Every movie relies on familiar storytelling shortcuts, but some have been repeated so many times that they no longer feel clever or exciting. Audiences can often predict exactly what will happen because certain scenes, characters, and plot devices appear over and over again regardless of the genre. They are not

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This article contains spoilers for X-Men ’97 season 2 episode 4. You might expect the big bad of the X-Men ’97 two-parter “Rise of Apocalypse” to be Apocalypse, the immortal blue-lipped mutant who culls the weak from the strong. The episodes do indeed trace Ancient Egyptian outcast En Sabah Nur’s

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