Saltire:
This is correct. After Magneto’s wife Magda, who fled from him, died in giving birth to Wanda and Pietro, the midwife gave them to a gypsy family named Maximoff, who adopted and raised them.
Chaim Mattis Keller
SlickRoenick: No offense was intended by my notations of those “you should know”; I did so for those characters who actually appeared in the movie, and I forgot that in many cases, their full names weren’t mentioned (at least, for the villains).
gonzoron: Well, the kid was CALLED Artie. That and the fact that he never spoke have led most to assume that it was supposed to be him, and that his physical deformity was just altered for the film to be less obvious (or maybe he was wearing an image inducer).
rjung: Well, I’m fairly sure they were married, later divorced, in the Ultimate X-Men line; I think that’s where I got the impression from. Now that I think about it, I really don’t know what their relationship was like in the “standard” line.
“Strong guy”? His name is “strong guy”?!
Sheesh! You’d think if he was picking out a super hero name for himself, he’d at least be a little creative. “Oh my, it appears I have prodigious amounts of physical strength! It shall be with me all of my life. Now, I need to pick out a code name for myself that reflects my super powers yet is catchy enough for people to remember and will help me score better with the ladies. Hmmm. I need to really think hard here, because I’ll be stuck with this code name for the rest of my life. I know! Strong guy!!”
:rolleyes: What about “Bulldozer”? Or “Buffalo”? Or “Iron Limbs”? Or “The Herculean”? Or “The Musculator”? Heck, professional wrestlers come up with better names than this guy!
Or maybe X3 will delve into the brilliantconcept of secondary mutations and then we’ll get li’l pink freak Artie. 
runs like hell
Suzene
Tracer, I think the whole deal was that Guido Carosella was a big bad postmodernist, and chose his name accordingly. I can remember vividly in one issue of X-Factor when he’s fighting the Blob at an airport and the Blob raises the same objection and usggests other names, such as “Grotesquely Disproportionale Guy.” And IIRC, his power was to absorb kinetic energy or somesuch and then convert it into strength and mass.
And my bet for X3 is, I’m sure, the same as most everyone else’s. Dark Phoenix. The sacrifice of Jean Grey at the end, the death in water, it’s too easy. And then add the voiceover of Professor X at the end as they pan across the new lake that has been created. Is it just me, or does anyone else notice that the light playing off the water looks eerily like the Phoenix symbol? It did to me. I jumped up in the theater and yelled, “Phoenix! Motherfucking PHOENIX!” Suffice it to say I never saw THAT girl again.
(and yes, I’m an X-geek)
Tracer, I think the whole deal was that Guido Carosella was a big bad postmodernist, and chose his name accordingly. I can remember vividly in one issue of X-Factor when he’s fighting the Blob at an airport and the Blob raises the same objection and usggests other names, such as “Grotesquely Disproportionale Guy.” And IIRC, his power was to absorb kinetic energy or somesuch and then convert it into strength and mass.
And my bet for X3 is, I’m sure, the same as most everyone else’s. Dark Phoenix. The sacrifice of Jean Grey at the end, the death in water, it’s too easy. And then add the voiceover of Professor X at the end as they pan across the new lake that has been created. Is it just me, or does anyone else notice that the light playing off the water looks eerily like the Phoenix symbol? It did to me. I jumped up in the theater and yelled, “Phoenix! Motherfucking PHOENIX!” Suffice it to say I never saw THAT girl again.
(and yes, I’m an X-geek)
Dammit!
Apparently I’m Multiple (post) Man!
Hmm… how’d I miss that? oops. Guess you’re right.
Thanks, Saltire. I only knew him as Magnus. And yes, I think the Avengers in the 70s had a storyline about Wanda and Pietro’s origins, and how they were raised by a couple called the Maximoffs. IIRC, the midwife who gave them the babies was a cow-woman named Bova, mutated by the High Evolutionary.
(I can’t believe I typed that last sentence with a straight face. Also, sorry for the hijack, folks)
I don’t think they married in the stanard line, but they were and are very close. Moira has a bunch of Shi-Ar technology, I believe.
Yep. Or, when he was first introduced to the public–
Reporter: “Look, it’s him! The strong guy! Every super-hero team has a strong guy!”
Guido: “Yup, that’s me – Strong Guy.”
Havoc: “‘Strong Guy’? What kind of a name is that? You can’t call yourself ‘Strong Guy’!”
Guido: “Sez you.”
By the unflappable Peter David, natch. He also wrote a hilarious X-Factor issue where the team members were psychoanalyzed by Doc Samson, check it out…
rjung:
Hilarious? That was one of my favorite issues of all time…I especially loved Quicksilver’s turn on the couch…but darned if I recall that one being very funny.
Peter David does have a wicked sense of humor, though. There’s not a better slapstick super-hero comic around than Young Justice. And one of my favorite jokes of all time came from his run on the “Justice” (from the New Universe) series. I wish I could repeat it here, but it’s too much of a visual joke for that.
Chaim Mattis Keller
Minor nitpick: Blink was in the AoA version of the X-Men, not Generation Next.
D’oh! One more goof like that, and I’ll have to turn in my Generation X fanclub card…