X-Men: Dark Phoenix Trailer - 10 Things You Might've Missed

7. Storm's New Haircut

Dark Phoenix Storm
Fox

Alexandra Shipp will of course reprise her role as Storm from X-Men: Apocalypse, and you might've missed that she's sporting a different haircut from her striking mohawk in the previous film.

Considering Dark Phoenix is set in the 1990s, this feels like a conscious effort to make Shipp's rendition of the character more closely resemble Halle Berry's version from the original X-Men movie, and it basically works.

Curiously, though, Storm doesn't appear to have her long, flowing locks from the first X-Men film, even though the character did appear with her long hair in that hysterical Deadpool 2 cameo, which was shot during principal photography on Dark Phoenix. Confused? So are we.

Could there be some sort of time jump where Storm's hair ends up grown out? Do we care too much about this? Probably on both counts.

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