[0:00] What's good my mutants? It's me MT and
[0:02] welcome back to the heavy spoiler show
[0:03] y'all. With the Fox X-Men about to make
[0:06] their big return to the big screen in
[0:08] Avengers Doomsday, we thought it'd be
[0:10] the perfect time to finish up our
[0:12] breakdowns of the original Fox X-Men
[0:14] trilogy by breaking down X-Men The Last
[0:17] Stand from 2006, the first movie to
[0:20] tackle the beloved Dark Phoenix saga
[0:22] from the Marvel comics. So, let's make
[0:24] like the Juggernaut and just break this
[0:26] thing on down my nerd babies. With a
[0:27] budget of $210 million dollars, X-Men
[0:30] The Last Stand would become known as the
[0:32] most expensive movie of its time. A
[0:35] movie that will go on to gross $460.4
[0:37] million dollars at the box office,
[0:39] making it the most lucrative X-Men movie
[0:42] of the franchise up until that point. As
[0:45] the previous film made $407.7
[0:48] million dollars, which is around $53
[0:50] million dollars less. And even though
[0:52] the first two X-Men movies were directed
[0:54] by certified creepo Bryan Singer, X-Men
[0:56] The Last Stand would switch things up by
[0:58] being directed by Brett Ratner, another
[1:01] creepo. And there are two reasons for
[1:03] this. Bryan Singer's shitty behavior
[1:05] while directing the previous X-Men
[1:06] films, as well as the pettiness of
[1:09] former 20th Century Fox CEO Tom Rothman.
[1:12] Apparently, Bryan Singer wasn't exactly
[1:14] the easiest person to work with in
[1:16] previous movies and clashed hardcore
[1:19] with some of the main cast, especially
[1:21] Storm actress Halle Berry, who was
[1:23] pretty fed up with Bryan Singer's
[1:25] unprofessional use of drugs on set. So
[1:28] much so that she was straight up not
[1:29] interested in working with him at all
[1:31] for an X-Men sequel. Not only this, but
[1:33] Singer would also routinely waste the
[1:35] time of set designers who would bust
[1:37] their ass creating sets that Singer
[1:39] would just randomly write out of the
[1:40] movie as he went on, causing the cost of
[1:43] production to balloon constantly. But on
[1:46] top of all of that, former Fox CEO Tom
[1:48] Rothman just really didn't like the
[1:50] X-Men franchise at all and hated that
[1:52] the movies were received so well by
[1:54] audiences despite him predicting that
[1:56] both the previous movies would flop
[1:58] hard. So, because of that and Singer's
[2:01] bad reputation, Rothman would put off
[2:03] the X-Men 3 production by pushing back
[2:05] the signing of Singer's contract for a
[2:08] third film. However, because of this,
[2:10] Warner Brothers would see that Bryan
[2:12] Singer was single and ready to mingle
[2:14] and scoop his ass up to direct a
[2:15] Superman movie. With that Superman film
[2:17] eventually becoming the critically mixed
[2:19] Superman Returns film from 2006.
[2:22] However, when Tom Rothman found out
[2:24] about Bryan Singer's big Superman deal,
[2:27] bro crashed the hell out hard and even
[2:29] had Bryan Singer kicked out of the Fox
[2:31] studio lot. And because he was extra
[2:33] petty, Rothman would then rush the X-Men
[2:36] 3 production to find a director that
[2:38] could make the X-Men movie before
[2:40] Superman Returns came out. And Bryan
[2:42] Singer would eventually go on to very
[2:44] much deeply regret choosing Superman
[2:45] Returns over the opportunity to conclude
[2:48] his X-Men trilogy his way, especially
[2:51] after seeing how badly X-Men: The Last
[2:53] Stand actually turned out. But you will
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[3:21] But yeah, Darren Aronofsky, known for
[3:23] the harrowing addiction drama Requiem
[3:26] for a Dream, the Oscar-winning
[3:27] psychological thriller Black Swan, and
[3:30] his breakthrough surreal indie debut Pi,
[3:32] was one of the directors considered.
[3:34] Hugh Jackman himself actually
[3:36] recommended him after finding him
[3:38] pleasant to work with while filming the
[3:40] 2006 movie The Fountain together. And
[3:42] director Alex Proyas was also being
[3:44] heavily considered, but he would
[3:46] immediately reject the idea after going
[3:48] through hell with CEO Tom Rothman during
[3:51] development of his I, Robot film. I
[3:53] actually do go into that a bit in my
[3:55] breakdown of I Robot that you guys can
[3:57] watch on this channel anytime when you
[3:59] subscribe. Future Avengers and Avengers
[4:01] Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon could
[4:03] have also gotten the job if his hands
[4:05] weren't already full with working on a
[4:07] Wonder Woman movie that would never
[4:09] actually end up happening. And even
[4:10] though Joss Whedon was a little bit of a
[4:12] creep himself, Whedon would have
[4:14] actually been a fantastic choice for
[4:15] this movie considering that the whole
[4:17] mutant cure part of the X-Men 3 story
[4:20] was inspired by Whedon's own Gifted
[4:22] storyline from 2004 that spanned
[4:25] Astonishing X-Men issues 1 to 6. Peter
[4:28] Berg, known for directing the sports
[4:30] drama Friday Night Lights, the
[4:32] biographical war film Lone Survivor, the
[4:34] superhero action movie Hancock, and the
[4:37] disaster drama Deepwater Horizon also
[4:39] turned down the opportunity to direct
[4:41] the film. As did Zack Snyder, who was
[4:44] far too busy working on his smash hit
[4:46] 300 to do an X-Men movie. Eventually,
[4:48] the production would manage to secure
[4:50] director Matthew Vaughn for the job.
[4:52] However, Vaughn would end up dropping
[4:54] out for a number of reasons. Not only
[4:56] did Matthew Vaughn not believe that a
[4:57] good X-Men movie could be made in Tom
[5:00] Rothman's rushed timeframe, but he also
[5:02] wasn't a fan of how sneaky and deceptive
[5:05] the Fox executives at the time were
[5:07] being with Storm actress Halle Berry.
[5:09] Apparently, Matthew Vaughn discovered
[5:11] that the Fox executives were planning on
[5:13] tricking Halle Berry into signing onto
[5:15] X-Men 3 by making a fake script which
[5:18] started with her saving an African
[5:20] village with her superpowers, knowing
[5:22] damn well that they weren't ever going
[5:23] to use that script at all as soon as she
[5:25] was legally obligated to return.
[5:27] >> I I
[5:28] Hollywood is really political and and
[5:30] and odd. And I went into one of the
[5:32] executives' office and I saw an X3
[5:35] script. And I immediately knew it was a
[5:37] lot faster. I was like, "What the hell
[5:39] is this this draft?" They were like,
[5:41] "Don't worry about it." And I was like,
[5:42] "No, no, no, I'm the director. I'm
[5:43] worrying about this draft. Tell me what
[5:44] it is, please." Wouldn't tell me. He's
[5:46] like, "Grab the minute." it was like a
[5:48] crazy moment where I grabbed it, opened
[5:50] the first page, and it said Africa,
[5:53] storm,
[5:55] kids dying of no water. She creates a
[5:59] thunderstorm and saves all these
[6:00] children. I was like, "Okay, that's a
[6:02] pretty cool idea."
[6:03] Um
[6:05] What is this? And then I was like, "Oh,
[6:06] it's a Halle Berry script." I was like,
[6:07] "Okay, um cuz she hasn't signed up yet."
[6:10] But once she says what she wants to do
[6:12] with me, and once she signs up, we'll
[6:13] throw it in the bin.
[6:15] And I was like, "Well, wow, you're going
[6:17] to do that to an Oscar-winning actress
[6:19] to play Storm?
[6:20] I'm out of here." So, I quit at that
[6:22] point. I got fired. Um
[6:23] um minced meat. So, um So, that stayed
[6:26] with me. And that made me think,
[6:28] "Hollywood do You know what I'm saying?
[6:29] Look, they do some stuff well,
[6:32] but not in my style."
[6:33] >> But yeah, as soon as Matthew Vaughn saw
[6:35] that they were going to treat Halle
[6:36] Berry that way, his conscious pushed him
[6:38] to leave the production. And when he
[6:40] did, Tom Rothman crashed out once again,
[6:43] threatening him by saying that he would
[6:44] never work in this town again. But
[6:46] Matthew Vaughn would famously go on to
[6:48] direct beloved films like 2007's
[6:50] Stardust and 2010's Kick-Ass before
[6:53] getting a chance to tackle the X-Men in
[6:55] 2011's X-Men: First Class. But yeah,
[6:57] about 6 days after Matthew Vaughn left
[6:59] the production, Fox would end up hiring
[7:01] Brett Ratner for the directing job. And
[7:03] with Singer gone, Halle Berry would
[7:05] eventually sign on to do X3. But her
[7:07] decision to do so was motivated by her
[7:10] career taking a huge hit following her
[7:12] embarrassing appearance in the 2004
[7:15] Catwoman movie. But yeah, composing the
[7:17] score for this film is composer John
[7:20] Powell, who is known for his awesome
[7:22] work on the Bourne Identity trilogy, and
[7:24] recently for both of the Wicked movies.
[7:26] And it was actually because of his work
[7:28] on the Bourne Identity that Brett Ratner
[7:30] chose him to do the music for X-Men: The
[7:32] Last Stand. Composer John Ottman was
[7:34] originally tapped to do the music for
[7:36] the movie back when Bryan Singer was
[7:37] thought to be involved, but he ended up
[7:39] working on Superman with Singer instead.
[7:43] And much like the Marvel movies of this
[7:44] time, X-Men: The Last Stand begins with
[7:47] a Marvel logo animated with flipping
[7:49] comic book pages. But this time around,
[7:51] most of these comic book pages are from
[7:53] the X-Men story arcs that inspired this
[7:56] third X-Men movie. Mainly Chris
[7:58] Claremont's Dark Phoenix Saga from 1980
[8:00] and Joss Whedon's Gifted story arc from
[8:03] 2004. The movie then brings us to a New
[8:05] York suburb 20 years in the past in the
[8:08] year 1986. And even though this location
[8:11] is made to look like New York, the
[8:12] production actually filmed this scene in
[8:14] Vancouver, Canada. The Grey residence
[8:17] actually resides at 1769
[8:19] Golf Club Drive in Tsawwassen, British
[8:22] Columbia. And this city is no stranger
[8:24] to paranormal happenings as the 1995
[8:27] Jumanji film was also filmed in that
[8:30] city as well. And rolling up in their
[8:31] Mercedes-Benz 600 are a young Charles
[8:34] Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. And the scene
[8:37] was actually a bit of cinematic history
[8:39] as it marks the first time where
[8:41] de-aging visual effects had been used in
[8:44] a major motion picture. The geniuses at
[8:46] Lola Digital Effects used a bunch of
[8:49] younger photographs of Sir Patrick
[8:51] Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen in order to
[8:53] bring the effect to life. And honestly,
[8:55] for 2006, this effect looks pretty damn
[8:58] good and holds up very well to this day.
[9:00] I mean, the effect is still very
[9:02] noticeable by today's standards, but it
[9:04] still looks pretty damn fantastic if you
[9:06] ask me. And as the two walk up to the
[9:08] Grey residence, we can see that Magneto
[9:10] is wearing his favorite hues of red and
[9:12] purple, the same colors as the Magneto
[9:15] costume in the comics. And Charles
[9:16] Xavier is very noticeably walking on
[9:18] feet instead of in a wheelchair. And
[9:21] while we don't exactly know what
[9:22] happened to land Charles Xavier in a
[9:24] wheelchair in this particular cinematic
[9:26] timeline, we do get an explanation for
[9:29] that in 2011's X-Men: First Class when
[9:32] we see a bullet deflected by Magneto
[9:34] ricochet into Charles Xavier's body,
[9:36] paralyzing him.
[9:48] The original explanation for Professor
[9:50] Xavier's paralysis came in the pages of
[9:53] Uncanny X-Men issue number 20. And in
[9:55] that issue, it was revealed that an
[9:57] alien supervillain by the name of
[9:58] Lucifer dropped a giant slab of rock
[10:01] onto Xavier's legs when the professor
[10:03] tried to stop him from terrorizing a
[10:05] town in Tibet. But anyways, Charles and
[10:07] Eric then enter the Grey household and
[10:10] meet John and Elaine Grey, the parents
[10:12] of a 12-year-old Jean Grey. John and
[10:15] Elaine made their first appearance in
[10:16] the fifth issue of Uncanny X-Men in
[10:18] 1964. But in that comic and beyond,
[10:22] Jean's mother Elaine actually has blonde
[10:24] hair instead of being a brunette. And we
[10:26] can immediately see that Elaine is the
[10:28] much more empathetic of the two as she
[10:30] tries to correct her husband when he
[10:32] refers to Jean's mutation as an illness.
[10:35] And I appreciate how the movie also
[10:36] gives Elaine heart-shaped earrings to
[10:39] show her compassionate nature.
[10:42] Professor Xavier and Eric then asked to
[10:44] speak to Jean Grey alone. And when they
[10:46] do, Jean Grey immediately showcases how
[10:48] powerful she is by lifting all the cars
[10:51] in her neighborhood with her telekinetic
[10:53] powers. And in addition to these cars,
[10:55] she also manages to lift the lawnmower
[10:58] of one of her neighbors, with that
[10:59] neighbor being played by famous Dark
[11:01] Phoenix Saga writer Chris Claremont. And
[11:04] right after that, we get another cameo
[11:06] from cameo king and Marvel god Stan Lee
[11:09] as a neighbor watching the water from
[11:11] his garden hose levitate upwards.
[11:13] Charles then challenges Jean to let them
[11:16] help her control her powers before her
[11:18] powers control her before we jump
[11:20] forward in time 10 years to around the
[11:22] year 1996. We then see the exterior of
[11:25] Worthington Labs, which is actually the
[11:27] Sheraton Wall Center in Vancouver,
[11:30] British Columbia. And inside, we see a
[11:32] young Warren Worthington III played by
[11:35] an 11-to-12-year-old Cayden Boyd, who
[11:37] famously played the dreaming protagonist
[11:40] in 2005's The Adventure of Sharkboy and
[11:42] Lavagirl.
[11:44] >> HE STOLE MY DREAM JOURNAL.
[11:46] >> I did not. Mr. Electric, send him to the
[11:49] principal's office and have him
[11:50] expelled.
[11:53] >> And as most X-Men fans already know,
[11:55] Warren Worthington III, aka Angel, is
[11:58] actually one of the original members of
[12:00] the X-Men that were introduced in X-Men
[12:02] number one in 1963 alongside Scott
[12:05] Summers Cyclops, Jean Grey Marvel Girl,
[12:08] Bobby Drake Iceman, and Hank McCoy
[12:11] Beast. And even though Angel does make
[12:13] his live-action debut in this X-Men
[12:14] movie, the character almost made an
[12:16] appearance in the previous movie X2:
[12:19] X-Men United as one of William Stryker's
[12:21] prisoners. If one of the discarded
[12:23] versions of the X2 script came true, we
[12:26] could have seen William Stryker and his
[12:27] people transform Angel into his darker
[12:31] Archangel persona with metallic wings.
[12:34] Something that was originally done by
[12:35] the Omega Class mutant Apocalypse in
[12:38] X-Factor issue number 23 when Warren
[12:41] became his Horseman of Death. Warren's
[12:43] father, Warren Worthington II,
[12:45] starts knocking on the bathroom door
[12:47] wondering what his maturing preteen son
[12:49] has been doing in there for over an
[12:51] hour. And when he busts down the door,
[12:53] he quickly discovers that puberty has
[12:55] caused his son to furiously tug his
[12:57] growing body parts with various
[12:59] instruments. And by growing body parts,
[13:02] I of course mean his wings growing on
[13:04] his back. This scene was actually one of
[13:06] Matthew Vaughn's ideas back when he was
[13:08] involved with the production that Brett
[13:09] Ratner decided to preserve in the final
[13:12] cut of the film. Then after the intro
[13:13] cinematic, we are brought to the present
[13:15] day where the X-Men attempt to learn
[13:17] teamwork in their ultra-advanced battle
[13:19] simulation room famously known as the
[13:22] Danger Room. And one of the first images
[13:23] that we see is Ororo Monroe, aka Storm,
[13:27] flying into frame. And because Halle
[13:29] Berry didn't really get to do any flying
[13:31] scenes as Storm in the previous films,
[13:33] one of her main stipulations for doing
[13:35] this movie was that her character have a
[13:37] series of flying moments. And even
[13:39] though she would get exactly what she
[13:40] wanted, Halle Berry would soon discover
[13:42] that some of the flying stunts that they
[13:44] had in store for her would make her
[13:46] crazy nauseous, to the point where she
[13:48] literally threw up from spinning around
[13:49] so much, much like we see Storm do
[13:52] during the big showdown at the Grey
[13:54] household a little later on the movie.
[13:57] And right after this, we are
[13:58] reintroduced to Daniel Cudmore's
[14:00] Colossus, as he protects Anna Paquin's
[14:02] Rogue from incoming debris by having her
[14:05] absorb his ability to cover himself in
[14:07] organic steel. And in order to save
[14:09] money on CG, the production would
[14:11] actually choose to make Colossus's look
[14:13] practically by making a shiny reflective
[14:15] suit for him. I mean, they did go the
[14:17] all CG route for X2: X-Men United, but
[14:20] decided to switch things up this time
[14:21] around. And speaking of saving money on
[14:23] expensive X-Men from the previous film,
[14:26] it is not hard to notice that
[14:27] fan-favorite X-Men hero Nightcrawler is
[14:30] 100% absent this time around, despite
[14:32] having seemingly joined the X-Men team
[14:35] at the end of the last film. Even though
[14:36] the production initially planned for
[14:38] Alan [ __ ] to have a small cameo in
[14:40] this movie, they felt like the money,
[14:42] time, and energy needed to bring
[14:43] Nightcrawler to life just was not worth
[14:46] it. So, they just wrote his
[14:47] Smurf-looking ass out of the film
[14:48] entirely, which sucks. But anyways,
[14:50] directly after this, we watch Bobby
[14:52] Drake, aka Iceman, use his frost powers
[14:55] to save Kitty Pryde from a missile
[14:58] before Kitty Pryde returns the favor by
[15:00] using her phasing powers to force a
[15:02] missile to go right through the both of
[15:04] them, as a jealous Rogue watches from
[15:06] afar. And while this is actor Shawn
[15:08] Ashmore's third time playing the role of
[15:10] Iceman in the Fox X-Men trilogy, this
[15:12] would be Elliot Page's first time as
[15:14] X-Men Kitty Pryde. After watching Elliot
[15:17] Page in the 2005 psychological thriller
[15:19] Hard Candy, Brett Ratner knew that the
[15:21] actor would be the perfect choice for
[15:23] Kitty Pryde, even going as far as to
[15:25] call Page himself after they rejected
[15:27] their offer to play the part. However,
[15:29] Elliot Page would grow to regret that
[15:31] decision as he truly hated working with
[15:33] director Brett Ratner throughout the
[15:34] entire production. Mostly because Brett
[15:37] Ratner was kind of a dick and would say
[15:38] a bunch of rude and homophobic [ __ ] to
[15:40] Elliot on set, which is a huge bummer.
[15:42] And before Elliot Page was cast as Kitty
[15:44] Pryde, actresses Eliza Dushku, Summer
[15:47] Glau, and Maggie Grace auditioned for
[15:49] the role as well. With Maggie Grace
[15:51] eventually briefly being cast as Kitty
[15:53] before the production decided that she
[15:55] was a little bit too old to play the
[15:57] character. In the previous X-Men films,
[15:59] actress Sumela Kay played Kitty in the
[16:01] first X-Men movie, while actress Katie
[16:03] Stuart [clears throat] would play Kitty
[16:05] in X2: X-Men United. But both of those
[16:07] roles are pretty much just background
[16:09] characters. And with the X-Men
[16:10] absolutely failing to work as a team,
[16:12] Wolverine would decide to take matters
[16:14] into his own hands by asking Colossus to
[16:16] throw him at their unseen enemy. A move
[16:18] that has come to be known as Logan's
[16:20] famous fastball special ever since it
[16:22] first debuted in Uncanny X-Men issue
[16:25] number 100 from 1976.
[16:28] Wolverine does his slicing and dicing
[16:30] off-screen before it's revealed that the
[16:32] X-Men have been fighting a giant
[16:34] simulation of a Sentinel, the infamous
[16:36] mutant-hunting machines from the X-Men
[16:37] comics created by Bolivar Trask in the
[16:40] pages of 1965's Uncanny X-Men number 14.
[16:43] And it's kind of weird how the Sentinels
[16:45] show up for the first time in this
[16:46] universe as a danger room simulation
[16:49] before actually appearing as threats
[16:50] created by Bolivar Trask in X-Men: Days
[16:53] of Future Past. But I still appreciate
[16:55] the reference nonetheless.
[16:57] room, apparently if Bryan Peter Singer
[17:00] got to direct this movie instead of
[17:02] Brett Ratner, he apparently would have
[17:03] shown Scott Summers taking the
[17:05] initiative to build the danger room
[17:06] himself. Specifically as a result of
[17:09] losing Jean Grey in the previous movie.
[17:11] Jean's loss would have pushed Scott to
[17:12] make the X-Men better so we didn't have
[17:14] to suffer a major loss like that again.
[17:16] And speaking of Scott, the movie then
[17:18] transitions to him grieving the loss of
[17:20] Jean Grey alone in his bedroom before he
[17:22] experiences images of a drowning Jean
[17:24] calling out to him from Alkali Lake. And
[17:27] what's particularly interesting about
[17:28] this moment is how the production seemed
[17:30] to purposely put a painting of a red
[17:32] ocean behind Cyclops' bed and head, like
[17:35] a symbolic piece of foreshadowing
[17:37] towards his own demise at Alkali Lake at
[17:39] the hands of the red-haired Phoenix. And
[17:41] in response to this vision, Cyclops
[17:43] leaves the mansion to head towards the
[17:44] lake ignoring Wolverine's attempts to
[17:46] encourage him to move on. And after
[17:47] this, we are shown the exterior of the
[17:49] Department of Mutant Affairs, which is
[17:51] actually an office building at 1075 West
[17:54] Georgia Street in Vancouver, British
[17:55] Columbia in real life. And if you're a
[17:57] fan of the Arrow TV series, the rooftop
[17:59] battle from the second episode of season
[18:01] 1 was also filmed at this building. And
[18:03] inside the Department of Mutant Affairs
[18:05] is Dr. Hank McCoy, the X-Man known as
[18:07] Beast and Secretary of Mutant Affairs.
[18:10] This is the first time the role of Beast
[18:11] will be played by actor Kelsey Grammer
[18:13] of Frasier fame. With Hank McCoy
[18:15] actually appearing in a quick cameo on
[18:17] TV in X2: X-Men United as played by
[18:20] actor Steve Basic, much like I mentioned
[18:22] in my heavy spoilers breakdown of that
[18:24] movie. Kelsey Grammer was actually so
[18:26] enthused about the idea of portraying
[18:28] Beast that he actually went through the
[18:29] audition process for it, something that
[18:31] Grammer rarely ever did at that point in
[18:33] his career. Grammer was actually cast in
[18:35] the movie back when Matthew Vaughn was
[18:36] director and Brett Ratner decided to
[18:38] keep him on when Vaughn left. Matthew
[18:40] Vaughn was also responsible for the
[18:41] casting of Juggernaut actor Vinnie Jones
[18:44] as well. But before Kelsey Grammer's
[18:46] casting, actor Jason Flemyng was heavily
[18:48] considered to play Beast when his buddy
[18:50] Matthew Vaughn was going to direct the
[18:51] project, but that never ended up panning
[18:53] out. But luckily, Matthew Vaughn would
[18:55] get a chance to work with Flemyng on an
[18:56] X-Men movie when he got to direct X-Men:
[18:58] First Class years later, casting Flemyng
[19:01] in the role of the teleporting Azazel.
[19:03] Afterwards, actor Sam Neill of Jurassic
[19:05] Park fame was apparently cast as Beast
[19:06] at one point, but had to drop out of the
[19:08] film due to other commitments. But yeah,
[19:10] as Beast hangs upside down from his
[19:12] ceiling, he holds a real-life copy of
[19:14] the October 2005 edition of Scientific
[19:16] American magazine with the article
[19:18] tracking mutations by writer Dennis
[19:20] Draena very likely being the focus of
[19:22] Beast's attention. And we can also see
[19:24] that Beast has green eyes in this movie,
[19:26] which differs from Nicholas Hoult's
[19:28] Beast that would be introduced in 2011's
[19:30] X-Men First Class, which shows Beast
[19:31] with yellow eyes instead.
[19:33] >> My blue eyes, white dragon.
[19:36] >> Sorry.
[19:37] >> [clears throat]
[19:37] >> And in order to achieve the look of
[19:38] Beast, Kelsey Grammer had to sit in the
[19:40] production's makeup chair for about 2
[19:42] and 1/2 to 3 hours. But luckily, the
[19:44] makeup removal process was much shorter
[19:46] at just 45 minutes. And as Beast's
[19:49] secretary informs him of a meeting, we
[19:50] can see the logo for the Department of
[19:52] Mutant Affairs in the background, which
[19:54] features a bald eagle above an American
[19:56] flag shield that also has a DNA double
[19:59] helix on it to represent the mutant
[20:01] genome. Beast then heads to the meeting
[20:03] hosted by the unnamed president of the
[20:04] United States played by actor Joseph
[20:06] Sommer, an actor that previously worked
[20:08] with Brett Ratner in the Family Man film
[20:11] that he directed in the year 2000. At
[20:13] the beginning of X2: X-Men United, the
[20:15] president was a different man known as
[20:17] President McKenna played by Cotter
[20:18] Smith, but there appears to have been an
[20:20] election between now and then. Also at
[20:23] the meeting is the infamous X-Men
[20:24] villain Bolivar Trask played by actor
[20:27] Bill Duke. And when the character was
[20:28] first introduced in X-Men issue number
[20:30] 14, Trask is a Caucasian man with an
[20:32] extensive background in robotics, a
[20:35] background that eventually lead him to
[20:36] create the Master Mold machine that
[20:38] cranked out an army of mutant-hunting
[20:40] Sentinels. But in this particular
[20:42] live-action X-Men timeline, this Trask
[20:44] is just the head of the Department of
[20:46] Homeland Security who was recently
[20:47] duplicated by the X-Men villain Mystique
[20:49] before she was captured and
[20:51] interrogated. Actress Rebecca Romijn
[20:53] returns as Raven Darkholme, aka
[20:54] Mystique, but her role was greatly
[20:56] diminished this time around in
[20:57] comparison to previous movies, mostly
[20:59] because of prior commitments to other
[21:01] projects and her growing family. And
[21:03] while Mystique still has her piercing
[21:05] yellow eyes, what's different this time
[21:06] around is that her eyes are completely
[21:08] computer generated, which was a huge
[21:10] relief for Rebecca after suffering with
[21:12] super uncomfortable and irritating
[21:14] yellow contacts in the previous two
[21:16] films. However, even though Rebecca
[21:18] Romijn's eyes were comfortable, Rebecca
[21:20] herself wasn't exactly comfortable
[21:22] working with Brett Ratner and would
[21:23] later go on record to say that she was
[21:25] thankful that the director got publicly
[21:27] canceled during the height of the Me Too
[21:29] movement. But anyways, as the movie
[21:30] transitions to Mystique's interrogation,
[21:32] she mocks the interviewer by
[21:33] transforming into Magneto, the very
[21:36] magnetic madman that they were all
[21:38] searching for. And on Mystique Magneto's
[21:40] chest is the number 0001, which likely
[21:43] refers to X-Men issue one, which
[21:44] featured the first appearance of Magneto
[21:46] along with the OG X-Men. And after
[21:49] witnessing Mystique assault her
[21:50] interrogator, the president and his
[21:52] staff then transition to the real matter
[21:54] at hand, the intel that Mystique was
[21:56] trying to steal from the FDA regarding a
[21:58] young mutant named Jimmy, aka Leech.
[22:01] Introduced in 1983's Uncanny X-Men 179,
[22:04] Leech has the power to deactivate any
[22:06] mutant power, much like we see in this
[22:08] movie. However, unlike this film, comic
[22:10] book Leech has slightly deformed green
[22:12] skin that very much alienated him from
[22:14] the rest of society. But for some
[22:15] reason, Brett Ratner decided to just
[22:17] make him look like a bald white boy
[22:19] played by actor Cameron Bright.
[22:20] Recently, there was actually a reference
[22:22] to the character Leech in one of the
[22:24] latest trailers for Insomniac's new
[22:26] Wolverine video game, where he is
[22:28] pictured in all of his green-skinned
[22:30] glory. Beast then learns that
[22:32] Worthington Labs has used Leech's DNA to
[22:34] manufacture a cure before the movie
[22:36] brings us to Xavier's School for Gifted
[22:38] Youngsters. The production will return
[22:40] to Hatley Castle in Colwood, British
[22:42] Columbia, Canada to film the X-Mansion
[22:44] scenes, much like they did in X2: X-Men
[22:46] United. And this mansion was also the
[22:48] same mansion used for the Smallville TV
[22:50] show for Lex Luthor's home. We then hear
[22:52] the voice of Charles Xavier as he says
[22:54] the following.
[22:55] >> When an individual acquires great power,
[22:58] the use or misuse of that power is
[23:01] everything. Will it be for the greater
[23:03] good or will it be used for personal
[23:07] or for destructive ends? This very much
[23:09] feels like a shout-out to the Marvel
[23:11] character Spider-Man and his Uncle Ben's
[23:13] famous with great power there must also
[23:16] come great responsibility mantra.
[23:18] >> Remember,
[23:19] with great power
[23:21] comes great responsibility.
[23:23] >> Along with Kitty Pryde, other notable
[23:25] mutants in Xavier's classroom during
[23:26] this scene include the sonic screaming
[23:28] siren to the left of Kitty played by
[23:30] Shauna Cain, the energy producing
[23:32] Jubilee to the right of Kitty played by
[23:34] Kio Wong, and the technology controlling
[23:36] Jones on the far right played by Connor
[23:39] Widdows. And sitting behind Jones is the
[23:41] fork-tongued Ardy Maddox played by Bryce
[23:43] Hodgson. And all four of these actors
[23:45] are reprising the roles that they played
[23:47] in X2: X-Men United. The Professor then
[23:49] shows the class some footage of his
[23:51] colleague Moira MacTaggart, a love
[23:53] interest of Charles Xavier in the comics
[23:55] that made her first appearance in 1975's
[23:57] X-Men issue number 96. And even though
[24:00] the character is very much Scottish in
[24:01] the comics, she is played by British
[24:03] actress Olivia Williams in this movie
[24:05] before the role be taken over by
[24:07] Australian actress Rose Byrne in the
[24:09] First Class timeline. And behind Moira
[24:11] is actually Professor Xavier's
[24:13] brain-dead twin brother. And it's never
[24:15] revealed what his first name is, but we
[24:17] know that it starts with the letter P.
[24:18] Xavier then introduces the idea of
[24:21] transferring one's consciousness into a
[24:23] brain-dead body like the one on the TV
[24:25] screen, very much foreshadowing what
[24:27] Professor Xavier would do to cheat death
[24:29] in the movie's post-credit scene. And
[24:31] after class, Professor Xavier meets up
[24:32] with a Storm who is tired of hiding in
[24:34] the shadows waiting for humanity to
[24:36] accept mutants. And as they talk in the
[24:37] hallways of the school, we can actually
[24:39] see the mutant Hellion using telekinesis
[24:41] on some paper airplanes. Introduced in
[24:43] 2003's New Mutants issue number two,
[24:46] Julian Keller, aka Hellion, is
[24:48] eventually revealed to be an omega-level
[24:49] mutant with extremely powerful
[24:51] telekinetic abilities as well as some
[24:53] light telepathy. But in the comics,
[24:55] whenever Hellion uses his telekinesis, a
[24:57] green energetic aura usually surrounds
[25:00] whatever he's manipulating. Also,
[25:01] walking behind Storm and Xavier are a
[25:03] group of young female triplets. These
[25:05] are, of course, the Stepford Cuckoo
[25:07] Sisters, genetic children of the mutant
[25:09] Emma Frost after some scientist creepo
[25:12] stole a thousand of Emma's eggs in the
[25:14] comics. There were originally five of
[25:15] these telepathic Cuckoo Sisters when
[25:17] they first made their debut in 2001's
[25:19] New X-Men 118, but eventually two of the
[25:22] sisters, Sophie and Esme, would die
[25:24] leaving only Irma, Phoebe, and Celeste
[25:26] alive. Xavier then brings up the idea of
[25:29] Storm taking over as leader of the
[25:30] school if he ever were to pass away, a
[25:32] role that would have gone to Scott if he
[25:34] didn't let Jean's death change him so
[25:36] much. 1980's X-Men issue number 139 is
[25:39] when we first see Storm become deputy
[25:41] leader of the X-Men following Cyclops
[25:43] taking a brief leave of absence from the
[25:45] team. The two of them are then surprised
[25:47] by a sudden visit from Hank McCoy who is
[25:49] looking at a painting of the Grand Canal
[25:51] in Venice, Italy when they enter the
[25:53] room. Beast then tells Xavier Storm, and
[25:55] Wolverine about Worthington Labs' mutant
[25:57] cure before the movie brings us to
[25:59] Worthington Labs' Alcatraz facility,
[26:01] which, of course, used to be a famous
[26:03] prison island before it was shut down in
[26:05] 1963. And as Warren Worthington the
[26:07] Second presents the mutant cure to the
[26:09] world, we can see Dr. Kavita Rao sitting
[26:11] behind him, played by Iranian actress
[26:14] Shohreh Aghdashloo, despite the
[26:15] character very much being of Indian
[26:17] descent when the character first
[26:18] appeared in Joss Whedon's Astonishing
[26:20] X-Men number one from 2004. Back when
[26:23] Matthew Vaughn was directing the
[26:24] project, he would actually cast Shohreh
[26:26] as a completely different character
[26:27] named Dr. Cecilia Reyes. Introduced in
[26:30] 1997's X-Men issue number 65, Dr.
[26:33] Cecilia Reyes is a medical doctor with
[26:35] the mutant power to project protective
[26:37] force fields around her body, eventually
[26:39] becoming a member of both the X-Men and
[26:41] X-Factor teams. But when Brett Ratner
[26:43] took over directing duties, he would
[26:44] recast her as Dr. Kavita Rao. Other
[26:47] actresses the production were
[26:48] considering for the role of Dr. Rao
[26:50] include Bollywood actresses Tabu,
[26:51] Sumitha Fatima Hashmi, and Shabana Azmi.
[26:54] And as all the students in the X-Mansion
[26:56] watch the press conference, Rogue gets
[26:57] excited about the idea of finally being
[26:59] able to touch her boyfriend that she
[27:01] immediately heads to Xavier's office to
[27:03] see if the news is for real. But while
[27:04] Storm tries to assure her that her
[27:06] mutation isn't actually disease that
[27:08] needs to be cured, Rogue doesn't exactly
[27:10] seem to buy it. And even though Rogue
[27:12] was very enthusiastic about the idea of
[27:14] taking this mutant cure, Rogue actress
[27:16] Anna Paquin wasn't as jazzed about the
[27:17] idea and tried her best to get the
[27:19] production to reverse their decision.
[27:21] But ultimately, it would be to no avail.
[27:23] Meanwhile, angered at the announcement,
[27:25] a group of mutants hold a 7:00 p.m.
[27:27] meeting at Holy Trinity Church to
[27:29] discuss how they should react. And
[27:31] remember that scene from X2: X-Men
[27:33] United where Storm and Jean Grey first
[27:35] run into Nightcrawler? This is actually
[27:36] the very same church from that scene,
[27:38] St. Andrew's Wesley United Church in
[27:40] Vancouver to be exact. This church is
[27:42] actually right across the street from
[27:44] Sheraton Wall Centre where they shot the
[27:46] Worthington Lab exteriors. And as a
[27:48] mutant man calls for the mutant
[27:49] community to be civil by forming a
[27:51] committee to talk to the government, a
[27:52] reptilian mutant crawling on the wall
[27:54] behind him watches from above. And while
[27:56] this mutant is credited as Lizard Man in
[27:58] this film, in the comics, his real name
[28:00] was actually Victor Borkowski before
[28:03] adopting the mutant name Anole after the
[28:05] iguanian lizard. And even though he ends
[28:07] up joining Magneto's Brotherhood of
[28:09] Mutants in this movie, in the comics, he
[28:11] actually joins the X-Men as a good guy.
[28:13] Anole makes his first appearance in
[28:14] 2003's New Mutants number two, just in
[28:17] case you guys were curious.
[28:18] >> Thanks for the good news.
[28:19] >> And also in the audience is Big William
[28:21] Robert Riley, also known as the mutant
[28:23] Fat with a ph. Originally a body fat
[28:26] manipulating Caucasian mutant when he
[28:27] was first introduced in 2001's X-Force
[28:30] 117, in this movie, the big version of
[28:32] the character is played by Samoan actor
[28:34] Vinnie Sallyamua, while the smaller
[28:36] version of the character is played by
[28:38] Chinese actor Richard Yee. Richard Yee
[28:40] also played the Ninja Turtle Donatello
[28:42] in the short-lived Teenage Mutant Ninja
[28:44] Turtles: The Next Mutation TV series.
[28:46] And interrupting the speaker is a woman
[28:48] with purple highlights in her hair who
[28:50] claims that the humans are planning to
[28:51] exterminate them. And while it's kind of
[28:53] hard to believe, this woman is actually
[28:55] supposed to be the mutant Psylocke, even
[28:57] though she barely has any of the powers
[28:58] of her comic book counterpart. This
[29:00] version of Psylocke only has the ability
[29:02] to teleport through shadows, an ability
[29:04] that comic book Psylocke would not
[29:06] acquire until X-Men issue number 338 in
[29:08] 1996 as a result of drinking a shadow
[29:11] elixir called the Crimson Dawn. Before
[29:13] then, comic book Psylocke was mainly
[29:15] known as a powerful telepathic and
[29:17] telekinetic ninja with energy projecting
[29:19] abilities. All attributes pretty much
[29:21] absent from this take of the character.
[29:23] And there's actually a big reason for
[29:24] this. That character wasn't actually
[29:26] meant to be Psylocke at all when it was
[29:27] first created. It was only much later on
[29:29] in production that somebody decided to
[29:31] just name the character Psylocke, which
[29:32] is kind of super random and careless in
[29:34] my opinion. Like Psylocke is a pretty
[29:36] damn important and badass character in
[29:38] the comics. So, to not give much thought
[29:40] as to how such a character would be
[29:42] introduced in live action for the first
[29:43] time is kind of disrespectful in my
[29:45] opinion. But anyways, Psylocke and Fat
[29:47] are part of a gang of mutant outcasts
[29:50] known as the Omegas, a group heavily
[29:52] based on the Morlocks from the X-Men
[29:54] comics. And much like how the mutant
[29:56] Callisto was the head of the Morlocks in
[29:57] the comics, we see Callisto as the
[29:59] leader of the Omegas in this movie, a
[30:01] group that she reps with a big old Omega
[30:03] symbol on her chest. However, though she
[30:06] shares the name of the leader of the
[30:07] comic book Morlocks, her power set is a
[30:09] little bit different. When Callisto was
[30:11] first introduced in 1983's Uncanny X-Men
[30:14] 169, comic book Callisto's powers
[30:16] consisted of having all five of her
[30:18] senses cranked up to 11, making her an
[30:20] incredibly formidable hunter. However,
[30:22] in this movie, Callisto inexplicably has
[30:24] super speed like Quicksilver as well as
[30:26] the ability to detect the power level of
[30:28] mutants around her like the mutant
[30:30] Caliban. And this will not be the only
[30:31] superhero role for Callisto actress
[30:34] Dania Ramirez as a year later she would
[30:36] play a superhuman with deadly poison
[30:38] powers named Maya Herrera in NBC's
[30:40] Heroes TV series. Next to Callisto to
[30:43] the left is Philippa Soo as well known
[30:46] as the mutant Arclight played by actress
[30:49] and model Omaira Moda. And much like her
[30:51] comic book counterpart, Arclight has the
[30:53] ability to generate seismic shockwaves
[30:56] with her body. However, when she first
[30:58] appeared in the pages of 1986's Uncanny
[31:00] X-Men 211, she was actively working to
[31:03] destroy the Morlocks as part of a group
[31:05] called the Marauders. But here, she's
[31:08] essentially part of the Morlocks since
[31:10] the Omegas were based off of the
[31:11] Morlocks. And back when Matthew Vaughn
[31:13] was working on the movie, the character
[31:15] Arclight wasn't included in the film at
[31:17] all. In her place, Matthew Vaughn wanted
[31:19] to introduce the pheromone-manipulating
[31:21] mutant Stacy X, introduced in the pages
[31:25] of 2001's Uncanny X-Men 399. Stacy X has
[31:29] the power to project her own pheromones
[31:31] into the air in order to affect the body
[31:33] chemistry of others, making them feel
[31:35] however way she wants, whether that be
[31:38] happy, nauseous, dizzy, aroused, or even
[31:41] hopped up on adrenaline. And before
[31:43] Daniella Ramirez was ultimately cast as
[31:45] Callisto, she initially went in for the
[31:47] role of Stacy X. But then the production
[31:50] decided to give that role to Amara Moda
[31:52] before changing their minds again and
[31:54] making Moda's character Arclight,
[31:56] exiting out Stacy from the script for
[31:58] good. And standing two rows back to the
[32:00] right of Psylocke is Robert Herman, also
[32:03] known as Glob Herman, whose body is
[32:05] completely made out of transparent wax.
[32:08] This Glob Herman looks a lot different
[32:10] from the giant pink mutant with a
[32:12] visible skeleton that was introduced in
[32:14] 2001's X-Men 117. But adapting that
[32:17] character faithfully would have
[32:18] undoubtedly cost the production a lot of
[32:20] money in VFX. And also part of the
[32:22] Omegas is the mutant Ash who we see
[32:25] shortly after Psylocke's outburst,
[32:27] played by actor Mark Helferich. With
[32:29] skin composed of burning charcoal, Ash
[32:31] has the ability to incinerate people and
[32:34] objects by shooting out burning charcoal
[32:37] out of his mouth. And as far as I can
[32:38] tell, Ash is an original character
[32:41] created for this movie.
[32:43] Ash and the other Omegas then listen as
[32:45] Magneto warns them that humanity would
[32:47] inevitably seek their extermination,
[32:49] much like Hitler sought the
[32:50] extermination of various peoples during
[32:53] the Holocaust. And because of that,
[32:55] Magneto attempts to rally as many in the
[32:57] meeting to his mutant brotherhood.
[32:59] Unconvinced, a mutant by the name of
[33:00] Quill attempts to talk down to Magneto
[33:03] before Pyro threatens him with a toaster
[33:05] if he doesn't back off. Quill, whose
[33:07] real name is Maxwell Jordan and has the
[33:09] power to generate porcupine-like quills
[33:11] on his body, is played by actor Ken
[33:14] Leung, famous for roles like Detective
[33:16] Sing in the Saw movies and Sang in the
[33:18] Rush Hour movies. And he would later go
[33:20] on to play the Marvel character Karnak
[33:22] in the absolutely ass Inhumans TV series
[33:25] later on. Callisto then approaches
[33:27] Magneto right afterwards and flexes her
[33:29] mutant powers before Magneto asks her to
[33:31] attempt to locate Mystique for him,
[33:33] who's currently being transported by the
[33:34] government in a heavily guarded truck.
[33:37] Meanwhile, Beast makes a visit to the
[33:38] Alcatraz facility of Worthington Labs.
[33:41] There, Dr. Rao escorts him to meet
[33:44] little Jimmy, who is playing the Xbox
[33:46] 360 port of the 2004 game Pitfall: The
[33:49] Lost Expedition when Beast enters the
[33:51] room, specifically the Jungle Canyon
[33:53] level of Pitfall. Later on the movie
[33:55] when we see a family playing video games
[33:57] in a car on the Golden Gate Bridge, we
[33:59] can see that they're also playing
[34:00] Pitfall: The Lost Expedition. But in
[34:02] that instance, they're playing the
[34:03] Renegade Headquarters level of that
[34:05] game. And also in Jimmy's room is a
[34:07] white Robo Raptor toy made by WowWee
[34:10] toys, showing off his love of dinosaurs.
[34:12] Beast marvels at the boy's abilities
[34:14] before the movie transitions to Scott
[34:16] riding his Harley-Davidson V-Rod 1130 to
[34:19] Alkali Lake, the place where his former
[34:21] lover Jean Grey was thought to have been
[34:23] crushed by the weight of the lake's
[34:24] waters attempting to save her friends.
[34:27] Brett Ratner would actually go on to
[34:28] purchase Cyclops' bike at the end of
[34:30] filming. And honestly, I don't blame him
[34:32] because who else is going to use it?
[34:34] Scott? That motherfucker's dead as hell.
[34:36] Well, not quite yet because Scott has to
[34:38] shoot his optic blast at the lake first
[34:41] like the drama queen that he is. But
[34:43] that blast seems to activate the lady
[34:45] lying in the lake leading Jean Grey to
[34:48] emerge from the lake reborn. And excited
[34:51] that his dead girlfriend is back, Scott
[34:53] eventually gives her a big old smooch.
[34:55] But that smooch would unfortunately be
[34:56] the kiss of death for old Scotty four
[34:58] eyes as we can literally see the Phoenix
[35:00] suck the life out of him from his face.
[35:03] And the reason for James Marsden's quick
[35:04] death in this movie is directly tied to
[35:06] director Bryan Singer and his work on
[35:08] Superman Returns. As Singer would cast
[35:10] Marsden in the role of Lois Lane's
[35:12] fiance, Richard White. So Marsden could
[35:15] not stick around for both superhero
[35:16] productions at the same time.
[35:19] Sensing Scott's demise, Xavier sends
[35:21] Storm and Wolverine to Alkali Lake in
[35:24] the X-Jet, a vehicle that has been a
[35:26] staple of the X-Men ever since it
[35:27] debuted in Giant-Size X-Men number one
[35:30] alongside mutants Storm, Colossus,
[35:33] Nightcrawler, and Thunderbird. And when
[35:34] the two of them head to the shore,
[35:36] Wolverine finds Cyclops's custom Oakley
[35:38] Penny sunglasses telekinetically
[35:40] floating in the air right before
[35:42] discovering Jean Grey herself. The two
[35:44] then rushed Jean to the X-Mansion's
[35:46] infirmary where Professor Xavier
[35:48] theorizes that the Phoenix may have
[35:50] manifested a telekinetic cocoon around
[35:52] Jean in order to keep her safe from the
[35:55] weight of the lake. And this idea of a
[35:56] cocoon protecting Jean Grey was
[35:58] introduced in Avengers 263 from 1985
[36:01] when the Avengers discovered that the
[36:03] Phoenix cocooned Jean Grey underneath
[36:05] Jamaica Bay in New York. Professor
[36:07] Xavier then goes on to inform Logan of
[36:09] how the root of Jean Grey's mutation has
[36:12] always been the Phoenix. And because
[36:14] Xavier felt the Phoenix entity was too
[36:16] powerful for a little girl to control,
[36:18] he isolated the Phoenix behind several
[36:20] psychic barriers within Jean's mind
[36:23] effectively creating a dual personality
[36:25] within Jean Grey's host body that is
[36:27] similar to dissociative identity
[36:29] disorder, a disorder that Jean Grey
[36:31] actress Famke Janssen did her homework
[36:33] on in order to play both characters
[36:35] effectively. And this is significantly
[36:37] different to how the Phoenix operates in
[36:39] the comics as the Phoenix was originally
[36:41] a cosmic entity that merged with Jean
[36:43] Grey while she was pushing her powers to
[36:45] the limit attempting to save her friends
[36:47] in Uncanny X-Men 101. And Jean Grey
[36:50] actress Famke Janssen really was not a
[36:51] fan of Brett Ratner's take on Jean
[36:54] throughout the movie and was super let
[36:55] down that the film was not a faithful
[36:57] adaptation of the beloved Dark Phoenix
[36:59] story arc from the comics. And one of
[37:01] the main reasons why the Dark Phoenix
[37:02] story was presented so awfully in this
[37:04] movie was because the Fox executives at
[37:07] the time wanted to prioritize the mutant
[37:09] cure story instead, making the whole
[37:11] Dark Phoenix subplot a little bit of an
[37:13] afterthought. But yeah, Wolverine gets
[37:15] angry at Professor Xaviar for caging
[37:17] Jean Grey's mind, before the movie
[37:19] transitions to Worthington Labs where
[37:21] Ben Foster's Warren Worthington III
[37:23] arrives to be the first mutant to take
[37:25] the mutant cure in order to make his
[37:27] father happy. And this is actually the
[37:28] second time actor Ben Foster would star
[37:31] in a Marvel movie after appearing in the
[37:33] 2004 Punisher movie alongside Mystique
[37:36] actress Rebecca Romijn. And before Ben
[37:38] Foster got the role of Angel, actors Jed
[37:40] Bernard and Nick Stahl auditioned for
[37:43] the chance to play Angel. Ultimately,
[37:45] actor Mike Vogel would get the role but
[37:47] eventually would have to leave the
[37:48] project because it got in the way of his
[37:50] work on the 2006 film Poseidon where he
[37:52] played the arrogant Chris Sanders. This
[37:55] would lead Ben Foster to landing the job
[37:56] as the high-flying Angel despite Foster
[37:59] ironically having a significant fear of
[38:01] heights himself, which is kind of funny.
[38:04] But yeah, as Angel gets strapped in for
[38:05] the procedure, Dr. Rao grabs the mutant
[38:08] cure from a box with the characters
[38:10] XM89248
[38:12] on it. This is an Easter egg of a
[38:13] shout-out to Marvel artist and writer
[38:16] Jim Lee as 1989's Uncanny X-Men issue
[38:19] 248 was the first time Jim Lee got to
[38:22] pencil an Uncanny X-Men comic. However,
[38:24] at the sight of the needle about to
[38:25] pierce his skin, Warren decides to break
[38:27] free and tell his father off before
[38:29] dramatically jumping through an insanely
[38:31] high window to flex his wings for
[38:33] everyone to see. And speaking of Angel's
[38:35] wings, when the production first made
[38:37] the wings for Ben Foster, they were
[38:39] originally much too heavy for the actor
[38:40] to move around in. So, to make things
[38:42] easier, they went back to the drawing
[38:44] board and decided to make lighter foam
[38:46] wings instead. Meanwhile, Magneto and
[38:48] his gang assault a prison transport
[38:50] convoy to save Mystique and recruit a
[38:53] few more members for their growing
[38:55] mutant army. And after freeing Mystique,
[38:57] she tells them about little Jimmy
[38:58] No-Powers and how getting rid of him is
[39:01] the key to destroying the mutant cure
[39:02] forever. And right before Magneto frees
[39:04] the next prisoner, Pyro reads that James
[39:07] Madrox, most commonly known as the
[39:09] mutant Multiple Man, resides in cell
[39:12] 41205,
[39:14] even though the numbers 41209
[39:17] can clearly be seen written on the door
[39:19] before Magneto rips it off. Played by
[39:21] actor Eric Dane of Charmed and Grey's
[39:23] Anatomy fame, Multiple Man has the
[39:25] ability to generate multiple clones of
[39:27] himself. Ever since he first appeared in
[39:29] 1974's Giant-Size Fantastic Four number
[39:32] four. And not only that, but he also has
[39:34] the ability to retain the memories of
[39:36] each of the clones when they merge back
[39:39] with his original form, which is kind of
[39:40] cool. And back before 20th Century Fox
[39:42] was bought out by Disney, there were
[39:44] actually plans for a standalone Multiple
[39:46] Man movie starring James Franco in his
[39:49] second Marvel role since starring as
[39:51] Harry Osborn in Raimi's Spider-Man
[39:53] films. But that, of course, never panned
[39:55] out due to James Franco being canceled
[39:57] for sexual misconduct. When will men
[39:59] learn to keep their hands to themselves?
[40:01] Never. The sun will explode before that
[40:03] happens, unfortunately. Magneto then
[40:05] frees his next new recruit, the massive
[40:08] unstoppable Juggernaut. Born Cain Marko,
[40:11] we learn that he's actually the
[40:12] stepbrother of Professor X
[40:14] when the character first appeared in
[40:16] 1965's Uncanny X-Men number 12. However,
[40:19] in the comics, Juggernaut isn't actually
[40:21] a mutant like his stepbrother at all.
[40:23] Because in X-Men issue number 12, we
[40:25] learn how Cain actually got his
[40:26] superpowers after finding a glowing red
[40:29] ruby in the lost temple of Cyttorak
[40:31] during the Korean War. And after
[40:33] touching that ruby, he was gifted the
[40:35] power of a dark other dimensional being
[40:37] known as Cyttorak, effectively becoming
[40:39] Cyttorak's avatar. That being said, it
[40:41] seems like this movie's version of
[40:42] Juggernaut is based on the ultimate
[40:44] universe version of the character
[40:46] introduced in Ultimate X-Men number
[40:48] eight from 2001. As that Cain Marko was
[40:51] a mutant outright.
[40:53] But yeah, Juggernaut actor Vinnie Jones
[40:55] actually hated the Juggernaut costume
[40:57] that they made him wear for this movie
[40:59] because it was so damn uncomfortable. So
[41:01] much so that he would actually decline
[41:02] to cameo in the void in Deadpool and
[41:04] Wolverine because he didn't want to have
[41:06] to relive the horror of that suit. And
[41:08] after freeing the prisoners, the last
[41:10] guard left attempts to shoot Magneto
[41:12] with a gun loaded with the mutant cure.
[41:14] But Mystique decides to jump in front of
[41:15] the dart's path, completely eradicating
[41:18] the X-gene from Mystique's bloodstream.
[41:20] Angered at this, Pyro then cooks that
[41:22] last guard with his fire powers. And
[41:24] speaking of Pyro, actor Aaron Stanford
[41:27] was actually really bummed out that he
[41:29] didn't get to wear a cool super villain
[41:30] costume over the course of the X-Men
[41:32] trilogy. But luckily, Kevin Feige and
[41:34] Marvel Studios will rectify that in
[41:36] Deadpool and Wolverine by giving him a
[41:38] costume that was inspired by the
[41:40] original Pyro costume that debuted with
[41:42] the character in X-Men 141. And
[41:44] disappointed at the humanity of his
[41:46] former companion, Magneto leaves a naked
[41:48] Raven Darkholme in the truck after
[41:50] kicking her out of the mutant
[41:52] brotherhood. Mystique's reduced role in
[41:53] The Last Stand is not just because
[41:55] Rebecca Romijn couldn't stand working
[41:57] with Brett Ratner, it was also linked to
[41:59] her prior commitments to the short-lived
[42:01] WB sitcom Pepper Dennis, where she
[42:04] starred as the lead role. And as a
[42:06] result of the government making guns out
[42:07] of the mutant cure, Beast would then
[42:09] resign from his post as Secretary of
[42:11] Mutant Affairs at the White House before
[42:13] the movie transitions to Jean waking up
[42:15] in the infirmary as Wolverine watches
[42:17] over her, a flip scenario to their first
[42:20] meeting in the first X-Men film. The
[42:22] Phoenix then tries to seduce Wolverine,
[42:25] but Logan realizes that the woman he's
[42:27] making out with isn't the Jean that he
[42:28] fell in love with. In anger that Logan
[42:30] doesn't want to give her an adamantium
[42:32] bone of a different kind, the Phoenix
[42:34] then breaks out of the X-Mansion, but
[42:35] not before Jean Grey briefly emerges
[42:38] begging for Logan to kill her out of
[42:39] guilt for killing Scotty Four-Eyes at
[42:41] the lake. And sensing the Phoenix's
[42:43] awakening, Caliban, I mean Callisto,
[42:46] informs Magneto that a class five mutant
[42:48] with powerful electromagnetic abilities
[42:50] is on the loose. Magneto then asks where
[42:53] she is, even though she never specified
[42:55] a gender. Bro just knew that it could
[42:57] not be anyone but the Phoenix that he
[42:59] met all those years ago at the Grey
[43:00] household. Magneto then meets up with
[43:02] Xavier, Storm, and Wolverine at Jean
[43:04] Grey's family house in New York. And
[43:06] when the two walk in alone, Xavier
[43:09] wheels his ass right on past the
[43:10] Juggernaut, not giving him a second
[43:12] look, seemingly confirming that the two
[43:14] of them have no history as stepbrothers
[43:16] like they do in the comics. And walking
[43:18] through the Grey house, Xavier and
[43:20] Magneto witness objects floating and
[43:22] water boiling, almost like the Phoenix
[43:24] was a giant star with a strong
[43:27] gravitational pull and scorching heat.
[43:29] But all of those powers will be turned
[43:30] against Charles Xavier after his
[43:33] attempts to get Jean to control the
[43:34] Phoenix fail, leading to a bunch of
[43:36] Charles chunks flying all over the Grey
[43:38] family living room.
[43:40] >> Oh, no.
[43:41] She's spoiled.
[43:43] >> And after Charles Xavier's funeral,
[43:45] Bobby Drake decides to go check up on
[43:47] his not girlfriend, Kitty Pryde. When
[43:50] said not girlfriend mentions that she
[43:52] misses being back home, Bobby decides to
[43:54] take this not girlfriend on an impromptu
[43:57] ice skating date using the fountain at
[43:59] the X-Mansion. And in the comics, Kitty
[44:02] Pryde is originally from Deerfield,
[44:04] Illinois, so it makes sense for her to
[44:06] miss the snow a little bit, even though
[44:08] it does snow in New York. Watching the
[44:10] two of them from afar as they share
[44:11] physical contact is Bobby's actual
[44:14] girlfriend, Rogue, who takes the sight
[44:16] as her 13th reason to end her life as a
[44:18] mutant once and for all by taking the
[44:21] mutant cure. Rogue should count herself
[44:23] lucky because in a deleted scene, Bobby
[44:25] and Kitty actually do share a kiss on
[44:27] the ice while Rogue gets big time cocked
[44:30] from a distance. However, Brett Ratner
[44:32] would remove the scene entirely mostly
[44:34] because he felt like Elliot Page, quote
[44:36] unquote, looked like a 12-year-old next
[44:38] to the adult Bobby and felt like the
[44:40] scene looked a little bit too creepy.
[44:42] And while we're on the subject of this
[44:44] Rogue, Kitty, Bobby love triangle, at
[44:46] some point during production, there were
[44:49] talks of introducing the mutant Gambit
[44:51] to the X-Mansion in order to compete
[44:53] with Iceman for Rogue's love. Actors
[44:56] Josh Holloway, Keanu Reeves, and
[44:58] Channing Tatum were all considered
[45:00] before they scrapped the entire idea.
[45:02] But we all know that Kevin Feige would
[45:04] ultimately get Channing Tatum the chance
[45:06] to play Gambit in Deadpool and
[45:07] Wolverine. And hey, speaking of surprise
[45:09] cameos, the production originally wanted
[45:11] to include Marvel characters like Carol
[45:13] Danvers, Ms. Marvel, the original male
[45:16] Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, along with
[45:18] SHIELD leader Nick Fury in this movie.
[45:21] But as we all know, the rights to those
[45:23] characters belong solely to Marvel, so
[45:25] they were [ __ ] out of luck. But yeah,
[45:26] while Rogue is on her way out of the
[45:28] X-Mansion for good, she runs into Logan
[45:30] who asks her if she needs a lift. A
[45:32] slight nod towards their first surprise
[45:34] meeting in Logan's truck in the first
[45:36] X-Men film. And instead of trying to
[45:38] stop her, Logan simply encourages her to
[45:40] figure out whether or not she's aiming
[45:42] to take the cure for herself or for
[45:44] Bobby.
[45:46] A little bit later, when Bobby finds
[45:47] Rogue's bedroom completely empty, he
[45:49] asks Pete where she's at, to which he
[45:52] says that Rogue took off. And as many
[45:54] X-Men fans already know, Colossus'
[45:56] original name in the comics is actually
[45:58] Piotr Rasputin due due the character
[46:00] originally being from Mother Russia. But
[46:02] in this movie they very much decided to
[46:04] Americanize the character by just
[46:06] calling him Peter. But of course, the
[46:07] Deadpool movies would introduce a much
[46:09] more comic book accurate take on
[46:10] Colossus as portrayed by actor Stefan
[46:13] Kapičić. And not long after this, while
[46:16] the X-Men debate whether or not to close
[46:17] the school after Xavier's death, in
[46:19] comes Angel looking for a place to stay,
[46:22] which prompts Storm to assert that
[46:24] Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
[46:26] isn't going anywhere. And it's so weird
[46:28] hearing Beast refer to Angel as a boy as
[46:30] he walks into the school for the first
[46:32] time, considering Warren and Hank were
[46:34] around the same age when they were
[46:35] fighting baddies as part of the OG X-Men
[46:37] in the comics. Soon after this, Logan
[46:39] starts hearing the voice of the hot bird
[46:41] lady, so he decides to steal Scotty 4
[46:44] Eyes' motorcycle yet again to head to
[46:46] the forest to find her. Meanwhile, Pyro,
[46:48] being the flaming bag of [ __ ] that he
[46:50] is, decides to fling a flame or two at
[46:52] the mutant curing clinic. Magneto then
[46:55] goes on to the news saying that Pyro's
[46:56] act was just the beginning and tells the
[46:59] rest of humanity to gird up those loins,
[47:01] twin, because wars are coming. And in
[47:03] response, the president then orders bald
[47:06] black Bolivar to prepare the troops with
[47:08] plastic mutant curing guns. And there
[47:11] was actually a quick deleted scene where
[47:13] they showed these plastic guns going
[47:15] into production. Logan eventually
[47:16] arrives at Magneto's mutant camp, which
[47:18] was actually filmed in Canada's Golden
[47:21] Ears Provincial Park in Fern Crescent,
[47:23] Maple Ridge, British Columbia. And this
[47:25] is also where they filmed the home of
[47:27] Caesar's ape colony in 2014's Dawn of
[47:30] the Planet of the Apes, another movie
[47:31] that I broke down on this channel a
[47:33] while back. He immediately runs into
[47:35] prickly Darian Elliot, aka the mutant
[47:37] Spike, who shoots incredibly sharp and
[47:40] deadly spikes out of his body just like
[47:42] his comic book counterpart. But what's
[47:43] extra interesting about Spike's origins
[47:45] is how he was actually originally black
[47:47] as hell and a completely different dude
[47:50] when he made his first ever appearance
[47:51] in season 1 episode 5 of the old X-Men
[47:54] Evolution cartoon. The Spike from that
[47:57] show was actually named Evan Daniels,
[47:59] and he would be revealed as the nephew
[48:01] of the mutant Storm in that particular
[48:03] cartoon universe. Then, a year later,
[48:06] Marvel Comics would take the character
[48:07] of Spike and give him a completely
[48:09] different look and backstory in 2001's
[48:12] X-Force number 121, this time with the
[48:14] birth name Darian Elliott.
[48:18] Logan then goes on a light jog through
[48:19] the forest, slicing up all the mutant
[48:21] resistance in his way, much like the
[48:23] character would to a bunch of soldiers
[48:25] shortly before his death in the 2017
[48:27] film Logan. Afterwards, Wolverine
[48:30] arrives just in time to see Malcolm X
[48:32] Jean give a rousing speech to his army.
[48:35] And when the rally concludes, Logan
[48:37] tries to meet up with Jean, but Magneto
[48:39] immediately hits him with that Yadis
[48:40] Wolverinus and sends him flying. And
[48:42] with their camp now compromised, Magneto
[48:45] decides to assault the Alcatraz facility
[48:47] early, leaving the mutant Multiple Man
[48:49] behind to act as a decoy for the
[48:51] government after Raven Darkholme gives
[48:53] up Magneto's location. Magneto then
[48:55] arrives at the Golden Gate Bridge in San
[48:57] Francisco, California. And on the bridge
[48:59] is a pre-production 2007 Mercedes-Benz
[49:02] GL450 with a family inside. Magneto
[49:05] would then come to shuffle some of those
[49:06] cars around and lift the entire Golden
[49:08] Gate Bridge to transport his army to
[49:11] Alcatraz. This moment seems to be
[49:12] inspired by New X-Men 147, where Magneto
[49:15] uses his powers to tear both the
[49:17] Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges apart.
[49:19] And because the city of San Francisco
[49:21] would prohibit the production to film
[49:22] anywhere near the Golden Gate Bridge,
[49:24] they were forced to spend $35 million to
[49:27] recreate a small basketball court-size
[49:30] section of the Golden Gate Bridge for
[49:31] this scene. And as little Jimmy watches
[49:33] Magneto approach from his cell, we can
[49:35] see him standing on a green covered bed,
[49:38] likely a slight nod towards Jimmy's
[49:40] green skin in the comic books. And after
[49:42] Magneto successfully drops the bridge
[49:44] onto Alcatraz Island, there was actually
[49:46] supposed to be a deleted scene where
[49:48] Jean Grey seems to empathize with one of
[49:50] the crying girls in the backseat of that
[49:52] Mercedes, A moment that I really wish
[49:53] they kept in the movie because it gives
[49:55] Jean Grey a little bit more agency over
[49:57] the Phoenix. Meanwhile, over at the
[49:59] X-Mansion, the X-Men prepare to do
[50:01] battle with Magneto. Iceman expresses
[50:03] doubt that the six of them could do much
[50:05] to stop Magneto's huge army, but
[50:07] Wolverine gives him a pep talk.
[50:09] >> If we don't fight now, everything they
[50:10] stood for will die with them.
[50:15] I'm not going to let that happen.
[50:17] Are you?
[50:20] Then we stand together.
[50:24] X-Men.
[50:26] All of us.
[50:28] >> This moment could have actually played
[50:30] out a lot differently if one of the
[50:31] scenes did not get deleted. Instead of
[50:33] Logan convincing the less experienced
[50:35] X-Men to join the battle, another take
[50:37] of this scene has Logan attempting to
[50:39] convince Iceman, Kitty, and Colossus to
[50:42] stay behind.
[50:44] >> They're not coming.
[50:45] >> Hey, we've trained for this.
[50:48] This isn't the danger room, Bobby.
[50:50] >> Logan, we're ready to fight.
[50:51] >> Fight for what? Hm?
[50:55] You better know the answer cuz you go to
[50:56] war, you might not come home.
[50:58] She might not come home. You ready for
[50:59] that?
[50:59] >> We're not kids anymore. We're X-Men.
[51:02] >> What does that mean? Apart from the X on
[51:03] your chest.
[51:04] >> It means we fight to protect those who
[51:06] hate
[51:06] >> Hate and fear us? Yeah, I heard that
[51:07] one, but it's just words.
[51:09] >> No, that's not what it means.
[51:10] Means we're a family, all of us. And we
[51:12] fight as one or not at all. That's what
[51:14] it means.
[51:15] >> You have no idea what's waiting out
[51:17] there. Magneto's got an army this time.
[51:19] >> And Jean.
[51:20] >> His powers have limits. Hers do not.
[51:23] If we don't stop them now, then nobody
[51:25] can.
[51:26] >> Well then,
[51:28] seems to me you need all the help you
[51:29] can get.
[51:37] >> Okay, let's go.
[51:42] >> The X-Men soon arrive to Magneto's [ __ ]
[51:44] show in the X-Jet. And at the sight of
[51:46] all this violence, Beast says this.
[51:49] >> Oh my stars and garters.
[51:51] >> Oh my stars and garters is of course an
[51:53] iconic catchphrase of Hank's ever since
[51:56] he first used it in the pages of
[51:58] Avengers 137. And fun fact, this line
[52:01] would not be in the movie at all if it
[52:02] wasn't for the movie's executive
[52:04] producer and future head of Marvel
[52:05] Studios, Kevin Feige, who strongly felt
[52:08] like it should be said at least once by
[52:10] the character. The X-Men then hop off
[52:12] the X-Jet to join the battle. Storm
[52:15] flies into the air about to use her
[52:16] powers on a bunch of enemies, but she is
[52:18] quickly tackled by Callisto. And it's
[52:20] kind of a bummer that that happened
[52:22] because in a deleted scene, Storm was
[52:24] originally supposed to summon a gigantic
[52:25] wave against Magneto's forces before
[52:28] shocking them with lightning.
[52:47] The production actually did delete a few
[52:48] badass moments from this big battle. At
[52:51] one point, Beast was supposed to snap
[52:53] somebody's neck, and Iceman and Colossus
[52:55] were supposed to work together to
[52:56] brutally shatter the massive mutant fat.
[53:03] >> [screaming]
[53:11] [groaning]
[53:16] >> AND MEANWHILE, AS JUGGERNAUT ATTEMPTS TO
[53:18] ram through the walls of the facility in
[53:20] search of Jimmy, Kitty Pryde uses her
[53:22] wall-phasing powers to chase after him,
[53:24] and eventually phases him into the
[53:26] floor. This of course leads to the
[53:27] Juggernaut saying his iconic line,
[53:30] >> Don't you know I am?
[53:33] I'M THE JUGGERNAUT, [ __ ]
[53:35] >> BRETT Ratner actually included this line
[53:37] in the movie as a reference to the
[53:39] popular internet video created by Xavier
[53:41] Nazario and Randy Hayes in 2005.
[53:46] >> [music]
[53:49] >> YEAH, IT'S THE JUGGERNAUT, [ __ ]
[53:52] >> YEAH, CHARLES, I'LL BEAT the [ __ ] out of
[53:54] you.
[53:54] >> Get off me, [ __ ] Who the [ __ ] are you?
[53:56] >> What the [ __ ] is wrong with you? I'M THE
[53:58] JUGGERNAUT [ __ ]
[53:59] >> AND another deleted moment happened
[54:00] shortly after Kitty meets up with Jimmy
[54:02] in his room and the two prep for the
[54:04] Juggernaut's arrival. Because in that
[54:06] deleted scene, when Juggernaut busts
[54:07] through the wall, he says the words,
[54:09] "Here's Juggy." as a nod to Jack
[54:11] Nicholson's famous line from The
[54:13] Shining.
[54:14] >> Stay close, all right? Okay.
[54:19] >> Here's Juggy.
[54:21] >> Here's Johnny.
[54:23] >> But since the Juggernaut forgot that
[54:24] Jimmy's powers make his powers useless,
[54:26] the giant penis head ends up knocking
[54:28] himself out. Outside, Iceman and Pyro
[54:30] have themselves a Dragon Ball Z-inspired
[54:32] clash of powers before Wolverine orders
[54:35] another fastball special from Colossus
[54:37] to be aimed at Magneto. But Magneto
[54:40] quickly seizes Wolverine before
[54:41] realizing too late that Logan was just
[54:43] Hank McCoy's decoy and getting stabbed
[54:46] with several mini vials of the mutant
[54:47] cure.
[54:49] And with Magneto down, the Phoenix then
[54:51] starts a massive wave of destruction,
[54:54] forcing all the mutants and soldiers on
[54:55] the island to evacuate except for Logan,
[54:58] who believes that he is the only one who
[55:00] can stop the Phoenix, which is straight
[55:02] up not true considering that there's a
[55:03] bald white boy only a few feet away from
[55:06] him that could have done it no problem.
[55:08] They literally could have just had
[55:09] Colossus do a cueball special and tossed
[55:11] his Caillou looking ass at the Phoenix
[55:13] to deactivate her powers before hitting
[55:15] her with the mutant cure. Just saying.
[55:17] But that of course would not be as
[55:18] dramatic as Wolverine having his skin
[55:20] peeled off while making his way to Jean,
[55:22] exposing his adamantium skeleton in the
[55:24] process. Wolverine then tells Jean that
[55:26] he loves her before piercing her with
[55:28] his adamantium claws, killing her. Not
[55:31] exactly the kind of penetration the
[55:32] Phoenix wanted when they almost got it
[55:34] on in the infirmary, but hey, beggars
[55:36] can't be choosers. And then the movie
[55:38] ends with Scott and Jean being buried
[55:40] next to the Professor, and Rogue
[55:42] returning to the school completely cured
[55:43] of her mutant powers, which is super
[55:45] whack in my opinion, but I'm glad that
[55:47] she's happy. They also filmed another
[55:49] take of this scene where she tells Bobby
[55:51] that she was not able to go through with
[55:52] the process because she's happy the way
[55:54] that she is. A moment that I felt would
[55:56] have been much fitting for the overall
[55:58] tone of the third act.
[56:04] >> You're back.
[56:10] I couldn't.
[56:13] I couldn't do it.
[56:15] I'm sorry, Bobby.
[56:18] This is me.
[56:26] >> Welcome home, Rogue.
[56:32] >> And after this, we see Storm welcoming
[56:34] all the students back for a new year of
[56:36] school before we see Wolverine watching
[56:38] Hank McCoy accept his new position as US
[56:40] Ambassador to the United Nations. A
[56:43] deleted scene was shot where Hank does
[56:45] not become an ambassador at all, but
[56:47] stays at the Xavier School to be a
[56:49] teacher alongside Storm and Wolverine.
[56:51] >> Classroom size could be a problem.
[56:53] >> [laughter]
[56:54] >> Hey.
[56:55] >> And in a similar vein, while this movie
[56:57] ends with Logan staying at the school as
[56:59] well, a deleted scene was also shot of
[57:01] Logan returning back to Alberta, Canada,
[57:04] and revisiting the very same bar that we
[57:06] first saw him in the first movie.
[57:22] >> Heard a noise.
[57:23] Thought it might be an animal.
[57:33] I remember you.
[57:36] >> Yeah.
[57:37] >> Yeah.
[57:39] >> And even though there isn't any footage,
[57:40] apparently the production also filmed a
[57:42] scene where the mutant Pyro makes his
[57:44] way back to the Xavier School. But I'm
[57:46] glad that they removed it because after
[57:47] everything Pyro did, I don't think he
[57:50] would fit well with the X-Men because
[57:51] dude was straight up a murderer, man.
[57:53] Then right before the credits, we see
[57:54] Eric sitting alone in a park in San
[57:56] Francisco playing a game of chess all by
[57:58] himself now that his favorite chess
[58:00] partner, Charles Xavier, got himself
[58:02] sploded. And why he isn't locked up for
[58:04] his crimes, the world may never know.
[58:06] But we soon find out that the mutant
[58:07] cure may not have been as effective as
[58:09] Worthington Labs hoped. Because right
[58:11] before the credits hit, Magneto is able
[58:13] to move a black queen chess piece with
[58:16] his powers, alluding to more mutant
[58:18] shenanigans to come. And then of course,
[58:20] after the credits, we see the
[58:21] consciousness of Charles Xavier awaken
[58:24] inside of the body of his brain-dead
[58:25] twin brother as he says hello to a
[58:27] surprised Moira MacTaggart on Muir
[58:30] Island. Introduced in 1977's Uncanny
[58:32] X-Men issue 104, Muir Island is located
[58:35] not far from Scotland and is home to the
[58:38] mutant research center, which Dr. Moira
[58:40] MacTaggart founded herself. The island
[58:42] was actually referenced in X2: X-Men
[58:44] United on one of William Stryker's
[58:46] computers. And also mentioned on
[58:48] Stryker's computers is Moira
[58:49] MacTaggart's Omega-level mutant son,
[58:52] Kevin MacTaggart, who has the ability to
[58:54] warp reality as he sees fit. Moira would
[58:57] actually decide to create the mutant
[58:58] research center so she could understand
[59:00] and help her son better. And it's kind
[59:02] of a shame that we never got to see
[59:03] Kevin in action at any point during the
[59:05] trilogy, but I'm sure the MCU will get
[59:07] to him eventually. But anyways, that is
[59:09] it for this breakdown of X-Men: The Last
[59:11] Stand. Let us know what you guys think
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