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Elizabeth Olsen has been a central part of the Marvel mainstream universe since 2015’sAvengers: Age of Ultron. The rise and fall of Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch have been simultaneously dizzying and vexing throughout her stay at MCU. Although the latest appearance marked a gruesome send-off to the former Avenger, the news that followed has been indicative of anything but.
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Now, the Marvel actor, who has been hounded and plagued by questions about her character’s future in the MCU swerves a little from the set path and talks about the new hot topic of the tinsel town, the revival of Hugh Jackman and the X-Men’s official arrival in the MCU.
The X-Men Supremacy Era Begins in the MCU
The X-Men have always been an integral force of nature for the Marvel comic universe. Although shunned and feared in the beginning, the mutants grew to be loved and accepted just like the other superheroes of the comic world. However, their journey has always been infinitely harder than other counterparts, the Avengers. Whereas the latter have, individually and as a team, been lauded and deified, the X-Men have faced threats of segregation, eradication, and extinction multiple times throughout their existence.
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With tragedy and infinite loss always nipping at their heels, the heroes still marched on, and now, after a long and divisive journey, the Foxverse characters have finally set foot inside the Marvel mainstream universe, marking the first time that an X-Men franchise character gets to operate within the MCU in live-action cinema. The excitement then becomes manifold whenHugh Jackman, the best and the only acceptable version of Wolverine, becomes the pioneer for this radical transition, even after decisively and irrefutably declining to ever revive the role afterLogan(2017).
The film marked the end of an era and was an emotional adieu to the character that the Australian actor had personified for 17 long years. Well, not anymore.
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Elizabeth Olsen Talks About the X-Men’s Arrival at MCU
AlthoughElizabeth Olsen‘s Scarlet Witch was inherently “made” in her MCU origin story, there exists an inherent connection between her character, Wanda Maximoff, and the X-Men patriarch, Magneto. The comic origin of Wanda Maximoff and her twin was often attributed to being the children of Erik Lensherr, played in the Foxverse byMichael Fassbenderand Sir Ian McKellen. Elizabeth Olsen, during a recent interview withVariety, got to share her thoughts on the matter of the X-Men’s arrival at MCU and what it means for her two worlds of origin to clash.
“I don’t know. I think if whenever we bring in X-Men—I guess Wolverine is X-Men, right? I mean, it would be cool to work with a lot of those people from theX-Menfranchise. I think [Michael] Fassbender’s [Magneto is] my dad in some world? That would be [cool].”
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Although this does sound like a dream vision for the Marvel x Foxverse fandom, both Fassbender, as well as Olsen’s characters, have uncertain futures in their respective universes (as of now). With the unification of the two, perhaps Marvel could work up some miracle, as they did with Jackman, and make that pipe dream a reality. The evil supremacy would really be a sight to behold.
Deadpool 3premieres on September 6th, 2024.
Source:Variety
Diya Majumdar
Senior Writer
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
