Stevens loves playing the “truly insane character,” he told the crowd, adding it’s the “most comfortable costume I’ve ever had in life.”

“No dumb horns . . . sorry, I have to tease Tom Hiddleston,” he joked, a nod to Hiddleston’s Thor character Loki.

During the Q&A portion, a fan asked if the Professor X connection would be teased out over the course of the show. “I don’t think you can really tell the story without that element to it,” Hawley said. “There’s a wheelchair in the first scene.”

Considering the breadth of the X-Men universe, another fan asked if the show would ever feature guest stars from the films, a question that inspired some conspiratorial responses.

“Probably not. But you never know,” said executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner.

“Wouldn’t that be great?” Marvel TV chief Jeff Loeb added. Earlier in the panel, he also coyly assured a fan that the Legion universe would connect to other Marvel projects. “The fact that I’m sitting here is an indication of bridges that are being made.”

“We gotta earn the right to be part of that universe,” Hawley said in response to the guest star question. “My hope is to create something that is so strong that the people at the movie studio call up and go, 'We’d be foolish not to connect these two things.'”

“We all know the reality of the expense of that, and a lot of corporations would have a lot of agendas,” he continued. “All we can do is make the best show possible.”