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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Eh, Jackman was an unconventional cast at the time. They could easily go Truer to the Text and have him as a constantly angry gremlin.
Edited by Synchronicity on May 13th 2021 at 11:26:41 AM
I definatly think, due to how beloved previous takes on Wolverine, Magneto and Xavier was, those characters should be saved for the sequal. Definatly have them in the backstory without depicting them, but hold off on them on the first outing.
If you were to ask me what my dream cast for the reboot would be in terms of characters? I'd be tempted to almost entirely favour big name mutant who had been underserved in the Fox-verse.
Iceman is definatly lacking in represention in the Fox-verse despite how prolific he is in the comics.
Jubilee as well. And Shadowcat. Gambit. Angel. Colossus.
Still there are some X-Men characters I love too much to leave them out, namely Storm and Nightcrawler.
The thing is you can't really fully remove Xavier or Magneto because their conflict is fundamental to the entire existence of at least the X-Men as a classic superhero team. Wolverine obviously has Wolverine Publicity, and Jean Grey's honestly fine as long as you don't keep trying to rehash Weapon X and Dark Phoenix like the Fox movies did. The real problem ultimately was Mystique, a case of Jennifer Lawrence suddenly blowing up and the franchise frantically falling backwards to capitalize on it and Lawrence suddenly having the sway to not have to go through the makeup process. And that's just finding someone like Zoe Saldaña who's perfectly on board with being covered in makeup and CGI.
Probably the only other notable misuse was milking the Quicksilver gimmick as much as they could. But MCU should totally still bring back MCU!Pietro goddammit.
I feel doing an X-Men film without Xavier might run into a similar problem some people have with the MCU Spider-Man films and how they don't mention Uncle Ben. Granted, they're important to their respective series in very different ways, but lord knows we're gonna run into people thinking that something's amiss without the team's founder on board.
It happened pretty quickly as Xavier fucked off to space and left Magneto in charge and so all the new mutants resented Magneto for not being Magneto and kept throwing themselves into fatal situations when he asked them not to and then blaming him when they died of it and driving him back to supervillainy
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI can kinda buy that argument for Xavier, but Magneto? No.
Sure, he's the first villain they faced, but any mutant using their powers for evil (and there have been a lot of those) could fill the role just as well.
Silly idea: there’s a big picture of Xavier on the X-Men hq walls, they talk a lot about how he founded the team and how he’s gone now, and then the stinger is him returning from a visit with the space girlfriend or something being like “I leave for five minutes...”
Forever liveblogging the AvengersYeah, Xavier really doesn't need to be anything more than just the mentor at first, especially after so many films where he's been the main lead.
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonXavier being the Greater-Scope Paragon who stays at the mansion is good enough compromise to keep him in but give others spotlight.
Prettiest Meta Knight Gijinka, nglWow.
Everyone really wants Xavier out huh?
I guess we'll see how the MCU handles it, but I am both a little depressed that someone so intrinsic to the franchise is being treated as something that needs to be avoided, but also not surprised considering how much Fox used him.
....so I blame fox. Yes. Fox.
One Strip! One Strip!The real person intrinsic to the franchise is Lockheed the dragon
Hopefully we get him this time, and his enormous girlfriend Puff
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

Given the MCU's track record so far, I'm pretty confident in their ability to make movies for the more popular characters like Wolverine while still giving the more niche ones their fair share of the spotlight.
The bigger problem is definitely casting. I could see someone else as Professor X despite how great a job Patrick Stewart did, but Hugh Jackman as Wolverine was Robert Downey Jr. level perfect. Anyone else filling that role is going to have a very big challenge matching up.