X-Men Concept Art Reveals A Comics-Accurate Design For The Franchise"s Worst-Received Villain 8 Years After His Debut

Summary

• Concept art shows a more comic-accurate design for the much-criticized Apocalypse from X-Men: Apocalypse.
• The accuracy issues in portraying Apocalypse were the biggest issue with the film's villain.
• Future X-Men villains like Apocalypse should be physically intimidating, something the Fox version lacked that MCU villains like Thanos possessed.

The titular villain from X-Men: Apocalypse is one of the worst-received in the franchise, yet some concept art from the film's production offers a more comic-accurate version. Apocalypse, or En Sabah Nur, is one of the villains of the prequel X-Men films. Played by Oscar Isaac in X-Men: Apocalypse, the character was considered one of the worst X-Men antagonists next to X-Men Origins: Wolverine's Deadpool, with both considered among the lower-ranked X-Men films despite promising casts.
Related X-Men: Apocalypse Cast & Character Guide X-Men: Apocalypse saw the mutant superheroes battle Oscar Isaac"s Apocalypse, and here"s a cast and character guide for the 2016 blockbuster.
One of the biggest issues with 2016's Apocalypse, his comic accuracy, has been resolved in concept art released by jsmarantz on Instagram. The concept artist and longtime X-Men fan explains how grateful he was to design the character considering Apocalypse was one of his favorite X-Men villains. With the Marvel movies releasing in 2024 promising a return to the MCU for mutants, hopefully, the franchise can take a page from Marantz's book and design future X-Men villains with more comic accuracy than was presented in Fox's iteration.
Thanos Already Proved The Perfect Way To Present Apocalypse Custom Image by Debanjana Chowdhury Concerning Apocalypse's potential portrayal in the MCU, the character of Thanos already proved the best way to translate En Sabah Nur to the big screen. In X-Men: Apocalypse, and even the concept art above, the character is depicted as simply too small. In Marvel Comics, Apocalypse was a hulking figure who instilled fear in the hearts of those he faced.
With Josh Brolin's motion capture version of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, though, the character was a physically intimidating presence.
The design in X-Men: Apocalypse did not portray this, and while the concept art above is better, it is still admittedly too small for a villain of En Sabah Nur's physical and metaphorical stature. With Josh Brolin's motion capture version of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, though, the character was a physically intimidating presence. This same technique could be reused for Apocalypse should the character be used in the MCU's eventual X-Men movie, rectifying the mistakes of X-Men: Apocalypse.
X-Men Apocalypse The third installment of the X-Men prequel films, and the ninth film in the overall X-Men movie franchise, X-Men: Apocalypse once again sees Professor Xavier and Magneto on opposite sides of a catastrophic conflict. Having been raised from the dead, the ancient mutant Apocalypse wishes to wipe out all of humanity, and recruits four mutants including Magneto to help him in his quest, leading Xavier and his young team of X-Men to try and stop them. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender reprise their roles as Professor Xavier and Magneto, with a larger ensemble cast that includes Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Munn, and Oscar Isaac.
Director Bryan Singer Writers Simon Kinberg Cast Jennifer Lawrence , Kodi Smit-McPhee , Michael Fassbender , Rose Byrne , Tye Sheridan , Josh Helman , Nicholas Hoult , Lucas Till , Evan Peters , Oscar Isaac , Stan Lee , James McAvoy , Alexandra Shipp , Olivia Munn , Sophie Turner Franchise(s) X-Men prequel(s) X-Men: First Class , X-Men Days of Future Past Expand Source: jsmarantz


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