Marvel Films MCU X-Men - Part 4

[Lip]

I feel like this Storm art show so much power and presence, which are some of the things I'm expecting to see. Like I said, I 100% trust Marvel casting her. And I'm super excited to see who is going to bring her to life.

 

[Sithborg]

I really think you Storm fans will enjoy Ewing writing her.

 

[Silvermoth]

I adore Ewing writing her! She hasn’t been written this well since the Claremont era

 

[JP]

Wow Justice Smith is such a great pick for Bobby! Manifesting that one.

 

[Iceman]

I feel like this Storm art show so much power and presence, which are some of the things I'm expecting to see. Like I said, I 100% trust Marvel casting her. And I'm super excited to see who is going to bring her to life.

Amazing pic. Hope we get a shot like that which conveys Storm’s underlying power while doing nothing.

 

[Lip]

You know, there are many things we want from the X-Men movies and all, especially after all the mistakes made before.

But, as much as I want the X-Men movies to be fun too, which is a fresh take from what FOX did, I hope Marvel also understands that one thing doesn't exclude the other, and that you can have a fun movie with dramatic stakes. And the X-Men movies need stakes in my opinion.

I don't want to sound alarmist or something like that, but it took a while for them to get things right for Peter Parker and get some high stakes in his movies. So I hope they get this right from the beginning.

 

[Iceman]

You know, there are many things we want from the X-Men movies and all, especially after all the mistakes made before.

But, as much as I want the X-Men movies to be fun too, which is a fresh take from what FOX did, I hope Marvel also understands that one thing doesn't exclude the other, and that you can have a fun movie with dramatic stakes. And the X-Men movies need stakes in my opinion.

I don't want to sound alarmist or something like that, but it took a while for them to get things right for Peter Parker and get some high stakes in his movies. So I hope they get this right from the beginning.

You would hope that the material lends itself to natural stakes, but yeah fun and drama/stakes are both important.

 

[Silvermoth]

Ladies and gentlemen (and everyone else)…your mcu Jean Grey

 

[BoredGuy]

You know, there are many things we want from the X-Men movies and all, especially after all the mistakes made before.

But, as much as I want the X-Men movies to be fun too, which is a fresh take from what FOX did, I hope Marvel also understands that one thing doesn't exclude the other, and that you can have a fun movie with dramatic stakes. And the X-Men movies need stakes in my opinion.

I don't want to sound alarmist or something like that, but it took a while for them to get things right for Peter Parker and get some high stakes in his movies. So I hope they get this right from the beginning.

That's part of why I don't want teen X-men
Studios tend to think you have to make movies with kids light and breezy and it can't get darker/more serious until the kids start to grow (unless they did get the Duffers, who clearly have no problem killing children on film lol)
so let's skip those growing pains and get right to the good stuff

 

[Lip]

That's part of why I don't want teen X-men
Studios tend to think you have to make movies with kids light and breezy and it can't get darker/more serious until the kids start to grow (unless they did get the Duffers, who clearly have no problem killing children on film lol)
so let's skip those growing pains and get right to the good stuff

I made that comment after seeing a few reactions to Love and Thunder, saying a few stuff like sacrificing the plot for the sake of jokes. And also a few complaints about the way MS has been handling Thor, who apparently is a more serious character in the comics.

So, I don't know... I just don't want to see them sacrificing plot for comedy. And I don't want to see any X-Men member being portrayed as "dumb".

 

[Marvel united]

That's part of why I don't want teen X-men
Studios tend to think you have to make movies with kids light and breezy and it can't get darker/more serious until the kids start to grow (unless they did get the Duffers, who clearly have no problem killing children on film lol)
so let's skip those growing pains and get right to the good stuff

The ironic thing about this is, that would actually be the appeal, of starting with a much younger team Having the films start out lighter, more fun, with a hint/overarching sense of dread (because we all know where this leads)-- and then, over the course of the trilogy, having the tone slowly shift/mature, to match the maturing/hardening outlooks of our once naive protagonists.

Kinda like the Potter films. I'd honestly love to see that template applied to the X-Men

 

[BoredGuy]

Nah, between Spidey, Ms. Marvel, and obviously the early Potter films before them, I'm good on colorful cheerful teen heroes
Xmen always appealed to me because of its more thoughtful and adult nature

 

[katie_girl09]

Yeah, I'm honestly not interested in seeing teen X-Men. I want them to be adults.

Also, I don't know if anyone saw this:



I don't think it is for Gambit at all. But it does sound like it could be Julien Boudreaux and his parents. If it is accurate.

I hope this is a sign that we are getting closer to more X-centric stuff!

 

[Lip]

For me, there should be all ages there.

Characters like Kitty, Jubilee and Bobby should be teens or very young.

Scott, Jean, Ororo and co in their 20s (early or late).

Then characters like Beast or Forge a little older, like 30s or 40s.

Then Xavier and Eric around 50 or 60.

That would be my personal preference anyway.

 

[Da-Scribe]

I'd be down for teen X-Men if the tone was similar to Stranger Things S4. That was a great balance of horror, tragedy, comedy, and romance. And that's what a teen X-Men film should feel like. It should be volatile, just like growing up tends to be, but on a superhero scale.

 

[Iceman]

For me, there should be all ages there.

Characters like Kitty, Jubilee and Bobby should be teens or very young.

Scott, Jean, Ororo and co in their 20s (early or late).

Then characters like Beast or Forge a little older, like 30s or 40s.

Then Xavier and Eric around 50 or 60.

That would be my personal preference anyway.

Yep, that’s exactly my preference.

 

[BoredGuy]

Well I definitely don't want Bobby to be a teen if the other Originals are older
I'd like Iceman to actually be part of the O5 this time around

But having young X-men in there to balance the adults wouldn't be terrible, just as long as the adults are still the leads and the kids' scenes don't turn into a pop-culture reference smorgasbord

 

[katie_girl09]

For me, there should be all ages there.

Characters like Kitty, Jubilee and Bobby should be teens or very young.

Scott, Jean, Ororo and co in their 20s (early or late).

Then characters like Beast or Forge a little older, like 30s or 40s.

Then Xavier and Eric around 50 or 60.

That would be my personal preference anyway.

When I say I don't want them to be teens, I mean I don't want them ALL to be teens. Not that I don't want any teenagers at all.

 

[Lip]

When I say I don't want them to be teens, I mean I don't want them ALL to be teens. Not that I don't want any teenagers at all.

I got that.

I was just posting the ages I kind of expect.

 

[Lip]

I'd like Iceman to actually be part of the O5 this time around

I don't think the O5 represents the X-Men anymore.

They're all white, and even if you change that they're still all US americans, mostly male and with a not so diverse clash of cultures, personalities and different walks of life.

And I feel that at least Storm should be a founding member.

 

[BoredGuy]

I don't think the O5 represents the X-Men anymore.

They're all white, and even if you change that they're still all US americans, mostly male and with a not so diverse clash of cultures, personalities and different walks of life.

And I feel that at least Storm should be a founding member.

I'm not saying I want them to start the first film with the X-Men being the O5, or even that Storm can't be part of it
I just want at least a reference to Iceman and Angel being part of the first class. Don't want Adult Scott talking to child Bobby.

 

[Sithborg]

And to be quite blunt, there are tons of X-characters more popular than the majority of the O5.

There is a reason the X books have always resonated with teenage audiences, and why there is pretty much always a new "New Generation of X-men" book every decade. And honestly, looking at the current generation of young people, I think the themes can easily work with a young team.

But of course, I am also an Evolution fan.

 

[SirStrangefolk]

I definitely think the MCU version will be more diverse than the FOX version.
When writing a comment in the Black Panther forum I was thinking how the FOX movies kept pretty much all the white characters white, got criticism for casting lighter skinned actors for most dark skinned characters (Storm, Angel Salvadore, Sunspot, Cecilia Reyes) and also randomly changed the ethnicity of some POC characters around. Blink's ethnicity isn't always super clear but at least in her Age of Apocalypse/Exiles version she is Bahamian (a >90% black country) but she's played by a Chinese actress and Bishop I believe is Indigenous Australian but played by a French black man of Mauritanian and Senegalese descent. They're still both POC but it's a bit odd that they changed pretty much none of the white characters' race but did change them.
I expect Marvel studios to be a bit more careful on this front.

 

[Da-Scribe]

Whoever they decide to put in that first class, I'd keep them 18-20 range while the younger mutants are like 12-14. Xavier and Eric would then be in their 40s or 50s.

I say that because I think the spike in mutants should be relatively recent having occurred only over the last few years. So, many of the mutants we'll first encounter will be, at the oldest, just entering adulthood having "graduated" into X-Men essentially. Then of course you'll have even older mutants gradually revealing themselves after lying low in hiding or being in secret programs.

 

[Bayne]

I've said before I don't really care either way what general ages they do, and I stand by that, but I do expect 'a mix' is probably the closest to an accurate description of what will happen. The only question is how broad of a mix. (I could see the 'older' x-men like Forge and Banshee being mid 30s with Xavier and Eric being 40-50, for example.)

On the subject of Bobby, though, he was always by far the youngest of the O5, anyway. An 18 or 19 year old Iceman next to early 20 something-ish Angel, Cyclops, etc, would be entirely comic accurate.