trying not to sound crazy

[marcicat]

So, I’m trying to write an X-Men First Class fic, and since I didn’t want to go see the movie again (I mean, I kind of do, but it takes planning, and stuff) I watched the other X-Men movie (Logan, Rogue, the big spinning mutant-radiation emitter thing… yeah, that one), which is available for instant view on Netflix.

I’m not trying to reconcile the two, because I’m just taking as given that they’re two alternate universes. The fic-in-progress really has nothing to do with this post, except that procrastinating on it has left me with plenty of time to watch movies.

Here’s my problem — Xavier doesn’t think Magneto is crazypants crazy. (I’m inferring this from their civil and touching discussion after the Senate hearing.) And yet Magneto has the shittiest plans ever. Really, really dumb plans. I don’t want to sound like a horrible person, but if his goal was to prove the supremacy of mutants and eradicate humanity? He could just start killing people. Lots of people. It wouldn’t be that hard for him. Start crumbling buildings in major cities, and boom. Point taken.

In other words, there was really no need to craft some ridiculously villainous plan to build a spinning metal thing that emits radiation that turns humans into mutants. And then test it. And then wait around when the test subject escaped.

This leaves me with a few puzzling options:

1. Magneto’s not crazy, just dumb as a brick, and Charles humors him because he feels bad for their epic (yet sadly ended) friendship.

2. Magneto is crazy with a capital ‘c’ — and so is Charles! Maybe the whole thing is all in their heads! (I’ve read that fanfic, but usually in Harry Potter.)

3. Neither of them are crazy. They’re both deviously working together to end humanity and rule over a post-apocalyptic mutant anarchy (‘rule’ being a subjective term, in this case).

4. Neither of them are crazy; they’re both secretly working together to keep mutant affairs in the hands of mutants and reduce the total death toll. (Srsly, how many people died in that movie? One? I think it was just Senator Kelly, though I’ll admit Toad was a question mark.) I think this would be pretty clever of them — if good mutants fight bad mutants, there’s no need for non-mutants to be involved at all, and you’ve got to figure that some “recruits” just aren’t going to fall in line at a boarding school.

Unfortunately, whatever theory you come up with, they all fail utterly at describing the wtfuckery of X3.

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Comments

[wildforce71]

X Men fic from you, yay!

(are you confident enough in First Class to discuss a thing with me? I'm trying to mentally clarify something for my fic, and it would really help... ::puppy dog eyes at you:: But not if you dunwanna, of course. :D)

[marcicat]

Sure! I've only seen it once, but I'm happy to offer thoughts and opinions.

[wildforce71]

Ok so here's my thing. (This is not a huge issue by the way, just something that's puzzling me a bit.)

Erik steals Shaw's information from the CIA and goes to leave, and is intercepted by Charles. During that conversation Charles says (paraphrased) "I've seen everything in your mind." Implying that he's literally seen everything, thoughts, memories, all of it.

During the satellite dish scene later, Charles dredges up an old memory for him and looks every bit as surprised as Erik does - implying, at least to me, that Charles didn't know that specific memory was there.

So. Was that memory so deep he didn't see it the first time, or did he just see the 'active' stuff, whatever Erik was actually thinking and feeling while attacking the sub - probably a lot about Shaw? Or did he see everything at the time and is slowly losing it? (How many people's minds can he fit, if he's picking up everything about everyone?) Or none of the above? Or am I over thinking it? I'm leaning towards that last one, at the mo, but I'd love to know what you think. Did 'Star see it?

Thank you! :D

[marcicat]

That is a super-interesting way of looking at it! It would sort of make Charles' power more like Rogue's -- I feel like there's no way you could know that much about someone without some bleedover into your own self along the way.

I had originally taken his "I've seen everything in your mind" comment to be more like a 'I've seen everything in your mind right now' kind of thing -- like a snapshot of Erik's mind at that time. But I thought the movie made Charles' powers pretty nebulous, so I think you could find support for just about any theory.

[wildforce71]

Yeah, I think the 'snapshot' version is the one I'm going with. Hmm, I wonder if that means he can dream Erik's nightmares? Thoughts!

Thank you! :D