X-Men & Avengers’ New Shared Base Is a Glimpse at the MCU’s Best Possible Future

Warning: Contains spoilers for Weapon X-Men #1 (2024)!A glimpse at a brand-new corner of the Marvel Multiverse introduced readers to the perfect remodel for Avengers Tower, when the X-Men officially join the MCU. Weapon X-Men follows a group of multiversal Wolverines teaming up to stop Onslaught, an ultra-powerful threat combining Magneto and Jean Grey’s powers. In their hunt for Onslaught, the Wolverine team travels to a universe where mutants and humans, including Avengers and X-Men, operate together in harmony.

Weapon X-Men #1 – written by Christos Gage, illustrated by Yildiray Cinar – introduces a timeline where the X-Men have fully integrated with the Avengers, showing the possible outcome of mutants joining the MCU’s premier team.

Though the issue doesn’t end positively for the team after Onslaught’s attack, the Uncanny Avengers and their tower represent a world where mutants and X-Men are fully accepted into society.

Weapon X-Men #1– Written By Christos Gage; Art By Yıldıray Çınar; Color By Nolan Woodard; Lettering By Clayton Cowles

In the first appearance of Earth-93068, the band of multiverse-displaced Wolverines meet the Uncanny Avengers. This team of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes features Jean Grey and Magneto as the leaders of mutantkind. After a brief misunderstanding, the teams join forces and regroup at Uncanny Avengers Tower in Manhattan. A reinvention of Avengers Tower that embraces the coalition with the X-Men, this new team base features an all-new logo that combines the teams’ X and A letter logos. With a few mutants already joining the MCU and more coming, a version of Uncanny Avengers Tower is possible in future films.

The Uncanny Avengers, aka the Avengers Unity Group, first appeared as part of Marvel Comics’ Marvel NOW! initiative. Uncanny Avengers (2012) #1 – by Rick Remender and John Cassaday – featured Havok joining forces with Captain America and Thor after the cataclysmic Avengers vs X-Men event, to unite members of the two teams. The first iteration of this team also featured Rogue, Wolverine, and the Scarlet Witch as the group fought the Red Skull. Versions of the team in the mainstream Marvel continuity have disbanded and come together in the years since, most recently during the Fall of X event.

“Weapon X-Men” Offers A Hint At The MCU’s Future

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Not all mutants have been relegated to the Uncanny edition, there have been several X-Men on the main Avengers team over the years as well. The first X-Men characters to join the Avengers were also the first to make it into the MCU;Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver joined way back in Avengers #16 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Wolverine and Beast are notably on both teams, even fighting on the side of Avengers in the aforementioned Avengers vs X-Men. That arc also featured Storm deciding to leave the Avengers, not long after she joined during her marriage to Black Panther.

With various X-Men that have been on the team before and the Uncanny Avengers still going strong as a concept, the future of mutants in the Avengers franchise is looking bright. Earth-93068’s symbol of the teams’ X and A standing united in the sky provides a powerful look at Marvel’s two top teams existing in perfect harmony.Weapon X-Men’s depiction of Uncanny Avengers Tower shows the best possible conclusion of the X-Men joining and being fully integrated into the MCU.