History YMMV / XMenFilmSeries

** Creator/BryanSinger wrote, directed, and produced the first two films and he had this reputation and status for the first three films, returning after a hiatus to direct the well-received ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. The highly divisive ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' directed by Creator/BrettRatner was weakly received for not having Singer at the helm. However, Singer's direction was put in doubt with the mixed reception of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', which was admittedly a ToughActToFollow for his own, previous film. This only became more contentious following Singer's public fall from grace (see OvershadowedByControversy) as well as reports of his erratic behavior on the set of ''Apocalypse'', which forced producer and future ''Dark Phoenix'' director Simon Kinberg to handle much of the shooting and foreshadowed Singer's CreatorBreakdown during the making of ''Film/BohemianRhapsody''.

* LGBTFanbase: ''X-Men'' has always been a series about empowering the marginalized, but this particular iteration of the franchise, having many of its installments directed by an openly-bisexual man (Bryan Singer) and starring openly-gay actors (Ian [=McKellen=] and Ellen Page), has been associated with the gay community in spite of having very few open LGBT relationships shown onscreen (HoYay and HomoeroticSubtext notwithstanding). Considering that the main movies were made with a gay allegory in mind ("Have you tried ''not'' being a Mutant?") and that the film series came out around the time that popular culture was becoming vastly more accepting of the LGBT community, this isn't too surprising. Unfortunately, sexual assault allegations against Bryan Singer have since hurt this franchise's image with gay fans.

** The ''X-Men'' films were always criticized for their [[SpotlightStealingSquad blatant overuse of]] [[WolverinePublicity Wolverine]], but it didn't really start to get out of hand until ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' and ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', which are universally cited as the lowest points of the series. In [[Film/XMen1 the first movie]], although Rogue served as an AudienceSurrogate, most of the movie was still shown through Logan's eyes, and the big climax basically amounted to the other heroes ''throwing'' Wolverine at Magneto's doomsday device and letting him fight Mystique and Sabretooth one-on-one. And in [[Film/X2XMenUnited the second film]], Jean and Nightcrawler both got notable arcs, but much of the plot was still dominated by Wolverine uncovering his past with Cyclops and Professor Xavier spending most of the movie imprisoned in the BigBad's fortress. However, many fans were willing to forgive Wolverine's greater screentime because Creator/HughJackman was still [[StarMakingRole a new actor]], Wolverine is considered the most popular and most well known of the X-Men characters, and it was the first time anyone saw the character on screen. Moreover, the first two films still managed to balance out his screentime with other characters who were driving the plot. In the third film? Rogue vanishes after deciding to take the cure, [[spoiler:Cyclops and Professor Xavier are killed off anticlimactically]], there are extended scenes involving Wolverine taking on Magneto's army singlehandedly, and Jean barely seems to remember that she was in love with Scott ''years'' before she met Logan. By the time they cut out the middleman and gave Wolverine his own spinoff, they barely had anything interesting left to do with the character, and critics trashed the movie for forgetting to put in any memorable characters who weren't named "Logan".

** For those who have seen ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' and the team ''X-Men'' films before ''Series/ChildrenOfDune'', it's very amusing that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnm5wdGMevU the Borg Queen is the grandmother of Professor X.]] By virtue of being a Kwisatz Haderach (a being who can access the genetic memories of its female and male ancestors), Leto Atreides II (played by a young Creator/JamesMcAvoy) has intimate knowledge of the Lady Jessica (portrayed by Alice Krige) that he finds very uncomfortable, which mirrors Captain Picard's distress that the Borg Queen knows everything about him when he was assimilated into her collective. Creator/PatrickStewart also appeared in ''Film/{{Dune}}''.

** In the prequel films, none of the characters age much across the several decades, which some fans handwaved as a result of them being mutants. However, Moira through a wrench in this fan theory due to her being a baseline human who also didn't age at all between the 60s and 80s...which makes the recent retcon in the comics that she's not only a mutant herself, but an exceptionally powerful one as well, an amusing reveal. Now the mutant aging fan-theory has no holes!

** The first two ''X-Men'' movies have largely been overshadowed in the mid-2000s by the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'', ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'', and, of course, the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, but at the time, the [[Film/XMen1 first movie]] was a surprise hit that proved vital in convincing Hollywood that {{superhero}}es could be viable again after ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' had [[GenreKiller killed the genre several years earlier]]. People tend to forget that alongside ''Film/{{Blade}}'' and even the divisive ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'', the original ''X-Men'' films were massively influential in terms of tone and costuming, arguably becoming the TropeCodifier for MovieSuperheroesWearBlack (although Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman|1989}}'' can claim that as well).

** This likely ''would'' have happened in the solo ''Gambit'' movie, with the title character [[http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/05/13/channing-tatum-confirmed-as-gambit having been Darrin'd from]] Taylor Kitsch, who previously portrayed the character in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', to Creator/ChanningTatum as he looks and sounds nothing like the character in question. And even if the role was going to go to another actor, fans seem to prefer a more convincing one for the part like [[Series/{{Lost}} Josh Holloway]] or French actor Gaspard Ulliel. The film languished in DevelopmentHell, but eventually was shelved.

* LGBTFanbase: ''X-Men'' has always been a series about empowering the marginalized, but this particular iteration of the franchise, having many of its installments directed by an openly-gay man, has been associated with the gay community in spite of having very few open LGBT relationships shown onscreen (HoYay and HomoeroticSubtext notwithstanding). Considering that the main movies were made with a gay allegory in mind ("Have you tried ''not'' being a Mutant?") and that the film series came out around the time that popular culture was becoming vastly more accepting of the LGBT community, this isn't too surprising. Unfortunately, sexual assault allegations against Bryan Singer have hurt this franchise's image with gay fans.

* LGBTFanbase: ''X-Men'' has always been a series about empowering the marginalized, but this particular iteration of the franchise, having many of its installments directed by an openly-gay man, has been associated with the gay community in spite of having very few open LGBT relationships shown onscreen (HoYay and HomoeroticSubtext notwithstanding). Considering that the main movies were made with a gay allegory in mind ("Have you tried ''not'' being a Mutant?") and that the film series came out around the time that popular culture was becoming vastly more accepting of the LGBT community, this isn't too surprising. Unfortunately, sexual assault allegations against Bryan Singer have hurt this franchise's image with gay fans.

** A lot of fans consider Creator/MatthewVaughn to be this for the later X-Men films. He was the director of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' which was considered the AuthorsSavingThrow for the franchise, and became the first successful X-Men film ''not'' centered on Wolverine. He also changed the aesthetic of a trilogy that was formerly the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier for MovieSuperheroesWearBlack, introduced a much more humorous and sexy style (even those who liked the first X-Men films pointed out that they were rather overly serious) and made the costumes and visual design much more brighter and colourful (giving the First Class team a dark blue and lemon yellow ensemble and setting the finale in broad daylight on the beaches of Cuba) and also setting the Mutants against a historical period and backdrop and invoking the aesthetic and slang of that time and place. When Singer returned to the franchise, with ''Days of Future Past'', he followed Vaughn's aesthetic (brighter costumes and palette, more humor, period setting, and sex appeal), and the success of ''First Class'' also led Fox to green-light more personal and director-driven takes on the series, and even push to the R-Rating (Vaughn's film was the first mainstream superhero film with a PrecisionFStrike), leading to ''Film/Deadpool2016'', ''Film/{{Logan}}'' and ''Film/Deadpool2''.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The series' reputation got tainted during the beginning days of the [=#MeToo=] and "Time's Up" movement when the franchise's best-known director, Bryan Singer, was accused of sexual misconduct by several actors (many of whom were underage at the time on top of that). This culminated in a boiling point in 2017 where Singer, along with ''The Last Stand'' director Brett Ratner and ''Deadpool'' actor TJ Miller, became very prominent examples of the Weinstein Effect for acts of sexual abuse and violence they had committed.

** Creator/BryanSinger wrote, directed, and produced the first two films and he had this reputation and status for the first three films, returning after a hiatus to direct the well-received ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. The highly divisive ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' directed by Creator/BrettRatner was weakly received for not having Singer at the helm. However, Singer's direction was put in doubt with the mixed reception of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', which was admittedly a ToughActToFollow for his own, previous film.

* EndingAversion: ''Film/DarkPhoenix'' was met with overwhelmingly negative reviews by professional critics and a lukewarm reception by fans. Some found the last entry in the franchise to be merely disappointing, while others push it into FanonDiscontinuity and credit either ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' or ''Film/{{Logan}}'' as the proper finale.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Mystique in the prequel films, largely because of her gradual AdaptationalHeroism. While some see her characterization as an empathetic progression, others see it as a betrayal of the character's villainous legacy with some accusing the studio on trying to capitalize on Creator/JenniferLawrence's star power. It should be noted that fans were more accepting of Mystique's more heroic characterization in ''First Class'' and ''Days of Future Past'', as she became a FallenHero in the former and served as an AntiVillain in the latter. It was only in ''Apocalypse'' and ''Dark Phoenix'' that fans became divided largely because of how she became a full blown hero instead of a NominalHero or sympathetic AntiVillain.

** A second DorkAge arrived with the main series in the latter half of the [=2010s=] with ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', both of which underperformed significantly at the box office, were panned by critics, and were divisive with fans. However, this only applies to the main series, whereas the spin-offs (both ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' [[Film/Deadpool2 movies]] and ''Film/{{Logan}}'') are held in high regard -- with the exception of ''Film/TheNewMutants'', which got a critical lashing similar to ''Dark Phoenix''.

** A second DorkAge arrived with the main series in the latter half of the [=2010s=] with ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', both of which underperformed significantly at the box office, were panned by critics, and were divisive with fans. However, this only applies to the main series, whereas the spin-offs (both ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'' [[Film/Deadpool2 movies]] and ''Film/{{Logan}}'') are held in high regard. It remains to be seen where ''Film/TheNewMutants'' falls.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Mystique in the prequel films, largely because of her gradual AdaptationalHeroism. While some see her characterization as an empathetic progression, others see it as a betrayal of the character's villainous legacy with some accusing the studio on trying to capitalize on Creator/JenniferLawrence's star power. It should be noted that fans were more accepting of Mystique's more heroic characterization in ''First Class'' and ''Days of Future Past'', as she became a FallenHero in the former and served as the BigBad in the latter. It was only in ''Apocalypse'' and ''Dark Phoenix'' that fans became divided largely because of how she became a full blown hero instead of a NominalHero or sympathetic AntiVillain.

** A lot of fans consider Creator/MatthewVaughn to be this for the later X-Men films. He was the director of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' which was considered the AuthorsSavingThrow for the franchise, and became the first successful X-Men film ''not'' centered on Wolverine. He also changed the aesthetic of a trilogy that was formerly the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier for MovieSuperheroesWearBlack, introduced a much more humorous and sexy style (even those who liked the first X-Men films pointed out that they were rather overly serious) and made the costumes and visual design much more brighter and colourful (giving the First Class team a dark blue and lemon yellow ensemble and setting the finale in broad daylight on the beaches of Cuba) and also setting the Mutants against a historical period and backdrop and invoking the aesthetic and slang of that time and place. When Singer returned to the franchise, with ''Days of Future Past'', he followed Vaughn's aesthetic (brighter costumes and palette, more humor, period setting, and sex appeal), and the success of ''First Class'' also led Fox to green-light more personal and director-driven takes on the series, and even push to the R-Rating (Vaughn's film was the first mainstream superhero film with a PrecisionFStrike), leading to ''Film/Deadpool2016'' and ''Film/{{Logan}}''.

*** In the very next movie, a BrainwashedAndCrazy Nightcrawler is able to [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleport]] into the White House and kick the Secret Service's collective ass, proving Kelly right.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Mystique in the prequel films, largely because of how they put her through AdaptationalHeroism. While some see it as an empathetic progression, others see it as a betrayal of the character's villainous legacy with some accusing the studio on trying to capitalize on Creator/JenniferLawrence's star power. It should be noted that fans were more accepting of Mystique's more heroic characterization in ''First Class'' and ''Days of Future Past'', as she became a FallenHero in the former and served as the BigBad in the latter. It was only in ''Apocalypse'' and ''Dark Phoenix'' that fans became divided largely because of how she became a full blown hero instead of a NominalHero or sympathetic AntiVillain.

** Prior to the merger, fans of the latter hated how ''X-Men'' films were still being made by a separate studio from Creator/MarvelStudios and were very vocal in their desires for Fox to turn over the franchise to Marvel, with a popular target being deviations from the source material ([[HypocriticalFandom despite the MCU's own history of altering characters and events from the source material]]). Meanwhile, fans of the ''X-Men'' franchise accused the MCU of being formulaic, simplistic and kid-friendly, while also claiming that Disney would be unwilling or unable to pull off the more mature themes and darker themes that are central to the mutant's oppressed minority narrative. Another common argument is that Disney would never have green-lit R-rated films such as ''Film/Deadpool2016'' and ''Film/{{Logan}}'' (which was proven to be true when Bob Iger said as much), although it should be noted that even MCU fans tend to [[FriendlyFandoms really like movie Deadpool and/or movie Wolverine]].

** The casting of Henry Zaga as Sunspot and Alice Braga as Cecilia Reyes in ''Film/TheNewMutants'' has lead to considerable backlash and accusations of whitewashing. Although Zaga is from Brazil, Sunspot is ''Afro''-Brazilian, and his origin specifically has him being discriminated against for his African features. Likewise, Reyes is Afro-Latina. Both Zaga and Braga fall more under AmbiguouslyBrown (being olive skinned and light enough to appear somewhat white under some shades). The reaction to Braga's casting is further fueled by the fact she is replacing the much better-received Creator/RosarioDawson, who had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts with ''Series/LukeCage''.

** A lot of fans consider Creator/MatthewVaughn to be this for the later X-Men films. He was the director of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' which was considered the AuthorsSavingThrow for the franchise, and became the first successful X-Men film ''not'' centered on Wolverine. He also changed the aesthetic of a trilogy that was formerly the TropeMaker and TropeCodifier for MovieSuperheroesWearBlack, introduced a much more humorous and sexy style (even those who liked the first X-Men films pointed out that they were rather overly serious) and made the costumes and visual design much more brighter and colourful (giving the First Class team a dark blue and lemon yellow ensemble and setting the finale in broad daylight on the beaches of Cuba) and also setting the Mutants against a historical period and backdrop and invoking the aesthetic and slang of that time and place. When Singer returned to the franchise, with ''Days of Future Past'', he followed Vaughn's aesthetic (brighter costumes and palette, more humor, period setting, and sex appeal), and the success of ''First Class'' also led Fox to green-light more personal and director-driven takes on the series, and even push to the R-Rating (Vaughn's film was the first mainstream superhero film with a PrecisionFStrike), leading to ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' and ''Film/{{Logan}}''.

** [[SociopathicSoldier William Stryker, Jr.]] is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. Known for his anti-mutant stance, he worked tirelessly over several decades to develop solutions to what he saw as the "mutant problem". Making his debut in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes innocent mutants]] like Kurt Wagner and Yuriko Oyama, unfortunately indirectly causing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the death of the latter]] during a fight with Wolverine, and orchestrating a failed assassination attempt on the President by making Kurt (better known as Nightcrawler) attack the White House. Midway through the film, it's revealed that he gave his son Jason a lobotomy for toying with his mind and causing his wife's suicide via a power drill to his left temple. Nearing the end of the movie, he uses Jason to manipulate Professor X into killing the entirety of mutantkind with a dark copy of Cerebro, apparently indifferent for the countless amounts of ''human'' lives he could get killed in the process as well. In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', he makes a deal with Sabretooth to give him an Adamantium skeleton if he kills former teammates Chris Bradley and John Wraith as well as kidnap other young mutants like Scott Summers and Kayla Silverfox's sister Emma in order to use their DNA to create [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesDeadpool "Weapon XI"]], as well as coercing Agent Zero to hunt down and kill [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesWolverine Weapon X]]. Nearing the end of the film, he erases Wolverine's memory by shooting him in the forehead twice with Adamantium bullets. He also remorselessly kills a human named General Munson by stabbing him in the abdomen with an autopsy blade. In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', it's revealed that he captured Mystique and took a sample of her DNA to put into the Sentinels' programming, indirectly causing [[BadFuture the Sentinels to take over and destroy the world]]. In the first stage of the film, he tries to have mutants like Havok, Toad, Spike and Ink taken away to be experimented on by Bolivar Trask. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', it's revealed that he captured Wolverine (probably against his will) and replaces all of the bones in his body with Adamantium. When Wolverine escapes his cell and starts killing everyone within his base, he tells his fellow staff members that he'll "be right back", but that turned out to be a lie when he left them all for dead. Motivated solely by xenophobia and cruelty, there's no doubting that Stryker is one of the most dangerous villains in the entire series, mutant or not.

** [[SociopathicSoldier William Stryker, Jr.]] is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. Known for his anti-mutant stance, he worked tirelessly over several decades to develop solutions to what he saw as the "mutant problem". Making his debut in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes innocent mutants]] like Kurt Wagner and Yuriko Oyama, unfortunately indirectly causing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the death of the latter]] during a fight with Wolverine, and orchestrating a failed assassination attempt on the President by making Kurt (better known as Nightcrawler) attack the White House. Midway through the film, it's revealed that he gave his son Jason a lobotomy for toying with his mind and causing his wife's suicide via a power drill to his left temple. Nearing the end of the movie, he uses Jason to manipulate Professor X into killing the entirety of mutantkind with a dark copy of Cerebro, apparently indifferent for the countless amounts of ''human'' lives he could get killed in the process as well. In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', he makes a deal with Sabretooth to give him an Adamantium skeleton if he kills former teammates Chris Bradley and John Wraith as well as kidnap other young mutants like Scott Summers and Kayla Silverfox's sister Emma in order to use their DNA to create [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesDeadpool "Weapon XI"]], as well as coercing Agent Zero to hunt down and kill [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesWolverine Weapon X]]. Nearing the end of the film, he erases Wolverine's memory by shooting him in the forehead twice with Adamantium bullets. He also remorselessly kills a human named General Munson by stabbing him in the abdomen with an autopsy blade. In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', it's revealed that he captured Mystique and took a sample of her DNA to put into the Sentinels' programming, indirectly causing [[BadFuture the Sentinels to take over and destroy the world]]. In the first stage of the film, he tries to have mutants like Alex Summers, Toad, Spike and Ink taken away to be experimented on by Bolivar Trask. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', it's revealed that he captured Wolverine (probably against his will) and replaces all of the bones in his body with Adamantium. When Wolverine escapes his cell and starts killing everyone within his base, he tells his fellow staff members that he'll "be right back", but that turned out to be a lie when he left them all for dead. Motivated solely by xenophobia and cruelty, there's no doubting that Stryker is one of the most dangerous villains in the entire series, mutant or not.

** [[SociopathicSoldier William Stryker, Jr.]] is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. Known for his anti-mutant stance, he worked tirelessly over several decades to develop solutions to what he saw as the "mutant problem". Making his debut in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes innocent mutants]] like Kurt Wagner and Yuriko Oyama, unfortunately indirectly causing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the death of the latter]] during a fight with Wolverine, and orchestrating a failed assassination attempt on the President by making Kurt (better known as Nightcrawler) attack the White House. Midway through the film, it's revealed that he gave his son Jason a lobotomy for toying with his mind and causing his wife's suicide via a power drill to his left temple. Nearing the end of the movie, he uses Jason to manipulate Professor X into killing the entirety of mutantkind with a dark copy of Cerebro, apparently indifferent for the countless amounts of ''human'' lives he could get killed in the process as well. In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', he makes a deal with Sabretooth to give him an Adamantium skeleton if he kills former teammates Chris Bradley and John Wraith as well as kidnap other young mutants like Scott Summers and Kayla Silverfox's sister Emma in order to use their DNA to create [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesDeadpool "Weapon XI"]], as well as coercing Agent Zero to hunt down and kill [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesWolverine Weapon X]]. Nearing the end of the film, he erases Wolverine's memory by shooting him in the forehead twice with Adamantium bullets. He also remorselessly kills a human named General Munson by stabbing him in the abdomen with an autopsy blade. In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', it's revealed that he captured Mystique and took a sample of her DNA to put into the Sentinels' programming, indirectly causing [[BadFuture the Sentinels to take over and destroy the world]]. In the first stage of the film, he tries to have mutants like Alex Summers, Toad, Spike and Ink taken away to be experimented on by Bolivar Trask. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', it's revealed that he captured Wolverine (probably against his will) and replaces all of the bones in his body with Adamantium. When Wolverine escapes his cell and starts killing everyone within his base, he tells his fellow staff members that he'll "be right back", but that turned out to be a lie when he left them all for dead. Motivated solely by xenophobia, bigotry and cruelty, there's no doubting that Stryker is one of the most dangerous villains in the entire series, mutant or not.

** [[SociopathicSoldier William Stryker, Jr.]] is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. Known for his anti-mutant stance, he worked tirelessly over several decades to develop solutions to what he saw as the "mutant problem". Making his debut in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes innocent mutants]] like Kurt Wagner and Yuriko Oyama, unfortunately indirectly causing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the death of the latter]] during a fight with Wolverine, and orchestrating a failed assassination attempt on the President by making Kurt (better known as Nightcrawler) attack the White House. Midway through the film, it's revealed that he gave his son Jason a lobotomy for toying with his mind and causing his wife's suicide via a power drill to his left temple. Nearing the end of the movie, he uses Jason to manipulate Professor X into killing the entirety of mutantkind with a dark copy of Cerebro, apparently indifferent for the countless amounts of ''human'' lives he could get killed in the process as well. In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', he makes a deal with Sabretooth to give him an Adamantium skeleton if he kills former teammates Chris Bradley and John Wraith as well as kidnap other young mutants like Scott Summers and Kayla Silverfox's sister Emma in order to use their DNA to create [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesDeadpool "Weapon XI"]], as well as coercing Agent Zero to hunt down and kill [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesWolverine Weapon X]]. Nearing the end of the film, he erases Wolverine's memory by shooting him in the forehead twice with Adamantium bullets. He also remorselessly kills a human named General Munson by stabbing him in the abdomen with an autopsy blade. In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', it's revealed that he captured Mystique and took a sample of her DNA to put into the Sentinels' programming, indirectly causing [[BadFuture the Sentinels to take over and destroy the world]]. In the first stage of the film, he tries to have mutants like Alex Summers, Toad, Spike and Ink taken away to be experimented on by Bolivar Trask. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', it's revealed that he captured Wolverine (probably against his will) and replaces all of the bones in his body with Adamantium. When Wolverine escapes his cell and starts killing everyone within his base, he tells his fellow staff members that he'll "be right back", but that turned out to be a lie when he left them all for dead. Motivated solely by xenophobia, there's no doubting that Stryker is one of the most dangerous villains in the entire series, mutant or not.

** [[SociopathicSoldier William Stryker, Jr.]] is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. Known for his anti-mutant stance, he worked tirelessly over several decades to develop solutions to what he saw as the "mutant problem". Making his debut in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes innocent mutants]] like Kurt Wagner and Yuriko Oyama, unfortunately indirectly causing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the death of the latter]] during a fight with Wolverine, and orchestrating a failed assassination attempt on the President by making Kurt (better known as Nightcrawler) attack the White House. Midway through the film, it's revealed that he gave his son Jason a lobotomy for toying with his mind and causing his wife's suicide via a power drill to his left temple. Nearing the end of the movie, he uses Jason to manipulate Professor X into killing the entirety of mutantkind with a dark copy of Cerebro, apparently indifferent for the countless amounts of ''human'' lives he could get killed in the process as well. In ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', he makes a deal with Sabretooth to give him an Adamantium skeleton if he kills former teammates Chris Bradley and John Wraith as well as kidnap other young mutants like Scott Summers and Kayla Silverfox's sister Emma in order to use their DNA to create [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesDeadpool "Weapon XI"]], as well as coercing Agent Zero to hunt down and kill [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesWolverine Weapon X]]. Nearing the end of the film, he erases Wolverine's memory by shooting him in the forehead twice with Adamantium bullets. He also remorselessly kills a human named General Munson by stabbing him in the abdomen with an autopsy blade. In the ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', it's revealed that he captured Mystique and took a sample of her DNA to put into the Sentinels' programming, indirectly causing [[BadFuture the Sentinels to take over and destroy the world]]. In the first stage of the film, he tries to have mutants like Alex Summers, Toad, Spike and Ink taken away to be experimented on by Bolivar Trask. Motivated solely by xenophobia, there's no doubting that Stryker is one of the most dangerous villains in the entire series, mutant or not.

** [[SociopathicSoldier William Stryker, Jr.]] is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. Known for his anti-mutant stance, he worked tirelessly over several decades to develop solutions to what he saw as the "mutant problem". Making his debut in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashes innocent mutants]] like Kurt Wagner and Yuriko Oyama, unfortunately indirectly causing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the death of the latter]] during a fight with Wolverine, and orchestrating a failed assassination attempt on the President by making Kurt (better known as Nightcrawler) attack the White House. Midway through the film, it's revealed that he gave his son Jason a lobotomy for toying with his mind and causing his wife's suicide via a power drill to his left temple. Nearing the end of the movie, he uses Jason to manipulate Professor X into killing the entirety of mutantkind with a device called Dark Cerebro.

** [[SociopathicSoldier William Stryker, Jr.]] is a covert operations specialist and military scientist. Known for his anti-mutant stance, he worked tirelessly over several decades to develop solutions to what he saw as the "mutant problem". Making his debut in ''Film/X2'', he brainwashes several innocent mutants like Kurt Wagner and Yuriko Oyama, unfortunately indirectly causing [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the death of the latter during a fight with Wolverine]].

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Mystique in the prequel films, largely because of how they put her through AdaptationalHeroism. While some see it as an empathetic progression, others see it as a betrayal of the character's villainous legacy with some accusing the studio on trying to capitalize on Creator/JenniferLawrence's star power. It should be noted that fans were more accepting of Mystique's more heroic characterization in ''First Class'' and ''Days of Future Past'' as in the former, she ended up siding with Magneto while in the latter she served as the BigBad. It was only in ''Apocalypse'' and ''Dark Phoenix'' that fans became divided largely because of how she became a full blown hero instead of a NominalHero or sympathetic AntiVillain.