10 Characters We Want To See In X-Men: Dark Phoenix

5) Rogue (Recast)

Ever since 2011’s X-Men: First Class, the prequel movies have given us a range of recast characters previously seen in the original films. Many of these have brought the characters much closer to their comic book counterparts, something that would be great to see continued in X-Men: Dark Phoenix. In particular, there’s one X-(wo)Man we’d love to see finally done justice on screen.

Anna Paquin’s Rogue might have been a fairly major part of the first X-Men trilogy, but she was nothing like the sassy, Southern belle from the comics. Characterized as a mostly helpless ingenue and damsel in distress, the movie Rogue nailed the character’s tragic power – she can’t touch anyone without killing them – but not much else.

Let’s hope that a more accurate Rogue – preferably with her green coat and yellow jumpsuit combo, too – appears in the next outing. After all, seeing as Dark Phoenix is set in the 1990s, it makes perfect sense to reintroduce a character who was a big fan favourite on the beloved 1994 X-Men animated series, right?