Green Marvel

Gamora makes her cinematic debut in Guardians of the Galaxy directed by James Gunn and she is played Zoe Saldana. She is the adopted daughter of Thanos. So she starts out as a baddie. But she has plans to go against her "father" and his underling Ronan. She is the one that drives the plot and has cool fighting sequences there really isn't much to her character yet. Its nice to see not instantly become a love interest for Peter Quill aka Star Lord, but instead declines his advances repeatedly. Will they eventually get together? Maybe, but it seems it'll happen slower which is a nice change of pace. Her character goes through a quick change from someone who will kill you without a second thought to a soft friendly part of the team. But lets not leave out that many of the other guardians go through the same quick change over the movie. This doesn't take away from the fact that her character is pretty awesome. 

Best Mugshot Ever

Gamora is a great addition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). We'll hopefully get to see her again in Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2. And hopefully she'll have just as big a role or maybe even a bigger role to play in that one. Until then, have a great week everyone! 

Blue Fox

Mystique aka Raven Darkholme is one of the best and most consecutive characters in Fox's X-Men franchise (by consecutive I mean in all of the main movies not that she's played by the same actress ^~^). So the first movie we see Mystique in is X-Men directed by Bryan Singer and Mystique is played by Rebecca Romjin (the first movie in the franchise). She is the super awesome right-hand woman to Magneto, the baddie, and her power is to transform into anyone (the side effect is that her skin is blue, but blue is an awesome color so that just makes everything better ^.^). Anyway in the movie we get to see Mystiques awesome transformation in a couple of sequences where she kidnaps Senator Kelly and her great fighting abilities when she fights Wolverine. Mystique does play a big part in the movie as a main baddie and becomes a fan favorite. 

Beautiful eyes

The second movie is X2 directed by Bryan Singer and Mystique is still played by Rebecca. We get to see even more Mystique in this installment. Here Mystique has to play nice with the good guys in order to stop another bad guy that has emerged. We also see more of the relationship between Mystique and Magneto. And we get to see what Mystique looks like without her blue skin and red hair. But we still get cool fight sequences. And we see more of her transformation powers because she has been impersonating Senator Kelly since his death in the first movie and some other humorous scenes involving her transforming ability.  

Such a great color

The third movies is X-Men: The Last Stand directed by Brett Ratner and this is the last film Mystique is played by Rebecca. This is where things get really crazy because apparently Ratner thought that he was going to be the last person to make an X-Men movie and wanted to end everything and everyone. In this movie Mystique is captured helping Magneto acquire mutants for his army (The Brotherhood) and after her rescue she is shot with the anti-x gene and losses her powers making her useless to Magneto and his efforts so he leaves her. Which is a completely ridiculous thing to do but it happens. And this is the last we see of Mystique (in this movie) until she is seen on a security monitor turning in information as to the whereabouts of Magnetos army to the authorities. But luckily this isn't the end of Mystiques character and she comes back with a vengeance. 

Great shade of red

The next movie is X-Men: First Class directed by Matthew Vaughn and now Mystique is played Jennifer Lawrence and this movie takes place before the other X-Men movies. We start the movie with a flashback to Mystiques and Charles aka Professor X childhood when they first met and her younger self is played by Morgan Lily. For the majority of the movie Mystique goes by her given name of Raven. Raven and the other characters join the government where she meets other mutants. It's here that she gives herself the name of Mystique and meets Magneto aka Erik Lensherr. In this movie we see Mystique trying to discover and come to terms with what she is and how she fits in the world. She begins to hate humanity and Charles ideals of being a part of the world. She joins Erik at the end of the movie to be against humanity because they will never be accepted by them. Mystique is a more prominent character in the reboot and will continue to be for the next installments. 

Different blue but still great looking

The most recent movie is X-Men: Days of Future Past directed by Bryan Singer (finally!) and Jennifer is still Mystique.  This movie sort of serves as a fix-it-all for the franchise (courtesy of The Last Stand) and we are taken to the chaotic world that the X-Men in the future. We don’t see Mystique until Wolverine is sent to the past because of the whole losing powers in the Last Stand thing. When we travel to the past we are post First Class and Mystique and Erik are no longer together with him being locked up and all. She is on her own mission to kill the creator of the sentinels (Dr. Trask) which is what plagues the X-Men in the future and the event that Wolverine is sent back to prevent. Mystique is very upset with her situation and Erik for the way that her fellow member were killed and used for experiments. She is a very strong character with conflating emotions and thoughts. She's also still upset with Charles for trying to control her and make her fit in with the humans in First Class. By the end of the movie neither Mystique nor Erik kill Dr. Trask and the future is fixed with the mutants no longer being hunted. And Mystique goes off on her own again. This change nullifies the first three movies and sets the stage for new exciting things to come. 

Ready for action

The next appearance for Mystique is X-Men: Apocalypse directed once again Bryan Singer and Jennifer returning to play Mystique. Whether there will be another X-Men movie after that is unclear with other projects taking center stage. And if they do continue with the franchise Jennifer won't be returning as Mystique, but not to worry Patrick Stewart has said he will take her place so all is good :). So until that movie comes out have a great weekend everyone!

Puurfect DC

Catwoman aka Selina Kyle has always been one of my favorite characters from the Batman movies. Perhaps her best appearance is in Tim Burton's Batman Returns. Here she is played by the beautiful Michelle Pfeiffer. Here we see Selina Kyle become the Catwoman in a glorious montage in her apartment when she returns from "dying" and becomes another person. And she decides this is the best moment to make a super sexy leather costume to run around doing bad things in. And while she's running into Batman and Penguin as Catwoman her Selina persona is getting closer to Bruce Wayne aka Batman (for those that don't know ;p ). But Tim Burton does a great job in executing Catwoman in all her adventure loving ways and the importance of her relationship with Batman.She has some pretty cool action scenes and is a wonderful scene grabber. Plus she had an awesome costume that hasn't been matched by anyone else so far.

Puurfection

The next portrayal of Catwoman that we see is in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises where she is played by Anne Hathaway. Here we see more attention given to her anti-hero side as ,while she doesn't agree with it, she helps Batman in his endeavors. This movie doesn't go into her origins. but does focus more on her thief background. Her costume is also more like Batman's with her having a utility belt to play with and her cat ears are actually goggles with nifty features. Her Selina Kyle persona also still gets in close with Batman as she is the one to run away with him. And she has some awesome action sequences and kicks lots of ass in her impressive heels. 

Cat's Meow

No Catwoman has been announced for the Batman reboot yet but she may come out again some where down the line. Until then have a great week everyone! 

  

(In case anyone is wondering where the 2004 Catwoman movie is: the reason it isn't included is because the character that is called catwoman is Patience Phillips and not Selina Kyle making her an invalid addition. Plus it was a terrible movie anyway.) 

Marvel's Deadliest Weapon

Let's start this off with a fan favorite : Black Widow aka Natasha Romanoff played by Scarlett Johansson. We first meet Natasha in Iron Man 2 (directed by Jon Favreau) when she is introduced as Natalie Rushman who is a notary. She of course was undercover to gather intel on Tony Stark aka Iron Man for Nick Fury who is the head of Shield. Besides an awesome fight sequence towards the end of the movie and her amazing beauty we don't really know much about Natasha or how much of a role she will come to play in later films, but she leaves a great impression. And we can't wait to see her again.

Sexy hair!

The next time we see Nat is in the Avengers movie and she has a different hair cut too. She is given a bigger role as a main member of the Avengers and we see more character development. And here is where things get interesting. Many fans like to say that there were subtle hints about a romantic relationship between Nat and Clint Barton aka Hawkeye as well as Steve Rogers aka Captain America. But I think Joss Whedon (the director) had always intended for Nat and Bruce Banner aka Hulk to get together. In the Avengers Nat is the one sent to collect Bruce and bring him to Shield. They have few interactions throughout the movie but I think Joss meant to throw some subtext at us through them. Here we find out she use to work for the KGB (Russia) and was recruited to Shield in exchange for not being taken down by Hawkeye. And we get more awesome fight sequences near the end of the movie and with Hawkeye himself where she beats him out of being mind controlled. It's great to see her character get built upon in the movies through each addition and she quickly becomes a fan favorite. 

Such a bad-ass

We next see Nat in Captain American: The Winter Solider directed by the Russo brothers. Here she has a bigger role by being a co-lead and this is where we see more of directors having different ideas of how to handle the Black Widow character. For one they changed her hair...again and developed more on the Nat/Clint interesting friendship (without even having him in the movie) and the friendship between herself and Steve Rogers. Natasha is more snarky and love-able in this movie and has an great friendship with Steve with her trying to find him a date while simultaneously flirting with him, but we know this is just the way their friendship works. But she does wear an arrow necklace, which could be nothing or could have something to do with an certain archer we know....hmmm. Apparently the directors don't get together to discuss what they have planed for characters or how they can compromise on everyone's incarnations of them. Anyway this movie shows us a different side of Nat through her interactions with Steve and Nick Fury. We see the caring and humorous side of Nat as well as her ,as always, amazing abilities to kick ass. This has to be the movie where Natasha really shines as a co-lead character without its being her own movie and this is Natasha's most developed role as well. Its seems the Russo brothers are the best at handling the Black Widow character so far.

So majestic

Now the most resent appearance of the Black Widow was in Avengers: Age of Ultron directed by Joss Whedon. Here we go back to short hair and get Natasha's and Bruce's relationship thrown in our face. It seems hints aren't gonna cut it and we can't have other directors create relationships that don't fit with the rest of the movies. Which makes the whole arrow necklace that Nat wore in Captain America really strange, especially when we find out that Clint is married and has two kids with a third on the way.....awkward...let's just say they're really awesome friends who like to gift each other personal jewelry. But we also get to see Natasha's back story from when she was in the Black Widow program in Russia (yes there are more Black Widows) when she is hexed by Scarlett Witch aka Wanda Maximoff. And we also learn that she was made infertile by the Black Widow program in the Red Room. Here the movie tries to make it seem like being infertile is the worst thing that can happen to a woman. And the character of Natasha never seemed the type to even want or even think about children, but of course this scene plays out while Bruce and Natasha are considering running away together and are in a room filled with children's artwork (Clints children). This is the most we have seen of the background for Natasha's character so far as the movies slowly peel back her layers. And like all the rest before we get great fighting sequences and Nat is just purely amazing as always (aside from the Bruce/Nat thing). 

Beautiful beast

Speaking of which, where is our Black Widow movie? Some people say we won't ever get one because nobody wants to see a woman lead a superhero movie and yet we have Wonder Woman. Or that's it's because she doesn't have any powers but that never stopped Batman. And some even say It's because Scarlett Johansson can't carry a movie but Lucy has already grossed $458,863,600 worldwide. So none of those reasons are valid. And yet we still don't have a movie. Not only that, we barley have any merchandise of Black Widow. But that won't stop us because there is talk about a Black Widow movie although it seems to be far away. We'll continue to love and support our wonderful Nat and the studios and companies will see that they'll have to give us what we and Natasha deserve. Have a great week everyone!