Fired X-MEN '97 showrunner Beau DeMayo has alleged that #MarvelStudios chief Kevin Feige "resented" the show "because fans... were using it as a referendum on how the #MCU is failing..." Full quote: https://t.co/B60E67WPXO pic.twitter.com/Tub26k0Js5
— MCU - The Direct (@MCU_Direct) August 15, 2025
Yep. I was told this in a phone call after Ep 5 premiered. I asked the exec if Kevin was happy, because stupidly I still wanted to help the studio out.
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) August 15, 2025
There response was a long pause, and then I was told that he’d be “happier” if fans and audiences weren’t using it as a… https://t.co/qmhE8vyHMa
Dude the showrunner for X-Men â€97 Beau DeMayo is going off on the MCU and I’m eating it up. pic.twitter.com/5LaVIDOiXY
— Maw (@TheEbonyMaw) August 15, 2025
The critique argues that Kevin Feige’s strength is also his downfall — his cautious, factory-like approach made Marvel successful, but now it’s causing stagnation. The MCU peaked with Infinity War, and Feige lacked the courage to end it there. Instead, he tried to keep it going endlessly, without bold risks or real contingency plans (such as accounting for Chadwick Boseman’s passing).
Meanwhile, Sony and Fox took gambles (Spider-Verse, Logan) that paid off because they respected audiences’ hunger for fresh, daring stories. Marvel, by contrast, hesitated with projects like Blade and missed obvious opportunities (e.g., a guaranteed R-rated Wolverine hit).
The message: Feige must stop playing safe. It’s time to risk, innovate, and eventually close the book with purpose, rather than dragging things out and diluting the legacy.
Edit: One more thing.
Bastion all day. Top 5 dialogue dead or alive. One of the Hardest themes ever made.
And the destruction of Genosha is one of the greatest animated sequences ever put to screen.
The critique argues that Kevin Feige’s strength is also his downfall — his cautious, factory-like approach made Marvel successful, but now it’s causing stagnation. The MCU peaked with Infinity War, and Feige lacked the courage to end it there. Instead, he tried to keep it going endlessly, without bold risks or real contingency plans (such as accounting for Chadwick Boseman’s passing).
Meanwhile, Sony and Fox took gambles (Spider-Verse, Logan) that paid off because they respected audiences’ hunger for fresh, daring stories. Marvel, by contrast, hesitated with projects like Blade and missed obvious opportunities (e.g., a guaranteed R-rated Wolverine hit).
The message: Feige must stop playing safe. It’s time to risk, innovate, and eventually close the book with purpose, rather than dragging things out and diluting the legacy.
Edit: One more thing.
Bastion all day. Top 5 dialogue dead or alive. One of the Hardest themes ever made.
And the destruction of Genosha is one of the greatest animated sequences ever put to screen.
The critique argues that Kevin Feige’s strength is also his downfall — his cautious, factory-like approach made Marvel successful, but now it’s causing stagnation. The MCU peaked with Infinity War, and Feige lacked the courage to end it there. Instead, he tried to keep it going endlessly, without bold risks or real contingency plans (such as accounting for Chadwick Boseman’s passing).
Meanwhile, Sony and Fox took gambles (Spider-Verse, Logan) that paid off because they respected audiences’ hunger for fresh, daring stories. Marvel, by contrast, hesitated with projects like Blade and missed obvious opportunities (e.g., a guaranteed R-rated Wolverine hit).
The message: Feige must stop playing safe. It’s time to risk, innovate, and eventually close the book with purpose, rather than dragging things out and diluting the legacy.
Edit: One more thing.
Bastion all day. Top 5 dialogue dead or alive. One of the Hardest themes ever made.
And the destruction of Genosha is one of the greatest animated sequences ever put to screen.
They saying n1ggas ain't dig that x men? I liked that sh1t
The critique argues that Kevin Feige’s strength is also his downfall — his cautious, factory-like approach made Marvel successful, but now it’s causing stagnation. The MCU peaked with Infinity War, and Feige lacked the courage to end it there. Instead, he tried to keep it going endlessly, without bold risks or real contingency plans (such as accounting for Chadwick Boseman’s passing).
They really should have taken a break after endgame but Feige was dead set on launching Disney plus that it led to 3-4 years of a lot of forgettable, mostly mid product.
It was amazing. Right before the sentinel put the almost final blow to magneto when he was protecting the morlocks it said omega level threat detected but it wasn’t looking at magneto. Was it referring to gambit?
I think they're saying that X-Men 97 was so good (and it was), fans questioned why the MCU recently was not on that level and Feige resented the show for that.
The critique argues that Kevin Feige’s strength is also his downfall — his cautious, factory-like approach made Marvel successful, but now it’s causing stagnation. The MCU peaked with Infinity War, and Feige lacked the courage to end it there. Instead, he tried to keep it going endlessly, without bold risks or real contingency plans (such as accounting for Chadwick Boseman’s passing).
Meanwhile, Sony and Fox took gambles (Spider-Verse, Logan) that paid off because they respected audiences’ hunger for fresh, daring stories. Marvel, by contrast, hesitated with projects like Blade and missed obvious opportunities (e.g., a guaranteed R-rated Wolverine hit).
The message: Feige must stop playing safe. It’s time to risk, innovate, and eventually close the book with purpose, rather than dragging things out and diluting the legacy.
Edit: One more thing.
Bastion all day. Top 5 dialogue dead or alive. One of the Hardest themes ever made.
And the destruction of Genosha is one of the greatest animated sequences ever put to screen.
Didnt read. Did you superhero nerds ruin another imaginary character created in the 40s with politics and lgbtq stuff?
You used ChatGPT to write this, why
I'm reading his post about X-Men from the Kamala stuff to the Marvels credit scene - I get what he is saying, but he sounds misguided.
1 - He says that Kamala's ending in her series implies she will be an X-Men and that is not the case.
Lesslie confirmed that he is currently tasked with writing the 616 X-Men film and it will be new characters that have never appeared in the MCU before. Kamala can't be a X-Men.
On top of that, the X-Men music was about Kamala's series hinting towards what is a Mutant in the MCU. Namor was the 2nd hint. Something the comics struggled with where they made most, if not all powered beings a Mutant.
2 - His 2nd point about Monica in the Marvels was off. He is questioning what Monica has to do with Beast as far as comics lore. That wasn't the point of the credits scene. It was about Maria as Binary meeting Monica. Carol is Binary in the comics and they are roping in this other world's X-Men to be lead by Monica.
I agree with his Blade takes. The Deadpool and Wolverine sh1t was hilarious. He called that sh1t Reddit pandering