terminology is telepath), Phil Coulson basically hinted he does not exist in MCU. Which means so are X-Men and mutants, they simply cannot exist without Professor X as a central figure, unless they want to call the show Mutant Heroes, The Jackman Show, or something this lame. Marvel is basically using this line to say that the whole of X universe does not exist in MCU, in past or present.
It does not exclude the possibility of it getting introduced in the future, but it is unlikely in my expert opinion. Because the way MCU is currently going now they are using inhumans as the subject of intolerance, fear and racism, a role that is traditionally played by the mutants, and the central theme of what the X-Men fights for. To add mutants to the mix would complicate the storytelling too much for general screen audience.
Thus using my self-declared credential I hereby expertly declare The Verge should hire more qualified writer on the subject. But of course it could well be that my weakness was exploited and I was just clickbaited.