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Do Funko X-Men Figures Signal The End Of The CompleX?

funko_mysteryThe CompleX is the theory that Marvel Comics is deliberately not pushing or promoting the X-Men line, as the movie/TV and related licensing rights are controlled by Fox Studios, and Marvel Comics isn't interested in giving that any push.

This exhibits itself in a reduction in X-Men comics being published and their prominence in promotion – their absence even. That licensing is banned or severely restricted, and no cartoons are being produced. And while not as restrictive as the impositions made upon Fantastic Four-related, they have been reported as being imposed by above.

Fox does not receive a cut of Marvel's comics-based or animation-based X-Men or FF licensing, it's more about personal politics.

It was explained to me by a senior Marvel executive as more Marvel concentrating on Marvel Studios properties than actively not promoting the others. But it has led to the ridiculous state of X-Men and Fantastic Four characters – even the mention of them – being removed from collections, games, T-shirts and calendars. or statues being halted in mid-production.

Of late , however, relations between Marvel Comics and Marvel Studios have become far frostier. An relations with Fox, certainly regarding the TV series, has suddenly become something verging on the cordial.

And suddenly the leading pop vinyl brand of toys, Funko, has a whole line of X-Men related toys focused on the very nineties iterations that next years ResurreXion titles seem to be clustering around. Their first X-Men figures since… 2014?

Is this the end of the CompleX? At least as far as nineties X-Men go?


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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