It’s been over a week now since Bryan Singer announced that X-Men: Apocalypse was coming in 2016, and the conversation around the film has already started to die down.It’s understandable: all we know so far is a title, and there’s already another X-Men movie between here and there anyway (2014’s Days of Future Past). There’s also the fact that in the time since Singer’s announcement, Sony dropped the bombshell that they’re expanding the Spider-Man universe out to a minimum of six films, including two that won’t star Spider-Man as the primary protagonist.Anyway, the X-Men’s new film announcement is a pretty interesting one; in the wake of X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron and even, to an extent, The Dark Knight Rises–all films based entirely or in part on specific comic book stories rather than the general “based on characters appearing in…” kind of films we’ve seen in the past–the fairly generic “Apocalypse” makes one wonder whether it’s going to be based on a certain story or just a story that uses Apocalypse as the villain.In the case of the former, though, we (and other sites, too, certainly) have been wondering which stories we might pick from if it were us trying to make a movie where Apocalypse was the bad guy. Here’s what we came up with…
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