So, it’s official: Kevin Bacon will be the bad guy in Fox’s mutant reboot, X-Men: First Class. But what bad guy will he be? Fox are keeping things remarkably secret right now, which is probably either a sign that it’ll blow our minds, it’ll be someone so ridiculously lame that we won’t care, or it hasn’t been decided yet (My money’s on the latter). Fans have already glommed onto the possibility of Bacon playing Mister Sinister, the ridiculously-named long-lived geneticist whose comic incarnation has taken a particular interest in Scott (Cyclops) Summers throughout his entire life, and I admit, I can see a resemblance (It’s the cheekbones) –
– but there’s another villain that I’m holding out hope for: Apocalypse. Yes, Apocalypse, the centuries-old Egyptian mutant who was into Social Darwinism long before there was a Darwin, and the bad guy responsible for turning Angel blue, bald and with razor-sharp metal wings. He may not be the first choice for most, but he’s powerful enough, has enough of an evolutionary agenda to cause trouble for the teenage X-Men without any provocation, and come on: Look at that mouth! Bacon was born to play this role.
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