Ever since Disney and 20th Century Studios merged several years ago, fans of the Marvel Cinematic Universe have been champing at the bit for Fox’s Marvel properties–X-Men, mutants in general, and the Fantastic Four–to be integrated into the MCU.
Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Ant-Man & the Wasp: Quantumania and other recent entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
It hasn’t happened yet, but a movie is on the schedule for 2025, and there have been teases in a couple places that indicate we might not have to wait until that film to see them play major roles in the MCU. Most notably the appearance of Patrick Stewart as Professor X and John Krasinski as Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness. While those alternate universe versions of the characters were killed during that film, it’s only a matter of time before we get a proper Fantastic Four movie and mutants start popping up all over the place.