[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Everyone pining for MCU X-Men, yet season 2 of Iron Fist dropped a huge Fantastic Four easter egg right onto our lap and no one loses their mind...

Sighs for the first family of Marvel...

Dude, if anything, it's Marvel who caused this sort of situation.

After all, the X-Men becoming the 90s media darlings of Marvel is what led to there being scores of us X-Fans even today, even with all the subsequent, often divisive adaptations that have happened.

If Marvel had backed the FF back then instead, we might be living in a wildly different landscape. But no. The best the FF did was ride on the X-Men's coattails since then (although really, everything was riding on the X-Men's coattails for a while there).

I love the FF, I love how they've been the ones who have helped expand the atlas of the Marvel Universe, both on Earth and off-world, but Marvel hasn't treated them right since, arguably, before I was born, or at least since the late 80s/early 90s. Between bad (or just boring) writers and storyarcs, lackluster animated series, and vaguely passable films at best, there's not a lot of FF fanatics out there. Even their greatest foes and allies have eclipsed them, going on to hold more presence in the cultural consciousness than the family themselves.

I still think they would work best in the MCU as a period piece, high-budget series. Set them in the 1960s, have them work alongside the early SHIELD with luminaries like Howard Stark, Peggy Carter, a young Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne. Give the series a lighthearted feel. It could be a lot of fun.