As you might have guessed from the title, the final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse reveals the movie’s big cameo: Wolverine is baaack.
Clearly 20th Century Fox wanted this info to be out in the open—as opposed to the total surprise of Wolverine appearing in X-Men: First Class five years ago—as the trailer ends on a telling shot of who exactly is going to help the X-Men once Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen snatch Charles Xavier away. (You can see how reluctant young!Scott is to admit that they had “a little help” from Logan. It’s like he already knows they’re gonna hate each other.)
It’s fitting: Wolverine is the one who upended the entire timeline in X-Men: Days of Future Past, so we’d want to see him on the other side. And even though the canon has been futzed with, it seems that certain details have remained intact—such as particular mutants giving birth to equally enhanced offspring. Nightcrawler certainly seems to recognize Mystique, though it hasn’t yet been confirmed if she managed to conceive and then abandon him sometime between the events of First Class and Days of Future Past. And Quicksilver just comes right out and says what was cheekily hinted at in First Class, that the guy who recruited him is also his dear dad.
X-Men: Apocalypse comes to theaters May 27.
What I’m wondering is who Angel/Archangel is in this. I get that they reset the timeline, but that doesn’t somehow make Warren Worthington III be born decades earlier. So I’m wondering if it is someone else or if it will just be a complete retcon, as I wouldn’t put that past Bryan Singer by any means.
I love that even Mystique gets a costume more like the comics. These movies are finally starting to look more like the X-Men from the comics in the 90s (physically, I mean…obviously I have yet to see the movie to see if the story balance is the same or this is mostly going to be an action fest. Not that 12-year-old me would’ve complained about the live action X-Men action fest anyway).
Hmm… For the most part, I’m interested, but I’ve gotten very sick of 1) mass urban destruction scenes (something Man of Steel was very potent aversion therapy for) and 2) superpowers that disintegrate things into swirling clouds of CGI particles (which is just a cliche by this point). And this film has both at once.
@1/crzydroid: Actually there’s plenty of precedent in comics for people to be born earlier or later in alternate timelines — for instance, Earth-2 Clark Kent, Bruce Wayne, and Oliver Queen were all born about 20-25 years before their Earth-1 counterparts, and other Earths had them born later still.
And continuity in this movie series has always been pretty loose anyway. The Last Stand featured Olivia Williams as Moira McTaggart and Bill Duke as Bolivar Trask in the near future, but Singer ignored that and gave us a ’60s Moira in First Class and a ’70s Trask in Days of Future Past, even before the timeline reset. Not to mention that Jubilee was a teenage student in the present-day school in the first three movies, but is now being retconned to an ’80s teenager in Apocalypse. (Psylocke also had a bit role in The Last Stand, though she wasn’t named onscreen.) And then there are the two different Emma Frosts in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and First Class (although the former was never called Emma Frost onscreen, so I assume she’s a different character). So Angel is far from the first.
And let’s see… in the original 2000 film, set in “the near future,” Cyclops was played by a 27-year-old, Jean a 36-year-old, and Storm a 34-year-old, and the actor who played Nightcrawler in X2 (set not too long thereafter) was 38. Apocalypse is set in 1983, and Cyclops, Jean, and Nightcrawler’s actors are all 20 while Storm’s actress is 24. Granted, the original cast could’ve been playing older and these guys could be playing younger, but it’s still a little off, depending on how you interpret the “near future” setting of the first trilogy.
My only wish is they’ll finally use the theme from the old cartoon series. That is all.