Ideally, a marketing plot like this would result in a nice split… but that doesn’t feel true in this particular case. The Thunderbolts, being a surreptitious way of assembling a new version of Earth’s Mightiest Heroe,s always seemed like the most obvious answer to the presented riddle, and I was hoping for something a bit more advanced.

Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige says he has a 10-year plan for the X-Men, which means we may know what the next phase of the MCU is called.