Perhaps it’s the millennial in me, but seeing Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen together again as Professor X and Magneto was enough to confirm my attendance across the opening week – before the Avengers, before Fantastic Four, before Spider-Man (all three of them), X-Men was blazing the trail for the genre, seemingly alone on its own revered pedestal as the most important (and therefore most marketable) superhero franchise of the century.
As we saw in Deadpool & Wolverine – where Blade,…

