Could Apocalypse be an X-men First Class Villain

Could Apocalypse be an X-men First Class Villain

X Men FC was to me the best CBM of last year. But could the worlds most powerful mutant work on screen?

Editorial Opinion
By thoarnejones - Feb 20, 2012 09:02 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men
Source: comicbookmovie.com

What makes Apocalypse such an interesting villain is that he doesn't care about the Human/Mutant problems the world faces. To Apocalypse its only the strongest who are fit to survive. Wether they be mutant or human. What's cool about the X-men is that they try to stop a war. But what if the war started? Or at least the first act of war was made.

Apocalypse may seem to far fetch of a villain to use in a movie,but is he really? He wasn't always robot looking. When he melded with alien tech and became...well robot looking. But what are the strikes he has against him?
1:He has alien technology. In the movie he doesn't have to wield alien tech. But it should be advanced. The work of Mister Sinister.

2:His long lifespan. Sebastian Shaw said in X-men FC that absorbing energy keeps him young. So can we really decipher how long he's been alive? Well no, in fact he says it so fast we don't even care that he said it. Apocalypse can control his molecules so its not far fetched that he's lived a long time.

3:He needs to be released. Again no. It seems to stupid and lame to put in a movie. He should just already be around.

4:Has 4 Horsemen. This idea I like. If they use some villains that could become part of Magneto's future Brotherhood I think it could work.

I can't think of anything else now. But you know what to do. Sound off in the usual place. Could apocalypse be a good villain for X-men FC 3?

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Tainted87
Tainted87 - 2/20/2012, 11:12 PM
I've always been curious about Apocalypse's Horsemen. Every incarnation, however, has been treated like a bad soap opera where at least one of them was an X-Man brainwashed into serving Apocalypse.

I think this is one of those things that sound great in our head and probably lives up to that greatness on paper, but with live performances I just can't imagine it not being extremely cheesy.

A few years ago, I wrote a long "script" for a fourth X-Men movie that would fit in with the established cinematic continuity. It would introduce Mr Sinister in a similar capacity to Mystique in X2, but much more active. We'd meet Gambit as a reluctant spy, and the Sentinels would in some form be the Four Horsmen, as Sinister would manipulate Trask into unleashing them after a staged Marauder massacre, having secretly programmed them with EMPs that he would activate at a critical point.

*Technological FAMINE
*Mutant Civil WAR in the streets
*Secret human-made mutant-targeted PESTILENCE (Legacy Virus) which the X-Men would fight to secure
*The return of Charles Xavier from his DEATH in the third film, battling the X-Men telepathically after Sinister had brainwashed him.

Here's the big PROBLEM. It sounds so much like X2, and would be a recycled storyline. War, loss, manipulation... it's hard to make it fresh even with different characters.
marvel72
marvel72 - 2/21/2012, 2:55 AM
he could be but he won't be because fox is a broken record & only use magneto.
HulkbusterNYC
HulkbusterNYC - 2/21/2012, 8:26 AM
Agree with Marvel72.. Apocolypse.. Mr. Sinister.. Juggernaut (not the English guy from X3).. Sentinels.. So many villains we should be seeing face off with the XMen.. Oh how I wish Marvel had the XMen rights..
95
95 - 2/21/2012, 8:41 AM
Fox is most likely to use Magneto in the Sequel.

However, there's a possible chance of Sentinels, as well.

Apocalypse should be used, possible for a third film.

I say, Disney reboots X-Men with Cable traveling to an alternate universe to alert the Original Five of Apocalypse's diabolical plan.
LoudNoises
LoudNoises - 2/21/2012, 11:34 AM
@Marvel72

Agreed. Magneto needs to take a breather and sit one film out on the Fox bench next to the dude with spikes that come out of in skin from X-men 3.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 2/21/2012, 2:06 PM
He could, he should, but he wont.
Luminus
Luminus - 2/21/2012, 5:12 PM
@Tainted87: you lost me at "...would fit in with the established cinematic continuity." Rogue, Mystique and Magneto depowered? Jean, Cyclops, Xavier, Calypso, Psylocke, Deadpool all dead (end of credits scene doesn't count, until the next movie shows it does). Wolverine movie a part of the continuity. No thanks.
Tainted87
Tainted87 - 2/21/2012, 8:53 PM
Hey it was fanfic, and furthermore, reboots weren't commonplace. Not everyone just pretends it didn't happen, and it was written before the Wolverine movie. Besides, the very last scene of X3 shows that the cure isn't permanent.
It's not like I'm sticking to my guns here, I just pointed out that my story would revolve around Mr Sinister pushing humankind against mutantkind, and then assisting mutantkind push back HARD against humanity.

My point, I suppose, was that the Horsemen wouldn't necessarily be actual people, but rather EVENTS. How cheesy would it be if a mutant made people hungry? Famine actually attacks Jean and makes her emaciated with her powers - Jean's solution: eat a bunch of hotdogs from a stand to GAIN her figure back. Not kidding, this was in X-Factor #25 (Fall of Mutants) story.
Luminus
Luminus - 2/21/2012, 9:10 PM
I know. It's just the thought of continuing that line of continuity sickens me. By the way, the horseman Famine makes people emaciated, as far as I know (x-men 90's cartoon continuity).
Tainted87
Tainted87 - 2/21/2012, 9:17 PM
Yes, but devouring hotdogs isn't gonna blow you back up to normal within a few minutes' time.
Luminus
Luminus - 2/21/2012, 9:54 PM
lol. I know. I wasn't justifying that.
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