The trailer has Apocalypse listing his former names, and he gives Yahweh among others. Yesterday, I watched the movie in Israel, and it's apparently Bowdlerised to Elohim. Is it like that everywhere?
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That plane they find at Alkali Lake, is that based on something, or is that a real plane? Because for the life of me it looks like an advanced craft in the shape of a metal raptor. Which, if it is not a real thing (and my knowledge of military hardware is pretty much nil so it might be), seems to foreshadow just one thing. Shi'ar.
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Wait. Is it confirmed that Archangel was killed in the final battle? We saw the body, yes, but he could've just been unconcious.
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Yeah, that one seems far less final in the movie than the other two.
I interpret the fact that they showed him at all as an indication that the crash was, for him, less fatal than it would have been for anybody else. He certainly should look a lot of worse after what happened to him.
- Wolverine Publicity: Ironically, the actual Trope Namer gets Demoted to Extra while Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique has been cemented into this role by this movie. Still, the trope is played straight with Logan given the last trailer includes a brief shot of the Wolverine Claws.
None of that is an example or a variant of the trope. On one side, Wolverine is a minor character in the film, and as a result he's not included in the posters. There is a scene in the trailer, but it is short. A One-Scene Wonder perhaps, but a short scene nonetheless. He does not take the whole trailer. On the other side, Mystique is a main character, and appears in the advertisments in a prominent role, as fully expected.
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Actually, it is. Considering the reveal of his claws was a huge deal, and considering how he's relegated to a cameo role in the film proper, it's still an example. He's the money shot of the trailer - being only seen in one shot doesn't make it any less of an example.
Also, stop reverting Example Indentation.
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- Early-Installment Weirdness: Like X-Men: First Class, this prequel seeks to evoke this for the adolescent X-Men. Jean Grey is scared of her powers and isn't in control of them yet, Cyclops is a bad boy and isn't leadership material, Nightcrawler is afraid of his own shadow, and Storm is a morally dubious thief who sides with the Big Bad.
Is not an example. Early Installment Weirdness is when a show has elements that don't gel with later episodes or installments of a series - bizarre characterization, plot elements that come off as absurd given what we discover later on, actors not settled into their characters yet, etc. As I said in my edit reason, this is an Alternate Timeline - there is nothing after it that contradicts or renders anything in this film as out-of-character or weird yet. Likewise, this is the third film in a series that has two prior installments. The place to put EIW would be in the first or second film, not the third (and most current, as of this writing) installment.
Please don't add it back.
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That must have been a site glich, and my edit must have mixed with someone else's edit. I simply removed the Wolverine Publicity entry, I did not edit the other parts.
As for the trailer, Wolverine's claws are seen by just a second, or even less, and he's not featured in the posters. And no, it's not a "big deal": he's just a cameo in the film, and the length of his intervention in the trailer is very small. A cameo character who receives next to zero publicity about his cameo seems a case of People Sit on Chairs.
Remember that the idea of Wolverine Publicity is not about a popular character making a cameo or being in the publicity. It must be a disproportionate case: the character makes a cameo or a shoehorned appearence, and gets huge ammounts of publicity for it.
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Killed Off for Real - Was it confirmed that those two characters were killed? I read something that said they were, but I'm not sure if it's true
(Also whoever put that there didn't seem to know how to do spoiler tags, it has to be all lowercase and in singular, I fixed it)
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Yes, they do.
Mind you, for one, they didn't find (or at least show to the audience) the body; and the other could find a way to be resurrected.
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Does anyone know why the apparent reveal of Mystique posing as Stryker in the final scene of Days of Future Past is never addressed here? Should that be counted as an Aborted Arc, or was it explored in some sort of expanded universe material?