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Originally Posted by Annuga

Wasn't the deal that whoever owns movie rights gets to use any and every character involved in the franchise? Cause Fox had Negasonic Teenage Warhead and Ike Perlmutter demanded that no more new characters could be introduced to franchises Fox had

Negasonic Teenage Warhead was actually a trade off. Disney wanted to use Ego the Living Planet in GOTGV2 but Fox owned it at the time. Deadpool writers not only wanted to use Negasonic Teenage Warhead but also significantly change her abilities. So Fox and Disney did a trade.

The way the rights work is when a studio purchased film rights to a character they also buy the character and all associated characters. If those characters happen to appear in multiple works besides the namesake the studio purchased (with exception of the titular character(s)) then they have no choice but to share the rights of those characters with Marvel or another studio. But most studios won't share the characters in tandem with a shared universe. Perfect example of this is the use of Quick Silver in both Fox's X-Men franchise and Disney's MCU. Theoretically Sony and Fox could have done the same thing with Kingpin back in the early 00's. We did see this with Disney/Netflix's Daredevil and Sony's Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse in this recent decade.

Sony and Disney's deal allowed Spider-Man to be shared in the MCU. Only Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Aunt May, and Ned were allowed in the MCU proper. Each film Sony made the two studios had to agree on what characters Sony and what characters Disney were willing to share. So if the deal is truly dead only Tom Holland's Spider-Man is allowed to be kept in future installments. All other Sony owned characters will have to be rebooted or abandoned and no Disney owned characters can appear or even be mentioned.