X-MEN 2 (2003) BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed | X-Men Rewatch

welcome back to New rockstars I'm Eric. Boss and this is a breakdown of 2003's. X2 X-Men United this is the second. installment of our X-Men stick Snick. rewatch as we break down all 13 of the. fox X-Men and Deadpool films ahead of. Wolverine's mutant homecoming and. Deadpool 3 in the Marvel Cinematic. Universe in this terrifying election. here X2 reminds us how politically. charged Marvel mutant stories can get so. let's spend some time with pre Logan Roy. Brian Cox and break down all the new. Easter eggs things you never spotted and. which elements Kevin feige will bring. back in Deadpool 3 including the fact.

that this film technically has the very. first Deadpool Cameo but if you want to. avoid any Deadpool 3 spoilers don't. worry I'm going to leave any kind of. spoiler conversation for the danger room. at the end of this video and to. celebrate this X-Men stick stick rewatch. we are doing a special X-Men themed. merch release which is really the best. way to support us at new rockstars grab. one of these designs by clicking the. link in the description okay so during. the 20th Century Fox Fanfare and Logo. the X once again lingers like it did in. the first film this is the first X film. though in the series to use the Marvel. comic book B logo we would see this in.

front of other Marvel films in the ODS. including the Sony Spider-Man films. Daredevil Punisher Ghost Rider fantastic. Po and the first few films produced by. Marvel Studios in partnership with other. Studios like Paramount Universal yep. when Kevin feige now says all Marvel. branded titles produced by other Studios. can come back via the Multiverse that. also includes Nick Cage Ghost Rider. peing fire and Ray Stevenson Punisher. from 2008 Punisher war zone shotgunning. a guy's face off once again we open on. Patrick Stewart narrating as Charles. Xavier um mutants the next Link in The.

evolutionary chain or simply a new. species of Humanity on the words a new. species a green star appears out of. nowhere within this red tinted nebula in. space forming into a humanoid figure. which must be the Phoenix Force the. deeper power within genan gray who. emerges in this film a bald silhouette. in space though not unlike the imagery. Marvel Studios would borrow for The. Watcher in the whatif series Charles. wonders whether mutants are just what. humans evolve into or a fully different. species the answer to that question will.

inform how well these tribes will share. the planet because as Charles says. sharing the world has never been. Humanity's defining attribute we push. into that green star in the Phoenix. Force's brain to enter the nerve. synapses under the opening titles in. last week's breakdown I described how. this was meant to show serro what. Charles sees when he meditates behind. that locked door this time the brain. tissue is merged with techy plating and. wiring to reflect how cerebro's. Machinery fuses with Charles's mind a. process that gets hijacked in this movie. remember these early X-Men movies were.

coming out when the predominant cultural. force in American sci-fi Cinema was The. Matrix films where Moody brain Meats. machine cyber Punk was really all the. rage in the previous movie the locked. XTO cerebra opened to aitz this time it. opens to the emblem of the White House. as we find ourselves on a tour peering. over the shoulders of tourists looking. at this sign from The Gaze of this. mystery man in sunglasses we will soon. learn Alan coming as Kurt Vagner. Nightcrawler the tour guide quotes. Abraham Lincoln we are not enemies but. friends we must not not be enemies.

though passion may have strained it must. not break the bonds of our affection. this is actually came by Jubilee voice. actor from X-Men evolution karani hey. guys check this. out Allan cuming in 2003 was best known. as a stage actor much like Hugh Jackman. was before he was cast had won. awards for playing the MC in a Revival. of Cabaret and also small roles in. golden eye and Eyes Wide Shut the actor. speaks fluent German and he shares a. birthday with Mozart who's D eray from. RE Willam and D plays during the hallway.

fight with the Secret Service agents now. Beast Angel and Gambit were all. considered as new characters for this. film but they ultimately settled on. Nightcrawler instead since he felt like. the most Outsider option before we see. Nightcrawler teleporting we just hear. this great sound. effect so in the comics Wolverine's. claws go snicked and Nightcrawler goes. bam Technically when night carwler. teleports though he transfers through. what's known as The Brimstone Dimension. which is why he comes out smelling like.

sulfur and why in this movie he's. surrounded by smoke whenever this. happens he bamps to the portrait of JFK. this is while President McKenna is. addressing Jackie his secretary Jackie. who shares the first name with JFK's. first lady McKenna is played by actor. Cotter Smith and is original to X2 but. Smith had played Robert Kennedy in a. 1983 TV movie and he's signing a. document that reads president's Eyes. Only In addition to JFK and Lincoln. there is also a portrait of William. mckenley so all three of these. presidents were assassinated in office. and were just reminded that no president. is safe Senator Kelly warned that this.

would happen in the last film a girl in. Illinois who can walk through walls now. what's to stop her from walking into a. bank vault or into the White House super. attacks on the White House is a. nightmare scenario that we saw with. General Zod in Superman 2 and I am. terrified to see what the boys does with. this kind of thing this oval offet is an. exact Recreation but the hallways were. made wider to allow more room for. fighting this sequence smartly orients. us from the Vantage points of the. confused Secret Service agents with. frantic pans and cuts and rarely stays. too long with Cur and I love this shot.

that Dolly's right word through the wall. on Nightcrawler kicking the agent. through the glass it's an impossible. Glide but it matches the way Kurt is. kind of impossibly teleporting through. this Doorway to tackle the agent on the. other side he always needs to break a. threshold in order to go through it. first kind of like a vampire needing an. invitation to go through the other side. because he cannot teleport through a. wall that he can't see the other side of. now it all happens so fast the agents. can't even verify how many attackers. there are and adding to the confusion is. the fact that Nightcrawler can use his. tail as a fifth appendage to grab grab. and toss guns and fight two agents at.

once his bamps leave these ribbon wisps. of smoke a trail of confusion as the. Secret Service doesn't know what is. smoke and what is flesh they lock down. the oval and the camera swoops through. the peephole a kind of David Venture. type shot here to the office outside and. the camera whip pans with increasing. disorientation but I love this Pepple. shot because it tells us how close. Nightcrawler is getting to them and as. he gets closer the edit shows more and. more of his acrobatics an overhead shot. showing his sweeping the leg of another. agent whipping another at the same time. and teleporting to the the side of. another agent to tackle him into that.

doorway of that outer office that the. peole shot just established and this guy. says don't shoot and his eyes direct. them upward to the corner where Kurt has. suspended himself with his tail and. looks like he is floating a true horror. Freddy Krueger type jump scare for these. guys DS eay brings an extra level of. Terror because it is historically a. funeral composition originally a. Gregorian chant dated back to the 13th. century and it's part of a poem. describing the last judgment of souls in. front of God which is a hint of. Nightcrawler's religious Affinity his. belief that he is a creature of evil who. needs to be judged by God but the music.

cuts out right as the guards start. firing at the spot Nightcrawler was. seconds before just in time for us to. experience the terrifying muffled sounds. that the president hears outside of its. door at one point they hear sounds above. them kind of like in a horror. movie and then the door opens and then. one agent gets snatched into the abyss. and it's like we're in the middle of a. storm or a smoke bomb has been exploded. the music returns and now finally do we. see each of nightcrawlers beautiful.

moves in slow motion as president. McKenna is being held down by his agents. because he is able to see it all go down. kind of like feeling like his life is. slowing down at the moment of his death. Kurt pins the president and we focus on. his sharp teeth his eyes he lifts the. dagger but one agent fires and clips his. arm and Kurt lets out an animal likee. Yelp it's a good thing the agent waited. to shoot until after the dagger moved. from one side of his body to the other. because Kurt drops it the moment he. teleports directly beneath him and and. this time it's inches to the side of.

McKenna's belly now this ribbon reads. mutant Freedom now now if we were. thinking about this which we shouldn't. be thinking about this moment happened. so fast if a mutant were powerful enough. to kill the president why would they. take credit for it this way who would. this message even be for the vice. president who would have a tougher time. passing any Mutant rights legislation. after this as a result clearly this is a. false flag orchestrated by someone who. wants to use it as a predicate to move. against mutants as we'll learn later. it's William Striker but this movie. begins in such a state of excitement and. fear that it doesn't give us time to.

think we begin this movie as disoriented. as any Mutant fearing human would be. okay onto the snowy Canadian mountains. Wolverine gets a wide view of the. hydroelectric Dam foreshadowing the. uneven water levels that will later lead. to Jean's drowning he follows this wolf. to The Alkali Lake industrial complex. but gets no answers as we cross dissolve. to a stuffed wolf as storm gives a. lecture to her students neanderthals we. once believed that they were wiped out. by years of conflict with the much more. Advanced branch of humanity called.

promagnum man so storm goes on to say. that recent research suggested that the. two species may have enter breed. evolving into modern humans so remember. that deleted scene from the first film. showed storm lecturing about Roman. Emperor Constantine's conversion to. Christianity now she lectures about how. two stages of evolution of a single. species can still coexist hi Berry. dropped the Kenyan accent for the sequel. and her role was beefed up after winning. the Oscar for Monsters ball according to. Alan he joined Hal Barry Hugh. Jackman Patrick Stewart James Marsen and. FY Jensen in full costume confronting.

director Brian Singer in his trailer. over his reported abuse of painkillers. temper tantrums on set his propensity to. just disappear from set for long periods. singer reportedly responded by saying. you people are full of and Hal. Berry reportedly said I've heard enough. you can kiss my black ass so yes this is. a great movie it just probably wasn't a. very fun one for them to make the young. mutant Arty sticks out his Fork tongue. to this human girl he will call this. back in the final scene with Striker. among the mutant students is a girl with. a fringe jacket this was supposed to be. Danielle Moonstar AKA Mirage there was.

an extended version of this Museum scene. in which we would have seen Kia Wong. lighting up her fingers with electricity. as this movie's Jubilee she actually. shows up in the final scene in Charles. Xavier's office one student checks out. the skeleton of a saber-tooth a nod to. the character saber-tooth Tyler M and. Ray Park were're supposed to return for. X2 as saber-tooth and Toad but. apparently there were some scheduling. conflicts and the script was already. pretty packed with mutants as it was but. now ever since Liberty Island Jean. Gray's telepathy has been far more. powerful and she hears all the voices. around her just makes me insane when she.

does the. shelter I love the sound mix here. because three of those voices were audio. clips from different parts of the movie. to the shelter was the secret service. agent to the shelter to the shelter no. was Logan's voice later on no no and. they're going to kill him was Rogue. later on they're going to kill him. they're going to kill him so the Phoenix. force is allowing Jean to hear voices. from the future she is detached from. time I theorized last week that Phoenix. is not bound by time and she was able to. connect with Logan presently for him in.

the weapon x lab in the 1980s again we. will see in Xmen Days of Future Past. Consciousness based time travel is. possible in this universe Rogue Bobby. Drake Iceman and Pyro who's now been. recasting this movie as Aaron Stanford. tangle with some teens in the food court. pyro holds a personalized lighter em. blazing with a shark design which. apparently is an omage to Jaws which. Brian Singer so was his favorite movie. Charles freezes everyone before the. situation gets out of hand but leaves. the mutants able to move this just shows. how Charles can in an instant with J's. mind separate all mutants and humans. with just his mental Powers many of the.

extras in the scene were actually played. by mimes because they were just so good. at holding still I want to imagine that. one guy in the Oval Office later who. just freezes with a pin in his mouth. that guy's got to be a MIM right okay a. newscast details nightcrawlers attack at. the White House and right under the TV. it's a sign that says smoking is not. permitted in the museum which makes. those guys asking for a life from pyro. extra so back at the Academy. they discuss the White House attack Jean. sits across from the chessboard from. Charles and she toys with the Rook with. her heightened Phoenix powers in this. movie she is arguably on par with. Charles and the next film will be a. conflict between the X-Men and Phoenix.

we are introduced to Colonel Striker. played by Brian Cox of succession Fame. and a number of other roles so Striker. is adapted from Reverend striker in the. comics who is a religious fanatic and. tell evangelist that writer Chris. Claremont based on Jerry fwell striker. in this movie is accompanied by eure. oyama Lady Death Strike played by Kelly. who who has exactly one line of dialogue. in this entire film she cracks her. knuckles with these unsettling loud. almost mechanical cracking noises a hint. at her adamantium skeleton I find it. interesting though that Striker refuses. the a drink from the president maybe.

from that dark past with his son Jason. caused his wife to take a drill to her. head the guy just doesn't want to be. inebriated in any state because you know. he's inebriating every mutant he can get. his hands on President McKenna brings in. Senator Kelly who's actually mystique. and disguise as we learned from the end. of the first film and while this movie. doesn't address it has Mystique been. going around as Senator Kelly full-time. is she making all of his appointments. votes hearings fundraisers campaign. events how does she have all this time. Striker dropped some satellite photos of. the jet at Xavier's School this facility. is a school sure it is ah this movie.

came out in 2003 after Secretary of. State colen Powell went before the UN. with satellite imagery of the facilities. he claimed were building wmds in Iraq. which the Bush Administration of course. used as justification to invade the. country if you're old enough you. remember watching the news where it was. often debated whether an aerial shot of. something was a school or a combatant. training camp Striker says I was. piloting Black Ops missions in the. jungles of North Vietnam where you were. sucking on your mama's Ted Woodstock. Kelly but actually in Xmen Days of. Future Past alternate timeline versions. of Mystique and Striker do run into each. other and fight in Vietnam so by tries. to kiss Rogue and Peter respu and.

Colossus draws a doodle making fun of. them we saw Peter sketching by the pond. in the first film Logan returns and he. gets Frosty greetings from both Bobby. and Scott it's this classic Dynamic when. the Bad Boy comes back to visit all the. nice guys just start growling in his. plastic prison Eric lyncher listens to. Mozart's Serenade Number 13 and G major. as he reads th Whit's The Once and. Future King this is about the legend of. King Arthur as a figure who will one day. return to continue ruling as king of. Britain this is called back at the end. of the film have any of you read a book. by an English novelist named th white.

called once in future ging Eric's book. is a worn out first edition copy of the. collection which was published in 1958. but remember in the years since X-Men. 2000 Ian McKellen had appeared as. Gandalf in fellowship and in two towers. and would later this year in 2003 appear. in Return of the King so seeing him. reading The Once and Future King just. carried a deeper lay of meaning for all. the nerds high-fiving in the theater of. which I was one of them in addition to. the metal-free chess set from the first. film's final scene we see that Charles. sleeps on a mattress since essentially. an inflatable pool raft his jumpsuit.

though is numbered 00001 as Eric is the. first and likely only mutant in this. facility and Eric as someone. particularly triggered by humans being. tagged with numbers he must feel. especially stung to be the first number. in whatever this new wave of genocide is. going to be Charles shows Wolverine. cerebro with non-mutated humans. represented in white and mutants. represented in red like a chessboard. there are two sides two colors on this. world map there's a particularly bright. spot in the Washington DC area that. would be around where Magneto is being. kept Mystique transforms from senator to. eure back into herself to access.

Striker's computer in the most Easter. egg pack scene of the movie there are. tons of important names on this thing a. few being characters that we will see. later in this franchise or later in the. MCU on the drop down menu we see John. allise that's pyro Amara Akila that's. magma Allison Blair that's dazzler Sally. Bevin skids Elizabeth bradic psylock. Maria Castellanos that's Ferell Cassidy. 2 revers to Sean Cassidy Banshee and. Teresa siren Layla Cheney associate of. the X-Men in the New Mutants Victor. Creed saber-tooth Roberto dasta that's. Sunspot Lura danne that's Polaris Bobby.

Drake Iceman Fred Dukes blob we'll meet. him in Xmen Origins Angelo Espinosa skin. Kyle Gibney wildchild Guthrie 2 refers. to paig Guthrie husk and Sam Guthrie. Cannonball kucho harata that Silver. Samurai we'll see them in the Wolverine. Garrison Kane that's Weapon X from. xforce a version of them was going to be. in the original draft of Deadpool Remy. leau Gambit Eric lyncher Magneto Arty. Maddox is at Fork tongue kid from the. museum earlier Jamie Madrox is multip. man Gian Koy man is karma Maxon two. reverse two of course the mutants won to.

maxoff Scarlet Witch and Petro maxoff. Quicksilver and we had two different. versions of of quicksilver the Evan. Peters won in the X-Men films and then. the Aaron Taylor Johnson version in the. MCU Kevin mctaggert likely refers to. Proteus son of Moira mctaggert and. Daniel Moonstar Mirage who shows up a. New Mutants in Aurora Monro storm and. then a few seconds later on the other. screen many of these names reappear. along with new folders with new names. including root bat syp that's Sabra. Cecilia Reyes the mutant doctor in the. New Mutants Everett Thomas sink Nicole. and claudet sroy those are the psychic.

twins Kurt Vagner Nightcrawler Raven. darkhole Mystique Vanessa Carlow copycat. Wade Wilson Deadpool his first Marvel. movie Cameo Scott summer Cyclops Doug. Ramsey Cipher Andrea Andreas Von. strucker those are the twins who become. benris eure oyama so I guess Striker got. a file for her too Tom Cassidy AKA black. Tom Cassidy we see a version of him in. Deadpool 2 David North AKA Maverick and. agent Smith ttha Smith boom boom Calvin. Ranken mimic drct Nathaniel Essex Mr.

Sinister who was set up in the post. credit scene of X-Men apocalypse and. rumor has it might be a major villain. when the X-Men come into the MCU. Mortimer T be toad Iana Rasputin magic. who's played by Anya Taylor joy and New. Mutants Teresa R again is Teresa RoR. Cassidy siren shirro Yoshida Sunfire. Guido caracella strong guy Katherine. Kitty Pride Shadow Cat and Dr Carl lyos. Sauron now other folders are labeled. Omega Red that refers to an X-Men. villain Xavier school you know what that. is Blackbird you know what that is. Massachusetts academ refers to the new. site of Xavier School in the comics tras.

that's bolevard tras creator of the. Sentinels we see him played by Peter. Dinklage in Days of Future Past grey. Malin refers to Jonas grey Walkin a. mutant whose strength depends on light. exposure Zero Tolerance refers to an. X-Men comic storyline project Wide Awake. is part of the Sentinel creation. operation so we see Alpha flight beta. flight and Gamma flight in different. spots those refer to Canadian mutant. teams Department H is what oversees. those teams Jamie bradock is psylock. older brother who can manipulate reality. danger room we know what that is that's. the training room the X-Men and where we. talk about spoilers Forge is a techsavvy.

weapons expert Brotherhood that's the. name of Magneto's crew Weapon X. obviously Striker's operation rain s. Clair is Wolf Spain that's one of the. New Mutants who's played by Maisy. Williams in the New Mutants film cerebro. know what that is legacy is a virus that. was released by Strife against the. mutants Salem Center is also another. name for Xavier's Academy Franklin. Richards this is the son of Reed. Richards ansu storm who is defined as an. Omega Level mutant and when John krinski. Reed Richards referred to the fact that. he had kids technically Franklin. Richards exist in MCU continuity. somewhere Mir Island refers to the. research center created by Moira MCT.

tager Rose Burn plays her in first class. and that's supposed to be Moira in the. post credit scene of The Last Stand. morlocks is the underground mutant group. Kevin mctaggert is Mo Sonic a proteus. thank you to better help for sponsoring. this video A new year is a great excuse. for finally tackling the stuff that you. put off last year and if one of the. things you've been putting off until. 2024 is taking proper care of your. mental health better help can help you. get started and hey no judgment for. waiting starting therapy can be hard and. the right therapist for you might not be. in your area and some people struggle. with the face to-face interaction. therapy with better help you can have.

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10% off your first month of better help. so you can connect with a therapist to. see if it helps you they also stuck in. some crew names on the guard IDs we see. Tom Danto the executive producer who. helped write the first film script as. well as Michael dowty and Dan Harris. they are co-writers one of the names is. El Donner referring to Lauren Schuler. Donner the executive producer there's. also a photo director Brian Singer who. also shows up Wheeling Charles into. visit Eric now outside the church where. Nightcrawler is hiding graffiti reads. nature laughs last which is a slight. alter ation on the comment saying nature.

always has a last laugh detailing the. law of entropy which states that. everything in nature every system will. increase in disorder in chaos basically. man plans God laughs or a reflection of. how despite human's efforts to Stamp Out. mutants natural selection will find a. way when Gene and storm enter this. church Kurt yells at them in. German you bored yet which translated. means get out I am a minion of the devil. I am a spawn of evil in the comics Kurt. is deeply religious and even study to be. a priest at one point while he was still.

in the X-Men as Jee tends to his wounds. Nightcrawler gestures to Jesus Christ. perhaps he is testing me in 2022 is. Immortal X-Men number one the character. Exodus actually implies that Jesus was a. mutant Wolverine dreams of alkali Lake. and the champagne glasses returned but. now they add more images Striker. snapping his dog tag in half which is. what they do to a soldier who's Kia but. notice at the end of this movie Logan. will leave Striker with the second half. of that dog tag Wolverine meets this. mutant kid Jones who's blinking to. change channels most of the channels are. reporting in the White House attack but. there is this one science museum are.

claiming to have exper yeah this is a. report of Charles freezing everyone at. the science museum the day before. because yeah everyone at that museum. would be pretty freaked out Charles and. Eric recall Colonel Striker's son Jason. fortunately I wasn't able to help him at. least not in the way that his father. wanted as all of these movies depict. mutation as a metaphor for the gay. rights movement this suggests that. Striker hoped that Charles Xavier's. facility would be a form of conversion. therapy and we see this mutant LGBT. parallel mostly with the character of. Bobby Drake in this film who tells Logan. that his parents think that this is a. prep school Bobby dates Rogue in these.

films but in the comics Bobby Drake was. famously confirmed to be gay in 2015 the. nature documentary that Jones Is. Watching actually mimics exactly what. happens in this movie sensing danger the. mother rat races home the babies can't. even see the Killer and someone. Uninvited is coming to. dinner she arrives too late for one baby. now Jones gets hit with some darts but. don't worry he reappears and nextmen in. The Last Stand but this attack on the. school is an A+ sequence that emphasizes.

this movie's themes of fear of the other. because after empathetically relating to. the fear of the humans in the opening. now we're afraid of how fear would turn. government forces into people who raid a. school of children Wolverine is the best. babysitter it's so satisfying to see him. go full Berserker you picked the wrong. house. bu you want to shoot me shoot me they. actually removed a few extra seconds of. footage from after Wolverine stabs a. soldier in the kitchen for npaa Ratings. a longer more violent version of this is. in the special edition now Jackman was.

obviously great in the first X-Men movie. but the next two is when he starts going. full rage mode for any of these action. sequences screaming himself horse and. taking us to the gun show the series. takes really a turn here transforming. Wolverine into a parental figure setting. him up for the Lone Wolf and Cub. relationship that he have with x23 and. Logan Kitty Pride played by Katie. Stewart before the character was recast. as Elliot Pig in The Last Stand phases. through the bed and the walls siren. played by Shauna kanaine wakes up and. sounds the alarm across the school. Colossus who appeared early in in the. movie played by Daniel Cudmore medals up.

Striker hints at his and Wolverine's. shared past but Bobby forms an ice wall. between Logan and Striker like the. opening sequence Logan is being iced out. of his past this ice ball is actually a. practical effect and weighed 3500 lb. when Wolverine and the kids use Cyclops. car they get into a Mazda RX8 concept. that was made just for the movie kind of. like the Dr Pepper product placement. earlier Mazda was another tie-in sponsor. for the film the blue paint is a special. tint that maer called mutant blue and. the X and the RX8 the back was also. enlarged to emphas size the movie's. branding but in this car pyro tries to.

break the Silence with music and. accidentally plays ins syncs by by bye. on full blast Brian Singer was. apparently friends with insync member JC. Shaz even as late as X-Men apocalypse in. 2016 come on Shaz everyone knew who. Brian was at that point as Wolverine. speeds down the road notice there are no. headlights now I get it it's to avoid. detection but you know this is not safe. Logan you're more likely to get pulled. over by a patrol car in the bar on the. TV is Dr Hank McCoy AKA Beast played by. actor Steve backi before kelse gramar. played him in the Last Stand also on the.

show is the mention of a Mr Shaw which. is a nod to Sebastian Shaw the leader of. the hellfire club who Kevin Bacon plays. in X-Men first Class the newscaster. hosting the debate is actually a cameo. by David K voice of Professor X in X-Men. evolution now let's see if I can get. apocalypse attention but this bar bath. set where Mystique hooks up with a guard. was actually built for the first movie. for a flashback to the onset of Scott's. powers and his accidental destroying of. his high school bathroom that scene was. recreated in X-Men apocalypse with Ty. Sheridan Rebecca rain gets to play. without makeup for this scene but she. does wear this tight blue dress to hint.

at Raven's natural skin Striker. confronts Charles over the tragedy of. his son Jason whom he introduces in this. movie as mutant 143 this version of. Jason Striker is based on Jason. windguard aka the mutant Mastermind and. starting in 2013 the character was. reintroduced in allnew X-Men number 19. as Jason Striker William Striker's son. at Bobby's house we see several snow. themed posters on the wall of his. bedroom snowboarding schem as this kid. probably would have enjoyed snow Sports. where he could have tested out his. powers without people noticing as much. Wolverine draws his claws on the cat who. purs and licks the claws but listen. closely yeah did Wolverine hurt that cat.

when he retracted his claw I hope he. just scared it cuz we do see the cat get. picked up later I think the cat's okay I. think the mark of a great action movie. is if it has had at least three great. sequences and Magneto's Prison Break is. one of them in this one Eric listens to. Mozart and notices something different. about lauo. no that's not that from the closeup of. Eric's smile to his slow rise with the. Shadows under his eyes this time hiding. his bruises it's all storyboarded like a. great comic page Charles lifts loreo too.

much iron in your blood and he sucks the. molten metal that Mystique injected into. his blood it's so sick this power status. shift it's totally unage to Hannibal. lecter's Escape in the Silence of the. Lambs where the white dressed elderly. super villain overpowers the guards in a. bloody display for what it's worth Brian. Cox actually played Hannibal before. Anthony Hopkins in the very first. Hannibal movie Manhunter we're reminded. of Eric's single fired bullet in the. first film and with just a few ounces of. metal he now obliterates the glass cell. and flattens one into disc to fly upon. I'm pretty sure it's still stained with.

traces of blood of loreo when he steps. on it one detail I always love is the. look of Glee on Ian McKellen's face as. he floats toward the guard booth and. unleashes those metal orbs on them so in. the scene Bobby comes out to his family. Ian McKellen who is gay reportedly. worked with the writers to help make the. scene feel authentic Bobby's mother says. this is her fault but John says that. males carry the mutant Gene which is. interesting biologically as a why. chromosome is far smaller than the X. chromosome and typically doesn't carry. many genetic traits if any but in a way. this shift a responsibility so to speak. on William Striker for his son Jason and.

to underline this coming out parallel. Bobby's mom later asks him have you. tried not being a mutant but Bobby's. shitty brother calls the Boston PD I. love how all these cops make sure to. have their Boston accents and John. sprays him with fire Rogue absorbs his. power to reduce the Flames Jason Striker. meanwhile projects an illusion in. Charles's Mind of a time when they were. at the expansion together at first. Charles is shown standing like how he. stood when he projected himself in. Senator Kelly's memory in the first film. and when he walks around in W maximoff's.

mind in multiv vers vanis just a simple. way to show the audience when we are. inside of a mind versus reality but. notice how Jason cleverly keeps Charles. in the wheelchair for the second time he. goes into his mind which makes it hard. for Charles to know what's reality and. what's illusion the Blackbird is. approached by Two fighter jets and the. one who signals them is Captain Ray Gun. lie a reference to Ray rayun Li a comic. artist and concept artist credited. graphic designer for this X2 film R was. also a concept artist for the 2003. Battle Star Galactica miniseries and in. the 2008 Battle Star Galactica there is. a similar Easter egg on a jet storm.

tries to fend off the pilots with. tornadoes but fails to saave off the. last two missiles Gene awakens her. Phoenix Force Powers destroying one of. the missiles but fails to stop the. second Rogue gets sucked out of the jet. but Nightcrawler teleports to catch her. without waiting for anyone to direct him. I love Nightcrawler in this movie. Magneto catches the whole jet though. when will these people learn how to fly. which is a meta joke referring to the. fact that in the X-Men comics and TV. shows some of these X-Men just use their. powers to fly like everyone can fly. technically Magneto though does not fly. in these movies he just lifts body with. Magnetic forces but they really go to.

efforts in this movie to make sure that. storm does not fly she just kind of like. levitates by wind Magneto tells. Wolverine that Striker was a source of. his item manam on his bones and Logan. says that they already searched the. alkal Lake Compound but Magneto responds. once again you think it's all about you. calling back Eric's cadd line to Logan. on the train but really all these X-Men. movies are like about Wolverine they. should just call the Wolverine franchise. Wolverine and Jean share a kiss since. Scott is out of the picture now Cyclops. is the leader of the X-Men in the. animated series and in most of the. comics but he unfortunately gets. sidelined for most of these movies. presumably because his optic blast was a.

costly visual effect in the early ODS. nowadays notice how glowing energy. blasts are like the cheapest visual. effect 80% of MCU character's powers are. just like blasting light from different. parts of their bodies Mystique enters. Wolverine's tent as Jean but Logan finds. a scar as he left on her stomach in. Liberty Island making us wonder if. Mystique isn't able to shape shift over. certain scar tissue or maybe if she just. wanted Wolverine to find these marks to. mess with them no one's ever left a scar. quite like you in another subtle nod to. hanle Lector Magneto cat calls Rogue we. love what you're' done with your hair. it's similar to one of my favorite. moments in the Silence of the Lambs oh.

and Senator just one more thing love. your suit Magneto meets pyro what's your. real name John I appreciate the cult. Orthodoxy of Magneto he understands that. the real battle is recruiting from the. younger generation this gives a dual. purpose to the superhero monikers of. these films is really a way for these. mutants to reclaim their identities pyro. says I can only manipulate the fire I. can't create it you are a God among. insects yeah there's definitely a. parallel to Prometheus here from Greek. mythology the Titan who stole fire from. the god now they send in Wolverine. actually Mystique posing as him but.

Striker is not fooled the one thing I. know better than anyone is my own work. seal the room shoot it how does Striker. see through this impersonation from. across the room it's not the appearance. it's the emotion because Striker knows. that Wolverine would look at him and at. all this facility with rage in his eyes. because remember earlier you want to. shoot me shoot me that is the true. Wolverine a wolverine this calm would. totally be a red flag to Striker and. remember Striker's computer had a file. on Raven Mystique so he's completely. prepared for a metamor of trying to. infiltrate anything he has I just love. it when villains are smart we also got.

to get props to Striker for his plan. here tricking Charles into thinking he's. in his home cbra when he's really in a. false duplicate that Striker had. constructed it's like the con used by. the crew in Oceans 11 when he can't. break into a vault build your own. replica Vault and lure in the mark to. help you break into his own Vault. Mystique flips him off with a backward. slide a move that she learned from Logan. in the first film and she morphs into. Striker immediately it happens so fast. and props to Brian Cox for doing his own. little moves here we have a metamorphose. good be anybody.

what I love it when other actors. impersonate what Mystique would do as. them in these movies so the X-Men rejoin. Mystique Magneto a large portion of. energy from the dam has been diverted to. this chamber cerebra there it is yeah. you can hear the call to opportunity in. Eric's voice because his plan is to take. control of cerebro and twist it for his. own agenda and again we are just seeing. smart villains making smart choices yet. Jee is on to them she doesn't want to. leave them alone Striker Whispers in. Jason's ear to make Charles link with. all the mutants to kill them Charles's. earlier warning to to make him think he. was a little girl now seems ironic it's.

the illusion of a little girl that fools. Charles yet we should note that Jason. Striker projects himself as a different. gender which adds a deeper layer of. tragedy for the character as they were. misunderstood by their father. Nightcrawler in storm find the detained. mutant kids and seconds before Kurt. teleports into the chamber if you. brighten this shot of the kids looking. up at him you can see Allan coming in. the background they used a shot of the. actor before he stepped forward out of. the shadows and you can really only see. this if you have like an OLED screen at. home with brightness settings way uped. Wolverine finds the weapon x lab with. x-ray SK that we saw flashes of earlier. but now we see them more closely.

including ones of him as well as death. strike's hand but there are a few other. possible test subjects from over the. years the skull was spikes that could. belong to quill and then this shoulder. Wing that could belong to Angel both of. these characters we meet in the Last. Stand Wolverine finds the molten. adamantium and the hoses used in his. surgery and he flashes back again to one. of his Memories One of the Military. Officers has this patch of a black horse. on a red and white field this is for the. US Army's 11th armored Cavalry Regiment. worth noting that canonically to the. Marvel Comics Wolverines pass with. Weapon X was the US government's attempt. to recre create the super soldier. success that they had with Steve Rogers.

during World War II with adamantium. being a synthetic alloy of vibranium. Striker says that the reason this lab is. still set up this way is that they. cannot ever let adamantium cool making. it in a way a kind of Eternal Flame or. an evil Fountain of Youth forever. bubbling for certain rapid healing. victims of the military-industrial. complex Death Strike was yet another of. these test subjects but as Striker. leaves he passes morg corpse drawers. suggesting dozens of others might have. died when death strike extensor claws we. can see that they are segmented as if. each segment was stacked inside of the. other you know like a lightsaber toys.

that would really be the only way these. claws could fit into her flanges actress. Kelly who had real prop adamantium Nails. which were glued to the bottom of her. fingernails this fight is brutal and. Wolverine ends it by plugging her with. more adamantium this movie plugging. people with molten metal two crazy. gnarly deaths using the same kind of. closeup in the last second you can. actually see Striker's brainwash serum. fading from her eyes as she looks with. Lucid awareness at Logan and the. adamantium leaks from her eyes like. tears it's just a striking reminder to. Logan that these mutants are not each.

other's enemies it's the government. forces that did this to them Jason and. Charles link with all the mutants. deleted scenes would have shown other. mutants including the Hank McCoy we saw. earlier transforming into his Beast form. Gambit Remy lebau playing cards and his. energy flaring up actually this kind of. pionic seizure from Charles Xavier is. the dark fate that awaits most of the. X-Men in the Years leading up to the. events of Logan Magneto pulls the pin. out of all the soldiers grenades whoa. boom and he opens a cerebro chamber. since Eric helped Charles build cerebro. he knows what titles to reconfigure and. Mystique impersonates Striker to flip. cerebro to Target humans instead.

throughout this film Nightcrawler has. needed to see his destination before he. bamps into it that's why actually there. was that creepy shot of him peeking. through the doorway in the white house. earlier and he needed all the doors to. be open before he entered them but storm. uses their exchange about Blind Faith to. get him to teleport into the cerebro. chamber the bamp occurs precisely on the. part of the Lord's Prayer as it is in. heaven as it is in heaven as far as Kurt. knew this moment of transfer could have. taken him directly to his death and. anytime he transfers he is going through. the brimstone diens to get there so he's. kind of praying In This Moment take me.

through hell but take me to heaven on. the other side of it please and there. storm lowers the temperature to get. Jason drop his projection and they leave. poor Jason Striker there to die even. though he was being chemically. brainwashed by his father to do what he. did sacrifices on both sides the Dam. breaks and Jean Gray exits the Blackbird. to stop the flood water a little detail. I just noticed behind Scott and Logan. you can see Kurt shifting around and. then some pre- Brimstone Dimension smoke. forming as he is trying to teleport to. save Jean but she is stopping him the. Phoenix Rises out of Gene and again it's. just a bit of a bummer that Cyclops.

James Marsden is sidelined in this film. other than to Moren and Jee In This. Moment something the actor has to do. from behind this bulky eyepiece but I. love that Logan is the one to hug Scott. afterwards because this battle began. with Mankind's fear of mutants to. extinguish it they returned to Where it. All Began inside of The White House Oval. Office as Charles interrupts President. McKenna's address the mutants appear. suddenly among McKenna's advisers faster. even the Nightcrawler could teleport. making me think that Charles even made. the president blackout for an additional. second they present some paperwork from. Striker's office to prove his wrongdoing. and Charles says that he knows a girl.

who can walk through walls of course. referencing Kitty Pride but this is also. a Veiled Threat to the president that. that mystery mutant from Illinois that. Senator Kelly ranted about is yet. another mutant beside Nightcrawler who. can get to him but the symbolism is. important here Charles positions all. these mutants so that they are standing. among the humans in the room he wants to. pose a united front to the president to. give him a glimpse at a possible future. where a president's inner advisers can. include both humans and mutants and both. sides can be at the levers of power. because mutants and humans are not on. opposite sides of the chest they're. really in This Together the previous. film ended with a chess match and.

Charles alludes to another match here. the next move is yours back at the. school Charles senses Jean's presence. outside the window looks directly into. the camera because Jean is still alive. in the form of the Phoenix Force he. begins his lecture involving th whites. The Once and Future King showing that he. and Eric are still part of that book. club whereas Charles normally takes us. in and out of these movies now Jean's. voice takes over quoting Charles opening. words from the first movie as a. silhouette of a phoenix appears beneath. the water but every few hundred. millennium. Evolution leaps forward and we will pick.

up with Phoenix's future and next week's. breakdown at The Last Stand but quickly. some Deadpool 3 spoilers in the danger. room if you're curious succession actor. Brian Cox being in this film reminds us. that the Tom WS Gans to his Logan Roy. Matthew mcfa and is playing some role in. Deadpool 3 online rumors claimed a TVA. agent named Paradox but apparently that. claim it said that they made that up to. fool other scoopers so who knows okay. the best way to support new rockstars is. to grab some X-Men inspired merch at. nerd rot. shop follow me on all social. platforms at eaos and subscribe to all. three channels in the new Exar Network. thanks for watching and I'll see you.

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