3. X-Men First Class
A team of super-powered individuals must band together and fight against a rouge group of mutants and thwart their plans to start a nuclear war in order to save the human race. -
The Traditional Hero (Charles Xavier) -
The Scene Chewing Villain Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) -
The Foil Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) -
Dire scenario Under the political guise of the Cold War, the Hellfire Club is slowly pushing the pawns toward nuclear war with each other in order to kick-start the supreme race of mutants and cleanse the world of normal humans. -
Getting the Crew Together Charles and Erik go on a scavenger hunt for other mutants to join their team using an early version of Cerebro. Each of the mutant recruits get a small intro of their character and power as Charles and Erik meet with each of them. -
The First Victory The CIA is able to track down Sebastian Shaw to his boat. They move in to attack, but he barely manages to escape. However, this leads to Charles meeting Erik for the first time, and their friendship is forged. -
The Failure Mission The attack on the CIA facility. Sebastian Shaw goes on the offensive and almost flawlessly infiltrates the facility where the first generation of x-men is. All the guards are killed and the whole place is destroyed. Whats more, the group loses Angel, who decides to join Shaw, as well as. -
The Sacrificial Lamb Darwin. Poor Darwin. All he wanted to do was to save his friends. Instead he gets a present from Shaw in the form of a compressed explosion taken from Havok by Shaw. He dies right in front of his friends, and it is with this death that the rest of the first class decided to begin training to become soldiers against Shaws Hellfire Club. -
The Final Battle The standoff at the Cuba blockade. At the height of the tensions between Cuba and North America, Sebastian Shaw puts his final endgame into play as he seizes control of a Russian vessel that threatens to cross over the blockade established by North America. The X-Men arrive just in time to prevent World War III from breaking out, and attack Shaws submarines. What follows is a great battle between the X-Men and the Hellfire club in the sands of an island and over ocean waters and everywhere between it.