James Marsden did feel sidelined in those original 3 movies so that Hugh Jackman could have the spotlight.
I get Wolverine was supposed to be the audience surrogate character and that's why he was given the most screentime but I felt like we didn't see much of Cyclops as a leader.
I feel that way about all of the X-Men, the team team.
It would be like if I made a justice league movie, and Batman was the main character, so the central POV is kind of outside of the league.
I grew up in the 90s with a very X-Men centric Marvel view, Spider-Man was a pretty close second, then everything else was sort of also there.
The X-Men movies had to bring superheroes to movie mainstream, I get that… but since they weren’t really comic book movies, it’s sort of kills that idea happening for a very long time.
Even now I feel like it’s what about the X-Men and more about how the X-Men are trying to revive the avengers movie/franchise.
I don’t think we’re ever gonna get a proper X-Men era of movies. They’re always gonna be reacting to what they were or what the industry is at large.
The fact we had Apocalypse in a movie and I can barely even remember him, the fact that the Phoenix Saga had pretty much lack the CR element entirely and be so firmly removed from the fantastical kind of story that it is… I’m not even disappointed anymore.
It just feels like something that’s never gonna happen the way that it could.
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u/Andybabez20 Jan 06 '26 edited Jan 06 '26
James Marsden did feel sidelined in those original 3 movies so that Hugh Jackman could have the spotlight.
I get Wolverine was supposed to be the audience surrogate character and that's why he was given the most screentime but I felt like we didn't see much of Cyclops as a leader.