UPDATE (August 15, 2026): Marvel revealed its X-Men cast at D23 with four women and three men among the first seven names, and this seven-year-old quote resurfaced in a “where are the men” backlash on X. Alonso was let go by Marvel in 2023, and Kevin Feige said on stage that more casting is still to come. Our full breakdown of the backlash, what Feige said, and who is still uncast is here.
As I have been reporting since the release of Captain Marvel, RIP Marvel Studios and now RIP the X-Men as we knew them, as producer Victoria Alonso goes on record stating the name of the X-Men is outdated.
In an interview while promoting the release of the Captain Marvel Blu-Ray, the Nuke The Fridge YouTube channel asks for an update on the X-Men where she says:
I don’t know where the future is going. It’s funny that people call it the X-Men, there is a lot of female superheroes in that X-Men group, so I think it’s outdated. I don’t know where it’s going to go. We’ll see. They just now have joined. They actually have a movie coming out very soon, which is under that banner as their last film. So we’ll see you know what time will tell.
“X-Men” is a bad word?
Victoria Alonso obviously doesn’t like that X-Men has the word “men” in it, and she goes wrong assuming it just means “men” — while X-Men really means to encompass all of mankind, both male and female (or is MANkind a bad word now, too?).
Victoria Alonso’s thoughts on the X-Men name actually fits with a rumor that dropped in January suggesting fans won’t be happy with what Marvel does with Wolverine and the X-Men.
It’s my guess that Disney, Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige’s new liberal and “SJW” approach to the MCU which started with Captain Marvel and continued with Avengers: Endgame will infect the X-Men and Fantastic Four brands, as well as whatever else Marvel puts out. More than likely the X-Men (X-Gender?) in the MCU will be used to promote liberal agendas.
