I wonder if this comes down to a desire to mark "Dark Phoenix" (and implicitly Fox's "X-Men" franchise) as "heretical texts."

After all, fandom is excited about the Disney merger putting these characters "back where they belong." In the "canonical" comics adaptation, the MCU. pic.twitter.com/1TzEyCr4YU

— Darren Mooney (@Darren_Mooney) May 30, 2019