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Navy vet here: Condition "Zebra" is the most watertight setup for the ship, normally set during battle stations. It involves closing every watertight door and hatch on the ship, so if one compartment gets flooded it is contained in a smaller area.
Beat me to it. LOL
Thank You for your service 👍🏻🇺🇸
Thank you, sir for that. And thank you for your service. :)
Thanks for explaining that!
A note to the above; one of the biggest differences between a warship and a civilian ship, the degree of compartmentalization. If the Titanic had been compartmentalized like a warship it might very well have survived the collision with the iceberg. If the hatches had been sealed before the collision it might have even gotten as good as likely to have survived.
Darwin was IN FACT supposed to be able to “adapt” to what Shaw did to him and him not doing it is a source of outrage for many comic fans.
I would have loved it if he had survived!
are people as angry when Black bolt and Smartest man alive was destroyed by Wanda in Dr Strange MOM while the other other female captain had a better fight?
do people not realize it's terrible writting
@@IamNinjaOfNinja Apples and oranges. Wanda's power is MAGIC. Technically, a strong magician can destroy any other power, so if she destroyed a smart and STRETCHING Mr. Fantastic, or a VOCAL Black Bolt, or even an ADAPTIVE Darwin, it would make sense. It will never make any sense for Darwin to not adapt to some redirected energy, and you're a clown to even try to equate the two.
@@traydevon definitely apples and oranges but it doesn't make the story and writing in the Multiverse of Madness any less dumber than it sounds.
Great catch on the irony that magneto couldn’t control the bullet to save his mom and after he learns how to he ends up paralyzing someone he loves. The writing in this movie is underrated
The writing was great!
Most of it was solid, but this scene seemed.... silly?
He could have just yanked her gun, or yeeted her like the others... but nope he needs to try to stop bullets (and can't?).
But the end result of the Paralysation being Magneto's fault is good, just... clunky?
It actually makes sense that Magneto couldn't stop the bullet that killed his mom, since the bullets at that time were mostly made of lead, which is non-magnetic. By the 60s... lead was still a major component, but some other alloys were getting mixed in as well, which explains Magneto being able to affect them, though not control them.
@@lokithecat7225 Your forgetting this is young impulsive magneto. Not the master of magnetism yet. So it still makes sense that its a horrible accident. Also moira was firing rapidly so magneto had to focus on deflecting bullets before taking the gun away
@@DanielGonzalez-xu1hi Exactly. So many critics seem to forget the decades of experience that separate this Magneto from the one in "present day."
James Mcavoy and Michael Fassbender as Young Prof X and Magneto = "Perfection"
They were both perfectly cast and did a wonderful job!
I agree perfect cast. Great origin stories as well.
☠️☠️☠️
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I remember a lot of criticism for how Darwin was handled, partly by cutting to his face when Cross mentioned being enslaved (which was really on-the-nose and exploitative), but mostly because Darwin is one of the most resilient and powerful characters in the comics, and he got killed so easily and quickly in this movie.
It surprised me how quickly they killed him. Good to know that in the comics he would have survived that. It makes more sense considering he's supposed to be able to adapt to anything.
This and sewing Deadpool's mouth shut in X-Men: Origins are among the dumbest decisions in comic book movies history
Who would win, "the black guy dies first" or "this character literally can't be killed"?
Atleast Edi Gathegi is back now with DC and JACKED AF?! 🤯 Edith: forgot that Zoe Kravitz and Nicholas hoult are at DC now too^^
TERRIFIC news! @@sidoGold1980
In the comic books, Darwin tries to fight the Hulk on a couple of occassions. The first time, his mutation makes him stronger, but not enough to beat the Hulk. The second time, Darwin's mutation gives him teleportation. BY TELEPORTING HIM AWAY FROM THE HULK!
Adapt to survive. ;-)
I love that! What a great mutation.
The movies really did a disservice to Darwin’s powers, he’s one of the strongest Mutants. He’s virtually un-killable and in the comics he would have survived that.
@@matthewscott3689 yeah, Darwin got dissed horribly in this film.
Moira MacTaggert (who's played by Rose Byrne here) was in the post-credit scene of The Last Stand in the hospital when Charles wakes up, also that blonde lady is Emma Frost, she has telepathic abilities and she can change into an organic diamond form as you can see. Also Hank McCoy is called Beast
In this movie for now on Moira lost her accent. Such a shame direction for the actress but maybe with her working for CIA here makes more sense I don't know.
And also in the comics Moira is constantly called human but she is actually a very peculiar mutant.
She can die and born again in a different mother and keep her past knowledge since birth everytime.
Making her crazy smart to develop that damn "cure" even tho being very young and still humans and mutants try to take her down.
Maybe that would be the answer for her non existent accent by being born various times by different parents.
Also she did played both sides of the game working with Charles and many times with Magneto and Apocalypse too. Eventually she stayed in humans side but helping Charles in moments of huge crisis. It's a hell of a mess if you're trying to adapt the lore of the X-Men comics haha
Wasn't she in the movie proper, when Prof.X is presenting the class with the ethics question in the first place?
Thank you! I didn't recognize Moira's name at first.
@@bankbarcomo806 yes she was. Even with the accent that I was talking about. Moira originally was about to have a more important role in the movies but unfortunately they stopped in that trilogy before moving on years later with her character. You can see they tried to do a continuation with Sir Patrick Stewart recruiting mutants in the past in the Origins: Wolverine so technically they stopped that timeline there, not in The Last Stand. After that everything was "kind of" rebooted in a smart way but you know... If you watched Days of The Future Past there is a LOT of inconsistency like the recast of Bolivar Trask.
The Fox's X-Men are a huge pile of messiness in the matter of timeline but now that Disney owns Marvel hopefully this will change.
We need more Moira in the movies this time hehe she is not very well adapted with justice in these movies in my opinion and have a major importance in the comics for awhile. The whole plot about her and Pyro is shocking and very disturbing.
@@reactswithjax If you like to see some romance then see the X-men cartoon or just see the conium of it (X-men97)
Can't wait till you do X-Men: Days of Future Past!
Agreed. But I prefer Rogue Cut. It shows everything.
Yeah so she can understand why Evan Peters was in WandaVision lol
And Logan After that
yes and nothing else after that
@@SharbtursGameCorner Shame they never continued the series
I just looked up the MCR1 gene in Moira. So her hair looks brown but its supposed to be auburn. Which is a reddish brown that can sometimes look more brown than red but is technically RED hair. The actress might just have brown hair and they are calling it auburn to get away with not dyeing her hair but thats what I found with my GED on google searching.
I love that we are going down this rabbit hole now and becoming mid-level gene experts!
Everyone has a GED. "Google Education Degree". 😉
Moira's a redhead in the comics so maybe it was just left in the script 😂
Man, so awesome to see that Charles is the reason how Erik got so damn good in mastering his powers with bigger and complexity structures. Like his friend LITERALLY showed him to access his brighter memories in his brain, unlocked a part of him he kinda forgot and made him crazy powerful.
Gotta love these two guys ❤
They have such a great relationship!
@@reactswithjax they're like brothers from another mother but different perspectives on approaching humanity. So fascinating.
You'd love to see them in the animated series they are so cute and arguing all the time haha and also is very well comic accurate lore and designs. I fell in love even more with Magneto there and his complexities.
Sorry for the long comment but if you eventually come around to that and think that is too much to react too, you can react at a recap video about the 5 seasons and then joining to the continuation in X-Men 97 I can promise you its a dream come true for the fans of X-Men and if they want to connect with their favorite characters. It would be a PLEASURE to watch your reactions of everything related to X-Men actually.
Love your enthusiasm and keep doing what you like. ❤️
Great casting here, to be sure. But Charles' and Erik's complex and interesting character arcs are really the work of one Chris Claremont. He wrote many of the X-Men comics for a decade and a half, and is responsible for many of their greatest characters and stories. He took the series from being a struggling book that had already been cancelled once, to one of Marvel's flagship and most popular comics, and one of the earliest Marvel teams to have their own movie. I don't want to take away from the various X-Men movies' screenplays, but they had excellent source material with which to work.
@@yelnikigwawa1845 that's for sure. But unfortunately the movies doesn't get the whole amazing stuff normally X-Men do like in the comics or the animated series. I mean, there's a lot of good stuff but they do more justice in the old media and I personally don't have a bad thing to say about it but I wish they actually did Cyclops justice in the movies. Like, he is just nothing more than a secondary or not even that in the movies as a character. Glad they bring back his badass vibe in X-Men 97 and Magneto is always rocking as ever.
18:20 ---No he did not do a cameo .... X-Men creator Stan Lee who regularly made cameos in other Marvel-based movies, explained that he was unable to participate in First Class because "they shot it too far away" !
It would have been so fun to see him!
Understandable. He was already pretty old back then.
17:15 - the young girl with the silver hair is Storm, and the kid with the baseball glove and glasses is Scott/Cyclops.
I didn't even recognize them! Thanks for pointing them out!
Radiation doesn't make mutants more powerful. However, even in real life radiation can cause mutations. The Xmen are also known as the children of the atom. The atomic age led to an increase in mutations. Remember the Xmen first appeared in the comics in the 60s.
Ooh, I didn't realize that the X-Men were linked to the atomic age!
I mean, the Hugh Jackman cameo is simply perfect.
P.S. The next movie = top tier!
His cameo was everything!
To me, this is the best X-Men movie. It does character development the best for all characters involved! The team building, Erik and Xavier’s friendship and motivations, the villain, the coin scene, all perfectly done
It's a pretty phenomenal film. The coin scene was really well shot!
13:38 "Could you block her? The way she's blocking you?" Yes, that's essentially what he's saying: he'll be able to prevent her from messing with his own team's minds, but that's going to take all his focus so he won't be able to mess with the enemies' minds in the way he had expected to.
38:35 - "Can you just behead him?...Would that work?" - Jax keeping it classy as always. 😂😂
Btw, Alex Summers aka Havok is Scott Summers' (Cyclops) older brother. Note he similarity in their powers.
younger. Scott's the oldest
That's so cool! I didn't realize they were related.
Alex is older in the movies, younger in the comics. The two universes have different histories. Just as the original "First Class" of X-Men were different in the comics, and Mystique was never a member of the team.
@@neospock5034 plus half-brother in comics, right?
@@reactswithjax Check later X-Men TAS :)
in the comics Azazel and Mystique are Nightcrawlers parents thats why hes blue and can teleport
Wow, that's really awesome. Nightcrawler is such a great character.
@@reactswithjax cant wait till you get to Deadpool 1&2 and Logan
@@reactswithjax It recently came out that Nightcrawlers real parents were Mystique and Destiny (Mystique’s long term, true love girlfriend). Destiny carried him, and Mystique provided the male… ahem… part.
@@danielgibson7948 What? Another "woke" BS?
@@danielgibson7948 so lame ahahahah
In the comics, millions of years ago, the Celestials experimented with beings throughout the galaxies and infused them with powers.
(Remember the story about the Infinity Stones and Celestials that the Collector was explaining to the Guardians in the first movie?)
The Kree (Blue people from Guardians and Captain Marvel) for example, were only lower life forms when the Celestials took their planet and upgraded them.
The Kree became an advanced people and built an empire, eventually started experimenting on other life forms too, but for the benefit of using them to increase the formidable power of the Kree empire.
When the Celestials came to earth to experiment on humans, they first created mutated beings called The Deviants, which looked more monster like, and were to weed out the competing Apex predators that could endanger the human race that they were experimenting on.
Those Deviants got out of hand and became the newer problem.
BTW..Thanos is the creation of 2 Celestials but somehow ended up becoming a Deviant. ( purple looking monster)
The other experimented humans pretty much stayed human like and had powers..they were called Eternals.
Fast forward millions of years later and descendants from those beings who have the dormit "X gene" can have that gene awakened by exposure to radiation..in Bruce's and Steve Rogers's case that would be Gamma Ray.
I think that Bruce and his cousin share a Deviant X gene because they turn into green monsters. Also, I think maybe his female cousin (She Hulk) maybe have a spliced one with part Eternal blood.
So, Shaw's plan to let the world get bombed with nukes is do to the fact that he knows it will awaken the dormit X Gene in those who have it.
There are some people who are just X gene carriers and pass it on to their kids, without being enhanced themselves. Exposure to space radiation, will cause them to get a high level of cancer.
My theory is that's what happened to Quill's mom.
Ego was a Celestial who learned how to make a human body.
He went out trying to procreate with beings to find some with the descendant X gene. I think he put radiation into her body because he needed Quill's unborn body to absorb it and possibly manifest the gene he needed to help him carry out his mission from Guardians.. 2.
In present times these super powered beings are called Mutants.
I didn't deep dive into all the backstory, because I know comics get alternate stories told by different comic book writers, over time.
The MCU writers take most of their story arcs from the written material, but also to use as a blueprint to make their own twists on the lores of the characters and their arcs.
The Xmen movies did a poor job at continuity, but they gave amusing adaptations of the comics they used as resources.
I always wondered where Thanos came from and why he was so powerful! This was a really interesting backstory on how things came to be. You summarized things so well. Thank you!
Still my favorite X Men film to date. Only one I felt was the most true to the tone and spirit of the comics.
Days of future past is better as it has both the younger and older versions of the cast!
Is that really required to be the best? Too many fans are determined to be miserable because they want the movies to be exact copies of the source material.
@@adarsh4764Please don't give spoilers.
@adarsh4764
This was still the better film in my opinion.
Days is more exciting I'll give you that.
But McAvoy and Fassbender here are giving phenomenal performances.
This was such a great film! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I really like how Charles lost his ability to walk in this film connecting him closer to Magneto. In the Mainline comics Lucifer (An alien who came to Earth as the vanguard of an alien invasion) dropped a massive stone block on Charles, crippling his legs in retaliation after a young Xavier defeated him. In the Ultimate Universe Magneto paralyzed Xavier with a metal spear through the back after Charles realised that Magneto was building a Mutant Army. So Charles and his sympathizers tried to escape and in the end Charles got paralyzed. Magneto like alot of characters in the Ultimate Universe was pretty unlikeable and he's one of the few renditions of the character that is just an awful person, no grey area just straight up a villain. In the end Magneto ultimately snapped Charles neck in one of the worse comic book storylines ever Ultimatum. So thankfully this film never went in that direction and showcased Magento as a more anti hero who became a villain that still has morals in regards to human life.
They do such a great job with Magneto's character in this film. I'm glad they didn't follow the Ultimate Universe storyline.
Moria Mactaggert, Scottish name. In the comics had red hair fair skin and freckles in the early days. Over time these features were altered a bit from artist to artist.
Red hair? Must be a Weasley.
It’s mental that (the English) Nicholas Holt does an American accent for Beast whereas (the American) Kelsey Grammer gave Beast an English accent like the 90s cartoon.
I always thought of Beast's accent in the cartoon was to make him sound more scholarly then actually "British" as he would quote Shakesphere and the like. Perhaps he spoke that way because to him it sounded smarter.
That's really funny!
@gboy1973 Good point. Given young Hank's characterization here, it would 100% make sense that he would later assume an accent to make himself seem more "erudite."
Talking about accents... How come Mystique doesn't develop a British accent after spending so many years with Charles in England? That's what usually happens to people that move abroad at such a young age.
Fun fact from Behind the Scenes: This movie introduced Nicholas Hoult (Hank McCoy/Beast) and Jennifer Lawrence to each other, and the onscreen chemistry led to an off screen romance for five years. Basically because they were both so busy, it took its toll on the relationship and they broke up. Nicholas is filming a new comic book movie now....he's joined the DC Universe under James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy) in the next Superman film that will star David Corenswet (Superman), Rachel Brosnahan (Lois Lane), Nathan Fillion (Green Lantern/Guy Gardner). and Milly Alcock (from HBO's House of the Dragon as Supergirl)...Nicholas will be the bad guy...the archnemesis of Superman, Lex Luthor.
Where the OG X-Men movies gave us the Friendship Goals teaming of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen as BFFs, the First Class cast gave us James MacAvoy and Michael Fassbender not only kinda being the same thing as off screen BFFs, but leading to all sorts of...fan art of romantic couplings of Charles and Erik (even though both James and Michael are married men). They both laugh at the fan art and slash fiction that's been created.
Now that you've seen your first Matthew Vaughn film, some others to put on the list:
- The Kingsmen: The Secret Service (1) with Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Michael Caine, and Samuel L. Jackson. This series are amazing spy action movies.
- The Kingsmen: The Golden Circle (2) with Colin, Taron, and Mark, plus Julianne Moore, Channing Tatum, Pedro Pascal, Jeff Bridges, Halle Berry, and Sir Elton John.
- The King's Man (3) - A prequel with Ralph Fiennes
- Stardust with Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Robert DeNiro, and Michelle Pfeiffer, based on the fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman.
- Kick-Ass with Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloe Grace Moretz, and Nicholas Cage. A twist on superheroes if they really existed.
- Layer Cake with Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Michael Gambon, and Sienna Miller. This one is like the films he produced that were directed by Guy Ritchie: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.)
Bruh.
Stan Lee only had cameos in a few X-Men movies.
X1 (X-Men), X3 (last stand) and Apocalypse.
He's also in Deadpool - the one we're all looking for. Also easily his best cameo.
Thank you! I wish he was in all of them.
From this point on, the X-Men universe isn’t suuuuper concerned with continuity. Like, it was probably never in the plan for Charles and Raven to grow up together which is why they were only ever enemies in the original movies. In X1 Charles says he met Eric when he was 17 and that Eric helped him build Cerebro. So the continuity and timelines get REALLY wonky starting with this movie
Kind of you to suggest there was a plan at all 😆
I want there to be more continuity so badly! But it's still fun to see these characters again.
10:52 The powers and abilities of Emma Grace Frost:
Telepathic abilities:
Mental sedation, paralysis, and suggestions
Psionic blast, shielding, and lightning
Mind reading and control
Telepathic illusions
Pain inducement
Astral projection
Power inhibition
Memory wiping
Shape-shifting into an organic diamond form, granting:
Superhuman strength, durability, and stamina
Nigh-invulnerability
Psychic immunity
(but greatly diminishing her psychic powers)
Skilled hand-to-hand combatant
She has so many powers!
@reactswithjax actually, she only has two. I elaborated on her two powers can do. 🐑
The scene where Magneto kills the two Nazis in the bar is one of the most satisfying revenge scenes in any movie. It’s also kind of a mirror image of Fassbender’s scene in Inglorious Basterds.
It really was such a good scene!
I believe at the end credit scene of X-Men last Stand, the name of the lady who's comma patient speaks in Charles' voice is named Moira. Not sure if she's supposed to be the same one, but my guess is yes.
In the comics, Charles's first class was Scott, Jean, Bobby, Warren, and Hank. The movies obviously switched it up.
Hank/Beast was also an offical Avenger, so he's worked with Tony alot. :)
That's so cool! He and Tony would be great together. They are both geniuses.
@@reactswithjax there's another genius in the Marvel Universe. You probably haven't seen em yet but you should check out the 2000s Fantastic Four movies. The leader of that is Reed Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic and in the comics he's the smartest man alive. Smarter than Tony, Bruce or Hank
@@c-mc But not smarter than Victor Von Doom.
@@andrewphillips5323 debatable
4:35 Hold on Girl. Hold on, you'll see why . Kevin bacon was awesome in this film 😎
It all made sense later! Kevin Bacon played such a great character.
Banshee jumping out of the blackbird is so awesome love that scene
The Brown Hair Groovy Moira Mactaggert is the same Moira in the end credit scene of X2 when we find out Xavier is still alive in a hospital somewhere. Also Emma Frost the "Diamond Lady", is the kidnaped sister in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, her sister is the Wolverine's lover in that movie.
Thanks for pointing them out!
Actually Moira was in the end credit scene in The Last Stand.
6:16
Gahhhh, thanks for the jumpscare Jax 😱💀😭
I'll be sending you my therapist invoice, thanks!
Your welcome!!! 🤣 🤣
Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ->Rade Serbedzija -->Val Kilmer (The Saint)->Denzel Washington (Deja Vu) ->Jodie Foster (Inside Man) -->Sir Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs)
Also feels at the part when he says he can't feel his legs
I have never seen full of positive energies emitted from a reactor like no one else likes you do. ❤
Thank you so much!!❤️ Also, Matt Murdock is such a great character! Love your name and thumbnail.
23:50 In the original X-Men comics, mutants were called "The Children of the Atom." While there had been mutants throughout history, they were very very rare until mankind started doing nuclear tests. It was the bombs going off in Russia and the USA during the tests, as well as the weapons used in Japan, that caused mutation to explode (no pun intended) around the world as the radiation caused changes in the X-gene of mankind, allowing for mutants to be born of non-mutant parents.
i recommend Angel's Heart (1987) but watch on your own.
In COMICS there are 7 most Smartest Men those are
> HANK ( BEAST )
> HANK PYM
> TCHALLA(BLACKPANTHER)
>REEDRICHARDS(MR.FANTASTIC)
> TONY STARK
> BRUNCE BANNER
> AMADEOUS CHOE
That's a great group of people!
Peter Parker and Victor Von Doom are missing from that list.
When they say “we need our army” , it kind of makes sense for there to be very limited mutants and how they can control their powers. This time period is the beginning of basically the whole franchise - so you can assume that mutants have only recently started popping up in modern society again. That along with the fact that it’s still extremely difficult to try and train your powers when 1) you think you’re the only person who has gifts and no one else can help you understand your own and 2) anything you do that other humans don’t understand gets you usually either locked up or experimented on. It’s also thematically symbolic to show that the X-Men were in fact started from basically nothing.
10:04 A mutated MCR-1 gene refers to the red tint of Moira's brown hair.
He explains what he means immediately after your cut when he says "I say MCR1, you would say auburn hair."
You could say that all genetic traits were mutations in their origin so when Charles pointed out Moira's hair colour and mentioned that it was due to the MCR1 gene he was just flexing his knowledge of genetics. The MCR1 gene itself was a mutation at some point, he wasn't saying that she had a mutated version of the MCR1 gene just that she had that particular gene/mutation. For the sake of the movie and to explain mutants the writing and dialogue overuse the word mutation but in reality we would just say gene or genetic trait.
Also, fun fact, the post credit scene from X-men 3 when the woman says "Charles?" where its believed he has been implanted in a new body after death, i believe the woman there is Moira :)
Some mutants have second mutation. Emma Frost is a villain in the comics called “The White Queen” who started as a villain. She has telepathy comparable to that of Charles but lesser to Jean’s. Her second mutation is her diamond form where she is immune to telepathy, has increased strength and durability, however, when she is in her diamond form she won’t be able to use her power. Also, Alex Summers also known as “Havok” is the younger brother of Scott Summers who can produce plasma blasts from his hands.
The woman that can turn to diamond is Emma frost! Shes a very strong telepath and her specialty is she has the ability to block other people from reading her and others minds. She can also turn her body completely to diamond which gives her super durability and an extent of super strength. She’s actually a very important character in the x-men franchise and is a staple member of the X-men. It’s unfortunate they didn’t develop her further :(
Mutants are the allegory of people with different religion, skin, beliefs (although Stan Lee used to say that all he did is create those heroes to make end make ends meet). In comics and also in movies they often show the conflict on how some are afraid of them and that some believe that earth has no place for both. Some mutants believe the same way, just the other way around. Such a cool concept!
That is a really cool concept!
That Argentintian barscene is one of the best scenes i ever seen.
People growing up watching the legendary "X-Men animated series and then being able to watch these movies over the years is so good and obviously to ppl who read the comics as well. My cousin loves "Beast man and Wolverine. Watching the series and playing the games made me a big "X-Men fan. We also have "X-Men '97. Great time to be an "X-Men fan.🎉
8:47
13 Years Later & STILL my favorite X-Men scene 🔥
One of my favourite movie scenes EVER!
Michael Fassbender as Erik Lensherr/Magneto is perfect casting 👌
It was a great scene!
Did you know that Emma Frost here is the sister of Kayla Silverfox. The sister that Stryker abducted in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. You saw her in her diamond form, for a moment, just before Scott wiped out the guards with his eyes so that the kids can escape.
And Azazel here is the father of Nightcrawler from X2.
Shaw didn't believe that radiation made mutants more powerful, he simply felt that radiation would lead to more mutants in the general population, along with killing off most of the humans.
Absorbing energy just happened to be his own unique mutant ability.
Ooh, thank you!
Darwins death always annoyed me in this film, his power literally doesnt let him die. It even goes so far as teleporting him away when faced with the hulk.
Yes, in the comics. Sadly the movies are a different universe where Darwin was terribly nerfed.
What a shame he didn't survive. He was such a cool character.
As a german speaker, Kevin Bacons german is best described as "tolerable". I could understand him, but immediately knew he was from an english speaking country. Still his acting was really good.
I don't know why he wasn't just dubbed by an authentic German speaker.
I NEVER considered that Erik could have stopped the bullet in the beginning. I don't even know if he knew at the time, but you're right, that would really weigh on him!
9:33 For Professor X, auburn or red hair is “a mutation, a very groovy mutation.”
For Vanderbilt molecular physiologist Roger Cone, it’s evidence of his discovery.
Cone, who chairs the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, discovered the MCR1 gene, now known as the human melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene, in 1992 while at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. He and his colleagues also discovered that mutations in this gene cause melanocytes (pigment cells) in the hair to switch on production of pigment with yellow-red hues. (Read Cone’s research on hair color mutation.)
In the comics, Cyclops and Jean Grey eventually get married and have a kid
Fassbender is so good as magneto. He imitated the voice in the X-Men cartoon from the 90's that was such a huge part of my love of comics growing up.
I agree that he's such a great Magneto.
For your question about the hair gene coloring effect of MC1R, essentially MC1R (incorrectly called MCR1 in the movie) is responsible for variation of pigmentation of red-yellow hues. AkA-auburn and brown hair colors. Its a mutation of genes that effect how much MC1R ramps up or powers down production of those red-yellow pigments. Since we see it all the time, it’s hard to refer to it as a mutation but technically speaking, white skin could also be considered (assuming because I didn’t look this up) a mutation since humanity started in Africa.
I dont know if you caught it but when Raven turns into an older version of herself for Erik she turns into the actress/model that played Mystique in the first movie.
Fun Fact: Matthew Vaughn the director to X-Men First class was gonna do a sequel that focused of JFK the president.
Magneto was gonna try to save JFK cos he was also a mutant.
Due to the success of Avenger Assemble. Fox Studios got really impatient and asked for something as big. Matthew couldn't rush something like that so they brought back Bryan Singer to do X-Men: Days of Future past.
However, Bryan Singer got rid of all of them except the core of Xavier Magneto and Mystique.
JFK being a mutant would have been an interest concept and also given more reasons why Magneto dislikes humans
Moira MacTaggert was a character you have seen briefly before. She was caring for an unnamed brain-dead man Charles was holding a class about in X-3: The Last Stand and who recognized Charles Xavier's consciousness had inhabited the body during the end-credit scene of that film. And you will see her again in a future film.
That's right! I didn't realize it was the same character.
5:15 fun fact. Michael Fassbender (Eric) had a role in the series "Hex" (Azazael), and the black bob-haired woman also had a role in "Hex" (something bad-Fairy) :)
Here is a curious fun fact. Bullets are a non-ferrous material: lead. Therefore, a bullet cant be controlled by magnetic waves. Youd think that somebody, anybody during the filming of the movie miggt have pointed out that little tidbit of information, but no. In fact there have been other Xmen movies that shows Magneto stopping a bullet... but how???
Myra is also the woman Charles spoke to at the hospital in the post credits of X-Men last stand
10:53 Emma Frost is an Omega level telepath, but also has a secondary mutation that allows her to change all of her body cells into pure carbon, aka diamonds. Since her character is really only in this movie, I'll spoil the rest for you: She is obscenely rich, like Tony Stark levels of rich, in the comics. She eventually becomes an anti-hero, and then, following a few tragic events, becomes a full blown member of the X-Men, then a teacher, and eventually the headmistress of the Xavier school. She is still an active X-Men member, however, and has been in some pretty massive fights, including the Avengers vs X-Men arc that kicked off the current era of Marvel comics.
Hi Jax! Yes, this movie was so good! I was very impressed and surprised by it. It's hard sometimes to get used to new actors playing your favorite characters, but the cast was amazing. I hope you are well and I can't wait for the next one! You're awesome! 👏👋
Hi! This movie was so fun. I'm glad you enjoyed my reaction! Yes, the actors did a wonderful job. It's such a challenge taking on an already beloved role. ❤
In comics, the teleporting red mutant, named Azazel and Mysthic are parents of Nightcrawler in some era... They changes everytime! The Diamond girl is named Emma Frost, the White Queen, she has 2 powers, but use one for time. The girl Moira is the same character from X-Men 3 Last Stand.
I am pretty sure that the accepted cannon is that mutants came to be after we split the atom and released large amounts of radiation into the world. Therefore the theory is , radiation will not hurt them but strengthen their mutations.
I'm recently rewatching the 90's Xmen cartoons because I don't remember most of it.
But in the cartoon Charles and Moira were exes. She had a child with Sabertooth's son.
Banshee, in this movie, is an American teenager.
In the cartoon, he is an older gentleman who is dating Moira. They are both Scottish.
Oh my goodness! That's very different than this movie!
love it as you can see why
Her hair isn't straight up brown, it is auburn which really is just a reddish brown. So she does have MCR-1 but a mutated version of it.
When I was looking up the gene info, it said that having red hair doesn't mean you have a MCR-1 variation. But many people with red hair do. I'll assume that's what they were referring to then!
@@reactswithjax I didn't say red hair was mcr1. Her hair is primarily brown which is mcr1 but the fact that there is some red mixed into it makes it a mutated mcr1.
Quick history lesson. The US putting missiles in turkey was the provocation that made russia starting the process of putting missiles in cuba. Also known as the cuba crisis. Its interesting that this movie recognizes it, if i recall correctly, its not heavly focused upon in US history lessons, but it places it well in the timeline.
41:29 - because Erik uses the metals from their's suit to throw them but mystique is not wearing the actual suit... it's just her skin without any metal...so magneto can't throw her... intresting detail
I'd argue against this since before suiting up, Charles said everyone should wear a suit as they don't have a bullet proof mutation. I'd imagine he'd want Mystique to wear one too
And the fact she wasn't thrown was because of the connection Megneto has made with her and does not want to harm her (until she is no longer a mutant in the future and leaves her)
Moira was the person that Charles talked to at the end of X3 when he came back
This one is my second favorite, topped only by Days of Future Past
Hank McCoy/Beast is one of the smartest characters in Marvel comics. Up there with the likes of Tony Stark, Bruce Banner, Hank Pym and Reed Richards.
And Princess Shuri can brainstorm circles around them. T'Challa is really smart too, but I believe Shuri is supposed to be the smartest of them all, I believe.
“I hope I pronounced that right.” 😂😂😂😂
What Shaw is saying is that radiation will kill humans and probably a lot of mutants but the radiation will create more mutants until only mutants are alive.
word of advice, don't think too much about what is supposed to happen when or where in a timeline anything takes place. the x-men movies are notorious for having the messiest continuity by far
This movie is a big fanfiction that works. Proof that it doesn't have to be THAT comic accurate to work.
There's a 90's cartoon X-Men. And right now there is an X-Men '97. Looks like only 10 episodes. Also there was a TV show that lasted I believe only 2 or 3 seasons called The Gifted. It deals with X-Men as well.
There are things established in the old movies that are retconned in this one, this is sort of a soft reboot movie. Cerebro was built by Charles and Erik in the old movies, and Mystique was never written to have any sort of relation to Charles. Even so, these movies do kind of provide an interesting background for the old movies even if it's not 1:1.
First Class is one of my top X-men movies.
Each of the prequel films covers one decade per film. This film covers the cuban missile crisis era so 1960's for this film. Next would be the 70's then 80's.
Kevin Bacon plays mutant Sebastian Shaw leader of the Hellfire club. His powers are that he can absorb all kinetic energy and then redirect that energy at any target he wants. This includes energy blasts, bullets, grenades, missiles and punches to him directly.
Emma Frost, The Hellfire Club's White Queen is a telepath and she can make her flesh as hard as diamond but still have mobility. This gives her some psychic resistance as well.
Emma's transformation is similar to Colossus who can turn his flesh into organic steel at will. As long as he remains conscious. 😮
In the comics radiation exposure is a common trope for getting super powers. Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes Spider-Man. Bruce Banner gets exposed to gamma radiation and becomes the Hulk.
Mutants on the other hand are born with the potential for mutant powers which typically manifest either at puberty or under extreme stress like Eric. But the powers are inherent not due to outside forces.
Stan Lee created mutants as an origin due to the difficulty of coming up with power origins. Brainstorming names are easy, designing costumes is easy for artists. Coming up with powers is also easy. But explaining how they got those abilities became harder and harder. So mutants...born with powers so no origin necessary. It all came down to convenience.
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Let's say a solid D+
I don't really believe he understands a word he's saying, but at least he tried his own speech pattern instead of copying the go-to comedian style^^
Fassbender is solid, but they explored his subtle accent wonderfully in Inglourious Basterds.
Who really surprised me was Taika Waititi in What We Do In The Shadows, didn't even notice his switch to German midway through the movie!
I always was under the impression that he's not supposed to be a German, but a doctor working there. Like the way he says something about "The Nazis". At least that's what made me accept his terrible German 😂
Thank you for the accent/language review!
Heres the story on how Stan Lee created the X-men if your interested.
(note: this is how Stan lee created the original comic story of the x men which is very different from the movies).
This is how it started - in 1963 Stan lee has already created a lot of comic superheroes and their stories some of these are spiderman, hulk, captain america, fantastic four, iron man and many more but then of course he wanted to introduce another group of heroes he came up with to comic book lovers. a team of five heroes which has Cyclops who shots laser beam out of his eyes, Marvel girl (Jean Grey) who can move things with her mind, Iceman who has ice powers, beast who has Superhuman strength, stamina, and reflexes, and then there is Angel how can fly due to having giant wings on his back these are the original X-men Stan lee created (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Iceman, Beast and Angel) and they are lead by a man who has telepathic abilities named Charles Xavier.
Stan has one big problem though when it comes to this creation of his, and that is he cant come up with a origin story for them. just like how he created his previous creations like spiderman, hulk, iron man etc, he needs to come up with a story on how/where these characters got their superpowers. it took a very long while of thinking and thinking but he couldnt just come up with a story and because of this he had this idea which he thought was silly and thats what if these characters didnt got there powers from somewhere, what if these characters already have power from the beginning like they were born that way, he thought it might not work and that readers would hate it.
but this also lead him to the fact that there are actually Mutations in real life, like there are people born with extra fingers (Polydactyly) or people who have different colored eyes (heterochromia), and many more. he thought this is a great idea because it would be a good kind of plot for the story, having character who are hated and judge by the society because they are born different. so he then shared it to his co-workers and publisher and they ended up loving it.
original this superhero team he created are known as "The Mutants" which his co-workers and publisher didnt really like, they told Stan he needs to change it, because many of comicbook readers in the 60s are children and that it's either they don't know what a Mutant is or that Mutants are scary monsters, so Stan need to rename the team something thats sounds cool and dramatic. then he remember the leader of the team's name is Charles Xavier which made him take the first letter of his surname and then put it next to the word "Men" , which he thought could work because the word "X-Men" also kinda states that they are "Not Human".
and that is how X-Men was created which is now one of the most successful comics in history. as the years go by they then added new characters such as wolverine, storm, nightcrawler , and many more.
That was so fun to read! I love that the concept of mutants were created out of a desire not to have to come up with individual backstories for all of the characters.
Hi, one of the things that I've not seen mentioned anywhere is how much of the way Eric is portrayed, particularly when he is solo, is based on the Sean Connery James Bond of that era. From the twangy guitars of his theme to his outfits, particularly in the scene with the banker.
When he turns and shoots the guy in South America it is reminiscent of the famous Bond gun barrel opening and the jacket he wears in Russia is similar to that worn by Pierce Brosnan in the opening scene of Tomorrow Never Dies.
Amazing reaction as always Jax. (Perhaps that's your super power😉) X
For future romances, Mystique and Azazel get together and create Nightcrawler. That's why he's blue and teleports 😁.
Loved how your eviler vengeful side came out here Jax... but also nicely balanced by close clutching of Lamby.
Haha! My inner villain is already to shine! ❤️
Make sure to check out the Rogue Cut for Days of Future Past
Your angry face when his wings got shot is just too adorable😂
Thank you! 😂
Days Of Future Past does a superb way of combining these actors with the previous ones in the 90s x-men movies. I think mostly all of your questions will be answered and then some 👍🏾
"Does Charles get a romance?" In the comics, there are a number of romances for Charles. Notable is one with an Israeli diplomat/mutant. Their union produces a son, David Haller (Legion). David is a psychic mutant like Charles who is so powerful, he can create entirely new realities. He is the subject of the FX series "Legion". Its a little graphic and gory so I'm not sure its your cup of tea, but before you go wishing that Charles finds a girlfriend, you should research David Haller to see what a little Professor X love produces.
Jax, at 28 28 is Banshee , he is also in the 1995 movie , Generation X
Don't worry about the timelines, they weren't consistent in the comics either.
Edit 1: 3:00 hi, German here. Let's say, Kevin Bacon did an admirable job of learning enough German to get it grammatically correct. He even got the infamous "ch" diphthong almost correct.
But let's say, if he had tried to impersonate a German as a foreign spy, his gig would have been up at around the third word. I can't overemphasize how impressed I am at his attempt, and it's not terrible but very definitely very noticeable.
If you've seen "Inglorious Bastards" it would definitely NOT have been blowing his cover by holding up the wrong fingers for 3 but the very noticeable accent.
0:25 he was my favorite character to the funny thing is that I'm also named logan and im canadian
It's not that radiation makes mutants more powerful, it speeds up the mutation process in regular humans to create more mutants
Ooh. Thank makes sense. Thank you