Beau DeMayo takes purpose at Marvel! The previous X-Males ’97 showrunner just lately trashed the studio’s animated choices with What If…? season 3.

If somebody weren’t following all Marvel information like a hawk, it’d be comprehensible in the event that they didn’t notice that What If…? debuted its collection finale. Not like prior outings for the MCU’s landmark animated title, season 3 of the undertaking appeared to come back and go with out even a touch of fanfare by basic audiences.

Nonetheless, it appears one particular person has come to make their ideas loud and clear. Beau DeMayo, who beforehand served because the showrunner for X-Males ’97 earlier than being let go earlier this 12 months for undisclosed causes, has taken to social media to offer his ideas on season 3 of the present. Sadly, they aren’t good, with him evaluating the dialogue of What If…? to fanfiction and saying he’d somewhat watch water boil than end the present.

I’d watch extra to offer notes on the way it may’ve simply been achieved higher however I’ve some water to observe boil

— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 27, 2024

To has no substance and appears like fanfic. The dialogue is flat and so apparent, and a number of the premises are simply bizarre.

— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 27, 2024

Beau DeMayo Fires Again At New X-Males ’97 Showrunner

For many who don’t know, the pinnacle author for What If…? season 3 Matthew Chauncey is ready to take over X-Males ’97 in season 3, with Beau DeMayo’s scripts for season 2 getting used as a baseline for the upcoming season. That is clearly not one thing DeMayo is joyful about, laying the shortage of high quality in What If…? on the ft of Chauncey, and accusing him of mendacity for not figuring out concerning the rights surrounding the X-Males within the MCU.

That is additionally the season the place AC Bradley utterly stepped again for Chauncey to take over

— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 27, 2024

They have been very properly conscious that the rights. We had convos. Completely bullshit. Once more, simply liars. They got here and requested my #xmen97 workforce and I what character they may use in #WhatIf Season 3 and we pointed them to What If #12 (1990)

That is just like the mendacity BS with T’Chaka https://t.co/pbfX3kqpYD

— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 28, 2024

This collection of posts, together with the underwhelming reception to What If…? season 3, have led many to name for Beau DeMayo to be reinstated as showrunner for X-Males ’97. Nonetheless, it’s unlikely he’ll be returning to the MCU anytime quickly given the studio has nonetheless not launched any clear assertion about why DeMayo was fired, suggesting a seriousness not capable of just by glazed over in a year-long sabbatical.

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