1. Wolverine – Weapon X / Amnesia Origin. Escapes Weapon X, tries to discover himself. Saves a town from Wendigo. Antagonists: Wendigo, wolves, bears, weapon X soldiers, ect.
2. Storm – Egypt and African origin. Focus on knive fighting, pick pocketing, and other character aspects. Young Storm fights to survive in Egypt. Controlled by Shadow King. Storm teams up Prof X. Charles kills Shadow King. Storm flees, Charles lets her. Antagonists: Shadow King, marks, merchants, law enforcement, other children.
3. X-Men – After learning about evil mutants via Shadow King, Prof X forms the X-Men. Focus on Scott’s orphanage origin, missing brother, and Jean’s love interest. Scott loses control of his power and causes public outcry and bigotry against mutant. Charles saves and mentors Scott. Scott finds a home and a father figure and a love interest in Jean. Sinister gets hinted. Classic Brotherhood of Evil Mutants battle. Scott saves his new family. Antagonists: Brotherhood, bigoted humans.
4. Wolverine – Department H. After his heroics Department H approaches him and offers him a position with them. They even offer to help him with his memories. He declines. Finds a love interest and they live together in rural Canada. Sabretooth learns of Logan through news media of the Wendigo event. Mysterious figure (aka Sabretooth) kills Logan’s love interest a la Silver Fox and taunts Logan with hints of their past. Logan reluctantly reaches out to Dept H to unlock his memories of this killer so he can get revenge. Logan is only partial restored, but he remembers some key aspects of his relationship with Creed. Antagonist: Sabretooth.
5. All New X-Men – Swap the Krakoa storyline with the original X-Men being captured by the disembodied Shadow King. Xavier and Scott recruits Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, and Nightcrawler to save the other founding members.
With Storm, Cyclops, and Wolverine solidly established start working w/Jean toward the Dark Phoenix Saga. In one movie setup Jean to be Phoenix powered after a fight with Sinister (who would be controlling Scott's brother Havok). Then use Mastermind in a following movie to corrupt Jean's mind resulting in the Dark Phoenix.
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