Yes, X-Men Can Be In Disney Infinity

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X-Men can be in Disney Infinity. Period.

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion back and forth across many sites and publications about whether X-Men could appear in Disney Infinity, with no clear answer.

I’m here to fix that problem!

And yes, X-men could be in Disney Infinity if they choose to put them in (not saying they will).

The big debate comes from who owns the ‘rights’ to the characters, so let’s have a quick dive back into history!

Back in the 90s, Marvel was looking for streams of revenue so they decided to license out some of their characters to various studios for user in film/television (NOTE: film and television. That’s it.). So thus Sony got their hands on Spiderman and all other spidey related characters.. FOX got X-Men, Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, Dr. Doom, etc.

Let’s fast forward to 2009 when the big purchase was made…

I'm not sure who originally made this image, but it's fantastic!
I’m not sure who originally made this image, but it’s fantastic!

In August, 2009 Disney purchase Marvel Entertainment for $4.24 Billion. Not just Marvel comics, or marvel studios. Marvel Entertainment. Disney is now the sole owner of Marvel and all its subsidiaries. Again to make it clear… Disney owns Marvel Entertainment, Toys, Studios, Comics, Animation, etc (you can see the full list of Marvel Subsidiaries here).

Disney will still be honoring those contracts Marvel made in the 90s with the film studios, but it also negotiated some parts as well. Mainly with Sony.

Sony and Marvel modified their current contract giving Disney the rights to the television of Spider-man. (Hence why we now have an Ultimate Spiderman animated TV show on Disney XD).

So bring it forward to today. Sony owns the rights to the film adaptation of Spiderman, and FOX still owns the rights to both the film and television appearance of X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc. That’s all.

“So they could add X-men into video games?!” — OF COURSE!

Historically Activison and Capcom had rights to some of the Marvel properties, but those contracts have since expired. Now Marvel owns the rights and can do with it whatever they please.

Remember, Marvel has other games besides Disney Infinity….

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Marvel Games will be releasing the highly anticipated Contest of Champions this fall. Plus they have Puzzle Quest, Avengers Alliance, Marvel Heroes 2015, etc. All that feature X-men characters. And those are all developed by Disney / Marvel themselves.

The only thing they CAN’T do would be to make the figures look exactly as they do in the movies (can’t make them look like the actors).

So rest assured fellow mutants, X-Men can come to Disney Infinity.

I don’t see how they couldn’t!

So if you see anyone out there on the internet saying “BUT FOX HAS THE RIIGHTSSZZZ!!!1111” point them to this post.

And let’s hope they show up!

 

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