Yeah, and that's really all he did. Beast didn't do anything of note in either DOFP or Apocalypse, besides fight Erik, and Apocalypse .
Again, in
DOFP Beast was the guardian angel of Xavier, his emotional and mental anchor to reality. Plus, he was the scientist and served the plot well. He explained the time travel mechanisms to Xavier and Logan.
At last (but not least), he was emotionally connected to Raven (and vice versa).
He was a pivotal character in
DOFP and an important character in
Apocalypse.
He was a fantastic character in all 5 X-Men movies which he starred in.
Which felt artificially construed. Hank's relationship with Raven never developed into a romance
Not a chance. Everyone can relate to Beast, because everyone loved a person who doesn't reciprocate or doesn't want to develop his/her feelings for you. That's a great theme, and it was depicted beautifully throughout the movies.
And instead of building on that on in DOFP, Singer goes the opposite route, and *literally regresses his character development, by forcing him back into the closet, pretending to be human.
Hank MOSTLY returned to his human form to help Xavier, who was alone and vulnerable. Hank was Xavier's "bridge" towards human race. His character-arc wasn't complete in
First Class at all, however. He had still a lot to learn. He turned into the Feline Form accidentally (it was a vanity mistake), and he was still coping with his errors. Plus, he had no special serum yet, so at the end of
First Class he had no other choice to be Beast. Singer and Kinberg conceived the special serum as "Eve's apple" for Hank, in order to give him a choice, and develop the character from that point onward. It was a brilliant story direction!
In
Dark Phoenix, he definitely came to terms with that forever and chose to be Beast 24h. Raven's sacrifice was the ultimate lesson to learn for him.
You're not wrong. But this is why you have to choose the POV carefully.
Wolverine is a magnificent character. He was the right choice at the time. At the time...
What was her childhood like, why is she an X-Man, how does she see the world, and why does she see it that way etc. We never learn these things.
You need a TV series. Even Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were mysterious characters in
Avengers 2. You needed a TV series for that, and you got it later.
You can say the same for Iron Man in IM1. Or Hulk in all the movies so far.
That said, Famke was marvellous, and
X2 made her a compelling figure. That's for sure. She was very intense and fascinating throughout the movie, and her humanity was evident in all her scenes, especially at the end of the movie.
Really? What do we learn about Jean in Apocalypse, aside from the fact that she's a telepath? What do we learn about her wants, her needs, and her flaws? These are just the basic tenets of character development, and we're never given anything more than the basic outline of her.
The encounter between Jean and Wolverine in
Apocalypse was very poetic. The final fight showed her soul and spirit, not only her immense power. She was the "mother figure" of the X-Men in that early phase, while the team was forming and Xavier wasn't there. Even more than Mystique, who was basically the mind and the mentor.
Sophie is Famke. You're already emotionally invested into her.
That said, you discover her origins in
Dark Phoenix.
Dark Phoenix is a wonderful movie, where Sophie delivered the best. Her character arc within the movie was astonishing, despite not having the benefit of the original 2 part configuration.
All the X-Men movies were masterpieces, where you got the maximum amount of storytelling and character development into the minimum amount of sequences. That's pure magic.
I agree that Cyclops was underdeveloped in the original trilogy, but that changed in the
Beginnings saga. X-Men movies need an accompanying
TV series which works in tandem with the movies. There's no other way. The Fox X-Men movies did miracles, without a TV series to back them up.
Here we go. I think you got a different perspective. Let's return to the main topic:
MCU Xavier.