Bartender: I feel sorry for him.Always in reach and never able to do anything about it.Carter: I got a feeling she could do better.Bartender: You""re a boaster.Carter is unfriendly, dour and unsmiling due to the loss of his own "girl" (Rose Mapen) - according to the bartender, she immediately left town in the spring on the first stagecoach bound for San Francisco - to marry a rich Californian.[Other choices for the role included Claudette Colbert, Gertrude Lawrence and Marlene Dietrich.] Her part as an aging, 40-year old Broadway actress fit the 42-year old Davis perfectly, at a time when acting roles were drying up for her.They decided to join the special Team X, that included:baton-wielding and twirling swordsman and talkative, athletic, deadly mercenary Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds)super-strong and invulnerable Fred Dukes (Kevin Durand)electro-kinetic Chris Bradley (Dominic Monaghan)superior gun marksman Agent Zero (Daniel Henney)black teleporter (disappearing/reappearing) John Wraith (Will.The political and criminal context of the film""s background and history are extremely important.The similarity between Terry Malloy""s whistle-blowing testimony against his own corrupt group paralleled director Elia Kazan""s self-justifying admissions before he House Un-American Activities Commission (HUAC) two years earlier (in 1952) as a ""friendly"" witness regarding his one-time membership in the Communist party and the naming of others who were sympathizers.Kyle""s self-pitying fears of impotency (sexual and otherwise) and jealousy - inflamed by his debauched and trashy sister - soon led to the film""s climactic shoot-out (shown in flashback in the film""s opening).