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X-men Characters That Should Be In Movies

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">X-Men they should ditch in the movies and X-Men they should bring in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The X-men movie franchise has grossly under performed its expectations&period; The movies still make money but compared to their Marvel counterparts Fox has really dropped the ball&period; The disappointment Marvel radiates towards Fox has led to an epic trademark dispute&period; One of the reasons&comma; in my opinion&comma; is character selection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter wp-image-1554 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;incrediblemag&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;01&sol;X-men&period;png" alt&equals;"X-men Characters That Should Be In Movies" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"347" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">It appears that Fox wants to get too many big name characters in their movies or people with special talents that will look great on screen&period; It ends up like one of the movies with an all-star cast&comma; that just doesn&&num;8217&semi;t get good reviews or appeal to anyone&period; Each movie brings in new popular x-men and then makes them disappear&period; We aren&&num;8217&semi;t left with great story lines or any connection with the characters&period; I have never found myself caring about what happens with any of them&period; So let&&num;8217&semi;s start with character changes that Fox should make in order to make the movies better&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s start with who needs to go&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<ol style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<li>&NewLine;<h2>Mystique&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Mystique was an X-man for about 15 seconds&period; She has spent the better part of the last 3 decades as an enemy of the X-men&period; I am not sure why she has been heavily included in the movies&period; There is nothing about the character of Mystique that really fits with the idea of the X-men&period; Most of the X-men were conflicted with their powers&period; Many didn&&num;8217&semi;t even want them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The X-men is a story about teens who are coming into their own as outcasts&period; They are dealing with the puberty pimples at  the same time they are trying to figure out why they have lasers shooting out of their eyes&period; The X-men for the most part are a troubled mess&semi; they are the hot girl you dated in high school&comma; who  ended up hiding in your bushes when you broke up&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Mystique has almost always had everything together&period; A leader and member of the Freedom Force and enemy to the X-Men&comma; she liked the power she had&period; Sure she ended up joining the X-men for a few issues before she betrayed them&period; That would be a cool story&comma; but if they aren&&num;8217&semi;t going to use her as an enemy&comma; she just doesn&&num;8217&semi;t belong&period; Her power really makes for a cool effect&comma; but it doesn&&num;8217&semi;t add anything to the fight scenes&period; Its a special effect that we have seen enough to get tired of&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">2&period; Angel&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">What does Angel do&quest; He flies&excl; That is it&period; He isn&&num;8217&semi;t super strong&comma; and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have an awesome catch phrase&semi; he just flies&period; Dark Angel and Arc Angel are pretty great&comma; but once again&comma; they need to focus on their story or we just don&&num;8217&semi;t get it&period; If Fox is going to tell a story about Angel&comma; then sure I would buy the transition from pansy in spandex&comma; to agent of death&period; That is a great story by itself&comma; but as a character and part of the group&comma; there really isn&&num;8217&semi;t any chemistry&period; His power needs to fit in and benefit the group setting and the fit isn&&num;8217&semi;t there&comma; especially when there are more likeable characters that have been ignored&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">His story is great&period; Rich boy grows up with everything&comma; but has to leave it because his parents aren&&num;8217&semi;t accepting of his wings&period; Hey&comma; I can relate to that story&period; We see that in everyday life&semi; I can feel his pain&period; I wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t mind seeing that story brought to life on the big screen&period; I would even like to see his loss&comma; suffering and transformation that lead to Arc Angel&period; It would be great to see the mutant massacre brought to life and have it progress into Apocalypse&period; However&comma; if Fox isn&&num;8217&semi;t going to go that direction&comma; which they obviously aren&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; then they need to move on to something that tells the story inside the group&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">3&period; Quicksilver&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">I like what they have done with Quicksilver in the X-men movies&period; Its cool&comma; but&comma; it is a do -it all on your own power&period; With a power like his&comma; he really doesn&&num;8217&semi;t fit in with the team mold&period; Realistically with his power the way that it is portrayed&comma; he really doesn&&num;8217&semi;t need anyone else&period; It makes for a great special effect scene&comma; but does little to tell the story of the X-men&period; How does Quicksilver really fit in with the story of the X-men&quest; He really doesn&&num;8217&semi;t&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">His stint with the X-men was almost as short as Mystique&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; and he spent most of his career as a member of Magneto&&num;8217&semi;s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants&comma; the rest with the Avengers&period; His power doesn&&num;8217&semi;t always translate as a team power&period; You rarely see him use the power in conjunction with someone else&&num;8217&semi;s&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">4&period; Magneto&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Magneto has a lot of history with the X-men&period; He has been their enemy and their ally-even taking over for Professor X leading the X-men on a few occasions&period; However&comma; I think his time in the movies needs to come to an end&period; His role is the exact same in every movie&period; He is an antagonist for Professor X&period; Every movie with Magneto comes down to the same dialog of humans vs mutants&period; Both Professor X and Magneto spew the same arguments over and over&period; Their relationship hasn&&num;8217&semi;t evolved or changed since the very first movie&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Every X-men movie doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have to involve Magneto&period; The X-men have a ton of great story lines that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t include Magneto&period; Thinking they have to have him in every movie&comma; playing the same character&comma; making the same arguments&comma; is actually holding the story back&period; Mutants vs Human has been the theme in every single movie&period; They need to get Magneto out to tell a different story&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">There are X-men who should be involved in the movies&period; We have major X-men who haven&&num;8217&semi;t been in the movies or portrayed very poorly and we lack likeable characters who make the group dynamic more enjoyable&period; In the Marvel Avengers movies&comma; we have two very important but supporting characters in Black Widow and Hawkeye&period; They are a sub-group within the group and their dynamic is almost as interesting to watch as it is with the rest of the team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">The sub-group often fights together&semi; they have more dialog with each other than with  the rest of the team&period; They have their own story&comma; that we never find out&comma; but learn bits and pieces of&period; That dynamic has not been present in the X-men movies but was present during the comic books&period; So with that in mind here are three characters that the X-men should incorporate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">1&period; Dazzler<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Dazzler brings a different element to the X-men&period; She is a popular singer&comma; a pop-star&comma; who is open with the fact that she is a mutant&period; She is well- liked&comma; but she is also the hot high school girl hiding in the bushes&period; She is a wreck on the inside&period; Because Fox needs the big-budget special effects to make them feel like they have made a movie&comma; Dazzler can keep the execs and the fans happy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Dazzler has the ability to turn sound into light&period; She can attack by projecting colorful energy beams from her hands&period; Not only is it lethal&comma; it can also provide enough special effects to require an epilepsy warning after the previews&period; Bryan Singer whose X-men movies have relied more on special effects than story telling could have a hey- day with this&period; What&&num;8217&semi;s more awesome is that she fights while she is  on roller skates&period; Now that could be doubly awesome for Bryan Singer&period; But an appearance by Dazzler just wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be the same without her love interest&comma; Longshot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">2&period; Longshot&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Longshot is a genetically- engineered- life-form from another dimension&period; Even though most fans don&&num;8217&semi;t know who Dazzler and Longshot are&comma; the two  would make the perfect supporting cast&period; They would be very similar to Hawkeye and Black Widow&period; They could have their own story&comma; make for great special effects and not overshadow the main characters&period; The real benefit to Longshot is how he encourages collaboration while in battle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Longshot has the unique ability to alter luck&period; The action sequence possibilities are limitless&period; Juggernaut goes to punch Wolverine&comma; slips on a banana peel while  Magneto gets in an argument with Charles about a looming war between humans and mutants&period; Takes off flying in a fit of rage&comma; and  gets hit by a plane&period;  In a heated battle&comma; something like the banana peel&comma; changes the outcome of the fight&period; Realistically&comma; the movies have got away from the teamwork aspect of the X-men&period; A character like Longshot can bring it all back&period; Done right&comma; the combo of Dazzler and Longshot could even become their own movie&period; I would pay to see that&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">3&period; Rogue&period;<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Out of all the character snafus that Fox has made&comma; this one is the worst&period; Rogue was a better part of the X-men for more than a hundred issues&period; She was one of the most troubled ones&comma; as a girl who wants to be normal&comma; be in love&comma; but can&&num;8217&semi;t&period; In the first X-men&comma; she was whiny and weak&period; I was positive they were going to work the Ms&period; Marvel angle in at first &lpar;Rogue got her awesome powers from Ms&period; Marvel&rpar;&period; Unfortunately they didn&&num;8217&semi;t do anything with Rogue&comma; except make her more whiny&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Rogue isn&&num;8217&semi;t that expensive of a special effect&period; She flies&comma; has super human strength&comma; extra resilient skin that acts like armor and a whole lot of sass&period; She was one of the original &&num;8216&semi;bad boys&&num;8217&semi; of the X-men&period; When it came to fighting&comma; she was much more like wolverine than rainbow brite&period; With the exception of Wolverine&comma; the X-men franchise doesn&&num;8217&semi;t carry the sass that makes for good laughs and is often displayed by insecure teenagers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Let&&num;8217&semi;s not pretend that a couple of  character additions and subtractions are going to automatically improve the story telling in the X-men movies&period; However&comma; should Fox become ambitious and decide to tell a good story with great action sequences&comma; these characters can make it much easier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Sharod Ivie is an entertainment consultant for an authorized DirecTV Dealer in Wichita&comma; Kansas&period; He has followed the X-men comics for more than 30 years and consults for super- hero themed events&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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