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Originally Posted by trebleshot

I just don't see them doing the Shi'ar Empire in any live-action X-Men movie, whether it's Fox or Marvel backing it.

Probably not, no. Marvel will probably keep most of the cosmic stuff to cosmic-themed movies if they eventually get around to them.

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I'm still looking forward to it, but I have a few reservations. As cool as the scene was, Magneto lifting a submarine out of the water worries me a bit. But I'll be OK as long as the story has some kind of explanation for why Magneto isn't still that powerful in X1 (besides being 40+ years older, since he's the same age in the comics and he's only gotten more powerful).

Well, the films were a little more realistic with Magneto's age (physically speaking), as in the comics he's been de-aged and cloned and had all kinds of other stuff happen to make him physically younger than he should be (and even then they've basically given up and just said "Yeah his powers help keep him young). I don't see why they couldn't also be more realistic about the toll age takes on him. Even so he did some pretty impressive stuff in X2 (Halting a crashing Blackbird effortlessly, for example) and X3, and even X1 despite the more limited FX budget. He really didn't have all that much opportunity for showing off his power in X1, but lifting all those police cars, guns and bullets and manipulating them all at the same time is pretty freaking impressive for the level of control if not the raw power.

Plus the movies tend to be more realistic/limited about Magneto's powers in general...he generally only manipulates metal, as opposed to the uber catch-all mega-powers he has in the comics that they just pseudoscience away as "Mastery of the entire electromagnetic spectrum."

He looks like he's struggling with the Submarine. Personally I'm just kinda psyched because it could easily be a shout-out to the Leningrad incident from the comics.

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Originally Posted by nakobass

LOL!!! Seriously, that's funny as hell. Thank You FOX for saving me 10 bucks.

You think it's somehow unusual that teenagers might do track and field events at a school and that one of their teachers might have a starter pistol for that purpose? Either way it's just speculation, and a pretty plausible reason for Magneto to be carrying a gun in that context. Maybe there's another reason entirely, but you'd have to actually watch the movie or at least wait for reviews to see what it is. Either way, it isn't like Magneto's going to run around packing heat for the whole movie.