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X-Men: First Class (2011) | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
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marveldaily · 2 months
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X-Men: First Class dir. Matthew Vaughn | 2011
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msermesth · 10 months
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Kinda obsessed with this idea of post-Endgame Steve as one of Charles and Erik's handlers during First Class. He's not Moira, and definitly not CIA, but maybe some other agency? Possibly SHIELD related? He's been investigating Shaw in case he had any connection to Red Skull and somehow ends up being a part of the group that reaches out to Charles.
At first, I couldn't find anything interesting narratively with this because Charles would know immediately he's Captain America, right? Except now I'm convinced Charles would think Steve is INSANE. It's not the Captain America thing, though in context Charles doubts that. It's the fact that when Charles reads his mind, he finds out that Steve thinks he's from the future. And that he's fought aliens. And that he thinks he's friends with the God of Thunder. And oh wait, he's been to space. And worked with a fucking talking raccoon.
This man must be crazy and somehow he has the power of the government behind him.
Steve, on the other hand, is going by an alias and has only shared his past with a few choice people, often omitting the more unbelievable details. He's tried to be open with Peggy, but once he made a joke while they were in a park about not taking the time to learn Groot when he had a chance and she regarded him with such skepticism that he's kept most of the rest to himself.
He's beyond excited to get to work with the mutants, and despite the fact that he's pretty sure there weren't mutants in his own timeline (he would know!) he believes in them with all his heart. He feels especially kindred to Charles with all his rhetoric about using his gifts to help humanity. He adores Hank and his big brain. He's compelled by Erik's single-minded determination. He throws himself into the mission to find Shaw with his own special brand of stoic enthusiasm by researching mutation and running theories past Charles and Erik whenever he sees him.
Charles, at first, ignores these theories but slowly comes to the conclusion that this man is at least somewhat intelligent. He could be useful. And then Steve's the reason no one gets hurt when Shaw attacks the CIA compound, so Charles is willing to accept this guy might actually be Captain America incognito.
(But everything else must not be true. He's still crazy. Maybe all that experimentation fried his brain.)
Charles shares his thoughts with Erik, who cares less about the insanity angle and more about the fact that this man looks like he can actually protect people. He's glad there's at least one other person who can hold his own in hand-to-hand fighting. So what if Steve thinks he's close with the king of Wakanda? At least he's useful.
After the attack, Steve supports moving the team to Westchester. He doesn't trust the CIA and well, he's partial to the idea of a rich guy giving a bunch of misfits a home. He's also a little startled to discover that the very real possibility of nuclear war sparks something in him. Not excitement, definitely not that. But something closer to clarity. It's been almost twenty years since he's faced an annihilation-level threat. He, unfortunately, feels at home under end-of-the-world pressure.
So he helps train the young mutants and discusses tactics and feels closer to people than he has since he and Peggy started to drift apart. Then he sees fault lines in the conversations and arguments about the future of mutant-kind and is overtaken by a fear that it will tear the nascent group in two. Because what Steve knows is this: someday those differences won't matter. Someday you'll have the option of staring down an annihilation-level threat and being told that you weren't there when someone needed you and if you could choose again you'd choose the former.
But Steve doesn't try to interfere. He's not naive; he knows that he can only imagine what it's like to be a mutant.
But it's hard not to project.
It isn't that he regrets his decision to go back in time. He'd do it again. He saved Bucky and ripped Hydra out of SHIELD and he's so close to finding out how Red Skull ended up in space guarding the soul stone. But it isn't until he begins to teach Raven the finer points of combat that he truly feels not alone.
He's with them when they go to Cuba. He sits next to Moira and wonders if he should have brought the shield. He hasn't used it since he came back to the past. For all intents and purposes, Captain America is supposed to be dead; yet, Steve's blood thrums through his veins like he's standing on the ruins of the Avengers Compound next to Tony and Thor.
(Charles has long since learned to ignore Steve's strange internal monologue. This man should have been a storyteller instead of a soldier.)
Steve doesn't fix it, in the end. He falters just when he could be of use because when Erik holds those missiles in his power and turns them around on the ships he thinks of Tony turning a missile around and at flying it into the sky. He wonders how he could be so wrong about someone. It's at this moment Moira picks up the gun. Steve's fast, but he's not faster than a bullet.
It still shatters Charles's spine.
They save the world, yes, but Steve will only be able to watch as Erik's sent into solitary confinement. He can't prove Erik didn't kill Kennedy. And, of course, he'll try to reach out to Charles as the school closes and he shrinks into himself, but Charles can't stand to look at Steve and only finds him marginally more tolerable when he can't hear Steve's impossible thoughts.
It isn't until Logan arrives that Charles realizes that Steve might actually be the person he thinks he is. However, Steve's halfway across the world for some unimportant reason during the events of Days of Future's Past. He's not on the plane when Charles tells Erik that he wasn't there when Charles needed him. He's not there when Erik--again--chooses his principles over Charles.
And that's fine. You can't rewrite the future in Steve's brand of time travel. You live with your choices. You try to be there when people need you and you live with the consequences when you cannot.
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maryatthecomiccon · 2 years
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~ Richard Siken
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xmcu-fietro · 1 year
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FIRST CLASS GOT REMOVED FROM DISNEY PLUS?? EXCUSE ME
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superherocaps · 2 years
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xstick-noodlesx · 2 years
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Imagine how truly AWKWARD the beach divorce scene from X-Men: First Class would have ended like if Azazel hadn’t been there to teleport people off Cuba.
Like Charles and Erik breaking up, everyone chosing sides, relationships torn apart, Charles being paralysed, Erik throwing people across the beach, Moira nearly being choked, Raven leaving her brother and all of that while they were still stuck on the same beach, looking at each other like 👀👀
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wolf-stark · 2 years
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How old was Magneto in First Class??
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kayla-cute-frost · 1 month
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Just kayla and her best friend
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dailyflicks · 12 days
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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS 2011 | dir. Matthew Vaughn
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accelactor · 27 days
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Erik: Don’t worry Charles. As long as I am here, we will stand together even if the whole world is our enemy.
Charles: Thank you Erik, but may I ask why the whole world is our enemy?
Erik: Because I am here.
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marveldaily · 5 months
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James McAvoy in X-Men: First Class | 2011
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91939art · 3 months
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This Valentine's day, travel to Genosha together! ♥♣♦♠
And who's that, soaring with the gulls?
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keylimeart · 4 months
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because if it's not love then it's the bomb that will bring us together
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maryatthecomiccon · 2 years
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~ Richard Siken
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