History AwesomeMusic / XMenFilmSeries

* Music/{{ACDC}}'s rock anthem "Thunderstruck" plays as the X-Force makes their big entrance.[[SoundtrackDissonance It continues to play as all of them die horribly one after another]].

* "[[https://youtu.be/BqhvKF2qrms X Gon Give It to Ya]]" by Music/{{DMX}}, which plays during the main trio's PowerWalk and fits the [[SirSwearsALot nature]] of Deadpool, in addition to sounding awesome.

* Following the Fox fanfare, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMG4NqrnU8E the very first title theme]] paves the way for a 20-year-old superhero universe.
* The first half [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmaJea4ZoU Logan and Rogue]], where Logan (willingly) nearly sacrifices himself just to revive Rogue, someone he's only known for a short while. Heartbreaking doesn't begin to describe it.
* The late Music/MichaelKamen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WktI7LVNz24 "Checkmate and End Titles"]] is spectacular.

* Music/JohnOttman's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gohly48snms title theme]] rules all before it.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLOMdddg11A The opening scene where Nightcrawler takes out the CIA to Mozart's "Dies Irae"]] is too awesome to put into words.

* Music/JohnPowell's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPB6cKZqAY "The Phoenix Rises"]] is magnificently bombastic.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF47W87CvWw "Logan Through Time"]] by Harry Gregson Williams, which plays during the opening credits sequence, shows Logan and Victor fighting through various wars over a century. The scene is considered by many to be the best and most interesting part of the movie.

** Special points go to the main theme [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0kmeLN3Vys "First Class"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbyyG_mH3_o "Frankenstein's Monster"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFBdjVy3mE4 "Cold War"]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6a4TFdlPAU "Sub Lift"]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-0TM3F2gpM "Magneto"]].
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2DGBnMbaog "Rage and Serenity"]] counts as this and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming Music]]. It's especially beautiful because it's a combination of both Charles Xavier's and Erik Lehnsherr's themes. This piece turned out to be so awesome that it was eventually reused in ''Film/KingsmanTheGoldenCircle''. [[http://exuberant-imperfection.tumblr.com/post/17331569999/so-i-wrote-an-essay-about-the-rage-and-serenity-scene This essay]] explains in more detail what makes the piece so poignant.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t7SOyFGCaE The end credits theme]] which is a fairly subtle, but no less effective piece of music that captures the IWorkAlone vibe that the [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} man himself]] sports.

* Admit it, you got excited when you heard [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1cTVN8ht0 John Ottman's X2 theme]] again in this movie's opening for the first time in 11 years.
* The sublime [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4uuWITmgY "Hope (Xavier's Theme)"]] is the standout piece on the soundtrack, as it essentially captures all that is beautiful about Professor X's character.
* It's 1973, the appropriate year for Music/JimCroce's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO1rMeYnOmM "Time in a Bottle"]], which is beautifully used as Quicksilver uses his speed to save Xavier, Wolverine and Magneto in the Pentagon's kitchen.
* We also get a very era-appropriate French version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBXZYx6EauU "Stop in the Name of Love"]] during a Paris nightclub scene.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhvKF2qrms X Gon Give It to Ya]]" by Music/{{DMX}}, which plays during the main trio's PowerWalk and fits the [[SirSwearsALot nature]] of Deadpool, in addition to sounding awesome.

* The soundtrack by Music/JunkieXL is no slouch either. Especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wD5tamhwXo "Maximum Effort"]] {{leitmotif}}. Many have compared the synth parts of it to [[Music/MichaelJackson "Beat it"]].

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dj-wJbabdM opening theme]] composed by John Ottman, again, now sounding like a fusion of its two previous renditions for maximum awesomeness.
* The film is set in 1983 and features Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. What could be fitting for Angel's empowering scene? Music/{{Metallica}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gghcQpv30kk "Four Horsemen"]], of course!
* Another great reminder that we're in 1983: Quicksilver saves all of Xavier's students and teachers from the exploding school... on Music/{{Eurythmics}}' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzmpl6783Hs "Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)"]]!

* The first trailer's usage of Music/JohnnyCash's cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt1Pwfnh5pc Hurt]]", which is almost universally considered by fans to be a perfect match with the general atmosphere of the film and Logan himself.
* The second trailer delivers as well, with Kaleo's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdrDySM4Fyo Way Down We Go]].
* Cash's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA The Man Comes Around]]" as the closing title music is not too shabby, either.
* Moving on to the score, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Be1HdTnSGZo "Main Titles"]] perfectly sets the neo-western tone of the film, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19HBjEdX7q0 "Forest Fight"]] captures the awesomeness of [[spoiler: the Wolverine being unleashed one last time.]]
* In the TearJerker department, there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfsCK9tPCy8 "Don't Be What They Made You"]], a near-ambient track that serves as Logan's [[spoiler: funeral hymn.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgxCNaopL_M "X Marks The Plot"]], played [[spoiler:during Laura's eulogy and final farewells to Logan. It begins softly and somberly, before gradually swelling as she turns his cross on its side into an X, and walks away]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vB0QXMlpPE "Las Mil y Una Noches"]] from the opening fight.
* The gas station scene has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHVBzLGAIbU "I Got A Name"]] by Music/JimCroce playing in the background.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX11yw6YL1w "Ashes"]], which David Leitch describes as an "emotional through-line" for the film's story and themes, sung by none other than ''[[Music/CelineDion Céline fucking Dion]]''. Even Deadpool himself thinks it's [[SelfDeprecation too good for the movie.]] From the extended cut, [[https://youtu.be/DGGcnHUTLrw this beautiful acoustic version]] sung by the writer of the song Jordan Smith replaces the acoustic version of "Take on Me".
* "Mama Said Knock You Out" by Music/LLCoolJ has been used as the unofficial theme song of the movie during the trailers, and it lines up perfectly. Even better, it uses the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnFRkEYC2JY Undefeated Remix]] with a powerful beat that gives it an extra punch.
* A combat montage, early in the film, is set to Music/DollyParton's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27h96yiwjJM 9 to 5]]".

* Teamheadkick returns with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcTa4efeirA an X-Force themed remix of their Deadpool rap from the last film]].

* At the start of the FinalBattle, we see Wade and his friends rush off to the orphanage to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgOXIEhHU1Y "Welcome to the Party"]], which wouldn't feel out of place in a ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast & Furious]]'' movie.
* The only way to truly herald Juggernaut as he beats the crap out of his opposition, is with copious amounts of [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous English Chanting]][[note]]which is actually in ''English'', and mostly consists of "Holy shitballs!"[[/note]], with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0pt-hONuSA "You Can't Stop this Motherf***"]].
* We get the legendary '80s number "[[Music/{{aha}} Take On Me]]" when Deadpool and Vanessa meet for their anniversary date. The song later returns in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xohx2jFLF8Y acoustic form]] when Wade and Vanessa reunite in death.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD3uGMy3KTg "Gap"]] is majestic when the X-Men are launched into space, then turns frightening and frantic when they're confronted by the "solar flare" in the void of space.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=werMrMJ5bNc "Frameshift"]] has a massive slow-down when it turns out Jean Grey can spot Quicksilver no matter how fast he is. It's essentially Jean's {{leitmotif}}, and it's suitably powerful.
* For the third trailer, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzBfq8ysNfw Ninurta]] by Audiomachine is an immensely epic, heart-pounding track that gives a sense of both wonderment and dread as the stakes rise ever higher.
* The first trailer makes excellent use of Think Up Anger and The Filthy Souls' cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmvgAS4HKQE The End]]" from Music/TheDoors, hammering home that this movie represents the EndOfAnAge for the franchise. In a sizzle reel that leaked out beforehand, it was the original song, edited in a way that was even more haunting in its presentation.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrcIIfZ3EQ "The Hills"]] by Martin Wave accompanies the final trailer that fits the SuperheroHorror tone of the movie.
* Music/MarilynManson's cover of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG5sFUROGX0 Cry Little Sister]]" from ''Film/TheLostBoys'' might be even better then the orignal. It was so awesome it even was used in the trailer for ''Series/Titans2018'', although it was [[CutSong cut from the movie itself.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0o9a4B4Iw4 "I Go Numb"]], the catchy 2000s-esque pop song that was used in some promos. Unfortunately it appears nowhere in the movie itself.
* Mark Snow's dark and haunting soundtrack is worth a listen: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIIztt8AsM "The Bear Advances"]], the beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3Bayj1rto "Rahne Dome"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqWnNexEpo "Obedience"]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPyl537n8g "Bastards of Young"]] by The Replacements is a high energy punk rock anthem played during the teenage rebellion party scene.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4VUqUSljk "The New Mutants"]] is a beautiful, haunting theme that concludes the X-Men saga.

* The only way to truly herald Juggernaut as he beats the crap out of his opposition, is with copious amounts of [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous English Chanting]][[note]]which is actually in ''English'', and mostly consists of "Holy shitballs!"[[/note]], with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0pt-hONuSA You Can't Stop this Motherf***]].''

* The only way to truly herald Juggernaut as he beats the crap out of his opposition, is with copious amounts of [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous English Chanting]], with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0pt-hONuSA You Can't Stop this Motherf***]].''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX11yw6YL1w "Ashes"]], which David Leitch describes as an "emotional through-line" for the film's story and themes, sung by none other than ''[[Music/CelineDion Céline fucking Dion]]''. Even Deadpool himself thinks it's [[SelfDeprecation too good for the movie.]]
** From the extended cut he have [[https://youtu.be/DGGcnHUTLrw this beautiful acoustic version]] sung by the writer of the song Jordan Smith which replaces the acoustic version of Take on Me.

* "[[https://youtu.be/4vaN01VLYSQ Shoop]]" by Salt-N-Pepa, which plays while Deadpool's crudely drawing himself shooting Francis and is singing along to it. It's insanely catchy as well.

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* John Powell's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyPB6cKZqAY "The Phoenix Rises"]] is magnificently bombastic.

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As a prototype or sorts to the great ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', one of the biggest franchises of all time [[AwesomeMusic/MarvelCinematicUniverse which itself has a ton of awesome music]], the ''X-Men Film Series'' has tons of great music.

As a prototype or sorts to the great ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', one of the biggest franchises of all time, the ''X-Men Film Series'' has tons of great music.

Preceding the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', the ''X-Men Film Series'' has tons of great music.

* Mark Snow's dark and haunting soundtrack is worth a listen: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIIztt8AsM The Bear Advances]], the beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3Bayj1rto "Rahne Dome"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqWnNexEpo "Obedience"]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrcIIfZ3EQ The Hills]] by Martin Wave accompanies the final trailer that fits the SuperheroHorror tone of the movie.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0o9a4B4Iw4 I Go Numb]], the catchy 2000s-esque pop song that was used in some promos. Unfortunately it appears nowhere in the movie itself.
* Mark Snow's dark and haunting soundtrack is worth a listen: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgIIztt8AsM The Bear Advances]], the beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3Bayj1rto Rahne Dome]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqWnNexEpo Obedience]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXPyl537n8g Bastards of Young]] by The Replacements is a high energy punk rock anthem played during the teenage rebellion party scene.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO4VUqUSljk The end credits theme]] is a beautiful, haunting theme that concludes the X-Men saga.

Preceding the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'', the ''X-Men Film Series'' sure has tons of great music indeed.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF47W87CvWw "Logan Through Time"]] by Harry Gregson Williams, which plays during the opening credits sequence, shows Logan and Victor fighting through various wars over a century. The scene is considered by many to be the best and most interesting part of the movie.
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* The first half [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLmaJea4ZoU Logan and Rogue]], where Logan (willingly) nearly sacrifices himself just to revive Rogue, someone he's only known for a short while. Heartbreaking doesn't begin to describe it.

* An eerie cover of [[Music/PinkFloyd "Another Brick in the Wall, Pt.2"]] accompanies all of the trailers except for the final trailer.

As the 2000s's greatest superhero franchise (along with ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' , The ''X-Men Film Series'' has tons of great music indeed. Even during the 2010s (and 2020), the music of the franchise could rival the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''.

As the [[{{2000s}} TurnOfTheMillennium]]'s greatest superhero franchise (along with ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' , The ''X-Men Film Series'' has tons of great music indeed. Even during the 2010s (and 2020), the music of the franchise could rival the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t7SOyFGCaE end credits theme]] which is a fairly subtle, but no less effective piece of music that captures the IWorkAlone vibe that the [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} man himself]] sports.