Froze all new character creation with the mutant background . They didn ' t do that . Chris Clairemont said he thought that in 2014 , but he was completely wrong . Earth 616 is an example of a mutant character created in January of 2016 . The Killed or Depowered thing happened in 2005 , three years before the MCU existed and long before these rumors cropped up . This is why I often get the feeling that the rumor is mostly passed around by people who haven ' t actually been following xmen comics . <| sep |> No I mean that ' s literally what I was paid to do , research for my masters degree . I ' m not sure how much clearer I can describe this . It ' s called a graduate research assistant position and all universities have them . My undergrad was free because I had ight grades in high school and got free tuition . I ' m not gonna cry for people who have to pay fuck em .