X-Men: Days of Future Past - Discussion Thread - SPOILERS

[JoeZhang]

Byrne would have wanted more shots of grown men kissing 13 year old girls.

 

[Zaku]

Byrne would have wanted more shots of grown men kissing 13 year old girls.

And in the forum everyone (Byrne included) complains that the characters, customes, story and so on are so different from the comics.

Really? In 2014 you're still complaining about the differences between a movie and the original material?

 

[JoeZhang]

That forum isn't actually a comics forum - it's a cult gathering where the brainwashed gather to listen to the Leader - I was actually a member years ago until I realised what I'm stumbled into it.

 

[Zaku]

That forum isn't actually a comics forum - it's a cult gathering where the brainwashed gather to listen to the Leader - I was actually a member years ago until I realised what I'm stumbled into it.

Yes, I am realizing while I'm reading other threads...

It's almost scary.

 

[Mr Light]

<<Byrne would have wanted more shots of grown men kissing 13 year old girls. >>

what is this a reference to?

 

[Zaku]

<<Byrne would have wanted more shots of grown men kissing 13 year old girls. >>

what is this a reference to?

I believe this one. Kitty was thirteen.

Edit. I believe this article explains the issue better

http://comicsbulletin.com/columns/2469/top-ten-comic-book-romances-that-make-us-uncomfortable/

The Couple: Kitty Pryde, another young character with like seven different monikers is a naive teenager from the suburbs who can walk through walls. Colossus: a metallic strongman/Russian bumpkin with surprising awareness of the concept of statutory rape.

Why It's Weird: During the prime Chris Claremont years of Uncanny X-Men, Kitty Pryde was 14 and Colossus was 19, and that shit is mad illegal. Despite this, Kitty, amidst her teenage sexual awakening, tried to jump the man's bones all the time, surprising him with mistletoe kisses and seeing situations like impending death from Brood infection as opportunities for a quick apocalyptic fling. Save for a tender kiss here and there, Colossus wisely refused the temptation, thus avoiding deportation.

Behind the scenes, you can easily imagine Cyclops informing the Soviet mesomorph that, in our American high schools, adult boyfriends of teenage girls are really, really creepy. Meanwhile, Professor X hears them (WITH HIS MIND) and remembers that one time he had the hots for an underage Jean Grey in X-Men #3.

Eventually, Colossus and Kitty Pryde did hook up, but they were both adults at this point and Kitty realized that Colossus was mentally unstable. I love happy endings.

 

[Ruaidhri]

Wow. John Byrne is so freaking bitter. I quite enjoy the man's art and writing, but what the hell is his problem?

 

[Zaku]

Wow. John Byrne is so freaking bitter. I quite enjoy the man's art and writing, but what the hell is his problem?

Do you want to see bitter? Try to read the FAQs on his site...

 

[Mr Light]

Did the comics of the time flat out state their respective ages?

 

[Zaku]

Did the comics of the time flat out state their respective ages?

Yep!

Edit: I found this panel

 

[Random_Spock]

Got a question about Magneto:

Spoiler: About his change of face...

Was it just his true nature coming out? The whole Brotherhood thing (hinting at the Brotherhood of Evil)... Was he even trying to help Charles and co. at all, or was he just working at his own ends this time around?

Magneto's repeatedly been shown to be a murderous bastard totally willing to kill his own people to get what he wants. He was fine with sacrificing Rogue in X1 because he was unwilling to sacrifice himself. He was a-okay annihilating all of mankind, including billions of innocent people who did nothing to him, as well as sacrificing Charles and every other mutant in the Weapon X base. His turn in X3 was nothing new.

Good point. I was just a little confused.

He wasn't doing anything for anyone, just himself... really, really sick.

 

[Ruaidhri]

Wow. John Byrne is so freaking bitter. I quite enjoy the man's art and writing, but what the hell is his problem?

Do you want to see bitter? Try to read the FAQs on his site...

You made me curious, but the link to the FAQ on Byrne Robotics seems to be broken for me.

I hate it when artists I like turn out to be people I wouldn't like to interact with. It always seems slightly more challenging to appreciate their work without that creeping into my mind.

 

[Zaku]

Wow. John Byrne is so freaking bitter. I quite enjoy the man's art and writing, but what the hell is his problem?

Do you want to see bitter? Try to read the FAQs on his site...

You made me curious, but the link to the FAQ on Byrne Robotics seems to be broken for me.

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/FAQ/categories.asp

For you!

Short version: every good idea was his, every bad one was a "editorial mandate".

 

[The Old Mixer]

Finally saw this today. Think I missed something...how did Magneto get control of the Sentinels? Was it something that he did on the train?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Finally saw this today. Think I missed something...how did Magneto get control of the Sentinels? Was it something that he did on the train?

Yes. They were not made of metal he could manipulate, so he used the metal form the train tracks and created new circuits inside the Sentinels.

During the Paris scene, he took the film from Trask's Sentinel plans display before hovering down to the street to go after Mystique. He later can be seen studying the plans.

 

[JD]

Wasn't Byrne also responsible for the whole Hal Jordan/Arisia thing?

 

[Mr Light]

I found that part of the story really hard to buy. Magneto can stick some rusty old metal inside these high tech robots and suddenly gain control of their programming? Since when did he become a computer genius in 1973?

 

[Star Wolf]

I found that part of the story really hard to buy. Magneto can stick some rusty old metal inside these high tech robots and suddenly gain control of their programming? Since when did he become a computer genius in 1973?

Or how was that micro computer able to analyze DNA by an airborne scan in 1973? best not to think on these things just let them ride

 

[The Old Mixer]

Well, that answers my question anyway. Thanks, FSM.

 

[Anwar]

I found that part of the story really hard to buy. Magneto can stick some rusty old metal inside these high tech robots and suddenly gain control of their programming? Since when did he become a computer genius in 1973?

I don't think he was controlling their programming, just their bodies.