X-MEN The Last Stand (2006) Breakdown | Ending Explained, Easter Eggs, & Hidden Details

[00:00] What's good my mutants? It's me MT and

[00:02] welcome back to the heavy spoiler show

[00:03] y'all. With the Fox X-Men about to make

[00:06] their big return to the big screen in

[00:08] Avengers Doomsday, we thought it'd be

[00:10] the perfect time to finish up our

[00:12] breakdowns of the original Fox X-Men

[00:14] trilogy by breaking down X-Men The Last

[00:17] Stand from 2006, the first movie to

[00:20] tackle the beloved Dark Phoenix saga

[00:22] from the Marvel comics. So, let's make

[00:24] like the Juggernaut and just break this

[00:26] thing on down my nerd babies. With a

[00:27] budget of $210 million dollars, X-Men

[00:30] The Last Stand would become known as the

[00:32] most expensive movie of its time. A

[00:35] movie that will go on to gross $460.4

[00:37] million dollars at the box office,

[00:39] making it the most lucrative X-Men movie

[00:42] of the franchise up until that point. As

[00:45] the previous film made $407.7

[00:48] million dollars, which is around $53

[00:50] million dollars less. And even though

[00:52] the first two X-Men movies were directed

[00:54] by certified creepo Bryan Singer, X-Men

[00:56] The Last Stand would switch things up by

[00:58] being directed by Brett Ratner, another

[01:01] creepo. And there are two reasons for

[01:03] this. Bryan Singer's shitty behavior

[01:05] while directing the previous X-Men

[01:06] films, as well as the pettiness of

[01:09] former 20th Century Fox CEO Tom Rothman.

[01:12] Apparently, Bryan Singer wasn't exactly

[01:14] the easiest person to work with in

[01:16] previous movies and clashed hardcore

[01:19] with some of the main cast, especially

[01:21] Storm actress Halle Berry, who was

[01:23] pretty fed up with Bryan Singer's

[01:25] unprofessional use of drugs on set. So

[01:28] much so that she was straight up not

[01:29] interested in working with him at all

[01:31] for an X-Men sequel. Not only this, but

[01:33] Singer would also routinely waste the

[01:35] time of set designers who would bust

[01:37] their ass creating sets that Singer

[01:39] would just randomly write out of the

[01:40] movie as he went on, causing the cost of

[01:43] production to balloon constantly. But on

[01:46] top of all of that, former Fox CEO Tom

[01:48] Rothman just really didn't like the

[01:50] X-Men franchise at all and hated that

[01:52] the movies were received so well by

[01:54] audiences despite him predicting that

[01:56] both the previous movies would flop

[01:58] hard. So, because of that and Singer's

[02:01] bad reputation, Rothman would put off

[02:03] the X-Men 3 production by pushing back

[02:05] the signing of Singer's contract for a

[02:08] third film. However, because of this,

[02:10] Warner Brothers would see that Bryan

[02:12] Singer was single and ready to mingle

[02:14] and scoop his ass up to direct a

[02:15] Superman movie. With that Superman film

[02:17] eventually becoming the critically mixed

[02:19] Superman Returns film from 2006.

[02:22] However, when Tom Rothman found out

[02:24] about Bryan Singer's big Superman deal,

[02:27] bro crashed the hell out hard and even

[02:29] had Bryan Singer kicked out of the Fox

[02:31] studio lot. And because he was extra

[02:33] petty, Rothman would then rush the X-Men

[02:36] 3 production to find a director that

[02:38] could make the X-Men movie before

[02:40] Superman Returns came out. And Bryan

[02:42] Singer would eventually go on to very

[02:44] much deeply regret choosing Superman

[02:45] Returns over the opportunity to conclude

[02:48] his X-Men trilogy his way, especially

[02:51] after seeing how badly X-Men: The Last

[02:53] Stand actually turned out. But you will

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[03:21] But yeah, Darren Aronofsky, known for

[03:23] the harrowing addiction drama Requiem

[03:26] for a Dream, the Oscar-winning

[03:27] psychological thriller Black Swan, and

[03:30] his breakthrough surreal indie debut Pi,

[03:32] was one of the directors considered.

[03:34] Hugh Jackman himself actually

[03:36] recommended him after finding him

[03:38] pleasant to work with while filming the

[03:40] 2006 movie The Fountain together. And

[03:42] director Alex Proyas was also being

[03:44] heavily considered, but he would

[03:46] immediately reject the idea after going

[03:48] through hell with CEO Tom Rothman during

[03:51] development of his I, Robot film. I

[03:53] actually do go into that a bit in my

[03:55] breakdown of I Robot that you guys can

[03:57] watch on this channel anytime when you

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[04:01] Age of Ultron director Joss Whedon could

[04:03] have also gotten the job if his hands

[04:05] weren't already full with working on a

[04:07] Wonder Woman movie that would never

[04:09] actually end up happening. And even

[04:10] though Joss Whedon was a little bit of a

[04:12] creep himself, Whedon would have

[04:14] actually been a fantastic choice for

[04:15] this movie considering that the whole

[04:17] mutant cure part of the X-Men 3 story

[04:20] was inspired by Whedon's own Gifted

[04:22] storyline from 2004 that spanned

[04:25] Astonishing X-Men issues 1 to 6. Peter

[04:28] Berg, known for directing the sports

[04:30] drama Friday Night Lights, the

[04:32] biographical war film Lone Survivor, the

[04:34] superhero action movie Hancock, and the

[04:37] disaster drama Deepwater Horizon also

[04:39] turned down the opportunity to direct

[04:41] the film. As did Zack Snyder, who was

[04:44] far too busy working on his smash hit

[04:46] 300 to do an X-Men movie. Eventually,

[04:48] the production would manage to secure

[04:50] director Matthew Vaughn for the job.

[04:52] However, Vaughn would end up dropping

[04:54] out for a number of reasons. Not only

[04:56] did Matthew Vaughn not believe that a

[04:57] good X-Men movie could be made in Tom

[05:00] Rothman's rushed timeframe, but he also

[05:02] wasn't a fan of how sneaky and deceptive

[05:05] the Fox executives at the time were

[05:07] being with Storm actress Halle Berry.

[05:09] Apparently, Matthew Vaughn discovered

[05:11] that the Fox executives were planning on

[05:13] tricking Halle Berry into signing onto

[05:15] X-Men 3 by making a fake script which

[05:18] started with her saving an African

[05:20] village with her superpowers, knowing

[05:22] damn well that they weren't ever going

[05:23] to use that script at all as soon as she

[05:25] was legally obligated to return.

[05:27] >> I I

[05:28] Hollywood is really political and and

[05:30] and odd. And I went into one of the

[05:32] executives' office and I saw an X3

[05:35] script. And I immediately knew it was a

[05:37] lot faster. I was like, "What the hell

[05:39] is this this draft?" They were like,

[05:41] "Don't worry about it." And I was like,

[05:42] "No, no, no, I'm the director. I'm

[05:43] worrying about this draft. Tell me what

[05:44] it is, please." Wouldn't tell me. He's

[05:46] like, "Grab the minute." it was like a

[05:48] crazy moment where I grabbed it, opened

[05:50] the first page, and it said Africa,

[05:53] storm,

[05:55] kids dying of no water. She creates a

[05:59] thunderstorm and saves all these

[06:00] children. I was like, "Okay, that's a

[06:02] pretty cool idea."

[06:03] Um

[06:05] What is this? And then I was like, "Oh,

[06:06] it's a Halle Berry script." I was like,

[06:07] "Okay, um cuz she hasn't signed up yet."

[06:10] But once she says what she wants to do

[06:12] with me, and once she signs up, we'll

[06:13] throw it in the bin.

[06:15] And I was like, "Well, wow, you're going

[06:17] to do that to an Oscar-winning actress

[06:19] to play Storm?

[06:20] I'm out of here." So, I quit at that

[06:22] point. I got fired. Um

[06:23] um minced meat. So, um So, that stayed

[06:26] with me. And that made me think,

[06:28] "Hollywood do You know what I'm saying?

[06:29] Look, they do some stuff well,

[06:32] but not in my style."

[06:33] >> But yeah, as soon as Matthew Vaughn saw

[06:35] that they were going to treat Halle

[06:36] Berry that way, his conscious pushed him

[06:38] to leave the production. And when he

[06:40] did, Tom Rothman crashed out once again,

[06:43] threatening him by saying that he would

[06:44] never work in this town again. But

[06:46] Matthew Vaughn would famously go on to

[06:48] direct beloved films like 2007's

[06:50] Stardust and 2010's Kick-Ass before

[06:53] getting a chance to tackle the X-Men in

[06:55] 2011's X-Men: First Class. But yeah,

[06:57] about 6 days after Matthew Vaughn left

[06:59] the production, Fox would end up hiring

[07:01] Brett Ratner for the directing job. And

[07:03] with Singer gone, Halle Berry would

[07:05] eventually sign on to do X3. But her

[07:07] decision to do so was motivated by her

[07:10] career taking a huge hit following her

[07:12] embarrassing appearance in the 2004

[07:15] Catwoman movie. But yeah, composing the

[07:17] score for this film is composer John

[07:20] Powell, who is known for his awesome

[07:22] work on the Bourne Identity trilogy, and

[07:24] recently for both of the Wicked movies.

[07:26] And it was actually because of his work

[07:28] on the Bourne Identity that Brett Ratner

[07:30] chose him to do the music for X-Men: The

[07:32] Last Stand. Composer John Ottman was

[07:34] originally tapped to do the music for

[07:36] the movie back when Bryan Singer was

[07:37] thought to be involved, but he ended up

[07:39] working on Superman with Singer instead.

[07:43] And much like the Marvel movies of this

[07:44] time, X-Men: The Last Stand begins with

[07:47] a Marvel logo animated with flipping

[07:49] comic book pages. But this time around,

[07:51] most of these comic book pages are from

[07:53] the X-Men story arcs that inspired this

[07:56] third X-Men movie. Mainly Chris

[07:58] Claremont's Dark Phoenix Saga from 1980

[08:00] and Joss Whedon's Gifted story arc from

[08:03] 2004. The movie then brings us to a New

[08:05] York suburb 20 years in the past in the

[08:08] year 1986. And even though this location

[08:11] is made to look like New York, the

[08:12] production actually filmed this scene in

[08:14] Vancouver, Canada. The Grey residence

[08:17] actually resides at 1769

[08:19] Golf Club Drive in Tsawwassen, British

[08:22] Columbia. And this city is no stranger

[08:24] to paranormal happenings as the 1995

[08:27] Jumanji film was also filmed in that

[08:30] city as well. And rolling up in their

[08:31] Mercedes-Benz 600 are a young Charles

[08:34] Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. And the scene

[08:37] was actually a bit of cinematic history

[08:39] as it marks the first time where

[08:41] de-aging visual effects had been used in

[08:44] a major motion picture. The geniuses at

[08:46] Lola Digital Effects used a bunch of

[08:49] younger photographs of Sir Patrick

[08:51] Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen in order to

[08:53] bring the effect to life. And honestly,

[08:55] for 2006, this effect looks pretty damn

[08:58] good and holds up very well to this day.

[09:00] I mean, the effect is still very

[09:02] noticeable by today's standards, but it

[09:04] still looks pretty damn fantastic if you

[09:06] ask me. And as the two walk up to the

[09:08] Grey residence, we can see that Magneto

[09:10] is wearing his favorite hues of red and

[09:12] purple, the same colors as the Magneto

[09:15] costume in the comics. And Charles

[09:16] Xavier is very noticeably walking on

[09:18] feet instead of in a wheelchair. And

[09:21] while we don't exactly know what

[09:22] happened to land Charles Xavier in a

[09:24] wheelchair in this particular cinematic

[09:26] timeline, we do get an explanation for

[09:29] that in 2011's X-Men: First Class when

[09:32] we see a bullet deflected by Magneto

[09:34] ricochet into Charles Xavier's body,

[09:36] paralyzing him.

[09:48] The original explanation for Professor

[09:50] Xavier's paralysis came in the pages of

[09:53] Uncanny X-Men issue number 20. And in

[09:55] that issue, it was revealed that an

[09:57] alien supervillain by the name of

[09:58] 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

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