![]() ![]() ![]() Passing of torch to new team, Banshee heads back into retirement, Logan drops out but the others are on board full time, Havok and Jean are advisors with Iceman as a reserve and Beast as tech developer.New team heads to Krakoa, beats it - but Thunderbird makes the ultimate sacrifice to save the old team (instead of the odd Nefarious ani-men stuff). ![]() All assembled in X-Mansion when the leader of Alpha Flight (Vindicator? Been a minute) drops off a pissed off Logan, completing the team - Canada owes Xavier / the X-Men a favor and this is them repaying it, etc.The pair travel the world gathering Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Thunderbird - along the way they drop by Muir Island to get Moira's assistance, finding a retired Banshee present (also gatekeeping Mutant X).Xavier gives Cyke mental evaluation to reactivate his mutant power, then Cyke trains in Danger Room while Xavier puts together a dossier of potential X-Men to lead against Krakoa.Following this setup, the movie opens with a battered, disheveled de-powered Cyclops barging into the X-Mansion in a panic - the team has fallen to Krakoa, living island.A few years pass, they fight a few classic villains in freeze frame or whatever including Magneto, the Blob, Juggernaut, Banshee, Erik the Red, Unus the Untouchable, Sauron, Vanisher, etc.Opening sequence features a montage of Xavier assembling the team.Save your big fan favorites for later movies when they can have the most impact and we're past the "origin story" phase, when they can slide naturally into the group dynamic. Both he and Magneto are very "ends justify the means"- types but Magneto is fire and violence whereas Xavier is more cold and calculating, but both are willing to use their powers to manipulate the situation, which can eventually backfire and feed into the anti-mutant hysteria the series is known for (having them emerge right at the same time all of these alien threats are appearing would make people suspicious, and wait for the Skrull to really make people question who's really on the side of right). I'd like to see Xavier be a bit more fanatical and less benevolent and grandfatherly than the Fox movies later comic arcs show how reckless he can be and how it splits the team apart. Drama can revolve around the love triangle between Scott, Jean and Warren, maybe hints towards Bobby being gay, Hank feeling like a shut-in because he's the least "normal looking" of the bunch (for the sake of simplicity he should probably start off shaggy). Xavier is in his mid 40s, Magneto is only mentioned a few times but never revealed.Įmphasize the team being different (Scott the cocky punk, Jean the introvert, Bobby the awkward youngster, Hank the know-it-all, Warren the rich kid) and slowly ramp up them working together so that the Obligatory Third Act Battle is them working as a team in perfect harmony. Keep it simple Teenage Cyclops, Jean, Ice Man, Beast, Angel. ![]()
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