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Two New X-Men: First Class Trailers Show How Mutants Saved The World From Communism

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (26)

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OK, so that’s not really the plot. But the Cuban Missile Crisis setting is an interesting one for Matthew Vaughn’s looming juggernaut (natch) of a film, and the new trailers provides some interesting new plot points as to the motivations of Xavier and company. There isn’t a whole lot of new action in this first brand spanking new trailer, but what there is is pretty interesting. New shots of Havok (yes, yes, red beams, move the fuck on), Banshee (who looks pretty much spot-on), and more Magneto madness. Oh, and finally a shot of Edi Gathegi as Darwin, the lone black man. Sigh.

It also provides some new context for the film, which I like — it’ll be interesting to see if it draws in any non-superhero fans based on the setting. As if the cast wasn’t enough.

Check it out:

You see? Mutants saved us from the red menace! how could we hate them so? Now if only they could save us from Birthers.

The second one contains much of the same footage, but with some extra fun stuff, including more Havok, and a hell of a finale. I kind of like how they’re showing the Hellfire Club, but not giving any indication as to how they play into the story — we’ve heard no dialogue from Kevin Bacon or January Jones, and I’m down with that. Keep some secrets, people.

Here’s the international trailer:









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Comments

You know, I really didn't think this was going to turn out well, but these latest trailers may have me convinced. I think I may actually try to see this opening night, it seems like the kind of film that would be great with the energy from an opening night crowd.

Posted by: Douchebag McGee at April 28, 2011 10:47 AM

Doesn't putting Mystique in the X-Suit defeat the purpose of her abilities? Unless her suit is programmed to change into any number of outfits, she's about as useless as Dazzler in trying to stop those red bastards.

Posted by: Robert at April 28, 2011 10:49 AM

I know it's sacrilege to question the comics, but doesn't it make more sense for Havok to shoot a kind of energy similar to his brother. I'm actually now wondering why he wasn't shooting red energy in the first place.

Anyone with actual knowledge of the X-men comics please feel free to school me on this if I'm missing something.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 28, 2011 10:54 AM

Wouldn't it be great if Wolverine came in at the end and gutted them all? "First class, last class, Bub" SNICK!

Posted by: logan at April 28, 2011 11:08 AM

"Doesn't putting Mystique in the X-Suit defeat the purpose of her abilities?"

It does and team uniforms suck, but Charles Xavier is a control freak. This is the guy who pretends that the X-Men aren't named after him.

Posted by: Sharif at April 28, 2011 11:25 AM

Why does Wolverine care about the 1990s Saturday night Nickelodeon programming block, logan?

@Socrates (love the the name, btw): As a lifelong X-Men reader... I can't tell you why Havok's energy looks so different from Cyclops'. I believe it's fairly well-established that they have fundamentally the same abilities (or negative/positive polar abilities, which is why they can't hurt each other), but I don't think they ever said why Scott shoots red beams out of his eyes while Alex fires sonar-ish waves of yellow/black energy from his chest.

And I never really questioned it before, but I do like what this movie is doing with it. It makes sense, and it immediately gives non-fans a visual cue that Havok and Cyclops are related (similar to the bamfing of Azazel/Nightcrawler).

The funniest part of the "fan" uproar is that no one's batting an eye that Emma Frost appears to have her diamond-skin abilities in this, when that mutation only began in the comics about 8 years ago. And Beast shouldn't be a blue furry until at least the next movie, if you're going by the comics alone. Fanboys be crazy.

Posted by: RobP at April 28, 2011 11:30 AM

If communism is dead how come Rowles is still around?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 28, 2011 11:32 AM

@RobP Dude....Havok's energy waves are blue, dumbass.

Posted by: Diableri at April 28, 2011 11:34 AM

Does go into at what point in his life Xavier decided to ditch the Scottish accent?

Posted by: PaddyDog at April 28, 2011 11:34 AM

Thanks RobP, for both the compliment and the reply. It's nice to be reminded that there are a few comic fans out there who aren't nuts. I've never read many myself, but the stories and plots are just so out there that they can be a lot of fun to follow.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 28, 2011 11:40 AM

@RobP Dude....Havok's energy waves are blue, dumbass.

The version of Havok with an open bomber jacket, big yellow X on his chest, from the X-Factor days, has yellow energy waves.

It's the Havok sporting a Tron costume that has blue waves

Dumbass.

Also, I think Scott's pewpewgazerbeams are tinted red due to their affinity with the electromagnetic spectrum.

Posted by: D-Day at April 28, 2011 11:43 AM

"Doesn't putting Mystique in the X-Suit defeat the purpose of her abilities?"


Doesn't SHE generate the uniform?

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at April 28, 2011 11:45 AM

mystique's forehead!

Posted by: haplo at April 28, 2011 11:48 AM

The Soviets were the victors in the Cuba Missile Crisis. Deal with it.

Posted by: csb at April 28, 2011 11:54 AM

That's a good point, D-Day: Havok has been one of the most inconsistent characters, in terms of how his powers are visualized by the artists working on him. I guess since I was 90s kid, I usually go back to the bomber jacket interpretation, but every time he changes his costume, his powers change, too. Only telepaths have it worse.

@Socrates: I tend to "follow" most of my old comic titles now, too, instead of reading them. I'll pick trades for X-Men when a particular storyline looks interesting, but it's so convoluted, that following it monthly is just... too expensive and mind numbing.

And I've been waiting almost a year to be called a "dumbass" on this site. Thanks, Diableri!

Posted by: RobP at April 28, 2011 12:05 PM

who's the guy that stomps at the end of the second video when things get all explodey?

Posted by: craig at April 28, 2011 12:08 PM

"who's the guy that stomps at the end of the second video when things get all explodey?"

Riptide. They changed his power. He's working for Shaw.

Posted by: Sharif at April 28, 2011 12:25 PM

Or that might be Magneto. Either way, I feel too nerdy to comment anymore.

Posted by: Sharif at April 28, 2011 12:27 PM

pewpewgazerbeams

For some reason, I keep giggling at this.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at April 28, 2011 1:00 PM

For some reason, I keep giggling at this.

Me too.

Posted by: TK at April 28, 2011 1:03 PM

You're right, Slim. But would she generate the suit while keeping her face and hands their natural color going into battle against the Reds?

Posted by: Robert at April 28, 2011 4:38 PM

Havok and Cyclops have some similarities, but not too many. Let's break it down:

1. Cyclops and Havok both absorb solar (sometimes "cosmic") energy. They are living batteries.

2. Cyclops and Havok both have the ability to channel and release the solar energy, but in wildly different ways. Cyclops mutation transformed his eys into lazers (for lack of a better word). However, the power they release doesn't burn like a lazer. It behaves like an impact. Getting hit with his full gaze wouldn't be like getting fried by the space-shuttle launch, it would be more like getting hit with a tsunami.

Havok heats up the air around him. The temperature gets so hot in fact, that the air becomes waves of plasma. The way this is drawn in the comic is with a series of circles which grow out from him, but they are meant to represent waves of super-heated air/plasma.

3. Cyclops and Havok both have difficulties controlling their powers, but for different reasons. Cyclops can't control his powers because of a childhood head injury. Havok can't control his powers because he's an imperfect battery. It's difficult to super-heat the air and direct that energy in a safe way. It's very hard for him to hit something with his powers and not completely vaporize them. And actually, it's the same thing with Cyclops. If Cyclops hit you with an uncontrolled burst, you would become blasted to bits.

4. The reasons their powers don't work on each other is that they are solar batteries, and their powers are both charged with solar energy. Like trying to destroy a sponge with a water-gun. It won't work.

5. There is no reason Havok's powers shouldn't be red. Hot things burn and burning things are red. Adversly, there is no reason Cyclops's powers should be red, since there is nothing about them that is hot (I don't care what happened to his high-school in Wolverine -- that movie was a travesty in uncountable ways, the least of which was this).

6. Yes, I understand that there is not a single whit of this that is actually scientific. Logical understanding of it is virtually impossible. If you can't learn to accept this, you should probably stay away from science fiction in general.

Posted by: superasente at April 28, 2011 5:12 PM

Thanks for geeking out on us, superasente. You saved me the embarassment.

Posted by: RobP at April 28, 2011 5:56 PM

6. Yes, I understand that there is not a single whit of this that is actually scientific. Logical understanding of it is virtually impossible. If you can't learn to accept this, you should probably stay away from science fiction in general.

Probably my favorite point that you make.

I echo, RobP's thanks.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at April 28, 2011 6:29 PM

Looks aight. I still don't get how a chick with diamond skin becomes a chick with little diamonds vejazzled all over her like an ugly cel phone.

Posted by: Protoguy at April 28, 2011 10:04 PM

Bitching about "the lone black person" finally being seen and Lenny Kravitz's daughter has been in nearly all of them. *sigh* SOMEONE has a black girlfriend they're trying to impress.

Anyway, the trailer's look awesome. I was going to see this anyway because comic book movies are my kryptonite, but these look pretty good.

Posted by: Kris at April 29, 2011 1:28 AM