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Meanwhile, comic readers are like, "Why are those the only options?"

Both of those reflect specific periods of the character's history, but Rogue's been through a ton of status quos. She CAN control her powers. She CAN'T control her powers. She has Carol's powers. She has the powers of everyone she's ever zapped. She has specific combinations of people she's ever zapped. She's angsty. She's badass. She's resigned. She's a leader. She's well-adjusted. She's haunted by psychic echoes of the people she's zapped.

There are like fifty million takes on Rogue in the comics. Power-wise, she's one of the least consistent characters in comic book history. Everyone has their own version of Rogue. Instead of rehashing one of the ones that's already been done, why not do a different one?

Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 11th 2019 at 8:58:02 AM

I want a Rogue and Gambit movie/series, dammit. It will be a heist film / Screwball Comedy / Romantic Comedy.

Edited by alliterator on Sep 11th 2019 at 8:00:53 AM

Its hilarious how that Channing Tatum Gambit movie never materialized.

One time Jean Claude Van Damme was in the running to play Gambit.

That is the movie we truly needed.

Edited by Gaon on Sep 11th 2019 at 8:11:34 AM

@Hail Muffins I meant Rogue stole Thor's powers, not Carol.

I feel like we're unlikely to get the depressed teenager version of Rogue, if for no other reason than the Fox X-Men movies already did it. We've seen with Spider-Man that, in creating their own version of the character, Marvel Studios has been like, "Everything the Sony movies did a lot, we need to not do", and I imagine a similar philosophy will guide adapting the X-Men.

Bring back goth Rogue from Evolution.

I’m in the Southern Belle Rogue camp. Give her a Gambit to bounce off of and we can have a buddy comedy about two opposite people coming to terms with their powers...and each other.

I'd personally love a rowdier take on the usual Southern Belle Rogue, but with an X-Men: Evolution outfit style.

When the X-Men finally show up in the MCU, I have a list of demands, I mean shows and movies I would love to see:

1. Rogue and Gambit road trip/heist film/screwball comedy.
2. Storm film about her meeting Yukio, finding the Morlocks, and fighting Callisto.
3. Excalibur show, with a mixture of mutants and non-mutants, but it has to include Faiza Hussain played by Jameela Jamil.
4. Dazzler musical comedy drama. Also starring Longshot and Mojo.
5. And finally, a Logan and Laura show, a la Lone Wolf and Cub. They would go around taking out places that used their genetic code to clone and create weapons, finally in the end freeing the one clone that survived...Gabby!

They really should reuse the girl who played Laura in Logan, what was her name & how old is she now?

I just hope they don't rehash the tired Love Triangle between Scott, Jean, and Logan.

A GOTG / X-Men crossover movie in which they fight Mojo. The whole thing gets meta as hell.

Have the MCU movies ever done a love triangle?

Thank goodness, no. They are more fond of - to an annoying extent, sometimes - the ONE TRUE LOOOOVE angle.

Which comes with its own problems: fixatedly writing their female leads as love interests first and foremost and characters second has caused nearly all off them to suffer, for example.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 11th 2019 at 11:40:50 AM

The problem is that the Love Triangle between Scott, Jean, and Logan is something that a lot of writers for X-Men in the comics and adaptations think is important and has to be referenced all the time.

MCU writers might think that the Love Triangle is too important to their character arcs to toss out (but it's not).

It'd be refreshing if the MCU X-Men stuff steers clear of it entirely.

Edited by M84 on Sep 12th 2019 at 2:43:08 AM

I'd actually love it if we didn't get much Logan, Jean and Scott in general. They're central characters to the X-Men, but get all three of them together in a movie and there's so much urge to gravitate towards same damn plot over...

... and over...

... AND OVER...

... that's I'd rather cool it for a while, or better yet use the characters in a different way than we've seen them already. If we're going to have Wolverine, give us a Wolverine and Jubilee Buddy Adventure movie. Have a "coming of age with superpowers" movie with Scott and Havok. Give Jean a sci-fi solo movie where she meets the Shiar, while carefully never mentioning the Phoenix entity because not again.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Sep 11th 2019 at 11:46:57 AM

I swear I do not want to see Jean being turned into an object again for Wolverine to moan about like big hairy baby. Shit I’d love to see Jean fucking repulsed by Logan.

Ugh the Lost Lenore induced whining & complaining. It’s the language of baby’s I tell you what.

Name me a character who remains likable while complaining all the time about the woman he loved dying.

Edited by slimcoder on Sep 12th 2019 at 12:07:19 PM

the other thing Is risking angst what angst?.

my problem with reusing magneto in apocalipsis, it burn whatever goodwill i have on him.

Stunt actor Gui DaSilva-Greene talks about behind the scenes on stunts from The Winter Soldier and Civil War.

Wait why would Laura be Asian-American? Isn't she Logan's clone?

For how much they contributed to the superhero genre, the X-Men movies have a helluva lot for the MCU to learn from. Giving proper depth and prominence to people who aren't Wolverine, Professor X, Xavier and Mystique, for one.

Wolverine is such a weeaboo his very DNA got stained with it?

only half. The other half (the genes that made her female) came from an Asian woman in the original comics IIRC. For her to be a "pure" clone she would have to be a Caucasian male but that's clearly not the case in Logan.