{"id":499639,"date":"2026-03-28T06:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499639\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:59:16","slug":"the-lesser-known-x-men-we-want-to-see-in-the-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/499639\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lesser-Known X-Men We Want to See in the MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"

In short, Thunderbird offers the MCU more of a blank canvas, an opportunity to say something new with a character, rather than feel beholden to beats well-established in the comics. The television series The Gifted<\/a> got to flesh out Thunderbird, where he was played by Blair Redford, but the movies could take it even further.<\/p>\n

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\"Armor<\/p>\n

Armor<\/p>\n

Most mutants come to Xavier\u2019s School for Gifted Youngsters shortly after their powers manifest at puberty, which means that most of the people around the X-Men are teens and not adults. Every so often, a young teen, usually a female character, becomes a focal point for the story. First it was Kitty Pryde, then Jubilee in X-Men: The Animated Series, Rogue serves that role in the movies, and most recently, that part was played by the Japanese mutant Hisako Ichiki, a.k.a. Armor.<\/p>\n

Armor can create red psionic suit around her body, an interesting twist on defensive-based heroes. Since her introduction in Joss Whedon<\/a> and John Cassidy\u2019s Astonishing X-Men, Armor has been one of the more popular new mutants, even serving as the lead of Peach Momoko\u2019s Ultimate X-Men.<\/p>\n

\"Kate<\/p>\n

Kate Pryde<\/p>\n

Before Armor, there was Kitty Pryde, the 13-year-old who joined the team early in Chris Claremont\u2019s run. An earnest girl with terrible fashion sense and a willingness to say what others won\u2019t (sometimes with terrible results), Kitty quickly won over fans, whether she was calling herself Sprite, Ariel, or Shadowcat. Fittingly, Kitty did appear in the X-Men movies, played by Elliot Page<\/a> in X-Men: The Last Stand and in Days of Future Past<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Those appearances dealt with Kitty as a teen, but the character has long since grown up and is now one of the leaders of the team. Kitty should absolutely appear in a new X-Men film, but we should finally get the adult Kate Pryde instead of the young teen. That means we should see her as a principled leader, someone who knows how to temper her passions with a little patience. And she should definitely have a female love interest, as in the current comics, not her original boyfriend, Colossus, or her one-time betrothed, Peter Quill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Dazzler<\/p>\n

Dazzler<\/p>\n

All the X-Men are weird, but few are weirder than Dazzler, at least in terms of her origin. Dazzler was created as part of a collaboration between Marvel Comics and Casablanca Records, who would debut with a disco album along with her comics. Even though the album never materialized, Dazzler eventually made her way onto the X-Men, serving as a key member during the fan-favorite Outback era and appearing in the 1989 animated special \u201cPryde of the X-Men\u201d and the brawler arcade game it inspired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In short, Thunderbird offers the MCU more of a blank canvas, an opportunity to say something new with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-499639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}