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The Gifted: Marvel Easter Eggs and References



The Gifted brings the dangerous and exciting world of the X-Men’s mutants to prime time television on the FOX network. Created by Matt Nix (Burn Notice), The Gifted is creates a new kind of universe populated by mutants hated and feared by the world at large. Instead of a school, The Gifted centers on the Strucker family. Reed (Stephen Moyer) and Caitlin (Amy Acker) Strucker are ordinary Atlanta parents who are shocked to discover their teenage children Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) and Andy (Percy Hynes White) are mutants, forcing them to go on the run and seek sanctuary with the Mutant Underground.

Though ostensibly its own universe separate from the X-Men films, there are numerous references and Easter eggs in The Gifted that link the series directly and indirectly to the X-Men and Marvel movies and TV series that came before it. Here are all the Easter eggs in “eXposed,” the pilot episode of The Gifted:

10. THE STRUCKERS

The name Strucker isn’t exactly one unfamiliar to Marvel fans. That surname has deep ties to the Marvel Universe beginning with the villainous Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, one of the leaders of HYDRA. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Baron Von Strucker (Thomas Kretchmann) – “HYDRA’s number one thug” – appeared in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. His son Werner Von Strucker (Spencer Treat Clark) also appeared in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Though the X-Men universe owned by FOX is entirely separate from the MCU, whether there are any links between The Gifted‘s Strucker family and the Struckers who ran HYDRA remains to be seen but is definitely something to look out for.

9. “HOW DOES IT FEEL?”


Much of The Gifted‘s focus is on the two teenage Strucker children, Andy and Laura. 17 year old Laura gained her mutant ability to control molecules – which she usually uses to create shields by pushing air together – when she was younger but she kept her powers a secret. Her younger brother Andy developed his psychokinetic mutant ability when he was bullied at a school dance, and his unchecked powers wrecked the school gym. Forced to be on the run, the Strucker kids and their parents hole up in a motel outside of Atlanta. There, Laura offers to teach Andy how to control his powers. But first she asks him, “How does it feel?”

This very question harkens back to the very first X-Men movie in 2000, in the famous truck scene between Rogue (Anna Paquin) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). After he saved her and they escape a trucker bar in Canada, Rogue asks Logan about the adamantium blades that pop out of his knuckles: “Does it hurt?” Logan ruefully replies, “Every time.”

Laura asking Andy how his powers feel when he uses them indicates The Gifted is going to not just showcase mutants using their abilities for the sake of exciting action scenes, but that the series will go deeper and explore the relationship between each mutant and the power they possess. With the luxury episodic television has to take the time to really dig into characters and relationships, The Gifted looks to give fans a greater understanding of what it’s like to be a mutant than any X-Men movie has before.

8. PARENTS THAT DO UNDERSTAND


The Strucker children are responsible for the chaos at the school dance, and when they get home they finally reveal to their mother Caitlin that they are both mutants. One of the most famous scenes in X2: X-Men United is when Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) ‘comes out’ as a mutant to his parents, and they responded, “Have you tried not being a mutant?” Even though their father is a prosecutor who imprisons dangerous mutants, the Strucker children are extremely lucky their parents aren’t as closed-minded as the Drakes were. When Sentinel Services arrives to take Lauren and Andy away, Caitlin and Reed don’t hesitate to go on the run and do whatever it to protect her children. It’s a nice reversal of the sad way Iceman’s parents reacted to his true nature.

In real life, Moyer is married to Anna Paquin, who played Rogue in the original X-Men trilogy, making them the first couple of mutantdom. In addition, Acker played the Cellist, the love interest of Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., giving her a previous Marvel pedigree as well.

7. DAYS OF FUTURE PAST


The Gifted‘s pilot is directed by Bryan Singer, who has helmed most of the X-Men film franchise since its inception, including the original X-Men film, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: Apocalypse. However, The Gifted bears the closest resemblance to Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, the film that showcased the terrible future where mutants were wiped out by giant robot Sentinels, humanity itself was cowed into submission, and the last of the X-Men attempted a desperate gamble to change the future by sending Wolverine to meet young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) in 1973.

The action scenes in The Gifted, especially the opening chase sequence where Blink (Jamie Chung) escapes the police with help from the Mutant Underground members Eclipse (Sean Teale), Thunderbird (Blaire Redford), and Polaris (Emma Dumont), and the battle with Sentinel drones at the end of the pilot, harken to DOFP‘s future-set action scenes of mutant vs. Sentinel. The portal-creating Blink herself (played by Fan Bingbing) played a key role in DOFP, while Eclipse has solar powers similar to Sunspot (Adan Canto) in DOFP.

6. SENTINEL SERVICES


There are no giant mutant-hunting robots seen in The Gifted (yet), but the feared Sentinels manifest in Sentinel Services, a federal agency with powers given to them by “the expanded Patriots Act” to hunt and imprison mutants in Mutant Detention Centers. Sentinel Services is rightly feared as they don’t require warrants nor have any apparent checks on their powers to go after mutants. We’re not sure if the 1973 events of Days of Future Past happened in The Gifted‘s universe – if giant robot Sentinels were built in 1973 by Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) – but Sentinel Services aren’t without scary tech of their own. Besides using drones to fly around the city to track mutants, Sentinel Services unleashed Spider Sentinel robots on the mutants on the run. We’ll have to wait and see what other nasty technology Sentinel Services has up its sleeve to keep America safe from the mutant threat.

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5. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE X-MEN?

The X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants definitely exist in The Gifted‘s universe, but what happened to them is a big mystery fans hope to get some answers to. The X-Men are specifically name dropped in the pilot, with Eclipse pointedly stating “The X-Men and the Brotherhood are gone.” Was the fate that befell the X-Men and their evil Magneto-led counterparts similar to the “Westchester Incident” in Logan? Or did something else happen to the most famous team of mutants in the world? One clue was offered when Reed and Caitlin hiding in their motel briefly discussed what life was like “before”: that mutants were constantly fighting each other and people demanded something be done. Did the government intervene and somehow get rid of the X-Men and the Brotherhood? Are they dead or hiding somewhere? Anything is possible and fans hope to learn more.

In place of the X-Men, the Mutant Underground has risen up nationwide as a network to find and protect fellow mutants. The Mutant Underground in Atlanta is led by Polaris, Eclipse, and Thunderbird, but other mutants can be seen taking refuge there, like Shatter (Jermaine Rivers).

4. LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER

The Gifted‘s strongest tie to the X-Men movies is Lorna Dane, a.k.a. Polaris. Lorna is a mutant master of magnetism, not unlike her father Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto. Polaris’ parentage was confirmed by the series’ creator Matt Nix, who sprinkled obvious clues and references in the pilot. Magneto has fathered lots of different people in the course of the X-Men movies, including Quicksilver (Evan Peters). Lorna is the latest addition to Magneto’s sprawling family tree.

At the start of The Gifted, when Polaris, Eclipse, Thunderbird, and Blink are trapped in a building by police, the scene echos the famous scene at the train station in the first X-Men movie where Magneto used his powers to lift the police cars in the air and uttered, “You homo sapiens and your guns!” Polaris, perhaps less powerful at this point than her father, only uses her powers to disarm the police and later, in a fit of rage before being captured, to slam an officer into a wall repeatedly.

3. PLASTIC PRISON


It seems Mutant Detention Centers are well-equipped to handle mutants with magnetic powers. When Reed Strucker visits Polaris in her cell, we see she is being held inside a plastic prison. Plastic prisons are common sights in X-Menmovies; Magneto (Ian McKellan) was held in one and escaped in X2: X-Men United, and in Days of Future Past, Michael Fassbender’s younger Magneto was incarcerated in a a plastic prison deep beneath the Pentagon when he was believed to be the person who assassinated John F. Kennedy. Curiously, Polaris’ scene was more bizarre in the trailers for The Gifted but is more conventional and familiar in the actual episode. Perhaps worse measures will be taken for Polaris further into the series.

2. A FAMILIAR RINGTONE


The Gifted doesn’t contain a lot of humor, but the biggest laugh comes via the familiar sound of Eclipse’s cell phone ring tone. When having a conversation with Blink about how to free Polaris from Mutant Detention, Eclipse receives a call from Reed Strucker, and the ring tone is the famous theme from the 1992 X-Men animated series. Along with the reveal in Logan that X-Men comic books exist, The Gifted continues this new tradition of highlighting ways the X-Men are permeating pop culture in their universes. Plus it was just one of the best callbacks for old school fans yet in any X-Men movie or TV show.

1. STAN THE MAN


The Marvel Age of Stan Lee cameos began in the first X-Men movie when he was briefly sighted as a hot dog vendor on the beach, and it’s only fitting it continues in The Gifted. When Reed Strucker goes to a seedy bar called Tex’s to meet with Eclipse, he bumps into Stan Lee himself as Lee is leaving the bar. In addition, the Tex’s sign in the window is clearly shown to only have the X in “Tex” lit up, letting there be no doubt that X indeed marks the spot. It always makes a Marvel project more legit when it’s blessed by the presence of Stan “The Man” Lee himself.

Did you spot even more X-Men Easter eggs in The Gifted? Let us know in the comments!
 
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She is Polaris from the comics who was on the X-Factor team. I think she though Magneto was her pops but I don't think it ended up being true...
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yea it was true, magneto use to get around lol
 
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The Gifted Turns the X-Men’s Disappearance Into a Tragedy


THE GIFTED KEEPS THINGS MOVING AT A SWIFT PACE WITH A SECOND EPISODE THAT BALANCES MULTIPLE STORYLINES AND OFFERS PLENTY OF MUTANT ACTION.

With its second episode, ‘rX’, FOX’s The Gifted demonstrates a real knack for juggling multiple storylines, while reminding everyone just how versatile an allegory mutantdom really is. Last week’s pilot episode nicely split the difference between setting up the circumstances of the series’ post-X-Men world and introducing the audience to the Strucker family, who’ve found themselves on the lam now that both children have exhibited some pretty powerful mutant abilities. But after an action-packed first outing directed by Bryan Singer, the question was whether or not the series could maintain that level of energy and if it would drop the ball on the various storylines it saw jump off the starting block in ‘eXposed’.

As it turns out, the series has no intention of slowing things down, and it’s even brought in Underworld director Len Wiseman as proof (provided that gets your juices juicing). ‘rX’ delivers a solid example of how to follow up an impressive premiere episode, as the series doesn’t let its foot up off the gas. The result is a fast-paced hour of television the quickly picks up from last week’s cliffhanger before expanding the world of hurt the Struckers and their new friends find themselves in. More impressive, perhaps, is the way the episode operates within a series of relatively confined spaces but doesn’t make it feel as though the storytelling has been restricted in any significant way. In fact, ‘rX’ makes good use of its lack of space to create tension within its three main story threads: Reed Strucker’s interrogation by Jace Turner, Polaris’s no good, terrible, horrible, very bad first day in lock-up, and Blink’s powers going on the fritz, putting everyone in the Mutant Underground’s secret headquarters in danger.

RELATED: THE GIFTED PREMIERE EFFECTIVELY BLENDS FAMILY DRAMA WITH MARVEL’S MERRY MUTANTS
The strength of the second episode is largely the result of how the hour is structured. The three pronged attack (four, if you count when Kate and Marcos discover the misery of the mutant healthcare system, leaving Lauren and Andy with Thunderbird and an ailing Blink) positions the portal madness at MUHQ as the driving episodic narrative, while the other two, though still given more or less equal screen time, are meant to drive a pair of serialized stories that will carry on into the weeks to come. It’s purposeful storytelling that keeps the stakes high, and gives the choices the characters make necessary weight in the series’ early going.


While juggling various plot threads, ‘rX’ also manages to pick where ‘eXposed’ left off in terms of the series’ world building. The most significant advancement there comes when the disappearance of the X-Men and the Brotherhood is mentioned by Jace Turner who describes the July incident that took his daughter’s life in a way that suggests just how big an event it really was. Not only did it rob Turner of his child, but also it apparently was a big enough tragedy to have opened the door for the government’s crackdown on those with mutant abilities.

Referencing the X-Men is a good way to get most viewers’ ears to perk up, but it also gives The Gifted a unique mystery to solve that’s destined to provide it with more than a few names to drop as the season moves on. And not to let such an opportunity pass it by, the series quickly adds the Mutant Liberation Front to its collection of x-gene-carrying groups it has managed to casually reference in its two hours of existence. But Turner’s mention of the July event and the Mutant Liberation Front does more than prove The Gifted‘s Marvel mutant bona fides, it further explains why the world is as fearful of mutants as it is, while intimating yet another not-so subtle real-world equivalent to the mighty mutant metaphor.



After so many X-Men movies, the device is incredibly familiar by now, but given how well The Gifted has used it so far, up to and including Kate and Marcos’ trip to one of the few hospitals that admit mutants, the effectiveness of the representation is undeniable, and though it’s not exactly used sparingly, it’s not worn out its welcome either. Besides, the writers have managed to keep their characters busy enough – what with Polaris being attacked and her unborn child’s life put in jeopardy, and Reed turning the tables on Turner – that even the most transparent symbolism can get a pass. That might not be true as the season progresses, but by that point, hopefully The Gifted will have found different ways to make its point. And with the introduction of Garret Dillahunt’s Dr. Roderick Campbell, and the Rio De Janero Easter egg the accompanies his arrival, it seems the series will have no shortage of ways to distract itself.

In all, ‘rX’ is a strong second outing for a series that hit the ground running in its premiere. With its demonstrated ability to handle multiple ongoing story lines and still deliver a solid episodic installment, The Gifted is off to a great start. And although strong performances from Amy Acker, Sean Teale, Emma Dumont, and Stephen Moyer suggest it may not need to drop X-Men hints every episode, the world building the series has done to this point has made an already absorbing series even more so.
 
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Ok the stuff with Polaris being mad...

that was lazy.

but damn near EVERYTHING else has been very very solid
 
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ok the f*cked up

ya'l KNEW you had a telepath

and waited till the END of the episode to us her?
 
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The Gifted Is Boring And Is Wasting Its Potential



Warning: SPOILERS below for The Gifted!



The Gifted has all the necessary elements and X-factors to be great but it hasn’t fulfilled its potential. FOX’s X-Men-without-the-X-Men series about mutants trying to survive in a world that hates and fears them premiered in October to decent ratings but it has steadily lost viewers each week with its December 11th fall finale episode falling to series lows. Many fans who sampled The Gifted thanks to the lofty promise of an X-Men TV series and the exciting pilotdirected by Bryan Singer have scattered ever since. Unfortunately, this is because despite the series’ many gifts, The Gifted has proven to be boring.


Even without the name brand X-Men characters like Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, and Professor X, The Gifted started off well. Series creator Matt Nix leaned on many of the characters fans met in the apocalyptic future scenes of X-Men: Days of Future Past like Blink, Thunderbird, and Eclipse (the latter two were Warpath and Sunspot in the film, but The Gifted‘s mutants exhibit similar powers). The Gifted introduced an effective hook: a ‘normal’ nuclear family, the Struckers, who discover their children are mutants, which forces them to go on the run and join the Mutant Underground. The Gifted ably dropped fans into its universe where mutants are societal pariahs hunted and imprisoned by the government’s anti-mutant Sentinel Services – therefore, all of the familiar X-Men themes are in place. What’s more, the backstory of what happened to the X-Men has been teased via intriguing dollops of info throughout season 1.

RELATED: WILL THE X-MEN TV SHOWS ACTUALLY INTRODUCE THE X-MEN?

The series also has a tremendous cast, with Jaime Chung’s sarcastic Blink, Emma Dumont’s dangerous Polaris (the daughter of Magneto), and Blair Redford’s proud and rock-solid Thunderbird as standouts among the heroic mutants. When the mutants use their powers, like the instance where Polaris and her beau Eclipse, played by Sean Teale, created an Aurora Borealis, the results are thrilling. Amy Acker and Stephen Moyer as Caitlin and Reed Strucker anchor the series as the human POVs for the audience plunged into this unsettling mutant world. Coby Bell’s Jace Turner, the agent in charge of Sentinel Services, is a complex and driven villain. In the rare moments Turner unleashes Sentinel robots on the mutants, the suspense is genuinely chilling.


With this intriguing universe populated by compelling characters set up so well, what went wrong with The Gifted and why have audiences found it so lacking to the point where many have quit the series?

A CYCLE OF REPETITION
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The Gifted dragged its heels instead of letting loose. The early episodes saw young mutants Lauren (Natalie Alyn Lind) and Andy Strucker (Percy Hynes White) indoctrinated into the Mutant Underground, which was focused on freeing Polaris from imprisonment by Sentinel Services. The Mutant Underground eventually rescued Polaris and brought her back to the safety of their headquarters, an abandoned bank in Atlanta. Since then, while there has been a pleasing exploration of the characters and their backstories, instead of escalating the superhero action, the series has set a tedious pace and has largely been a prolonged game of hide and seek, with Sentinel Services trying to locate the mutants’ refuge to no avail and the mutants content to evade detection.

Several excursions, such as the Struckers trying to get help from Caitlin’s brother Daniel or Blink leaving the Underground because of a breach of trust and going to search for her foster family, ended in the same way: a scramble to get back to the Mutant Underground headquarters as Sentinel Services give chase and fail to catch them. Sentinel Services, which has an unlimited budget, personnel, and sinister mutant-hunting technology at their disposal, unavoidably look like buffoons as they can’t find dozens of mutants hiding in Atlanta, nor can they hold onto a mutant whenever they do momentarily capture one. The mutants, meanwhile, don’t come off as very heroic in these situations. Their central motivation tends to be finding a way to get back to that abandoned bank and hide from the big, bad humans when things get hot.

Meanwhile, a lot of The Gifted‘s issues also stem from one of the biggest problems with the show: the Mutant Underground itself.

DEFINE THE MUTANT UNDERGROUND
The Mutant Underground seems to be an amorphous organization without clearly defined goals. The gathering of mutants led by Thunderbird is one of numerous cells across the United States, and we’ve seen mutants from other cells uncovered by Sentinel Services absorbed into the Atlanta cell. This has provided The Gifted with an influx of interesting new mutants like the devious psychic Esme (Skyler Samuels), but it also creates numerous questions. The biggest being: What is the Underground’s ultimate goal or do they even have one?

The political climate in The Gifted universe is stacked against mutants, but the Underground seems to be nothing more than a poorly funded and supplied temporary sanctuary. There seems to be no central leadership and no plan in place to fight back for mutants’ rights in any meaningful way politically or socially. The mutants in the Underground are all refugees and fugitives from the law with no money or property to speak of. Most possess awesome and dangerous powers, and there is lip service paid to the mutants ‘training’ with Polaris, which are scenes where Polaris orders some mutants to briefly use their powers before the training session is routinely interrupted. But otherwise, the mutants in the underground seem to just wait around with nothing to do unless there’s a crisis (often of their own making) to react to.

RELATED: THE GIFTED’S BIGGEST THEMES (SO FAR)

Meanwhile, the Underground isn’t preparing for a war with humans, either a physical one or one fought politically. The Mutant Underground seems to have no plan at all to improve the lives of the mutants it takes in. Unlike how mutants are both educated and prepared to fight if necessary in Professor Xavier’s school, the Mutant Underground isn’t equipped to provide anything more than an emergency shelter for mutants to hide. The abandoned bank seems like a safe place for a mutant to turn to when Sentinel Services is on the hunt, but it’s actually a dead end.

The Gifted needs to strongly define the Mutant Underground’s goals, greater purpose, and how the organization plans to combat Sentinel Services and restore the civil rights of mutants. It should have been doing that all along. The X-Men fight for a world that hates and fears them. The Mutant Underground seems to fight when they have to and hide always, fearing the world that hates them.

STRUCKER FAMILY MATTERS

The mystery of the Strucker family has been one of the best slow-burn reveals of the series. We’ve learned that Lauren and Andy are part of a family legacy of mutants tracing back to their great grandfather Andreas (Paul Cooper) and his twin sister Andrea (Caitlin Mehner) von Strucker. Collectively known as Fenris, the von Strucker twins were terrorists and two of the most powerful and dangerous mutants ever. Lauren and Andy possess similar abilities and villainous potential, which is why they’re so prized by the devious Dr. Roderick Campbell (Garrett Dillahunt) and Trask Industries.

RELATED: THE GIFTED SHOULD BRING BACK PETER DINKLAGE AS BOLIVAR TRASK

As satisfying as this revelation was, getting there meant enduring a tedious series of episodes in the middle of the season where Caitlin and Reed attempted to keep their family ‘normal’ in the midst of the Mutant Underground, including subplots where Reed disapproved of a mutant boy who liked Lauren and Andy generally being surly and acting out. While Lauren and Andy are powerful mutants who ultimately belong in the Underground, the powerless elder Struckers stick out among the mutants. The series has labored to make Reed’s knowledge of the law and Caitlin’s medical abilities useful.

The Strucker parents seem unable to accept there’s no going back to their old life but also aren’t preparing themselves or their children for their new lives as mutant freedom fighters – if Lauren and Andy don’t succumb to their potential for evil first. However, Lauren and Andy remain two of The Gifted‘s weakest characters until they are fleshed out beyond their stereotypical roles as angry, bratty teens who disobey their parents whenever it’s convenient for the plot.



The fall finale of The Gifted provided a spark of delivering on the show’s promise, with the tragic murder of Dreamer(Elena Satine) and the reveal of Esme as the Stepford Cuckoos, which is comic book fan service the series does very well. The final three episodes will hopefully turn The Gifted on its ear and make all of the dragging of its heels for most of the season worth it. However, the damage may already be done with so many fans having already decided The Gifted is non-essential viewing among the wealth of options available. A season 2 renewal hasn’t been announced.

The Gifted should be the most exciting and dangerous superhero show on TV, serving as a cracked mirror into the political climate of our society in the real world as well as delivering thrilling superpowered action. But so far it has mostly settled for regurgitating trite plots about mutants hunted and hiding, with only fleeting moments hinting at the ballsy superhero series it could be. Mutants are dangerous, frightening, sexy, tragic, and awe-inspiring. There’s no excuse for a series with so many gifts to be boring.
 
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The Hellfire Club is ascendant in The Gifted season 2, and it seems they have one goal in mind; to establish a mutant nation, where the mutants can live free from human persecution.

The first season of The Gifted introduced viewers to a dystopian world where the X-Men had long since vanished, and mutants were hunted down for any use of their powers. By the season's end, a dangerous new force had emerged; the Hellfire Club, mutants who pulled no punches in the defense of their race. Battle lines were drawn between the Hellfire Club and the Mutant Underground, setting up an action-packed season 2 in which friend and family are set to be turned against one another.

Related: The Gifted: Every Marvel Comics Character In Season 1

But what is the Hellfire Club's endgame? Speaking to CBR, Grace Byers - who plays the Hellfire Club's leader, Reeva Payge - discussed her motivations. According to Byers, there's one simple idea at the heart of Reeva's schemes:

"So the vision that she has is that — and I mean, it’s no secret — she fully believes that it is impossible for humans and mutants to live peacefully in the same world. Her experience has told her that. The present has told her that. She has lost lots of people and lots of things due to that. So it has been proven to her time and time again that it’s just not possible, and so she is working for a world and a nation where the mutants can live unharmed and at peace and free."

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In the comics, Reeva Payge was recruited into the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club by Shinobi Shaw. She actually only appeared in a single issue back in 1994, and has never been seen since. This gives Byers a remarkable freedom when it comes to portraying the character; she can essentially create her from the ground up, not needing to worry about comic book accuracy. The Gifted season 1 had a reputation for making amazingly deep cuts into X-Men lore - even in terms of choosing the main villain, Dr. Roderick Campbell. It's exciting to see that trend continue.

Payge's plan will be familiar to any fans of the X-Men comics. The idea of a mutant nation is one that has been pursued by several different mutants, most notably Magneto himself. Magneto's first attempts were orbital satellites, usually referred to as "Asteroid M" but once as "Avalon." That was a radical approach, an attempt to literally take mutants off the face of the Earth, where they would live in peace under the Master of Magnetism's care. He ultimately graduated to taking over an entire island nation himself, the country of Genosha, which he forced the world's government to grant as a sanctuary for mutants.

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The Hellfire Club is ascendant in The Gifted season 2, and it seems they have one goal in mind; to establish a mutant nation, where the mutants can live free from human persecution.

The first season of The Gifted introduced viewers to a dystopian world where the X-Men had long since vanished, and mutants were hunted down for any use of their powers. By the season's end, a dangerous new force had emerged; the Hellfire Club, mutants who pulled no punches in the defense of their race. Battle lines were drawn between the Hellfire Club and the Mutant Underground, setting up an action-packed season 2 in which friend and family are set to be turned against one another.

Related: The Gifted: Every Marvel Comics Character In Season 1

But what is the Hellfire Club's endgame? Speaking to CBR, Grace Byers - who plays the Hellfire Club's leader, Reeva Payge - discussed her motivations. According to Byers, there's one simple idea at the heart of Reeva's schemes:

"So the vision that she has is that — and I mean, it’s no secret — she fully believes that it is impossible for humans and mutants to live peacefully in the same world. Her experience has told her that. The present has told her that. She has lost lots of people and lots of things due to that. So it has been proven to her time and time again that it’s just not possible, and so she is working for a world and a nation where the mutants can live unharmed and at peace and free."

ADVERTISING


In the comics, Reeva Payge was recruited into the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club by Shinobi Shaw. She actually only appeared in a single issue back in 1994, and has never been seen since. This gives Byers a remarkable freedom when it comes to portraying the character; she can essentially create her from the ground up, not needing to worry about comic book accuracy. The Gifted season 1 had a reputation for making amazingly deep cuts into X-Men lore - even in terms of choosing the main villain, Dr. Roderick Campbell. It's exciting to see that trend continue.

Payge's plan will be familiar to any fans of the X-Men comics. The idea of a mutant nation is one that has been pursued by several different mutants, most notably Magneto himself. Magneto's first attempts were orbital satellites, usually referred to as "Asteroid M" but once as "Avalon." That was a radical approach, an attempt to literally take mutants off the face of the Earth, where they would live in peace under the Master of Magnetism's care. He ultimately graduated to taking over an entire island nation himself, the country of Genosha, which he forced the world's government to grant as a sanctuary for mutants.

ADVERTISING

As any comic book reader will know, the fundamental problem with the idea of a mutant nation is that it's inevitably seen as a threat to humanity. As more mutants relocate there, the power levels grow exponentially, until no country's armed might could possibly stand against it. The United States Government is certain to unleash its Sentinel program against the Hellfire Club's plan.
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oh shit Anika getting some shine...:sleazy:





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now this how u start a dam season ...the 1st four minutes....:eek:


esme picked up right where she left off....




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I was getting ready to say 'wait,how old is she again..?' :lol:

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yup I had to do some confirmation myself!

that young woman either get even BETTER?

which is almost inconceivable (those legs those hips those lips that hair her eye s that nose???)

Or age at an accelerated rate.

no matter what?

It gonna be a hell of a ride.
 

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