The fact that the mutant struggle for acceptance can be translated to just about any minoritys battle for a place in society has always ensured that X-Men stands apart from other comic book franchises, and thats something the films have always embraced. For a start there was the body-horror death of Senator Kelly in X-Men, where he turned into a grotesque jelly fish before splashing all over the floor and causing a slipping hazard in the X-Mansion. X-2 also had the scene where Magneto escapes jail by ripping out the iron-rich blood of his sadistic prison warden, again, not something you could expect to see in the MCU. More recently there was the grief that drove Erik to extremism and Charles addiction to drugs and self-pity, whilst the scriptwriters have also embraced swearing with a couple of f**ks thrown in for good measure. The Comic-Con trailer showed that its Magnetos turn this time round, as he asks Apocalypse Who the f**k are you? Its likely to be cut for the wider theatrical trailer but its nice to know its in there. Now if someone can call Xavier a cock-headed ultra-bastard Id be really impressed. Writer Simon Kinberg is promising that X-Men: Apocalypse will be the disaster movie of the X-Men series (in a totally different way than Origins:Wolverine hopefully), with an extinction level event. That's nothing new for comic book movies of course, after all Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer featured a big ball of nothing as the planet eating Galactus. Thankfully Kinberg is promising a real emotional and philosophical underpinning to Apocalypse, commenting that; " What hes doing is in his mind justified and validated by a real compelling, coherent philosophy". We hope he's right, but let's not forget the same could be said for Ultron in the MCU, so hopefully Apocalypse will have more to do onscreen than Joss Whedon's metal menace.
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