Most videocard drivers have an "overscan" or "scaling" setting you can adjust. I have an HTPC that uses an ATI card, and I just tweaked the scaling option a bit. Works perfectly.
Truth be told, I'm OK with a pad as well; just not the XBox 360 pad. Holy fuck does that d-pad ever suck.
And Transformers didn't really even give us 1 great movie; it gave us an OK movie with good effects and two horrible POS's.
The WiiU controller is supposed to have RFID-like functionality as well...
Hmmm...
What games don't have you buy characters these days? Hell, I just bought Randy Savage on WWE '12 the other day.
And the cartoon neutered the comic. In the comic, Jean Grey stopped it by committing suicide. Of course, she came back, because it's comics.
Ever read the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix Sagas? Yeah. That. Cosmic-powered potentially-planet-destroying entity that has a thing for mutants for some reason.