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stickthisbig:

 IDK. I feel like that might be a better plot for a third movie. I don’t think we’re there thematically yet.

Actually I was rewatching the originals over break, and it struck me that the way the main action of both those movies began (I say both because there were only two movies, because The Last Stand was, as well all know, a fever dream induced by Scarlet Witch, and at any rate if it had happened he’d have died in the first twenty minutes) is with Charles getting taken out. In the first one, Mystique takes him down by jacking up Cerebro (I have so many problems with that sequence but that’s neither here nor there) and the second time Stryker’s got him in the neural inhibitor for the whole thing.

So my real hope is that they’ll get into a fight where Charles actually gets to fight, instead of sitting there with his thumb up his ass. And is it so much to ask for a rocket chair? Come the fuck on.

“Professor X gets taken out for the duration of the story” kicks off the plot of 99% of the comics, too. It kind of has to, since he’s so grossly overpowered, but hey, comic book writers, you overpowered him, you deal with him. Clonking him upside the head or screwing him up via Cerebro or sending him off on an alien spaceship to be with his space girlfriend = COP OUTS.