> I *did* wish that her powers had been somewhat more developed in the movie. In the comics, she's one of the baddest "muties" of them all. You can bet that if *I* had telekinesis, I'd do all kinds of basic common-sense stuff like lifting Sabretooth and Mystique off the ground where they could get no leverage to launch an attack at anyone.

I've not read the comics in at least ten years, but I recall Jean being, even then, a character I always thought was underused and underappreciated. It seemed, at times, that she existed only to be a sacrifice - she was arguably the most powerful of the five original X-Men (though, after he became a bit more developed, Iceman would have given her a run for her money), and all she ever seemed to do was get captured and beaten up and possessed. I guess she was the token "damsel in distress."

Speaking of Iceman, I was terribly disappointed to hear that he wouldn't be in the movie. :-{

> > -Still lots of information about Wolverine that wasn't mentioned but will probably come up later.
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> Count on it. Hopefully they'll draw upon Larry Hama's stint as the writer of Wolvie's comic book for material. Hama really brought some fun and lightheartedness to the character, without losing his rough-around-the-edges appeal.

Wolverine bothers me primarily because he's *so* overused. In fact, I recall an old "What the?" comic that had a joke reading "I finished him off like the most overused character in comics."

> Sabretooth in the movie was rather a disappointment to me. He ought to be *far* more cunning, agile and capable of independent thought. Instead, he came off like a moronic barbarian warrior from a B-grade sword-&-sorcery flick. And I don't recall him ever working for Magneto, either.

Sabretooth, around when I stopped following the comics, was drifting toward that, anyhow - it seemed as though the writers who had taken the books didn't really understand his character. He came off as the Hulk with claws, while he should have been considerably more cerebral.

> > I enjoyed the movie. I haven't collected comic books in about 10 years but I liked remembering the old storylines even though I didn't collect X-men. I did collect Alpha Flight which was another group with some mutants in it and had a lot of interaction with Wolverine and the X-men.
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> I hauled out some of my old X-Men and Wolverine comics last night for the first time in I-don't-know-how-long, and browsed through them. The main thing I got out of it is: if they ever include Psylocke in a sequel to the movie, and she says, "I've manifested my psychic knife -- the focused totality of my telepathic powers", then I will shriek and pelt the screen with whatever snack items are close at hand.

Yes! YES! I grew to loathe the phrase "the focused totality of my psychic powers" over the course of my following X-Men.

> I *hate* when super-types explain, at length, exactly how their powers work *every single time they go into battle*, and Psylocke was a particularly egregious offender in that regard.

That and she couldn't decide if she was a proper English maid or a skanky Asian sex-kitten. That bugged me. They came up with some cheesy excuse for changing her character completely, but I can't help but think the real reason is because they decided that the female characters needed to show more skin to increase their appeal to adolescent males. Witness the Invisible Woman's costume changes around the same time.

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