Can Mutants Exist Inside the MCU?

Avengers 2 is set to begin filming early next year and amidst all the rumors and information coming out, two new characters will be introduced to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.

Both Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are owned under the movie film rights by Fox who owns the X-Men movie franchise, however bot characters have been deeply rooted into the Avengers for decades. Because of this Marvel also has the rights to use them in the MCU, with stipulations of course.

In order for both muties to appear in the MCU there cannot be any mention of them being mutants or of their father Magneto.

Both of these stipulations really strip apart who these two characters are. Everyone always wants to know how a character obtained their powers. In a mutant's case they were born with a change in their genetic sequence activating the "X" gene which is a mutation, hence mutant. As it was pointed out in X-Men 2 from Fox, the mutation is normally handed down by the father, in this case Magneto.

So on a broader scope, can mutants actually exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

The MCU seems to take heavy influence from Marvel's Universe 1610, better known as the Ultimate universe, for example changing Nick Fury to African American and using the Chitauri to invade Earth rather than the Skrulls.

Inside the 1610 universe Steven Rogers was not the first to undergo Project Rebirth and receive the super solder serum, it was two solders, African American Nicolas Fury and Canadian James Howlett. Sent to separate facilities Howlett was sent to a facility in Canada that would later be dubbed the Weapon X facility. While inside the Weapon X facility the Canadian government created a new mutated genome that would later spread across the globe giving us mutants. Howlett, aka Mutant Zero, would late be freed from the facility by another mutant Erik Lensherr, aka Magneto, who's parents co created the new genome giving rise to the mutants or also known as within the universe "super humans."

The MCU now has a way to describe mutants and provide a bit of an origin story for Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver. Simply both would be described as being super humans rather than mutants and can establish that, for lack of a better term, born that way. There is no need to mention Magneto being their father as both were adopted by a family of gypsies.

Bringing about "super humans" into the MCU, the universe will be that much bigger. Already filled with Gods and aliens the world will be a richer place for these characters to dwell, one that will feel like home with the fans, and it will be Marvelous!

-Nurd!