Saturday, May 27, 2006
X-Men
Fair Warning: If you have not seen the movie yet, don't read this...
So if i were ever to get into a comic book, i think it would be X-Men. I really like that it is this whole society with family-like relationships and love triangles, it is a soap opera, plus super heroism, which I also dig. I don't remember the first two movies however, but unlike batman and superman, and spiderman, these guys don't seem as into saving the world as ensuring their own peaceful existence. That being said, I have a couple of questions about this X-Men world, if anyone out there is a comic book reader....
1. where do the x-men get all their money? I mean that school is pretty nice, but none of them seem to have jobs or any means of making money.
2. Why at the end of the movie where there only 6 good guys? I mean this is the big mutant school. Shouldn't some of the mutants out there is the world be graduates to the school and loyal to Xavier, why didn't they help out the good guys against the bad mutants? Or why weren't some of them at the meetings? where are all these grads?
3. Most importantly, Gene Grey, why did she have to die? I mean couldn't Wolverine just hurt her enough to subdue her and then they could have put her in all those brain machines again. It almost worked early in the movie. I mean I know Xavier is dead and can no longer control her, but there has to be another thought reading mutant out there who could try and help out. You know, perhaps a graduate of this school.
So if i were ever to get into a comic book, i think it would be X-Men. I really like that it is this whole society with family-like relationships and love triangles, it is a soap opera, plus super heroism, which I also dig. I don't remember the first two movies however, but unlike batman and superman, and spiderman, these guys don't seem as into saving the world as ensuring their own peaceful existence. That being said, I have a couple of questions about this X-Men world, if anyone out there is a comic book reader....
1. where do the x-men get all their money? I mean that school is pretty nice, but none of them seem to have jobs or any means of making money.
2. Why at the end of the movie where there only 6 good guys? I mean this is the big mutant school. Shouldn't some of the mutants out there is the world be graduates to the school and loyal to Xavier, why didn't they help out the good guys against the bad mutants? Or why weren't some of them at the meetings? where are all these grads?
3. Most importantly, Gene Grey, why did she have to die? I mean couldn't Wolverine just hurt her enough to subdue her and then they could have put her in all those brain machines again. It almost worked early in the movie. I mean I know Xavier is dead and can no longer control her, but there has to be another thought reading mutant out there who could try and help out. You know, perhaps a graduate of this school.
# posted by Julia @ 3:19 PM 
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While i haven't seen any of the X-men films i was a devoted reader of the comic for a periodof years, so i may do know that Professor X was absurdly independently wealthy. like a billionaire so that is the explanation for the school.
In the comic book x-men there are a lot of graduates. and different teams. a second generation of young teen mutants was chronicled "The New Mutants" title. as they were kids and not particularly powerful, the comic books were mostly aobut there teenage troubles on top of being mutants, and super heroes in training. this was perhaps my favorite comic and maybe worth a reading for you.
In the comic book x-men there are a lot of graduates. and different teams. a second generation of young teen mutants was chronicled "The New Mutants" title. as they were kids and not particularly powerful, the comic books were mostly aobut there teenage troubles on top of being mutants, and super heroes in training. this was perhaps my favorite comic and maybe worth a reading for you.
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: 11:57 AM
Ok, there are good answers to all those questions, but you're not going to like some of them.
1. Charles Xavier accepted start-up money from a group of mutants (Hellfire Club) that basically conspires to use their powers to rob banks in their spare time. Well, not quite -- they have world domination ambitions -- but Prof X took the moolah anyway. Also, a bunch of the mutants come from extremely wealthy backgrounds (e.g. Angel, Psylocke, etc.)
2. Most of the illogical bits from the movie come from turning adult mutants into kids. In the X-Men universe, there are actually multiple teams of adult mutants -- Cyclops heads one, Storm another, etc. Those are usually 6-8 people strong, but on a whole there are a whole lot more of them. Not only are there some X-Men that only got small parts or parts in only 1 of the movies (Jubilee, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Beast, Angel) but there are also those that never appeared at all (Gambit, Psylocke, Bishop).
3. Jean Grey usually gets resurrected, cloned, or sent to an alternate dimension when she dies in the comic book. I think the movie people didn't want to get into all of the alien/supernatural stuff in order to keep people from getting insanely confused.
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1. Charles Xavier accepted start-up money from a group of mutants (Hellfire Club) that basically conspires to use their powers to rob banks in their spare time. Well, not quite -- they have world domination ambitions -- but Prof X took the moolah anyway. Also, a bunch of the mutants come from extremely wealthy backgrounds (e.g. Angel, Psylocke, etc.)
2. Most of the illogical bits from the movie come from turning adult mutants into kids. In the X-Men universe, there are actually multiple teams of adult mutants -- Cyclops heads one, Storm another, etc. Those are usually 6-8 people strong, but on a whole there are a whole lot more of them. Not only are there some X-Men that only got small parts or parts in only 1 of the movies (Jubilee, Rogue, Nightcrawler, Beast, Angel) but there are also those that never appeared at all (Gambit, Psylocke, Bishop).
3. Jean Grey usually gets resurrected, cloned, or sent to an alternate dimension when she dies in the comic book. I think the movie people didn't want to get into all of the alien/supernatural stuff in order to keep people from getting insanely confused.
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