History YMMV / XMenOriginsWolverine

** Real world instance: Fans had been clamoring for Gambit to appear in ''X-Men'' films since the first one. The public response from the directors and writers was, "If we include him, we want to make him integral to the story. We're not going to just throw him in there because he's popular." Come this film, Gambit is in, fulfilling a minor role which could be handled by any character. It really seems like the studio executives just thought, "Who's a popular character we haven't used yet?"
** Also, the video game ends with Wolverine in a future with Sentinels. This happens at the end of ''Film/TheWolverine'', and ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' is about averting it.

** Wolverine's claws get red-hot due to deflecting optic blasts. Later in the comic event ''ComicBook/FearItself'' would have Wolverine's claws have a similar appearance due to being enhanced by Asgardian magic, and in ''ComicBook/ReturnOfWolverine'' he receives the ability to heat up his claws as a superpower.

* {{Narm}}: Hydrochlorothiazide is mentioned as a drug that slows down a person's heart rate. However, medical professionals would probably start laughing uncontrollably because that drug is actually used as a diuretic!

* DirectorDisplacement: In a more retroactive case, the film seems to be mostly associated with screenwriter David Benioff, mostly following the much maligned final season of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', of which Benioff was one of the showrunners, with critics of the season attributing many of the faults of the film to Benioff, though Benioff only wrote early drafts of the script and he wasn't responsible for the most negatively received aspects of the film. Regardless, Benioff seems to have supplanted Creator/GavinHood in terms of association.

* MisBlamed: In the wake of ''Series/GameOfThrones'''s finale, many people love to use this movie (and ''Film/{{Troy}}'' to a lesser extend) to show that David Benioff has always been a bad writer. The truth of the matter was that the movie was the victim of ExecutiveMeddling. The original draft by Benioff doesn't have Deadpool to begin with, and neither him or the other writer, Skip Woods, ever had the intention to make Deadpool as Weapon XI. Finally, the decision to have Deadpool's mouth sewn was from Tom Rothman, the president and CEO of Fox at the time, who hated the character.

* TheScrappy: Wade Wilson after he becomes Weapon XI, primarily due to the fact that the Merc with a Mouth gets his sewn shut. This, coupled with the InNameOnly handling of the character, did not sit well with fans, even though his fight with Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Gambit isn't terrible. [[SelfDeprecation The ''Deadpool'' movies seem to agree wholeheartedly with this.]] Oddly enough, this is one of the few cases where a character is TheScrappy and an EnsembleDarkhorse in the same work, as Wade is considered the highlight of the movie before he's transformed.

** At one point, Wade Wilson said "Thank you, sir. You look really nice today. It's the green. It brings out the seriousness in your eyes." Ryan Reynolds would later portrayed ''[[Film/GreenLantern Green]]'' [[Film/GreenLantern Lantern]], the role that he would happily mock [[SelfDeprecation along with this portrayal of Wade Wilson (well, post-transformation, anyway)]] in [[Film/{{Deadpool 2016}} his next appearance as Wade Wilson]].

* {{Narm}}: Hydrochlorothiazide is mentioned as a drug that was used to slow down the heart rate. However, medical professionals would probably start laughing uncontrollably because that drug is used as a diuretic!

* HarsherInHindsight: Agent Zero's spiteful taunt towards Wolverine ("It's funny how good, innocent people tend to die around you!") [[spoiler: ends up being a rather depressing summation of the movie ''[[Film/{{Logan}}]]''.]]

* ScapegoatCreator: An unusual instance of someone achieving this status a decade after the work was released. At the time of the film's initial release, the blame for the underwhelming quality of the end product generally tended to be placed on the executives at 20th Century Fox, as the stories of their ExecutiveMeddling in the production of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' were already widely known, and more stories about their treatment of director Gavin Hood had been circulated just before release. Following the infamously poorly-received finale of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', however, many seem to have decided that the movie's poor quality really was the fault of co-writer (and ''Game of Thrones'' co-creator) David Benioff after all, even though he only wrote the earlier drafts of the movie, which were said to be a much darker and more viscerally violent affair.

** This wouldn't be [[Film/WonderWoman2017 the last time]] that Creator/DannyHuston played a villainous military leader in a superhero origin movie.
** Speaking of villains, Creator/LievSchreiber would later play a supervillain in [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse another Marvel movie]] who also ends up [[spoiler: [[HeroKiller brutally killing a superhero]]]].

** Wolverine beats Blob in a boxing match. 2 years later, Blob and some guys beat Wolverine senseless in a film about boxing.

** Wolverine's claws get red-hot due to deflecting optic blasts. Later in the comic event ComicBook/FearItself would have Wolverine's claws have a similar appearance due to being enhanced by Asgardian magic, and in ComicBook/ReturnOfWolverine he receives the ability to heat up his claws as superpower

* {{Narm}}: Hydrochlorothiazide is mentioned as a drug that was used to slow down heart rate. However, medical professionals would probably start laughing uncontrollably because that drug is use as a diuretic!
* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: While not a ''brilliant'' game, the video game of the movie is a fun, gory hack-and-slash with well-working gameplay mechanics, plenty of fanservice, and expanded plot points. In fact, the game seems to be more well-received than the movie it's based off of! (As the developers worked on the also-very-well-received ''VideoGame/XMenLegends'', ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'', the two most recent titles in the ''Star Wars VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'' and ''Franchise/StarTrek: Elite Force'', this may not actually be surprising.) Ironically, the story of the game works rather well when it's ''not'' trying to follow the plot of the movie. Interestingly, it also ends on a cliffhanger/possible sequel hook that is completely unrelated to the film's plot. Ironically, though, it sets up ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' fairly well except for the future ContinuitySnarl that is Trask.

** Creator/LievSchreiber's take on Sabretooth has also been received well, mainly due to [[AxCrazy having the personality down]] and being [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct genuinely terrifying]].

* FridgeBrilliance: The previous X-Men films established that head injuries (blunt impacts or gunshots) ''will'' knock Logan out, while Logan easily shrugs off a headshot from Agent Zero. Considering ''Film/{{Logan}}'' establishes that his healing factor was deteriorating due to the Adamantium, it makes sense for Logan to be immune to such injuries during a period where he hasn't been bonded to the metal for too long yet.

* {{Misblamed}}: In the wake of ''Series/GameOfThrones'''s finale, many people love to use this movie (and ''Film/{{Troy}}'' to a lesser extend) to show that David Benioff has always been a bad writer. The truth of the matter was that the movie was the victim of ExecutiveMeddling. The original draft by Benioff doesn't have Deadpool to begin with, and neither him or the other writer, Skip Woods, ever had the intention to make Deadpool as Weapon XI. Finally, the decision to have Deadpool's mouth sewn was from Tom Rothman, the president and CEO of Fox at the time, who hated the character.

** Wade Wilson[=/=]Deadpool. After getting the chance to display a weary snarky persona, he's taken out of the film until the climax, where we see that Stryker has basically turned him into an HumanoidAbomination. His mouth being sown shut essentially robbing him of the sole trait he had in the movie. [[SubvertedTrope Thankfully, he later got his own highly-beloved movies that showcase the character's best aspects perfectly.]]

* NeverLiveItDown: The movie's treatment of Deadpool by [[InNameOnly infamously throwing out nearly everything that made the character what he is]]. Though two [[Film/Deadpool2016 far more accurate]] [[Film/Deadpool2 solo films]] were later released, some people are still shooting daggers at Fox for treating him the way they did here in the first place. In fact, several of those daggers [[BitingTheHandHumor come from the Deadpool movies themselves]] (particularly the advertising).

** Plenty of reviews claim that basically, the only reason to watch the film is because it has [[WolverinePublicity Wolverine]] kicking ass.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Just about everyone did this. Creator/RyanReynolds and will.i.am in particular stand out, making the most of their roles as Wade Wilson and John Wraith respectively. Reynolds's performance even got him his own, much better-received spinoff franchise.

* ContestedSequel: For many, it is a {{Narm}}-fest which flies in the face of the other movies' continuity (particularly rewriting a lot of back story from ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', the franchise's peak until ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''), ruins both ComicBook/{{Gambit}} and SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} among other characters, allows a lot of characters to make stupid decisions in the name of advancing the plot, and all for the sake of making another movie centered on Wolverine when the first three were essentially his show, anyway. There are also a number of fans who felt that the film was simply a poor rendering of Wolverine's origins that did not capture the true horror and brutality of what the Weapon X program did to him. For others, the continuity wasn't all that important, Sabretooth was finally given his due with some decent character development, the incorporation of some new mutants was interesting, and the whole thing is a fun action film.

* FandomEnragingMisconception: Do ''not'' refer to post-transformed Wade Wilson as SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}. His official codename is '''Weapon XI''' - at ''best'' "[[FanNickname Dudepeel]]" or "[[Franchise/MortalKombat Barakapool]]".

** At one point, Wade Wilson said "Thank you, sir. You look really nice today. It's the green. It brings out the seriousness in your eyes." Ryan Reynolds would later portrayed ''[[Film/GreenLantern Green]]'' [[Film/GreenLantern Lantern]], the role that he would happily mock [[SelfDeprecation (along with this portrayal of Wade Wilson (well, post-transformation, anyway)]] in [[Film/{{Deadpool 2016}} his next appearance as Wade Wilson]].

* TheScrappy: Wade Wilson after he becomes Weapon XI, primarily due to the fact that the Merc with a Mouth gets his sewn shut. This, coupled with the InNameOnly handling of the character, did not sit well with fans, even though his fight with Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Gambit isn't terrible. [[SelfDeprication The ''Deadpool'' movies seem to agree wholeheartedly with this.]] Oddly enough, this is one of the few cases where a character is TheScrappy and an EnsembleDarkhorse in the same work, as Wade is considered the highlight of the movie before he's transformed.

* TheScrappy: Wade Wilson after he becomes Weapon XI, primarily due to the fact that the Merc with a Mouth gets his sewn shut. This, coupled with the InNameOnly handling of the character, did not sit well with fans, even though his fight with Wolverine, Sabretooth, and Gambit isn't terrible. Oddly enough, this is one of the few cases where a character is TheScrappy and an EnsembleDarkhorse in the same work, as Wade is considered the highlight of the movie before he's transformed.

** Speaking of which, in regards to Weapon XI, while it's almost a universal opinion that he's possibly the worst adaptation of a comic character to date, a fair few fans thought he could have been interesting ''if'' he was an entirely original character without the name "Deadpool" slapped onto him. [[SelfDeprication The ''Deadpool'' movies themselves seem to agree wholeheartedly.]]

* FandomEnragingMisconception: Do ''not'' refer to post-transformed Wade Wilson as SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}. His official codename is '''Weapon XI''' - at ''best'' "[[FanNickname Dudepeel]]" or "[[FanNickname Barakapool]]".

** Many viewers were looking forward to the movie just for having the first live-action version of Deadpool. They... changed their mind when the movie came out.

** Wade Wilson defeating a room full of mooks with just his swords.

** Wade Wilson[=/=]Deadpool. After getting the chance to display a weary snarky persona, he's taken out of the film until the climax, where we see that Stryker has basically turned him into an HumanoidAbomination. His mouth being sown shut essentially robbing him of the sole trait he had in the movie.
** Speaking of which, in regards to Weapon XI, while it's almost a universal opinion that he's possibly the worst adaptation of a comic character to date, a fair few fans thought he could have been interesting ''if'' he was an entirely original character without the name "Deadpool" slapped onto him.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Just about everyone did this. Creator/RyanReynolds and will.i.am in particular stand out, making the most of their roles as Wade Wilson and John Wraith respectively.

* CharacterRerailment: In the comics, Comicbook/{{Gambit}}'s characterization had been changed to a [[{{Angst}} self-loathing]] [[TheAtoner Atoner]] desperate to punish himself for his (morally blameless) role in the Morlock Massacre. This movie, however, reaches back to the character's roots and shows him as a competent, charming, handsome, and relatively low-angst [[TheGambler card-sharp]] who won a CoolPlane in a poker game.
* ContestedSequel: For many, it is a {{Narm}}-fest which flies in the face of the other movies' continuity (particularly rewriting a lot of back story from ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', the franchise's peak until ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''), ruins both Comicbook/{{Gambit}} and SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} among other characters, allows a lot of characters to make stupid decisions in the name of advancing the plot, and all for the sake of making another movie centered on Wolverine when the first three were essentially his show, anyway. There are also a number of fans who felt that the film was simply a poor rendering of Wolverine's origins that did not capture the true horror and brutality of what the Weapon X program did to him. For others, the continuity wasn't all that important, Sabretooth was finally given his due with some decent character development, the incorporation of some new mutants was interesting, and the whole thing is a fun action film.

** Wade Wilson, pre-experiment. Critics and fans pretty much unanimously praised Creator/RyanReynolds as Wade, and it was what gained Reynolds a shot in [[Film/{{Deadpool 2016}} the character's solo film]] which was not only TruerToTheText regarding the character, but also a smash hit with audiences and critics alike.

* FandomEnragingMisconception: Do ''not'' refer to post-transformed Wade Wilson as SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}}. His official codename is '''Weapon XI''' - at ''best'' "[[FanNickname Dudepeel]]".

** Wade Wilson, pre-experiment. Critics and fans pretty much unanimously praised Creator/RyanReynolds as Wade, and it was what gained Reynolds a shot in [[Film/{{Deadpool 2016}} the character's solo film]] and a [[Film/Deadpool2 sequel]].
** Despite his short amount of screentime and differences with the character, Taylor Kitsch's portrayal of Gambit was well received. Kitsch himself requested on countless occasions to be cast again in any other ''X-Men'' film, but he wasn't brought back for the oncoming movies, which will feature Channing Tatum. [[DevelopmentHell Supposedly]].