The Wonder Man trailer this week featured a scene in which someone in the film industry asks Simon to sign a contract stating that he doesn't have powers. This scene, a minute into the trailer, has some wondering if this contract sets up one of the most iconic Marvel characters ever: the mutants.This is not the first time that the MCU has dabbled in the general populace, and political powers have tried to limit superpowered beings. The Sokovia Accords famously served as the kick-off point of Captain America: Civil War. While the accords were eventually repealed, it seems that people haven't given up on controlling super-powered individuals, and Wonder Man proves it.The contract in Wonder Man may pave the way for the Mutant Registration Act:For the uninitiated, the Mutant Registration Act (MRA) has been seen in the X-Men comics, movies, and animated shows. This act has been the source of conflict between Charles Xavier and his X-Men and Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Under the provisions of this act, mutants are required to register themselves and reveal their weaknesses to the government.Magneto sees this act as very similar to his experiences in the holocaust; Charles, on the other hand, believes the humans have formulated the MRA out of ignorance. Fans have recognized the MRA as a tool of oppression, a reason why Magneto is seen as a tragic figure rather than a supervillain. Wonder Man's "no-powers" contract sets up a major element of the "Mutant Saga."While the MCU X-Men project hasn't started filming, we already know who is directing it. Jake Schreier, director of Thunderbolts*, will be helming the MCU mutant project. Schreier revealed to Empire in August 2025 that he had started work on the project:“I can’t say anything about it, but we’ve started work on X-Men, and that’s obviously very, very exciting. There are so many things that I didn’t know about before I started [Thunderbolts*]. The biggest learning curve for me was the proportion of the action to the more emotional, character-driven scenes, and how, even though it’s more shooting days than I’ve ever had, they get eaten up quite quickly by the action stuff. By the time we got to the end of it, it felt like, ‘Oh, now I feel like we get how to do this a little bit better.’”What is the Yahya Abdul-Mateen II-led Disney+ Marvel series about? View this post on Instagram Instagram PostConsisting of six episodes, the upcoming Disney+ series has been marketed as a satire of the film industry, in the lines of The Studio. The trailer shows Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's Simon Williams and Ben Kingsley's Trevor Slattery teaming up to be a part of a big-budget superhero movie."Aspiring Hollywood actor Simon Williams is struggling to get his career off the ground. During a chance meeting with Trevor Slattery, an actor whose biggest roles may be well behind him, Simon learns legendary director Von Kovak is remaking the superhero film “Wonder Man.” These two actors at opposite ends of their careers doggedly pursue life-changing roles in this film as audiences get a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry."Do you think that Wonder Man is setting up the MCU X-Men project? Let us know.