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mcmusing · 2 years ago
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📣: Charles Xavier is a king, but X-movies are trash.
That's my message to the world.
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velvet4510 · 19 days ago
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I seriously can’t believe Apocalypse tried to convince us that Charles met a teen with super-speed who successfully broke a prisoner out of the Pentagon and saved his, Erik’s, AND Logan’s lives when all seemed lost, reopened his school shortly afterward, and DIDN’T recruit Peter as his first student? That lonely Peter who had no idea other mutants existed until that day took 10 FREAKING YEARS to seek out Charles again? To find out if that school reopened and see if there was finally a place where he belonged? Charles just forgot about Peter and left him in his mom’s basement for a decade after all Peter did for them? Shut the fudge up, you don’t know WHAT you’re writing about, you stupid writers. Charles would NEVER forget about this guy. He knew where Peter lived; he would’ve been ringing Peter’s doorbell on day one. Literally where would the harm be in Peter being one of the students at the school already at the beginning of Apocalypse? He’d be there from the start, one of Charles’ best students being such a quick study, making friends with the other main characters, and so it wouldn’t actually be a one in a million chance that he was there to save everyone when the explosion happened. I’m actually convinced those writers hated Peter. Sure they gave him two immensely cool scenes but NOTHING else! They didn’t give him his family, his friends, his mentor, his dad!!!! KEVIN FEIGE, GIVE THIS BOY HIS DADNETO AND HIS STEPDAD CHARLES!!!!
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rowinablx · 1 year ago
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The reason I think why Days of Future Past's visual effects have aged so well is because they didn't just shoot in a green screen area, they shot in sets and on location as much as possible and had the actors do choreography fighting with the Sentinels.
Also the screen isn't full of visual noise to distract you. When Colossus's wrist is twisted and his head crushed, when Sunspot and Bobby's necks are snapped, when Blink is stabbed, when Warpath is killed, all you see is what you need to see.
Unlike Endgame where there's so much happening it's distracting, Days focuses on what needs to be focused on
But noooooo Endgame is the superior movie NOT
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Not only does Charles repeating the speech he gave to himself to Stephan have no meaning it really demonstrates what an uncreative writer Waldron really is. Like he couldn't come up with anything new he just copy pasted
That's probably one of the best examples of where Marvel is going wrong nowadays.
Many fans wanted them to reference other movies in order to make the MCU universe feel larger. Okay, cool. And so, since MoM was going to introduce Charles for the first time, Waldron thought of using his famous line from DoFP. Okay, cool again. It would be a nice callback to what's arguably the best X-Men movie to date.
Except... it doesn't work because it makes no freaking sense!
Charles said that line to Stephen in the context where Charles himself and his team are wrong, and Stephen is the only one in the right. Stephen was NOT stumbling and losing his way. Charles and his team were the ones who had lost their way right when they decided to execute 838 Stephen in Titan (and what's very likely, way before that too.)
So, you'd think... well, maybe that was Waldron's intent. Maybe he wanted to show the audience that Charles was wrong and he said that line without realizing he is the one who's lost. That would have been nice... if Waldron hadn't framed him and the Illuminati as heroes. It's obvious that the framing of the entire conversation between Stephen and the Illuminati is to portray him as mistaken, to claim he's the "most dangerous man in the multiverse" and to convince the audience that the team was right (not to mention we don't even get to hear from 838 Stephen, the Illuminati are given word of god here. It's the exact same thing he did with Mobius and Loki in S1E1)
So Waldron unironically took Charles' line from DoFP and stripped it of its meaning, he removed the context of why Charles said that to his future self (in what is one of the BEST scenes in Marvel, period) and he just had poor Patrick Stewart say it again for no freaking reason other than "the fans will tweet about it and it will serve as promo for the movie".
And that's what takes me back to how much Marvel is fucking up these days. They're desperate for that clout, the one-liners that can be added to memes and tweets and will be shared with thousands of people, and they're sacrificing the narrative and the characters in order to achieve that. "Oh, you want a Thanos-themed ice cream shop in New Asgard? It doesn't make sense but sure! That will be everywhere on reddit!." It fucks with the story and the suspension of disbelief but as long as it gets shared on social media...
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themoonking · 10 months ago
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if this version of wolverine letting down his world wasn't in reference to a specific event in the previous fox x men films that went wrong (such as him potentially failing to rewrite the timeline in dofp) i think the occam's razor solution is that his x men faced off against a version of cassandra nova in the past and he was the sole survivor
who's the main villain of deadpool and wolverine? cassandra nova. what is her comic book counterpart known for? staging a massive attack on genosha resulting in the deaths of countless mutants. this wolverine "let down his entire world", is super depressed with no friends, and one can assume that the other x men are dead. also, why does deadpool go after this specific wolverine?
a very simple solution to tie logan into the main plot would be that the variant of cassandra nova in the void is threatening the timeline(s) and they need someone who has faced off against a version of her before. this logan gets a symbolic do over of the event that killed his friends and left him guilt ridden and alone. though, again, it could be just a divergent timeline from a pre-existing fox x men event.
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hot-claws · 2 months ago
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I feel like in fan fiction, Logan is normally cast as the PE teacher. I hesitate to give him that role for some reason. I think people might underestimate how PE teaches things like stretching, how that changes, Logan’s willingness to test to be certified for teaching and/or attend conferences to follow education standards as new research comes out.
But hear me out - I think he is better suited as the groundskeeper. Especially in the movieverse setting post X2 where Logan is at the start seemingly freeloading off of the school while it operates. He starts of with subtle things that just annoys him - like a creaking sound on a cabinet. Just put some WD40 on that. Then he notices a worn panel, probably damaged by a student with overactive powers. No worries - Logan found some tools in an outdoor shed and builds a new panel and installs it.
The other faculty and students don’t notice it but then start to realize slowly that… the drawers open more smoothly. The wood finishes seem more shiny and new. That fence has a fresh coat of paint. The kitchen sink stopped dripping. Eventually, the students catch on and they ask for Logan to fix things in their room. It starts off with a student who is embarrassed to tell the teachers that he burned a piece of furniture when accidentally using their powers. Then Rogue complains about a wobbly chair in her table within earshot of Logan and he comes over and fixes it. Jean mentions that she needs to replace a piece of exercise equipment in the gym and Logan offers to pick it up and install it. Instead of taking the car into a mechanic, Scott consults Logan first about an issue with one of the cars and they’re able to figure out what’s wrong on their own instead.
Charles eventually brings up in a faculty meeting how nice it is that they haven’t had to hire contractors lately to fix things around the school. It’s normally a pain to vet contractors to make sure that they aren’t anti-mutant or make arrangements to keep the mutant school thing a secret. But now Logan seems to have naturally taken that role in the school. Logan has no comment on the matter and is regularly absent during staff meetings.
He can still be a substitute teacher (in a pinch), proctor tests, lead X-team trainings, supervise the kids during field trips, lead extracurricular activities like outdoor trips and martial arts. I believe in the DoFP universe where Logan is a history teacher in the Howard Zinn style of "bottom up" vs "top down". But I just feel like groundskeeper is more realistic imo.
Side note: Maybe I just overvalue my PE education because as a 30 year old I am so appreciative of learning how to stretch. I don’t think Logan would bother or know like the most recent changes to exercise best practice for an updated curriculum. I also went to school in California when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor and he implemented a lot of state educational policy where students had to be tested on several things like mile times, bmi, endurance, strength, etc. As an unathletic nerd, I remember it because it source of stress if I couldn’t pass these assessments. And again I think that administrative burden doesn’t feel like something that Logan would bother. I do think it’d bother the faculty if it’s not done because they do want the students to matriculate to colleges should the students want to pursue higher education. That requires meeting accreditations standards regardless if the school has secrets about the paramilitary training and the mutant social services.
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physalian · 6 months ago
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X-Men First Class Appreciation Post
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I own this on BluRay courtesy of thrifting. Can I just gush about this amazing piece of cinema for a moment? Does anyone still care about this movie?
So much of why this movie works is expectation and precedent. Had these characters been drawn up out of thin air for this movie, never before seen in any other medium, it still would have been amazing, but the history of how this movie came to be just pushes it over the top.
I grew up with the OG trilogy and while I know Last Stand is not good, I used to watch it if I saw it on while channel surfing. I have X2 also on dvd because I saw it while thrifting. Completely new actors, save for the Wolverine cameo, but the same old song, just a new verse. This movie will never exist in isolation, so while Erik’s arc is amazing, knowing that people who don’t read comics are seeing the main villain from the movies they know now an anti-hero with a gut-wrenching backstory, who’s right, is fantastic.
Knowing what these characters will come to be later in life as you watch it all slowly fall apart and their fundamental, philosophical divide on the nature of humanity and their place in it, is fantastic.
But beyond the history that bolsters this movie (which I think is the best X-Men movie, above DOFP and Logan), it’s just a fantastic screenplay.
The script: It’s such a tight script with only a few odd things here and there, like Emma Frost just existing after she’s served her purpose in the plot. It’s longer than I remember every time I watch it, too, kind of two movies rolled into one that splits into the second half after the CIA base attack. The setup and payoff of Erik’s “rage and serenity” moment with the dish, is the highlight. The backdrop of the 60s, weaving in real politics kind of like Forest Gump as if this all really was a shadow war going on, helped it feel more grounded than the plots of the OGs.
The characters: Obviously pulled from decades’ worth of groundwork, First Class does so, so well establishing the dichotomy of Charles and Erik, while also not leaving the rest of the team as one-note (mostly, the tornado wind dude doesn’t have a single line in the whole movie). Shaw as a villain is just hammy enough, with a ridiculously sinister comic-booky plan, it’s great.
The music: Standout here being the leitmotif for Erik, which you can hear shift as his attitude shifts from “rage” to “serenity”. The difference in the music when he’s on screen between the Villa Gessel bar scene and the sub lift. This is Erik’s movie. Charles supporting him, and everyone and everything else supporting them, and the music reflects that.
The acting: A refreshing set of faces that bring a lot of subtlety in gesture, I particularly like Charles feigning massaging his temple at the bar when he meets Moira so he can focus on her thoughts or how is attitude changes around Raven and her “cosmetic issue”. Fantastic representations, both in presence and face, of what a younger version of the OG cast might’ve been like.
The story: Yes the overarching plot of nuclear war is fun and all but the meat of the story is Erik and Charles’ relationship and their approach to mutants in human society, as it always is, and the interactions with the newer recruits. There’s plenty of quiet moments that take themselves absolutely sincerely, no half-assed awkward jokes to laugh at itself before the audience can because the writers are insecure. You know how it has to end, and this movie doesn’t for one second pretend it won’t. It never asks if they’ll end up as enemies, it spends the entire time showing you how they became enemies, which is what a prequel should do.
The climax: The last, gosh, 45 mins of this movie? Fantastic. The Americans and the Russians being played as equals but opposite, neither side being vilified because both are victims of Shaw’s plans. They’re just innocents caught in the middle (the sailors on all the boats, not the greedy higher ups). The coin, the setup and payoff and Chekhov’s gun of the goddamn coin that Erik first flicks into Shaw’s picture’s forehead at the start of the movie. Charles screaming as he still holds Shaw frozen because he feels both Shaw’s pain and the horror of what Erik’s doing. Also the choreography incorporating the various mutant powers. All of it. No notes. 10/10.
Smaller things, too. Making sure Charles and Erik have their little chess matches. The multi split-screen during the training montage and the era-appropriate music beyond the score. Dancing around the love triangle between Erik, Raven, and Charles without having it be a huge piece of the plot. Without any romance distracting from the plot, just dressing on the side. Erik being such a tired dad already around the younger mutants. The "yes we do" sonar moment. Raven still getting to use her non-combatant powers in the finale to trick Azazel. All of Michael Fassbender’s languages, rather long conversations that aren’t in English. The nods to the story at large with Charles’ hair comments, Wolverine’s cameo, cheeky origins for their hero names, the jet from the OG movies, the other significant characters popping up.
Also the balance between conflicts that do and don’t rely on powers. The final fight isn’t a fistfight and for a comic book climax, that’s kind of rare (and no blue sky beam). This is a climax that can only happen in this story. Erik doesn’t just punch Shaw into submission, he magnetizes a coin through his skull. That’s how it’s done.
I love this movie. I just watched it before making this post and I already want to watch it again.
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velvet4510 · 1 month ago
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ill-say-this-fast · 1 year ago
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How do you feel about X-MCU! Quicksilver x MCU! Scarlet Witch?
yeah I know its a pretty crack ship but like it doesn't have to be in a romantic way. It can be like platonic and/or family bond or whatever. I just really like speculating what their dynamic would be like, how they would meet, etc. etc.
(Btw up to you if you consider Ralph -ugh- Boner secretly Peter Maximoff)
It's not my favourite version of the ship, mostly because I don't like that they don't have an established relationship with each other and I prefer 'incredibly codependent and have never been apart in their life.' 'Essentially strangers' is an odd dynamic for them imo.
But theres definitely interesting stuff in there. xmen Quicksilver is basically Tommy in personality (and background) and thats an interesting dynamic for him to have with Wanda. Especially for her to see what her brother would be like if he'd had a slightly less hard life, less anti-social, less unhappy and all that. Or is she more of a maternal figure to him than she wouldve been with her Pietro?
I didnt watch wandavision (i dont like the way the mcu used Wanda, also i just hate seeing Vision's face), so Ive only percieved it through tumblr, but I dont see any reason to not throw out the Ralph thing to get something more interesting. (Also the like 2 gifs of him interacting with the kids is very important for scarletsilver reasons. I want them to be a family so bad.)
Personally I have a lot of headcanons for the new xmen to make Peter more like actual Quicksilver (eg. Wanda being more than a hint in the DOFP directors cut) so I'd be working with a different characterisation preferably. I can't see him not wanting to help any version of Wanda he meets tbh, unless she's trying to hurt his Wanda. He knows how completely lost he'd be without her and would want to help her get her version of him back and would try to keep her balanced in the meantime. I'd see that as something softer and more romantic on his side, even if she's more desperate.
If you want to take the more immature characterisation that xmen Peter has, I kinda like the idea that he's in love with his Wanda but she's holding back, and then he gets dragged into this other world with a Wanda who isn't afraid of wanting to be with him and so he gets (almost) everything he wants, like a paradise, and so does mcu Wanda, but there's always a tiny little thing wrong to go with the general uncanniness of wandavision (that they aren't the exact right version of each others' person) and they have to confront that eventually (and hopefully get back to their people for a happy ending)
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groovy-lady · 2 days ago
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Exactly!!
I WANT TO SLAP RAVEN SO HARD!!!!!! Charles should be allowed to talk using his telepathy if that’s how he’s comfortable doing so instead of being shamed and hated for his mutation!!!
And, Logan, just because a man protecting a woman didn’t work out in the past doesn’t mean it never works!
Raven is the worst!!!
Charles deserves so much better and deserves to be loved and accepted for himself fully just as much as the other mutants get to be!!!!
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i really wish they touched this in any of the movies, like, why are the telepaths the only mutants that don't get the right to be proud?? why are they the only ones that should repress their powers? they didn't choose them
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darkdoverpseeker · 2 years ago
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character offered: Rogue
fandom: X-Men: original trilogy movieverse
rp you're offering for / rp type you'd wanna play in: Long-term PSL/1-on-1, though I'm always up for throwing in other characters as NPCs. And, for Marvel, I've got a good number of them.
I’m looking something either post-X3 or post-X2 (but still a bit into the future just eliminating the events of X3 -- let's be honest, no one liked that movie).
I'd be looking for a Pyro from this time period (probably putting them somewhere between the ages or 21-26). Preferably one that's been hardened by time with the Brotherhood, hates the hell out of humans, and who isn't afraid to commit to a ton of snark and antagonization between the two (along with the awful awkwardness that goes with them being on two completely opposite sides). I'd love for this to go into love/hate shipping territory. What their relationship actually was in previous movies (because X2 is vague on it) pre-X2 is up for discussion and brainstorming.
Generally, lots of clandestine meetings (being able to utilize the idea of emails and texts in RP is also a bonus) between the two, with a wide range of types of scenes. I'd love scenes with them arguing about morals and ideals as much as I would love more action-packed scenes. So, really, everything from fluff to angst to drama to slice-of-life to action to smut to… well, you get it. The potential for Rogue to switch sides and actually go to the Brotherhood is on the table, but that would be the result of character development and something that could played around with.
The current state of the world around them is completely open for brainstorming as well (DOFP-ish, various states of the Brotherhood’s influence on the world, various states of the X-Men’s influence on the world, how anti-mutant things are, etc.)
I have ideas for pretty much all of this that I'm happy to share, I'm just trying to avoid the dreaded wall of text (I've already failed at that). I'd love to hear from both seasoned-players of this character and people going "huh, I've never written this character but this sounds like something I might want to try". If you're in the latter category and you want a sounding board as you establish the character's voice, I'm more than happy to chat or do test scenes all you want.
preferences: 21+ writers only (I’d like this to go into NSFW territory so this is non-negotiable). I prefer third-person writing and past tense, but let me know if you prefer something else because I can adapt for a great line.
Tag length is really dependent on what needs to be gotten across in the tag. I generally like there to be a good mix of prose, actions, and thoughts so we both have something substantial to reply to. Plus, if I'm looking to write with a specific character, it's because I enjoy the character and want to know what's going on in their head. Basically, if you need five long paragraphs to get across what you need to in a tag, that's fine. If you need one paragraph that's fine. As long as it's not a series of one-liners.
If any of this sparks some other idea you want to pitch, contact me about that too. I’m easily enabled.
If you want more on the preferences/permissions front, I have a post https://gloves.dreamwidth.org/3728.html
I also have a shipping/kink/smut preferences post https://gloves.dreamwidth.org/28913.html
Please feel free to send a message if you’re interested:)
dm if interested!
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velvet4510 · 3 months ago
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professorxsmokesweed · 3 years ago
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army recruiter: hey-
charles: fuck off! cheers!
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words-writ-in-starlight · 5 years ago
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You know who manages to have an interesting conflicting dynamic between Scott and Logan without predicating the entire problem on a love triangle?  X-Men freaking Evolution.  
They have an innate difference of opinion about how far the X-Men should go in self-preservation against human attackers, because Logan’s very cold calculus is “hating us is one thing, but actively trying to kill a bunch of teenagers makes them the enemy” and Scott’s is "if we so much as bruise a single human, they’ll take it as license to shoot on sight.”  And they’re both right!  They are both absolutely correct!  But they can’t have it both ways and that’s a much more compelling problem than just periodically screaming at each other over Jean.
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haunt4haunt · 3 years ago
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literally WHO told the mcu this leather plated armor shit for their suits was cool. and why does EVERYONE have it now. wendy’s stupid armored tank top?? the ugly ass endgame white and red suits -_- put these bitches in yellow spandex or stop making comic book movies
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imposterogers · 5 years ago
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x men days of future past was better than endgame&age of ultron combined but i bet ya aren’t ready to hear that
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