What Happens in X-Men: Apocalypse?
31 Very Real Reactions We Had to X-Men: Apocalypse
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You know it's Summer blockbuster season when a major franchise movie is hitting theaters seemingly every week, and Memorial Day weekend was no exception with the arrival of the apocalypse (X-Men: Apocalypse, that is). The film is over two and a half hours long, so you'd better believe it's packed with action, humor, new characters, and a lot of Olivia Munn wearing a leather bathing suit. It's satisfying as a whole, though I couldn't help wanting a bit more from new villain Apocalypse, not to mention infinitely more of Evan Peters as Quicksilver. With that being said, here's a spoiler-filled rundown on the movie's biggest moments.
1 When the Movie Opens on an Epic Sequence That Includes the Crumbling of Ancient Egyptian Pyramids
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2 When We See Cute Oscar Isaac . . . as Apocalypse
3 When the 3D Opening Credits Are Awesome and Nauseating at the Same Time
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4 When Apocalypse Wakes Up After a Bajillion Years and All You Could Think of Was Jon Snow
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5 When Apocalypse Meets Storm and Starts Going Over His World Domination Plans
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6 When You Realize Storm Started Out as One of the Baddies
7 When Apocalypse Keeps Murdering People Using Only Sand
8 When Mystique Shows Up in That Supersexy Purple '80s Dress
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9 When Scott Accidentally Blows Up the Bathroom With His Eyes
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10 When Sansa Stark Shows Up Claiming to Be Jean Grey
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11 When We First See Magneto and He's This Adorably Normal (and Hot) Welder
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12 When We Find Out Magneto Has a Wife — and a Daughter!
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13 When the Authorities Come For Erik After He Saves a Guy's Life
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14 When the Birds Start Swarming and You Realize Nina Has Her Own Powers
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15 When Erik's Wife and Daughter Are Tragically Killed With 1 Arrow
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16 When Erik Kills All of the Authorities Using Just a Locket
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17 When Professor X Is Being Adorable Trying to Flirt With Moira
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18 During Every Scene that Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence Have Together
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19 When Apocalypse Takes Over Cerebro
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20 When Quicksilver Saves the Whole School to the Tune of "Sweet Dreams"
21 When Havoc Sacrifices Himself to Save the X-Men
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22 When Wolverine Shows Up For His Requisite Cameo
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23 When You Think About How Someday Wolverine and Jean Grey Are Going to Have Sexy Times
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24 When You're Waiting For Quicksilver to Drop the Bomb About Being Magneto's Son
25 When Psylocke (Olivia Munn) Finally Does Something Besides Just Standing There in a Leather Bathing Suit
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26 When Nightcrawler Saves the Whole Team on the Plane in the Nick of Time
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27 When It's Looking like Professor X Is Really Done (Even Though We Know He Comes Back For Later Movies)
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28 But Then He Fights Back and He and Apocalypse Are Boxing — in His Mind
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29 When Magneto Switches Sides to Help Take Down Apocalypse
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30 When Mystique Tells the New Kids That They're Training to Be X-Men
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31 When You Leave the Theater
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