When will more X-Women make it to the big screen?
Even Negasonic Teenage Warhead is starring in a movie and she appeared in only one X-Men issue. (Well she kinda made a brief comeback in Emma’s psychic guilt nightmare)
All the recent photos of Mohawk Storm and Psylocke in X-Men: Apocalypse and the previously named-dropped mutant above in Deadpool has us wishing for more of the Women of the Atom to make the leap off the comic page.
With Fox planning more X-Men spinoffs and possible live action television series, we picked the X-Women we want to see the most:
To clarify we chose from the mutants who have only been officially part of the X-Men teams in comics.While we love so many members of New Mutants, Generation X, Generation Hope and all the students of the Xavier and Grey Schools but we had to focus.
Here’s the first five, we’re still debating the order of the top five:
Domino We’ve been wanting Neena Thurman to get her own solo comic book for a while but she’s the most likely to make the jump to movies. Morena Baccarin is playing Vanessa, Wade Wilson’s girlfriend, in Deadpool. If this is the same Vanessa from comics then she’s also the metamorph Copycat who also impersonated Domino in the first volume of X-Force. The lethal mercenary with a “good luck power” is ruthless and romantic with Cable, Wolverine and Colossus among her conquests. We want more of Morena Baccarin even if she’s in a makeup like you see above and below plus Domino would kick ass in an X-Force spinoff.
Tempus Eva Bell is my favorite new mutant born during the Brian Michael Bendis era. The Australian mutant has the power to create time bubbles freezing the flow of time in her local area. Eva’s power evolved suddenly sending her far into the future. A lifetime of gaining and losing a husband, child and seeing a frightening future were moments to her teammates after she vanished into the future. When a powerful mutant emerged killing several X-Men Eva broke the rules and went back to time to Professor Xavier and convinced him to alter history.
Frenzy Joanna Cargill is a superstrong mutant who first started out as a villain after a troubled childhood under an abusive parent. The mercenary worked for Apocalypse then joined Magneto’s Acolytes when the Master of Magnetism became a more religious figure. She later served Magneto when he rules Genosha but later found a leader-figure in Cyclops and joined the X-Men. Joanna fell in love with Scott Summers in the Age of X reality but couldn’t shut off her feelings when time was adjusted. We actually picked Frenzy as a character for earlier X-Men films set in the past. In the spirit of Rogue, Joanna was a troubled young woman who steered toward villainy but found hope becoming a hero.
Dr. Cecelia Reyes The mutant who never wanted a code-name, never wanted to be an X-Man. Cecelia dedicated her life to becoming a trauma surgeon and hid her mutant power to create force fields. During a Sentinel attack in her operating room involving Iceman, Cecelia’s mutant power was exposed and her career was sidelined. Cecelia became the chief medical doctor for the mutants with a clinic near the school. Reyes last part of Marjorie Liu’s Astonishing X-Men run.
M Monet St. Croix is super rich, super powered and often super snobby. The daughter of a wealthy ambassador, this Algerian mutant was raised in a life of privilege and power in Monaco. When Monet’s mutant powers emerged she became a target of the alien Phalanx but was rescued and became a member of Generation X, then the mutant detective agency X-Factor and was recently part of Storm’s pro-active, all-female X-Men squad. Monet possesses multiple powers including flight, super strength speed and stamia, telepathy, telekinesis, healing ability, psychic power and an incredible intellect- she’s near a perfect human being and doesn’t let her teammates forget it. Even with her great power and money, Monet longed for a place to belong due to her haunted and tragic family. M found a new family with various X-teams.
That’s our first five of our top ten Women of The Atom we want to see in a future X-Men movie. Stay tuned for the top five – if we can ever decide on who gets the top spot!
By Editr