History WMG / XMenApocalypse

In The90s the [[CoolStarship Starjammer]] lands in Westchester. Christopher Summers, aka Corsair, introduces himself as Cyclops' biological father and recruits Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Nightcrawler, Beast, and maybe Professor X to help him overthrow the tyrannical leader of the Shi'ar Empire (D'Ken? Deathbird? Vulcan? The source material gives the movie a lot of tyrannical Shi'ar leaders to choose from.) The X-Men head to space and fight alongside the Starjammers. Between (and during) battles, Jean Grey struggles with the fact that the Phoenix Force is attempting to overtake her personality, and she keeps this a secret from Cyclops, who she is very much in love with. Around the halfway mark the villain is defeated and non-tyrannical Shiar leader Lilandra becomes Empress. The X-Men are getting ready to head home when Jean goes full Phoenix and attempts to kill them. She flees to another star system to consume a star, killing the alien inhabitants of the planets that orbit that star. Lilandra is outraged and commands the X-Men to bring Jean to justice. The X-Men chase her to Earth's moon where after failing to free her the Phoenix Force's control, they throw everything they have at her. Ultimately, Jean

In The90s the [[CoolStarship: Starjammer]] lands in Westchester. Christopher Summers, aka Corsair, introduces himself as Cyclops' biological father and recruits Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Nightcrawler, Beast, and maybe Professor X to help him overthrow the tyrannical leader of the Shi'ar Empire (D'Ken? Deathbird? Vulcan? The source material gives the movie a lot of tyrannical Shi'ar leaders to choose from.) The X-Men head to space and fight alongside the Starjammers. Between (and during) battles, Jean Grey struggles with the fact that the Phoenix Force is attempting to overtake her personality, and she keeps this a secret from Cyclops, who she is very much in love with. Around the halfway mark the villain is defeated and non-tyrannical Shiar leader Lilandra becomes Empress. The X-Men are getting ready to head home when Jean goes full Phoenix and attempts to kill them. She flees to another star system to consume a star, killing the alien inhabitants of the planets that orbit that star. Lilandra is outraged and commands the X-Men to bring Jean to justice. The X-Men chase her to Earth's moon where after failing to free her the Phoenix Force's control, they throw everything they have at her. Ultimately, Jean
* a) [[ForgoneConclusion: dies tragically at Cyclops' hand]] [[PragmaticAdaptation:(since Wolverine is not in this movie).]]
* b) [[MythologyGag: is defeated, survives and is imprisoned somewhere.]]
* c) [[NotHisSled: lives and is completely redeemed,]] [[EasilyForgiven: getting welcomed back to the X-Men.]]

Professor X will apparently develop into a more aggressive character in comparison to PatrickStewart's portrayal, so perhaps the inverse will occur with Magneto.[[note]]If the Onslaught prediction is correct, then a small part of Xavier's psyche could embed itself within Lehnsherr.[[/note]] The only thing that that keeps these old friends apart is their opposing ideologies, so if they both reach a middle ground of sorts, why wouldn't Erik stay by Charles' side?

* [[spoiler:Jossed. Apocalypse is killed by Jean, Scott, Storm and Magneto. There is no hints he survived but he appears impressed by Jean's power.]]

* [[spoiler:Jossed. The sinister instead sets up Mr Sinister.]]

She's TheFashionista, and he's the Adorkable blue elf who just escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. You do the math. They might be a BetaCouple or PlatonicLifePartners as her unique sense of fasion leads her to seem him as FreakyIsCool.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV6Kh6MXtS4&feature=youtu.be A commercial seems to support this, whith Jubilee seemingly giving Nightcrawler a tour.]]

In the second trailer, they are shown to be fighting. If Nightcrawler wins, it could cause Archangel to accept Apocalypse as his leader, with Apcalypse claiming he could make Archangel stronger/faster/more able to beat Nightcrawler when they meet again. Nightcrawler might be responsible for Angel's traditional loss of his wings, he might not be in full control of his powers yet and could accidentally tear them off in a TeleporterAccident.

This could lead to a HeelRealisation for Erik, whose view of the promised "better world" no doubt involved him and his old friend side by side, and Apocalypse using Charles as a PeoplePuppet ruins that dream. The ritual to transfer Apocalypse's consciousness could even be the reason Charles is shown as bald in some trailers, as a form of LockedIntoStrangeness similar to Rogue in the first Xmen film.

If this is the case, why would she be hanging with the mutant underground in East Berlin? It seems unlikely that anyone from west of the Iron Curtain would end up there by accident, so she must have gone to Berlin deliberately. In the 80s it wasn't a popular holiday spot, but it was international spy central. Obviously if any intelligence agencies became aware that there was an underground organisation smuggling mutants across international borders, they would want to infiltrate it.

Since, in the comics, Psylocke spent some time working for STRIKE (all mentions of which must be followed by "the British version of SHIELD"; since both organisations have been taken by the MCU, they obviously won't be present here), she seems a likely candidate for a job with SIS.
This also explains why she ran away after the battle; with Apocalypse's influence gone, she realised that her first priority should be to report back to her chiefs.

Storm's behaviour over the course of ''X-Men Apocalypse'' goes like this: She meets Apocalypse; she sees Apocalypse is powerful and abandons her friends to help him recruit other mutants; she watches without complaint while Apocalypse kills hundreds of thousands of people (Cairo at the time had a population in the millions); she attacks the X-Men with apparently lethal force; she gives up fighting the X-Men the moment they look like winning; she joins the X-Men.

The logical explanation for her behaviour is that she was mind controlled, but if that's the case why did she abandon Apocalypse so abruptly? Nothing happened to break the mind control except perhaps the death of Archangel, and why would his death affect her more than the brutal annihilation of all her friends (shown to be living in Cairo in her early scenes)? Plus, a major plot point is that Apocalypse can't really trust anybody because he doesn't have psychic powers; he would presumably be less worried if he could actually mind control people.

Scott's birth parents seemingly died when he was young (or rather, were kidnapped by the Shi'Ar and forced into slavery), thus explaining his anti-social behaviour early in the film. Because, if they're going to be going into the space opera aspects of the X-Men as they apparently are, it'd make sense not to waste the opportunity to introduce Scott's dad Corsair and the Starjammers, given how similar they are to the (very well received) ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

* Confirmed...sortof. He only joins X-Men during the events of this film but it plays out like the above.

Scott's birth parents seemingly died when he was young (or rather, were kidnapped by the Shi'Ar and forced into slavery), thus explaining his anti-social behaviour early in the film. Because, if they're going to be going into the space opera aspects of the X-Men as they apparantly are, it'd make sense not to waste the opportunity to introduce Scott's dad Corsair and the Starjammers, given how similar they are to the (very well received) ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

To make up for Film/X-MenTheLastStand. (''Film/TheWolverine'' and ''Film/X-MenDaysOfFuturePast'' got a lot of mileage out of doing that, so why stop now? Plus it would finally bring the Shi'ar to the big screen.)

In the original timeline, Mystique was captured by the government for a time, leading to the creation of the Sentinel Program, and Magneto was likely still in prison in the early 80's and would not be around to start a family. Because of this, Magneto couldn't be his Horseman and and Mystique's action would not inspire Storm, potentially negating another Horseman as she would not be a radical in her views of mutant liberation. This is why Nightcrawler didn't join the X-Men until years later as Mystique wasn't around to free him. Since Mystique took Nightcralwer to the Morlocks, that was what led Apocalypse to the same area to eventually recruit Psylocke. Because Apocalypse would not be drawn to Psylocke, she remained with the Morlocks, as seen in ''Film/X3TheLastStand''. Additionally, Scott Summers did not join the X-Men until a few years later, as seen in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. Charles and Erik would apparently recruit Jean Grey some time after that. That means, the X-Men likely consisted of Havoc, Beast, and Xavier. As Xavier would not be looking for Magneto, there would be no way for Apocalypse to sense his power beforehand. Apocalypse likely came to the school as that would be the largest and most apparent collection of mutants at the time in order to create Horsemen from the students there. Charles likely attacked Apocalypse outright once he realized what eh was up against, and since he hadn't previously learned of his power through Cerebro, was unable to defend against him right away, resulting in Apocalypse's death. This is why Charles is still bald in the original timeline and why Magneto never developed the ability to create forcefields and the like.

* Jossed.

* The X-men will visit the Savage Land and find some dinosaurs!

* Jubilee will eventually convince the professor to let her join the group.

I'll think up some more later.

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* [[spoiler:YMMV on that, as Magneto is once more on the loose, but on better terms with Charles and his reputation is restored after helping to defeat Apocalypse, and Mystique is firmly on Charles' side, training the young X-men recruits.]]

Although he won't be a senator yet in TheEighties.
* If we do, then at the end of the film, the devastation caused by Apocalypse and the Horsemen will convince him for the need to start working on a Mutant Registration Act...

* Pretty much confirmed. In mid-July 2015, FOX released the cast list on its [[http://www.foxmovies.com/movies/x-men-apocalypse official website]], and Creator/HughJackman's name is not included, so ''if'' Logan does appear, his screen time will be minimal.
** According to [[http://screencrush.com/hugh-jackman-x-men-apocalypse-reshoots/?trackback=tsmclip this article]], Wolverine '''will''' be in the movie, but his appearance will be something akin to an extended cameo.
* [[spoiler:Confirmed. Wolverine cameos when the X-Men are captured by Stryker and Jean releases him from his holding Weapon X cell to get rid of the guards. Wolverine is very animalistic this time, he is almost feral and kills everyone in the base during a berserker rage apart from the X-Men and Stryker who escapes. He shares a tender moment with Jean as she enters his mind and finds the only memories of his past he has to give him peace and bring his human side back. He then leaves the base and runs into the wilderness and is not seen again during the rest of the film.]]

The films have badly mistreated Cyclops, and this movie looks like his chance to actually be Cyclops, and not Mr. RomanticFalseLead.

X-Men Days of Future Past while a lot of trailers centered around Wolverine teaching Charles, but the movie was really about Charles, Raven, and Erik and how their relationships were the backbone of the movie. This movie it will tease that focus will be Xavier, Magneto, and Mystique, but really be about Cyclops, Jean, and Storm's story and how they became the X-Men.

The actors wanted to play him are relative unknowns, unlike those wanted to play Jean and Storm, which may imply that he will be pushed aside again. The character also dies in the comic version of Age of Apocalypse and it wouldn't really be surprising if that was the one thing the directors keep from canon. The next film ''could'' be Search for Cyclops though.
* Whatever happens, he cannot be permanently killed in this film, since an older version appears at the end of ''Days of Future Past.''

Alternatively to the above guess, Scott will play a much bigger role, and as in his comic canon story he will be forced by the events of the film to develop from a scared, lonely kid with no self-worth to a skilled, tactical genius leader with no self-worth. His first appearance in the film will be the Jack Winters story and the entire sub-plot will lead to the next film being based around Mr Sinister.

Which, in this continuity, is created by Apocalypse, with the intent of weeding out the "weak" mutants so that he can gather the "strong" as his personal army. This would be appropriate, given the film is set in the 80s and the Legacy virus was originally used as an allegory for AIDS.

* One of them might be replaced by Banshee. Partly because he was a Horseman in the comics, and mostly to confirm him as the father of Siryn who appeared in ''[[Film/X2XMenUnited X2]]''.
* The second bullet might be Jossed. Wasn't Banshee already dead by ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''?
* He is. Jossed.

Continuing on from the above WMG. Going by the mutants cast so far in this movie, it does seem very likely that ''Apocalypse'' will end with a team very similar to the line-up of the 90s animated series being formed.

* So, between the seven of these (and Professor X of course) we basically have the entire cast of the animated series, except for Rogue.
** Additionally, the main theme will borrow heavily from the theme song from aforementioned cartoon.

[[WMG: Mystique will be killed off.]]

He's the ''other'' BigBad of the X-Men franchise, it just wouldn't be right to kill him off in his debut.
* Or he'll seemingly "die", but TheStinger will have him placed in a regeneration chamber by his surviving followers so that he'll be available for future movies. Which incidentally will be totally comics-accurate.

As stated in the previous entry, Professor X will apparently develop into a more aggressive character in comparison to PatrickStewart's portrayal, so perhaps the inverse will occur with Magneto.[[note]]If the Onslaught prediction is correct, then a small part of Xavier's psyche could embed itself within Lehnsherr.[[/note]] The only thing that that keeps these old friends apart is their opposing ideologies, so if they both reach a middle ground of sorts, why wouldn't Erik stay by Charles' side?
* Professor X and Magneto were friends when they visited a young Jean Grey near the beginning of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', and Creator/BryanSinger claims that the AlternateTimeline will still lead (in a very vague sense) to [[Film/XMen1 the first film]]. It's likely that he wants the characters to be together again for a time, only to have them experience a "second [[FanNickname divorce]]" at a later date (either in TheNineties or at the TurnOfTheMillennium), which would make their FriendlyEnemy dynamic in the movies that are set in the 21st century that much more tragic because it has an on-again, off-again quality. [[http://static.srcdn.com/slir/w800-h611-q90-c800:611/wp-content/uploads/X-Men-Apocalypse1.jpg This behind-the-scenes snapshot]] may suggest that Charles and Erik have made amends after they've dealt with Apocalypse.

* Partly confirmed. He has revealed himself to be several gods in mythologies and religions, referencing Ra (The Egyptian Sun God), Krishna (a Hindu deity notable, among other things, for having [[MythologyGag blue skin]]), and Yahweh (the God of Christianity and Judaism) as names he has been known as over the centuries.

Since Jean Grey is alive in 2023 of the AlternateTimeline, that must mean Xavier has learned his lesson about being overprotective towards Raven, and he doesn't place psychic blocks in Jean's mind. The Phoenix therefore won't be Jean's SuperpoweredEvilSide[=/=]SplitPersonality, and her challenge (presumably with Charles' help) is to try to find a way to manage and control the full potential of her power. Although it's highly unlikely that she'll master all of her abilities as a teen, the damage the Phoenix can cause to Apocalypse would be very useful, especially if the aforementioned Onslaught guess doesn't come to fruition. A magazine article has stated that Jean is fearful of her telepathy, but when Apocalypse begins his rampage, at one point she will have no choice but to access her Phoenix power to have a chance in hell of defeating him.

* Colossus. Confirmed for ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'', and he was a member of one of the more recent incarnations of the team.

His movie was too successful to not cash in on the popularity. And Ryan Reynolds never turns down an opportunity to put on the suit.

She's TheFashionista, and he's the Adorkable blue elf who just escaped from behind the Iron Curtain. You do the math.
* They might be a BetaCouple or PlatonicLifePartners as her unique sense of fasion leads her to seem him as FreakyIsCool.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV6Kh6MXtS4&feature=youtu.be A recent commercial seems to support this, whith Jubilee seemingly giving Nightcrawler a tour.]]

In the second trailer, they are shown to be fighting. If Nightcrawler wins, it could cause Archangel to accept Apocalypse as his leader, with Apcalypse claiming he could make Archangel stronger/faster/more able to beat Nightcrawler when they meet again.
* Nightcrawler might be responsible for Angel's traditional loss of his wings, he might not be in full control of his powers yet and could accidentally tear them off in a TeleporterAccident.
** [[spoiler:Partly confirmed. Nightcrawler accidentally badly wounds Angel's wings during their fight leaving him unable to fly properly. Apocalypse uses his power to give Angel new wings.]]

In the alternate timeline though, the drastically changed circumstances following the events of 1973 (specifically the open acceptance of mutants in society) led to Warren II's mutant gene expressing itself and so, at some point in the late 70s or early 80s, he manifested mutant powers (the same powers his son would manifest in the original timeline), becoming the Angel we see in this movie.
* There's nothing to back up this theory in the film.

* It's canon (at least in the comics) that Kurt was born blue, fanged, and tailed. She may have abandoned him (or given him over to the circus so he'd be safe) because he couldn't hid like she could. That and raising a child would have interfered with her mutant liberation work.
* Well, in the latest trailer Nightcrawler looks at Mystique in shock and says "You're her," so there's some more evidence. By Mystique's reaction, it probably is true.
* [[spoiler:Nothing in the movie suggests this. Nightcrawler's "You're her" reaction to Mystique is due to her becoming a hero and legend to the mutant population after Days Of Future Past]]

[[WMG: And if the above prediction is true, Xavier would be thrilled to learn that he has a nephew of sorts.]]

[[WMG: After [[spoiler:Storm joins the X-Men, Nightcrawler at one point will tell her that she's beautiful.]]]]
It would be a nice CallBack to [[spoiler:''Film/X2XMenUnited'', where there was a ShipTease]] between the two characters.
* Jossed.

As stated above, Apocalypse has been confirmed as being able to BodySurf. He kidnaps Charles even though he appears to already have his Four Horseman at this point (since Erik looks to be the one doing the actual kidnapping). Taking over Charles's body would give him access to all the of Xavier family wealth and resources, as well as a school full of trusting students all ready to be shaped and manipulated right how he wants them.

There is, to be clear, no evidence for this in the film itself; I'm simply basing this guess on the assumption that she shares at least some of her comic-book incarnation's backstory, and is therefore a British woman named Elizabeth Braddock.

If that's the case, why would she be hanging with the mutant underground in East Berlin? It seems unlikely that anyone from west of the Iron Curtain would end up there by accident, so she must have gone to Berlin deliberately. In the 80s it wasn't exactly a popular holiday spot, but it was international spy central. Obviously if any intelligence agencies became aware that there was an underground organisation smuggling mutants across international borders, they would want to infiltrate it.

The only explanation that fits all the facts is that Storm -- and the rest of the Horsemen -- were not controlled but had thrown in their lot with Apocalypse because it seemed to be in their best interests. And that they cared nothing for human life or human suffering, only for their own power. Storm abandoned Apocalypse not because she objected to him killing every person she knew on the planet, but because she met a more powerful group of potential allies. And she joined the X-Men not because she's in any way a good person, but because they're now the biggest bully in the playground.

It's the only way for timelines to make sense at this point. In the last scene of ''Days of Future Past'', which takes place exactly 40 years after this movie, Jean, Scott and Ororo (who are all teenagers here) look nothing like people on their late 50s.
* RuleOfSexy perhaps? Also, if Charles and Eric can look as young as they do in ''Apocalypse'', then the same can apply for Scott, Jean and Ororo. Perhaps mutants do age at a slower rate in this universe.

And his actual parents seemingly died when he was young (or rather, were kidnapped by the Shi'Ar and forced into slavery), thus explaining his anti-social behaviour early in the film. Because, if they're going to be going into the space opera aspects of the X-Men as they apparantly are, it'd make sense not to waste the opportunity to introduce Scott's dad Corsair and the Starjammers, given how similar they are to the (very well received) ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''.

[[WMG: The Source of Apocalypse's Technology]]
With reports that the next core X-Men film will be venturing into space, a connection will be made between the technology Apocalypse used and one of the space-faring races Fox holds the rights to (Shi'ar, Badoon, etc.). One of these species will assume the role in the X-Men Cinematic Universe that the Celestials filled in the books as the ones who engineered the appearance of mutants on Earth.