X-Men: Apocalypse - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[carla]

(at around 5 mins) Visual effects supervisor Lou Pecora based the Egyptian guards' burning on methyl cellulose: "When the guards are thrown against the wall, it stretches out, and yet it is contained so as it stretched out you can see the skeleton and the liquefied organs through it."

[melinda]

Timothée Chalamet, Ben Hardy, Charlie Rowe, Taron Egerton, Logan Lerman, Josh Hutcherson, Dylan O'Brien, Jesse Plemons, and Jamie Blackley were considered for the role of Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops, before Tye Sheridan was cast. Ben Hardy would later be cast in the role of Angel.

[gabriel]

Apocalypse has the power to move between bodies. This is not his traditional power in the comics, but is based on the X-Men storyline "The Twelve", where he attempted to transfer his consciousness into an all-powerful mutant to achieve godhood.

[sophie]

Bryan Singer compared this film to Game of Thrones (2011), saying: "It's a younger generation finding their powers and finding out who they are and their place in the world. They don't even know if that's the right goal. Everyone's miserable, but they want to get that power."

[sandra]

Apocalypse is mainly based on his comics incarnation (a blue-skinned and all-powerful mutant who believes in purging the world), but is also based on the Shadow King, an ancient Egyptian psychic who transfers bodies and who confronted a young Charles Xavier and inspired him to create the X-Men.

[addison]

(at around 40 mins) It is revealed in the film that Moira MacTaggert has a son. This is a reference to her son in the comics, Kevin MacTaggert, who is the mutant Proteus. Previously, this was lightly mentioned in X2: X-Men United (2003), when his name is seen on William Stryker's computer.

[dustin]

(at around 1h 4 mins) Fans have gotten the in-joke from Jean Grey after watching Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) in which she says the third movie is the weakest (in reference to the criticisms from the fans about X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)). However, the scene includes another in-joke. Before Jean remarking that the third movie is the weakest, Jubilee says that Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) was the best. Bryan Singer reportedly said in 2003 that he envisioned X2: X-Men United (2003) as the film series' The Empire Strikes Back. Fans agree that X2 is the best of the first three, with some saying it is the best entry in the entire franchise. In addition, this could be viewed as a self-deprecating swipe at this very movie itself, it being the third of the "First Class" trilogy (with the second film "Days of Future Past" generally considered the best of the three, again like "The Empire Strikes Back").

[steve]

A scene was filmed where Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) confronts William Stryker (Josh Helman) at the end, and has him arrested for assaulting and kidnapping herself and a group of mutant children. The scene was deleted from the final print but appears as a bonus feature on the BluRay edition.

[harry]

(at around 43 mins) When Apocalypse arrives at Storm's home, what is playing on her television is the Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) episode Star Trek: The Original Series: Who Mourns for Adonais? (1967), whose story mirrors Apocalypse's own behavior. In the episode, a powerful entity who was worshipped as a god on old Earth meets modern humans and throws a temper tantrum upon learning that they have no more use for old gods.

[christina]

(at around 1h 4 mins) The film features the younger X-Men discussing Star Wars. This film not only contains "Star Wars" actors Rose Byrne and Oscar Isaac, but was released on the 39th anniversary of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).