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* AdvertisedExtra / BillingDisplacement: Angel is featured heavily in all the promotional material. He only has two or three scenes: he refuses the cure and [[spoiler: saves his father's life]] during the final battle. He does nothing in between.
** The same can be said of Colossus - he has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
** The same can be said of Colossus - he has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
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* AdvertisedExtra / BillingDisplacement: Angel is featured heavily in all the promotional material. He only has two or three scenes: he refuses the cure and runs (flies?) away; he very briefly shows up at the X Mansion for the sole purpose of allowing them to state categorically that the school is still open; and finally he [[spoiler: saves his father's life]] during the final battle. He does nothing in between.
** The same can be said of Colossus- -- he has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
** The same can be said of Colossus
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* DeadlyHug: How Wolverine finishes off Phoenix. Also how Kid Omega/Quill kills that lady doctor.
* IndyPloy: Shadowcat goads the Juggernaut into charging her and Leech. Cue DeadlyDodging and {{Headdesk}}.
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* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Kid Omega/Quill has the ability to extend quills from his body. He seems to think HeartIsAnAwesomePower, but he manages to use his power once... to kill a lone, crying doctor by [[DeadlyHug giving her a hug.hug]].
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** It should come as a surprise to nobody who saw the movie that several scenes were deleted from the final cut- not unusual in this movie series, but much more noticeable here. This obviously affected how much screen time several characters got.
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* DemotedToExtra: Dr. Kavita Rao. Gets about thirty seconds of screen time, three lines in total, and then is KilledOffForReal. Most of her role from the comics (like holding the press conference) is taken over by Angel's dad.
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* DemotedToExtra: Dr. Kavita Rao. Gets about thirty seconds of screen time, three lines in total, and then is KilledOffForReal. Most of her role from the comics (like holding the press conference) is taken over by Angel's dad. She was never a major character to begin with, and was a very recent creation when the movie was made, but still.
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** Phoenix. She uses her heightened powers approximately two times through the entire movie and [[spoiler: almost doesn't speak at all]], leaving out all of the CharacterDevelopment so integral to any version of the Phoenix Force in the comics, [[spoiler: mostly just standing behind Magneto, looking ominous]]. Why waste the Phoenix [[spoiler: on the role of Magneto's PersonOfMassDestruction]] if The Scarlet Witch would've made far more sense in the role she fulfils in the plot?
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** Phoenix. She uses her heightened powers approximately two times through the entire movie and [[spoiler: almost doesn't speak at all]], leaving out all of the CharacterDevelopment so integral to any version of the Phoenix Force in the comics, [[spoiler: mostly just standing behind Magneto, looking ominous]]. Why waste the Phoenix [[spoiler: on the role of Magneto's PersonOfMassDestruction]] if The Scarlet Witch would've made far more sense in the role she fulfils in the plot?
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Quit the Conversation In The Main Page, yo. There is no in-movie evidence that Mystique got away, so it doesn\'t belong here.
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* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Mystique kills dozens of people and helps instigate near-Armageddon, but in the end she walks away scot-free when [[TheDogBitesBack she dishes about Magneto to the feds]].
** She may have avoided prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into what she hated the most - a normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
*** The last scene she is in shows her telling all to the authorities. There's no reason to assume they just let her walk away afterwards.
** Magneto is last seen, supposedly broken, sitting in Central Park playing chess. So, I guess the fact that he lost his powers means he doesn't have to go back to prison to pay for all the death and mayhem he caused beforehand?
*** It is heavily implied that during the confusion at the end of the battle of Alcatraz he managed to slip away. I doubt he would avoid prison if they could find him.
** She may have avoided prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into what she hated the most - a normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
*** The last scene she is in shows her telling all to the authorities. There's no reason to assume they just let her walk away afterwards.
** Magneto is last seen, supposedly broken, sitting in Central Park playing chess. So, I guess the fact that he lost his powers means he doesn't have to go back to prison to pay for all the death and mayhem he caused beforehand?
*** It is heavily implied that during the confusion at the end of the battle of Alcatraz he managed to slip away. I doubt he would avoid prison if they could find him.
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* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Mystique kills dozens of people and helps instigate near-Armageddon, but in the end she walks away scot-free when [[TheDogBitesBack she dishes about Magneto to the feds]].
** She may have avoided prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into what she hated the most - a normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
*** The last scene she is in shows her telling all to the authorities. There's no reason to assume they just let her walk away afterwards.
**Magneto is last seen, supposedly broken, sitting in Central Park playing chess. So, I guess the fact that he lost his powers means he doesn't have to go back to prison to pay for all the death and mayhem he caused beforehand?
*** It is heavily implied thatPresumably during the confusion at the end of the battle of Alcatraz he managed to slip away. I doubt he would avoid away, instead of going back to prison if they could find him.to pay for all the death and mayhem he caused.
** She may have avoided prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into what she hated the most - a normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
*** The last scene she is in shows her telling all to the authorities. There's no reason to assume they just let her walk away afterwards.
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*** It is heavily implied that
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Not technically a question, but "You need to tell me what happened to [[spoiler: Scott]]" certainly counts.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: SummerGlau auditioned for the role of Kitty Pryde (using JossWhedon's ''Astonishing X-Men'' No. 5 as her audition material!). [[AndTheFandomRejoiced The fandom would have rejoiced.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Pyro mocks the protective headgear worn by Magneto and Juggernaut. How is he taken out? Iceman headbutts him.
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* IdiotBall: Yes, Magneto, [[spoiler: abandon the woman who knows all your plans just because she lost her powers. I'm sure it won't backfire at all]].
** FridgeBrilliance: It's not stated outright, but it seems he anticipated her telling the authorities where the camp was, and so filled it with Duplicating Man.
** FridgeBrilliance: It's not stated outright, but it seems he anticipated her telling the authorities where the camp was, and so filled it with Duplicating Man.
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** Callisto. She's not scarred or one-eyed, she has a mix of Caliban's and Quicksilver's powers and not her own hypersensitivity (which WOULD have had pretty much the same PlotDevice effect). Why bother with the reference when Quicksilver could've played this role in the plot instead and made more sense?
*** Though, to be fair, putting Quicksilver in the movie would have required a lot of added background information to establish that Magneto has a son, and making him a different character unrelated to Magneto probably would have incurred the ire of a few fans.
*** Though, to be fair, putting Quicksilver in the movie would have required a lot of added background information to establish that Magneto has a son, and making him a different character unrelated to Magneto probably would have incurred the ire of a few fans.
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** Callisto. She's not scarred or one-eyed, she has a mix of Caliban's and Quicksilver's powers and not her own hypersensitivity (which WOULD would have had pretty much the same PlotDevice effect). Why bother with the reference when Quicksilver could've played this role in the plot instead and made more sense?
*** Though, to be fair, putting Quicksilver in the movie would have required a lot of added background information to establish that Magneto has a son, and making him a different character unrelated to Magneto probably would have incurred the ire of a few fans.
*** Though, to be fair, putting Quicksilver in the movie would have required a lot of added background information to establish that Magneto has a son, and making him a different character unrelated to Magneto probably would have incurred the ire of a few fans.
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** She may have avoided prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into what she hated the most - a normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
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** She may have avoided prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into what she hated the most - a normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.psyche.
*** The last scene she is in shows her telling all to the authorities. There's no reason to assume they just let her walk away afterwards.
*** The last scene she is in shows her telling all to the authorities. There's no reason to assume they just let her walk away afterwards.
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* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Kid Omega/Quill has the ability to extend quills from his body. He seems to think HeartIsAnAwesomePower, but he manages to use his power once... to kill a lone, crying doctor by giving her a hug.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: If you watch the credits, you'll notice that one of the minor villains is named Psylocke. An alternative is TheOtherWiki of course, which has a little more info on the movie universe's version of Psylocke.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: If you watch the credits, you'll notice that one of the minor villains is named Psylocke. An alternative is TheOtherWiki of course, which has a little more info on the movie universe's version of Psylocke.
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** FridgeBrilliance: It's not stated outright, but it seems he anticipated her telling the authorities where the camp was, and so filled it with Duplicating Man.
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** Though, to be fair, putting Quicksilver in the movie would have required a lot of added background information to establish that Magneto has a son, and making him a different character unrelated to Magneto probably would have incurred the ire of a few fans.
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* CallBack: When Mystique is screwing with the guard on the prison truck, she briefly turns into Jason Stryker's "[[CreepyChild little girl]]" avatar from the second movie.
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* CouldntFindALighter: In the DangerRoom ColdOpen, Wolverine uses holographic burning rubble left by an attacking Sentinel to light his cigar. Yes, Wolverine is so BadAss he can light a cigar off flames that don't actually exist.
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* CouldntFindALighter: In the DangerRoom ColdOpen, DangerRoomColdOpen, Wolverine uses holographic burning rubble left by an attacking Sentinel to light his cigar. Yes, Wolverine is so BadAss he can light a cigar off flames that don't actually exist.
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* CouldntFindALighter: In the DangerRoom ColdOpen, Wolverine uses holographic burning rubble left by an attacking Sentinel to light his cigar. Yes, Wolverine is so BadAss he can light a cigar off flames that don't actually exist.
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** Magneto is last seen, supposedly broken, sitting in Central Park playing chess. So, I guess the fact that he lost his powers means he doesn't have to pay for all the death and mayhem he caused beforehand?
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** Magneto is last seen, supposedly broken, sitting in Central Park playing chess. So, I guess the fact that he lost his powers means he doesn't have to go back to prison to pay for all the death and mayhem he caused beforehand?
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** Magneto is last seen, supposedly broken, sitting in Central Park playing chess. So, I guess the fact that he lost his powers means he doesn't have to pay for all the death and mayhem he caused beforehand?
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* IdiotBall: Yes, Magneto, [[spoiler: abandon the woman who knows all your plans just because she lost her powers. I'm sure it won't backfire at all]].
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* AscendedMeme: "[[MyWayEntertainment I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!]]"
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* AscendedMeme: "[[MyWayEntertainment I'm the Juggernaut, Juggernaut,]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]"
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* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Mystique kills dozens of people and helps instigate near-Armageddon, but in the end she walks away scot-free when she dishes about Magneto to the feds.
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* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Mystique kills dozens of people and helps instigate near-Armageddon, but in the end she walks away scot-free when [[TheDogBitesBack she dishes about Magneto to the feds.feds]].
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** She may have avoided a prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into something she hated the most - normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
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** She may have avoided a prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into something what she hated the most - a normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
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* BrokenAngel
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* AdvertisedExtra / BillingDisplacement: Angel is featured heavily in all the promotional material. He only has two or three scenes, and does nothing in any of them.
** Not entirely true, he appears prominently in the opening scenes when he refuses the cure and [[spoiler: saves his father's life]] during the final battle. However, he does almost literally nothing in between, turning up at the mansion after an hour or so's absence to deliver one line and hanging around in the background later on.
** The same can be said of Colossus - He has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
* AllThereInTheManual: To explain things that weren't explained in the movie itself (such as why Nightcrawler was absent), a video-game was made that took place between X-2 and X-Men: The Last Stand that filled in the gaps.
** Not entirely true, he appears prominently in the opening scenes when he refuses the cure and [[spoiler: saves his father's life]] during the final battle. However, he does almost literally nothing in between, turning up at the mansion after an hour or so's absence to deliver one line and hanging around in the background later on.
** The same can be said of Colossus - He has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
* AllThereInTheManual: To explain things that weren't explained in the movie itself (such as why Nightcrawler was absent), a video-game was made that took place between X-2 and X-Men: The Last Stand that filled in the gaps.
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* AdvertisedExtra / BillingDisplacement: Angel is featured heavily in all the promotional material. He only has two or three scenes, and does nothing in any of them.
** Not entirely true, he appears prominently in the opening scenes whenscenes: he refuses the cure and [[spoiler: saves his father's life]] during the final battle. However, he He does almost literally nothing in between, turning up at the mansion after an hour or so's absence to deliver one line and hanging around in the background later on.
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** The same can be said of Colossus -He he has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
* AllThereInTheManual: To explain things that weren't explained in the movie itself (such as why Nightcrawler was absent), a video-game was made that took place betweenX-2 X2 and X-Men: The Last Stand that filled in the gaps.
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** The same can be said of Colossus -
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Iceman and Rogue. Iceman seems disappointed that Rogue "cured" herself, even though she did it for both of them. Its unknown what their relationship is now, especially since [[spoiler:the cure is temporary.]
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* WillTheyOrWontThey: Iceman and Rogue. Iceman seems disappointed that Rogue "cured" herself, even though she did it for both of them. Its unknown what their relationship is now, especially since [[spoiler:the cure is temporary.]
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** Vinnie Jones is a violent musclebound psychopath. Ergo, Juggernaut.
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->''[[{{Tagline}} "Whose side will you be on?"]]''
The third movie in the Film/{{X-Men}} series involves someone finding a "cure" for mutant genes, causing Magneto to start recruiting for a mutant uprising. Also, Jean Grey [[UnexplainedRecovery gets better]] (guys, ItWasHisSled!), but evidently CameBackWrong, because now she can kill you with her brain. Rogue takes the cure voluntarily, on grounds that she CantHaveSexEver. The X-Men move to defend the cure-making facility from Magneto's forces, and eventually "cure" him, which puts an end to his crusade. Unfortunately, Jean stays AxCrazy, so Wolverine has to kill her, after which he returns to the Xavier Mansion to help Storm lead the next generation of X-Men.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AdvertisedExtra / BillingDisplacement: Angel is featured heavily in all the promotional material. He only has two or three scenes, and does nothing in any of them.
** Not entirely true, he appears prominently in the opening scenes when he refuses the cure and [[spoiler: saves his father's life]] during the final battle. However, he does almost literally nothing in between, turning up at the mansion after an hour or so's absence to deliver one line and hanging around in the background later on.
** The same can be said of Colossus - He has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
* AllThereInTheManual: To explain things that weren't explained in the movie itself (such as why Nightcrawler was absent), a video-game was made that took place between X-2 and X-Men: The Last Stand that filled in the gaps.
* AscendedMeme: "[[MyWayEntertainment I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!]]"
* BarcodeTattoo: Magneto's katzetnik, used to show off his history of being mistreated.
* BeamOWar: Between Iceman and Pyro.
* BeardOfSorrow: Cyclops displays a stubbly beard while in mourning.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When the heroes are discussing taking the cure.
-->'''Storm''' "I don't believe this. What sort of coward would take that just to fit in?"\\
'''Beast''' "Is it ''cowardice'' to want to be free from persecution? Not everyone can blend in so easily, ''you'' don't shed on the furniture."
* BrokenAngel
* CastingGag: Former soccer player Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut, whose ''American football'' design is deliberately played up with his "unstoppable" mutant power.
* CameBackWrong: Jean, of course.
* ContinuityCameo: [[HumongousMecha The Sentinel.]]
* DeadlyDodging: Kitty seems to be a master at this. Even without her powers.
* DeadlyHug: How Wolverine finishes off Phoenix.
* DemotedToExtra: Dr. Kavita Rao. Gets about thirty seconds of screen time, three lines in total, and then is KilledOffForReal. Most of her role from the comics (like holding the press conference) is taken over by Angel's dad.
** Also, Cyclops (then again, James Marsden was busy with [[SupermanReturns something else]]).
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Quite a lot: [[spoiler: Cyclops, Xavier, Jean, plus Rogue and Magneto to the lesser degree (depowered rather than killed). Fans were particularly put off by Cyclops' death, coming as it does ten minutes into the film and his character already having gotten short shrift in the franchise.)]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: Voiced by RLeeErmey, nevertheless.
* EvilBrit: The Juggernaut
* FastballSpecial: They had to do it, given Wolverine and Colossus are in the movie!
* FoilerFootage: They filmed the "Bobby discovers Rogue" scene both ways. That is, one where she took the "mutant cure" and one where she didn't.
* GeniusBruiser: Hank [=McCoy=].
* GenreSavvy: When the army learns Magneto is on the warpath again, a sequence shows them trading in their metal equipment and weapons for plastic variants, so he can't exert his influence on them. A scene in the final battle has him discovering this and muttering "Plastic...they've learned."
* GoOutWithASmile: Xavier [[spoiler:and Jean Grey.]]
* {{Headdesk}}: The Juggernaut has Shadowcat and Leech cornered and charges them. Unfortunately, Leech's power nullifies his, so the two duck under his rampage and Juggernaut smashes the wall, knocking him out cold. Possibly justified due to Juggernaut's predictability, and he probably wasn't aware that his powers would get shut off so abruptly by Leech.
* InNameOnly: Quite a few, kicking off the tradition of "use character A with powers of character B, when simply using character B might've been a better idea" that the next movie sadly inherits.
** Callisto. She's not scarred or one-eyed, she has a mix of Caliban's and Quicksilver's powers and not her own hypersensitivity (which WOULD have had pretty much the same PlotDevice effect). Why bother with the reference when Quicksilver could've played this role in the plot instead and made more sense?
** Psylocke. She's somehow a {{Mook}} now, already non-British (while the movie continuity avoids and {{RetCon}}s all things magical and alien, meaning that there is no Siege Perilous in this world) and all that. At least her hair is purple... small consolation. The only power she uses in the movie is the shadow teleportation granted to her by the Red Dawn, but not her own (weak) telepathy or (highly advanced) telekinesis.
** Leech. The movie ditches his defining trait of not passing for normal and not being able to do anything about it because most mutant powers don't work on him. Also, his powers no longer temporarily nullify whoever he touches, he has an area of effect that fully humanizes whoever enters it. Granted, it serves as a better justification for [[spoiler: using him as a source for The Cure, as using the original comic book plot would have left no screen time for the Phoenix plotline]].
** Phoenix. She uses her heightened powers approximately two times through the entire movie and [[spoiler: almost doesn't speak at all]], leaving out all of the CharacterDevelopment so integral to any version of the Phoenix Force in the comics, [[spoiler: mostly just standing behind Magneto, looking ominous]]. Why waste the Phoenix [[spoiler: on the role of Magneto's PersonOfMassDestruction]] if The Scarlet Witch would've made far more sense in the role she fulfils in the plot?
* InternalizedCategorism: The movie starts with a little angel who tries to cut off his own wings (and maybe he did that quite often) in his desperation to be normal. Later, his father tries to help him get "cured" of having white wings to fly with. [[spoiler:Angel changes his mind at the last minute, however, and later uses his {{flight}} to save his father's life.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Mystique kills dozens of people and helps instigate near-Armageddon, but in the end she walks away scot-free when she dishes about Magneto to the feds.
** She may have avoided a prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into something she hated the most - normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
* KarmicTransformation: ''X-Men'': Magneto tries turning humans into mutants. ''The Last Stand'': Magneto is "cured" from his mutation. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the cure seems to be temporary.]]
* KickTheDog: Mystique shields Magneto from being shot with a cure-gun by TakingTheBullet herself. Magneto abandons her because she's "no longer one of us." He does at least seem sad while he does it...
* MagicPants: Wolverine survives the telekinetic disintegration due to his [[GoodThingYouCanHeal healing factor]]. How his pants also survive...
* MasqueradeMaintenance: Angel cutting off his wings.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Magneto, upon seeing Phoenix killing everyone.
* NeverSayDie: An unusual in-universe example. When Wolverine is questioning Jean about [[spoiler:what happened to Cyclops]], she refuses to actually say he died. How much of this is guilt or foreshadowing is up to interpretation.
* OlderThanTheyLook: EllenPage as Kitty Pride falls under this.
* TheOtherDarrin: Hank [=McCoy=]/Beast had a small cameo in ''X2''. Granted, he hadn't mutated yet, but the actor still looked and sounded nothing like KelseyGrammer.
** Shadowcat gets a new actress ''again.''
* PowerNullifier: Leech
* PrisonShip: The prison truck where Mystique is held.
* ProsceniumReveal: At the end of the DangerRoomColdOpen.
* SequelNonEntity: Nightcrawler.
* ShippedInShackles: Mystique, Multiple Man, and the Juggernaut get this treatment.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Angel
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Professor X transfers his mind into the man with the coma...]]
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Magneto slightly moves a chess piece. Maybe his powers are returning.]]
** [[spoiler:An unused one would have had Mystique sitting next to him, revealing that the two had been in league the entire time. Unfortunately, the actress wasn't available.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Jean Grey as The Phoenix.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Iceman and Rogue. Iceman seems disappointed that Rogue "cured" herself, even though she did it for both of them. Its unknown what their relationship is now, especially since [[spoiler:the cure is temporary.]
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->''[[{{Tagline}} "Whose side will you be on?"]]''
The third movie in the Film/{{X-Men}} series involves someone finding a "cure" for mutant genes, causing Magneto to start recruiting for a mutant uprising. Also, Jean Grey [[UnexplainedRecovery gets better]] (guys, ItWasHisSled!), but evidently CameBackWrong, because now she can kill you with her brain. Rogue takes the cure voluntarily, on grounds that she CantHaveSexEver. The X-Men move to defend the cure-making facility from Magneto's forces, and eventually "cure" him, which puts an end to his crusade. Unfortunately, Jean stays AxCrazy, so Wolverine has to kill her, after which he returns to the Xavier Mansion to help Storm lead the next generation of X-Men.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AdvertisedExtra / BillingDisplacement: Angel is featured heavily in all the promotional material. He only has two or three scenes, and does nothing in any of them.
** Not entirely true, he appears prominently in the opening scenes when he refuses the cure and [[spoiler: saves his father's life]] during the final battle. However, he does almost literally nothing in between, turning up at the mansion after an hour or so's absence to deliver one line and hanging around in the background later on.
** The same can be said of Colossus - He has one line (which is actually shorter than his one line in ''X-Men 2'') and he's really only in the film for the FastballSpecial.
* AllThereInTheManual: To explain things that weren't explained in the movie itself (such as why Nightcrawler was absent), a video-game was made that took place between X-2 and X-Men: The Last Stand that filled in the gaps.
* AscendedMeme: "[[MyWayEntertainment I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!]]"
* BarcodeTattoo: Magneto's katzetnik, used to show off his history of being mistreated.
* BeamOWar: Between Iceman and Pyro.
* BeardOfSorrow: Cyclops displays a stubbly beard while in mourning.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: When the heroes are discussing taking the cure.
-->'''Storm''' "I don't believe this. What sort of coward would take that just to fit in?"\\
'''Beast''' "Is it ''cowardice'' to want to be free from persecution? Not everyone can blend in so easily, ''you'' don't shed on the furniture."
* BrokenAngel
* CastingGag: Former soccer player Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut, whose ''American football'' design is deliberately played up with his "unstoppable" mutant power.
* CameBackWrong: Jean, of course.
* ContinuityCameo: [[HumongousMecha The Sentinel.]]
* DeadlyDodging: Kitty seems to be a master at this. Even without her powers.
* DeadlyHug: How Wolverine finishes off Phoenix.
* DemotedToExtra: Dr. Kavita Rao. Gets about thirty seconds of screen time, three lines in total, and then is KilledOffForReal. Most of her role from the comics (like holding the press conference) is taken over by Angel's dad.
** Also, Cyclops (then again, James Marsden was busy with [[SupermanReturns something else]]).
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Quite a lot: [[spoiler: Cyclops, Xavier, Jean, plus Rogue and Magneto to the lesser degree (depowered rather than killed). Fans were particularly put off by Cyclops' death, coming as it does ten minutes into the film and his character already having gotten short shrift in the franchise.)]]
* DrillSergeantNasty: Voiced by RLeeErmey, nevertheless.
* EvilBrit: The Juggernaut
* FastballSpecial: They had to do it, given Wolverine and Colossus are in the movie!
* FoilerFootage: They filmed the "Bobby discovers Rogue" scene both ways. That is, one where she took the "mutant cure" and one where she didn't.
* GeniusBruiser: Hank [=McCoy=].
* GenreSavvy: When the army learns Magneto is on the warpath again, a sequence shows them trading in their metal equipment and weapons for plastic variants, so he can't exert his influence on them. A scene in the final battle has him discovering this and muttering "Plastic...they've learned."
* GoOutWithASmile: Xavier [[spoiler:and Jean Grey.]]
* {{Headdesk}}: The Juggernaut has Shadowcat and Leech cornered and charges them. Unfortunately, Leech's power nullifies his, so the two duck under his rampage and Juggernaut smashes the wall, knocking him out cold. Possibly justified due to Juggernaut's predictability, and he probably wasn't aware that his powers would get shut off so abruptly by Leech.
* InNameOnly: Quite a few, kicking off the tradition of "use character A with powers of character B, when simply using character B might've been a better idea" that the next movie sadly inherits.
** Callisto. She's not scarred or one-eyed, she has a mix of Caliban's and Quicksilver's powers and not her own hypersensitivity (which WOULD have had pretty much the same PlotDevice effect). Why bother with the reference when Quicksilver could've played this role in the plot instead and made more sense?
** Psylocke. She's somehow a {{Mook}} now, already non-British (while the movie continuity avoids and {{RetCon}}s all things magical and alien, meaning that there is no Siege Perilous in this world) and all that. At least her hair is purple... small consolation. The only power she uses in the movie is the shadow teleportation granted to her by the Red Dawn, but not her own (weak) telepathy or (highly advanced) telekinesis.
** Leech. The movie ditches his defining trait of not passing for normal and not being able to do anything about it because most mutant powers don't work on him. Also, his powers no longer temporarily nullify whoever he touches, he has an area of effect that fully humanizes whoever enters it. Granted, it serves as a better justification for [[spoiler: using him as a source for The Cure, as using the original comic book plot would have left no screen time for the Phoenix plotline]].
** Phoenix. She uses her heightened powers approximately two times through the entire movie and [[spoiler: almost doesn't speak at all]], leaving out all of the CharacterDevelopment so integral to any version of the Phoenix Force in the comics, [[spoiler: mostly just standing behind Magneto, looking ominous]]. Why waste the Phoenix [[spoiler: on the role of Magneto's PersonOfMassDestruction]] if The Scarlet Witch would've made far more sense in the role she fulfils in the plot?
* InternalizedCategorism: The movie starts with a little angel who tries to cut off his own wings (and maybe he did that quite often) in his desperation to be normal. Later, his father tries to help him get "cured" of having white wings to fly with. [[spoiler:Angel changes his mind at the last minute, however, and later uses his {{flight}} to save his father's life.]]
* KarmaHoudini: Throughout the series, Mystique kills dozens of people and helps instigate near-Armageddon, but in the end she walks away scot-free when she dishes about Magneto to the feds.
** She may have avoided a prison due to her later cooperation, but before that she was ripped from her powers and turned into something she hated the most - normal human. To add insult to injury, she was betrayed by the guy that she was passionately loyal to. It's doubtful it didn't leave any mark on her psyche.
* KarmicTransformation: ''X-Men'': Magneto tries turning humans into mutants. ''The Last Stand'': Magneto is "cured" from his mutation. [[spoiler:Subverted in that the cure seems to be temporary.]]
* KickTheDog: Mystique shields Magneto from being shot with a cure-gun by TakingTheBullet herself. Magneto abandons her because she's "no longer one of us." He does at least seem sad while he does it...
* MagicPants: Wolverine survives the telekinetic disintegration due to his [[GoodThingYouCanHeal healing factor]]. How his pants also survive...
* MasqueradeMaintenance: Angel cutting off his wings.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Magneto, upon seeing Phoenix killing everyone.
* NeverSayDie: An unusual in-universe example. When Wolverine is questioning Jean about [[spoiler:what happened to Cyclops]], she refuses to actually say he died. How much of this is guilt or foreshadowing is up to interpretation.
* OlderThanTheyLook: EllenPage as Kitty Pride falls under this.
* TheOtherDarrin: Hank [=McCoy=]/Beast had a small cameo in ''X2''. Granted, he hadn't mutated yet, but the actor still looked and sounded nothing like KelseyGrammer.
** Shadowcat gets a new actress ''again.''
* PowerNullifier: Leech
* PrisonShip: The prison truck where Mystique is held.
* ProsceniumReveal: At the end of the DangerRoomColdOpen.
* SequelNonEntity: Nightcrawler.
* ShippedInShackles: Mystique, Multiple Man, and the Juggernaut get this treatment.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Angel
* TheStinger: [[spoiler:Professor X transfers his mind into the man with the coma...]]
* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Magneto slightly moves a chess piece. Maybe his powers are returning.]]
** [[spoiler:An unused one would have had Mystique sitting next to him, revealing that the two had been in league the entire time. Unfortunately, the actress wasn't available.]]
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Jean Grey as The Phoenix.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Iceman and Rogue. Iceman seems disappointed that Rogue "cured" herself, even though she did it for both of them. Its unknown what their relationship is now, especially since [[spoiler:the cure is temporary.]
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