Over the years there have been countless collaborators in the X-Men movies. Their own casts and teams created the films, but various comics influenced the plots of these films. In some cases, these storylines got infinitely worse with the movies that tried to adapt them.
However, there are some cases in which the stories adapted by Fox to the X-Men cinematic universe were excellently adapted. In fact, several of these stories even seemed to improve in their transition from the dashboard page to the movie screen. While some fell short, others showed that X-Men They should keep getting more movies, potentially in the MCU.
10 X-Men: Magneto’s Testament (2008)
After several years of failures, the film X-Men: First Class it seemed to breathe new life into a franchise that had previously gone under. This movie had a lot of original content created specifically for this movie. However, when making the film, several X-Men story arcs were consulted from the comics and drawn to use as inspiration for this source film.
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One of the storylines that contributed to the film was “X-Men: Magneto’s Testament”, a story by Greg Pak and Carmine Di Giandomenico dating back to Magneto’s childhood and youth. This argument was perfectly used in First Class and it gave Magneto a devastating and compelling story that made him the radical man viewers know and love.
9 Emma Frost (2003 – 2004)
Another character that X-Men: First Class In charge of presenting was the White Queen, perhaps better known by her real name: Emma Frost. Although Emma Frost did not receive the entire story of her origin in First Class , the film relied on the comics to influence Emma’s slight origin and portrayal in the film.
Karl Bollers and Randy Green’s “Emma Frost” series served as an essential inspiration for Emma in First Class. The sassy blonde queen of frost from the film can go back to this story and make it better.
8 X-Men: First Class (2006 – 2007)
Although it may be obvious that the eight-issue series “X-Men: First Class” inspired the film. X-Men: First Class, nevertheless, it is still a vital contribution to history.
Led by Jeff Parker and Roger Cruz, this series featured many guest stars and various spin-offs, attempting to present the X-Men in various new and different ways. The movie X-Men: First Class He was inspired by this plot and gave everyone clear origin stories in the X-Men franchise.
7 Wolverine (1982)
As the X-Men film franchise continued, Wolverine proved popular enough to receive his own trilogy in the cinematic universe. After what X-Men Origins: Wolverine did not have great success, Fox hoped that Wolverine it was much better. Fortunately, the movie was able to use its origin stories better than X-Men Origins. : Wolverine He never did.
The plot “Wolverine”, published as a limited series in four issues in 1982, was essential to create the plot of Wolverine. The creative team consisted of Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, an incredibly dynamic duo, and the story moved from the United States to Japan, as did the film. The movie corrected Wolverine’s course to a great extent and improved his story in the movies significantly.
6 Days of Future Past (1981)
Although some parts of the story of “X-Men: Days of the Future” got worse in the movie X-Men: Days of the Future, some elements of the story were used effectively. The original story of Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin gave Fox the perfect opportunity to clean up the franchise.
After what X-Men: The Last Stand seems to destroy the timeline, the irrevocable X-Men movie : Days of Future Past used his eponymous plot incredibly well and was able to fix everything in the process essentially.
5 Cable and Deadpool (2004 – 2008)
The series “Cable & Deadpool” by Fabian Nicieza, Mark Brooks and Rob Liefeld has not only served as inspiration for Deadpool and Deadpool 2, but The storylines of this series were really essential to Ryan Reynolds’ portrayal of the titular character Deadpool.
In fact, Reynolds went on to comment that the way Deadpool was portrayed specifically in Cable & Deadpool #2 influenced the way he portrayed the character in the movie Deadpool. Deadpool, as he appears in the Fox films, would not exist at all without this story.
4 Old Man Logan’s Bow (2008 – 2009)
Widely regarded as one of the best films in Fox’s X-Men universe, Logan he saw Wolverine at the end of his story, and at the end of his life. The film was inspired by the story arc “The Old Man Logan”, created by Mark Millar, Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines.
In the story arc of the comics, Logan tried to lead a normal, quiet and lonely life before having to return to his heroic activities as Wolverine for the last time. You saw a lot of the same in the movie. Not only that, but the film enhanced the plot and the franchise it was in, bringing the cinematic story to a unique, devastating, and satisfying close.
3 The New Mutants: The Beginning of the End (1991)
The series of two numbers “The beginning of the end” of the series The new mutants was created by Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza. Therefore, it is not surprising that the film Deadpool 2 was inspired by this popular storyline from the comics.
This story not only gave Deadpool his first appearance in Marvel Comics, it also provided viewers with the first time Deadpool and Cable appeared together. This would serve as inspiration for their meeting in Deadpool 2, which enhanced the story and made it incredibly exciting to see the two of them together in the movies for the first time.
2 X-Men: Second Coming (2010)
Deadpool 2 It wasn’t just inspired by “The Beginning of the End.” The film was also inspired by a 2010 crossover titled “Second Coming.” Created by a huge team of Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, Matt Fraction, Zeb Wells, Mike Carey, David Finch, Terry Dodson, Ibraim Roberson, Greg Land and Mike Choi, “Second Coming” also featured the character Cable in addition to Deadpool. .
In this story, Cable joined the X-Force on a journey through time to protect a much darker future. This story was broadly adapted into Deadpool 2, although Wolverine and Storm played much larger roles in the comics. However, the story was cleaned up, clarified, and made even more fun on the big screen than it was on the panels in the comics.
1 X-Men: Red (2018)
Although Phoenix Dark not considered one of the best movies in the franchise X-Men, it does execute some elements of the plot well. It was heavily inspired by the plot of “X-Men: Red,” an eleven-issue series that was published just a couple of years before Dark Phoenix. .
This story led by Jean Gray was partially adapted into Phoenix Dark, in which some of the same notes from the story of Jean Gray were played. Although some things are better and some are worse, it is difficult to argue that this story was treated substantially better than “The Dark Phoenix Saga” in these films.
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