(2) - Film Review of X-Men: First Class - Information list about the Characters

In the previous post, I talked about the plot of the movie and about the movie itself. But in this post, I'm going to talk about the characters of the movie and their powers and abilities.

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Professor X or Charles Xavier (James McAvoy): A powerful telepathic who can read minds and also a clairvoyant. He decided to join a team with the mutants that he and Erik were detecting. His aim is to stop the strategy that Shaw and his team were planning. 

Magneto or Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender): As a young boy, Erik knew he was different from the others and after a short while he discovered he had an ability with controlling magnetism. After he’s grown up, he forms a friendship a Charles and creates a plan to save the world from Shaw.

Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon): Sebastian, an evil mutant who is a Nazi collaborator. His abilities are: absorbing energy and re-channel the absorbed energy. His plans are to start a war so the mutants can rule the earth.

Emma Frost (January Jones): A beautiful blonde mutant with magnificent powers: telepathic and also possess a diamond-like skin that is impossible to destroy. She’s one of Shaw’ team.

Beast or Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult): He’s a scientist with few mutant powers. He creates and drank some particular chemicals which resulted in unleashing a ‘Beast’.

Mystique or Raven Darkholme (Jennifer Lawrence): A good friend of Charles Xavier but at the end we see that she decides to choose different ways which leads her to evil. Her power is shape-shifting. She can shape-shift into anyone she wants.

Angel Salvadore (Zoe Kravitz): An ex-dancer, with insect-like wings tattoo which become real wings. She also has another cool power which is lethal: spitting acid.

Havok or Alex Summers (Lucas Till): Alex can eject energy waves which cause flames. He learned the full control of his powers with the aid of Charles Xavier.

Reptide (Alejandro Gonzalez): Always following his leader, Shaw, he creates a small masses of air rotating quickly which are called whirlwinds that destroy everything. It is very powerful.

Azazel (Jason Flemying): He has a figure of a demon which can teleport. He’s on Shaw’s side.

Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne): A CIA agent. She is one of the few humans that knows about the mutants and their powers, she follows Charles Xavier, so she can work with them and finds out what is going to happen between the good and the evil mutants.

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