#X-Men:First Class

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Another chapter! I wrote it right after watching X-Men:First Class" and needed to process my feelings, so it might get intense at moments. Also, it's my last free weekend before going back to school, so the updates will be less frequent.

Chapter VII

"Empty Promises"

“ No wonder you’re seeking shelter away from your own mind.”

A smooth, male voice spoke from behind her. The voices in her head still heavy, screaming over one another. She could barely hear him through that, but even with that, she could feel him putting so much pity into her being. And that she hated. The last thing she wanted now was pity. There were so many more things than someone could’ve done for her, and picking the pity was literally the worst route. She slowly got up, taking one final glance at the darkening water in the pond. She turned to face the man that was standing behind her, the moment their eyes met, the pain in her mind getting even greater, making her dizzy and her emotions even more evident. 

“Charles Xavier… What a meeting. Truly a unique occasion.” 

She spoke, looking directly at him, her head still feeling heavy. The anger was bubbling just under the surface. Alice couldn’t really pinpoint from where it was coming, but it for sure wasn’t a new feeling. It’s been there for a good while now, only growing, fueled by everything she heard and everything that happened lately. 

“ I’m surprised you know my name. Maybe you're an even more impressive telepath than you seem to be.”

“Maybe? Just maybe?” She laughed, all control shattering in her. “I’m much more than you can comprehend. Taking in the fact that you could barely handle your own mutants.” 

First pin, right where it hurts. She was in his mind, searching all the memories this version could share with her. The pain in her mind caused her to move slower, blink in slow motion, almost forget to swallow her own saliva, like she was going completely crazy, losing every healthy strand in her mind. The eyes weren’t in their best condition as well. Hurting. She could feel their pain seep into her soul, her whole body burning. 

“Is that so? What makes you so much more than them? So much more than me?”

“Power? I mean, everything around you, or even you wouldn’t be there if it wouldn’t be for my mind right now. That’s something you wouldn’t have handled well. Even if you did, any connection you’d try to make to my mind, would only make it all worse. There’s enough pain in there already, you don’t have to put more of it there.”

She tilted her head to the side, feeling like the whole world around them moved with it, slowly tilting, threatening to roll over. It was so loud. The water behind her was bubbling as well, she could not only hear but feel that as well. So cold. It was cold, and it was bubbling like it was boiling, whatever was in there, was definitely not so friendly. 

“Even if it would be possible for you to carry greater power than I do, I’d still love to try to help you.” 

How sweet. Always caring for others, or maybe just for his fascination over mutations. She could see it, his eyes scanning over her, seeking answers, seeking signs of what exactly was different about her. However she was keeping him away from her mind putting some mental barriers. 

“And where are all the other mutants you promised your help to?”

That was a strike right between his ribs, a sharp blade of her words, said in such a monotone voice, pierced his chest, leaving him speechless. Dead. Most of them were dead already, he didn’t manage to save them, to help them. 

“Why do you still believe you can fix this? That you can fix humans? They’re unfixable, driven by fear and desire to rule over anything and everything.” 

She spoke calmly, taking a few steps ahead, feeling the burning pain travel through her bones, down her neck, then spine, spreading over to her shoulders, arms, until it reached her joints, making it painful to move her hands, causing them to crack with each movement, but somehow it was so satisfying.

“Because, when they stop fearing us, it’ll all change for the better. They have nothing to fear just because we’re different. We just have to try.” 

“It’s been a good few decades since you started all that and unfortunately I doubt there’s any change. If anything, there’s less mutants than there used to be. Humans don't change. Ever. They abandon their own families if they sense any danger in them. I used to have a family. Loving parents and a brother that was so close with me, you’d think we share a soul. But they abandoned me. They left me alone with nothing, after years of putting me through torture.” She smirked, feeling the flood of unpleasant memories pouring over her mind. “My telepathy started when I was eight. You know what they did? Dragged me from one doctor to another, getting me all those kinds of meds, putting so many mental issues in my charts it seemed impossible, trying to block my mind, make me catatonic, they even got drugs somehow to feed to the twelve year old me. Because the thought of having a mutant at home was terrifying enough to try everything, even if it could’ve killed me.” 

It hurt the same. After those two years it hurt the same way. She was abandoned and misunderstood because of their fear of having a ‘monster’ in close proximity. She could sense him trying to come up with something, despite the anger still in her veins, the mess in her mind, she decided to give him a chance to voice himself, the last chance one would say. First and last, as she never really met him. Was she even meeting him right now? It was all in her head, borrowed pieces from Logan’s memory, put into her own reality, with the pond overflowing, the darkness staining soft grass. 

“I’m very sorry that you had to experience that. No one should’ve gone through a mess like that. That’s why my school, the Institute, was important and needed. For those like you, like me… Us. To find refuge from all the dangers we might face just because of some gene mutations.”

“And where is this safe place now? Was it ever there? From what I know, the danger and death reached all of you there anyway.” 

Word for word, maybe a bit pessimistic look at it all, but she wasn’t really wrong with it. The safety was very temporary for a really short time, then again the death, pain and suffering reached its claws out for the entire race, with one goal in mind. To end them all. One by one pull them apart, until only the normalcy will be left. 

“Right again, aren’t you? But without trying there’s no chance for change, submitting to them wouldn’t fix anything either.”

“And how many lives were you willing to sacrifice just to prove my point that nothing ever changes?”

She could sense his anger rise up, it was starting to match her own, which was a dangerous combination. The voices in her mind once again getting louder, she could almost feel them pull her brain to parts. One after another, severing any connections that were there. She could feel him trying to enter her mind, lowering her defense just to put out an attack. The red eyes littering the skin on her face, focusing on him, multiple pupils turned towards him with an angry glow. The waves of pure pain from her mind, sharp like needles, started to pin into his brain, first just landing on the surface, slowly moving inside, almost like that coin all those years ago, just this time it was hundreds of them instead of just one. 

The liquid darkness reached her feet, starting to crawl up her body, somehow its coldness felt refreshing. She just stood in the same place, tilting her head to the side, seeing him writhe in pain. It was quite a sight. A telepath, believed to be strongest one of his kind, nothing but a worm on her mercy, somehow filled her with a sense of pride. 

“ You know, if you’d talk less and do more, maybe at least some of those lives could’ve been saved. I wonder how many versions, variants of you there were, and how many of them failed everyone just like you did.” 

When he tried to attack her mind, the eyes covered the sky around her, making it red, littered with eyes, the air filled with pain and fear. He didn’t know where to look now. Only sometimes glancing towards her like she was the one to be feared. One of her kind fearing her, and he expected humans to just accept her among them? Funny. 

“I’m sorry Charles, but I pick saving myself, before any of your nonsense will reach and destroy me as well”

For a split second there was a thought to just destroy all those bits that formed him, to erase all those memories she was given by Logan’s memory. The darkness on her skin was getting thick and sticky, soaking through her skin, to reach the inside of her, the main aim was the heart and she could say that without a second guess. 

“Maybe in another universe I’d give it all a chance. Your teachings and school, unfortunately in this, it’s all too far gone. Goodbye, Professor.” 

Everything went dark as soon as she finished speaking. The darkness was thick, filled with only a few specks of a blue light, she felt like she was underwater. Surrounded by the coldness from every possible side, with no idea where to swim to reach the surface. She couldn’t catch a breath, she’d drown. But… it all started fading as her chest was hurting more and more from holding her breath, soon even the specks of light disappearing from her eyesight. 

She woke up in the same armchair in which she was curled up for so long. The wave of pain immediately coursed through her body as she only wanted to stretch out a bit. Her mind filled with more and more voices, making her almost nauseous. Alice still forced herself to get up, the burning pain attacking her feet and then traveling up her legs. Hurts, hurts, hurts, need away.  Without thinking for long, she took the hoodie that way laying close by, not caring to who it belonged. She walked towards the door, bumping into a wall on her way out. Something was forcing her to get away from this flat, from the safety and comfort of the well known space. She got out into the street. There were barely any cars, as the day was only starting, the sky barely in a peachy shade of pink, and yet any sound was like a sharp arrow through her mind. The need to get away, as far as possible, is still there. It was unexplainable but she knew to follow it. From time to time involuntary whimper of pain leaving her lips. It was too much to contain, to carry with herself. 

At the same time, when she was trying to run away, Logan woke up due to Merry Puppins  scratching at the door and whining. She never did that. Still groggy from his sleep, he looked around, noticing the lack of Wade’s hoodie on the couch and the fact that Alice wasn’t there anymore. Her scent was still there, so it couldn’t have been long since she left. Quickly, he went back to the room and  started shaking Wade awake. 

“Come on. Wake up. She left the house. Wade, Alice left the house.” 

That was enough to pull the merc out of his slumber. 

[fruchtfliege]

Whats your favorite movie??

🥰🥰🥰🥰 it's such a good and awful question! (Coz it makes me choose hahaha)

Although I love with all my cinephile heart multiple movies (X-Men:First Class; Banshees of Inisherin; The Zodiac;...), I really think Kajillionaire (2020) might just be my favorite movie. It's so soft but raw and also just... kind. And beautiful. It probably will make you cry but it's so so funny too. Yeah, I think it's my favorite movie.

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

Okay friends.

[batmandarkknightuniverse]

X-Men:First Class(2011)Andres Pop Culture Guy Retrospective/Reviews

[anonymouslyyourslove-a]

I started watching X men:first class and I just have to say this:

Erik and Xavier are gay husbands.

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for the ask meme 👀👀👀

M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with?  Did it turn into a story?

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R: Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing?

M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with? Did it turn into a story? I am so glad you asked this one because I have a great answer: X-Men:First Class/Prometheus. And yes, I wrote it but it's probably even weirder than you think. (Although technically I didn't come up with this AU, the artist who drew art for the idea did, but I still think it should count!)

R: Which writers (fanfic or otherwise) do you consider the biggest influence on you and your writing? Ilona Andrews, Ann Leckie, and Neil Gaiman are huge influences (but very different writers). Andrews has snappy dialogue and incredible action scenes and with many of their books being urban fantasy, they've been a model for me with my original writing. Leckie plays with reader assumptions in really interesting ways with each book she releases, and I'm in awe of the worlds Gaiman creates and the story he weaves. I don't think the latter two have influenced my prose (because they're on another level) but they inspire me to always keep working on my writing! (Also Leckie published her first book at 50, so I always keep that in my head as a reminder that it's not only young authors getting deals.)

I can't think of any specific fanfic writers who've influenced me, other than being wildly impressed by prose or world-creation.

[aionimica]

some sketchhing and coloring practice with Erik Lehnsherr as requested by @cataclyzmic

I used some new brushes and I think I’m kinda pleased with this. Gonna keep playing around with it :)

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|| great 🙃🙃 X-men verse Charlotte is active.. ||

[lady-divinity-starr]

So I just finished watching the X-Men movies, the originals and the Dark Phoenix saga. I watched them in timeline order and it didn’t make sense. Also order of release wasn’t my favorite so I made my own version and it makes so much more sense. Without further ado, here it is

X-Men:First Class

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

X-Men

X2: X-Men United

X-Men: Last Stand

Wolverine

X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men:  Apocalypse

X-Men: The Dark Phoenix

Deadpool

Deadpool 2

Logan

I didn’t watch New Mutants so I’m not putting it on the list.

With The time travel, as well as the different characters, I feel like this makes the most sense, especially after watching end credit scenes.

[drinkingdrunk]

Day 10: Favourite Director

Matthew Vaughn

Movies:

Kick-Ass (2010) + X-men:First Class (2011)

[chrisrobbins2012]

X-Men cinematic timelines

far too many make it too complicted and didn’t pay attention.

1-original films timeline

X-Men:First Class

X-Men Origins:Wolverine

X-Men

X2

X-Men:The Last Stand

The Wolverine

X-Men:Days of Future Past-The Rogue cut

now if your going to watch film from beging to end there is how i recommand watching them and please watch rogue cut of dofp as it is best version and better send off of original timeline.look i know first class makes problems with contunity and dofp before creating new timeline adds a bit to them

2-New Films Timeline

X-Men:First Class

X-Men:Days of Future Past-theatical cut

X-Men APocalypse

Dark Phoenix

The New Mutants

Logan

If your going to view timeline viewing first class should be in both.look i am not here to debate quality of APocalypse,dark phoenix,and New mutants.I think Logan should be here as finale of new timeline.plus hints apocalypse post credit scene and new mutants tie in to logan’s creating of mutant children

3-Deadpool timeline

Deadpool

Deadpool 2

while some might argue deadpool films as part of new films timeline i think despite the mutants and xpmen referces and connections best to view both of these films on their own.especilly since there will be new deadpool film with ryan reynolds as deadpool while x-men are being rebooted someday

4-TV Timeline 1

Legion seasons 1-3

5-TV Timeline 2

The Gifted Season 1

The Gifted Season 2

although the gifted is done very much in style of x-men,x2,and the last stand they clearly are not in contunity with those films.

[banjodanger]

X-Men:First Class(2011) Afterthoughts

Oh boy, I’ve been dragging ass posting this. Honestly, I’m just going to start by saying this is, so far, the best X-Men film. I can’t imagine it will slip that far in my personal rankings after everything is finished, either. This is might actually be the best one of the whole series, and therein lies my problem. How am I supposed to be funny when things are good? “Oh no, this movie is just TOO competently directed and acted! The shame!” I’m not setting this up to say this is a perfect movie, but as far as the X-Men series this movie stands as damn close to the pinnacle. And this franchise needed this movie too, remember that this movie was doing clean up duty for five years of misfires. X2 had been the last well-received movie, and that came out nine years previous to this one. They definitely needed a win and they got it with this one.

I want to begin by saying I’m not always a big fan of prequels. I feel like a lot of prequels don’t add a lot to the story we already enjoyed and a lot them rely on our familiarity with the characters to carry them through by-the-numbers plots. We already saw that with Origins, it was very easy to tell who was going to survive and who wasn’t. And while I won’t argue that this movie isn’t revelatory in terms of plotting, at least the revenge story comes to a more logical conclusion. The movie succeeds on that point by making the focus of the revenge not the character, but transforming Erik into Magneto. It’s one of the many reasons I love that shot of him forcing the coin through Shaw’s head tracking through Xavier’s at the same time. It’s him severing his connection with that path.

I’d argue that the main cast is easily the biggest key to the success of this movie. Moreso than any of the movies that came before it, this cast actually looks like they might spend time around each other once the cameras stop rolling. Look, I think the first two movies are good but if you told me James Marsden and Famke Janssen met at a bus station catching a ride to the movie shoot I wouldn’t have much of an argument. Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence have more chemistry in one scene than Cyclops and Jean Grey show in three whole movies. Well, two and a half. Ratner did him super dirty.

James Mcavoy does a great job as Charles Xavier. I think the first trilogy tried to make him too much of an altruist, then finally crammed some classic Xavier dickishness into the third film while still making him out into a martyr. This movie does a better job of presenting him as a flawed character, a guy with big dreams and ideas who still makes mistakes. I appreciate that the movie draws special attention to the fact that he argues for mutants while at the same time being visibly disgusted by Mystique’s natural form. I really appreciate the movie showing his own biases and not making him the pure hero the first trilogy mostly painted him as.

I could praise each actor individually but I’m not looking to make this post fifty pages. However, I’d like to single out Michael Fassbender simply because he most resembles his counterpart in the first trilogy. Poetic and unforgiving, rage and intelligence, he makes an absolutely perfect Magneto, and throughout his next four appearances he is always watchable. His scene on Genosha is one of the few things i can still recall over a year after seeing Dark Phoenix.

I want to get into it with this movie, by which I mean Darwin’s death. I mentioned it in my previous post, and I got a couple things wrong. Angel doesn’t defect after his death, she defects before, and he attempts to stop her. So instead of a completely senseless death it’s only kind of senseless. And it still doesn’t feel right. I sat through two consecutive viewings of this one and this was one of the hardest scenes to sit through, simply because it brings the movie to a halt, and not in the way the filmmakers intended. It feels wrong in a property that is supposed to be an allegory for racism and oppression.

About that...this whole movie takes place in the sixties, a few years before the landmark passage of the Voting Rights Act. Yet we don’t see so much as a glimpse of either Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, who theoretically should have been hot topics of discussion. It took some repeat viewings but the absence of any discussion stands out more and more, especially because Jack Kirby and Stan Lee based Xavier and Magneto on King and Malcolm. I’ll give the movie some credit, mutants are unknown to the larger world for ninety percent of this movie, so there’s not a whole lot of room for parallels to be drawn. There’s a lot of ignorant people out there that deny racism, but you’ll find considerably fewer that deny the existence of black people outright.

I’m also going to mention that had they tried to include footage of King or Malcolm X, or had actors play them, that it would have been at best a horrific mistake. Absence is preferable to tone-deaf misfire.

On a much smaller scale, Shaw’s plan isn’t really given a whole lot of screen time, and that’s a very good thing because Shaw’s plan is fucking ludicrous. Actually, let me rephrase; his plan is fifty percent ludicrous. To summarize, Shaw is playing both Russia and the United States against each other in order to escalate the Cold War. He’s goading both sides into placing missiles in nearby territories. That’s a good plan, he’s playing both sides to come out on top, he probably stands to make a bunch of money of the construction of those...oh, no, his plan is for the ensuing nuclear fallout to create more mutants. Look, I know the X-Men are nicknamed “Children of the Atom” and a few of the original origin stories involve nuclear radiation. But those are also fifty years old, when kids were hiding under their desks for bomb drills. In 2011, that plan is dumb, all Shaw is going to do is kill a lot of people and make a lot of land uninhabitable. He should be thanking the X-men for showing up and ruining his plan. Except he can’t because Erik drove a coin through his brain.

Which is probably the point, Shaw’s plan doesn’t matter. He could be planning to steal cable for all his plan matters. We’re not here to see the X-Men defeat the bad guy, we’re here to see Charles and Erik become Professor X and Magneto. We’re here to see the great fall out between two friends that became bitter enemies over the future of their entire species. We’re here to...watch Beast and Mystique flirt? Honestly didn’t know that’s what I bought the ticket for but yea, I’m into it.

So far, I’d call this one of the best X-Men movies, if not the best. There’s just about everything in this movie that I look for in an X-Men story. There’s great action, there’s romance, there’s Xavier and Magneto giving each other steamy looks. The movie isn’t without problems, but no movie is perfect and certainly not in this series. Oh, and since I haven’t done this yet...

Budget: 160 Million

First Weekend: 55 Million

Total Gross: 352 Million

Coming up next, the only movie that directly addresses the aftermath of Ratner’s Mistake is Wolverine’s second solo film. It’s..pretty good?

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~X-Men:First Class~, Part 32

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fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:

Zoe Kravitz still from X-men:First Class

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梗概：没有人能理解在富裕环境长大却要忍受比常人更多倍孤独的感觉——除了那些在相同背景成长的人，的确如此。托尼·斯塔克去了牛津大学，在不幸和冒险的故事中，遇见了一些人，结识了敌人，结交了朋友，改变了人们的思想，坠入了爱河。

Words: 940, Chapters: 2/10, Language: 中文

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies), X-Men:First Class(2011), X-Men (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Raven | Mystique, Tony Stark, Charles Xavier, Loki (Marvel), Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Clint Barton, Thor (Marvel), Angel Salvadore, Erik Lehnsherr, Logan (X-Men), Other Marvel Characters, Phil Coulson

Relationships: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Erik Lehnsherr/Charles Xavier, Loki/Thor (Marvel), Raven | Mystique/Angel Salvadore, James "Bucky" Barnes/Natasha Romanov, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - No Powers, Alternate Universe - College/University, Oxford, the genius household, Misunderstandings, Pets, Homemaking, Nesting, BFFs, Pining, the Oxford-Cambridge rowing rivalry, Mentions of child neglect, playing chess as not-a-euphemism, aggressively eating muffins, paperclip!, stationery love, slightly promiscuous sex, mentions of drug use, drunk sexual escapades, mentions of less-than-ideal parenting, get-together, happy endings, warning: genius at work!, stand back - Tony is trying science, Raven's life is so hard, Stupid Boys, coffee makes everything better, 中文翻译 | Translation in Chinese, 授权翻译

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