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X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Mutants For Your Consideration

X-Men #4 by courtesy Marvel
X-Men #4 by courtesy Marvel

A new mutant joins the X-Men film franchise in X-Men: Apocalypse.

Bryan Singer revealed Jubilee will join the cast after previously revealing new actors will play younger versions of Jean Grey, Storm, Scott Summers and Nightcrawler.

Professor X, Magneto, Mystique and Beast (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult) return for the sequel set in the 1980’s. Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine.

It’s a good bet Gambit (Channing Tatum) and Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) may appear since those characters are headlining spinoffs before and after Apocalypse. Days of Future Past introduced Blink, Sunspot and Warpath.

We shared our villainous picks to join the sequel.

Inspired by the Jubilation Lee announcement here’s our picks for more heroic mutants to join the sequel: Continue reading X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Mutants For Your Consideration

JUBILEE in X-MEN APOCALYPSE

X-Men #14 courtesy Marvel
X-Men #14 courtesy Marvel

Director Bryan Singer revealed a new mutant joining the X-Men film franchise.

Lana Candor will play Jubilation Lee in X-Men: Apocalypse, Singer shared via Instagram.

In comics Jubilation Lee (Jubilee) was a “mall rat” and orphan with the power to create fireworks. The X-Men met her while they still based in the Australian Outback and would teleport to adventures around the globe.

Lee became a sidekick of Wolverine and one of the team but she later left to join the kids of Generation X. Continue reading JUBILEE in X-MEN APOCALYPSE

JENNIFER LAWRENCE Exits After X-MEN APOCALYPSE

Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men First Class courtesy Marvel and Fox
Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men First Class courtesy Marvel and Fox

Jennifer Lawrence will play Mystique one last time in X-Men: Apocalypse.

You read correct. One final turn in blue.

This 2016 showdown with the villainous first mutant will be the final film for Lawrence as the shapeshifter.

“It is my last one, actually,” the actress replied to MTV News when asked about the sequel on the red carpet for Serena. Continue reading JENNIFER LAWRENCE Exits After X-MEN APOCALYPSE

KATE PRYDE in X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

Years of Future Past #1 courtesy Marvel
Years of Future Past #1 courtesy Marvel

A new generation of readers cheer for #StarKat but long before Kitty Pryde fell for Star-Lord of Guardians of the Galaxy, she was in love with Colossus.

What if Kitty and Colossus married and had a child?

When Secret Wars launches this summer X-fans will return to the nightmare future of Days of Future Past and a married Peter and Kate.

Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton return to this timeline created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. In the classic two-part adventure Kate Pryde travel into the past, took over her younger body and stopped an assassination that led to a future in which mutants were hunted, imprisoned or executed by giant Sentinels. This is one of the most powerful and influential X-Men storylines and the inspiration for last year’s hit movie. Continue reading KATE PRYDE in X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

KITTY PRYDE Leads X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

courtesy Marvel
courtesy Marvel

Days of the Future Past is one of the most iconic and influential arcs in X-Men history. In two issues Chris Claremont and John Byrne took us to a dark future in which mutants were hunted, caged or killed by giant Sentinel robots.

An adult Kitty Pryde (with the psionic help of Rachel Summers) went back in time to prevent the assassination that would lead to this nightmare future.

But what if?

Years of Future Past by Marguerite Bennett and Mike Norton shows us a very different future in this upcoming Secret Wars book. Continue reading KITTY PRYDE Leads X-MEN YEARS OF FUTURE PAST

X-MEN: E IS FOR EXTINCTION in SECRET WARS

E is For Extinction #1 courtesy Marvel, a Comic Vine first
E is For Extinction #1 courtesy Marvel, a Comic Vine first

It was a modern take on mutants with X-Men in leather, freaky new students and when Emma Frost officially joined the team.

Writer Grant Morrison and artist Frank Quitely radically evolved the mutants with New X-Men and their first arc E is for Extinction.

Marvel announced the next Secret Wars book: E is For Extinction #1 via Comic Vine.

Morrison’s Batman, Incorporated and Nameless artistic collaborator Chris Burnham will write the tie-in book. Ramon Villalobos will be the artist. Burnham describes the world we jump back into: Continue reading X-MEN: E IS FOR EXTINCTION in SECRET WARS

X-MEN vs X-MEN in X-TINCTION AGENDA

X-Tinction Agenda #1 courtesy Marvel
X-Tinction Agenda #1 courtesy Marvel

Way back in the days of Chris Claremont and Jim Lee’s X-Men and Rob Liefeld on New Mutants there was the X-Tinction Agenda.

Imagine the mutants versus an entire nation of hate that enslaved mutants led by a cyborg monster.

The united X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutants defeated Cameron Hodge and the forces of Genosha but the fight went a different way as we’ll see in a  Secret Wars: Warzones tie-in book.

Marvel announced X-Tinction Agenda by Arrow Executive Producer Marc Guggenheim and artist Carmine di Giandomenico this June. Continue reading X-MEN vs X-MEN in X-TINCTION AGENDA

Young NIGHTCRAWLER in X-MEN APOCALYPSE

Nightcrawler #1 by Todd Nauck courtesy Marvel
Nightcrawler #1 by Todd Nauck courtesy Marvel

The X-Men’s “Fuzzy Elf” is reborn in Fox’s film franchise.

Director Bryan Singer announced via Instagram that Kodi Smit-McPhee will play a young Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse.

The actor was last seen in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and known for Let Me In and The Road.

Alan Cumming played the demonic looking German teleporter in X2: X-Men United.

In comics Nightcrawler is the son of Mystique and Azazel. Jennifer Lawrence and Jason Flemyng in X-Men: First Class. Lawrence is returning as the shapeshifter in Apocalypse. No official word on if producers will reveal the cinematic Nightcrawler’s parents. Continue reading Young NIGHTCRAWLER in X-MEN APOCALYPSE