Sequels Who should be the main antoganist on X-men: First Class?

[Silvermoth]

Feel free to post your casting suggestions here as well.

I would love to see Proteus as the main villian. I think he's an important enough villian but not so important that he takes the spotlight away from the X-men and their relationship growth. I can see Nicholas Hoult as Proteus.

Also I think Magneto deserves a rest as the series major villian

 

[Angamb]

I voted Sinister because I would like a connection with X4... but Proteo is interesting, for a younger version of the team.

So I wouldnt mind to see him as the main villain, with Moira in a big role too.

 

[Electrix]

Going by what Singer said it appears Magneto will be one of the 'good guys' during the film, and then we will see Xavier and himself clashing on ideas/issues. There will probably be another villain from the beginning, and then maybe Magneto forms the brotherhood towards the end of the film.

 

[Deaths Head II]

Mr. Sinister would be my first choice, followed by the Sentinels. I posted my thoughts on these two potential villains before but I might as well do it here too.

If the movie follows Magneto and Xavier through the years, Sinister could be a good choice as a villain that is present throughout the story. In X-Men TAS, Xavier's ancestor knew Nathaniel Essex back when he was just a scientist who was interested in evolution until he took his obsession too far and became Mr. Sinister. Something like that could be incorporated in this film, with Charles and Eric knowing a Nathaniel Essex in their youth. They witness his descent into evil and then he disappears off the face of the earth only to appear again when the two of them start up their school. Sinister could have an interest in Cyclops and perhaps his presence in First Class could be used as a set up for X4. If they need a group for the X-Men to beat up on they could have Sinister use his Marauders, which would include both Gambit and Sabretooth. Sabretooth could be the victim of experimentation under Sinister, which could also be used to clear up why Sabretooth is so different in Wolverine and the first X-Men movie.

As for the Sentinels, they could create a story inspired by the very first Sentinel story, except without Trask announcing the creation of his Sentinels to the world. The X-Men basically find out about the existence of Sentinels and they go to the secluded Sentinel home base to shut down the production. They could even mix in some Evolution in there and have Trask be a former government agent who is aware of mutants and can't sit by while the government does nothing so he makes his own private experiments. The Sentinels themselves could be Evolution-inspired in design too. The film could end with Magneto killing Trask and claiming that the creation of the Sentinels is only the first step in humanity's plans for them. This could be what breaks the Charles/Xavier alliance. Plus this plot also allows Sentinels to pop up in future X-Men films without any weird continuity errors because the fact they popped up in the danger room means either the X-Men predicted Sentinels or they created the concept themselves. The Sentinels could be beaten by teenage X-Men or else they wouldn't use them to train the new mutants in X3.

 

[Rain]

Mr. Sinister, Gambit, Sabertooth, Mystique, Blockbuster, other misc. Marauders, and maybe a
Sen. Kelly cameo.


If not that, then Sentinels.

 

[Project862006]

Mr Sinister and Cast Mark Strong

 

[FaT_tONle]

If Magneto/Xavier are teamed up for the majority of the film, they will probably go with mostly human villains. Maybe the Hellfire Club manipulating Emma and trying to get to Jean Grey.

 

[Hellion]

Feel free to post your casting suggestions here as well.

I would love to see Proteus as the main villian. I think he's an important enough villian but not so important that he takes the spotlight away from the X-men and their relationship growth. I can see Nicholas Hoult as Proteus.

Also I think Magneto deserves a rest as the series major villian

I thinks there's major potential with Proteus so I voted for him...he could be the Professor's first major/tragic failure...and the cause for the break up of the Professor and Magneto...maybe even Moira...I think it could be interesting if Moira was introduced as a third partner in the creation of the school and after the death of Proteus she too leaves the school to form the Muir Island Research Facility to help mutants with deadly/powerful/devastating powers (would love for Havok, Vulcan, and Polaris cameos here of them staying on Muir Island with references of Scott visiting his younger bros occasionally to check on them).

Silvermoth...you get major points with me for suggesting Nicholas Hoult...

 

[Hellion]

Proteus could also be used to setup/reference characters (the Professor's other failures, depending on how you see them) from the Trilogy (Jason and Jean/Phoenix). Stryker takes Jason out of the school after the Proteus situation and fearing Jean's powers may one day be as powerful/uncontrollable as Proteus' he places the mental blocks in her.

 

[katie_girl09]

Sinister? Why? I would prefer him to be in an X-men movie personally.

 

[JP]

Why not?

 

[Franklin Richards]

Amahl Farouk - The Shadow King

 

[Deaths Head II]

Sinister? Why? I would prefer him to be in an X-men movie personally.

This is an X-Men film.

If you mean an X-Men sequel, I see no reason why him being in this movie locks him off from being in X4. In fact they could use him here to set up for an appearance in X4.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Proteus makes the most sense for me, he is a kid himself so it make sense to have other kids going up against.

I also voted Sinister and Sentinels though as I wouldnt mind them being the villains.

It is my life's dream to Apocalypse on the big screen but for the X-Men as kids he would be too powerful.

Overall, I think Proteus makes the most sense.

 

[Phoenix_Flare]

hmm interesting choice(s) of villians, but i would like to see a government persepctive for the villian w/Magneto turning in2 the secondary villian @ the end of the film & 2 show how he became the central baddy in X1-X3

(if) the film follows Xaviers/Erics early to mid roots then we need to know when & where Eric took a wrong turn, from X3 we know Eric disapproved of Xavier "holding" Jean back, so that pissed him off,plus the Hollocaust, but what else made him so angry that they split?

Thats why I think a government angle is needed, to show how humanity treats those who are born different, so I'm thinking FOH, Sentinels/Gen.Lang, young Sen. Kelly

will Eric be willing to kill if neccesary to further mutant prosperity?
does Eric morals clash w/Xavier's morals?
should the young X-Men be a killing force instead of using their powers for good?

these are ?'s that should be addressed...I think Mr.Sinister should be used for a sequel or build his character from the shadows, like in X-Men:TAS and in the sequel he comes for Scott/Jean...I would love it if he was a part of the Hellfire Club and Emma acts as agent for him/them ala Wolverine & the X-Men, when Scott denies her love in favor of Jean...

 

[Deaths Head II]

I don't think it has to be a government threat to establish the division. Just a human threat.

The Friends of Humanity could show Magneto that they will never find acceptance among the common people. Magneto could see the fact that humanity could even create something like the Sentinels proof that the government will eventually start using such things to hunt them all down.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Proteus could be used for the split between Xavier and Magneto as well, Magneto could say the only way to stop Proteus is too kill him, but Xavier wont have it, it could all come to a head at the end.

 

[Phoenix_Flare]

I don't think it has to be a government threat to establish the division. Just a human threat.

The Friends of Humanity could show Magneto that they will never find acceptance among the common people. Magneto could see the fact that humanity could even create something like the Sentinels proof that the government will eventually start using such things to hunt them all down.

thats what I meant, by "government/humanity" as a threat, i mean lets keep it real we all know how the government loves to cover things up, so why not intro. the Sentinels w/"dirty" govern. politicians & possibly the ermergence of the Mutant Registration act that was mention in X1 @ the hearing and by Storm in X2

 

[Phoenix_Flare]

Proteus could be used for the split between Xavier and Magneto as well, Magneto could say the only way to stop Proteus is too kill him, but Xavier wont have it, it could all come to a head at the end.

i don't think Magento would willingly kill any mutant unless it hurt his goal of mutant supremacy unlike Leech in X3, which he a good reason 2 kill, so what reason would he have to kill Proteus

 

[Lightning Strykez!]

At this point, anyone but Magneto. If he's used one more time as a villain I'll just die.

 

[Psykoelf]

I don't think it has to be a government threat to establish the division. Just a human threat.

Agreed, definitely needs to be a human threat. The split between Xavier and Magneto is more of a philosophical/idealogical basis. For some reason I keep thinking of the Operation: Zero Tolerance storyline, so maybe Bastion. I know in 616 he's a Sentinel, but if he could be adapted to be more human... A Genosha based storyline could also work. Mutant concentration camps, much like the concentration camps Magneto was sentenced to. Also going by movie timeline, the existence of mutants were still relatively unknown. Decisions, decisions

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

i don't think Magento would willingly kill any mutant unless it hurt his goal of mutant supremacy unlike Leech in X3, which he a good reason 2 kill, so what reason would he have to kill Proteus

Because Proteus is out of control and threatening the lives of Magneto, Charles and the children? Just watch the TAS episode that Proteus is in.

 

[NinjaTurtleFan]

Hmm... Mark Strong as Sinister? Me likey! I was thinking Jason Isaacs or Jonathan Rhys-Meyer but I like the sound of Strong as Sinister.

Of course I am totally pushing for Ewan McGregor to portray a young Magneto. Daniel Craig wouldn't be so bad either but Ewan to me looks like he could be a young Ian McKellan.

I guess if I were to go for an antagonist or antagonists in this I would say the Hellfire Club or Sinister and his henchmen. Magneto and Xavier could be running the Academy together alongside Hank McCoy, but when mutants are starting to be found out or come out to the public, the public at first takes a nasty tone towards them, and some humans and mutants are killed. This of course would bring up Xavier and Lensher's differing views on what to do--- Magneto would seek retaliation and revenge while Xavier would seek a more direct and diplomatic approach. A young Toad, Avalanche, and Mystique could take sides with Magneto and disband. Sabretooth could cameo. Xavier though believes Sinister is stronger than both him and his students and Magneto and his kids.

Magneto and his kids get captured, Xavier dispatches his X-Men to save Magneto's hide, and together, like X2 they team up, but it becomes more of a war; bickering sides turning on each other while the same time trying to stop Sinister. Sinister lives, but a few of Magneto's kids he's taken under his wing die, thus why Toad and Mystique and Sabretooth are the only remaining heavies he has left.

Sinister, having the powers he has, would live on, and promise to return---setting up a future sequel with him working with Apocalypse.

 

[katie_girl09]

This is an X-Men film.

If you mean an X-Men sequel, I see no reason why him being in this movie locks him off from being in X4. In fact they could use him here to set up for an appearance in X4.

You know what I mean. X-men, not X-men: The prequel.

I just don't like the idea. I think they should use another villain.

 

[the a1ant]

So many people have mentioned Sinister, so I'm hoping he makes it for that sake. And yeah, Magneto has been the villain too often. They need to go with someone else, and thankfully Singer has alluded to that.