The Rogue of Fox

Rogue or Marie makes her first appearance in the first X-Men movie played by Anna Paquin and directed by Bryn Singer. We see her discover her power in this movie, which is the ability to absorb the power of life force of people through touch. When she runs away from home she meets Wolverine and through fascinating events she ends up at Xavier's School of Gifted Children aka mutant academy. In this first installemnt she's a scared girl that doesn't think she'll ever find her place in life. She doesn't understand or want her power and wishes that none of this had happened.

Lost Puppy

In X2, directed by Bryan Singer, Rouge is a little more comfortable with herself and her powers. But she still struggles with the fact that she can never touch her boyfriend Bobby, Iceman, without hurting him. She gets to use her powers a little more in this installment, but it is still very apparent that she doesn't want them and can't connect to people because of them. But she has so much potential to be a great member of the team if she could use her powers properly.

She makes it look good

In X-Men: The Last Stand, directed by Brett Ratner, all that potential is thrown out the window. A cure for the mutant gene is discovered and marketed and Rogue is one of the ones that takes it. She could have brought so much to the team but she was thrown away. Luckily we got a rest for the fanchie and we can potentially get the Rogue that we deserve.

Why!?

The next and most recent appearance of Rogue was in the Rogue cut of X- Men: Days of Future Past, directed by Bryan Singer. Here she takes over for Kitty (sending Wolverines consciousness to the past) after Wolverine scratches her. This shows just how much she can be a help to the team and that she is worth so much and her power isn't a horrible thing. With the rest that this movie provides we may finally get the Rogue that we deserve and that the X-Men universe needs.

YEESSS

The next time we should see Rogue is in the Gambit movie. But that hasn't been confirmed as of this posting. But she is an important part to Gambits story so she will hopefully appear and be a more powerful and self confident incarnation of herself. Until then, have a great week everyone!

DCs Other Woman

Talia al Gul makes her appearance in the final chapter of Christopher Nolans Batman run in The Dark Knight Rises. Talia infiltrates Bruce Waynes personal life as Miranda Tate to get her revenge for Batman killing her father Ra's al Gul in Batman Begins. She is a character with strong willed and set on her goal of destroying Batman. In the movie she is undercover and starts as a love interest to Bruce Wayne while Catwoman serves as a love interest to Batman. She is then reviled to be the master mind behind Bane and the destruction of Gotham. Her motives are clear and unwavering. She also never lets her feeling get in the way of her goals which is a great treat to have if you're the villain.

Yesssss

If Talia will appear in future Batman movies is unknown, but this was an interesting portrayal of the character. Until then, have a great week everyone!

Marvel's Spell

Wanda Maximoff aka Scarlet Witch is the newest addition to the line up in Avengers: Age of Ultron directed by Joss Whedon and she is played my the lovely Elizabeth Olsen. She is an enhanced human and that gives her the powers of telepathy and a pretty red light show. She is the twin of Pietro Maximoff aka Quicksilver, who has the power of super speed. She is an orphan and starts out on the side of the bad guys, first with her creators, then with Ultron. She struggles to find her place in the world with growing up an orphan and hating Stark Industries for making the weapons that killed her family. But she doesn't hate all of humanity which is why she eventually teams up with the Avengers to go against Ultron and his machine army. She overcomes her fears and learns to forgive throughout the movie. And she also suffers the most when her twin is killed by Ultron while protecting Hawkeye, who helped her get over her fears of not being strong enough to do good. She's a great character that'll really expand the world of Marvel and it'll be fun to see her character develop as we go farther. 

Finally some visual powers!

The next time we'll be seeing Wanda will be next year in Captain America : Civil War directed by the Russo brothers. She'll be on Caps team as we saw at the end of the Avengers : Age of Ultron. Hopefully she has a lot of screen time and we'll get to see more of her development. Which she'll come out in the movies after that hasn't been announced, but I'm sure we'll be seeing more of her in the years ahead. Until then, have a great week everyone! 

The Phoenix of Fox

Jean Grey aka The Phoenix first comes out in X-Men (directed by Bryan Singer) and she is played by Famke Jensen. When we are first introduced to her she is only a telekinetic and telepathic. In the first installment she is still learning to control her powers and get stronger. We don't know that much about her other than she lives at the Mutant mansion and teaches there and is also a doctor that is engaged in politics. She is also dating Scott Summers aka Cyclops, but is the interest of Logan aka Wolverine. We do get to see her display her powers in and out of action sequences though. Her character had so much promise going into the next film. 

Great costume

In X2 (directed by Bryan Singer) Jean (Famke) has a bit of a bigger role and we see more of her fear about her inability to control her powers. We also see more of Logan going after Jean, but she'll never leave Scott for Logan because she loves Scott and he's a better man for her. Jean dies at the end of the film saving the others and leaving a morning Scott and Logan. This seems to be the end of her but just sit back and wait. 

Love the haircut

X-Men:The Last Stand (directed by Brett Ratner) comes around and brings with it Jean (Famke) reborn as the Phoenix. The Phoenix is the super powered version of Jean with her powers at 100%. But she is a changed person and the first thing she does when she comes back is kill Scott, the man that she loved more than anything. Then the rest of the team finds her and she leaves them to go join Magneto in his efforts to kill all of humanity. And while doing so she also kill Professor Charles for wanting to suppress the Phoenix again. Her motivation to do so? She will never fit in with humanity or her former team with her new abilities and the Phoenix doesn't want to be suppressed any longer. We also see a flashback to her childhood when Professor Charles and Erik first went to collect her for the mutant school. In this flashback supposedly Jean had full control of her power and was slightly unhinged so Charles suppressed it creating the split personality of the Phoenix, which is her full range of power. So then she goes about doing her evil thing with Magneto and is killed, again, at the end by non other than Wolverine, at her request. And with her died our chance at an awesome Phoenix story line. 

Bad guys get the best outfits

From then on we only see Jean (Famke) is through Wolverine as she haunts him after he leaves the X-Men. She serves more for his character development in The Wolverine directed by James Mangold. 

Ghost of Girlfriends Past

Then at the end of X-Men:Days of Future Past (directed by Bryan Singer) we see Jean (Famke) alive again because Wolverine was able to change the past in turn change the future of present and erasing the previous movies. 

Yay! Everyone's alive again!

The next time we will see Jean will be in X-Men:Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer, next year in May. However this will be a younger version of Jean and will be played by Sophie Turner. Hopefully this new installment will develop Jean more than the previous movies and she won't be as afraid of her powers any more. Until then, have a great week everyone! 

Silky Smooth DC pt.1

Silk Specter aka Sally Jupiter takes to the big screen in Watchmen directed by Zack Snyder and is played by Carla Gugino. This has to be one of the most perfectly cast comic book movie adaptations I have ever seen and just the most perfectly cast movie ever. And it also sticks very closely to the comic book itself which is all any fan can ask for. Sally is a wonderfully complex and non-clique character where even though she wears a sexy costume she's not a sex object. What's great is that we get to see her character in the past, through flashbacks, and the present (kinda because the movie takes place 1970-1980). We see her in her early crime fighting days when she was slightly naive and wide-eyed. We see through her the complexities of love and how everything that you feel and think of someone can change over the years with different situations and life choices. We see the older her that loves her daughter more than anything else and wants to protect her but also tries to live through her by having her take up her crime fighting career. Sally is a strong character that manages to shine through the dark, gritty world of Watchmen and carries a large importance in the development of the other character who's lives she's in. And she's one of my favorite characters in the movie and comic. 

Best Pin-up Ever

There won't be anymore Watchmen movies, but maybe in the future we'll get a Before Watchmen mini-series or full on TV show. And even if Carla isn't able to reprise the role of Silk Specter it would still be great to see Sally again. Until then, have a great week everyone!