So my topic is regarding the next X-men movie of 2016 X-men Age of Apocalypse. I want to know fan opinions for a movie how would Apocalypse best be portrayed to be both menacing and a true worthy opponent. My thinking is the film should not rush to show him in his massive hulky form.
1. A giant villain rarely seems truly menacing, in fact making him a cgi hulk seems to overshadow his awesome power set
2. I don't think a superhero movie works with a giant fighting small groups of mutants swarming all around him.It may work in comics but on screen it kind of looks silly.
My take would be to build him up as a menace through the film, we know he can possess or astral project himself vast distances so why not make him initially some essence that possesses mutants and in the process enhances their power, or having a gradual revitalization through his horsemen. Like if the story goes that to be awakened 4 celestial elements at different points on earth hidden for centuries when combined are an activation key for his revitalization chamber that is a machine that would evolve all mutants on earth to their peak but kill every human(even if it is similar to the X-men 1 idea, but this seems a different trilogy so I think it's OK). We have Apocalypse possess and work through first one horseman retrieving a component element/key and then another and at every point we can have X men battle him in a new form ,through taking over a new host .Then with the movie progressing we can say 3 times the X-men get defeated as he takes 3 of the 4 keys. Each horseman would grow in power set as he transfers his essence to the next , so that the next from retains the powers of the first host and also gets new abilities of the current host.To make the film dark maybe each horseman dies when his essence leaves and that is why he needs to find his revitalisation pod to keep his body permanent without needing hosts. he is finally stopped when the 4th horseman is defeated so that his full power or form is not complete and the master revitalization pod is destroyed before he can enter it.
Anyway I was just thinking what would make the story engaging and almost mystical in a way. I mentioned on here before that i don't want Apocalypse to mimic Kang the Conqueror where we have all emphasis on celestial technology and robots, it would be too much like Avengers.I think he should be shown as an essence that when he possesses a mutant maybe some glowing circuitry (almost tattoo like) is shown on their face or body and they turn dark grey in colour and their eyes glow red .Once his in a mutant's body he exhibits his own powers like shape shifting, morphing his body into blades or even power mimicry i.e able to duplicate powers of mutants he fights against while in his host as well as rendering his hosts temporarily(while he inhabits them) indestructible in a much more potent way than even wolverine enabling him to regenerate blown off body parts if he is facing an army or heavy weaponry. As the movie progresses and he gets a new host the newer host has a bigger form and becomes a more and more powerful Apocalypse , his body also evolves in every host such that on top of more powers the celestial tech also is shown to be evolving into a more dangerous weapon system enabling him to morph his body into weapons that can even shoot projectiles or split into autonomous smaller duplicate entities.
Obviously with each essence combining into another , every succeeding body of the horseman host would grow in size and so by the end of the movie we can have a larger Apocalypse that is closer to his comic form and by the end of the 3 horsemen combining he has an awesome power set. We can actually say he selectively picks his horsemen for their power sets that he enhances with his celestial technology that is part of his being, perhaps first horseman could be Sinister who is effectively immortal, the next horseman could be a cyborg like Spiral, the 3rd a telepath maybe Exodus, the 4th a reality-warper. So you get the idea the movie builds up as it goes to an awesome climax. At the end in fact we can have the host/4th horseman that was defeated retain the apocalypse essence so that while Apocalypse's scheme is defeated one of the 'cogs' is still present and so Apocalypse is free to be a threat another day even if this is a concluding chapter to the trilogy.
What do you guys think, I want fans of Apocalypse in particular to brainstorm on ideas here...
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