THE GIFTED Finale Big Moments and Questions

The mutants of THE GIFTED will be back. Marvel revealed the Fox series will return for a second season after a thrilling first season rich in X-Men history. The shocking finale established two characters who are the “Xavier” and “Magneto” as we wait for the next season.

The Gifted courtesy Fox and Marvel

The heroes of The Mutant Underground and new allies took the fight to their enemies in the season ender with a game-changing battle and one mutant’s act will change the series. Continue reading THE GIFTED Finale Big Moments and Questions

THE GIFTED X-MEN’s CHOICE & POLARIS’S New Mutants

Two X-Men who have got a raw deal in comics are breakout characters in THE GIFTED.

Thunderbird/John Proudstar died on the team’s second mission. Polaris/Lorna has been possessed, de-powered, left at the altar, gone insane and learn she’s Magneto’s daughter.

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John and Lorna (played by Blair Redford and Emma Dumont) are the power players in the new show spinning off Fox’s Marvel X-Men franchise. We learned a big part of his past and her future. Continue reading THE GIFTED X-MEN’s CHOICE & POLARIS’S New Mutants

THE GIFTED Who’s Who

Fox’s X-Men franchise evolves into a new television series.

THE GIFTED introduces new mutants and classic heroes from comic books.

The Gifted courtesy Fox and Marvel

A family goes on the run when two teens manifest mutant powers and find refuge among some characters with familiar names to X-fans. Marvel shared new looks at these heroes.

Who’s who on THE GIFTED? What are their comic book origins? Continue reading THE GIFTED Who’s Who

LEGION Inspired Weird Rare X-MEN

X-Factor #243 courtesy Marvel

Legion is the latest evolution of the X-Men on screen.

David Haller may be one of the most unlikely members of the X-Men mythos to get his own television series. In comics Professor Xavier’s son sufferers from multiple personalities each in control of one of his multiple mutant powers.

Here are five other X-Men with strange powers, tragic pasts and are odd even among mutants.

Lorna Dane/Polaris

Magneto’s daughter – that should be enough to explain why she made this list. Continue reading LEGION Inspired Weird Rare X-MEN

POLARIS Reunion in MAGNETO

X-Factor #243 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #243 courtesy Marvel

The Master of Magnetism became a mutant variation of the Punisher in his acclaimed new series by Cullen Bunn.

Magneto left the X-Men to become a one-man mission exacting vengeance against any human who threatened his race.

Now he’s front and center in the fight against the Red Skull in AXIS. The Red Onslaught was stopped for a powerful price no one expected. Heroes have turned ruthless and villains are seeing the error of their evil ways in this new reality caused by an inversion spell. Continue reading POLARIS Reunion in MAGNETO

POLARIS for X-MEN Movies?

X-Factor #260 courtesy Marvel
X-Factor #260 courtesy Marvel

Quicksilver (Evan Peters) was a scene stealing smash in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The super fast mutant was recruited by Wolverine and Professor X to break Magneto out of prison in what might be the coolest scene in an X-movie since Nightcrawler’s White House attack.

 

In the comics Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch (Pietro and Wanda) are children of Magneto but left his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants to become Avengers. Fans got their first look at the twins (Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Elizabeth Olsen of Godzilla) in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and we’ll learn just how they differ from their comic book counterparts in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

 

Back to Fox’s X-Men, Quicksilver dropped a line hinting that he may be the son of Magneto. In the film’s final moments Peter was holding a little girl – a sister perhaps? Continue reading POLARIS for X-MEN Movies?