Respectfully, Patrick Stewart is 84 years previous. I am positive Marvel should be contemplating utilizing “Avengers: Secret Wars” to rewrite the MCU’s historical past so the X-Males had been all the time part of it. However nostalgia is just not sufficient; these actors have already aged out of their roles and anticipating them to do yet one more “X-Males” movie is ludicrous. But when they don’t seem to be sticking round for the lengthy haul, then any ending the X-Males of previous face, glad or brutal, is redundant and previous hat at this level.
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Regardless, the X-Males desperately want some new blood. The cons of the Fox-Disney merger far outweighed the professionals, however no less than it might’ve put the sagging “X-Males” franchise out of its distress and let a clear slate be carved. In fact, that is not what we have.
The “X-Males” motion pictures by no means did a great job adapting their characters both. James Marsden as Cyclops? No-one with a straight face can inform me they’re excited to see that model of the character again. These motion pictures solely ever used Cyclops to make Wolverine look cooler!
Even the better-handled characters by no means felt fairly proper. The pleasant Alan Cumming, who performed Nightcrawler in “X2,” is again in “Doomsday” too. That movie nailed Nightcrawler’s look, and was courageous sufficient to not strip out his Catholicism. Nevertheless it additionally overemphasized that high quality, turning Nightcrawler right into a morose man who carves reminders of his sins into his pores and skin. Kurt Wagner would not self-flagellate or dwell on his guilt, he is a fun-loving swashbuckler!
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The identical may be mentioned of Professor X. Possible influenced by the casting, the “X-Males” movies depicted Xavier as principally a hotter Captain Jean-Luc Picard: clever, affected person, and a person of conviction. That’s not who Professor X is. (Take it away, Kitty.)
Oh positive, Professor X tries to be these saintly issues, and he is a drive for good most of the time. However he may also be painfully naive but self-righteous — two qualities that equal a hypocrite. He is extremely controlling, too, and, for as a lot as he loves his college students, he has a historical past of manipulating and pitting them towards one another. Charles Xavier is the sort of man who considers himself a “good particular person” as a hard and fast high quality and justifies his actions from there.
Walt Lewellyn, host of the “Black Casebook” podcast, defined it finest:
Patrick Stewart’s Professor X is not a great adaptation of the particular Charles Xavier within the comics, however he *is* a great adaptation of the man Xavier needs/pretends to be
— The Black Casebook (@BlackCasebook) September 7, 2024
Fairly than trotting Patrick Stewart’s Xavier out for but one other final goodbye, Marvel Studios ought to recast and reinvent.
“Avengers: Doomsday” is scheduled for theatrical launch on Might 1, 2026.
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