Let’s take you back in time to when it was a Friday, last Friday in fact, and I wrote an article about what X-Men I wanted to see show up in the MCU first. I didn’t want to see the normal cast of characters, but instead, I came up with my own team.

When creating that team, I’ll get to who they are again shortly, I wanted to go in a different direction. Instead of having the “boy scout” team, I went with what could be considered a team with more questionable characters. I’ll get into their stories below before I cast them. But having a team that is trouble in space, like the Guardians of the Galaxy, where they are heroes, but they aren’t that reputable is one thing, but then putting a similar team together on Earth, that’s another thing. And them having a rough relationship with the law and a poor view of them will give credence why the rest of the X-Men are in hiding.

Let’s meet the characters:

Gambit – He has the ability to charge objects with energy so that they do more damage. He’s known for throwing around playing cards to do that. But what people don’t know is that he was part of the LeBeau Family Thieve’s Guild after he was kidnapped from a hospital at birth and then raised by them. So he’s got a nice shady background.

Rogue – Growing up on a commune in Mississippi, Rogue had two loving parents until her mother disappeared. Then her “aunt” raised her, but it was very strict. When she was a teen a boy she liked kissed her, and her powers kicked in. Because of that she ran away. Rogue’s powers include stealing super powers from someone, sapping that person’s energy, and erasing memories. After leaving the boy in a coma, she ran away from the commune.

Nightcrawler – Nightcrawler has teleportation powers, but that’s not what you’ll notice about him, it will be his odd look. His tail and slightly demonic look because he is half demon. He’s the happy-go-lucky member of the party. But he’s still shunned from society for how he looks.

Bishop – From the future, Bishop grew up in a mutant camp after humans used Sentinel robots to round up all the mutants. This was after he moved to the United States from Australia when Australia was destroyed in a nuclear attack. He has powers that allow him to absorb energy and redirect back out. He also has super human strength and the ability to know where he is at all times, which is useful being from the future.

Siryn – She, like her father, Banshee, has the power of a super sonic scream. She has more abilities as well, but I think that’s the one that they’d focus on instead of giving her full and large suite of abilities. In common super hero fashion, her mother died while her father was away on a mission and she lived with her uncle. This happened in child birth, so before Banshee knew she was still alive, he hurts her uncle and he vows revenge on Banshee bringing Siryn into a life of crime.

You can kind of see where I’m going with this. I think this is a team of characters who would do the right thing, but wouldn’t always go about doing it the right way. It’s also kind of a duplicate of what we had in my last article, but more details, so sorry for repeating myself, and I am guessing that I have some of the backstory of the characters wrong, but the motivation for them would stay the same.

So let’s get down to casting:

Gambit – Gaspard Ulliel
Who, you might ask, and I think is fair. But this French actor would be able to give Gambit the classic accent. He probably is best known for playing Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising. But I think it would make sense to take a lesser known actor and put it in the roll.

Rogue – Aly Michalka
I know her as Peyton from iZombie. And while she plays a very sweet character in that show, you do get to see her tough side. I think that’s one of the things with Rogue, she’s had struggles in life but she’s generally a sweet character.

Nightcralwer – Max Mauff
I don’t know a ton about him as an actor, so I’m borrowing some of these things from other people or using ideas from others and my own, but he has the look to play Nightcrawler, and yes, by that I mean he comes with his own tail. Okay, not that, but from his work and his look, he would fit Nightcrawler well.

Bishop – Ray Fisher
He played Cyborg in the Justice League movie, but don’t hold that against him. I think that with now being cast in True Detective, I’d trust his acting chops a bit more. Fisher is someone who people won’t recognize for playing Cyborg, so that would help him find his good super hero role.

Siryn – Saoirse Ronan
The big name of the crew, and the least known character. I’m not sure if she’d want to join the super hero world, but she’s definitely got Irish background, like Siryn is supposed to as well. I think she’d be a good foil for a film as well where Siryn might be the reason for pulling whatever job it is, and unlike some actors, she’ll be able to pull off a strong character while being a foil for the story as well.

So that is who I would cast, now obviously there are a whole lot more to look at in the long run as well. You’d bring in Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Strom, Beast, etc. at some point in time. But I think that you’d want to introduce them in a big way, showing up in some big face off event to help the New Avengers or something like that.

What do you think of my casting, would you want to watch a movie with that cast? What sort of plot would you come up with for that X-Men team?

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