Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT A fan art collection has emerged depicting what 24 X-Men would have looked like if they were cast in a pre-MCU 80s production. While X-Men '97 is Marvel's first X-Men-focused production since the studio reacquired the rights, mutants have been at the forefront of the MCU zeitgeist for quite some time.
Related 10 X-Men Characters Who Would Never Work In The MCU Even though the integration of mutants and the X-Men into the MCU is exciting, there are several mutants from Marvel Comics that should be ignored.
It's also clear that a 1980s X-Men movie would not have been so rife with CGI as modern-day iterations. This may have hampered how certain mutants' powers were depicted, though movies like Star Wars, which was released in the 1970s, help to illustrate how things like Cyclops' optic blasts could have been handled.