A brand spankin’ new trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been released today and we have it here for your viewing pleasure.
The trailer really isn’t all that much different from the first official trailer released back in December. It is structured the same way and shows us a lot of the same footage. The main difference is the increased focus on the support characters/other mutants from the Weapon X project.
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While much of the video is pretty disorganized, the second half is loaded with action and we get to see snippets of many new action scenes with Deadpool, Gambit, Agent Zero and Cyclops among others.
Check it out and see what you think:
Did I just see Deadpool firing an optic blast near the end there? Do we even know definitively if that is Deadpool? Something’s not adding up and my confusion arises from this character called Weapon XI who is in the movie but not from the comics.
This mysterious character is apparently involved in the final battle with Wolverine but we don’t know anything about him other than he’s played by actor and martial artist Scott Adkins and that his power(s) have yet to be revealed.
We do know from the comics that Wolverine is known as Weapon X, X representing the Roman numeral of the number 10 not relating to the “X” in “X-Men” – He is the tenth iteration of these experiments of the program, the first to be successfully grafted with an Adamantium skeleton. We can therefore assume, Weapon XI is the next experiment after Wolverine – perhaps created to battle him/bring him back?
Here’s an image I cut out from a screen grab for the film – I did my best to clear up the blur.
Could it be that what we thought was a topless Deadpool all along fighting Wolverine in the trailer with those strange markings/scars on him was this Weapon XI character and that we’ve not yet seen the actual Deadpool yet? Check out our discussion on what may or not be Deadpool here.
There is quite a bit of online speculation from fans and it can be divided into two camps: one side believes that Weapon XI is Deadpool after some experimentation and the other side holds out hope that they are in fact, separate characters (listed as such on IMDB). Since we get a closer look in this trailer towards the end, we can see those those markings on this character don’t really look like scars, more like a drawn on design.
What are your thoughts?
X-Men Origins: Wolverine is directed by Gavin Hood and opens May 1, 2009.
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The character fighting wolverine is quite obviously to me: Daken.Wolverine’s wayward homicidal son.If he isnt the one then they played around with his images a lot!The tats, the claws, bald head etc.he actually has 3 claws just like wolverine’s but the middle one comes from the under side of his wrist.what i dont get is the optic blasts…daken isnt known for that..
In the comics, weapon XI is daken, in the movie, its deadpool.but even after the modifications and treatment of deadpool in the comics,he doesnt look like this….this character is exactly Daken. Pliz look him up and you’ll see.
you guys forget that daken has a mohawk, which the can easily change for the movie. but, more importantly that, true daken is weapon xi, he hasn’t even finished the process/program. and daken is such a new character that i doubt that fox has even did their research on him or even know who he is. i just sure as hell hope that this ” WEAPON XI” is not our beloved merc with the mouth
by the way to you non readers please don’t make comments on characters or topics that you admittedlt know nothing of. do you homework 1st….marvel.com. that simple
After doing some heavy reseach and seeing an unfinished version of the X:men Origins movie, I can confirm that Wade Wilson is the last character that Wolverine fights, as Weapon XI or Deadpool. Though it isn’t confirmed in the movie he is indeed Deadpool but is refered to as Weapon XI.
If you pay attention to Wade Wilson played by Ryan Renolds you’ll see that he has two swords which undoutably deadpools deadly tradmark. Duh!
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