X3: minor character; prettiness

[hermionesviolin]

I was looking at the X-3 gallery with Eric today. Famke Janssen remains v. pretty. Eric agreed that she was pretty and said that he hadn't previously thought so -- which, okay, whatever. Also: mmm, Callisto. (Though labrets are ew.) Eric said she's supposed to have an eyepatch. And also that she looks like a butch lesbian, but that he thinks she's supposed to be a lesbian so it's okay.

I Googled her and lo, BtVS connection.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_Slayers
Caridad - A girl from the Philippines to whom Xander is attracted; first seen in "Dirty Girls". She too survives the climatic Hellmouth battle according to the Buffy magazine. Caridad is portrayed by Dania Ramirez.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callisto_(comics)
Dania Ramirez portrays her in the third X-Men movie. She is a member of Magneto's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. In place of an eye-patch and physical disfigurement, this version of Callisto is beautiful, yet heavily tattooed. Her powers have also been altered to move at incredible speeds and the ability to "sense" other mutants around her, and assess their abilities and power level.

P.S. X-Men has Reavers?

Comments

[bella-loki.livejournal.com]

Callisto isn't (unfortunately) a lesbian. She had a thing with Forge (which was kinda cool) also abducted Angel entirely for the pretty. I am so weirded at them making her beautiful. (because damnit. good looks are *not* part of the X-gene. Make me miss Sarah. (Marrow. Grew Bones. not pretty. was part of the point. But then they made *her* pretty too. Sigh)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, reading about the beautification of her I was thinking of you and your love for Marrow. I get that Hollywood movies are all about the pretty people, but still. Did I ever link you to this post (http://community.livejournal.com/fanficrants/2557153.html) about creating mutants who have powers that aren't supercool? Oh, and one of the FilmFest showings was Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema (kind of picking up where Celluloid Closet left off and talking about [American] movies that were intentionally queer) and near the end they asked assorted queer actors etc. about what they want to see in gay cinema to come and Alan Cumming said he'd like to see a film in which the main couple aren't all shaved chest men who work in PR etc. but where one is a little overweight for example. This, in turn makes my brain think of a post I saw once where someone was complaining about fanficcers turning Giles all washboardchest etc. instead of letting him be a normally bodied (and yes still v. attractive) middle-aged man.

[bella-loki.livejournal.com]

Forget creating mutants. Some of them are canon in X-men. God, there's this one poor boy in a (somewhat) recent comic (read: just a couple years ago) who was killing everyone around him unintentionally, he gave off some kind of acid. Wolvie had to *kill* him. Some of the morlocks really just *look* weird. A lot of them don't have powers and have just *made* themselves, batmanlike. And actually, same universe as the deathkid there was a scene with Angel whining to Storm because yeah, wings, pretty, but he sorta lacked useful/hardass powers.(grandted, the flight does come in handy in their fights but he didn't know that yet).
And there's always maggott. Has huge maggotts in his stomache. They come out and *eat* things for him. Useful, possibly but ewwwww gross.

Yeah. It's actually one of the reasons I like Stargate Atlantis. Rodney is *cushy*, and though some of the ficcers make him all hardass it's less so than in Buffy. Mostly they just make John love him for it. (Cause- pillow-esque!)Actually, unlike Giles (and Grissom, come to think of it) Rodney's not that understandably handsome, and that gets considered a lot. it's cool.
There is actually some movie out there like that. (I don't remember/haven't seen it. It's on a list...and it took me *way* to long to find for it being the first movie on the list: http://www.skeeter63.org/~k9kennel/Alive_And_Kicking.htm Hm. well, ok. is one out of two. Here: this? Is my favorite list ever: (ok so not favorite *ever* but I found it useful, especially back when I was starting in on movies) http://www.skeeter63.org/~k9kennel/Recs_page.htm )

[lilithchilde.livejournal.com]

It's actually one of the reasons I like Stargate Atlantis. Rodney is *cushy*

Just wanted to chime in with a brief "word" . . . nothing to see here. :)