Saturday, May 31, 2014

X-Men: Days Of Future Past film informatics Part 20D: Evil Mutants from original trilogy

Here is the list of evil mutants, most of whom were members of the Brotherhood of Mutants, a terrorist organization fighting for mutant supremacy over normal humans.


Victor Creed, codename Sabretooth
Sabretooth is an animalistic mutant with enhanced strength, senses, agility and cat-like claws and teeth. He also possesses a healing factor like his half-brother Wolverine, which dramatically slows down his aging process, allowing him to live beyond a normal human lifespan, but with the appearance of an adult aged between 30 to 40. This "healing factor" also grants him virtual immunity to poisons, most drugs, toxins and diseases, and limited immunity to the fatigue poisons generated by his own body.
Sabretooth is superhumanly fast and seen running on all fours at the speed of big cats like tigers and lions. His physical appearance also displays animal-like mutations, including sharper-and-longer-than-normal teeth, with two pronounced canines rather more like a tiger's canine teeth than a human's and retractable claws of several inches where ordinary humans have fingernails and toenails. Sabretooth's claws and teeth are capable of cutting most conventional materials including flesh, bone, wood, stone, and some types of metals. He has used his claws and strength to climb buildings made of concrete and metal.


John Allerdyce, codename Pyro
Pyro is a Class 4 mutant with the ability cause any fire, however small, to grow in size and intensity and project it. He was a student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, before defecting to the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Pyro has the psionic ability to manipulate any flame, causing it to grow in size and intensity. However, he is unable to create fire, and for this reason, he wears a mini flamethrower device strapped around both hands. Pyro is invulnerable to any fire that he has placed under his psionic control, though he can be harmed by any fire not under his direct control.


Yuriko Oyama, codename Lady Deathstrike
Yuriko was the bodyguard of William Stryker. She was an incredibly skilled martial artist, disposing of a great agility and a deep knowledge of combat. She was also incredibly strong, being able to throw Wolverine across a room, and similarly leap such distances herself. Deathstrike possesses a healing factor equal to Wolverine's. William Stryker gave her retractable adamantium claws, presumably along with an adamantium skeleton, with one sprouting from the tip of each finger. However, it is unclear exactly what Yuriko's mutation was, as Stryker's dialogue suggests her ability to heal was what makes Wolverine no longer "unique". That and her altered eyes appear to be the only natural mutations she had, as it was strongly implied in the film that her claws are entirely artificial. She shows a cold and calm character, but she was later revealed to be under Stryker's mental control, so her real personality remains unknown.


Callisto
Callisto was a mutant with enhanced senses and super speed. She was the leader of the Omegas, a sub division within the Brotherhood of Mutants that lived mostly in the sewers. She can psionically sense the presence and Mutant level of other mutants, even from far ranges. Callisto's body was adapted to the rigors of high-speed movement. Her cardiovascular and respiratory systems were likely many times more efficient than those of a normal human being.


Maxwell Jordan, codename Quill
Quill was a mutant who had porcupine-like spikes that came out of his skin, most notably his face and head.


Phillipa Sontag, codename Arclight
Arclight is a member of the Omegas, with the ability to create shockwaves. She could direct a wave of seismic energy by striking a victim with her hands or feet. This typically created a massive shockwave, damaging and/or disorientating all within her line-of-fire, shattering objects, and causing earth tremors. Her hands gave off a bright light upon impact.


Elizabeth Braddock, codename Psylocke
Psylocke is a mutant who has telepathic powers and can summon Psi-Blades from her fists, as well as an ability to teleport through shadows.


Cain Marko, codename Juggernaut
Juggernaut is a mutant with super-human strength and stamina, as well as a healing factor and an immense tolerance to pain. Once he begins to advance in a certain direction, it is virtually impossible to halt his movement. Some obstacles can slow his pace but cannot completely halt him. Strong leg muscles allow him to run and move at speeds beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete. He can run at speeds of 110 miles per hour or more. Juggernaut's skin, muscle, and bone, is exactly 4 times denser than the same tissue in the body of a human being, greatly contributing to his superhuman weight.


Jamie Maddox, codename Multiple Man
Multiple Man is a mutant who can duplicate himself, and has a history of robbing banks. His mutant ability allows him to split in several duplicates which he can control at will: the number of the duplicates is potentially infinite and they all possess the original one's capacities. Jamie and his dupes serve as a decoy for Magneto's Brotherhood, appearing to the authorities to be the Brotherhood on a satellite image, while the real Brotherhood escapes. He is presumably rearrested by U.S. Army troops after the ruse is discovered.

X-Men Days Of Future Past film informatics Part 20C: The X-Men from original trilogy

These X-Men appear in the first 3 X-Men films between 2000 to 2006. Only Rogue, Jean Grey and Cyclops make surprise cameos towards the end of X-Men: Days Of Future Past, due to the altered timeline from 1973 which essentially eliminated the happenings from X-men: The Last Stand.


Scott Summers, codename Cyclops
Cyclops is the field leader of the X-Men, and one of Professor X's first students. He possesses the ability to shoot a powerful red-colored energy blast from his eyes that can destroy anything in its wake. However, as his power is uncontrollable and continuous, he consequently wears ruby-quartz as lenses in glasses or in his visor, which is generally the only way for him to safely see without inadvertently damaging his surroundings. Cyclops is naturally immune to his own power, and can manipulate the beams in several different ways, partially through the use of adjustable apertures in his specialized ruby-quartz visor that allow the beams to fire through their shielding at variable levels.


Jean Grey, codename Phoenix
Jean Grey is a very powerful mutant, who possessed vast, potentially limitless telepathic and telekinetic abilities. When her powers first manifest, Jean is unable to cope with her telepathy, forcing Professor X to suppress her access to it altogether. Instead, he chooses to train her in the use of her telekinesis while allowing her telepathy to grow at its natural rate before reintroducing it. Jean's telepathy allows her to read, influence, control, and communicate with the minds of others, project her mind into the astral plane, and generate telepathic force blasts that can stun or kill others. Her telekinetic skill is at a supremely high power-level, capable of grasping objects in Earth orbit and manipulating hundreds of components in mid-air in complex patterns. She often uses her telekinesis to lift herself and others, giving her the ability of levitation and flight. She uses her telekinesis to create durable shields and energy blasts.
As the Phoenix, her powers escalate to a considerably higher level, allowing her to rearrange or disintegrate matter at a subatomic level, fly unaided through space, survive in any atmosphere, and manipulate electromagnetic and cosmic energies for various effects and atmospheric disturbances.


Marie D'Canto, codename Rogue
Rogue has the power to absorb a person's memories and life force, and, in the case of mutants, absorbs their powers as well. The person being touched will feel weakened or get unconscious, or may even die if Rogue holds on for too long. Because this ability is involuntary, Rogue consequently has to wear thick clothing and gloves to cover most parts of her body. She had absorbed the powers of mutants like Magneto, Wolverine, Iceman, Pyro and Colossus. In the middle of The Last Stand, Rogue decides to take the cure so that she can do normal activities like a handshake, a hug or a kiss, although it is implied at the end of the film that the cure may not be permanent.


Kurt Wagner, codename Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler is an indigo-skinned mutant with pointed ears, 3 fingers on each hand, 2 toes on each foot and a prehensile tail which he can use as a weapon, or for clinging onto a beam. His abilities are superhuman agility, teleportation, and invisibility in deep shadows. In spite of his demonic appearance, Kurt is a very religious man, with strong faith in Catholicism. Kurt was recruited into the X-Men after the mission at Alkali Lake, but after less than a year, he resigns from the team because he does not wish to lead a violent life, preferring to live a simple life with aspirations to be a Catholic priest.


Warren Worthington III, codename Angel
Warren is a mutant who possesses two large, white-feathered wings on his back that allow him to fly. Angel can fold them on his back so that there is only a slight bump showing from his clothing. Angel was able to grow back his cut-off wings, which he tried to get rid of as a teenager. He is shown to have the strength to hold adult human weight in the air.


Jimmy, codename Leech 
Leech is a mutant with the ability to momentarily, temporarily or permanently deactivate the powers and energies of the others unintentionally.. His DNA is the source of the "cure" for the mutant X-Gene, the cure being a sort of retroviral gene therapy. Magneto plans to kill Leech, who is being kept at Alcatraz, thus destroying the mutant cure and preserving the mutant species. Leech uses his power to nullify Juggernaut's power to save himself and Kitty Pryde (who was sent to rescue him), causing the huge mutant to knock himself out upon colliding with a wall. Jimmy is seen evacuating Alcatraz Island with Pryde and Bobby Drake, along with the other survivors. Leech was later accepted as a member of the X-Mansion and received by the new leader Storm.


Jubilation Lee, codename Jubilee
Jubilee has the ability to project pyrotechnic energy plasmoids, which are often mistaken for fireworks. The strength of the energy plasmoids varies in degrees of power and intensity, and could range from a multitude of colorful sparkles capable of temporarily blinding a person to a powerful detonation capable of smashing objects and destroying property, or a precision burst inside a human brain, simulating the effects of a massive stroke. Jubilee could absorb the fireworks back into her own body without harm.


Theresa Cassidy, codename Siryn
Siryn has the ability to produce a very loud, high pitched scream. She can also vary the pitch to deflect projectiles, and she even used it to deflect lasers on one occasion. She possesses an enhanced sense of hearing and can use her voice for echolocation to detect objects. She can shatter objects; project concussive blasts of sonic force (a "sonic lance"); or cause immediate pain, nausea, and unconsciousness.

X-Men Days Of Future Past film informatics Part 20A: Other characters from X-Men First Class

These characters appeared only in X-Men First Class, they were killed either during the events of this film, or before the events of "Days Of Future Past". Darwin was killed by Sebastian Shaw early in the film, and Shaw was in turn killed by Magneto aboard his personal submarine. Angel, Azazel and Riptide were killed by Project Wide Awake operatives in July 1963, their bodies later experimented on by Dr Bolivar Trask. Emma and Banshee were killed by the same operatives in early 1964, sometime after Magneto was implicated in the assassination of President John F Kennedy.


Armando Munoz aka Darwin
Darwin was a mutant who had the power of reactive evolution, causing his body to adapt to any environment he was in. He demonstrated abilities such as growing gills when underwater, and developing thick armor plating to withstand physical beatings. Professor X and Magneto first encounter him as a taxi cab driver. In a short conflict between Xavier's mutants and Sebastian Shaw, the latter absorbs Havok's energy blast and converts it into a ball, forcing it down Darwin's throat, causing him to internally explode despite his attempts to adapt to the raw energy.


Sean Cassidy aka Banshee
Banshee is a mutant capable of emitting incredibly strong ultrasonic screams, sonic blasts, sonic bursts, and sonic waves used in various ways including as a means of flight. Banshee was seen being rejected by a girl at an aquarium, before he was recruited by Professor X and Magneto to form the X-Men. He met his teammates and saw Darwin die when the Hellfire Club came to recruit them to join the party. Banshee trained to become an X-Men after they encountered Sebastian Shaw. Professor X trained everyone as did Magneto. Magneto taught Banshee to fly by pushing him off the satellite dish. He was now well trained at his screaming and flying. Banshee joined his teammates into fighting the Hellfire Club. He used his ability to track the whereabouts of Sebastian Shaw's submarine, and had an air battle with his former X-Men teammate Tempest. Magneto let out a speech to join his Brotherhood of Mutants, Banshee stayed with Professor X, as did Beast and Havok.

Hellfire Club

 
Sebastian Shaw
A mutant with the ability to absorb kinetic energy and metabolize it to enhance his own physical strength, speed, and stamina.. In 1944, Shaw (under the alias Dr. Schmidt) was a scientist working for the Nazis. He was present at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he put young Erik Lensherr through numerous experiments and killed his mother in an effort to get him to consciously use his ability. He later becomes the leader of the Hellfire Club, a secret society bent on taking over the world and starting the next World War. This plot is stopped by the first X-Men during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The helmet Magneto wore to block Xavier's mental abilities is revealed to have been given to Shaw by the Russians after they learned that the Americans had recruited a telepath. Erik battles Shaw and kills hi at the end of the film in revenge for killing his mother, slowly forcing a coin through his head after Charles Xavier immobilized Shaw by using his telepathic abilities (after Magneto removes Shaw's helmet that protects Shaw's brain from any mental attack) , but despite Erik's animosity toward Shaw, the former ultimately admits he agrees with Shaw's beliefs in mutant superiority, proclaiming that he chooses to kill Shaw because Shaw killed his mother and tortured him. Erik eventually takes the helmet for his own use, adopting the title of Magneto, and the remaining members of the Hellfire Club join his new-founded Brotherhood of Mutants.

Emma Frost
She is a powerful telepath who could convert her skin into diamond, and is the consort of Sebastian Shaw, the villainous leader of the Hellfire Club who seeks to start a nuclear war between the Soviet Union and United States, to rule over this new world order. She is able to completely block Xavier from using his telepathy on her and Shaw, create illusions, perform mental torture, as well as sense the initial activation of Cerebro from thousands of miles away. While in diamond form, she shows absolute immunity towards psychic attack and has enhanced strength and durability, able to easily cut through glass and glacial ice and punch Magneto off a boat and into the sea. However, Erik later uses his powers to choke her with a metal bar to get information out of her while in her diamond form. This caused massive cracks in her body while in that form, and after she reverts to flesh and blood, he let Charles read her mind, implying that a single tap should be enough to shatter her completely should she attempt to morph back to diamond form. Emma is incarcerated in the CIA headquarters, although she is later freed by Lehnsherr, who now goes by the name of Magneto.
 
Azazel
Azazel is a red-skinned mutant who can teleport himself as well as other people across great distances. His prehensile tail allows him to grab onto objects with relative ease, and is strong enough to not only support his body weight but also lift an adult man completely off the ground. It is deft enough to fight with like a sword or blunt object. He killed many CIA agents with Riptide and Shaw during their assault on Division X. His hijacking of a Soviet freighter during the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly led to an all-out nuclear war. After Shaw died, Azazel and the rest of the Hellfire Club joined the Brotherhood of Mutants.
 
Angel Salvadore
Angel Salvadore, codename Tempest, is a mutant with the ability to fly with insect-like wings, which are tattooed on her body, and eject flaming acid. In 1962, Angel was working as a stripper when she was approached by Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, who persuade her to join the X-Men. Angel later meets her other teammates and gets to know them. They give themselves codenames and display their powers. Salvadore was with the X-Men until the Hellfire Club attacked the Division X facility where they were staying. They did not want to hurt the X-Men but recuit them. She was the only one to join, although her former teammates Havok and Darwin tried to stop her, Darwin was killed by Sebastian Shaw. Angel joined the battle against her former teammates during the Cuban Missile Crisis. She fights Banshee in the air, but is subsequently beaten by Havok, who shoots off half of her wings with an energy blast. She and the other Hellfire members later joined Magneto.

 
Riptide (real name Janos Quested)
Riptide is a mutant who can spin his body fast enough to create large tornados. He is also able to generate smaller tornadoes. In 1962, Riptide was a member of the Hellfire Club. He attacked Division X with Azazel and Sebastian Shaw. Riptide later joined his teammates to fight against the X-Men. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, while Erik Lehnsherr was magnetically pulling Shaw's submarine out of the water, Riptide created a tornado, causing both the X-Jet and the submarine to crash on the beach. He was knocked out twice during the main battle: first when Havok launched his energy beams onto him, and secondly when Erik pulls a piece of the submarine hull out on top of him. After Sebastian Shaw is killed, Riptide joins Magneto's newly formed Brotherhood of Mutants, along with Mystique, Angel and Azazel.

Friday, May 30, 2014

X-Men Days Of future Past film informatics Part 19B: Blink and Sunspot

The following mutants will be involved with the remnant of the Mutant Resistance of the Future X-Men, in a world regulated by Sentinels and oppressive to Mutantkind. They assist the original X-Men in the battle against the Sentinels in the year 2023.


Clarice Ferguson aka Blink
Blink’s dimension warping powers – the ability to teleport people and objects - make her a vital member of the X-Men. But with mutant existence at stake, she won’t be able to keep them safe for much longer.
Blink's primary power is Molecular Spatial Displacement, the ability to displace matter through a type of teleportation rift, appearing as blinking holes, enabling her to move an object or people various distances and displace matter out of sync with reality. She also has the ability to manifest the energy for her portals in the form of short javelins, which she could throw at an object to cause it to teleport. She uses this ability both offensively and defensively. Also, she can send targets to multiple locations at once. At times she has teleported portions of objects.

 
Roberto DaCosta aka Sunspot
A new member of the resistance, Sunspot has the power to absorb solar energy and rechannel it for superhuman strength, flight and infrared radiation. 
Sunspot has the ability to absorb solar energy and can utilize it for physical strength. He is also able to project heat in intense waves, and re-channel the solar energy which his body absorbs, by which he takes the solar energy and uses it for a variety of related purposes. When Sunspot's cells are powered by solar energy he has the superhuman ability to augment his physical strength. The original limits of his strength was that of 25 tons; since then however his strength has increased to 50 tons. As is the norm with most pyrokinetics, Sunspot is immune to all forms of Heat and Fire, as they simply add to his abilities and his mutant metabolism is able to simply convert these two forms and augment his abilities. This includes heat powers that are directed at him, as well as heat that is present because of weather conditions. Sunspot has also been seen with the ability to absorb the energy that fire gives off, and has remained unharmed while walking through it. He can absorb sunlight even at night if there is a moon, as moonlight is nothing but refracted sunlight.

X-Men Days Of Future Past film informatics Part 19A: Bishop and Warpath

The following mutants will be involved with the remnant of the Mutant Resistance of the Future X-Men, in a world regulated by Sentinels and oppressive to Mutantkind. They assist the original X-Men in the battle against the Sentinels in the year 2023.


Lucas Bishop
Wth the capability to absorb and re-channel energy as kinetic blasts, Bishop provides much-needed firepower for the X-Men at a time when they need it the most.
Bishop can absorb most types of energy, including magic and psychic, directed toward him. The nature of his powers makes it difficult to damage him with energy-based attacks, while also enabling him to work well with any energy-using teammates. Bishop can also store absorbed energy within his personal reserves, whereupon the energy increases his strength, speed, stamina and recuperative abilities, as well as affording him a measure of invulnerability. The upper limits of his ability to enhance his own physical abilities with absorbed energy is not exactly known, but is well into the level of being superhuman. This power is passive, allowing Bishop to absorb energy at all times.


James Proudstar aka Warpath
With his superhuman strength, heightened senses, speed, agility and stamina, Warpath is a unique breed of warrior. 
Warpath possesses superhuman resistance to injury, at least enough to withstand short-range firepower, grenade explosions, and telepathic attacks. He also repairs and regenerates damaged and destroyed tissue much faster than a normal human, as well as revives and recuperates from exhaustion and fatigue much faster than a normal human. Warpath possesses superhuman agility and flexibility. He can "move with the grace an Olympic gold-medalist would envy" and "swim with the ease of a porpoise." Warpath's senses – particularly sight, smell, and hearing – are enhanced to levels beyond the capabilities of a normal human. He is able to see with perfect clarity at much greater distances than an ordinary human, even in near-total darkness. His hearing is similarly heightened, enabling him to clearly hear sounds beyond the range of ordinary human hearing and to hear sounds that they can detect but at much greater distances.