X-MEN: APOCALYPSE villain recites quote from animated series. Plus: Oscar Isaac on interpreting the character.

This is sure to make a few fans happy! During the epic debut trailer for X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, the lead villain (portrayed by Oscar Isaac) recites a slightly modified version of a memorable quote from the ‘X-Men’ 90’s animated series.

“…and from the ashes of their world, we’ll build a better one.”

That’s pretty darn close to the animated version, which is “From the ashes of this world, I will build a better one.”

Thanks to Universo X-Men for finding this!

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In other ‘Apocalypse’ news, Isaac had a chat with our friends over at Black Film to discuss his interpretation of the character and how they’re pulling inspiration from multiple sources.

“There’s X-Factor, there’s X-Men, there’s The Age of Apocalypse, there’s the animated series, there’s X-Men: Evolution,” said Isaac about the different versions of his character in the comics. “So when someone says Apocalypse without referring a comic book, it’s a very general question. They may want to state which is their Apocalypse first. He’s definitely not going to be everyone’s favorite version of Apocalypse, but he’s my favorite version of Apocalypse. It’s something from the 80s mixed in with something new. They either create a backstory that he was this mutant from Ancient Egypt that found this technology and they explore that story or they send him to another universe where he’s more powerful than he’s ever been. He’s turned all these other X-Men into villains. There are different ways that artists and creative people get the chance to explore his story on a massive scale if they do. In this one, Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg took the inspiration from many different sources, many different versions of Apocalypse throughout the ages and found the one that we thought was the most interesting.”

Describing his personal connection the Marvel Comics character, Isaac said he read many of the comics and might have looked at Apocalypse in a different way from the typical fan.

“I read all of them. I love Apocalypse,” he continued. “I grew up collecting X-Factor. I remember when the first comic book came out, and for me, especially because I grew up in a religious household, I knew about the book of revelations, the second coming, the Apocalypse, and then you see this comic book character that is supposed to embody all of these ideas. For some people they just thought he was this big blue guy and it was survival of the fittest, but for me, that was less interesting. The most interesting part for me was the Blibical aspect and end of the world and the revelation of the way things were before.”

Click here to read more from the interview.