{"id":257123,"date":"2025-12-30T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257123\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T01:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:14:07","slug":"x-men-97s-golden-rules-finally-revealed-the-mcus-reboot-needs-to-follow-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/257123\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Men \u201897\u2019s Golden Rules Finally Revealed (& The MCU\u2019s Reboot Needs To Follow Them)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beau DeMayo, creator of the wildly popular X-Men \u201897<\/a> animated series, has been no stranger to controversy recently, what with his messy departure from Marvel<\/a>. But despite that, excitement over the X-Men finally making their MCU debut is at an all-time high<\/a>, with the newest trailer for Avengers: Doomsday centering around their story. And now DeMayo has released pages from what he refers to as his \u201cbible,\u201d giving fans the blueprint that the live-action adaptation could really benefit from following.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adamant that Wolverine should only be a C-rank character, DeMayo said that it was time for the X-Men to move on from their most well-known face. He stated that each season he planned for X-Men \u201897 would focus on a different character, with Season 3 being all about Gambit<\/a> and \u201chis arc in Age of Apocalypse, where he would be assembling a team at the behest of Magneto to find and steal the M\u2019Krann Crystal,\u201d essentially confirming that Gambit isn\u2019t dead\u2014at least in the DeMayo-verse. In response to his thoughts about downgrading Wolverine\u2019s screentime, one fan said<\/a>, \u201cI love that you divided up the teams into colors like the comics. Glad also it didn\u2019t become the Wolverine show like the other cartoon series that followed the original X-Men series.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Could We Have Expected From DeMayo\u2019s X-Men?<\/p>\n

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For those curious \u2014 these are the pages from my bible for #xmen97<\/a>. You\u2019ll see how Wolverine was listed from go as a C character. I\u2019ll find the script I used to pitch to the head studio where I explicitly stated \u201cThis is not the Wolverine show. It\u2019s time to move on.\u201d <\/p>\n

I was\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/JOmQpEvn66<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 28, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The former showrunner seemed very focused on portraying the X-Men as eternal underdogs, who \u201crely on teamwork to fight for social justice and inclusion. Unlike the Avengers or the Fantastic Four, the X-Men save humanity from a diabolical threat, only to return home to news coverage blaming them for the very incident they averted. This means the X-Men must rely on each other not only in the field, but also at home for emotional support.\u201d It seems the found family trope was one that DeMayo intended to lean heavily into, weaving those threads throughout the rest of the story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The characters were also broken down into colored teams, essentially ranking them in terms of their storylines and the kind of narrative relief that they would bring. The \u201cgold team,\u201d characters who would have season-long story arcs, with their points of view favored, consisted of Cyclops, Storm, and Magneto. The \u201cblue team\u201d was made up of characters that would receive \u201cmini arcs,\u201d and featured Jean Grey, Rogue, Xavier, Morph, as well as Cable. And finally, the \u201cred team,\u201d characters who were there in a more support style, to bring \u201cflavor\u201d to the main storyline, consisted of Gambit, Wolverine, Jubilee, and Beast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The MCU would genuinely benefit from embracing these strategies, which would enable it to breathe new life into the live-action X-Men, setting whatever comes next apart from the films we\u2019ve gotten in the past and allowing the new generation to be something wholly unique.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What are you most excited for when it comes to the X-Men\u2019s future in the MCU? Let us know in the comments. And don\u2019t forget to check out the ComicBook forum<\/a> to keep the conversation going.\u00a0<\/p>\n