“Avengers: Doomsday” announced a bevy of returning “X-Men” players from the now-finished Fox franchise.
Here’s how we got here.
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A new era for mutant-kind begins on screen.
Patrick Stewart as Professor X, Rebecca Romijn as Mystique, Channing Tatum as Gambit.Credit:Disney+; Nels Israelson/20th Century Fox; Disney/Marvel
But the news came with an X factor.
And they’re joined byChanning Tatum, who played another X figure in last summer’sDeadpool & Wolverine.
Here’s a glimpse of how it all came together.
Elizabeth Olsen in ‘WandaVision’.Marvel Studios
“I don’t want to get into corporate acquisition legal laws or whatever.
I don’t understand them, but there’s a lot of ‘em,” Feige said.
So, plans started slow.
Patrick Stewart in ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’.Marvel Studios
The Falcon and the Winter Soldierfollowed that same year with a similar approach.
Cameos
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The most obvious one was Stewart’s presence in theDoctor Strangesequel.
That film also involved John Krasinski as Reed Richards/Mr.
Kelsey Grammer as Beast in ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’.Kerry Hayes/20th Century Fox
Fantastic, a member of the Fantastic Four super-team and another character once owned by Fox.
Did he know then what we know now aboutAvengers: Doomsday?
It’s hard to say.
Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool and Wolverine.'.Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL
Kerry Hayes/20th Century Fox
Then, of course, there was 2024’sDeadpool & Wolverine.
The biggest new addition not including the other non-X cameos was Tatum.
Reynolds teased to EW thatMarvel became “obsessed with him in that role.”
Much like Grammer, Stewart, and everyone inDeadpool & Wolverine, they would come from parallel dimensions.
“Never say he never,” he captioned the footage.
“She’s back.
(Not counting the 2011 cameo inX-Men: First Class.)
