Needless to say, Logan feels kind of responsible for her. Seeing that the X-Men have tried to civilize/socialize the teen dream killing machine, I can’t believe they never gave Laura a new nickname. She was, of course, the 23 rd attempt and the only success. X-23 (Laura Kinney) was bred and raised by Weapon X trying to duplicate their “success” with Wolverine. He even acted as kind of a moral center if you can believe that, smacking Summers upside his head when he brought Logan’s female clone, X-23, into the mix. Wolvie led X-Force for years after Cyclops decided that the mutant population was too low to eff around with non-lethal methods against their greatest threats and he did a decent job of it. And (say it with me) what he does isn’t very nice. I mean, the dude is the best there is at what he does. If the X-Men are forming up a team of their most lethal members to do some wetwork, it’s going to be pretty hard not to picture Logan involved. I was kind of hoping she’s be in DoFP, but after the announcement of the X-Force film, the smart money is she’ll be making her big screen debut there. So do we want Dom on this team? So much yes. But what gives her the edge is her mutant ability that alters probability and makes things always turn out in her favor, making her practically unbeatable by any normal means. She also happens to be one of the most underrated mutants in the Marvel universe and would translate really well to a live-action film.ĭomino (Neena Thurman) is a firearms expert with exceptional combat skills all around that make her the equal of just about any mercenary out there. For Cable, Domino is both of those things. Any objections? Didn’t think so.Įvery leader needs a strong right hand, and behind every great man is a great woman.
So movie X-Force should totally be led by the time-traveling techno-organic mutant soldier with big guns and telekinetic powers. Alternately, they could rework the character and have him just be a random future mutant rebel sentinel hunter who travels back or something cool like that. But since DoFP is a time-travel story, this is a prime opportunity to erase the nonsense of X-Men: The Last Stand. So….yeah, there’s that little problem with current cinematic X-Men continuity. But fitting him in storywise might be tricky.Ĭable (Nathan Summers) is the future son of Jean Grey and Cyclops. He’s a rare X-Men character that is absolutely begging to be adapted to the big screen and is a fan favorite made entirely out of awesome so expect to see him. I’ll open up some more potential plot speculations and general musings after I’m done.Ĭyclops had Wolverine form the re-vamped X-Force in current comics continuity, but Cable was its genesis and is back leading the team again so it’d just be dumb to assume they’d leave him out. Wadlow has stated that there are going to be 5 team members, so I’m going to (sort of) limit myself to that number. Since this is going to spun off of a film that hasn’t been released (or even fully filmed), I’m going to be speculating a bit on Days of Future Past ( DoFP) as well. So what I’m going to do here is go ahead and list out my picks for the movie team’s line-up, why I think they should be included, how they might figure into the story, and how likely we are to actually see them. Originally formed by Cable as a more militant team for the not-quite ready-for-primetime players outside of the official team, in their current form X-Force have essentially been an off the books hit squad that is sent out to permanently eliminate threats to mutantkind. X-Force is the dark underbelly of that appealing public image. The news kind of got buried under a landslide of Batman/Superman-related hysteria, but yeah, this is happening too.Īnd what, pray tell, is an X-Force, you may ask? Well, my comic-challenged friend, you surely know the X-Men Marvel’s marvelous menagerie of magnificent mutant misfit heroes out to protect a world that fears and hates them. It has been announced that the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past film will be spun off into a movie featuring X-Force by Kick-Ass 2 writer director Jeff Wadlow.