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X-Men Trading Card Game
Released by Wizards of the Coast in 2000, the X-Men Trading Card Game was a collectible card game (CCG) designed to coincide with the popularity of the film X-Men (film), X-Men, the first of the X-Men (film series), X-Men film series. This set had featured character art similar to that of film and included characters who did not appear in the movie. It was released in July 2000. Background The X-Men Trading Card Game was a joint-release of Wizards of the Coast (WotC), Marvel Entertainment, and Twentieth Century Fox. All three companies involved with the game required that certain criteria be met in the final product. WotC was responsible for the structural design of the game; Marvel was to provide the artwork; Fox determined the overall look of the characters depicted in the cards. The game was released in the summer of 2000. Delays with the Marvel art department meant that the booster packs did not reach the retail market for months after the release of the starter decks. An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Fitzgerald (game Designer)
Mike Fitzgerald is a game designer who has worked primarily on collectible card games. Career Mike Fitzgerald started designing games shortly after ''Magic: The Gathering'' came out in 1993. His first design was the trading card game ''Wyvern (card game), Wyvern'', which was published by U.S. Games. This resulted in a contract with Wizards of the Coast to do more designs, including the ''Nitro'' (World Championship Wrestling, WCW wrestling) and ''X-Men Trading Card Game, X-Men'' trading card games. He has worked for Pokémon USA, helping to put together the pre-constructed decks that are sold with every ''Pokémon'' expansion. Fitzgerald is also the designer of the Mystery Rummy series. Fitzgerald also has a long and successful radio career as an on-air personality. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Fitzgerald, Mike American game designers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arcade (Marvel Comics)
Arcade is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He first appeared in 1978 in comics, 1978's ''Marvel Team-Up'' #65, the creation of writer Chris Claremont and writer/artist John Byrne (comics), John Byrne. The character is a combination of an villain#The evil genius villain, evil genius and a hitman who carries out his assassinations via various elaborate traps, often referred to as ''Murderworld''. Arcade's first intended victims were Spider-Man and Captain Britain but since Arcade's ''Murderworld'' games always leave the outcome up to chance, the duo defeated Arcade and escaped with their lives. Over the years Arcade has targeted a multitude of Marvel heroes, often focusing on the X-Men and associated members of X-Factor (comics), X-Factor, X-Force and Excalibur (comics), Excalibur. In what is considered the "game changer" for Arcade, ''Avengers Arena'', he managed to kidnap 16 superpowered teens and forced them to kill each other for surviv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logan (film Character)
James Howlett, known as Logan and by his codename Wolverine, is a fictional character who originated as the main protagonist and central figure of 20th Century Fox's ''X-Men'' film series, having appeared in nine films since his introduction in ''X-Men'' (2000), including both ensemble and solo films. He is portrayed by Hugh Jackman and is based on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, created by Len Wein and John Romita Sr. Jackman later portrayed multiple alternate "variants" of Logan from the multiverse in ''Deadpool & Wolverine'' (2024), produced by Marvel Studios and set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), with Troye Sivan portraying a young Logan in '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'' (2009), and Henry Cavill portraying a variant dubbed "Cavillrine" in the former film. Concept, creation, and characterization Development Marvel Comics writers and chief editors Gerry Conway and Roy Thomas wrote an ''X-Men'' screenplay in 1984 when Orion Pictures held an option on the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Xavier (film Character)
Professor Charles Francis Xavier, also known simply by his codename Professor X, is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, and Harry Lloyd in 20th Century Fox's ''X-Men'' franchise and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise produced by Marvel Studios, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. In the film series' continuity, Xavier is a mutant activist and founder of the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters, intended to house displaced or discriminated mutants while acting as an educational and training ground for cultivating their powers. With the assistance of several of his school's alumni, he eventually forms and leads a mutant strike force known as the X-Men, dedicated to carrying out his initiative for a peaceful co-existence between mutants and humanity, the latter of whom express significant phobia towards them. He is often depicted as kind, empathetic and wise in his ability ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogue (Marvel Comics)
Rogue is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Michael Golden (comics), Michael Golden, she first appeared in ''The Avengers (comic book), Avengers Annual'' #10 in 1981. In her comic book appearances, Rogue is depicted as a Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutant, a subspecies of humans born with an "X-gene (comics), X-gene" that grants Superpower (ability), superhuman abilities. She is capable of absorbing the life force, attributes, memories, and superpowers of anyone through physical touch. Rogue is initially portrayed as a reluctant supervillain, but she soon joins the X-Men as a superhero and has since endured as one of its most prominent members. Rogue's early history was only revealed over twenty years after her introduction in her self-titled solo series. The backstory written by Robert Rodi established her real name as Anna Marie, although her surname remains un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Grey (film Character)
Jean Grey is a fictional character featured in seven films in the ''X-Men (film series), X-Men'' film series, starting with ''X-Men (film), X-Men'' (2000) and ending with ''Dark Phoenix (film), Dark Phoenix'' (2019), based on the Marvel Comics Jean Grey, character of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Jean was portrayed by Dutch actress Famke Janssen in five films, with "Jean" in ''The Wolverine (film), The Wolverine'' (2013) being a posthumous hallucination in Logan (film series character), Logan's head and her appearance in ''X-Men: Days of Future Past'' (2014) being a brief flashforward scene. For ''X-Men: Apocalypse'' (2016), Jean was recast with English actress Sophie Turner, who would reprise her role in ''Dark Phoenix''. Fictional character biography Early life ''X-Men: The Last Stand'' and ''Dark Phoenix'' each have a Flashback (narrative), flashback sequence for Jean; because of the events of ''X-Men: Days of Future Past'', these two flashbacks takes pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
