WHAT IF...? Director Explains Why They Haven't Been Able to Use the X-Men in the Animated Series

Marvel’s What If...? animated series has been great and it’s been fun to see them play with some of their MCU character in unique and interesting ways. In case you’ve been wondering why they have played with any of the X-Men characters in the series yet, director Bryan Andrews offered an explanation:

"They were pretty much off the table. They're like, 'We got to do it first in live action and then you get to do it.' And we're like, 'Ah, man!' We would've loved to have played with all kinds of toys. But there's limitations."

Marvel Studios is moving closer to introducing the X-Men. Deadpool 3 is going to feature a lot of X-Men characters but we don’t know what’s going to happen after that. We don’t know if any characters in the upcoming movie will actually end up in the MCU for the long haul or if it’s being used to set up a whole new cast of X-Men characters. The X-Men are coming to the MCU, though!

Andrews was also asked about What If...? Season 3's release schedule after the lengthy gap between Season 1 and Season 2, and he explained:

"They move stuff around. Every time I thought it was like, 'Oh, it's going to be this!' It's like, 'It's going to move a little bit!' So, even I would hate to say something and have people's hopes come up and then have them be dashed because of the beast of production and when things move around."

"I thought that it could come out at the end of the year in 2024 possibly, but that would be tight."

"There's some other group of people that are masterminding when things [release] and they're moving things on the board, and I don't know where we exist on that at this moment, as well as [Marvel Zombies]. Zombies, I'm still working on at the same time, and that's going to be crazy and that's coming out, but that keeps moving around too, right? So I wish I could help you but I can't!"

So, let’s just say Season 3 will most likely be released in 2025.