10 Greatest Opening Scenes In Comic Book Movie History

3. Nightcrawler Attacks The White House - X2

X2 gets off to a blinding start that instantly makes it superior to the fine original, as Nightcrawler attempts to assassinate the President of the United States. Naturally, being a blue dude who can teleport around, he's not the most inconspicuous figure, and after disabling a Secret Service agent, he finds himself having to take out a whole fleet of backup guards. Singer's use of Mozart's Requiem, Dies Irae (2nd Movement) combines with his visual brilliance to make an intense (if brief) sequence, in which Nightcrawler takes the security detail to school, and breaches the Oval office, where the President is being holed up. Nightcrawler then takes out any remaining guards and pins the President to his own table, pulling out a knife with his tail as he does so. However, one barely conscious security guard manages to pop a bullet in his arm, startling him and causing him to promptly leave. However, he leaves the knife impaled in the table, with a note reading "mutant freedom now". This scene made it clear that Bryan Singer wasn't messing around, and the movie ended up being one of the best sequels ever, comic book or not.