Aug 26 2008
The Most Useless Science-Fiction Characters Ever #4
Name: Rogue (from Brian Singer’s and Brett Ratner’s X-Men Films)
Abilities: Crying a lot; being used by super villains; inability to fight back when captured or hurt; can have crushes on father figures while dating pretty boys; can vote on her future; can give up when powers are too tough to handle; being second best to Ellen Page
Notable Features: Statuesque beauty, long flowing hair with multiple colors, ability to fly and wear stunning spandex (even in yellow) all the while being a dedicated and important member of the X-men. . .oh crap. . .that’s the Rogue from the comic book. . .um. . .this Rouge won an Oscar once!
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[...] Rogue (Movie Version) [...]
I beg to differ, Rogue was important in the development of the first movie, and her role in the third movie was to offer a slant upon the idea of ”the cure’ it wouldnt have been right for the directors to have EVERY single main mutant in the story against the cure.
The ENTIRE cast of X-men 3 had a debate about whether Rogue should take the cure – Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) had a huge argument with Patrick Stewart (Professor X) about the matter.
Please don’t slate the new Rogue, she was important. It was she that gave Bobby Drake/ Iceman the will to fight his former best friend.
(*tongue in cheek*)
Oh Matt,
My good friend Matt,
Poor, sad, deluted Matt!
Rogue is a wretched character!!!! Absolutely horrid. And though I’m sure these ’scenes’ and ‘discussions’ you’ve mentioned seemed to have ‘happened’ in the film (see, I am still coming to grips with the fact that the film actually exists in this universe and isn’t a figment of my slowly diminishing imagination) I don’t remember them because a)the third film was awful and b)Rogue was awful in it (and the other two X-Men movies).
She was a plot device in the first film and they couldn’t figure out what the sam-hell to do with her in the other two. I’ll give her a pass in X2 since there was so much going on. . .but X3? Come on. . .even you poor, sad, deluted Matt have to admit that a)Rogue had no emotional role in Iceman fighting his ‘best friend’ (they had three scenes together and the dude was basically one spikey hair away from being pure evil in the beginning anyways) because the script for X3 had no emotion (or skill or structure or wit or intelligence or pacing or. . .anything. . .for that matter) and b)was used yet AGAIN as a weak plot device to show one poorly written angle on a poorly written argument in a poorly written film.
UGH! ROGUE IS USELESS IN THE MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!
Anyways, thanks for reading! Your comment is greatly appreciated!
(*end tongue in cheek*)
you guys are sooo stupid!!!! get a life! besides rogue is an important charcter and u ever written w movie will??? ya don’t think so! its hard and you can never it perfect. get overt it!!!!!
Wow. I have never met so many Rogue fans out there (and by so many I mean two and that is a lot because she is useless)!
And why is Matt stupid? He was agreeing with you!
And no, dear Bethany, I have never written a movie but I have written two sentences that actually make sense. And I am confused why my not having written a movie script makes me suddenly unqualified to judge a character. I like the first X-Men movie and I like the script for it. But I guess my lack of movie-making credentials means I can’t judge a small facet of that script which, in this case, involves a dreadfully written character who serves no useful purpose. You’re right. I can never it perfect. I will get overt it.
I think that Rogue is a wonderful character. She represents the oddity that most people also feel towards one another…..
BUT, and this is a BIG but.
She truly sucked as a character in the movies. The actress didn’t get it right, even if they would have written it better, she’d still have sucked as Rogue. Basically the writers took Rogue and made her into a baby sitting job. Then they didn’t know what do with her after wards so they just sort of had her hanging around. HOW SAD!!!
Oh and don’t get me started on the relationship with ICE BOY (Yes I know it’s Iceman, but not in these movies.)
First off they should have started her out in the Brotherhood. She wouldn’t have been useless. They would have found better more proper ways to “use” her and her powers. And second substituting her for Jubilee was horrible. Why have her…what’s the word, oh right CLING to Wolverine when she was a KICK ASS kinda girl??? I get that they wanted to start with a new “generation” and all. But it can’t be that hard to write a movie when there was both a comic book and cartoon TV series!!!!
Changing the characters and their relationships around was something that i personally believed destroyed the movies in general. Sure the first was good, but after that it just went down hill. The powers of all the mutants weren’t used to their full capacity. I mean I heard Halley Barry wasn’t going to do the third because she felt “Storm’s powers were useless”.
And the only reason why Origins worked was because Wolverine was an action packed character, with a mysterious background that no one knew about. That and his track record with woman.
If they plan on making another I think they need both a new actress and new Rogue character analyst. Or write her out all together. Because a useless character is not a character worth watching.
Charly,
I couldn’t agree more and I hope everyone understands my deep respect and infatuation with the Rogue character in the comics!
My theory on the X-Men films:
X-Men: Too much story, not enough action
X2: Too much action, not enough story
X3: Too much story, too much action
They’ve never been able to get it right because they are trying too hard (this sounds like a weird compliment but its true). The first movie tried to be ‘important’ so that comic book films could be taken seriously but still make ducets. X2 was like ’screw it, let’s blow shit up’. And the third film tried to be both stupid and important which isn’t possible.
Anyways, Rogue was a victim of all three films and not a participant. She was literally a plot device and literal metaphor for the first film and, as you pointed out, they had NO idea what to do with her in the last two films which made any scene she was in completely superfluous.
Rogue is an important and charismatic character in comic book and even cartoons, but in the movie sucks.
In the movie she is useless, she is not sexy, she is not beautiful, she is a depressing character with no character
First, they should have choose another actress, and then, they should ave give her more personality.
She has nothing of those characteristics that make her my favorite of the X-men when i was a little girl who watched the tv program.
I think she is gorgeous. Period.
i first realized i liked girls because of Rogue. so yes i love her. and yes i had high expectations of the film. (x men is what got me in to comics and was my fav tv show growing up) but it seems that nothing other then the comics and the original cartoon got her right. not the movies and not the new(ish) cartoon (evolution)
and i don’t think it was just her they fucked up. it was everything- well other then wolverine i loved him.
I had an inexplicable obsession with Rogue in 1991 so I suppose youthful nostalgia is what makes me so loyal to what was compared to what is now. I love Anna Paquin, personally, but she was just wildly miscast as Rogue and the filmmakers just didn’t know what to do with her (since even in the highly more fantasized world of comics they didn’t know what to do with her).