History Headscratchers / XMenDaysofFuturePast

** It's not that they're prepared to wipe out humanity. It goes like this: They're initially designed to wipe out mutants. Then, the detection is refined so that it includes wiping out humans who ''have'' the mutant gene and can pass it on, but don't necessarily express it, and those humans are added to the list. Some other humans object to this, so ''they're'' on the list, too. This leaves those humans who ''don't'' have and ''can't'' pass on the mutant gene as safe and in charge.

** The reason why Quicksilver doesn't stay is because they asked him to help with breaking Erik out, which he does. Asking him to do more would be like MovingTheGoalposts. Besides, it's not like they could ''keep'' him if they wanted him to stay, anyways. He's so powerful that the only way you could keep him on the team is if he decides that's what he ''wants'' to do. He's a teenager with SuperSpeed, and until he sees the threat the Sentinels and Magneto pose with his own eyes, all he's really going to care about is screwing around and stealing things.

** I suspect the whole rescuing Logan thing was done by Charles and Mystique together. Basically to save the man that saved them all, both from what happened to him in the fight and from what Stryker would have done to him. And, remember, Stryker was working with Trask, very knowingly, including being there to assist him in selling the tech to the Vietnamese. Real Stryker, in this timeline, is in deep kimchi.

** The reason why Quicksilver doesn't stay is because they asked him to help with breaking Erik out, which he does. Asking him to do more would be like MovingTheGoalposts. Besides, it's not like they could ''keep'' him if they wanted him to stay, anyways. He's so powerful that the only way you could keep him on the team is if he decides that's what he ''wants'' to do. He's a teenager with SuperSpeed, and until he sees the threat the Sentinels and Magneto pose with his own eyes, all he's really going to care about is dicking around and stealing things.

** I suspect the whole rescuing Logan thing was done by Charles and Mystique together. Basically to save the man that saved them all, both from what happened to him in the fight and from what Stryker would have done to him. And, remember, Stryker was working with Trask, very knowingly, including being there to assist him in selling the tech to the Vietnamese. Real Stryker, in this timeline, is in deep shit.

** The Goverment does have a Task Force Designed to handle any Major Mutant Problems by the Time of "Dark Phoenix"

** He may not have had any kind of plan or specific agenda to pursue for after escaping, or at least one that was really all time sensitive. That, and/or he was really repentant, or at least regretful for his actions (or the consequences of them), as he failed to prevent (or maybe even ''caused'') the death of the mutant president. At any rate, Erik really didn't come off as all that eager to escape; he was been held against his will, yes, but unlike his older counterpart in ''FilmX2XMenUnited'', he seemed to have been treated well, as opposed to the frequent brutality he suffered at the hands of William Stryker and his goons.

** He may not have had any kind of plan or specific agenda to pursue for after escaping, or at least one that was really all time sensitive. That, and/or he was really repentant, or at least regretful for his actions (or the consequences of them), as he failed to prevent (or maybe even ''caused'') the death of the mutant president. At any rate, Erik really didn't come off as all that eager to escape; he was been held against his will, yes, but unlike his older counterpart in FilmX2XMenUnited, he seemed to have been treated well, as opposed to the frequent brutality he suffered at the hands of William Stryker and his goons.

** I don't buy it. Magneto has always had a NeverMyFault attitude towards human-mutant relations, so it'd be far more in character to blame the X-men for not allowing him to win the war before the Sentinels were ever invented. Plus, his philosophy was never "no human will ever care for their mutant child or friend" but rather "humans are able and, under the right circumstances, willing to exterminate or subjugate us, so we should exterminate or subjugate them first," and from that perspective, he was right. That said, he didn't have much of a choice but to team up with the X-men once the sentinels were deployed, and he could have been only faking agreeing with Charles and hoping he wouldn't read his mind, or perhaps being around the X-men, and presumably their brief human allies, changed him eventually.

** Who says they didn't and Eric didn't particularly care? A hardened revolutionary like him is not going to anti-climactically lay down all grievances because of sappy story from the future that he has not experienced first hand. What Wolverine saw was humans laying down there lives to defend helpless mutants. What Eric imagines is a butch of arrogant humans getting what was coming to them for inventing a weapon to literally wipe out his race, and then only intervening in the genocide when their death machines turned on them or the people THEY cared about. Wow I'm sure Eric is just going to cry me a river.

* If Erik was already in control of the 70s Sentinel prototypes (by putting metal in them), why didn't he just stop his demonstration of power after making the sentinels shoot into the crowd, causing mass hysteria? Why bother bringing a stadium to the White House and making a speech when, had he just shot someone using a Sentinel, people would have deemed them unsafe and discredited Trask. Even if Mystique had saved Nixon and his cabinet, that could in no way guarantee mutant acceptance in the same way an anonymous strike using mutant-targeted weapons could.

** Added to that, he has direct knowledge that the reason the sentinels came about is directly and explicitly because of his attitude and the actions that result from it. Humanity wants the sentinels because of things like trying to start a nuclear war, or hurling hundreds of missiles at American soldiers, or shapeshifting assassins killing political and economic figures. Erik realizes Charles' path was the right one because he's now seen the direct result of his own.
** I don't buy it. Magneto has always had a NeverMyFault attitude towards human-mutant relations, so it'd be far more in character to blame the X-men for not allowing him to win the war before the sentinels were ever invented. Plus, his philosophy was never "no human will ever care for their mutant child or friend" but rather "humans are able and, under the right circumstances, willing to exterminate or subjugate us, so we should exterminate or subjugate them first," and from that perspective, he was right. That said, he didn't have much of a choice but to team up with the X-men once the sentinels were deployed, and he could have been only faking agreeing with Charles and hoping he wouldn't read his mind, or perhaps being around the X-men, and presumably their brief human allies, changed him eventually.

* If you going to have sentinels in this movie, why not include the big guy himself? Would the idea of a self aware robot going rogue be cartoonish for the movie? Ultron is appearing in Avengers 2, so Master Mold could be possible in the future. It makes me wonder who is controlling the sentinels in 2023 if the humans are slaves.

* How on earth did Trask manage to CAPTURE Azazel, let alone kill the man? This is the same guy who took down a CIA base, basically by himself, so I have no doubt he couldn't have handled some of Trask's thugs. Even if they tricked him or drugged him, when Mystique goes through his file, his eyes are shown as being open and he looks to be in pain so it stands to reason that, at one point, when Trask was experimenting on him, he was conscious so it stands to reason that he could have teleported himself out of there.

** I doubt even Tricky Dicky would have someone publicaly executed iln front of the White House as part of a product demonstration.

** But it should have, that's the point. Wolverine nearly sleep-stabbed Kayla so many times that she knew to get the hell out the bed if he started getting ansy. He sleep stabbed Rogue, which would have been fatal if she didn't absorb his healing. He nearly sleep-stabbed Mariko in the face and he did unkowningly sleep-stab Dream Jean, who was a figment of his own imagination. Kitty clearly knows that it will be intensely painful for him because she tells him so; presumably, this is also the reason why she previously used Bishop, who had his high resilience and energy absorbing powers. Wolverine has indestructible adamantium claws that come out reflexively when he is in pain and turned what may have otherwise been a minor cut into a fatal injury for Kitty, which jeopardized the mission even if the Sentinels didn't find them. Then, you have Magneto, who didn't immobilize him straight away but let him flail about for a few seconds and stab Kitty before acting. They were all holding the Idiot Ball on this one.
** If anyone can be overconfident around Wolverine, it's Kitty.

** I doubt even Tricky Dicky would have someone publically executed in front of the White House as part of a product demonstration.

** Mutant powers aren't necessarily passed on by blood. It all depends on what the X-gene grants in terms of powers. Why is Pietro a super-fast mutant and his twin a RealityWarper when their father simply has control over magnetism? Sure, in some cases you get similar powers from father to son(like Wolverine and Daken), but you can also get instances of mutants fathering or mothering children with ''wildly'' different powers(my earlier example of Magneto's children, for example.).

** Mutant powers aren't necessarily passed on by blood. It all depends on what the X-gene grants in terms of powers. Why is Pietro a super-fast mutant and his twin a RealityWarper when their father simply has control over magnetism? Sure, in some cases you get similar powers from father to son(like Havok and Cyclops or Wolverine and Daken), but you can also get instances of mutants fathering or mothering children with ''wildly'' different powers(my earlier example of Magneto's children, for example.).
* As for the original point, ''Apocalypse'' confirms that Magnetos is Quicksilver's father.

* If you shoot Trask, then the sentinel program is dead. Also, Mystique isn't persecuted and her DNA isn't stolen.

*** Girls inherit their father's X-chromosome, so if that's where the X-gene resides, ''every'' daughter of a mutant daddy should be a mutant.