Darwin's Death Scene | X-Men First Class (2011) Movie Clip HD 4K

Darwin's Death Scene | X-Men: First Class (2011) Movie Clip 4K Ultra HD
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Oliver Platt, Lucas Till, Jason Flemyng, Zoe Kravitz, Caleb Landry Jones, Edi Gathegi, Alex Gonzalez, Glenn Morshower, Rade Serbedzija
Film description: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants, to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
TM & © 2011 Disney / 20th Century Studios
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Shaw Attacks CIA Facility: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnvGc35opqyDoK8

[@terrillgoodwinejr537]

‘X-Men: First Class’ Failed Darwin and Here is Why 2011’s X-Men: First Class was a welcome return to the X-Men cinematic franchise. It was initially conceptualized as a soft reboot of a franchise that had gone astray; the first breath of fresh air since 2009’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It was truly a return to the franchise’s original form that the audience loved so much. Considering that it contradicted the events of 2009’s Wolverine - the dreaded film that showed us a version of Ryan Reynolds Deadpool he isn’t particularly proud of. PIN IT But we digress; 2011’s First Class was first class in many regards. It is an audacious film fueled by its main cast’s youthful energy that maintained dramatic power and coherently orchestrated mayhem. Admittedly, it underperformed other X-Men releases at the box office. It was retconned in the prequel to 2000’s X-Men by being followed by the film X-Men: Days of Future Past, but the fans and the critics still loved it. Apart from one single mistake that still haunts the fandom - the death of Armando Muñoz, aka Darwin the Evolving Boy. Midway through First Class, the film’s protagonist, Sebastian Shaw, invades the CIA facility the young mutants were using as their residence in an attempt to try and recruit them for his own cause - enacting a nuclear war which would tip the world powers into the mutants’ hands. The young mutants try to overpower Shaw, with Havoc shooting an energy blast at Shaw, whose mutation allows him to absorb, reshape, and redirect all forms of energy. Shaw grabs Darwin, portrayed by Kenyan-American actor Edi Gathegi, and feeds him the same plasma energy blast he absorbed from Havoc, after which Darwin dies.

[@itzdcx7991]

nah he ain't dead he adapted and became pure energy😂

[@CheddaThisABanger]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@CrashSable]

"Adapt to this" There is literally no reason given in the entire film to even suggest that he couldn't.

[@Curse_of_the_moon]

So frustrating

[@score4817]

He was black so they had to get rid of him.

[@NIDELLANEUM]

@@Curse_of_the_moon Yeah, this movie is 11 years old and it still feels weird how they said "oh this guy can survive anything" and then killed him 5 minutes later

[@ShamanSage]

didn't darwin turn into like a wraith or a phantom in the comics when this happened to him? [or something similar]

[@crypticnerd12689]

Tbf it seems as if his body can adapt to the best possible way to survive something, but it isn’t absolute if something doesn’t have a convenient counter there’s nothing he can do. If he’s facing a sword that can cut through everything, he might be able to turn into diamond. But if that sword can cut through Diamond and there is nothing better he can turn into it’s gg. . In this scene he was dealing with concentrated energy being given to him internally, the energy seemed hot enough that it could easily go past the melting point of alloys with high melting points. And he was dealing with that shit internally which is several times worse than dealing with it externally.

[@stefonferdinand6039]

“Be enslaved” *looks directly at Darwin*

[@KaosNova2]

Emotional appeals, like a lot of tyrants do. Jim Jones did that and the majority of his followers in Jonestown were Black.

[@do4846]

Exactly

[@meurumtrain4747]

@@KaosNova2 it was one he thought could manipulate him.

[@EmanuelNadera]

perfect moment 👨🏻‍🦳

[@Reverse-Flash1234]

💀

[@datsapaddlin]

It was at this very moment Darwin shoulda turned Caucasian to survive this scene.

[@Pigen_]

Underrated comment

[@Cat-yx7xc]

He became light himself

[@Mattsimilate]

He actually does in the comics. In certain parts of the world he turns white because it literally gives him a better chance of survival.

[@jamescampbell9689]

It doesn’t get more racist than this scene and this comment. Don’t know which is more pathetic, your bigotry or the fact that some actually liked your bigotry?!!

[@shaunusher3818]

😂Thank you for that laugh.

[@Monark2010]

This happened to Darwin in the comics, where he absorbed energy, his body was having issues adapting, and he then exploded. All though he died, he came back an issue or two later as a being of energy, later being able to create a physical body. His body became energy to adapt to energy.

[@watcher805]

We all become energy eventually 😂

[@rayhoyer4829]

​@@watcher805 we are energy

[@watcher805]

@@rayhoyer4829 *you know what the hell i meant* 🧐🤣

[@jimjam51075]

I'd like to think Darwin came back after everyone left and just quietly packed his stuff and noped out on the whole hero biz altogether.

[@pedinhuh16]

So, essentially, he became Doctor Manhattan?

[@thelegoriderproductions3085]

I Guess He Can’t Adapt To Lazy Writing

[@BlackDiamond2718]

(Breaks 4th wall to change script)

[@michaelrosen6814]

Bro

[@jedemmerichcabrera1564]

He coudnt adapt to plot😂 i dont read comics but people be saying his ability to adapt to literally anything?! Thats crazy power. They did Darwin dirty here much more than quicksilver and flash

[@jerichoex]

@@jedemmerichcabrera1564 comics and movies are different

[@Yamsthenills]

Otoh, the character is still going strong with the fandom and hardly anyone ever thinks about this movie at all anymore, so in the end, his powers kind of worked perfectly

[@00z53]

“Be enslaved.” camera locks onto the black guy

[@shofuyu_niceguy1]

was just about to say this

[@tntextreme1965]

It's true that's y

[@EyeOnSciFiPod]

Pissed me off when I saw that in theaters. Have never seen another X-Men movie since. Hopefully, now that Marvel has the rights back, the scripts won't be so damn awful.

[@tntextreme1965]

@@EyeOnSciFiPod lol shehulk is the beginning of awfulness nigga

[@calitexas6453]

Why did you search for this clip if it pissed you off so bad ? Lol saw this in the theaters and everyone was dying at that part 🤣

[@harmonicaman4782]

There was a time in a comic where Darwin was fighting hulk. His body couldn’t adapt enough to counter hulks strength, which had no upper limit. This seems like a dangerous situation for him. And it was. Which is why he adapted. He teleported away. There is absolutely no reason why he couldn’t somehow get out of that danger. If he needs more strength, he gets it. He could have escaped that grasp. He could have teleported away, he could have overpowered him. He could have adapted to not have a mouth (guy can turn into a fucking sponge). His power does more than just make him tougher to kill. It does literally impossible shit to stop it. He can turn smarter if he needs too. If it’s impossible to survive (aka fighting hulk head on) then he gets teleported out of there. At least kill of a hero that makes sense if you really need to kill off your heroes.

[@Theantininja]

Well, either the writers were aware of the extent of Darwin's capabilities or they were not. If they weren't, that's poor research on their part and they as a result made a terribly inconsistent decision for no reason. If they were, then they probably realized that Darwin would be recognized as a borderline impossible to kill character, which raises the issue of "this is an action movie and there's supposed to be life or death stakes to create suspense and that's difficult to do with a character that can adapt to survive anything as a power." (Which raises the question of why they even included Darwin in the first place, and the only answer I can come up with is they wanted to appeal to fans of the more niche x-men characters.) The solution to this problem they went with is the debatable "Why don't we use the incredibly hard to kill guy as a job to establish how powerful our big bad is?" Because it's really intimidating if someone walks up to the tankiest guy in your group and drops him like he's nothing. Tldr: he's difficult to kill? Kill him anyway, it'll provoke the audience, invest them in the plot, demonstrate the power scale of our villain, and provide motivation for retaliation from the protagonists. Not diegetic to the source material in the slightest, but when has hollywood EVER cared about that?

[@09kaustubh]

​@John Xina 😂😂

[@DrPonk]

@@Theantininja This little trick would probably have worked if they picked basically anyone else. Not including Darwin in the first place was unfortunately the only correct choice in this case.

[@georgercop]

Let's not forget the time Hela touched him, and rather than kill him, his power turned him into a god of death so he would be immune to the effects of Hela's touch of death

[@ThunderNerve]

He even adapt to hella’s death touch , and become god of death Wtf

[@IndoBean]

"Well I adapt to survive" Immediately dies 30 seconds later because he apparently couldnt survive.

[@atheneus]

😂

[@ManusiaKagakRusuh]

He didn't die, He adapt into non-existence to survive the blast ... XD

[@rock3tcatU233]

The only way he could have survived is by turning into a power plant.

[@BloodedHero]

He's done it before.

[@rubenmahrla9800]

Plot twist: He survived by becoming the snarky comments from butthurt comic-book fans under this video.

[@BigMisterApple]

Darwin is one of the best mutants in the entire marvel universe imo. The fact that they did him dirty rubbed me wrong.

[@hardwirecars]

why do the xmen movies always have to do that i am still pissed at the treatment cyclops got in the orginals and now darwin

[@francostevo9939]

@@hardwirecars you will happy to know that I am writing a story on cyclops. If there is one thing I hate it was how they made cyclops in these films and how they never make him use his powers in a resourceful fashion. These directors lack zero imagining how to make power usage unique

[@mikey2toes966]

His only weakness was being a black actor in an American movie.

[@francostevo9939]

@@mikey2toes966 GENUIS!!! Facts!

[@wavyg7]

Had to be racially motivated

[@JeffreyHeesch]

I always expected him to come back at some point. Like, he adapted to survive by taking on an incorporeal form. They could have done something neat or clever with that in the sequels.

[@the_regular_dinosaurus_rex]

yes, thats what i expected too, like he turned into some sort of energy and later put himself back together kind of like dr manhatten did

[@shawnparkspost]

I always hoped to see that eventually. Maybe he will turn up in the MCU, and we will find out that he crossed into another universe to avoid death.

[@JeffreyHeesch]

@@shawnparkspost That would be incredible! Not getting my hopes up on that happening, though.

[@marceguregiazyk6735]

Yea. Me too. They had the BEST "legal" deus ex machina to bring a character back and they wasted It.

[@josephwodarczyk977]

Supposedly they thought his power was really hard to explain. They didn't want him to add more confusion to the movie than needed.

[@johnnyzen4282]

So his superpower is that he can adapt to anything...until the plot requires him to die for no reason. He got done dirty in this movie.

[@scottleespence752]

Well of course he had to die. It's always the Black character who has to die to show how evil the villain is! I am so tired of that B*****T!

[@arrownoir]

@@scottleespence752Take your racist tirade elsewhere.

[@mryoung6090]

@@arrownoiris he lying though?

[@arrownoir]

@@mryoung6090 Yes.

[@theendgam3r471]

“Each of us will face a choice, be inslaved” *Looks at the black guy camera focuses in*

[@FemboyStyyx]

Darwin is a mutant that can adapt to anything, mostly subconsciously, with no real control to his power. He has: - Turned himself into a rock to survive falling off a clif. - Became fire proof to survive being in a room with flamethrowers. - Turned into a spounge after being exposed to a virus that attacks the nervous system, bcs spounges don't have a nervous system. - Gained the ability to teleport and teleported away from the Hulk while trying to stop him. - After being touched by Hela ( that kills people with her touch ) his mutant ability made him A GOD OF DEATH to adapt and keep him alive, he them beat the shit out of Hela. But yeah... let's kill him off so that Magneto defeats the villain later

[@wisniron4509]

that becomes no boundaries. just like scarlett witch.

[@mz436]

Maybe his subconsciousness isn't always reliable. How is turning into rock helping falling...rocks will get crushed into smaller pieces

[@qwertyMrJINX]

Sounds like a bit of a Mary Sue. Probably better to be rid of him, in retrospect.

[@pedinhuh16]

The mistake was having him in the story in the first place. His power is not even overpowered or busted, it's straight up HAX and makes every battle against him a non-issue to him. With this being said, thats one of the very few flaws in this movie, and overall this movie is still great even with this minor issue.

[@mechanomics2649]

@@qwertyMrJINX That isn't what a Mary Sue is. He has flaws. He can't control the power, obviously it can adapt in a way he doesn't want it to.

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

The guy who could survive the most, was killed the first. Awesome writing.

[@iwantmykidssusan4941]

Speaking of awesome writing “He who could survive the most, was killed first.” Or “The mutant who could survive the most, was killed first”

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

@@iwantmykidssusan4941 Actually, I was using voice to write this comment. "The guy who could survive the most, was killed first" is what I had said, it didn't show up unfortunately. But thanks for being a smartass.

[@gene3169]

he who could survive 99.99% of the time actually experienced that 00.01 percent xD

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

@@gene3169 in the comics, he becomes a god. He is immortal. So much so that if someone tries to wipe out all of his molecules, he can turn into an ethereal being, which he did, hence a god.

[@gene3169]

@@THETRIVIALTHINGS man thats hax ! that goes beyond just being a mutated human xD

[@zayenn1146]

0:25 HELL NAH WTF ??

[@HVNDAL]

Lmao

[@Solitude507]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@iceevice]

No fucking way

[@v78o53]

Out. Of. Pocket.

[@saanguiine]

Shaw is from the 1800s probably plus he was German so it makes sense for him to be racist. But from the viewers' perspective, it's fcked up.

[@tangbein]

Darwin: Adapts to be able to withstand Alex's power. Gets killed by Alex's power*

[@morgoth_the_dark_lord]

I still don't know why he can't adapt

[@xXSlasherJunkyXx.]

@@morgoth_the_dark_lordit was to much, his body can only take so much before it gets to be to much than he can handle 🤷‍♀️

[@Vodhr]

​@@xXSlasherJunkyXx. The dude evolved to become a GOD OF DEATH at one point to not be killed by the touch of a god of death... A little spicy energy marble like that should at best give him a little heartburn. XD

[@user-qp1su5uz8z]

​@@Vodhrthis is a completely different universe (or rather, earth 10005) and argues comics, this is stupid, because in the film he only showed the growth of gills, turning into stone and metal and that's it. From this information, we cannot conclude that Darwin could have survived the explosion of a huge amount of energy.

[@baccaracks]

@@user-qp1su5uz8zTrue. It was still dissapointing to see though, especially if he was someone's favorite character

[@ura4321]

Darwin is so OP in the comic's, I'm sad to see him die so easily. He should have just turned into energy and disappeared, leaving the others confused. Xavier could have been, "I sense him, yet I don't know where he is"

[@vee_da_reaper2350]

Darwin sucks bro wym the most boring mutant

[@williamfincher2260]

Darwin should not have been a red shirt. Sure, having him killed showed Shaw's true power, intelligence, and ruthlessness, but it was a waste of a great character.

[@PetersonZF]

Technically, the trope is the Worf Effect, not a Red Shirt. We knew who Darwin was and knew he was tough to kill, hence having the villain kill him with ease makes the villain more fearsome. But I agree, he shouldn't have been defeated that easily, not permanently at least.

[@williamfincher2260]

@@PetersonZF A red shirt is someone who dies shortly after being introduced, so I think Darwin also qualifies after that.

[@jer8279]

No one's immortal

[@williamfincher2260]

@@jer8279 Yeah, but in the comics, he would have been able to adapt to that. He was virtually unkillable in the comics.

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

at least it cut down on the diveristy

[@davidmandell1727]

Plot twist: Darwin's power sent him back in time and changed him into the coin that Magneto carried with him all those years after shaw murdered his mother, and then used coin Darwin to kill shaw.

[@senny-]

More believable than him dying here

[@Wakanda888]

The fact that all Darwin was trying to do was protect Angel, because he thought that she wasn't really thinking straight about joining sides with Shaw and the Hellfire Club says a lot. He thought Angel was his friend and was someone who needed help but she knew exactly what she was doing. She didn't even really hesitate to join Shaw's side and it seems like she didn't even really need that much convincing to join his side in the first place. But Darwin tried to protect her either way even though she betrayed him either way.

[@eamonndeane587]

I hate that Angel just brushes aside Shaw murdering another of his kind. Seriously Lady? This is someone you want to work for? Darwin didn't Deserve that...

[@Wakanda888]

@@eamonndeane587 He deserved waaay better.

[@CuongNguyen-gu9fl]

tried to protect a treacherous biatch.

[@gabrielh5105]

She even instantly goes back to Azazel after Darwin protected her

[@JohnWall-lj1mx]

On the bright side she dies being experimented on in days of future past

[@countquackula8539]

Classic, the brotha always gets it first. 😅

[@ShutThePuck]

Even when his mutant power is to be able to adapt to anything to survive.

[@brandonwilliams5526]

Facts 😂

[@nya7941]

Fr 😭

[@cduone]

That train is NEVER late.

[@GeorgeSukFuk]

we wuz kangz

[@albertnash888]

Edi Gathegi, the actor who played Darwin in “X-Men: First Class” has been cast as Mr. Terrific in “Superman: Legacy”.

[@AOSAce]

There is no reason why he couldn’t he. Plus obviously withstand the blast if he was confident he could protect angel with that form it’s bs can adapt to anything not most things makes no sense

[@KaosNova2]

Darwin literally converted into vapor in the comics, and came back from being vapor. No reason why he couldn’t survive this

[@AdroitElk]

darwin's death is pretty much my only gripe in this movie

[@hamishfox]

For real? The movie sucks ass all the way through. The acting, direction, and story are terrible. This movie is pure garbage. This is just the worst part in a big pile of shit.

[@qaws1106]

You're only gripe? Did you watch the entire movie or just this scene?

[@AdroitElk]

@@qaws1106 It absolutely has other issues, but they're easier for me to accept than this

[@kaponosucks]

@@qaws1106the movie is solid tf is your problem

[@qaws1106]

@kaponosucks well I have different expectations I guess. I didn't think it was solid and the pacing was disjointed. Many action scenes didn't seem to flow well or were choreographed well, I thought

[@nevergiveup-eg1io]

Kevin Bacon is just brilliant. My all time favorite movie of his is "The Air Up There"... but hes done tons of great work, including this. He was definitely the best actor in this film. No question.

[@roronoalaw7772]

In this specific film? No that was Fassbender or Mcavoy.

[@THESMILINGHARTNELLS]

They were all great! I loved Bacon but my favorites were Fassbender and then McAvoy!

[@RaulGarfias]

I agree that Fassbender and Mc Avoy performed a little better than Bacon in this film, but I think that’s because their characters are more complex and let the actors display their full acting abilities. Shaw was a very good character, but he was simpler, he was the bad guy with a believable motivation, but lacked the nuances of Xavier and Magneto. But as an actor, Bacon is top notch and he even made this character very memorable. PS: don’t forget about Sleepers. His acting there is excellent, and pretty disturbing. And I love his acting in Mystic River too (masterpiece of a film, all actors are at their peaks, and the story makes them shine even more).

[@neglectfulsausage7689]

check out the woodsman amazing film!

[@andrewpearson3516]

The only 2 black characters in the movie one who is supposed to adapt to everything dies and the other betrays them

[@advent4156]

tuff

[@Userkaf_II]

The chick ain't black.

[@AnonymousC2218]

@@Userkaf_II Then what is she then? She's half african-american and half Jewish. Which most people define mixed race people, black.

[@JotaMadridista]

Sweet ol' 10's when cinema wasn't yet so cuckified as nowadays

[@roronoalaw7772]

@@Userkaf_IIYes she is.

[@caliveil1627]

They really had to kill the only black guy

[@rosebleudeux]

Searching for this comment😂

[@hellstrom4209]

It's a novie set in the 1960s. What did you expect?

[@Gujyre]

Is Storm in this movie? Even though she's not a guy she's one of the strongest mutants.

[@thee_morpheus]

They should have him coming back in Secret Wars or Deadpool 3 as a being of pure energy as a result of this. Dude would not die from this.

[@Lumen857]

Murderer to Darwin: "eat this" Darwin: " Sure, why not?"

[@featherdodge8793]

Obviously he was hungry for this plot to happen

[@tomato6138]

His death was like one of the biggest bs in this movie, his abilities literally let him turn into a manifestation of death to adapt and overcome the concept of him dying, but he couldn't overcome this?! Come on

[@gabrielh5105]

Dude for some reason he's just a student. An still, idgaf if in comics he's immortal. Any hero without weaknesses is boring as shit and eventually gets plot nerfed. Makes perfect sense that he adapts but up to a certain point he cannot handle it

[@manumalia]

They had to kill the black guy once again. Smh

[@kadrikarakoc807]

@@gabrielh5105 so just dont include these immortal mutants to movies.

[@lucasbedendomarco148]

they should have made him just defeat all of them and the movie end right there if it was based on the comments from you and the rest of the people here... this is a movie, not fucking comics.

[@JarvisBaileyVA]

"Adapt to this" Darwin immediately becomes a caucasian man. "No problem there"

[@v.hamilton5679]

Camera turning to Darwin when Shaw says "be enslaved" is pure comedy gold.

[@krisr4285]

Literally the ONLY thing they couldn’t do with Darwin. And they did it

[@themysteriousdude757]

Why the hell didn’t he just burp it out 😭

[@edwardrizer8505]

Turns out Darwin did survive, he became a being of pure consciousness.

[@roronoalaw7772]

No he died. Lazy writing.

[@edwardrizer8505]

@@roronoalaw7772 no, the director said he became a being of pure consciousness, still lazy writing.

[@roronoalaw7772]

@@edwardrizer8505 When did he say this? Never heard this before

[@edwardrizer8505]

@@roronoalaw7772 I don’t remember but I know someone said it.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

@@edwardrizer8505 Too bad consciousness doesn't exist outside a brain

[@breakhart]

Shaw didn't kill Darwin, the director did 😂

[@trickster80]

They really killed off the guy whose whole gimmick is that he’s unkillable 💀 First Class is my favorite X-men movie but this scene still makes me mad

[@KitsuneMasku]

For me Darwin's Mutant Power is really strong

[@BeAtPeaceAmongYourselves]

It really is, that last time I read about him is that his body changed into Death itself just to survive death.

[@BlackDiamond2718]

@@BeAtPeaceAmongYourselves becomes a star

[@Smiley0.1]

It must sucks when thousands of years pass and he ends up lonely in the universe, waiting to die.

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

@@BeAtPeaceAmongYourselves Which makes no sense, as Death is not an entity or state of existence, it's merely a word given to describe a dead organism.

[@dylans.1741]

He totally could have heat-proofed his insides with his powers. Maybe he was just a deer in the headlights? Or maybe it's because he's a black guy in a movie. That'll usually do it. Hollywood will be Hollywood, I suppose...

[@NIDELLANEUM]

It was a way to showcase how dangerous the villain was by having him kill the strongest one. However, their "strongest" one had the ability to SURVIVE ANYTHING

[@dylans.1741]

@@NIDELLANEUM It's just a big gaping plot hole, since his powers make him virtually unkillable. This is a guy who you could shoot point blank in the face, only for his skin to turn into metal

[@Malumbrus]

In one of the episodes of the new Star Wars show Andor, both of the black guys in the rebel group are killed first.

[@trentdblaze]

I might be mistaken but in the comics Darwin’s powers are automatic and are situational… example being when World breaker hulk showed up on the planet and Darwin got in his way, his fucking survival power told him “ nope” and made him teleport the fuck out of there.

[@swivelysark]

Guess his mutation doesn't affect his insides

[@Juidodin]

"im not here to hurt you" - "kills one just 3 minutes later"

[@Thommy2n]

This guy has turned into pure energy so he and one of the Summers brothers could survive in space, gained temporary teleportation to escape world breaker hulk. There is no freaking reason even this nerved movie version of him that we're shown couldn't adapt to this.

[@justanaveragegamer8735]

And when Hela the god of death tried to kill him Darwin became a new god of death

[@kabeltelevizio]

Sounds like an incredibly boring character. If someone can always avoid death there is zero reason for us to care about what happens to him, since he always has a get out of jail free card. That's not an interesting character.

[@markopusic8258]

​@@kabeltelevizio Honestly that depends on what you're trying to achieve with said character. Darwin's power is the ability to adapt to survive anything? Write your story around that power. Yes, Darwin is boring in the sense that he can't be killed, but he can still suffer from emotional distress, he can be impaired, and most important, his power only works to make HIM survive, and he can't control how he adapts. That means that you can actually create stakes by threatening not Darwin himself, but those he cares about. There absolutely are ways to write characters with absurd abilities, you only have to be talented enough to pull off the feat.

[@kabeltelevizio]

@@markopusic8258 There are ways sure, but you are just making a boring character more interesting by drawing attention not to him, but his surroundings. Why not ditch the whole concept and use another character that has flaws to exploit?

[@roronoalaw7772]

@@kabeltelevizioHilarious how you denounce him not interesting when you’ve never read a comic involving him.

[@So_Ci]

Darwins power is so op too bad plot had to nerf him to 1

[@gtx-808]

Same with Nomar he was too powerful for the movie they do that a lot with characters gota make them weak loke hulk or thor.

[@scottmcmaster4927]

Wouldn't Shaw have been surprised if Darwin actually did evolve to handle all that energy and to defeat him.

[@unicornactual3432]

Imagine shaws face when he realized he went through all this to recruit a pg13 stripper with butterfly wings, absolutely zero combat ability, and average to low intelligence.

[@LeilahOsborne]

Pg13 stripper is wild💀

[@tombstonerforever9374]

This guy is now Mr Terrific

[@j24recordmusic75]

Darwin R.I.P.

[@agent-33]

"And queens." That sold her. 😂

[@whit3dant3]

Stupid washing machine

[@loganarc8533]

If he was going to protect Angel it’s safe to assume the material he turned into was able to withstand the energy, seems kinda silly to say that same energy he was confidently about to take suddenly kills him cause it’s ingested when his entire body can change to that material

[@gabrielh5105]

You need to watch the video of the guy shooting a bullet vs burning the same amount of gunpowder

[@larryrzv6173]

This is the death that hurt me the most, I have not seen any of the comics but when I saw his power in the movie I loved it and I became a fan of the character, and well you know my surprise to see him die so quickly. I have no fear or doubt in saying that he is my favorite mutant.

[@hojimoo4189]

“..Be enslaved” *camera goes to the one black person*

[@bbnnmm9]

Darwin is so underrated in thus film... he should've survived that with no issues....

[@eevee-wg7vm]

In the x men films most of the character's are only used 1, 2 , 3 or 4 times then they get killed off.

[@tryscience]

Maybe he wanted his very own Darwin award

[@TranswomenRNTwomen]

😂😂😂

[@isaiahhellems7901]

Darwin: I can adapt to anything! Darwin : I can't adapt to being held and having something put in my mouth apparently.

[@gringo3002]

Heh, heh, heh, heh... you said "being held and having something put in my mouth"...

[@gabrielh5105]

In the last fight Shaw casually walks past by metal beams pushed by Magneto, so...

[@chavagonzalez9734]

Poor Darwin 😢😢😢

[@iQuoxiq]

Darwin literally adapted to god of death in comics

[@Wakanda888]

I truly believe that the writers hated Darwin when they made this decision to kill him off. I mean, the dude's power is to adapt to any situation and power. How the hell could he not have adapted to Shaw's power I mean, just how. The writers hated Darwin point blank and a period.

[@koshka02]

it was racist notice that his death comes right after the comment at 0:26 about being "enslaved" the camera cuts to Darwin. And it also follows the black guy dying first trope

[@Wakanda888]

@@koshka02 Yeah I noticed that I just didn't want to point it out in case there was a debate or something. People aren't ready to have that talk yet.

[@remrad4315]

​@j.a5051 Shaw is a nazi.... he looked at him to intimidate him because Shaw is racist.

[@samuelwoodouse4482]

Exactly people are trying to justify this writing decision that fundementally runs counter to his core character. It's not even like he would solo the plot he just can't die he has normal person abilities. Have the teleporter drop him into the ocean if you want him out of the plot

[@remrad4315]

@@samuelwoodouse4482 discount nightcrawler

[@-13eNnY-]

Never understood why he wouldn't adapt to that. It's a nice scene but there's no reason why he wouldn't. It's just adapting to like a bomb in his body. Darwin can easily adapt to something as simple as that.

[@Chepchenko]

Dude could not adapt to plot armor

[@samuelwoodouse4482]

If they wanted to write him out have the teleporter drop him into the ocean

[@thomashoward4709]

"I'm not here to hurt you." Proceeds to kill Darwin..

[@allusive2903]

The fact that the actor who plays Darwin, plays a secondary antagonist opposite of protagonist Kevin Bacon in the movie Death Sentence, just makes this funny. The movie deals with vengeance, and has Kevin Bacon going on a quest for revenge against a vicious gang after they brutally murder his son. Seems like Bacon's revenge just took things up a notch. :D

[@WhoCares723]

You know what Darwin couldn't adapt to. Plot armor.

[@troyjones2687]

Yeah the way he just casually pops in the energy ball in his open mouth with no resistance like a piece of gum. 😂

[@ammagon4519]

Yeah they really did him dirty, surprised his powers didn't adapt by making him completely steel or something or whatever

[@troyjones2687]

@@ammagon4519 Right? Who would just stand there while a ruthless bad guy grabs their face and not expect something?

[@wonowreed5924]

@@ammagon4519 I think his body was trying to change into lead or some energy resistant material

[@shooterDisease]

⁠@@wonowreed5924 I think they mean right before. What if his face just turned into a rock? Where you gonna put that ball of energy now?

[@gabrielh5105]

Dude, Shaw literally walks normally bending huge ass steel beams held by Magneto in the last fight

[@MrYoumitube]

K Bacon always plays a good villain.

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

>I can adapt to anything! >Dies because he couldn't adapt Thank you, very cool.

[@GHOSTWARRIOR60]

R.I.P. to Darwin

[@MaxwellVrooman]

He literally has the power to survive anything it is impossible for him to die, because even if he doesn’t know how to adapt, he can simply make himself smart enough to know how to adapt. He basically eat an explosion turn into a ball of living energy, the energy that’s gonna blow up it’s just gonna be absorbed into your body, or turn into air do literally anything I could probably think of 100 different ways he could’ve survived. He literally turned into the king of hell when he was sent to hell well, the DC version of hell there is no reason he should ever die.

[@watchfulduck2163]

I do applaude the soldier still trying even with all the dead people. Even saying freeze, like they would surrender 😅

[@bmbrunch4516]

The only person in this entire scene whose still alive at the end of the franchise is beast

[@stressedrex]

True. Darwin and Shaw get killed in this movie, Banshee, Angel, and Azazel are mentioned to have died off-screen prior to the events of DofP, Havok dies in Apocalypse, and Mystique infamously gets killed in Dark Phoenix

[@crimsonhartman]

Technically he's just the same ideals as magneto

[@alien6812]

That’s why he liked him, but he killed his mother 😳

[@crimsonhartman]

@@alien6812 true

[@arcanewarrior863]

No, Shaw is a a mutant supremacist, Magneto is a mutant militant nationalist. Shaw believes that mutants are the next stage in evolution, and deserve to take their place as the rulers of humanity. Magneto wants to fight to preserve the mutant race, fearing that they will be persecuted by humans, and has more of an us or them mentality.

[@crimsonhartman]

@@arcanewarrior863 Magneyo thinks there superior and need to control the humans also

[@EvePlaya4Ever]

Folks don't realize he didn't die. He adapted. He will reform and come back. It takes time and when he does he's more powerful than ever. Unkillable.

[@fghghgvh]

I like to think he just teleported somewhere random. His powers are crazy like that

[@AtariBorn]

If I remember correctly, Darwin was obliterated, in the comics and spent years reassembling himself.

[@synergy8879]

darwin probably adapted, came back and just decided to leave the hero business completely

[@ericfisher9513]

Darwin:I can survive anything Shaw: adapt to this *Gives him a raisin*

[@kevingibson2519]

Yeah, Darwin doesn't die. It's his entire thing.

[@jesseromero2069]

This character should be back asap.

[@noobsaibot3238]

Why tf did he just stand there and let him grab his face to put energy in his mouth 😂

[@vinniefabian6816]

in shock probably

[@scottmcshannon6821]

@@vinniefabian6816 inept screenwriting!

[@DerpDoesBF3]

To see if he could adapt duh

[@Nocturnewashere]

Because... shit directing/writing lol.

[@iancraze6189]

0:09 employee of the month ladies and gentlemen.

[@michaelshell8897]

It's such a shame that they wasted Darwin.

[@coccrashofcar1343]

One of most powerful mutant darwin

[@jeff3221]

What more can be said that hasn't already been said to death? This scene encapsulates why the source material matters and why doing the exact opposite of the comics when adapting the comics, is a horrendous idea. For reference, in case anyone here doesn't know about Darwin, him dying is the equivalent of Superman not being any stronger than you, or the Flash being able to run at only normal speed.

[@grimshock6983]

“Adapt to this”. Darwin actually adapts. “Oh crap, thought that would looker cooler.”

[@overlord1ful]

This scene is what happens when bad writing meets a overpowered character. Darwin once adapted to death itself by becoming a god of death. Even in a movie setting, if a character goes "my power is adapting to survive" this character by default is basically immortal.

[@vincentliou3746]

He literally says "Adapt to deez" and put energy nuts into his mouth.

[@miloscorpio1264]

jazz's transformers voice actor - "the brother always get's it"

[@uknwonboi249]

TO THIS DAY! TO THIS DAY!

[@oros321]

Dude Darwin literally protected himself and Angel from that exact plasma attack a min ago, then suddenly cant adapt to it lmao

[@Croftice1]

Well it wasn't Alex's blast anymore, as Shaw absorbed it and used his power to concentrate it and showe it down Darwin's throat. People forget, that Shaw doesn't throw back the very same thing they throw at him. He absorbed Darwin's energy, when the guy tried to hit him, you can see, as Shaw stopped Darwin's fist, his own fist enlarged a little (the effect of absorbing kinetic energy). He then didn't make direct use of that absorbed energy, I guess he just added it to the ball created from Alex's blast. Not that this tiny portion of kinetic energy did anything special to that ball, he just added it as a bonus. We see him making direct use of any attack, but he didn't with Darwin's fist attack, he only absorbed it. So what he showed into Darwin's mouth wasn't Alex's blast, it was his own creation from absorbing that blast and any kind of energy after it (Darwin's attack), a combination of different kinds of energy enhanced by his own powers. I guess that's quite enough to alter the form of the original blast from Alex. It's still a plot hole, why Darwin didn't adapt to it, but it's definitely not the same energy he tanked before.

[@oros321]

@@Croftice1 Thats a good theory, but the fact he did that right after he absorb the plasma attack sugest that is only that, like the time he absorb the grenade explosion and then use it against a man, could be his own creation but the situation didnt sugest that

[@gotdatazz123]

Not only does he not adapt in this scene but he also just stands there, sticks his tongue out and says ahhh for the incoming energy ball. Wtf type of writing is this.

[@Sovereign01]

I need to rewatch this film, I'd forgotten so many details.

[@_Nasrani_]

What really happened was, Darvin turned into energy, leaving behind a husk to fool the enemy and avoid pursuit. Its just that he took rest of the movie to figure out how to turn back.

[@gregorypeck876]

Probably the most nurfed character ever, Darwin could of survive anything

[@SauloPMB]

"Adapt to this" **Closes his mouth** DONE

[@wildramenluchadorproductio3338]

Deaths like these. People turning into ash or cracking or into metal always scared me as a kid

[@unowen7591]

Shaw: “i am not here to hurt you” Also Shaw: *kills darwin*

[@russellwestbrookyellingatw9381]

Because he tried to kill him🤔

[@hannahdyson7129]

​@@russellwestbrookyellingatw9381Shaw was a Nazi . He Darwin was black

[@rambo4war]

Darwin was not stronger than the writers pen and imagination…….

[@acedarebelMusic]

Lmao

[@divergent_reaper_6.]

Now that I think about it. Darwin’s powers make more sense for the DOFP Sentinals to be able to adapt to any mutant power than Mystique’s own.

[@ShoppingBored]

If havok is immune to his own energy, why couldn't darwin adapt a similar body?

[@braindeadtamil]

Shit writing

[@longpants7894]

"adapt to this" then he adapted to it and killed shaw the good ending

[@AgCharmsStudios]

His death is so… dumb. He could’ve became GOD HIMSELF but he somehow dies to this. I like to think he adapted to become light itself.

[@yuhaye3986]

Bro willingly kept his mouth open and swallowed the energy ball… not to mention he could just adapt by simply throwing up the energy ball or turning into the energy itself 😭😭

[@kasdannorton]

He deserved better.

[@I-speak-U-shut-it]

He's terrific actor. James Gunn should cast him in a Superman movie.

[@zether720]

his power is literally to survive