It's a great time to be an X-Men fan with a television set. Fox is about to premiere The Gifted, a new drama following a group of mutant runaways as they fight to stay alive in a world where the X-Men and Brotherhood of Mutants have vanished.
Like with FX's Legion, The Gifted isn't necessarily drawing from the most iconic and well-known X-Men players. To help get you up to speed on this new mutant drama, we're breaking down the main characters and how they compare to the comic book source material.
The Struckers are an interesting case. As far as we can tell from the trailers, none of these characters are directly based on any preexisting Marvel characters. However, the Strucker family as a whole plays a very prominent role in the Marvel Universe. The most famous Strucker in the comics is Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Baron Strucker is a former Nazi and one of the founders of the modern incarnation of Hydra. MCU fans will no doubt remember the character from 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, where he was played by Thomas Kretschmann.
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Like with FX's Legion, The Gifted isn't necessarily drawing from the most iconic and well-known X-Men players. To help get you up to speed on this new mutant drama, we're breaking down the main characters and how they compare to the comic book source material.
The Struckers are an interesting case. As far as we can tell from the trailers, none of these characters are directly based on any preexisting Marvel characters. However, the Strucker family as a whole plays a very prominent role in the Marvel Universe. The most famous Strucker in the comics is Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Baron Strucker is a former Nazi and one of the founders of the modern incarnation of Hydra. MCU fans will no doubt remember the character from 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, where he was played by Thomas Kretschmann.
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