By Hergé
The vintage image novel. Tintin and Captain Haddock peek in Professor Calculus' laboratory to discover a sonic machine and a really mysterious-and violent!-stranger. understanding that Calculus' lifestyles is at risk, Tintin and the Captain rush to warn him earlier than it truly is too overdue.
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In the crossover event Civil War (2006/2007), he is caught between rivaling groups of Marvel protagonists. In the struggle over a registration act concerning superheroes he chooses to reveal his secret identity. This too leads to changes that will affect the series for many years. Stephen Norrington’s vampire action adventure Blade (USA 1998) marked the beginning of Marvel’s cinematic new wave, but this cycle of ambitious comic book adaptations was only noticed by most critics and the general audience after the artistic and commercial success of Bryan Singer’s X-Men in the summer of 2000.
The films are based on the popular 1970s version of the team, when the more conventional (and firmly American) mutants of the 1960s were replaced by a more international team of heroes. Fan favorite and declared loner Wolverine, a Canadian with adamantium claws and skilled in various martial arts, joined forces with the African weather goddess Storm, the German demon-like Nightcrawler, and the Russian hero Colossus. The first sequences of X-Men are characteristic for the film’s versatile and serious approach.
Political and private conflicts overlap in many cases. The state of emergency brought about by Colonel Stryker’s intrigues affects many of the X-Men on a personal level. The openly gay Singer directed a scene in which Rogue’s boyfriend Iceman confesses to his parents that he is a mutant. As Singer indicated in the interview quoted above, this confession is comparable to a “com*Interview with Bryan Singer included on the X-Men DVD Special Edition. Twentieth Century Fox, 2003. 2. ” In contrast to the easy solutions offered by conventional blockbuster cinema his relatives do not show any kind of understanding.