Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-3216066-20150614085427/@comment-16461120-20150905000752

SunGodKizaru wrote: But they did it now,they did it because their movie origins are different, they changed all that so they movies can use them if they did this retcon 5 years ago no one would be saying, "oh they are doing it because of the movies!", so even if the old story was retconed what happened now happened because of the movies, it was forced and badly executed, the Uncanny Avengers arc that just ended was freaking awful. Again, the only way you can believe it is because the movie origins are different, is if you choose to completely ignore when and how the storlyline began. (Plus the comic origins don't sync up with the movie origins, so if that's what they were doing, then they failed to achieve your stated goal, despite their total creative control.)

Anyway, nine years ago there weren't any movies, there wasn't even a MARVEL Studios, yet the comics called into question their classification as true mutants, and began the unravel tale about how they've been deceived their entire lives.

It only seems to be movie-related because the major reveal happened to coincidentally fall during a time when their live action debuts loomed large, but in reality, that's like thinking a race began at the final turn, paying no mind to the countless laps that led to that point.