Scarlet Witch was also at the center of important Avengers storylines of the early 21st century.Īpart from a hilarious cameo in Deadpool 2, the Fox version of Quicksilver made an appearance in 2019’s Dark Phoenix, which also happened to be the final film in the X-Men franchise. However, the two were Avengers longer than the likes of Black Widow and Hulk. Quicksilver himself was a major member of X-Factor. Which corner of the Marvel Universe did they really belong to? They were under the X-Men umbrella as the mutant children of Magneto. The one really big complication was what to do with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. But it wasn’t as simple for other characters. Doom gets around as a villain in the comics and fights just about everyone, but at the end of the day, he’s grouped in with the Fantastic Four and could only be handled by Fox.
Doc Ock? He was clearly part of Spider-Man’s corner and could only be used in Spider-Man movies. Fox was able to make the X-Men a successful franchise, but had less success with two attempts at the Fantastic Four franchise.Įssentially, the entire Marvel Universe had to be categorized into different properties.
Universal had a complicated hold on the Hulk that lent itself to a unique partnership with Marvel. Sony had the rights for a Spider-Man franchise and had just finished Sam Raimi’s initial trilogy, preparing for a fourth film that didn’t work out and ultimately got replaced by a reboot. An idea like this was worth a laugh in the ‘90s, but Sony actually pulled it off 20 years later.īy the time Marvel made the decision to get into the film-making business themselves and start the MCU concept, the field had already settled. For example, New Line Cinema had the rights for a Venom film, albeit it should be a film where they couldn’t reference Spider-Man directly in any given way. There were some instances of studios sitting on these rights and not really doing anything about it for so long that they had to give them up.
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