The Brotherhood: Road Warrior Rejects, or just misunderstood individuals?

[Optic Blast]

So did anyone else find the fact that all of the "bad" mutants as tattooed, pierced rejects from Road Warrior just a little bit weird? Also, in the climactic final battle, there seemed to be a lot of them that jumped really high, but didn't seem to be able to do anything else. It just looked like a bunch of punk rockers punching the X-Men. Where were all the powers? Looks like the Brotherhood's powers were to suck and die. What did everybody else feel about the portrayal of the Brotherhood?

 

[blind_fury]

You want the Brotherhood to wear suits and ties?

They're low-life criminals, not the high-class members of the Hellfire Club.

 

[Optic Blast]

So low life criminals are all tattood, pierced, and have dyed hair?

 

[BMM]

With the exception of the original Brotherhood members, the rest weren't really low-life criminals. Them not wanting to be cured and standing up for a cause doesn't inherently make them thugs. Hell, they didn't even do anything wrong until the end of the movie.

 

[blind_fury]

So low life criminals are all tattood, pierced, and have dyed hair?

The brotherhood in X3 had alot of muatants that were either criminals or morlocks. They were outcasts not conservatives or conformists..

 

[blind_fury]

With the exception of the original Brotherhood members, the rest weren't really low-life criminals. Them not wanting to be cured and standing up for a cause doesn't inherently make them thugs. Hell, they didn't even do anything wrong until the end of the movie.

The point is they're rebellious types and rebelious types are more likely to wear outlandish clothes and piercings. Why? Because they like making waves.

 

[Optic Blast]

The point is they're rebellious types and rebelious types are more likely to wear outlandish clothes and piercings. Why? Because they like making waves.

This is true.

 

[BMM]

The point is they're rebellious types and rebelious types are more likely to wear outlandish clothes and piercings. Why? Because they like making waves.

I see what you're getting at, but they weren't really any more rebellious than the X-Men . . . they just didn't think anything was wrong with being a mutant. They didn't really become rebels until Magneto came along and added them to his cause, and besides, they were still wearing black and were covered in tatoos before Magneto got to them and made them rebels . . .

. . . but it works in a cliche kind of way.

 

[blind_fury]

The rebels were already inclined to follow Magneto's rebellious cause because THEY'RE FRICKIN REBELS! They followed Magneto because they were rebels NOT because Magneto turned them into rebels.

 

[BMM]

Not necessarily. The man preeching prior to Magneto certainly didn't appear to be rebellious. He seemed to want to be reasonable more than anything, and yet he was still in dark and tattered clothing . . . I see your point, and I agree that it works that they're all in black and tatoos. It just works in a conveniently cliche kind of way.

 

[invincible mann]

some of these "Rebels" were in prison when magneto recruited them
the Xmen believed there wasnt anything wrong with being a mutant either
funny,i dont remember seeing them behind bars

 

[TigerClaw]

In the comics, There known as the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants, There believes are that they are the dominant species of the planet, Cause they are capable of doing more things then a regular human can do.

 

[Capt Throbberson]

Looks like the Brotherhood's powers were to suck and die.

Pretty much

 

[The Kid]

It was the church of mutantology.

 

[stryfe]

What was with the omega tattoo? How lame. BTW quills face tattoo sucked ass too.

 

[Capt Throbberson]

They were basically a gang aside from the mutants they picked up in that prison truck thingy. Remember the whole "Where's your mark?" thing?