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Was Rogue too much of a "MacGuffin character"?


In the sense that even though she was important to the plot, she was merely there as someone who the other characters were fighting over, while not showing a lot of agency on her own.

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Probably. She was given a little budding romance subplot in the second but was sidelined in the third while only having a two second cameo in Days Of Future Past. The only time they used her to a significant degree was as a plot device in this one.

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Frankly I always disliked the way they did Rogue in these movies. She never got to be the tough fighter she was in cartoons and comics. She was just some scared meek little girl and the most we got to see of her is in the extended cut of Days of Future Past. Which really only lasts for about 5 minutes at the most. I hope Marvel does her character justice.

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I'm extremely grateful to Bryan Singer for what he did to that X-Bitch! She got exactly the treatment she deserves, she's way to overpowered and that annoying Southern dialect just makes her sound like an uneducated, slutty redneck.

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Rogue spoke with a heavy Southern dialect on the animated series from the '90s, so when it came time to make a live-action X-Men movie, I naturally assumed and anticipated that Rogue would speak that way too. I mean, Rogue's character is basically a "girly bruiser" who also just so happens to be a Southern belle.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GirlyBruiser

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