When the first X-Men film came out six years ago, I was thirteen. That means that I was six, thirteen years ago, when the Saturday-morning cartoon show on Fox was wildly popular. I was always a Spider-Man kid, but most of my friends watched X-Men, and I would often join them. When pressed to choose a favorite character, I chose Cyclops (what can I say, I was a kid who liked to follow the rules). When director Bryan Singer took away the yellow-and-blue costumes and made Cyclops (played by...
