mechanical instrument is derived from the comic "Weapon X".
In addition, the iron cage duel between Angels and Nightcrawlers is reminiscent of Wolverine's first appearance in "X-Men".
comic character
was beaten by an angel is the classic villain of the X-Men series-Meatball Blob. His costume is exactly the same as in the comics.
Blob appeared in "Wolverine", played by Kevin Duran.
Caliban's identity in the film is a black market businessman who provides buyers with services to find mutants. In the comics, the super power of this character is the position of sensing mutants. He was once one of the Four Horsemen under Apocalypse, so his small cameo in the movie is actually a tribute to the comics.
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
, just like in the Bible, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse respectively symbolize war, plague, hunger, and death. However, director Brian Singer explained that his apocalypse was based on the cult leader, so the four horsemen in the movie should represent the four cores of the cult: military (archangel), politics (magneto), and sex ( Lingdie) and adolescents (Storm Girl).
Magneto and Storm Girl have never been knights in the comics, and in the cartoon "X-Men: Evolution" (X-Men: Evolution), they and Professor X and Transfiguration were blackened into Four horsemen.
Professor X in the movie was originally set to be one of the knights, but the director changed his original mind when he saw a fan painting of Olivia Marn's version of the Lingdie and decided to let Ao Livia came to play Lingdie and added her to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
In the comics, Lingdie has never been a villain, and has long been a member of the X-Men. Her original name was Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock. She was originally a superhero from Britain. She has a twin brother named Captain Britain. Later, her soul was transferred to a Japanese ninja. Since then, her original appearance has not been restored. The main reason is that her new look is too popular... So the film naturally adopts the ninja look of Lingdie, and her spiritual power The weapon also echoes her ability to make good use of telepathy in the comics.
Tribute to the film
At the beginning of the film, Tianqi is trapped in a pyramid. The director stated that this scene was influenced by the 1955 film "Land of the Pharaohs".
When the young mutants watched "Return of the Jedi" (Return of the Jedi), they all thought that "the third is always the worst". This is the director's stabbing of the third part of the "X-Men" series because he was not involved in that movie... and that one was really the worst. Of course, this may also be his self-deprecation of the film ("Apocalypse" is the third part of the new series).
The TV in Storm Girl’s house broadcasts the 1967 "Star Trek: The Original Series" Season 2 Episode 2 "Who Mourns for Adonais?" Apocalypse, the villain in China. The same easter egg appeared in "Reverse the Future". On the TV of the laboratory of the beast in the film, Captain Kirk from "Star Trek" appeared. He was saying: "We are going back to the past!", echoing directly and roughly. The plot of the film.
Director Brian Singer is a well-known Trekkie ("Star Trek" fan), he even made a cameo appearance in "Star Trek: Nemesis" (Star Trek: Nemesis), working on the Enterprise spacecraft under the command of Professor X .
movie, "The Six Million Dollar Man" appeared on the fast silver T-shirt. In 2011, the director Singer was rumored to remake the movie version of the classic American drama "The Six Million Dollar Man" (The Six Million Dollar Man), with the actor starring Xiao Li, but the rumor later came to an end. In addition, the protagonist in "Invincible King Kong" has many special abilities, one of which is to run faster than others.
family relationship
movie finally reveals the sibling relationship between Havok and Laser Eye. The "death" of Shockwave also explains why we have never seen him in the old trilogy...
We also saw the parents of the brothers. Although their parents are normal in the movie, they are In the comics, their father Corsair is a member of the Starjammers, an interstellar pirate group.
"Reverse the Future" hints that Kuaiyin is the son of Magneto, which is finally confirmed in this film. In addition, as everyone may know, the Scarlet Witch in "Reunion 2" and "Medi 3" is the daughter of Magneto. She and Kuaiyin are siblings (siblings in the MCU).
Marvel also recently revised the identities of Fast Silver and Scarlet Witch in the comics. They are no longer the children of Magneto, and they are no longer mutants. Marvel did this because they sold the copyright to the mutants to Fox.
In the movie, we will see a scene where the Transfiguration saves the Nightcrawler. At this time, the fans may exclaim, because...The Transfiguration is the mother of the Nightcrawler! The teleporter Azazel in "First Class" is his father! Of course, this is only their relationship in the comics. The movie has never hinted at this, but if the Transfiguration got involved with the Red Devil at the end of "First Class", then Nightcrawler would have grown up almost like this...
previous
film, Magneto asked if Professor X would wake up in the night, worrying that someone would steal his students from the school. Professor X replied that he felt sympathy for the poor soul who came to the school to make trouble. This dialogue perfectly replicates the dialogue between the two of them playing chess in prison in "X-Men 2".
Professor X came out, he was teaching a copy of "The Once and Future King" in his hand. In "X-Men 2", Magneto also read the same book in prison, and the old Professor X also mentioned this book in his lecture. In the comics, this is one of Professor X's favorite books. He often compares himself to Merlin, the mage in the book, rather than King Arthur, because he feels more like a hero's mentor.
Professor X has a new wheelchair in the film, which is the same as the old professor in the old "X-Men" series. Since Fox did not keep the original wheelchair, the director actually bought the wheelchair from a collector.
Jean Gray showed the power of the phoenix in her body and turned into a fire phoenix. We have seen this skill in X-Men 3.
director once said that he is interested in transferring the background of the next sequel to outer space, so there are rumors that he will adapt the comic "The Dark Phoenix Saga" (The Dark Phoenix Saga), the power of the phoenix in the comic. Becoming very powerful, even becoming a cosmic existence beyond common sense, which attracted the attention of the alien Shi-ar, who was worried that she would pose a threat to the universe, so they came to the earth, and finally they launched the ultimate on the moon. war.
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The place where young mutants are trained is the early dangerous room "Danger Room". Unlike the comics, there is no holographic projection to simulate the enemy, but the sentinel robot that appeared in "Reverse the Future" is recycled.
Tribute to
Magneto's daughter named Nina, not Anya in the comics. In the comics, Anya is killed in a fire, and the angry Magneto releases super powers to kill the arson mob. Magda's wife Magda who saw this scene was terrified and left him on the spot. Magda gave birth to twins (guess who and who they were?), but died shortly after. Although the key plots in the movie are different from those in the comics, the result is the same. Magneto went on the road of blackening because of the trauma of tragedy.
Apocalypse’s famous saying about creating a new world, "From the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one!" (From the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one!), this line is almost entirely from 1992 The 10th episode of the first season of the X-Men animation "Come the Apocalypse" (Come the Apocalypse).
In the film, Professor X is surprised to find that Maura Marktag has a son. This may be just a joke in the movie, but this sudden son cannot be ignored, because in the comics, he grew up to become Proteus, one of the most powerful enemies of the X-Men.
To pay tribute
to the angel’s residence in 1980 , the music played in the background was "The Four Horsemen" by the metal band Metallica, which was included in the 1983 album "Kill'Em All".
The soundtrack of the film also includes "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics in 1983, "I Ran (So Far Away)" by the Seagull Chorus and so on.
The new costume
abandons the black leather combat uniforms of the old trilogy, and the X-Men's combat uniforms in this film add a lot of color. At the same time, it is closer to comics.
The white sleeveless uniform worn by the Transformed Woman is precisely derived from the modeling in the comics.
Laser Eye wears a classic blue and yellow uniform, and also wears goggles of the same style as the comics.
The red and black uniforms of Nightcrawler are very similar to the comic version. The circus costume he wore at the beginning of the film also paid tribute to his identity as a circus performer in the comics.
The guest appearance
is no suspense, Stan Lee has a guest appearance in the film. This time, he and his wife Joan played the role of a passerby couple, and they admired it outside their home...Ah no, witnessed the nuclear bomb lifted into the sky.
A lot of trailer stills were exposed before the cut-off film was released, but many things did not appear in the feature film. Among them is this album...
Dazzler's words are printed on the cover. In fact, this is a comic character "Dazzling", originally a disco queen, and later became the X-Men...
There are even rumors that according to a photo on social networks a few months ago, Taylor Swift is likely to play this role... (Of course this is impossible)
This cool action scene has also been deleted.
Finally, let me mention a more sad actor-Lana Condo, who plays the Asian mutant Li Qianhuan in the film. In some interviews, she once described that the character's superpowers are more like plasma shock waves than fireworks. She also mentioned that she was accidentally charged by the LED light she was wearing during shooting, but she resisted not telling the director. These remarks all imply that she will show superpowers in the movie, but in fact...Her role has not been mentioned in the film by name, let alone used superpowers! It is estimated that we can only see her performance in the deleted clips released in the future...
Trailer eggs
end of the film has an egg, Essex content talking about the company's employees to "X weapon" took away the base serum samples Wolverine, may suggest that this man is "Mr. Evil" Nathaniel Essex. In the comics, Mr. Evil is a Victorian scientist and a radical expert in genetics. Because his experiment is too immoral, no one in mainstream society approves of him. In grief and pain, he met Apocalypse, who turned him into an immortal mutant.
In addition, this scene may also hint at the birth of X-23. X-23 is a female copy of Wolverine and is expected to appear in Wolverine 3 released in 2017.
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