X-Men: Apocalypse - 9 Reasons To Be Excited

4. The Original Comic Team Together & Around The Same Age

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Well, most of them anyway. With Iceman firmly established as a mutant of the future timeline, retconning Bobby Drake into Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse team would be very tricky. Still, with time travel at their disposal... who knows? 

Either way, this will still mark the *first time 4 out of 5 of the original X-Men will be together in the same movie at roughly the same age (Hank McCoy will be a good bit older), with the potential there to finally see a team comprised of Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), and Angel (Ben Hardy), under the leadership of Charles Xavier (James McAvoy).  Plus, there'll be other early team additions such as Storm (Alexandra Shipp) and Nightcrawler (Kodi Smitt-McPhee) too. 

Fans were disappointed when First Class turned out to be... well, not the First Class, so even though Iceman's inclusion is unlikely, this is one step closer to a "rebirth" for these characters and it lays the groundwork for a more faithful take on some of the best comic arcs in the future. 

*All 5 characters did appear in X-Men: The Last Stand, but never shared any screen time.

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