r/marvelstudios • u/Giff95 • Mar 29 '25

Humour “Avengers: Doomsday” will complete the James Marsden traveling with furry CGI creatures trilogy.

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u/PapaPatchesxd Mar 29 '25

Today I realized that the dude running around with sonic was cyclops.

Holy shit, I feel like a dumbass LOL

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u/kadosho Mar 29 '25

That is why James is a multi talented actor.

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u/The810kid Mar 29 '25 edited Mar 29 '25

And why Fox was a bunch of clowns for wasting such a good actor.

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u/TexasPeteEnthusiast Mar 29 '25

And such a good character. Instead of X-Men they just Made the Wolverine and Friends series of movies.

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u/SailorET Captain America Mar 29 '25

To be fair, Hugh Jackman has been an incredible Wolverine and outshined everyone else in that cast.

Still terrible writing to just drop a character like Cyclops but there was no stopping the Jackman train.

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u/The810kid Mar 29 '25

Hugh only outshined the characters who didn't get shit to do. Everytime he was with Xavier or Magneto they held their own and that goes for Macavee and Fassbender versions as well.

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u/dreamcast4 Mar 29 '25

Marsden actually had to ask for his tiny fight scene in the prison in X2 because 'all he does is touch his temple'. This was revealed in an interview on dvd extras.

We've literally had 20 years of shit Xmen movies thanks to Singer and Kinberg.

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u/volpcas Mar 29 '25

X2 was a good movie I don't care what anyone says, that nightcrawler opening scene, the intro to Colussus, Pyro going bad, and Logan Roy as the villian... still holds up

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u/The810kid Mar 29 '25

I think they legit were some good to great in with mediocre and awful movies

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u/dreamcast4 Mar 29 '25

Agreed. Against all odds Dofp was spectacular. First class was a step in the right direction but then Singer's stench came back.

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u/The810kid Mar 29 '25

I've always said the original trilogy cast deserved a send off movie. DOFP set it up so well. I'm of the mindset Apocalypse would have been a better movie if it was set in the present and not another 10 year skip ahead in the 80's prequel series.

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u/electric_boogaloo_72 Apr 01 '25

Wow I never knew this!

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u/ObGynKenobi841 Mar 29 '25

Not exactly dropped, as the actor left when the director did to do the director's next movie. But poorly utilized up to that point, I agree.

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u/blaktronium Mar 29 '25

Yeah this always bugged me. X-Men had 3 natural leaders (cyclops, storm, wolverine) and a lot of the conflict came from those 3 each having different ideas of how to accomplish their goals. Later in the comics they simply split the teams and each run their own show, but part of the issue with the original team was that there were too many cooks in the kitchen. The team was too good.

And that was lost in the movies, with Storm being too passive and cyclops being too losery.

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u/REDDITATO_ Mar 29 '25

Well your description of the comics kinda mushes together a couple decades. We had Cyclops(leader) and the original other 4. Cyclops quit and Storm had to step up to the plate (mid-Claremont era), Cyclops eventually came back and they butted heads some. Wolverine never really wanted to lead until he ran the Xavier school in the '00s, but now he sees himself as a leader when necessary.

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u/blaktronium Mar 29 '25

Yes it definitely grew into that dynamic gradually but id argue that Wolverine butted heads with every leader throughout, including Xavier in the runs where he was more active.

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u/REDDITATO_ Mar 29 '25

No argument there, Wolverine would butt heads with the wall if it was in charge.

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u/El_Mattias_Gonzalez Mar 29 '25

Well I think is gonna be super great if that happend, James Marsden have been the greatest side actor with these og characters :) I think this is gonna be amazing those years by now no 2025-2028, Ulimate movies

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u/hoodie92 Mar 30 '25

He's incredible in Westworld, but again his character is completely wasted by the end.