[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Ok, I was a little irritated by the way they handled Yuriko (Lady Deathstrike). First of all, when you think about her character, in the movie only, she is very sad.
She's a slave of Striker (who hates mutants and wants to see them all dead). Throughout the movie she is brainwashed, we even see a scene where she gets a "booster shot" of mind control juice. Striker, in order to facilitate his escape, leaves her behind to fight Wolverine. Since Striker has already brainwashed Professor Xavier to kill all the mutants, he doesn't care about her survival and plans to leave without her. He may know that she is no match for Wolverine, but he wouldn't care as long as she can delay Wolverine.
So, Wolverine and Yuriko fight to the death, and Wolverine finally kills her with liquid adamantium. One less beautiful Japanese mutant in the world.
The thing that bothers me is that no one cares about her on any of the teams. To Striker, she's a filthy mutant who has been turned into a disposable weapon. He thinks no more of throwing her away than throwing away a rifle. Magneto's team seems to be mostly unaware of her except when Mystique imitates her to get into Strikers office. To Wolverine, she is just an obstacle to be dealt with in the most ruthless way possible. I doubt that he would be as ruthless with a fellow X-Man, even his rival Psyclops.
So, am I the only one bothered by this? I would still be bothered if she weren't a brainwashed slave (just like Psyclops was!), but the fact that she's been robbed of her free will makes that scene particularly annoying for me. I mean, I doubt very much that she'd be voluntarily work for Striker unless she was suicidal.
Imagine the conversation:
Striker: "Yes, Yuriko, you can help me kill all the filthy mutant scum,"
Yuriko: "But I'm a mutant."
Striker: "Yes, exactly."
Gender: Female Location: in a double decker bus...
DON'T read this if you don't wanna know about X-3...
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Kelly Hu, who plays Yuriko, has supposedly already signed onto X3 my sources say. Obviously, her healing powers go overdrive, and we will hopefully see a redeeming moment in the film for her
Hopefully she won't be so murdurous and maybe join the x-men...im not so sure about her standings in the comics because i only ever read Uncanny and Excalibur and she didn't appear in either of those...
(i dunno how to make it a spoiler so i changed the font color so u still just have to highlight it)
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Last edited by Nightcrawler on Jun 2nd, 2003 at 08:47 PM
in wolverines defense, he didnt knew she was being brainwashed and wolverine can go berserk with about as anyone who gets in his way, especially Cylops
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"A lie, Mr. Mulder, is most convincingly hidden between two truths." Deep Throat.
I wasn't intending to be criticizing Wolverine as a "bad" guy. Obviously, Wolverine wasn't thinking deeply about the situation, so he did what he felt he had to.
I also understand that Wolverine has a tendency to go berserk (well, look what he did to Rogue in the first movie), I guess I just felt that it was a particularly gruesome way to off someone who I didn't see as a "bad guy" character.
Trust me, if someone offers me my choice of execution methods, that one is going to be way down on the list.
Well, if you've seen Legend of Wolverine or read this story arc, you know that Yuriko was Wolverine's former lover, and she was attacking to get revenge for the fact he destroyed the maker of his admantium shell, which happened to be her father.
Hello! I think the fact that she IS NOT A MUTANT matters! Sheīs a cyborg! She totaly transformed herself, gave up her body and humanity to get revenge on Wolvie and restore her honor. I dont understand why she was a mutant in x2, her powers come from cybernetic implants. She is not a female version of wolverine. By the way Stryker says he gave wolverine claws, but they are a part of his mutation (made out of bone originaly), read Wolverine: Origin.
I donīt really know, they first manifested during origin. But after that I donīt know. The original weapon x adamantium bonding thing was the earliest time we have seen him exept for origin. There is a lot of time in there between.
In the movie, Deathstrike barely even talks in the movie so i think in x3 they're gonna uncover her mysterious self with some kind of explanation and story...I guess meanwhile we just gotta keep wondering till 3 YEARS LATER!! That angers me.
The only thing Yuriko say in X2 is "what are you doing here" to mystique disguised as a janitor. I noticed that a lot of people are disappointed by the fact that they made Yuriko a mutant. If you pay close attention they made a whole lot of changes just to make it realistic and a lot more simple. I for one am not botherd by this. I n fact i am glad that they did it. To the thread starter i get you. I felt really sorry for yuriko when she died but it creates another story for her. If she comes back to life they can make her deal with her horrible past and that way they can develop the love story between her and logan. Yes i know in the comic it is different but in the legend of wolverine you see that both of their past is really complicated. So i geuss it will be better if they just simplify things a bit. If they use the exact same story lines from the comics it wil be boring. So they have to come with something new. I like that brian singer tells the story of X-MEN a bit different.
I liked it too. Didn't even know she really wasn't a mutant till I read it here. All the changes they made for the movie don't boder me except the fact that storm has brown eyes!They should be blue!
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