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Originally Posted by Trivial Psychic

Back on the topic of the Fox acquisition, Who do you think should be the primary foes for the first films of the Fantastic 4, Silver Surfer, and the X-Men when they finally make their way to the MCU? I'd like to think that Disney would steer away from villains we've received before, the way they did with Spider-Man: Homecoming (Vulture,) and honestly, I could go an X-Men film or two without having to see Magneto or Mystique as a primary antagonist. Same for Fantastic Four with Doctor Doom.

For me personally...

Surfer: Mephisto
Fantastic Four: Annihlus or Sub Mariner
X-Men: Mr Sinister or Freedom Force (Yes...I know Mystique was a part of that team...so maybe someone else to take her place...like a throwback to Rogue's villainous past maybe?)

Totally agree about skipping Doom and Magneto, at least for the first film.

For the FF, I always imagined the first film would skip the origin similar to Spider-Man:Homecoming and start with them already changed. Reed leads them on the first trip to the Negative Zone where they run into Annihilus.

As for the X-Men, I personally think that mutants already exist in the MCU. In the Incredible Hulk, the canister containing the serum that Ross gave to Blonsky had a Weapon Plus label on it. For those who don't know, Weapon Plus is the blanket program responsible for creating super soldiers like Captain America (Weapon 1) before turning it's attention to mutants starting with Wolverine (Weapon 10 (X)). To me, I think it's totally possible that Wolverine is out there right now with his adamantium skeleton and claws.

But for the first movie, I would have the X-Men fight Trask and the Sentinels. Most of the general public isn't aware of mutants atm. The government however is and doesn't like the fact that random people are waking up with super powers. Trask wants to sell Sentinels to the government but they need a way to ID mutants. Trask reads some of Xavier's research that he published in grad school and suspects that Xavier could give him what he needs. Professor X has started the school which gives kids a safe place to control their powers and go to school before returning to society. But he doesn't want the government to view the school as a mutant boot camp so only the teaching staff are trained to be X-Men. Trask kidnaps Xavier which forces the X-Men to assault Trask's factory to rescue the Professor. I think the team should consist of Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Psylocke, Colossus, and Kitty Pryde.