X-Men ‘97 Director Reveals Kevin Feige Considered Making Series MCU Canon

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• X-Men '97 was almost MCU canon.
• Kevin Feige and Marvel went back and forth on the idea.
• In the end, X-Men '97 was its own thing, like the original X-Men: The Animated Series.

X-Men '97 was considered to become canon to the Marvel Cinematic Universe at one point.
Speaking to Inverse, X-Men '97 director Emi Yonemura revealed that Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige went back and forth between the animated series being MCU canon or not. Check out the full quote below:

“That has always been something we know was on Kevin Feige’s mind, do we make this part of the MCU? Do we not make this part of the MCU? It’s actually gone back and forth quite a few times, and I think we did land in a smart place because [X-Men: The Animated Series] was its own thing, and I think that to continue it we needed to be our own thing.”

Source: Inverse