Legion

Oh duh, Legion. Yeah, the trailer looked ok, but I find the whole thing quite puzzling. Legion is a super-legacy character – he’s the son of Professor Xavier and Gabrielle Haller (not the best instance of Xavier’s professionalism there), he’s an extremely powerful mutant with Dissociative Identity Disorder, he was held at Muir Island (just like Proteus, who he resembles in many ways), and he set off the Age of Apocalypse by accidentally murdering his own father while time-travelling.

So he’s a really odd choice for an X-Men TV show, as compared to something like New Mutants or Generation X, which lend themselves to the cheaper cast/celebrity cameo model of integration. 

What I will say, as a fan of the X books who’s been worried about the whole sidelining of the X-Men because of ongoing rights issues story, is that I’m genuinely pleased that Fox and Marvel TV are working together on this one. I’m keeping my powder dry, but if this eventually leads to a Sony-like deal between Fox and Marvel that lets them use the X-Men in the MCU, or at the very least allows for the “m-word” so that we can finally be done with the Inhumans, and give Marvel a stronger motive to revitalize the X-books, I’d be thrilled. 

And if reports can be believed, this collaboration may have given Marvel the Fantastic Four back. Even as someone who isn’t the biggest FF fan in the world, it would be nice to see the FF done right, but it’s even more important because of their rogue’s gallery, which is vital for the MCU’s future. I’m hoping that the Infinity War movies are good, but Thanos is just not as good a Big Bad as Doctor Doom or Galactus or Annihilus or Kang the Conqueror, and in the right hands, I think Namor could out-Loki Loki in the fandom.