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Major Character with a Disability: Professor Charles Xavier (played by Patrick Stewart)

Actors with Disabilities: none

Short Description

Mutants with various super powers struggle for acceptance in society while battling evil doers who are both mutants and non-mutants.

Main Cast:
Hugh Jackman - Logan/Wolverine
Patrick Stewart - Professor Charles Xavier
Ian McKellen - Eric Lensherr/Magneto
Famke Janssen - Jean Grey
James Marsden - Scott Summers/Cyclops
Halle Berry - Ororo Munroe/Storm
Anna Paquin - Rogue
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos - Mystique

Director: Bryan Singer
Writers: Tom DeSanto, Bryan Singer, David Hayter (X1); Zak Penn, David Hayter, Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris, David Hayter (X2)

Official Movie Websites: X-Men X2 X3

Long Description

Xavier and Magneto

Big screen adaptation of the classic comic book about a band of unique power-possesing mutants who live in a world where their kind is hated and persecuted by humans. Under the guidance of their leader, Professor Charles Xavier, the X-men strive for a world where humans and mutants can peacefully co-exist. The superheroes must also combat those radical mutants with intentions of exterminating human the race.

X1: In the near future, when children are being born with a special X-Factor in their genes giving them special powers and making them “mutants”, the seeds of a new Holocaust are being sown by Senator Robert Kelly. The situation brings fellow mutants and former friends Erik Lehnsherr, a.k.a. Magneto, and Professor Charles Xavier into opposition. While Xavier seeks to stop the hatred toward mutants peacefully, Magneto seeks to even things out with a machine that would speed up the mutation process in all humans, making everyone equal. To stop Magneto, Xavier brings together a special group of mutants called “X-Men” to stop him. In the meantime, 2 mysterious mutants, one named Logan, a powerful and agressive mutant with no past, no memories, and a young girl named Rogue emerge. Their quests for identities eventually land them in the sights of Xavier and Magneto, but for what purpose?

summary by Justin Clark {LostFallenAngel@aol.com} from imdb.com

X2:Already living in a society that mistrusts them, the mutants are faced with even more discrimination after an unforeseen enemy - who may be a mutant with extraordinary powers - launches a devastating attack. The news of the assault causes a public outcry against the mutants, including renewed support for the Mutant Registration Act, and William Stryker, a military leader rumored to have experimented on mutants (possibly including Wolverine), is among the most vocal supporters of the legislation. Stryker puts into motion a plan to eradicate the mutants and begins an offensive on the X-Men mansion and school. Magneto, having escaped from his plastic prison, forms an unlikely alliance with Professor Xavier to stop Stryker. Meanwhile, Wolverine heads north to investigate his past.

summary by Uber Minion from imdb.com

X3: The X-Men, mutant heroes sworn to defend a world that hates and fears them, are back! This time, with the help of new recruits The Beast and Angel, they must face evolution itself in the form of their former teammate, Jean Grey. Possessed with the cosmic power of the Dark Phoenix, the resurrected Jean Grey has become a danger to herself, her mutant comrades, and the entire planet. To stave off this imminent threat to humanity, a potential cure is discovered and processed to treat — and ultimately eliminate — genetic mutations, once and for all. Now, as the battle lines are drawn, the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier, must contend with both Jean Grey’s world-consuming powers, as well as the malevolent Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier’s former ally, Magneto.

Written by comicfan from imdb.com