During the transformation, she begged Logan: "Kill me before I kill someone else." Her Phoenix side became dominant ("I don""t want to fix it") as she rose from the table, propelled Logan into a wall, telekinetically ore off the steel door of the lab, and walked off.One of their colleagues warns: "Don""t get your ass shot off." The three close, hometown, "macho," working-class, male-bonded Russian-American buddies will be testing heir masculinity in war in the airborne division:Michael "Mike" Vronsky (Robert De Niro), the eldest, strongest, and acknowledged leader of the group, serious sportsman and believer in the "one-shot" philosophy; called a "control freak"Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich (Christopher Walken), possessed of a gambling nature, caring, group-oriented, a risk-takerSteven Pushkov (John Savage), low-key, soft-spoken, vulnerable and sensitive, weak, a followerThey join up with two other workers:Stan (John Cazale, ill with cancer during filming), a low-life, weasly, insecure and nervous, would-be womanizerAxel (Chuck Aspegren), a massive, heavy-set, brutish, and grunting manIn the parking lot, Michael looks up at a halo around he sun and reverentially explains its auspicious significance as a good omen for the day - and for a hunting trip:Those are sun dogs.He proposed hat the last photo should be entirely different in tone.It would be one from the idyllic park romance between the archetypal Adam and Eve characters on the grassy lawn ("I""ve got somethingfabfor the end.It""s not just us.It""s the whole school.We know you don""t care how the fellows feel.Perhaps you don""t want to be liked.Perhaps you don""t mind being hated." He apologizes for possibly losing their friendship and becoming the most unpopular teacher in the school, but it is too late:Boys, I should like to say that my judgment in he first place was hasty and ill-advised.