Marvel Just Made Every Wild X-Men MCU Theory Possible

There’s no shortage of crazy theories on how the X-Men could join the MCU – and Loki just made them all possible. Ever since the monumental Fox-Disney deal, fans have been coming up with all sorts of different ways that Marvel might can use to bring in Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Magneto, Beast, and all the others.

Many have assumed that the introduction of mutants can’t be as simple as Professor Xavier suddenly appearing and recruiting a team of young mutants in MCU Phase 5. A common belief among fans is that since no mutant hero or villain has been utilized in any of Marvel’s 23 MCU movies, it wouldn’t work for them to suddenly start showing up. Instead, it's commonly held that Marvel will have to offer a proper explanation for why mutantkind doesn’t already have a presence in the MCU. Some think that the movies and shows will pull this off through the multiverse, but since no plans for the X-Men have been announced as of yet, there’s still no concrete indication as to which way Marvel will go.

Loki episode 2 indicates that some of the theories – perceived by many as too outlandish to be feasible – might not be impossible after all. Sometime after learning about the mysterious Time-Keepers and how they created the TVA and all of its agents, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) expressed some doubts, but Mobius M. Mobius (Owen Wilson) had an excellent counterpoint: though it is certainly weird, it’s not actually stranger than the existence of Asgard and everything associated with it. He also made a remark about how “most things in history are kinda dumb.” What Mobius is saying, essentially, is that not everything in the multiverse has to make perfect sense – and that could apply to Marvel’s X-Men plan as well.

As Mobius explained in the episode, the Sacred Timeline is already the home to Frost Giants, mystical realms, and a “god of the heavens.” Mobius admits that these things sound “ridiculous,” which is why he just chooses to look past them and accept them for what they are. By that logic, Marvel doesn’t necessarily need a grounded origin for the X-Men. It really could go with something a bit unorthodox. Among the less-grounded ideas that have been floated are the prospect of Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) willing them into existence in a reverse of the House of M story, a reality with mutants merging with the MCU in Doctor Strange 2, or Smart Hulk accidentally making them when he did his own Snap in Avengers: Endgame.

None of these theories sound like what most are expecting, but if audiences follow Mobius’s approach and accept them just as they have with the concepts that are already a part of the MCU (and the ones that are on their way in films like Shang-Chi and Eternals), then there may not be a problem with how Marvel decides to execute it. Loki isn’t wrong; the MCU is weird, so bearing that in mind, a crazy X-Men origin story is unlikely to break it.

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