X-Men: Apocalypse announced for May 2016
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Too-slick recovering antihero with a shady past and a heart of not-quite-gold, street smarts, trenchcoat, cool head thingie, flare for the dramatic, unique accent. . .
Yeah, nothing to like there.
In the original story, I think, it was supposed to reset the timeline; but that was retconned when it was later decided to do more stories set in that future.
Right. He's not a mutant, but a "mutate" -- which is the Marvel term for someone who acquired genetic mutation during their lifetime instead of inheriting it at birth. Technically, heroes like Spider-Man, Daredevil, the FF, and the Hulk fall into this category.
But once a genetic change is made, it becomes hereditary, so the children of mutates can be mutants. For instance, in the alternate "MC2" continuity, Spider-Girl inherited the powers of her father Peter Parker.
Well, Marvel did establish at some point that mutants and mutates get their powers from dormant genes implanted in the human genome by the Celestials in the distant past.
Have any of Marvel's "head thingies" ever actually been cool? Where is the cool in a half-cowl that wraps around the sides and back of your head but leaves the top and the face exposed? Why would anyone even wear something like that? It's basically a negative hat.
(Although nothing's as stupid as that bizarre under-the-chin veil thingie that Kirby gave the Scarlet Witch in her original design. That thing was hideous.)
Havok and Polaris have the weird headgear too.
Plenty of the '90s Jim Lee X-Men costume designs had them, as I remember from the cartoon series from that era. But Polaris's isn't that weird wraparound head-tube kind of thing, more just a sort of really elaborate headband that wraps down around the eyes and cheekbones, or like a helmet faceplate without the helmet. It's not unlike Scarlet Witch's most famous headdress, that red M-shaped thing.
I stand corrected then. I'd always assumed that Purple Man was a mutant rather than a mutate, but I haven't read much into his storylines.
Of course the Shi'ar Imperial Guard are the Legion. Especially with their original line up and Cockrum costumes.
The LSH future was originally just the future of the Superman line. Flash had a different version of the 30th Century, though eventually it merged with the LSH version. They also had other futures like Kamandi's Earth AD and Hex's post apocalypse world.
Yeah, that is what really screwed up he Legion over the years. In fact they were more inspired by Superboy than him as an adult. Originally there was no mentions of the JLA in Legion stories outside of Superman himself. In the Silver Age the DC Universe was only loosely connected. Each editor had their own mythologies for the particular titles they over saw.
Singer posted a new photo on his Instagram. The return of Quicksilver and more high speed hijinks!
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/quicksilver-strikes-in-new-x-men-apocalypse-set-photo-from-bryan-singer
http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/quicksilver-strikes-in-new-x-men-apocalypse-set-photo-from-bryan-singer
I wonder if they're going to ask him to help out on one mission and then forget about him again, because otherwise he'd instantly solve all the problems in the movie, with the exception of Apocalypse himself.
As much as I loved the scene in DoFP, he's such a powerful character that you can't keep him in the whole movie unless you deliberately weaken or dumb him down in parts, like on The Flash or Quiksilver in Age of Ultron. The only way anyone hurts Barry on The Flash is because they have him stand around like an idiot and forget about his powers for a minute whenever he confronts a villain for the first time. And Quiksilver in Ultron should have easily been able to avoid what happened to him and save the day.
To be fair it seemed they only got him to do the jail breakout by pointing out it would count as a crime of the century thing not out of some desire to save the world.
I dunno -- Age of Ultron's Quicksilver didn't seem to have quite the same level of superspeed as DoFP Quicksilver or the Flash.
Yes, I know that. My point is that it was written that way specifically because otherwise Quiksilver would solve all the problems in the movie instantaneously. If he had joined the team, so to speak, Mystique or Magneto would never have been able to get away with anything. Or, if he sympathized with Magneto, they would have had to have Xavier surprise neutralize him with his mental powers and remove him as a factor in the fight, or else he'd easily defeat our heroes (and if he spends the whole time neutralized, what's the point in having him there?). So they had to write it as him only being interested in participating in the breakout of the century and not joining the team.
That's why I'm curious to see how they handle him in the new movie.
I think that was his point.
^I took his point to be exactly what he said -- that Quicksilver in AoU should've been fast enough to dodge. My point is that, since he seemed to be established all along as slower than his X-Men counterpart, it's therefore consistent that he wasn't able to dodge. "Should've" only applies to how a particular version of a character is defined. A story only needs to be consistent with itself, not with other stories set in different realities.
They foreshadowed twice that Pietro couldn't outrun a bullet.
Really? Hm, I'll have to watch for that when I see the movie again. With my current financial situation, that probably won't be until Netflix gets it.
When Hawkeye shot out the floor beneath him and when he got shot the first time. Although, I suppose that that is a matter of interpretation.
Not an official announcement, but a roundabout confirmation of Hugh Jackman's participation in X-Men: Apocalypse.
The studio shoud've made the leather goods store sign a NDA.
Not that this comes as any real surprise given the way DoFP ended.
The studio shoud've made the leather goods store sign a NDA.
Not that this comes as any real surprise given the way DoFP ended.
