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X2 (promoted in some markets as X2: X-Men United or X-Men 2: X-Men United) is an American movie, first released in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2003, and in the United States on May 2. The film is a sequel to X-Men. It was directed by Bryan Singer, and starred Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and Halle Berry. X-Men 2 Movie Poster (fair use) This work is copyrighted. ...
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Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ...
April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). ...
2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ...
A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ...
Movie Poster X-Men is a United States action movie, first released in Australia on 13 July 2000. ...
Bryan Singer. ...
Patrick Stewart Patrick Stewart, OBE, (born July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England) is a British film, television and stage actor best known for his roles in Shakespearean productions, Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Professor Xavier in both X-Men and X2. ...
Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor who portrayed Wolverine in X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men 3 (2006). ...
Halle Berry Halle Berry speaking at a press conference for her 2004 film Catwoman Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an Oscar-winning American actress and model. ...
The film is loosely based on the 1982 X-Men graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills. In the film, William Stryker is a high-ranking army general who leads an assault into Professor Xavier's school to build his own version of Xavier's mutant-hunting computer Cerebro in order to decimate every mutant on Earth. The X-Men are forced to ally with Magneto and Mystique to defeat Stryker. The film introduced Nightcrawler to film-goers, and was an even greater success than its prequel, earning approx. $215 million in North America alone, making it one of the top ten movies of 2003. It was also proclaimed by many fans and critics a superior film than its predecessor. 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ...
Graphic novel (sometimes abbreviated GN) is a term for a kind of book, usually telling an extended story with sequential art ( comics). ...
God Loves, Man Kills (more fully, Marvel Graphic Novel #5: X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills) is a graphic novel published in 1982 by Marvel Comics, starring their popular superhero team the X-Men. ...
Professor X (full name Charles Francis Xavier) is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Cerebro is a mutant-detecting mechanism that the X-Men leader Professer Charles Xavier uses to detect mutants who are using their powers. ...
Magneto (real name unknown, alias Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) is a comic book character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
cover to Mystique #11 Mystique (Raven Darkholme) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. ...
A prequel is a work that portrays events which are set in the same universe as a previously completed narrative, but at an earlier time. ...
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Plot Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. After a devastating attempt on the President's life, and the revelation that a mutant was involved, public pressure to ratify the Mutant Registration Act increases, an act which would force all mutants in the nation to publicly declare themselves mutants and dictate the nature of all of their powers to the federal government. Seal of the President of the United States The President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. ...
// Marvel Comics In Marvel comic books, particularly those of the X-Men franchise, a mutant is a human being who is born with genetic modifications that allow for abilities not possessed by normal humans. ...
An attack on Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted (labeled a Mutant training facility by the media), leads to an unlikely alliance with the recently escaped Magneto in a frantic race to stop William Stryker, a military leader with a hatred of mutants, before he can succeed in his plan to destroy all mutants.
Stryker has orchestrated the attack on the President to get official approval for his attack on all mutants. He is able to control mutants with a powerful drug, and gains control over Professor Xavier through Jason, one of the professor's former students, who is able to project powerful visions in the mind, blinding a person to reality. Stryker has created a copy of Professor Xavier's machine Cerebro which, we learn, was invented by then-friends Professor Xavier and Erik Lensherr (Magneto). Cerebro is a mutant-detecting mechanism that the X-Men leader Professer Charles Xavier uses to detect mutants who are using their powers. ...
Magneto. ...
In the process, Wolverine learns some of his forgotten past and how his body was enhanced with a superstrong adamantium skeleton. He meets another adamantium-laced foe, Lady Deathstrike, and fights her to protect the other mutants who have been imprisoned in a secret facility by Stryker. Wolverine (Logan, later revealed to have been born James Howlett) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero, and member of the X-Men. ...
Adamantium is a fictional metal alloy in a number of fictional settings, notably the Marvel Universe. ...
In biology, the skeleton or skeletal system is the biological system providing support in living organisms. ...
Lady Deathstrike (Yuriko Oyama) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillainess in Marvel Comics and an occasional foe of the X-Men. ...
While in the facility, Magneto becomes an enemy again and secretly escapes. In the end, Dr. Jean Grey sacrifices herself to save Professor Xavier and the other X-Men. However, there is evidence she may return, like she did in the comics, as the Phoenix. Jean Grey is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
The Phoenix enity. ...
The X-Men convinced the President of the truth behind his assassination attempt and persuade him to make a choice: Human- and Mutant-kind working together in peace or destroying each other in a war.
The basic story elements, involving Stryker's plot to use Xavier's powers against all mutants, and the X-Men's resulting alliance with Magneto, are loosely adapted from the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont. In that story, Stryker has a military background, but is currently a religious leader whose wife gave birth to an obviously mutant infant. In a fit of rage, he killed them both and decided that he had been chosen by God to destroy mutants. In the film, his military background is moved to the foreground, and the religious aspect of the character is eliminated. Instead of killing his wife and son in childbirth, the Stryker of the film sends his son (loosely based on the character Mastermind from the comics) to Xavier to be cured of his mutation. Unable to change his mutation, and resentful of his parents, he began tormenting his mother by projecting nightmarish images into her brain, causing her to commit suicide by drilling a hole into her head. Stryker responded by giving his son a lobotomy, and extracting his brain fluid, which he now uses to control other mutants. The term God (capitalized in English language as a proper noun) is often used to refer to a Supreme Being. ...
Mastermind is the name of several fictional characters, all of whom are or have been supervillains, who exist in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
In the anatomy of animals, the brain, or encephalon, is the supervisory center of the nervous system. ...
Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of wilfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...
Main cast Wolverine (Logan, later revealed to have been born James Howlett) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero, and member of the X-Men. ...
Hugh Jackman Hugh Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor who portrayed Wolverine in X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003) and X-Men 3 (2006). ...
Professor X (full name Charles Francis Xavier) is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Patrick Stewart Patrick Stewart, OBE, (born July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England) is a British film, television and stage actor best known for his roles in Shakespearean productions, Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Professor Xavier in both X-Men and X2. ...
This article is about the X-Men character. ...
Halle Berry Halle Berry speaking at a press conference for her 2004 film Catwoman Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an Oscar-winning American actress and model. ...
Jean Grey is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Famke Janssen as Xenia Onatopp in the James Bond film GoldenEye Famke Janssen (born November 5, 1965) is a Dutch actress. ...
Cyclops (Scott Summers, occasionally nicknamed Slim) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. ...
Actor James Marsden James Marsden (born 18 September 1973, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA ) is an American actor. ...
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. ...
Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler in X2. ...
Rogue is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. ...
Anna Paquin Anna Helene Paquin (b. ...
Iceman (Robert Louis Bobby Drake) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and an original and current member of the X-Men. ...
Shawn Ashmore (born October 7, 1979 in Richmond, British Columbia) is a Canadian film and television actor. ...
This is an article about the Marvel Comics character Pyro. ...
Aaron Stanford is an American actor. ...
Magneto (real name unknown, alias Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) is a comic book character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Sir Ian McKellen. ...
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Brian Cox as Henry II in The Devils Crown. ...
cover to Mystique #11 Mystique (Raven Darkholme) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in 2004 Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (born November 6, 1972) is a former supermodel currently making the switch to become an actress. ...
Lady Deathstrike and Wolverine. ...
Kelly Hu Kelly Ann Hu (born February 13, 1968) is an American actress. ...
Robert Kelly is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. ...
Bruce Davison (born 28 June 1946) is an American actor. ...
Differences from the comic book Longtime fans of the X-Men title will recognize that some liberties have been taken with the X-Men characters. While the movie need not follow all the conventions of the comic, they are interesting to note. - Nightcrawler's blue fur has been replaced by skin of the same color covered in self-made angelic glyph tattoos.
- Iceman appears as a teenager and appears much younger than many of the other X-Men. In the comics, Iceman was one of the original X-Men. He appeared and left many years before the 1980s X-Men like Rogue, Storm, and Wolverine. If he were around at all, he would appear closer to Jean Grey's age.
- Colossus is in this movie but has only a very small part and is not part of the X-Men team, only an older student of the academy. While young in age when he began with the X-Men, he was a full-fledged member from the beginning in the comics.
- William Stryker is a zealot preacher as in the comics, while the film's version is the head commander of the covert black ops program Weapon X. His son, Jason, is a very loose incarnation of Jason " Mastermind" Wyngarde, who was a full-grown, mentally and physically able illusionist (with no relation to Stryker) from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the comics, but is a wheelchair-bound teenager half conscious bombarded on sedatives in the film.
Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. ...
Iceman (Robert Louis Bobby Drake) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and an original and current member of the X-Men. ...
Rogue is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. ...
This article is about the X-Men character. ...
Wolverine (Logan, later revealed to have been born James Howlett) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero, and member of the X-Men. ...
Jean Grey is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Colossus (Piotr Peter Nikolaievitch Rasputin) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, and a member of the X-Men. ...
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Mastermind is the name of several fictional characters, all of whom are or have been supervillains, who exist in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, or the Brotherhood, is a team of comic book mutant supervillains in Marvel Comics universe who are devoted to mutant superiority over normal humans. ...
Trivia - In the scene where Mystique accesses Stryker's computer for the location of Magneto's cell, a list of mutants can be seen, several of which are from the comic books, including Remy LeBeau
- In the scene where Mystique confronts the guard to Magneto's plastic cell in a bar, the news is on the TV by the bar. On the news is an interview with a so-called "Dr. Hank McCoy", who in the comics is the member of the X-Men known as Beast.
cover to Mystique #11 Mystique (Raven Darkholme) is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Magneto (real name unknown, alias Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) is a comic book character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Gambit (Remy LeBeau) is a mutant comic book character in the fictional Marvel Universe. ...
The Beast (nom de guerre for Dr. Henry Hank Philip McCoy) is a fictional character, a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
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Shadowcat (Katherine Kitty Pryde) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Siryn is a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe, best known as a member of the X-Men offshoot X-Force. ...
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