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From Comics to Movies:

Visual References in the X-
Men Franchise
MAY 25, 2015 BY SPENCER PERRY

Back in March, we debuted the first in a new

article series “From Comics to Movies,”
focusing on the visual language of Christopher
Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and the
inspirations that it took from its comic book
basis. Now, we have the next entry in the series
focusing on 20th Century Fox’s long-running
“X-Men” franchise, though this one will be a
little bit di"erent in some cases.

Something that is easy to forget about the “X-

Men” films is that it’s the current longest-
running comic book film franchise. The series
got its start with the first film in the year 2000
and despite attempts at rebooting or
reshu#ing the continuity, it has remained a
singular (mostly intact) franchise. Looking back
at the start of the series, it began in a time
when comic book movies didn’t adapt specific
story lines from the source material and
instead chose to focus on aesthetics and
characters with an original story formed
around them. Bryan Singer‘s original X-
Men has moments that can be found in comics,
but overall its narrative is a unique construct.

That changed with the sequel, X2, which takes

elements from the graphic novel X-Men: God
Loves, Man Kills, and combined it with the
second arc of Ultimate X-Men, a series that
launched just seven months after the first film
opened. They would continue this tradition
with X-Men: The Last Stand, combining the
“Gifted” arc from Joss Whedon and John
Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men with the fan-
favorite Dark Phoenix story line, and X-Men
Origins: Wolverine by combining Origin with
the “Weapon X” arc.

X-Men: First Class is an interesting departure

as it shares a name with a number of comics
but has little to do with any of them and is once
again a mostly original plot. 2013’s The
Wolverine is at its core an adaptation of the
Chris Claremont/Frank Miller Wolverine series,
with other elements tossed in, and last year’s
X-Men: Days of Future Past, while sharing a
name with the most popular story in X-Men
history, is pretty di"erent overall. All of that is
to say that there are certainly instances in the
“X-Men” films where the shots in them align
with the comics, but some of the slides we’ve
included aren’t direct visual matches. Some of
what you’ll find below are the scenes in
comics from where the film took narrative
inspiration, a kernel of a story that was
mutated into what was needed for the script.

Check out the slideshow and compare the

comic book panels with shots from the movies,
and let us know your thoughts below!

Click Full Screen to see the full images!

Comics to movie: X-Men

1. X-Men (2000)

Magneto: The Twisting of a Soul - 1993

"Magneto Seminar"

Written by Fabian Nicieza

Pencils by Jan Duursema
Inks by Dan Panosian

2. X-Men (2000)
PHUNLORRESURRESTIONHAS
UNFORTUNATEPRICE.

ASALWAYS,
THEDREAM
BEGINHWITZ.
AFLOODOF
MEMORIES.

EXPLODINGFROM AMIND
KEENLY REJUVEN,
THEBODY MANBA.

Classic X-Men #12 - 1987

"A Fire in the Night!"

Written by Chris Claremont

Pencilers and inks by John Bolton

3. X-Men (2000)

Uncanny X-Men #141 - 1981

Written by Chris Claremont & John Byrne

Pencils by John Byrne
Inks by Terry Austin
Colors by Glynis Wein

4. X-Men (2000)

Uncanny X-Men #141 - 1981

Written by Chris Claremont & John Byrne

Pencils by John Byrne
Inks by Terry Austin
Colors by Glynis Wein

5. X-Men (2000)

Uncanny X-Men #273 - 1991

Written by Chris Claremont

Pencils by Michael Golden
Inks by Scott Williams
Colors by Joe Rosas

6. X-Men (2000)

Uncanny X-Men #222 - 1987

Written by Chris Claremont

Pencils by Marc Silvestri
Inks by Dan Green
Colors by Glynis Oliver

7. X-Men (2000)

Uncanny X-Men #213 - 1987

Written by Chris Claremont

Pencils by Alan Davis
Inks Paul Neary
Colors by Glynis Oliver

8. X2: X-Men United (2003)

Wolverine #48 - 1991

Written by Larry Hama

Pencils by Marc Silvestri
Inks by Dan Green
Colors by Steve Bucellato

9. X2: X-Men United (2003)

Ultimate X-Men #8 - 2001

Written by Mark Millar

Pencils by Adam Kubert
Inks by Art Thibert
Colors by Jung Choi

10. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

Ultimate X-Men #8 - 2001

Written by Mark Millar

Pencils by Adam Kubert
Inks by Art Thibert
Colors by Jung Choi

11. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

Ultimate X-Men #8 - 2001

Written by Mark Millar

Pencils by Adam Kubert
Inks by Art Thibert
Colors by Jung Choi

12. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

Ultimate X-Men #8 - 2001

Written by Mark Millar

Pencils by Adam Kubert
Inks by Art Thibert
Colors by Jung Choi

13. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills - 1982

Written by Chris Claremont

Pencils and Inks by Brent Anderson
Colors by Steve Oliff

14. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills - 1982

Written by Chris Claremont

Pencils and Inks by Brent Anderson
Colors by Steve Oliff

15. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

Wolverine #48 - 1991

Written byLarry Hama

Pencils by Marc Silvestri
Inks by Dan Green
Colors by Steve Bucellato

16. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills - 1982

Written by Chris Claremont

Pencils and Inks by Brent Anderson
Colors by Steve Oliff

17. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

Uncanny X-Men #205 - 1986

Written by Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-

Smith
Pencils, Inks & Colors by Barry Windsor-Smith

18. X2: X-Men United

(2003)

Uncanny X-Men #205 - 1986

Written by Chris Claremont and Barry Windsor-

Smith
Pencils, Inks & Colors by Barry Windsor-Smith