Yeah the sentinels ability probably were more Darwin then anyone's since the sentinels didn't use any of the powers they took on the mutants they just changed their form into whatever kept them alive.
LOL how? Darwin was killed by Shaw, years before a Stryker character was even acknowledged in the FC timeline. You think Stryker (or anyone for that matter) was there scraping the pavement for Darwin's DNA hours after his death???
Or is the better, more plausible scenario that the adaptive powers were sourced from a mutant the Sentinel scientists have on a slab somewhere? I think she likes to be called Rogue.
Heck, the Rogue Cut even went out of it's way to tell us she was captured and experimented on by the bad guys. What else would they even need her for when we know the Sentinels are killing other mutants they encounter and not even taking prisoners?
Rogue should've been part of the team from the start instead of a plot device/damsel in distress. She should've been in the place of any of the new guys not named Blink, and gotten to take a stab at one of the Sentinels.
Although maybe she should've arrived in the X-Jet with Wolvie, Storm and the Professor, just to retain the drama of having her reunite with Iceman who's with Kitty.
A missed opportunity by the writers.
Unfortunately Kinberg insisted on getting the "two old guys" (as he so lovingly called them) for one last little adventure. And had to drag along Rogue for it.
An adventure that should've been executed better. Instead the two were barely on screen at the same time, nevermind that the two barely talked during that mission.
No wonder it was so easy for them to delete this and write around it. IMO, it really was a badly-written, poorly executed scene.
Admittedly the movie was better for it so Kudos on John and Bryan for that. Too bad deleting this scene meant removing Rogue altogether.
Didn't McKellen have a small time frame to film X2? And they worked the filming around it. They could've done the same with Paquin and they could've used CGI to give Berry more action -- they just didn't care to.
Agreed.
Yeah but Ian had 2 weeks while Anna had only 4 days and I don't think Rogue was their big priority for that movie unlike Magneto was in X2. While CGI Storm would have been nice, it was probably gonna be more expensive to Fox. Though a few more lines for Storm would have been really nice.
Unfortunately if you're a character not named Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine or Mystique you're not priority.
From the looks of things though, Apocalypse shows us that at the very least, Cyclops and Jean now are part of that priority list so that's good news.