Line #25 CompositeCharacter/XMenFilmSeries


1	Thanks to the massive cast of characters in the comics, [[CompositeCharacter composite characters]] are pervasive in ''Franchise/XMenFilmSeries''.
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3	* ''Film/XMen1'':
4	** After Beast was removed from the script for the movie due to budgetary concerns, elements of his character were grafted onto [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesJeanGrey Jean Grey]]. Jean takes his place as the team's medical and scientific expert, and scenes written for Beast ended up being given to her.
5	** Rogue is Wolverine's teenage ward with angst instead of Kitty Pryde or Jubilation Lee.
6	* ''Film/X2XMenUnited'':
7	** Jason Stryker is a composite of three comic characters: Jason Wyngarde (a.k.a. Mastermind), from whom he gets his first name and powers; Reverend Stryker's unnamed mutant child from the ''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills'' graphic novel (though his name was eventually revealed to be Jason as well as [[RetCanon a nod to the movie]]); and Professor X's autistic son David Haller (a.k.a. Legion), from whom he gets his mismatched eyes, multiple personalities, and insanity.
8	** Colonel William Stryker in the X-Men movies is a composite of Rev. William Stryker from ''God Loves, Man Kills'' and Professor Thornton, the man who gave Wolverine his Adamantium skeleton (though it's since been implied in the comics that he had a part in the Weapon X program, [[RetCanon likely due to the movie's influence]]).
9	** Yuriko Oyama/Lady Deathstrike is combined with Anne, Stryker's bodyguard and most loyal enforcer in ''God Loves, Man Kills''.
10	* ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'':
11	** Callisto merges the powers of the comic characters Caliban and Quicksilver. Her leadership role and personality (which isn't all that fleshed out in the movie, but overall, it's pretty consistent with the comics) are the only traces of the comics' Callisto.
12	** Jean Grey and Phoenix were separate characters in the comics, but were rewritten into separate personalities in a single body for the movie (though whether Phoenix was a separate entity or just Jean's SuperpoweredEvilSide in the comics depends on [[{{Retcon}} who's writing]]).
13	** Kid Omega is Quill. The writers even state so in the DVD commentary.
14	* ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' went along with the comic book's then (and rather compelling) implication of Dog Logan and Victor Creed/Sabretooth being the same individual. Years later however, the comics show Dog and Sabretooth as not being the same person. Movie Victor also takes on Rose's role from the ''Origin'' comic as the person who helped Logan run away.
15	* ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
16	** Sebastian Shaw mixes character traits associated with the comics version of that character (a wealthy DiabolicalMastermind with EnergyAbsorption powers) with those associated with fellow X-villain Mr. Sinister (a [[TheAgeless seemingly-immortal]] EvilutionaryBiologist who worked alongside the Nazis during [=WW2=] and believes that mutants are the key to [[TakeOverTheWorld world conquest]]).
17	** [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesMagneto Magneto]] cripples Xavier, something that was done by the alien Lucifer in the comics.
18	* ''Film/TheWolverine'':
19	** Shingen in the film is a combination of the comics Shingen Yashida and the personality of Kenuichio Harada.
20	** Yukio's knife-throwing skills were given to Mariko, in a plot-important role.
21	** Ichirō, the Silver Samurai, is a a somewhat confusing example. He's a CanonForeigner who takes Shingen's role from the [[ComicBook/Wolverine1982 original story]] as the BigBad who is also related to Mariko (being Shingen's father and Mariko's grandfather; [[DecompositeCharacter Shingen is also in the movie, just not as the main antagonist]]), but his suit of PoweredArmor is taken from Shin Harada, the second Silver Samurai from the comics.
22	* ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
23	** The future Sentinels are the fusion of the regular Sentinels with the [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Nimrod_(Earth-811) Nimrod Sentinel's]] AdaptiveAbility.
24	** Rachel Summers' role in [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast the original comic]] is given to Kitty Pryde. Likewise, Kitty's role in the original is given to Wolverine.
25	** Bolivar Trask is given Senator Kelly's role from [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast the original story]] as the anti-mutant bigot whose assassination must be prevented to avert the BadFuture.
26	** Quicksilver looks and acts like his comic-counterpart's nephew, [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Speed]], and even wears a similar pair of goggles.
27	* ''Film/Deadpool2016'':
28	** [[Characters/DeadpoolSupportingCharacters Negasonic Teenage Warhead]]'s powers are completely redone so that she now has propulsive energy abilities instead of telepathy. She was essentially given the abilities of Cannonball, who was originally going to be one of the X-Men in the movie before he was written out and replaced with NTW.
29	** In the comics, Dr. Killbrew tortures and experiments on Wade Wilson. In the movie, this is done by Ajax/Francis Freeman, who was merely a security guard in Killbrew's facility in the source material.
30	** The original script featured Garrison Kane, Sluggo and Wyre as Ajax's CoDragons. For budgetary reasons, the three were later combined into the henchwoman Angel Dust.
31	* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': En Sabah Nur incorporates elements of The Shadow King; he meets and mentors a young Storm in Egypt, is an incorporeal entity that periodically possesses human hosts, and telepathically duels Xavier. His GrandTheftMe and PowerParasite abilities also recall Proteus.
32	* ''Film/{{Logan}}'':
33	** Due to being a PragmaticAdaptation of elements of ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' (including Fox not having the rights to other Marvel characters), the movie sees Hawkeye's role in the comic fused with Professor Xavier. [[spoiler:It's also implied that he accidentally killed the majority of the X-Men with his powers during a seizure, taking Wolverine's role as their unknowing killer.]]
34	** Donald Pierce is X-23's handler and pursuer, filling in the role of Kimura in the process.
35	** Zander Rice is built on elements of both Rice in the books, along with Martin Sutter and Sarah Kinney as it's implied he's the geneticist responsible for Laura's creation, not just a surgeon, taking on part of Sarah Kinney's role and is the outright head of the project, much like Sutter, not just the lead scientist. And, like his own book counterpart, Logan killed his father during his rampage escaping Weapon Plus.
36	** [[spoiler:The modified crops Transigen made to kill mutants combines both the depowering of mutants after ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' (in part since the events of ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'' had the villains rise up after ''ComicBook/{{Civil War\|2006}}'') and the Legacy Virus (a stand-in for AIDS during the '90s comics).]]
37	* ''Film/Deadpool2'':
38	** In the comics, Yukio has black hair and is usually depicted as an adult BadassNormal. In the film, she's a [[AgeLift teenage girl]] with dyed hair and mutant electrical abilities, much like Surge, another Japanese character from the X-Men franchise.
39	** While Vanessa is Copycat in the comics (though she's so far just a normal human in the films), the movie gives her a role more similar to that of [[spoiler:Death's, being Wade's lover who only appears to him during near-death moments]].

Context CompositeCharacter / XMenFilmSeries