Does this mean that Patrick Stewart will play Xavier in future Marvel movies?
Although we don’t know what Marvel Studios president Kevin Feigi’s plans are for the future of MCU, the answer is that technically no, it doesn’t confirm or deny Stewart’s involvement in future Marvel projects. While all the Doctor Strange and Wanda Maximoffs we meet in the multiverse of Doctor Strange 2 are played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Olson, the Disney + Marvel Loki TV series has already found that the same character can be played by different actors in radically different forms: ranging from “Sylvie” by Sofia Di Martino to “Classic Loki” by Richard E. Grant. There’s also that little Spider-Man novelty: No Way Home and his case with many Peter Parkers and MJ.
So while Stewart played the older statesman Xavier in the timeline where the Illuminati exist to repel multidimensional threats, any number of actors (or even actresses?) Could still play Professor X in the inevitable version of the mainstream character. MCU line. The same goes for John Krasinski as Reed Richards.
What does this mean for the MCU ahead?
For starters, we now have confirmation (which is not surprising) that Xavier exists in the multiverse, and therefore mutants. In theory, this also means that Marvel Studios has found that the MCU’s main timeline includes Xavier and mutants, perhaps even the X-Men task force that just exists off-screen.
However, this is an open question for Marvel fans since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox, how exactly will the MCU include mutants. After all, the established Avengers superheroes (2012) are rock star gods who are revered by the general population, especially if their last name ends in Stark or Rodgers. While Captain America: Civil War (2016) found that not everyone is a fan, The Avengers: The End of 2019 almost buried skeptics given Tony Stark’s globally mourning funeral after the Avengers saved the universe from Thanos.
So why would this world “hate and fear” mutants, which is essential to the mythology of the X-Men and their status as an allegory for discussing various forms of bigotry, racism and more? What if instead of mutants that have existed for centuries, a la comics and Fox movies, they are the result of an event between dimensions? In the multiverse of madness, Dr. Strange finds that “raids” are existential threats that one universe can take on another. That’s why the Illuminati are forming in the universe, where we meet Stewart’s Xavier tied to a hand.
So who can say that there will be no large-scale invasion event until the end of Phase Four or Phase Five, which will subsequently cause mutants to exist in a world where they did not have it before? Instead of superpowers belonging to god-like beings operating high from Mount Olympus (also known as the Avengers Complex), they are suddenly everywhere because of an existential threat that shook people like a “moment” from the War of Infinity. Perhaps the mutants are seen as a harbinger of another nightmare, like a flash, or simply as a threat to “our schools” due to the spread of superpowers.
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