Disney’s acquisition of Fox solved a massive problem for Marvel’s Cinematic Universe, which had been without its two most popular teams for 17 years, but it also sired a few plot holes that Marvel creatives have had to get, well, creative about solving. Fans really want to see the X-Men and the Fantastic Four in the MCU, but introducing them this late in the game, after threats like Thanos have come and gone, offers a continuity challenge.
Marvel learned this the hard way with Eternals, which revealed that the team had been forced to live in the shadows since the dawn of humanity. Not every fan appreciated that attempt to reconcile the characters with the timeline, and it’ll be even harder with these far more popular absentees.
