Wow imagine casting teenagers to play teenagers.

@@Domura why do that when you can cast a 25 year old to play a teen and completely delete the element of immersion? Easy choice.

I was 19 when this came out and fell in love with her 😁😂🤣💘💗🥰🥰🥰

Best explanation.

Well.. wouldn't be surprising that Singer would cast teens..

The commentary on X-Men 1.5 (2003). Somebody gave that answer and it makes sense. Too bad, not everybody gets it.

Yeah, the line they used in the movie was Joss Whedon thinking he was clever

@@dapeach06 didn't know that. I just knew the punchline.

@@dapeach06 it would've worked better if it was an over-the-shoulder throwaway kinda line. With, like, an implied "duh?" on the end of it.

@@dapeach06 Whedon was very clever as the showrunner of Buffy & Angel.

I believe also it was supposed to delivered as a "quip"/joke , not as serious. It's one of the parts that was kept in from an early Whedon script for the movie and you can clearly see this line delivered by Buffy or Willow (or anyone from the modern MCU like Guardians) and being funny.

From the moment I first heard the line I hated it. It's just soooo... not anything. Why's it even there I keep asking myself.

Oh man, interesting. That was the go-to example of shitty dialogue to me and my teen friends. It's still not good with the expanded context, but at least there's a reason for it.

I always read it as Storm telling Toad, "You're nothing special. You can't do shit against lightning and _I_ control it." If you understand it that way, it is some cold-blooded shit to say to a dude before you run a million joules through him. I will admit that when I later learned about the deleted running joke it made more sense.

@PatheticApathetic thank you for the explanation, that’s annoyed me for over 20 years 🤣

That's half true. Supposedly, before filming, Jackman went to NY Comic Con as Wolverine and multiple con goers commented on him being "too tall". Wolverine is 5'2 in the comics.

@@JackMarcuson It's not faked, he was the only one on set who knew about the comics.

"Hue Jackmon"

@@ReblwitoutacauseI wonder what colour he was a hue of

Isn’t that a line from first class? Or is it in both?

@@laughmatronc8706 It's from First Class.

Yeah his powers really depend on the writer. There was the "Days of Future Past" comic where in a future timeline, Wolverine was killed by a Sentinel burning all of his flesh with a flamethrower. But then you have the Civil War comics, he gets a very similar (if not more powerful) injury being exploded/burned by Nitro, he fully regenerates after just a few panels. So really: it depends on the story. I did find the Civil War one took me out of it a bit.

Pretty sure he came back from a drop of blood at one point too.

He gets reduced to almost nothing after hulk eats him in the Logan comics and he still regenerates inside his stomach and kills hulk from the inside out 😂 so yeah he can be damn near immortal depending on the story

You should all check out the new Predator vs. Wolverine comic. The amount of damage he takes and comes back from is damned near OUTRAGEOUS. So very good, though. Worth reading for sure.

@@SSD_Penumbra I remember that one :) they at least justified it because the drop of blood landed on some kind of wish/power crystal.

Cool trivia! And there was an X-men/Star Trek crossover comic where the X-men commented on how much Captain Picard looked like Charles.

Don't people say this same thing about Sam L Jackson?

@@billbill6094 That he looks like Capt. Picard? Or Charles?😂🤣😂

@@billbill6094 No, because the 21st century version of Nick Fury was created in the early 2000's and was specifically drawn based on Sam Jackson (with his permission). Casting him only made sense, that character was made to look like him.

@@OzBaxter I just looked the story up on wikipedia and IMDB, and it directly says Jackson did not give permission to Marvel to use his likeness as Ultimate Nick Fury. _"I just happened to be in a comic book store and I picked up a copy," Jackson explained in the June 2023 issue of Empire. "I was looking through it and went, 'Wait a minute!' I called my agent to find out if I had agreed to let anybody use my image, and everything snowballed from there. [...] The next thing I knew, I was having a meeting with Kevin [Feige] and they were talking to me about a nine-picture deal. I was trying to figure out how long I'd have to stay alive to make nine movies!"_ _Mark Millar previously opened up about his own experience with Jackson and discussing the unlicensed use of his image. "The first thing I said was I hope you don't mind me completely exploiting your appearance in my book 13 years back," the writer told Business Insider in 2015. "And he said, 'F-k, no, man. Thanks for the nine-picture deal."_ So that's what I was saying, that the story of Sam Jackson as Nick Fury was that he happened to think "why am I on this comic book?" And he got the movie deal from the producers who were deadset on using the actor.

The worst thing about his powers are that he should be able to control them but cant because of the accident that made him an orphan

Imagine if an enemy just threw a shuriken made of red quartz at him, must have happened at some point.

Imagine how annoying it must be to only see shades of red all the time.

@@MrAdamloring1985*Terminators enter the chat*

​​@@ItApproachesBecause "technically," he doesn't shoot lasers out of his eyes. His eyes are portals to another dimension that's literally nothing but the red beams. So when he closes them, the portal closes. There's tons of powers that are overly technical and not what they seem.

He's pretty versatile too! Like, he's not going to blow up tanks like some of the rest of the cast, but in other situations he's got a good bag of tricks. (Sadly not including lightning immunity.)

"consisted of Magneto, Toad, his children Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver," Listing them like this makes it look like Wanda and Pietro were Toad's kids.^^

@@derGhebbet Given how often they have rewritten Wanda and Pietro's backstories, they probably will eventually be revealed as his kids.

Picture magneto on maury, being told he "is not the father" @@flatebo1

Using Ray Park as Toad was also an inspired bit of casting considering how popular he was at the time coming off playing Darth Maul.

The joke answer was supposed to be "they croak" but nobody got it. Singer had to explain it in the DVD commentary.

Magneto wasn't wearing a brainwave-proof helmet...Xavier could just cheat.

@@DrD0000M totally out of character for him to do so.

@@DrD0000M Bro code says you don't just read your homie's mind while playing chess. Xavier knows the code.

That is so hard to believe. They're too old not to know how. Being knighted.....more so.

@@vilefly Exactly! Moving oddly after being knighted should have taught them what they need to know.

I mean, would you want that on film in front of audiences forever? You know what? Don't answer that...

I'll take "🐴💩 that didn't happen" for $200, Alex.

@@brandonizaguirre2963 whether true or not definitely belongs on /r/ihavesex haha

And was alsona regular on The Red Green Show.

@@ZachLorton as Dwight, the laziest marina operator!

It goes further back than that. Logan has been experiencing trauma since he was an early teen and after the more traumatic events, he tends to go feral or just blank out for a few weeks/months and then he comes back to himself with no memory of what he had been doing or what caused it. His healing factor seems to think that he's better off just not remembering those events. The big problem comes when he has done something significant during the time that he was forced to forget. Like when he killed his childhood love on accident, that event caused him to forget his entire history up to waking up in the woods. He then took his name from Mt. Logan which was nearby and ended up using that all the way through World War II. He had a vague recollection of being called Jim so that was his name while in the military. During WW II he worked with Captain America and Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos from time to time on the most dangerous missions. During the 50s and 60s he was a spy and worked with Victor Creed (Sabertooth,) David North (Maverick,), Mastodon, Silver Fox and John Wraith as a unit that did dirty work for the CIA and Canadian Intelligence. The Weapon X program erased all that and afterwards he was just Logan. His memories were tampered with so he would never know if what he remembered was real or not and thus could not be trusted. He knew too much about too many very powerful people and he couldn't be eliminated the conventional way so they screwed up his mind.

With Hawkman one thing will be consistant and it's the fact they're the same guy

Chris Claremont is the reason any of us know who the X-Men are. Sure they existed before him and they were even big before him, but the stuff he added represented a major change to them and their popularity.

I have that issue, his name was Horde, and his blue armor (what little there was of it) just floated on his body.

I think in the movies, the heat he takes at the beginning of The Wolverine could be the greatest thing to recover from. His molecules must have been furiously rebuilding themselves while being disintegrated.

Whilst it's nowhere near the single drop of blood 'greatest regen' there's an issue where Wolverine has been robbed of his adamantium by Magneto, Wolverine gets hit by a speeding drunk driver and then almost instantly heals up, I'm not sure if it was the first time they confirmed that the adamantium had been hindering his regeneration abilities but it was cool when the movie Logan acknowledged it.

the man who is basically playing antopomorphus lion has last name of Mane? seriously?)

The guy who played the other flatmate in Shaun of the Dead and the gun guy in John Wick 2 was the voice of Darth Maul

Good to know

@@christopherkaylor2940 peter serafinowicz is his name)

Tyler was also a wrestler I believe. As I heard it at the time he at one point worked with Big Sexy Kevin Nash, but I never knew how true that was.

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Tyler Mane was PERFECT as Sabretooth! 💪🦁💪

And yeah, that "Samething ... " line is terrible 😅 it was bad in 2000, and its bad now 🤣😂

Awww your edit cut on of my favorite Magneto moments! Scott: "Storm, Fry him" Magnet: "Oh yes. A bolt of lightning into a giant copper conductor ... I thought you lived at a school." 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

The thing about Mystique is yes they cast a mostly-model-at-the-time actress in Rebecca Romijn and she is a sometimes-comically sexy fighter, but a) she is clearly, absolutely a total badass even in this movie (even moreso in #2), when they asked "what powers would you have" I thought "Mystique's power to do insane kung fu shit", and b) Romijn did such a great job as mostly a goon here that she gets more significant lines/moments in #2 one of which is my favorite of the franchise. Could not be more pleased with how they handled her in these two movies. Like Magneto himself, her dedication to the cause is real despite being evil, whereas Toad and Sabretooth don't really have much serious personality.

I’ve always thought that if the MCU X-Men movies aren’t period pieces, Magneto(or all the X-Men) should be time-displaced to present day. Magneto would see how f’d up the world still is and decides to do something about it.

He really doesn't. Magneto existed long before they gave him that backstory. Not sure why people pretend that's how he started out. It became the popular origin story but that was never his first introduction in the comics. They can give him any backstory, it doesn't matter. He got that backstory because it was relevant to the time, just as the mutant parallel to the civil rights movement happened because the writers felt it was relevant to the time. His character can just as well be adapted to reflect the current time

Pretty sure the comics kept him as someone well into his 90s anyway, but because mutants age much slower, he still resembles a man in his 50s/60s. For reference, Wolverine is over 150, Sabretooth is around the same age and Scott Summers is pushing 50, but looks 30.

They could do something like meshing two timelines together after Secret Wars so you have the 'mutants have always been here' angle and keep Magneto's backstory and not have him too old.

One of First Class's writers thought up a version tied to the 90's Rwandan genocides, intended to be played by Giancarlo Espocito. I think it could work.

​@@LacoSinfoniathey've already watched the first two blade films 😊

"Some" credit? Without Blade, these movies do not happen.

You can't blame this movie for today's MCU 🙃

While I like Blade and X-Men a lot, I feel they were the last gasp of the earlier time where superhero movies were trying to be "good movies in spite of the source material", and it was the 2002 Spider-Man embracing the Silver Age weirdness that wrote the game plan the MCU would later follow. Speaking of, they STILL need to watch Spider-Man 3.

​@@HobGungan "How much does it cost?" "Easy. Either sacrifice a goat and sell your soul to Satan, or watch the movie Spiderman 3." "Spiderman 3!? That movie was horrible."

And this is why Deadpool riffs on this fact in Deadpool 2 (“Everybody calm down. The X-Men are here. A dated metaphor for racism in the ‘60s. Respect.”) btw Zazie Beetz is hot!

Magneto first appeared in the 60's. The Holocaust backstory wasn't added until the 80's. A lot of these were added due to social relevance at the time. So while it is now considered his defacto origin, that was never how he was initially introduced.

​@@gemelwalters2942true but in 60 years that's been his origin much longer than it wasn't. Honestly none of the X-men characters are fleshed out much at all until Claremont brought in the all new team in the late 70's/ early 80's and started writing the more mature, yet melodramatic, X-Men we love now.

Holocaust backstory wasn't added until the 80's Magneto first appeared in the 60s

Cyclops got totally shafted in the films, but he is still my favorite and the bits they do include are great. I became a lifelong James Marsden fan from this. (Helps that I loved Cyclops the most as a kid, and he's also great in _30 Rock_ and in general.) I'm actually mad this video shows so much love for "you're a dick" but not for his PERFECT REACTION, ".....okay!" He has several great "quiet reactions" to Wolverine in the series, I love em all. X-Men will always be my favorite despite some terrible misfires and even the best movies are not the top tier of execution. But the themes and characters are forever.

Probably THE best bromance in movie industry history. Two very talented and absolutely adorable human beings.

Exactly! Thats why in the comics she super strong and can fly where as Carol Danvers ... cant 😉

So she is the marvel version of Highlander.

@@ronb8500 Not really. She has the power to literally steal someone elses power, and it doesn't have to be a mutant one, either. In the comics, she steals Capt. Marvel's powers and adopts her personality (and has kept it since, southern accent and all). Another time while fighting the Avengers, she stole Bruce's Hulk and proceeded to beat every member of the Avengers on her own. Rogue is bananas strong, and her and Gambit are the ultimate power couple.

I assumed this was a Catwoman or Batman Returns quote but I have no idea really

I had more of a problem with a 6 foot Wolverine than I did with the costumes.

@@55itsme That bugged me too, but then I thought A) High Jackman was pitch-perfect in his performance, and B) they couldn't have afforded a more height-appropriate actor like Tom Cruise.

Nightcrawler was the best against almost anything except the two flying critters!

@@DisneyBatchman Hard disagree. Colossus hard-carried. Also went on to inspire a meme at Magfest.

@@SSD_Penumbra Well, you play Colossus and I'll play Nightcrawler, and together we'll take them all down!

What kind of superpower is probability manipulation anyway, it certainly isn't very cinematic!

Domino

You just blew my mind, had no idea.

Scott, Jean, Storm and Mystique are also exceptional casting. I love Jennifer Lawrence as an actress but Rebecca Romijn’s performance as Mystique is just pitch perfect to her character from the comic books.

@@Tamalan Absolutely same. Jennifer Lawrence is great, but I don't think she makes for an amazing Mystique, and it's especially obvious since she had to follow such a superb one

No, she didn't kill Carol Danvers. She depowered her and put her in a temporary coma, until she became Binary (which is what she should have stayed, since in modern times she's the single worst character in comic books as Cap Marvel).

"A Rogue's Tale" is one of my favorite X-Men animated eps for sure. It's crazy how they reveal this tragic backstory from back when Rogue was evil, and then the only solution they have is to IMPRISON DANVER'S MIND EVEN DEEPER to keep her from "breaking out" in fury and vengeance. Super dark.

Beat me to it😂

Theyve seen logan

Plus I bet the metal gets chilly in the winter.

@@maximillianosaben how would it get cold lmao it's inside him. metals have high specific heat and his metal is already heated up to his body temp so it'd actually be a lot harder to cool him down or heat him up with all that thermal mass

@@Heroo01 - ...It was a joke.

@@Heroo01 Idk man, I've got some metal plates in my arm, and I feel it shrink and pull on my bones every winter.

Thanos is nonsense haha. I loved the "What If?" episode where T'Challa became Star Lord and Thanos is basically "yeah, he convinced me maybe killing half of all life wouldn't actually solve all the problems in the universe." Like...yeah dude. We know.

There was also the time in Wolvie #100 when Genesis (Cable's son) and the Dark Riders, attempted to put admantium back into Logan, which he rejected, killing like everyone there. He shot the admantium out of his pores in spikes and killed a couple, and savaged the rest of them escaping. He was literally feral for a good while before he recovered.

That lead to one of tbe GREATEST universe spanning arc's in Marvel history imo; Onslaught :D

@@michaelriddick7116 *led

Yeah. It was a double whammy: A Jewish mutant during WWII. Talk about bad luck.

that backstory did not happen in the 60's when he appeared. It wasn't added until the 80's over 20 years later. That's not to discount the importance of it but it's also important to not decide the character can not be anything else when that very backstory was something added much later because it was relevant and topical at the time.

@@gemelwalters2942 When is it not relevant and topical? Yes it was given to him in the 80s, but it's been his backstory ever since and as far as I know it doesn't contradict anything written about him before. It's a central part of his appeal as a character and the MCU would get massive pushback if they tried to rewrite it.

Even more fun fact; some of the soldiers at the end of the movie are styled after the Genome soldiers from MGS 1 as a little easter egg.

Darth Maul appeared in 1999, before X-Men.

Also the Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'.

For the longest time, people made fun of Jubilee because "make fireworks" (explosions that move and can burst in patterns) was largely considered a lame power. Then they revealed that her actual power is "make things explode at a subatomic level," meaning she could detonate with the power of a nuclear bomb or make surgically precise explosions inside a human body. Suddenly, the fireworks were no joke.

Do you mean…Quigley?

@@boiiinng Yeah, I keep misspelling that one.

I feel like there was a point where he was a legit drunk alcoholic in the comics. So there must be a point he can get drunk

@@mattschliemann9683 I guess he drinks faster and harder than his metabolism.

" Interestingly, in the comics, Deadpool's healing factor is derived from Wolverine's DNA, but Deadpool's is said to be stronger." Yeah, I came here to say this, since they have seen Deadpool. Deadpool's healing ability is said to be the strongest in Marvel Comics, IIRC. Though one thing that Wolvervine has to deal with is his healing factor has to deal with is that his body is in a perpetual state of rejecting the adamantium, so his healing factor is always preoccupied to an extent. Deadpool is just a bundle of super-cancer in humanoid form.

​@@nolaw70 Not a comic reader, but curious, doesn't the cancer preoccupy Deadpool the same way?

Comic version Wolverine is 1ft shorter , can fight Hulk and come back to life after being destroyed to skeleton .

The black suits for the movie were a disappointment for fans. It then was taken farther with the comics copying the black suits to try and draw in any new fans from the movies. For a comic that centered on uniqueness of a minority and an individual it was disappointing for them to take on such a bland uniformity.

@@iampotsataja I'm not sure, but I think the cancer cells rapid growth gets co-opted by his healing factor to replace lost cells rapidly. So it actually aids him in a bizarre way.

I will be very interested to watch Simone's reaction to X-2. She is such a good soul (see her reactions to Oppenheimer) she will have some powerful insights.

Ray park. What a legend 😎

He almost did a Iron Fist movie. That would've been something.

I think he’s survived being nuked too

This story has stuck with me in exactly the same way. I always remember the name Ouchi, because he must have been in unimaginable pain (I'm not trying to be funny by saying that, it's just the truth). RIP

I might sing a different tune in that pain, but since I don't know what happens after I die, I'd rather my family try to keep me alive

Also in the comics she is not naked.

Theyve watched them all