I remember reading a good article with some of the writers of wolverine, about that, and the discussion was about how his bones are coated in adamantium, but you can still seperate where the adamantium isn’t fused (like you could rip off his arms, for instance).
hell, just look at how Nick Fury sits down and talks to him:
doesn’t kill him, that was Xavier’s protocol for dealing with him. Just sever his head, and keep it away from his body (his head survives, but his body doesn’t).
You’ve been drawing examples of different versions of Wolverine, the mainstream version, the Ultimate version, the “Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe” version. Bottomline, the movie version is none of them, and it’s radically different.
Green Lantern is ABOUT aliens. X-Men is all about science, evolution, civil rights… When you start including aliens empires, ghosts and wizards and all that fantastic Marvel shit, people’s attitude towards mutants would turn to “meh, whatever”.
What I like about X-Men movies is that they completely center their conflict in the Humans vs Mutants thing, in fact it’s what mostly the comic books do, the aliens and magic and that appear only little often.
So far, I like the fact that all the good X-Men (1, 2, FC and DOFP) movies have been all about the conflict between mutants and society… Unlike the comics, that more than often turn into a “group of mutants vs group of mutants” and things become so personal between the characters that the whole social context is completely vanished and by the end of the books, you are no longer sure on why they’re fighting for.
Does that worth introducing magic in the completely science-fiction world they created in the first two movies? Nope. That would turn the movie into a too comic-bookish and silly thing.
OK, if you want Juggernaut to be a mutant, they could say his “powers” come from nanotechnology or an armor like Rhino, but him being an Indiana Jones-like tomb raider that stole a magic stone? Come on…
Whatever, now that time travel has been just introduced, it’s probably the right time to include some alien stuff… The ancient aliens thing could fit with the Age of Apocalypse movie, if they’re referring to an ancient and lost civilization.
But I’m not sure if they’re going to include aliens, the Celestials are trademarked by Marvel Studios, IIRC. I’d say most likely they won’t.
You know, something I would have loved would have been X-Men First Class 2, travellling to the Savage Land, revived dinosaurs, characters like Mr. Sinister, High Evolutionary would be a blast for this movie… That would be able to make the movies a little more comic book-ish, without departing from genetics based science-fiction.
Movie wolverine survived Jean Grey ripping him apart, atom by atom.
Yet again, the stories involving them and the Starjammers, and the Shi’Ar, were great stories. People’s attitudes didn’t turn to ‘meh, whatever’ there.
Yeah it was much better when they relegated him to a background character with no history, and ruined him and the movie.
I still fail to see your point. God, I hope you don’t start reading about Colossus’ sister…
Ok, that’s enough proof that I’m underrating it. The Ultimate Wolverine one, where he had his head ripped off his body is the one that I found most stupid in the comics (now alongside the 616 Wolvie fighting Nitro).
His healing is too OP, goddammit. lol
They are classic, they’re great, agreed. But there are other great X-Men stories more in the lines of what the movies have been doing. There’s no need to adapt the ones with the Starjammers and the Shi’Ar.
Perhaps if they had started an “X4 Cinematic Universe” in the beginning and introduced the Fantastic Four in their universe from the very start, there would be a chance to do that. Right now, no, it would look extremely forced and out of the line.
People didn’t turn to “meh, whatever” because Marvel Universe in the comics is already a pile of fantastic junk joined altogether. But it’s also true even in the comics, the X-Men books work better when they’re focused on their own, and not as part of the rest of the MU.
X-Men events are usually a thing completely apart of what is happening in the other books like the ones of the Avengers, they didn’t even went into the Civil War, but they had the Messiah Trilogy, in which the Avengers were not involved at all. Mutant books work better on their own.
Never said I liked X3 or Juggernaut’s part of it. But I still think it could be done well with no need of magic stones.
I’ve read stories featuring Magik. They travel to hell and fight demons. Do you think that could be adapted to the current X-Men movies? Nope. And again, Magik is a very little part of the X-Men comics. Probably even Dani Moonstar could fit, but Magik is just too much.
I don’t think they’re going to say Apocalypse got his powers from Skrulls, LOL.
you got that backwards. Wolverine went out to die in the sun, as the space station him and Jean were on was crashing into it. Jean becomes Phoenix, revived him, and they fly away. Was in one of Grant Morrison’s X-Men runs, I think.
They likely gonna start. GotG is the highest grossing movie of the year and currently Marvel’s hottest property. They also got cosmic stuff going on in their Thor films as well. It would be high time for Fox to take the X-Men on a cosmic adventure.
It looks like, but their Fantastic Four has to be a big success first.
Also, I think they’re gonna start handling the X-Men movies with much more care, probably mixing up aliens in the already long-time established X Universe won’t blend easily and it could hurt the franchise.
So far, Fox studios have been really cautious about a crossover between F4 and X-Men, and they’ve said there’s no plans on it, but “maybe later”…