I think it's a little bit to much, again the end of the world story.
X-Men: Apocalypse announced for May 2016
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That was an ok trailer. I'm thinking that Storm, Angel and Psylocke might be permanently ruined, though. It looks like they're going to willing try to murder most of the earth, instead of being brainwashed like the Horsemen are in the comics. I can't see them bringing those characters back from that. Apocalypse still looks wimpy and unimpressive, I'm not sure I'd even know he was Apocalypse if they didn't call him that. Quicksilver looks less impressive then he did in DoFP, probably because its not new anymore. It looks like they've decided to just put Mystique in a suit and put head make up on her when they need her to be blue. You know, as a comic fan I've always hated the naked Mystique design, but its annoying that I'm pretty sure the actress is forcing them to change the movie character to fit her preferences. Its like how Stallone just had to show his face for Judge Dredd. Hero movies need more Karl Urban's and less Stallones.
I really wish Singer would learn to make movies with less characters. No one is probably going to get enough focus, which has always been a problem in the X-Men movies but they're introducing so many new X-Men that its going to be a bigger problem. The movie should be about the newly cast young X-Men, but you know Mystique will get a ridiculous amount of screen time, and there are just so many pre-established people from the other two movies that the new guys are screwed. For every Professor X that Bryan Singer gives us in terms of character, there are three Emma Frosts (poorly thought out, poorly written characters that are barely a shadow of the comic book version).
Still, I think the movie will be enjoyable. I've liked every Singer made X-Men movie, even if they all have a few flaws that are in every single one of them, and he doesn't like using the comics stuff like Marvel made films do. If nothing else, it will probably beat DC's offerings.
I really wish Singer would learn to make movies with less characters. No one is probably going to get enough focus, which has always been a problem in the X-Men movies but they're introducing so many new X-Men that its going to be a bigger problem. The movie should be about the newly cast young X-Men, but you know Mystique will get a ridiculous amount of screen time, and there are just so many pre-established people from the other two movies that the new guys are screwed. For every Professor X that Bryan Singer gives us in terms of character, there are three Emma Frosts (poorly thought out, poorly written characters that are barely a shadow of the comic book version).
Still, I think the movie will be enjoyable. I've liked every Singer made X-Men movie, even if they all have a few flaws that are in every single one of them, and he doesn't like using the comics stuff like Marvel made films do. If nothing else, it will probably beat DC's offerings.
Well, the guy's name is "Apocalypse"...
We don't know what happened around that though, even if he talked to her first, that doesn't rule out brainwashing her later.
Even if he just convinces them to help him, I don't see that making the characters irredeemably. They know these are popular hero characters, so I can't see them doing anything that would make them completely irredeemable.
The call back (forward?) to the "Does it ever wake you up...?" exchange from the first movie was interesting, and makes you look at the first (next?) movie in a new way. It really drives home the fact that this is a very old argument between them. If that exchange ends this movie as it did the first, it will make for a nice book end for the series.
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And, indeed, we see evidence that his Horsemen were subjected to something. We see a quick flash of Ororo with dark hair, so obviously something had to have happened to turn her hair white, similar to what happened to Rogue in the first movie. (Desperately trying to avoid a Winston Zedemore joke.)
He captures them and brainwashes them, and sometimes upgrades their powers. There may have been one or two willing people (he has had villains as horsemen), nd he may have just outright created one or two, but none of the X-men who have been Horsemen chose to join him as far as I know.
i think Gambit chose to join. but its been ages since i read that story.
That kind of sounds familiar. Looking on Wikipedia, he did choose, but it was to infiltrate and take down Apocalypse from the inside. He miscalculated what being turned into a horseman would be like, and the procedure turned him as evil as the other horsemen. So, he did choose, but for good reasons.
Caliban joined Apocalypse willingly.