![]() The interesting thing is, that now, of course, Spider-Man has been a part of the MCU, and the X-Men are set to be incorporated into the new Marvel canon at some point in the future. ![]() (Though, it’s conceivable that the term “mutants” was maybe too far, in terms of legality at the time.) Still, it seems like this scene cleverly got around those issues by not outright naming Spider-Man or the X-Men, specifically. Obviously, the rights issues to the X-Men were still owned by Fox at that point, and Spider-Man was still with Sony. At the time, in 2008, Iron Man was distributed by Paramount Pictures, and the umbrella term of “Marvel Studios” and the idea of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still fairly new. In the scene, Nick Fury complains about “assorted mutants” and “radioactive bug bites” obvious references to both Spider-Man and the X-Men.
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