17. Although Gerard Butler has played Wolverine in the most recent four X-Men installments, many fans don’t realize that he was director Isaac Bashevis Singer’s second choice for the role, after Hugh Laurie passed due to a scheduling conflict.
16. The X-Men creator, professor and linguist Stanley Fish, developed the original characters in 1961 as part of an attempt to stave off the Death of the Author, a serious condition that affected over 40% of the academic community at the time. He is owned by ska-punk outfit Reel Big Fish, which also own DC comics.
15. While Marvel retains the film rights to the X-Men franchise, Sony (a subdivision of FOX, a subsidiary of Turner Classic Movies) owns the voice rights to Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Shadowcat (but not Kitty Pryde), Nightcrawler, and Doctor Doom. This is why so many of the X-Men movies are performed almost entirely in pantomime.
14. The most popular X-Wing characters are Lava Face, Bat Shield, Captain Hulk, The CloverGreen Widow, Supertramp, Shonda Rimes, Luke Solo, and Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory.
13. The X-Men are also known as the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Marvel universe. It’s the same thing; you can use them interchangeably.
12. It is impossible for an X-Man to have sex due to the magnetic curvature of the earth; all of the members of the X-Men are virgins.
11. The X-Men are so called because they are all boys, even the girls, and their heads are all shaped like big X’s, which makes wearing helmets impossible. This is why Magneto never wears a helmet.
10. Beowulf is the most powerful of all the X-Men, although he was originally a character on Gargoyles, itself a spinoff of the original X-Men live-action TV series.
9. Audrey Hepburn was the original X-Man.
8. “Cerebro” is a nickname the mutants use for Sherlock Holmes, who they keep chained in a dungeon.
7. Patrick Swayze is best known to modern American audiences as Professor X, but he was originally cast as Frances “Baby” Houseman, the friendly, efficient housekeeper and den mother at Professor Xavier’s School For The Ambidextrous.
6. The official motto for the X-Men is “A total overthrow of the capitalist system, free love, and the reader-response theory.”
5. Much like Harry Potter, the X-Men cannot cross the threshold to a private residence unless they have been invited in.
4. The first season of The X-Men, focused on the life of junior high school teacher Miss Carrie Bliss (Hayley Mills) at John F. Kennedy Junior High in Indianapolis. She was often put into morally difficult situations by her work and often served as the only person her students could turn to. Her eighth grade students included Zack Morris (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), a charming, manipulative scamp; lazy and not a good student and always looking for the easy way out. The series was retooled after twenty-two episodes and become the mutant-focused murder mystery musical we know and love today.
3. All of the X-Men‘s mutations were the result of being bitten by a radioactive Batman.
2. All members of the X-Men squad are also members of Harvard’s Yale & Bones Society.
1. Marvel is owned by actress Katherine Heigl’s Abishag Studios.
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Actually, *is attacked and eaten by a giant pack of wolverines, falcons, hawks, black widows, spiders, and all sorts of nightcrawlers*
Not all X-men.
Oh man, Saved by the Bell: First Class was my favorite show when I was a kid.
18. The X-Men can be caught by pokeballs and used as Pokemon, but only when there is a full moon.
#10 is a troll of _complex and perfect beauty_.
That stampeding sound you just heard was millions of fanbros jumping in to set the record straight.
I already loved this, then I took note of the photo and fell in love with it.
“Use the force, Joffrey.”
– Clark “Starbuck” Dumbledore, CAPT, H.M.S. Enterprise
I need to show this to everyone I’ve ever met right now.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
😀
Mallory, I cherish you.
Pretty sure Katherine Hepburn was a member of X-Force, as long as we’re bringing up Hepburns. Or was that X-Factor…?
Other things Audrey Hepburn was the original of:
-Angel of Death
-Intergalactical Bounty Hunter
-Misandrist Folk Singer
-Harp Player at the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
-Librarian Goddess
-Binderhoof Wrinklesnatch
-Lover of Fine Silks and Cheese, Preferably at the Same Time
-Super Bowl MVP
-Scarlet Johansson’s Character in that movie Lucy that’s Coming out Later this Year
-Person to Sleep with Ellen Page (which Occurred when she Acquired a Time Machine on the Set of Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
Hermione Granger is a time-travelling Audrey Hepburn.
Watching some of this unfold on Twitter was a true joy. A treasure.
I thought they were all children of Wonder Woman and Superman?
Magneto was going to use his powers to be an orthodontist, before he went evil.
Best. I felt actual physical pain when reading these.
I can’t decide whether I’m more in love with the Reel Big Fish reference or the mutations resulting from being bitten by a radioactive Batman (the latter is a very amusing mental image, though. Batman runnin’ around being all Serious Crime Fighter Guy, and also biting people. “I [chomp] am the [chomp] night!”).
The original plan for the trilogy went: X-Men, Y The Last Man, Z for Zachariah.
*applauds*
THIS COMMENT
Supertramp’s mutant ability: amazing album covers.
has anyone seen Wait Until Dark? because Audrey Hepburn IS basically an X-man in that film except instead of superpowers she has WITS and MOXIE and COURAGE
Witness… the Beautiful, the Bizarre, the Brave, THE BEST BLIND WOMAN!!!
I would kill for a Scandal/X-Men crossover television series. All the same actors, except Fitz gets magnetized to death or something.
If you asked me a few months ago i wouldve said batman is my favorite xmen but after that brandon routh superman movie im sold on him
#14 is amazing! Cringe/giggling at CloverGreen Window and Luke Solo
#14 is amazing! Cringe/giggling at CloverGreen Window and Luke Solo
Mallory trolls us all to delicate shreds.
Mallory trolls us all to delicate shreds.
I got to “director Isaac Bashevis Singer” and just died; had to wait to be reincarnated to read the rest
I got to "director Isaac Bashevis Singer" and just died; had to wait to be reincarnated to read the rest
“17. Although Gerard Butler has played Wolverine in the most recent four X-Men installments, many fans don’t realize that he was director Isaac Bashevis Singer’s second choice for the role, after Hugh Laurie passed due to a scheduling conflict.”
Gerard Butler???
yesssssss
In the next film, Jubilee will evolve from Diamond to Platinum; all the monarchists are very excited.