I saw X-Men 2 today...

[WarBlade]

Here's what I want to see in X3:

The government, extremely alarmed at the near-death of everyone in the world, somehow learns that it was at the hands of a mutant (perhaps Stryker's second leaked the information).  Wanting to ensure that such a situation never happens again, the president (maybe not the one from X2, perhaps this is next term) authorizes yet another secret operation to curb the "mutant threat", headed by Henry Trask.  Yes, that's right, I want some hot hot Sentinel buttkicking action!  The Sentinels tear up the mansion (again), and we see cuts to sentinels fighting other mutants (perfect place for some cameos).  The Sentinels, however, develop a glitch:  since every "normal" human being has the potential to mutate, or pass a mutation to their progeny, the only way to wipe out all mutants is to kill all the normals as well.  This culminates in the X-Men having to fight their way into Trask's base to turn off the Sentinels (and perhaps get some Master Mold action, too).  This would quite nicely tie up the current "Anti-Mutant Government" story arc.

On one hand you point out the movies "stay away from the outlandish" and then you wish for Sentinels??? :o

:lol:

I can almost guarantee Sentinels are one thing we're very unlikely to see.

Oh, a few more things X3 needs:
Gambit
Cannonball Special!
Longshot (yeah, I wish...)
More Colossus
Rogue's powers

- Gambit? I hope not. :P
- Cannonball? I wonder if that was the kid playing basketball in X-Men (looked like a teleporter, but not sure).
- Longshot? I'd love to see Longshot, but a synthetic man from another dimension doesn't fit the movie continuity . . . although I wouldn't put it past them to include him with a suitable backstory if he was deemed a suitable character.
- More Colossus? Colossus and Nightcrawler were my favourite characters from the second generation and I love seeing them now. Unfortunately the 'actor' playing Colossus sounded distinctly American in his one line of dialogue and that just doesn't feel right (speaking of which, my memory of Pyro in the comic was that he was Australian). :blink:
- Rogue's Powers? Um. Rogue has one power. We've seen it. Unless she gets to kill someone who flies and throws cars around she'll still have one power.

No, I think X2 has thrown us right up to mutant character saturation point for the time being. The problem with adding more characters is they tend to spread the story thin as the film tries to do them all justice. If I had a wish regarding characters for X3 it would be simply to focus on and develope that which is already there. B)