What’s Next for Marvel After the Multiverse Saga? Future Plans Explained 

Marvel fans have been clamoring for one thing for a long time: the inclusion of the X-Men in the MCU. Rumors have been swirling on the web since Disney took over 20th Century Fox and rights to Marvel’s much loved mutants were reverted. We got a few teasers for the blockbuster Deadpool & Wolverine, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. In a raft of interviews, director Jake Schreier, currently directing Marvel’s Thunderbolts team movie revealed some big, long-awaited news about the X-Men Reboot. 

This is the news you’ve been waiting for if you love Marvel’s mutants. Here’s what Schreier actually said about the film director/writer and why the MCU could benefit from this “new start.”  

Who is Writing the MCU X-Men?

One of the largest questions around the new X-Men film was who Marvel President Kevin Feige would deem worthy to pen it. The X-Men aren’t just another superhero team, they have decades of intricate comic history, social commentary, and fan expectations.

Jake Schreier has also officially confirmed that the script is now with an amazing, Emmy-winning duo – Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo. 

If these names seem familiar, that’s because they are the masterminds behind a few of the best TVs you’ve watched these past couple years. For The Beefdown, it is original showrunner Lee Sung Jin, an award-winning maker recognized for his dark comedy and seismic character dynamics. Bear co-showrunner and writer Joanna Calo is a critically lauded FX series that artfully captures tension, collaboration and fraught emotional trauma. 

Why This Writing Team is a Perfect Match

You might be wondering: Why bring on the writers of character-rich emotional TV dramedies True Blood and Six Feet Under to pen the screenplay for a sprawling superhero movie? 

The explanation is simple: the MCU X-Men are basically a superpowered soap opera. 

At their heart, the X-Men aren’t really about fighting giant robots or alien inva sions to save the world. They’re found family, They’re discrimination and personal trauma and they’re different kinds of people learning to accept who they are. The great X-Men comics (and there are very many, this list is by no means exhaustive) mine the relationships, rivalries and romances among the characters in the X-Mansion. 

Marvel is showing its intentions with the teaming up of the minds behind Beef and The Bear. Rather than just having a bunch of big-scale computer generated images, they want the next X-Men to be more about character growth and emotional subtlety. 

Leaving the Fox Universe Behind

Maybe the most exciting thing Jake Schreier gave away was the direction the team is heading creatively. He said that they’re deliberately trying to take a “less-trodden path.”

What does that mean? So what that means is, they just don’t want to do what the 20th Century Fox movies have already done.

The X-Men line of films from Fox, which began in 2000 and ended its run with Dark Phoenix and The New Mutants, really treated us with some wild goodness. Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Patrick Stewart’s Professor X are iconic. Yet, for twenty years, the series was defined by the very same characters and themes. Magneto vs. Professor X, we’ve seen that debate play out several times. We even got to see the Dark Phoenix saga twice. We saw Wolverine take centre stage in just about every film.

The MCU reset will be a clean slate, Schreier says. They’re delving into X-Men lore in a way that’s never before been seen on the big screen. 

What Could a “Fresh Start” Look Like?

If Marvel is steering clear of the “beaten path,” we could see some big differences from the previous films. Here are just a few ways they could make this reboot feel completely new:

A Different Villain: Instead of positioning Magneto as the chief antagonist right off the bat, the MCU might introduce classic villains that we’ve never really seen done justice. Mister Sinister, the Hellfire Club, or even the Purifiers would be fantastic, terrifying adversaries for the latest generation of mutants. 

A Completely New Team: Rather than starting with the same team from the 2000 film, Marvel could bring on fan-favorite mutants who never really got their moment in the sun, such as Jubilee, Gambit, Emma Frost, or a version of Cyclops that’s properly comic-accurate and actually gets to lead the team.

The School Dynamic: The Fox movies regularly used the Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters as a backdrop. The MCU could play it like a real school and tell stories about the day-to-day lives, drama & struggles of young mutants trying to control their powers. 

Balancing Action and Emotion: The Marvel’s Thunderbolts Connection

Jake Schreier’s inclusion here is no accident. He is helming Thunderbolts, a further film dealing with a scrappy, problematic team of super-powered people.

Schreier stressed this balance in these group films in his latest drafts. Marvel fans are familiar with big, exhilarating set piece scenes, but you also need those quiet, emotional moments where the characters interact. 

Balancing an ensemble cast (a film with multiple leads) is notoriously hard. You need to give every character a full story arc, and they don’t all do that then just kind of fade away into the background. Schreier’s previous direction of the Thunderbolts lineup including Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, and Red Guardian will definitely offer a great take on how the X-Men should be treated.

If the writing team nailing the emotional heft of a show like The Bear is able to combine that with the superhero spectacle the MCU is known for, fans are in for a masterpiece. 

How Will the X-Men Fit Into the Current MCU Timeline?

Although we now know who the writing team is and how they plan to generally tackle it, one gigantic question mark remains: how and when will mutants be brought into the MCU?We are currently now at the tailend of the “Multiverse Saga” in the MCU, which will end with Avengers: Secret Wars.There are two main theories about how the X-Men will be introduced: 

They Are From Another Universe

Deadpool & Wolverine dealt extensively in the multiverse, leading some fans to speculate that the MCU X-Men will come from an alternate timeline. In the course of Secret Wars, their universe could potentially be brought into contact with the primary MCU timeline (known as Earth-616), potentially leading to the surviving mutants making the world of the Avengers their home. 

They Have Been Here All Along

There are also some fans who want to see things that are a bit more grounded. Due to this line of reasoning mutants have always existed in the MCU but either they were extremely rare or Professor X wiped their memories so they wouldn’t be able to remember being mutants in a society that would hate and fear them. For better or worse, a global incident activates the “X-Gene” in thousands of adolescents around the world, bringing mutants out of hiding and into the light of day. 

Either way, it sounds like whatever path Marvel goes down, they are setting themselves up for a “fresh start”, giving them the ability to shape the mutant corner of the universe exactly how they want to, unencumbered by the past movie continuity. 

Why This is the Most Important Movie for Marvel’s Future

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has been the butt of jokes for a few years now after waiting for the fall of Avengers: Endgame. Sure there have been huge hits like Spider-Man: No Way Home and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 but there have also been some financial flops and fan grumbles. The X-Men are the golden ticket for Marvel Studios. 

The mutant heroes are perhaps the most popular and relatable heroes in all of Marvel’s catalog. The Marvel slate is only getting better by accepting the realities of modern storytelling and the best ones to take advantage of that are shows like Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo’s strain on familiar characters that is a whole new, character-focused vision – Marvel is clearly indicating they are taking this reboot seriously.

Maybe Phase 6 of the MCU, and after, will just be the MCU X-Men. If successful, it will mean that audiences will come back to theaters for another ten years of crazy, wonderful storytelling. 

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Conclusion

The news coming out of Jake Schreier’s mouth is exactly what the fans really needed to know ahead of time. The MCU X-Men reboot isn’t just a rumor anymore, it’s actually being drafted by some of the most talented creators in Hollywood today.

By focusing on a “clean slate” and getting to the deep, emotional core of what makes the mutants so special, Marvel is clearing the decks for something really incredible. The path to the new MCU X-Men film may still be a few years off, but knowing it lies in the hands of writers that really get character drama makes the wait more than worthwhile. 

Thanos is the legendary Marvel Supervillains that fans believed yet because the guy wiped out half the universe with one snap. That alone made him a legend. But if you’ve read the comics, you know Marvel’s universe goes much, much further than what we saw in the movies. And then there are much older and scarier creatures – ones that make Thanos look almost diminutive by comparison. One of them is the god of the symbiotes known as Knull who can beat up Thanos.

The Question is: If they go down on the ground then who wins the battle? So, in Knull #3 (Ewing and Waltz, art by Juanan Ramirez), Marvel brings us this very battle and officially confirms who comes out on top.

And trust me, you’re not going to see the ending of this fight. 

The Contenders: A Quick Look at Our Heavyweights

This bloody nitty gritty epic clash between Marvel Supervillains is the most awaited moment to the marvel fans because we have Thanos, the Mad Titan. He is a tactical genius, formidable strength and fully merciless. Thanos has even squared off against the Hulk, Thor, and groups of Avengers without the help of the Infinity Stones. His warped agenda animates him and doesn’t have second thoughts about stamping over whoever hopes to stop him.

On the Other side, we have Knull, the God of the Void. You may not know about him but Comic Book mentioned Knull as an ancient, dark god who created the extraterrestrial species such as Venom and Carnage are also known as Symbiotes. Why Ancient? Because he was one who dwelt in darkness before the light of the universe was. 

Knull almost obliterates the Earth with the 2020 mammoth King in Black comic storyline before he is defeated at last by Eddie Brock. It is an ancient evil, pure darkness that commands a horde of dragons and monsters. 

A Powerless God vs a Dominant Titan

A quick look at these two heavyweights Marvel Supervillains might lead you to think that it will become a long and hotly contested, feel-good war. But that’s not the way it turned out. In Knull series, the self-styled God of Symbiotes was never in a position of strength. He was outnumbered, and not at the peak of his power, in fact. 

Who Can Win Between Marvel Supervillains?

The King in Black event shows that Knull gets the devastating defeat that makes him completely destroyed. But in comics, you can never keep a good villain down permanently. He was just recently resurrected after Venom relinquished his King in Black title. But there was a major catch — Knull was recovered in a significantly diminished state. To make matters worse, he wound up as a miserable captive of the Asgardian Goddess of Death.

Hela being the power-hungry goddess she was, desired to steal Knull’s dark powers for herself. For her grand plan, she also brought in a familiar face, her ex-boyfriend: Thanos.

To rub even more salt in Knull’s wounds, Thanos was heavily armed. He carried the Spear of Light (also called the All-Light), a mythical and potent weapon that was once wielded by Knull’s cosmic antithesis. So, the stage was set for a nearly powerless Knull, cut off from his normal source of power shadows to square off against an all-powerful Thanos wielding a weapon created of pure light. From just reading the name, Thanos was supposed to win this fight easily. 

The Brutal Showdown: Knull Pulls Off the Unthinkable

As the Marvel Supervillains battle began, it appeared exactly as it should have. The Mad Titan was the clear favorite. Thanos wielded the cruel physical force and blinding might of the Spear of Light to drive the debilitated Symbiote God back. But Knull isn’t just powerful, he is ancient, intelligent and absolutely terrifying.

Since Thanos bright weapon was illuminating the battle field, Knull couldn’t use his shadowy and dark related weapons. But Knull soon learned that there was at least one place the light couldn’t reach: the darkness within Thanos.

In a cruel, horrifying turn of events, Knull weaponized the dark essence of Thanos’ own body against him. Knull suddenly explodes from Thanos, unexpectedly. The scene is so graphic and brutal. It finishes with the almighty, unbeaten Thanos collapsing to the ground with his organs in his hands, as the most devastating defeat physically, and emotionally, he has ever known. 

Did Marvel Just Use the Viral Ant-Man Theory?

If that entire “Knull annihilates Thanos from the inside” thing sounds strangely familiar to you, that’s because it is. Just before Avengers: Endgame came out in 2019, a gross fan theory went viral on the internet.

Fans also joked that the simplest way to stop Thanos would be to have Scott Lang (Ant-Man) to shrink down, get inside him and then expand out again — taking out the Mad Titan from within. It was silly, over the top, and for some reason became one of the most talked about jokes in the fandom back then. 

While Knull’s dark magic technique from the comic is not quite the same (and oh so much less bizarre), the heart of it definitely remains. He got inside Thanos and destroyed him from the inside out. You can’t help but wonder if the creative minds at Marvel borrowed a little bit from that iconic Internet meme to give Thanos his most brutal defeat yet. It’s the sort of brutal finisher you’d expect from the God of the Void. 

The Aftermath: A New King Rises to Power

What makes Marvel Supervillains victory all the more impressive is that Knull was at his absolute weakest. He didn’t just defeat Thanos in a fistfight, he humiliated him and destroyed then left with the Spear of Light. 

And then he also took full control of Thanos’ brutal Outrider army. It’s quite clear now that the God of the Void has no more games to play. In short, he is taking the weapons and armies of his enemies to become again the most powerful thing ever, and the rest of the Marvel Universe really should be shaking in their boots about what he does next. 

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Will We Ever See Marvel Supervillains Epic Clash in the Movies?

Now that it is established that Knull is stronger than Thanos in comics, the question is: Will this legendary rivalry ever make it to the big screen?

To be blunt, it’s somewhat confusing right now. Thanos has a significant edge in this department when it comes to the movies. After years of development through MCU storytelling, he’s become a household name.

Knull isn’t exactly new to everyone, as he made his debut in Sony’s 2024 movie Venom: The Last Dance. While Andy Serkis portrayed the character, we let a quick look at him captive on Klyntar, the symbiote homeworld. Fans were clearly left wanting more, but it was a fun little nod to the comics. 

Given all the noise about reboots and major changes coming to Sony’s Spider-Man universe, where that leaves Knull on the big screen is anyone’s guess. Drag if that is all for his live-action story before it really started. The King in Black has all the ingredients needed to be a frightening, universe-ending villain in the movies, just as dynamic and evil as Thanos himself. 

Conclusion

Comic Book readers can rejoice for the ultimate Marvel Supervillains Knull has joined the MCU finally. In a cosmic villain throwdown, Knull the Symbiote God reigns supreme, crushing a fallen Mad Titan in a pool of blood. As the new Knull comic series progresses, there is no telling what the God of the Void will do next with his newly stolen powers. 

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