The sound of that ping pong ball was not reassuring. It was anything but.
The sound of that ping pong ball was not reassuring. It was anything but.
In X3, Xavier lampshades his resurrection by bringing up the ethical issue of transferring his mind into that of a brain-dead twin brother. In the post-credits scene, said brain-dead twin wakes up and mutters, "Moira" to the woman at his bedsid, suggesting Charles had done exactly what he had proposed to at the moment…
Except in the comics, Donald Pierce (yep, that guy) created a robot copy of Wolverine called… Arnold (ew) to kill him. So X-24 is /almost/ canon, and I'm glad they tweaked the original source.
I loved it. I went in with tempered expectations, and at the end of the brutal, bloody saga, I still wasn't entirely sure how I felt about the movie, but it has stayed with me, and I find myself appreciating it more in introspection.
theverge was right to call it bleak; it's certainly the darkest movie to come out of…