X-Men: Apocalypse: 10 Ways To Ensure It's The Best In The Series

2. Properly Show Apocalypse€™s Motivation

Now, bearing in mind that this site is notorious for (occasionally) bashing Christopher Nolan€™s Dark Knight Rises, let€™s be clear that the following question should not be perceived this way. Readers of this site, your are officially implored, what exactly was Bane€™s goal, motivation, or whatever you want to call it? Sure, he wanted to continue Ra's al Ghul€™s legacy to destroy Gotham but that was before €œpeace time.€ In the comic books, Bane lives for challenges. He has a need to beat Batman for the sheer sake of doing so. This doesn't come across in the film, the average film-goer doesn't know what the hell is going on. Apocalypse is the oldest, most powerful and quite possibly the first mutant in the X-Men universe. He€™s as far beyond mutants as they are beyond humans. In the comics his aim is to essentially create a world of super mutants. Sort of survival of the fittest to the extreme. He has been around for thousands of years, convincing countless civilizations to worship him as a god, instigating wars among them. He then went into hibernation to wait for a time when more mutants would appear. When awakened he meets a scientist who agrees to help him create a plague to help him wipe out the weakest inhabitants of earth. While this sounds like a pretty straight forward plan, it could easily become overly complicated (or not developed enough) in this comic book movie age that focuses on realism. So whatever Apocalypse€™s plan or motivation ends up ultimately becoming, just be crystal clear on what it is.