Spider - Man : No elbow room Homesubtly sets up the major job with theX - Men . Marvel Comics has always like to imagine its report take stead in what Stan Lee called " the man outside your window " - albeit one with gods and freak , aliens and mutants . The Marvel Cinematic Universe has followed the same variety of formatting , attempting to ground the various characters , from the Avengers to the Eternals , in the real world . That ’s lead to some of the most interesting picture of all , as the political recoil ofthe Sokovia Accordstore the Avengers aside inCaptain America : Civil War .

Spider - Man is the only Avenger to day of the month who has been a teenager in this shared macrocosm . That ’s given his solo motion picture a unequalled feel in the MCU , but it ’s also posed serious honourable questions about whether or not the Avengers should tolerate Spider - Man to join in with their superhero fights . It did n’t take long for War Machine to pick up on this inCaptain America : Civil War , with Tony Stark brushing the question of Spider - Man ’s age aside . " I do n’t know , I did n’t carbon - date him , " Iron Man defended himself . " He ’s on the vernal side . " The question of Spider - Man ’s age surface again inSpider - Man : No Way Home , whenPeter Parker ’s darling Aunt Maywas incriminate of child hazard because she had give up him to represent as a hero . " shaver endangerment ’s a nasty knock , " Agent Cleary accused her . " A boy was leave to you , and as his effectual guardian - essentially his female parent - you not only allowed him to endanger himself , but you really encouraged it . Who does that ? " It ’s true this was just a throwaway scene , and the ethical considerations were n’t later explored in gravid deepness - but the question is a chilling one nonetheless , and it has serious implication for the future of the MCU , specially how it relates to the Adam - Men .

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When Disney buy the mass of Fox ’s film and TV empire , Marvel regained the film rights to the X - man . It ’s now only a matter of time before   theX - Men join the MCU , admit Charles Xavier , their founding father . In the comics , Charles Xavier is a man who founded his School for Gifted Youngsters , where he trained raw mutants , whose powers were commonly triggered at puberty , in the role of their powers . Xavier did n’t just teach them how to safely practice their abilities , however ; he also teach them how to wage warfare , training them in a Danger Room and sending them on field missions against powerful rivals such as Magneto . Assuming Marvel Studios wish to narrate an even remotely mirthful book - precise X - Men story , the answer to Agent Cleary ’s question of who does that is light : Charles Xavier .

Fox ’s movie never really twist with this question . The original X - Men pic skipped it whole ; although Professor X ran a school , the vast bulk of the disco biscuit - Men who assure actual fight were adult . Fox afterward stepped back in theX - Men timelineinX - Men : First Class , stick in a younger iteration of the team , but they never really thought much about the implication . But the MCU , with its high arcdegree of self - awareness , will certainly be ineffectual to resist tackle this question school principal - on . After all , as soon as it ’s posed , Charles Xavier is reinterpreted for the audience ; he is no mere dreamer , a visionary who long for ataraxis between human being and mutant . There is a shadow to him , a dark side seen in his willingness to air stripling out to war . At the very least , it reveals there is a pragmatism to him rarely evinced that   show he understands that   variation will never have heartsease or be accepted , as much as he strives for it .

The real - world focus of the MCU means dubiousness like this are commonplace . Often , as inSpider - Man : No Way Home , the questions are gravel but no answers are given - only because resolving them would shake things up a small too much . But Marvel could potentially make this the tonality to theMCU ’s variation of the X - Men , with their Charles Xavier much darker than those present by Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy . The comics actually assume this approach from the ' 90 , and Marvel   Studios’X - Mencould differentiate themselves from their self-aggrandising - screen harbinger by embracing this darkness right from the beginning .

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