Think they'll touch on the aftermath in the next movie beyond a nod?
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Mogz — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 01:07 PM)
Just saw this finally, wish I hadn't listened to the naysayers and went to the theatres because it was surprisingly good. Some cringe moments and plotholes yes, but leagues above many other films that are getting better ratings.
Anyway, Magento caused worldwide devastation in the final act of the movie, taking apart entire cities and suspending the material in the sky (assumably this would have come down -hard- while he was busy fighting apocalypse).
Moreover not long prior to this, Apocalypse himself caused -all the world's nuclear missles- to go up into space.
I'm really hoping that the sequel doesn't just show some lame news story "some rebuilding still going on in the aftermath"
I mean these are globe changing events. There are no nuclear powers (yet, there's probably a real race to build new nukes). Worldwide diplomacy and economics should be in utter chaos. Nations would be falling, new ones rising, etc etc. -
hafabee — 9 years ago(January 18, 2017 11:05 PM)
I think it's a safe bet to say that the after effects of
X-Men Apocalypse
will still be being felt into
X-Men Supernova
, yes. All of the previous movies in this saga have felt the after effects of the movies that have come before, despite quite a few years between movies.
X-Men Days of Future Past
was referring back to
X-Men First Class
and the events that happened in Cuba quite a bit. In fact it was the main reason that Bolivar Trask was capturing mutants and experimenting on them, and building his Sentinels. Before Sebastian Shaw put his plans into action and Professor X joined the CIA as an outside agent no one even knew about mutants beyond wild theories and religion. Even afterwards it seems like the Soviets and the Americans covered it up neatly, especially Trask's abductions and all of the missing people/mutants he must have been responsible for.
The world in
X-Men Apocalypse
had changed a lot from the events of
X-Men Days of Future Past
as well, and really despite the decade leap forward the movie picks up right where the last one left off, narratively speaking. The world had been introduced to mutants at large, and people understood there were some good ones that were looking out for them through personal heroics, even in the face of a hostile government who had commissioned weapons to destroy them. There's an "uneasy alliance" between human and mutant at the start of the film, picking up where the last one left off.
X-Men Apocalypse
relates back to
X-Men First Class
in a few places as well, but on a more personal level for the characters involved.
My guess is that
X-Men Supernova
will feature a world that is still recovering from the destabilizing effects of the events of
X-Men Apocalypse
, and that the X-Men are trying to help out all over the globe while other, more sinister forces are taking advantage of the weakened stability. There could be mutants who have taken over whole cities or even countries who were badly destabilized and left vulnerable, and other nations that enslave mutants entirely to rebuild themselves from Magneto's devastation ("a mutant caused this, so mutants must fix it"). That would seem the natural story progression here, with several different directions that it could go in from there.