What I found interesting was that we know from the first movie that Senator Kelly has been replaced by Mystique, and Kelly is giving information about the school in the trailer. Obviously, Magneto is willing to sacrifice a few mutants in order to clear away the group most likely able to stop him from doing things his way. And if bringing pressure on Xavier’s students causes them to see humans from his point of view, all the better…
Damn… still no Gambit in this one… oh well, hoping for his entrance in X3.
Oh, and I believe that SABERTOOTH is still alive. Remember at the end of X-Men where the news report (which shows that Kelly is Mystique) says that Kelly’s aide looked like he was ‘mauled by a bear’? Sounds like Sabertooth to me.
Er . . . Mystique was posing as Gyrich in the beginning of the movie, so I think it’s safe to say he was already dead at that point.
Leaper:
While I realize the inherent silliness in the subject at hand, and the fact that we’re talking about a two or three minute trailer…
[sub]And the fact that hollywood blockbuster trailers fairly often contain scenes not actually in the theatrical release…[/sub]
I think you’re leaping to the wrong conclusion there. (Sorry, I know, but I couldn’t stop m’self.)
The line of dialogue right before that is the Stryker (reverend, general?) character. He says “training center for mutants,” and Kelly/Mystique responds, “…it’s a school.”
Meaning, I think, “It’s not a terrorist training camp, you putz, it’s only a private high school!” It comes across like the two (Stryker and Kelly) are having a meeting with the president, argueing opposite sides of the debate.
And on my fourth viewing (well, in my defense, I was showing the thing to the third person I told about it, not just watching the thing over and over all by my fanboy self) I spotted two mildly spoilerific bits:
[spoiler]1) There’s a quick shot of Logan laying a liplock on Jean, indicating the “love triangle” sub-plot is sticking around.
- The shot where Jean is reading Nightcrawler’s mind. In the background, on the right, are Logan and Ororo, and, on the left, are Magneto and Mystique. So the team-up’s pretty much a given, too.[/spoiler]
Skeezix: Hmm. You may be right. It still strikes me as possibly rather convenient for Magneto’s plans. After all, he was willing to sacrifice Rogue during his last plot, and he may very well believe that once Stryker puts the X-Men out of the way, he can easily use Kelly/Mystique to put Stryker back down again… I guess we’ll see.
BTW, Skeezix, you don’t happen to have a stepbrother who works with Stephen King on a semi-regular basis, do you? If you do, then I actually know you…
I dunno, I have a ~22 MB file sitting on my desktop that says different. 
(Hint: m480. It’s all about the “m” with these QT trailers.)
That being said, mblackwell’s link is probably a whole lot easier. Darkhorizons.net (or something like that) is a good site too.
Can someone who reads the X-men comics answer something for me? I used to read one now and then, but not often. I remember several years ago reading a few issues involving Mystique and…
Possible major spoiler
she turned out to be the mother of one of the good guys. But I can’t remember who! I want to say Nightcrawler was her son, but that may be way off base. Maybe it was someone younger. Does anybody know what I’m talking about and whose mother she is? I would greatly appreciate any info on this, in a spoiler box.
Tangent, you are correct.
Cool. Thanks, Fibber.
Some other Fun Facts about Mystique:
[spoiler]She is really old. She has been around and fully matured since the second world war.
She had a child, Graydon Creed, with Sabretooth. This happened before Sabretooth was forcebly taken into the Team X project.
There are rumours surrounding her possible lesbianism. She had a close, but undefined relationship with Irene Adler, aka Destiny, for may years.
She is also Rogue’s foster mother. In the comics, when Rogue had her disaterous first kiss, she was living with Mystique and Destiny.
And she is indeed Kurt’s mother, he was fathered by a german count who didn’t know she was a mutant, but Kurt’s birth shattered her illusion and she had to run away. She abandoned him, and he eventually ended up with the circus.[/spoiler]
A good note on her family tree/relations can be found here: http://www.uncannyxmen.net/db/article/showquestion.asp?faq=8&fldAuto=72
I thought she’d had something to do with Rogue (in the comics for the spoiler wary).
[Complete and Utter Highjack]
Leaper: No step-brothers, and no connection to King. Can I ask just what prompted that connection to you? I’m insanely curious, now.
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[sub]I’d have taken this to email, but yours isn’t public. If it’s something you’d prefer not to discuss in public, feel free to drop me a line.[/sub]
We now return you to your regularly scheduled mutant discourse, already in progress.
Highjack?
Yeesh, I must need more sleep than I’ve been getting.
Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I had to answer Skeezix: It’s just an identical nick. That’s all. 
To get back to the topic, I see the novelization and comic adaptation are out. Flipped very quickly through the comic. Looks WAY too short, not to mention sucky. Still looking forward!
Ooh, look, just like a Marvel character, it’s back from the dead!
Leaper, was the comic a complete adaptation, the first in a series, or a “prequel?”
I recall when the first flick came out, there were comics available (actually, we got ours at the ticket booth, with the price of admission) that set up the backstory of the characters. It was… less than top shelf stuff. In fact, it dragged in the Silver Samurai, a character never even hinted at in the movie.
I also recall that, many moons ago, when Marvel released a movie adaptation, it was often done as a two or three part mini-series. Could that be why the book you saw was so short?
[sub]Weird, that, about the screen name.[/sub]
What are you people talking about no “BAMF”!?
There is too a BAMF!
I listened very carefully during the wild-neat-o trailer and when Nightcrawler leaps into the air doing a circle-kick to a bunch of guys he BAMFs out of there.
It was NEAT NEAT NEAT!!!
I think that’s just a fault of recent Marvel adaptations. Whatever your opinions of the Daredevil movie, the comic adaptation was one of the worst things I’ve read in a long time.
My favorite was the cops advancing on the mutants and the teen looking kid saying “You know all those awful and dangerous mutants you here about on the news?” :cops look at each other nervously: “Well I’m the worst one. . .” Followed by the kid fireballing a couple cops and their cars and a flash to Picard commenting about the kids showing off. Awesome. Who was that kid supposed to be?
DaLovin’ Dj
I’m concerned about that cat licking Wolverine’s claws at the end of the trialer. Aren’t is claws so sharp that the poor kitty’s tongue would be gone?