It’s been nearly two decades since the superhero movie genre started becoming more popular, and 2000’s X-Men obviously played a huge part with that.
Next year’s The New Mutants will also do that by resting firmly in the horror genre.
But with each new superhero movie comes more obligation for the forthcoming ones to be unique and distinguish themselves from the crowd.
Mixing in another genre is a good way of accomplishing this, and while the main X-Men movies arguably still feel like “standard” superhero movies, as Simon Kinberg noted, Logan and the Deadpool movies have taken advantage of this approach.