| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xmen_2_poster_2675.jpg]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine The evolution continues.]]'']] |
| 3 | ->''"Mutants. Since their discovery, they have been regarded with fear, suspicion, often hatred. Across the planet, debate rages: Are mutants the next link in the evolutionary chain, or simply a new species of humanity, fighting for their share of the world? Either way, it is an historical fact: Sharing the world has never been humanity's defining attribute."'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''[[ComicBook/ProfessorX Charles Xavier / Professor X]]''' |
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| 6 | The second movie in the ''Franchise/XMenFilmSeries'' after ''Film/XMen1'', ''X2: X-Men United'' (sometimes promoted as just ''X2'') involves mutants who are being mind-controlled somehow, starting with Nightcrawler attempting to assassinate the President; government operatives then kidnap Cyclops and Professor X. |
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| 8 | The X-Men investigate and find out that the two are related: the soldiers are under the command of Col. William Stryker (Creator/BrianCox), who is using a mutant to project false images into other mutants' minds. By brain-washing Professor X into [[TimTaylorTechnology overpowering]] the [[AppliedPhlebotinum "Cerebro" telepathy machine]], he intends to kill all currently-living mutants. Magneto and his Brotherhood Of Mutants ally with the X-Men to stop this from happening (hence the subtitle of the movie: "X2: X-Men United"). Meanwhile, Wolverine delves into his past involvement with the "Weapon X" project, which (of course) Stryker was in charge of. |
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| 10 | Not to be confused with the series of sci-fi videogames by the name ''X'', whose second entry is entitled ''X2''. |
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| 12 | Followed by ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''. |
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| 14 | !!''X2: X-Men United'' contains examples of: |
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| 18 | [[folder: A - H]] |
| 19 | * AbusiveParents: William Stryker lobotomized his mutant son Jason and reduced him to a wheelchair-bound source of mind control serum. He even stops referring to his son by name, calling him "Mutant 143." Xavier is horrified that William would do this to his own son, but William claims that [[IHaveNoSon his son is already dead]], just like the rest of mutantkind. |
| 20 | * ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Bobby Drake's strained relationship with his family after he reveals to them that he's a mutant provides some dramatic heft to the story. |
| 21 | * ActionizedSequel: ''Film/XMen1'' had a few fight scenes, but much of the screen time was devoted to explaining mutants and setting up the character relationships. This film, however, had several fight scenes and let Wolverine really cut loose. |
| 22 | * ActionPrologue: The film opens up with a prolonged action scene where Nightcrawler defeats all security forces within the White House all by himself. |
| 23 | * ActorAllusion: Creator/BrianCox is responsible for creating an amnesiac killing machine, something he also did in ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight''. He also is implied to [[spoiler: drown when the dam collapses. In the latter film his character is last seen dead underwater]]. |
| 24 | * AdaptationalNationality: |
| 25 | ** The Australian Saint-John (pronounced "SIN-jin" in Commonwealth countries) Allerdyce from the comics has been adapted to an American without the "Saint" in his given name. |
| 26 | ** Colossus also appears to have gone from Russian to American. |
| 27 | * AdaptationalSuperPowerChange: In the comics, Nightcrawler teleports to the Hell dimension (where his Dad is from) then back to the world in the location he wants to be. In this movie, he pretty clearly dissolves into particles that relocate and then reform into him. |
| 28 | * AerialCanyonChase: Lacking a conveniently placed canyon with which to perform this, Storm uses her weather manipulating powers to create one from tornadoes, giving the X-Men a chance to escape. It has the added benefit of making sure the inevitable crashes aren't actually fatal for their pursuers, but also the downside of allowing a clean missile lock. |
| 29 | * AlasPoorVillain: |
| 30 | ** Halfway through [[spoiler:her death scene, the mind-control serum wears off and Deathstrike is allowed a few tragic seconds of clarity to realize where she is and what's happened to her; the look on her face says it all]]. |
| 31 | ** Just before getting out of [[spoiler:the second Cerebro]], Xavier looks sadly at [[spoiler:the lobotomised Jason]], clearly regretting the way the boy ended up. |
| 32 | * TheAllSolvingHammer: Magneto accuses Wolverine of this mentality when discussing how to work the spillway mechanism. |
| 33 | -->'''Magneto''': What do you intend to do? Scratch it with your claws? |
| 34 | * AllThereInTheScript: The movie never namedrops "Lady Deathstrike," although she is called Yuriko and she's still called Deathstrike in the promotional material. |
| 35 | * AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Colonel Stryker's forces take over the X-Men mansion. |
| 36 | * AmnesiacDissonance: Stryker claims that he and Wolverine were partners before Wolverine lost his memory. |
| 37 | -->'''Stryker''': You were always an animal, Wolverine. I just gave you claws. |
| 38 | * AndIMustScream: Stryker's mind control serum makes the victim obedient, but their real self is still in there, fully aware and incapable of controlling their own body. Look at the sheer ''horror'' on Deathstrike's face when the serum controlling her briefly wears off. Particularly when she looks at her hands and remembers the pain of being bonded with adamantium, likely because she was being controlled during that, as well. Scott similarly tells Jean he couldn't stop himself from trying to kill her. Or the way Magneto painfully tells Charles that Striker made Magneto tell him "everything" about Charles and the school. |
| 39 | * ArtisticLicenceBiology: |
| 40 | ** When discussing the mutant gene, Pyro says that it is passed on by males. If the gene was on the Y chromosome, then there would be no female mutants. Then again, no one states the mutant gene is specifically in the Y chromosome. John isn't exactly studious, though, so this can be HandWaved as him making up a lie just to irritate Mr. Drake. |
| 41 | ** The iron injected into the prison guard wouldn't have gone unnoticed, least of all by the guard himself. Iron infusions have a high risk of anaphylactic shock, so the amount of iron Mystique injects should have produced near instant symptoms, followed by death. Also, the body tends to bind iron with other substances in the body, and once that happens, it becomes so unmagnetic that if Magneto was powerful enough to remove it, he wouldn't actually need it as the plastic of his prison would be more magnetic. |
| 42 | * ArtisticLicenseMilitary: During the dogfight scene, the Air Force F-16 pilots order the X-Men to divert their plane to Hanscom Air Force Base. Hanscom Air Force Base is a non-flying base that doesn't have a runway. Planes use nearby Hanscom Field, which is a civilian air port. Plus, the military pilots fire their missiles at the X-Men's plane. Military pilots ''cannot'' fire their weapons over the territory of the United States without express permission from the President. This happens so often in fiction it practically deserves its own separate trope. |
| 43 | * AscendedExtra: Bobby gets more screen time and a small arc in this compared to the previous film. Ditto for Pyro, who was a literal extra in this and now has an expanded role. |
| 44 | * AssholeVictim: Mitchell Laurio. He's a thug who's shown to enjoy beating up an old man stripped of any powers that would allow him to fight back, so no one minds too much when Mystique sets him up for a death allowing Magneto to escape. |
| 45 | * AsYouKnow: Stryker lectures Wolverine about the handling of adamantium only to add that Wolverine knows that already. |
| 46 | -->'''Striker''': The tricky thing about adamantium is that if you ever manage to process its raw, liquid form, you gotta keep it that way. Keep it hot. Because once the metal cools, it's indestructible. But you already know that. |
| 47 | * [[AuthorVocabularyCalendar Director Vocabulary Calendar]]: For a laugh, watch the director's commentary some time and [[DrinkingGame take a swig]] each time Bryan says "ultimately." If you make it all the way through, your liver will never recover. |
| 48 | * BadassBystander: One of the random kids at the school turns out to be Siryn. When the spooks invade the school, she starts [[SuperScream screaming and everyone in the entire building starts bleeding from the ears]]. Likewise when the soldiers first attack, Shadowcat is shown [[{{Intangibility}} phasing]] through her bed and the wall to quickly escape the soldiers on her own. |
| 49 | * BadassTeacher: |
| 50 | ** At the end of ''Film/XMen1'', Magneto asks Xavier what happens when someone finds out about his mutant school, and Xavier replies that he has a great deal of pity for anyone who comes to the school looking for trouble. In this movie, he's proven right, when Wolverine kills a lot of black ops soldiers very efficiently and violently, plus Colossus hits a couple. |
| 51 | ** Although Professor X was probably referring to ''[[BewareTheNiceOnes himself]]'', since Stryker's forces only attacked when they knew that Xavier wasn't there, having incapacitated him ''first''. Xavier also claims that if he wanted to, he could make Wolverine spend the rest of his life believing he was a "[[BrainwashedAndCrazy six-year-old girl with pigtails]]," simply for ignoring his rules about ''[[FelonyMisdemeanor no smoking]]'' in the mansion! He was joking that time, but imagine the carnage Xavier could cause if he ever got downright ''[[GoodIsNotNice furious]]''?! [[note]]Look up Onslaught[[/note]]. |
| 52 | * BaitTheDog: Magneto and the Brotherhood team up with the X-Men in an EnemyMine battle against a racist, genocidal military colonel. Magneto's more or less leading a rescue mission to save Professor Xavier, and the two teams fight together so well (the movie's even subtitled "X-Men United") that you can't help but cheer him on and start to wonder if, all things considered, he's really such a bad guy. And then he proceeds to remind the audience that yes, he really is a villain, when [[spoiler:instead of rescuing him, he tries to use the captive, brainwashed Xavier to kill every ''non-mutant'' on Earth]]. |
| 53 | * BeamOWar: Jean Grey used the shield variation against Cyclops' eye beams while he is mind-controlled. This is used to show how much stronger Jean Grey is here than she was in the first film. |
| 54 | * BeardOfEvil: |
| 55 | ** William Stryker has the classic villainous goatee. |
| 56 | ** Mitchell Laurio may be more on the 'asshole' side rather than the 'genocidal' side, but there's no denying he's an unshaven sadist. |
| 57 | * BedTrick: Mystique shape shifts into Jean Grey in an attempt to sleep with Logan. One could probably say it was subverted, since Logan found out pretty much in the first minute when he felt a scar he previously had left on Mystique. The novelization claims he identified her by scent before she even entered his tent, but he played along until he got bored/annoyed/angry, it's not especially clear which. |
| 58 | * BeepingComputers: Lots of beeping sounds can be heard when Mystique breaks into Stryker's office and skims through the documents on his computer. |
| 59 | * BeneathNotice: Mystique disguises herself as a janitor. In fairness, it was the building's ''actual'' janitor. People could have easily mistaken her for the janitor they knew, although it does cause the real one to do a DoubleTake when he sees her. |
| 60 | * BigBad: Colonel William Stryker, who subjects Magneto to ColdBloodedTorture and learns about Xavier and the Cerebro in the process. He then orchestrates a terrorist attack on the White House to induce mutant-hating hysteria on the country leaders, securing himself funds to create a duplicate of the Cerebro, which he intends to use to wipe out every mutant in the world. Ironically,[[spoiler:in the final act, Magneto [[HijackedByGanon hijacks and alters Stryker's machine]] to propel his own ideal of eradicating mankind]]. |
| 61 | * BigDamnHeroes: |
| 62 | ** When Rogue and Bobby are cornered by two members of the SWAT team, Wolverine comes in flying and helps them escape the school. |
| 63 | ** [[spoiler: Magneto]], of all people, when the Blackbird is about to crash into the forest. |
| 64 | ** When our heroes need to get away from the bursting damn but the helicopter is gone, Rogue gets her big entrance as she pilots the Blackbird into view to pick up the team. |
| 65 | * BilingualBonus: Kurt occasionally lapses into his native German. |
| 66 | * BlatantLies: Bobby Drake presents Wolverine to his parents (who think he's been attending a normal prep school) as "Professor Logan." This in itself is borderline, but when the Drakes ask Wolverine what he teaches, he replies tersely, "Art." The trailers for the film played this to maximum effect by intercutting the question and the response with a shot of Logan, claws extended, screaming and leaping towards the camera. Also on the part of the trigger-happy cops who claim they don't want to hurt the mutants right after ''shooting Wolverine in the head''. |
| 67 | * BlessedWithSuck: Jones can change television channels by blinking, but he never sleeps. |
| 68 | * BloodIron: Magneto escapes his prison by ripping the iron out of a guard's blood and fashioning it into a couple of pellets. Most of it is an iron solution Mystique injected into the guy earlier, but some would have been his own. |
| 69 | * BloodlessCarnage: This is in full force, where Wolverine slashes, impales, and generally slaughters about a dozen of Stryker's soldiers storming the school, with not a single drop of blood spilled. |
| 70 | * BloodstainedGlassWindows: Storm and Jean have a brief fight with Nightcrawler in a cathedral. |
| 71 | * BloodyMurder: Mystique smuggles metal into the government's plastic prison (where Magneto is being held) by injecting a security guard with some sort of iron-rich solution. |
| 72 | * BluntNo: When Mystique reveals that a large portion of the energy from Alkali Lake's dam is being sent to Stryker's version of Cerebro, Storm asks if she can shut it down from where the group currently is. Mystique curtly replies '''''"No,"''''' staring into the camera with an 'I'm surrounded by idiots' look. [[note]] In the DVD commentary, the creators of the film said they included that moment specifically to forestall any viewers or critics questioning ''why'' the characters can't just turn this version of Cerebro off, while delighting in how acidic Mystique is with that one word.[[/note]] |
| 73 | * BondOneLiner: Magneto when he kills [[FatBastard Mitchell Laurio]]. |
| 74 | -->'''Magneto''': Mr. Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman, ''especially'' one who's interested in ''you''. |
| 75 | * BookcasePassage: Xavier's School for the Gifted is shown to have secret passages hidden along the hallways. |
| 76 | * {{Bookends}}: Closes with Jean Grey (in narration) giving the same spiel about evolution that Professor X narrates over the opening of the first film. |
| 77 | * BrainBleach: William Stryker reveals that his wife drilled a hole in her temple to 'bore out' the illusions projected by their son, Jason. |
| 78 | * {{Brainwashed}}: |
| 79 | ** Lady Deathstrike is mind-controlled by Stryker and [[spoiler:she comes out of it for a brief moment only for Stryker to forcibly reapply another dose of mind-control]]. |
| 80 | ** Nightcrawler is also brainwashed by Stryker. |
| 81 | ** [[spoiler: Cyclops]] is also brainwashed and attacks Jean during the climax. |
| 82 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: |
| 83 | ** Done to Nightcrawler with a mind-control serum in to make him kill/try to kill the President (it's not clear if he was meant to succeed or die in the attempt). He snaps out of it and escapes when a bodyguard shoots him. This is also done to [[spoiler:Cyclops]] later in the movie and had already been done to Deathstryke. |
| 84 | ** Also [[spoiler:Charles Xavier]], by William Stryker's mutant son Jason, who is himself Lobotomized and Crazy. |
| 85 | * BreakingOutTheBoss: Mystique plays a critical role in breaking Magneto out of his [[TailorMadePrison plastic prison]], by injecting iron into the bloodstream of one of the security guards so that he can kill the guard by extracting it from him and use it both as a weapon and a transportation method. |
| 86 | * BrickJoke: |
| 87 | ** When Logan volunteers to open the doors to Stryker's base, Magneto says "What are you going to do, scratch [the controls] with your claws?" This is exactly how he closes the floodgates at the end. |
| 88 | ** Near the beginning of the movie, we are introduced to one of Xavier's students, Artie, whose only apparent mutation is that he has a blue forked tongue. For most of the movie, Artie is just another of the students, until near the end when he and Wolverine get separated from the others during the escape from Alkali Lake. Artie is consequently present for Wolverine's final confrontation with Stryker, and crowns Wolverine's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by sticking his tongue out at him. |
| 89 | * CallBack: When the mutants are flying to Alkali Lake, Magneto and Mystique sarcastically say that they like the white parts of Rogue's hair. Those parts were turned white by Magneto's machine during the climax of the first X-Men movie. |
| 90 | * CampingACrapper: One of Magneto's guards is seduced, drugged, and injected with iron in a toilet stall. This leads to his death when Magneto extracts the metal from his veins. Ouch. |
| 91 | * CantHaveSexEver: Multiple characters point out the inherent problems faced by Iceman and Rogue. |
| 92 | * CaptainObvious: Stryker and a mook at the dam base. |
| 93 | -->'''Stryker:''' Can you override the spillway mechanism?\ |
| 94 | '''Mook:''' Everything's controlled from inside that room. That's why the doors are so thick.\ |
| 95 | '''Stryker:''' [[SarcasmMode Oh?! Really?!]] |
| 96 | ** Bonus points because Stryker had built the damn base, and has worked there longer than that Mook, probably all his current Mooks. |
| 97 | * CastingGag: Two voice actors from ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' (which was airing at the time) cameo in the movie. David Kaye, who voices Xavier, appears as a TV announcer. Chiara Zanni, who voices Jubilee, is the tour guide in the White House. |
| 98 | * CatapultNightmare: Logan [[TroubledBackstoryFlashback dreams of his past]]. |
| 99 | * CatchphraseInterruptus: Nightcrawler repeatedly tries to introduce himself to people by saying "My name is Kurt Wagner, but in the Munich Circus I was known as the Incredible Nightcrawler," but always gets cut off before he can finish. |
| 100 | * ChainedToARock: Magneto chains Colonel Stryker to a concrete slab, where he is later smashed by a wall of water from a shattered dam. |
| 101 | * CharacterTics: Pyro has a compulsive need to open and close his lighter. His habit irritates Mrs. Drake. |
| 102 | * CircusBrat: Nightcrawler spent most of his life with the Munich circus before he was kidnapped by Colonel Stryker. |
| 103 | * ClashOfEvolutionaryLevels: {{Subverted}} in dialogue, where the [[ShownTheirWork "Cro-Magnon exterminated Neanderthal" theory is mentioned as having been discredited.]] In the actual film, the trope is played straight as a board. |
| 104 | * CollapsingLair: Striker's ElaborateUndergroundBase where he conducted experiments on mutants gets destroyed when the damn burst, as a result of Phoenix causing Jean's telekinetic powers to go overboard while she's trying to defend herself from a brainwashed Cyclop, causing her to launch a kinetic wave that shook the entire base and fractured the dam. |
| 105 | * ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Subverted during a conversation between Magneto and Pyro. |
| 106 | -->'''Magneto:''' What's your name?\ |
| 107 | '''Pyro:''' ''[with slight hesitance]'' "John."\ |
| 108 | '''Magneto:''' What's your real name, John?\ |
| 109 | '''Pyro:''' ''[grabs a small amount of fire from the lighter Magneto is holding and lets the fire rest in his hand]'' "Pyro." |
| 110 | * ComingOutStory: Referenced when Mrs. Drake asks her son Bobby, "Have you tried... NOT being a mutant?" Bobby's mother is played as the main "mutant-phobe" in this scene, saying things to Bobby that are now probably thought of as cliché--telling Bobby that the family still loves him, asking him when he first knew he was a mutant, referring to her son's gifts as "this [complicated] mutant problem" ([[GayAesop to which Logan defensively replies, "What mutant problem?"]]), and basically being extremely uncomfortable with Bobby's confession. All in all, if you replace "mutant" with "homosexual" in the context of this scene, it still makes sense. This concept has now spawned [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster its own trope.]] See also GayAesop below. |
| 111 | * CommonalityConnection: Bobby and Logan have a little chat about their inability to be close to the woman they have strong feelings for. |
| 112 | * CompartmentShot: A shot from inside the fridge opened by Wolverine at Bobby parents' house. |
| 113 | * ConfrontingYourImposter: Mystique does something similar to this with Lady Deathstrike and an office janitor [[spoiler:though she doesn't say anything to the real janitor when she passes him]]. She later [[spoiler:tries posing as Wolverine to infiltrate Stryker's base. But if there's one thing Stryker knows, it's his own work, and he isn't fooled.]] |
| 114 | * ConspicuousTrenchcoat: Nightcrawler uses a trenchcoat, cap and dark glasses to sneak into the White House. Remember, your taxpayer dollars (assuming you live in the United States) go to the guys whose job it is to stop suspicious threats like this. Although it does help that he can, ya know, teleport past any checkpoint. |
| 115 | * ContinuityCameo: |
| 116 | ** ComicBook/{{Beast|Marvel Comics}} making a hairless appearance. |
| 117 | ** Even more subtle than a brief cameo, in the second movie the real names of several mutants, including Gambit, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, were briefly seen on a computer screen as being some of the prisoners in a mutant prison. Three, Gambit, Banshee and Quicksilver, wound up appearing later (or rather, [[{{Prequel}} earlier]]) in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. The names of the five core [[Film/TheNewMutants New Mutants]] (Danielle Moonstar, Roberto da Costa, Rahne Sinclair, Sam Guthrie, and Illyana Rasputin) as well as [[Film/Deadpool2016 Wade Wilson]] also appear. |
| 118 | * ContrivedCoincidence: |
| 119 | ** Stryker's forces attack the mansion on the night when all the teachers are away ''but'' Logan happens to have returned from his travels. |
| 120 | ** Storm and Jean go to Boston to collect Kurt; later on, when Logan, Rogue, Bobby and Pyro are on the run, Bobby reveals his parents live in Boston and they head for the house to regroup. |
| 121 | ** Magneto and Mystique ''just so happen'' to be in the same area where the X-Jet nearly crashes, so that Magneto can save it. |
| 122 | * ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Played with somewhat, when Jean Grey starts to lose control of her psychic abilities. Apparently she can usually tune out the garbage and focus on the particular thoughts she's looking for, but when her [[PowerIncontinence powers start to malfunction]], she hears ''every thought of every person'' in the very crowded museum she's in. This gives her a headache, which causes her to involuntarily short out all the TV screens around her. |
| 123 | * CouldHaveBeenMessy: |
| 124 | ** Pyro fails to actually kill the cops, and Wolverine manages to avoid stabbing any humans unless they invade his home. Cue cheering when he is finally given an "acceptable" target. |
| 125 | ** Even when Stryker's men invade the school, Wolverine stabs about 10 dudes full in the chest with both blades, yet somehow spills ''no blood whatsoever.'' |
| 126 | * CreatorCameo: |
| 127 | ** Both director Creator/BryanSinger and cinematographer Newton Thomas Siegel appear as guards in Magneto's prison. Singer gets his own pic, uniform and all, while the rest are given stock male photos. He also wheels the professor into the cell. The other security guards for Magneto's prison are all named after production staff. |
| 128 | ** Screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris also appear as surgeons on Wolverine's flashback. |
| 129 | * CreepyChild: Jason Stryker, the son of Col. William Stryker, is a mutant with illusionist and mind probing powers who has been lobotomized by his father so that he follows his every word. When he tries to fool Charles Xavier into using Cerebro for him and Stryker, he creates a scenario in which he is represented as a young, slightly creepy girl who asks Xavier to look for all the mutants. The only thing letting on that they are one and the same is that they both share the same [[MadEye asymmetrical eyes]]. |
| 130 | * CreepyGood: Nightcrawler attacks the white house and looks like a blue version of the stereotypical BigRedDevil, but his violence is the result of brainwashing and he's actually a noble, virtuous man. |
| 131 | * CrushingHandshake: |
| 132 | ** Iceman does this to Wolverine by freezing the older mutant's hand when Rogue introduces them. Bobby is aware that Rogue has a crush on Logan, so he wanted to subtly assert his position as her boyfriend. |
| 133 | ** Deathstrike also does this to Senator Kelly/Mystique seemingly without meaning to. It's another hint that she's more than meets the eye. Kelly/Mystique even comment with "quite a grip" and he/she is rubbing their hand for a few moments as the scene continues. |
| 134 | * CurbStompBattle: Nightcrawler vs. The entire detail charged with protecting the U.S. President. Not through strength but his agility and teleportation power allows him to hit-and-run his way through every single agent, unarmed and unharmed until the very last minute. |
| 135 | * CuttingBackToReality: Used frequently during Charles Xavier's interactions with Jason Stryker: in the first demonstration of Jason's power, for example, Charles finds himself back at the mansion, standing happily at his desk... and then the background flickers ever-so-slightly. Cut to the real world, where Charles immediately yells at Jason to stop it. However, on the second attempt, the illusionist manages to fool Charles into believing in the scenario he's been presented with; as a result, the cuts back to reality from this point onwards are from Jason's perspective. |
| 136 | * DarkIsNotEvil: Nightcrawler looks like a dark blue demon but is strongly religious and helps the good guys. |
| 137 | * DeadpanSnarker: Most of Magneto's scenes involve him saying something sarcastic. |
| 138 | ** When breaking out of prison: |
| 139 | --->'''Magneto''': (after draining one of his guards of all the iron in his body) Mr. Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman, ''especially'' one who's interested in ''[[{{Jerkass}} you]]''. |
| 140 | ** And again when keeping the Blackbird from crashing: |
| 141 | --->'''Magneto''': (to Mystique) When will these people learn how to fly? |
| 142 | * DeathOfTheHypotenuse: In this case: death of the ''Cathetus''. [[spoiler:The LoveTriangle between Jean, Cyclops and Wolverine gets untangled when Jean dies.]] |
| 143 | * DemotedToExtra: Cyclops is captured fairly early on and doesn't come back until the end. |
| 144 | * DestroyTheSecurityCamera: Stryker yells for his team to "take out these cameras!" after Mystique gets into his control room and turns them against him. |
| 145 | * DisappointedInYou: Xavier is disgruntled by Pyro's mischief at the museum. |
| 146 | -->'''Professor X''': The next time you feel like showing off, ''don't''. |
| 147 | * DistressedDude: The X-Men have to rescue Professor X from Colonel Stryker's clutches. |
| 148 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Bobby "comes out" with his mutant powers to his parents, who respond, [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster "Have you tried ''not'' being a mutant?"]] Director Creator/BryanSinger is bisexual and actor Creator/IanMcKellen is gay, and they assisted in writing this scene, basing it on a "coming out" conversation. |
| 149 | * TheDogBitesBack: Magneto to Stryker when he finally gets a chance to get some payback for his treatment in prison. An earlier script was going to have Magneto kill Stryker (which would be more in character) and the X-Men find Stryker's body when they escaped from the facility--but that was changed for the sake of letting Wolverine have one last conversation with Stryker. And honestly, Magneto probably took quite a lot of enjoyment in leaving Stryker chained up to wait for death. |
| 150 | * DoNotTouchTheFunnelCloud: Storm calls down several tornadoes to get rid of some pesky jetfighters trailing the Blackbird. |
| 151 | * DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Mystique attempts to do this to Wolverine by shifting to look like Jean. She's on top of him and they're shedding clothes before he realizes who she truly is. Plays on AllMenArePerverts when she proceeds to turn herself into Storm and Rogue, suggesting one of them might be what he "really wants." It's not quite so bad in the novelization, when Wolverine knows it's Mystique the entire time but chooses to play along for a while. |
| 152 | * TheDragon: |
| 153 | ** Mystique is Magneto's primary dragon. |
| 154 | ** Lady Deathstrike is the dragon of William Stryker. |
| 155 | * DramaticNecklaceRemoval: Played straight at the end with Wolverine's dogtags. |
| 156 | * DyingAsYourself: Lady Deathstryke who is kept under the control of the villain by use of a formula which periodically has to be renewed; as indicated by her eyes changing color. Under his control she has a fight to the death with Wolverine which ends when he runs her through--moments before the formula wears off. We see her eyes change and she looks at him before dying. |
| 157 | * EarlyBirdCameo: Dr. Henry [=McCoy=] A.K.A Beast appears briefly on TV in the bar. |
| 158 | * EasilyForgiven: Averted. When Magneto and Mystique [[EnemyMine team up with the X-Men]] to stop Stryker from killing every mutant in the world, Rogue must be restrained from using her powers on Magneto, who tried to kill her in [[Film/XMen1 the first movie.]] |
| 159 | * ElaborateUndergroundBase: The underground base becomes a plot element when the SpySatellites actually detect the CoolShip in its hangar underneath the Mutant Academy. William Stryker uses this evidence to convince the President to okay a commando strike on the school, secretly to further his plan to wipe out all mutantkind. Stryker's also got an Elaborate Underground Base of his own. |
| 160 | * ElementalAbsorption: Rogue absorbs Pyro's powers and uses them to put out the fires he had created, though she doesn't directly absorb the fire. |
| 161 | * EnemyMine: The entire point of the film: the X-Men team up with Magneto and Mystique to stop a human villain from killing all mutants. [[spoiler: Right up until Magneto and Mystique decide to invert the attack and have all the non-Mutants killed instead.]] |
| 162 | * EnfantTerrible: Jason Stryker was one. It's revealed that he used his powers to torment his parents, eventually driving his mother to kill herself over it. |
| 163 | * EpicFail: Yuriko finds a janitor inside an office with vital information that requires her own fingerprints to enter, but she lets him out without too much fuss. Surprise, he was actually an enemy agent, and now he has the location of Magneto's cell! |
| 164 | * EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler: Magneto, who, right after saving the mutants of the world, can't resist seizing the opportunity to use Stryker's technique against humanity.]] |
| 165 | * EvilCripple: Jason Stryker {{Mind Rape}}d his parents so severely that his mother took a power drill to her temple to get the images out. He was experimented on by his father, a mutant-phobe, and turned into a living LotusEaterMachine in a wheelchair in contrast to Charles Xavier, who is with the good guys. While Jason's condition is portrayed sympathetically, but his appearance is definitely intended to be creepy, and both his past actions and some of his present demeanor are definitely evil. |
| 166 | * ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy: Pyro explains how his powers work to Magneto. That's right, tell the guy who controls magnetism that you're useless without your metal lighter. [[spoiler:He does switch sides later on]], but it still is pretty stupid to tell ''anyone'' how your powers work. |
| 167 | * FalseFlagOperation: The opening of the movie has Nightcrawler jump several federal agents and attempt to attack the president of the United States on the premise of "Mutant Freedom Now!" (which is written on a strip tied to a knife he leaves behind when he escapes). In reality this is the work of Stryker's mind control in an effort to incite anti-mutant sentiment. |
| 168 | * FanDisservice: Mystique tries using her powers to shift into various women to seduce Wolverine. It's straight-up {{fanservice}} until she turns into ''Rogue'', who in this movie series takes the "young protégée" place that girls like Jubilee and Kitty Pryde have had, and then into ''Stryker'' of all people. |
| 169 | * FirstNameBasis: Professor X and William Stryker use each other's given names because Jason Stryker was once Xavier's student. |
| 170 | * FlatCharacter: We know nothing about Lady Deathstrike before she was brainwashed by Stryker. |
| 171 | * FlippingTheBird: Mystique gives one to Stryker and his team as she is sliding towards the control room. |
| 172 | * FootsieUnderTheTable: Mystique uses the foot under the table approach while seducing a prison guard in a bar so she can later use him to free Magneto. |
| 173 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: When Professor X is having difficulty trying to get a lock on Nightcrawler, Logan flippantly asks if he can't just concentrate harder. Xavier replies dryly, "If I wanted to kill him, yes." [[spoiler:Later Stryker gets Jason to brainwash Xavier into doing precisely this--only on a much larger scale.]] |
| 174 | * {{Forgiveness}}: Nightcrawler tells Storm that he didn't hate people who were scared by him when he was working at the circus; he pitied (and this probably implies that he also forgave) them instead. |
| 175 | * ForgotAboutHisPowers: Wolverine realizes that Mystique is disguised as Jean Grey by feeling the scars on her belly rather than by her smell, which he was established to be able to do in the first film when she tried the same trick with Storm. |
| 176 | * FreezeFrameBonus: William Stryker's computer desktop is a treasure trove of {{shout out}}s. You'll see folders marked things like 'Victor Creed', 'Omega Red', 'Maximoff (2)', 'Project: Wideawake', 'Franklin Richards', and so many more! |
| 177 | * GayAesop: When Bobby [[ComingOutStory "comes out" to his parents and his brother as a mutant]], his mother asks "Have you tried... NOT being a mutant?", despite the fact that Bobby did no harm to anyone, merely freezing a cup of coffee to show them his powers (his brother also [[spoiler: calls the police and [[BlatantLies claims that Bobby and several other mutants are holding his family hostage]]]]). Shares a similar parallel with homosexuals in which they do nothing to actually deserve discrimination, but the public perception of them is what drives their reputation. Logan, who is watching the situation unfold, also takes offense as Bobby's family (unaware that Bobby isn't the only mutant in the room) unjustly discriminates against his kind. See also ComingOutStory above. |
| 178 | * GiantWallOfWateryDoom: At the end of the movie a dam bursts and threatens to wipe out the X-Men. [[spoiler:Jean Grey make s heroic sacrifice to save th others from it.]] |
| 179 | * GlamourFailure: |
| 180 | ** Despite {{ShapeShifting}}, Mystique can't seem to hide the scars Wolverine left behind on her. |
| 181 | ** Likewise, Stryker isn't fooled when Mystique masquerades as Wolverine. One thing he knows better than anyone is his own work. |
| 182 | * AGlitchInTheMatrix: During Jason Styker's initial attempt to trap Xavier within an illusion of the mansion, he looks to be trying to make everything as happy as possible, even giving him the ability to walk again. Xavier appears to be almost buying it... right up until the background flickers ever-so-slightly, whereupon he turns around and yells at Jason. |
| 183 | * GoodThingYouCanHeal: Wolverine. Especially getting shot in the head at practically point blank. |
| 184 | * GreenEyedMonster: Implied. After Bobby showed off his power, Ronnie seems to be more [[CainAndAbel envious]] than outright spiteful. |
| 185 | * HandyCuffs: William Stryker has Wolverine handcuffed with special cuffs which bind his arms and hands in such a way that his claws are pointed toward his face, making sure the only thing Wolverine can cut is himself. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:it isn't Wolverine but Mystique in his form, and she quickly shapechanges out of the cuffs]]. |
| 186 | * HassleFreeHotwire: Evidently, all Wolverine needs to hotwire Cyclop's car is to ram his claw into the ignition lock. |
| 187 | * HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster: |
| 188 | ** TropeNamer. Bobby Drake's parents find out that he's a mutant and have pretty much exactly this reaction, complete with his mother asking him if he's tried "'''''not''''' being a mutant?" The filmmakers consulted Creator/{{Ian McKellen}} for the scene due to his experience being gay during much less forgiving times. |
| 189 | ** This pops up a second time. When Nightcrawler asks Mystique why she doesn't use her shapeshifting powers to blend in with normal humans, she replies, "Because we shouldn't have to." |
| 190 | * HellIsThatNoise: Cassidy's screaming has several layers of disortion to it. |
| 191 | * HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Jean Grey. When the Blackbird is frozen at Alkali Lake with the dam about to burst in mere minutes, she steps off the jet and uses her now heightened telekinesis to break the ice and allow the jet to lift off, at the same time psychically restraining her teammates to keep them from stopping her. She frees the jet seconds before she is seemingly crushed beneath tons of rushing water.]] |
| 192 | * HideYourOtherness: After Artie sticks out his dark, forked tongue at a girl who is eating ice cream, Storm chides him with "Not here." |
| 193 | * HijackedByGanon: Magneto works with the X-Men without much protest or animosity to save mutant-kind, [[spoiler: but once he foils Stryker's plan he reminds us that he is the BigBad of the series and turns Strkyer's Cerebro on normal humans]]. |
| 194 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Stryker's mutant-killing machine is ultimately turned on humans instead, which naturally includes Stryker himself. It gets shut off before it can do the job, of course, but it was long enough to make sure Stryker never escaped.]] |
| 195 | * HoneyTrap: Mystique seduces one of the guards from Magneto's TailorMadePrison, then roofies him so she can inject him with [[spoiler:an iron solution that Magneto uses to escape]]. |
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| 198 | [[folder: I - Z]] |
| 199 | * IdiotBall: |
| 200 | ** Earlier, Xavier has a minor but understandable one. He notices that Deathstryke is starting to regain control. He's smart enough not to say anything, but the fact that he keeps glancing over to her alerts Strkyer, allowing him to give her another dose of serum to keep her obedient. |
| 201 | ** The fight at Bobby's house is one for the cops. There have to be half a dozen of them, and despite the fact that they have their weapons in hand and trained at the mutants, ''none of them open fire on Pyro'' once he starts slinging fire around. This when they had already demonstrated willingness to use deadly force (on Wolverine, so it doesn't count, but they didn't know that). |
| 202 | * IHaveNoSon: When Xavier asks William Stryker how he could think of lobotomizing his son, he replies "my son is dead", but before he orders him to launch his attack against all mutants, he says "Make me proud, son." |
| 203 | * ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler:This is the fate for Jean Grey at the end of the movie for both Cyclops and Wolverine - though Cyclops, being married to her, takes it a lot harder. Of course she comes back with an appropriate FaceHeelTurn.]] |
| 204 | * ImmuneToDrugs: Wolverine gets shot with InstantSedation darts and doesn't stop charging. A moment later he yanks the darts out and shakes his head as if to clear it, but continues on like nothing happened. |
| 205 | * ImNotDoingThatAgain: After Storm turns the X-Jet by 360 degrees, a nauseated Pyro mutters, "Please don't do that again," and Wolverine chimes in with "I agree." |
| 206 | * IndyHatRoll: Mystique slides under a door while flipping off the men shooting at her. |
| 207 | * InexplicableCorneredEscape: Mystique shapeshifts into Lady Deathstrike in order to gain access to Colonel's Stryker's office. While she is sifting through his computer files, the real Lady Deathstrike approaches the office. On her entering Mystique is gone. A couple of shots later we see her moving behind Lady Deathstrike, now in the shape of a [[BeneathNotice janitor pretending to be cleaning out bins]]. |
| 208 | * InstantSedation: |
| 209 | ** The military guys use Instant Sedation darts on the students when they [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs invade the school]]. While they knock out the children instantly, Cyclops was protected by the armor under his clothing and multiple darts fail to have any effect on Wolverine. Justified by his larger body mass, HealingFactor, and adrenaline as well, since he doesn't show any effects while killing the immediate threat. After all the enemies in his vicinity are neutralized, he pulls the darts out and shakes his head, indicating he was becoming at least a little woozy or disoriented. Removing the source of the sedative lets his healing eliminate the rest of it in his body. |
| 210 | ** Mystique's drugged beer also takes effect the second Mr. Laurio downs the last of it, where the pills have settled. |
| 211 | * IronicEcho: Magneto sarcastically comments: "Wolverine, whoever goes into the dam needs to be able to operate the spillway mechanism. What do you intend to do? Scratch it with your claws?" Later on, that's exactly what he does (well, a ''bit'' more than scratch) to save all the protagonists from being drowned by the flood approaching down the spillway -- smash a fist full of claw into the mechanism. |
| 212 | * IsThatWhatHeToldYou: Magneto says this almost verbatim to Pyro in ("Is that what they say?"), regarding him being "the bad guy". It wasn't a lie, so much as a point of view. |
| 213 | * ItIsDehumanizing: Stryker yells "Shoot it!" in reference to Wolverine [[spoiler:(sort of)]]. |
| 214 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Magneto calls Wolverine on this (lampshading [[WolverinePublicity the obvious]] to fans)... |
| 215 | -->'''Magneto''': Mystique has discovered plans of a base that Stryker's been operating out of for decades. Only we don't know where it is. We thought one of you might. |
| 216 | -->'''Wolverine''': The professor already tried [to look for hints about Stryker in my mind].\ |
| 217 | '''Magneto''' (sighs): Once again, you think it's all about ''you''. |
| 218 | * ItsTheOnlyWay: Jean Grey sacrifices herself, supposedly because it's the only way to save the team; there has been considerable debate among fans about the ''multiple'' other ways they could have survived, or ways she could have saved them that would not have involved her death. |
| 219 | * JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: Mystique shapeshifts into a janitor to get in and out of a government facility with information on Magneto's prison guards. She employs Obfuscating Spanish when challenged. "Estoy echando la basura. ''Garbage.''" Leads to an amusing scene where she walks by the ''actual'' janitor, who's dumbfounded to see himself walking by (and is also an example of MakingUseOfTheTwin). |
| 220 | * {{Jerkass}}: |
| 221 | ** Ronnie calls the cops on Bobby and his friends under the pretense that they were holding his family hostage, seemingly out of pure jealousy over his brother's powers. |
| 222 | ** Pyro is much more vicious than his fellow X-Men even before he is swayed by Magneto's words and decides to join the Brotherhood. He is understandably enraged when a startled cop accidentally shoots Wolverine, but his reaction is to escalate the conflict by declaring he is the most dangerous mutant of all, before incinerating the man and hurling fireballs at the rest of the police. |
| 223 | ** Mitchell Laurio is an insecure, sadistic slob who physically and mentally torments Magneto while the old man is completely helpless in the plastic prison. |
| 224 | * KarmaHoudini: |
| 225 | ** Ronnie alerts the police to the mutants' whereabouts, lying that he and his parents are being held hostage, and receives no direct comeuppance for this action. Downplayed in that he is visibly traumatized when Pyro starts murdering the cops he had called, his family life will never be the same now that he's betrayed his brother, and he obviously was among the people who were tortured and potentially killed when Magneto modified the Dark Cerebro. Though his parents may have called him out on it, since the police were being rough with them. |
| 226 | ** Magneto and Mystique get away scot-free after the attempt to KillAllHumans, with [[FaceHeelTurn Pyro]] in tow. |
| 227 | * KarmicDeath: Magneto gets revenge on Mitchell Laurio for brutalising him by pulling metal from his body that Mystique placed there. |
| 228 | -->Mister Laurio, never trust a beautiful woman, especially one who's interested in you. |
| 229 | * KillAllHumans: Magneto tries to wipe out all humans by [[ReversePolarity reversing the polarity]] of [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Stryker's mutant-killing technology]]. |
| 230 | * KubrickStare: Magneto greets all visitors in his plastic prison by looking at them this way. |
| 231 | * LargeHam: The scene where a drugged Magneto talks to Xavier comes to mind. |
| 232 | --> YA SHOULDA KILLED ME WHEN YA HAD THE CHANCE!! |
| 233 | * LargeHamTitle: The film gives us "Kurt Wagner... but in the Munich Circus I was known as The Incredible Nightcrawler!" |
| 234 | * LastSecondVillainRecovery: |
| 235 | ** The climactic battle between Wolverine and Lady Deathstryke seemingly ends with the former finally managing to overwhelm the latter's HealingFactor by plunging her into the laboratory water tank where Wolverine was first implanted with adamantium, apparently electrocuting and/or drowning Deathstryke in the process. For a while, Wolverine is left lying on a platform above the tank, exhausted and recovering from his wounds... and then Deathstryke bursts out of the water and begins lancing him with her claws, coming dangerously close to actually killing Wolverine despite his own HealingFactor. [[spoiler: Wolverine only manages to survive this encounter by grabbing one of the nearby adamantium syringes and stabbing Deathstryke in the chest with it, implanting her with a dose of adamantium that kills her once and for all.]] |
| 236 | ** Non-combat example: William Stryker is ambushed by Wolverine, stabbed in the side, and chained to the wheel of his getaway helicopter so that he'll be in the path of the flood when the dam breaks. However, once Wolverine leaves to help the others, William is able to use the snow to slip himself out of his chains... but just when it looks like the bigoted scientist can get free so he can enact his next scheme, Jason Stryker (under orders from Magneto) turns the power of Dark Cerebro on humanity, leaving William in a paralyzed, dying heap in the snow. [[TheDogBitesBack Then Magneto himself catches up with him...]] |
| 237 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Subverted, Magneto and Mystique at the beginning seem to be less evil that Stryker,[[spoiler:but in reality they intend to use the captive, brainwashed Xavier to kill every ''non-mutant'' on Earth]]. |
| 238 | * LightningReveal: Towards the end, when the Oval Office lies in darkness due to a storm outside, the X-Men amongst the spectators are revealed to the president when a lightning strikes. |
| 239 | * LikeCannotCutLike: Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike both have the adamantium claws/fingernails. And bones. And a supercharged HealingFactor. [[Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen They'll be at this all day.]] |
| 240 | * LoadBearingHero: An unusual example is seen in the film, as Jean Grey telekinetically holds back a giant wave of water to allow the rest of the team time to escape from it, dying in the process. |
| 241 | * LotusEaterMachine: Jason Stryker is a mutant with this power, who uses it on Professor Xavier in an effort to break his will. At one point, he shows Xavier a vision where he is able to walk again. |
| 242 | * MakeMeWannaShout: Siryn, one of the students has this power. She wakes up as Stryker's men are sneaking around and screams, which alerts everyone else in the mansion. |
| 243 | * MarketBasedTitle: The film's simply called ''X-Men 2'' in the UK, France, Brazil, Finland and several other countries. |
| 244 | * MasterOfTheLevitatingBlades: Magneto escapes from his plastic prison by reshaping iron that was smuggled via an unwitting Mitchell Laurio's blood into three balls that he projects back and forth at great speed to demolish the plastic walls. When the prison's bridge is retracted, he reshapes one of the balls into a platform to cross the ravine with the two other balls levitating around him. He then uses said balls to destroy the door. |
| 245 | * MeaningfulEcho: When Logan confronts Stryker, asking why he took his memory, Stryker simply claims he was "always an animal. I just gave you claws." A few minutes later, when the dam alarm goes off, Stryker tries to convince Logan into leaving with him, calling him a survivor. Logan just snarls "I thought I was an animal." |
| 246 | * MindControlDevice: Stryker keeps mutants in his thrall with the help of a drug made from a psychic mutant's spinal fluid. |
| 247 | * MindRape: The backstory of Col. Stryker involves his telepathic son, Jason, mind-raping him and his wife with hallucinations so horrific that [[PsychicAssistedSuicide the wife took a power drill to her temple to get the images out]]. |
| 248 | * MookLieutenant: Colonel Stryker has Lady Deathstrike as his [[TheDragon dragon]]; the Special Forces under his command are lead by Sergeant Lyman. |
| 249 | * MorphicResonance: Mystique's human form she uses to seduce Laurio is wearing a blue dress with a scale design. This makes it resemble the skin of her true form. |
| 250 | * MrFanservice: Colossus who is shirtless and buff for most of his screen time. He also only goes into metal mode when he's attacked, allowing his normal torso more screen time. |
| 251 | * MundaneUtility: When Logan wants a cold drink, he gives a Dr. Pepper to Bobby "Iceman," who uses his powers to chill it. |
| 252 | * MyEyesAreUpHere: Rogue isn't too pleased at one of the jerks at the museum obviously staring at her cleavage. |
| 253 | * MythologyGag |
| 254 | ** After Magneto saves the Blackbird from crashing, he snarks "When will these people learn how to fly?", referencing the fact that several of the X-Men are capable of unaided flight in the comics (including Jean, Storm and Rogue, who are actually ''inside'' the Blackbird at this point). |
| 255 | ** Magneto snarks that "Once again you think it's all about ''you''" when Logan assumes that the villains need his memories to find Stryker's base, as a nod to WolverinePublicity. |
| 256 | ** Mystique and Nightcrawler have one scene together. Likely a nod to their mother-son relationship in the comics, which [[AmbiguousSituation may or]] [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation may not be the case here]]. |
| 257 | ** Magneto floats in the middle of a circle, a device meant to kill all mutants, and changes it: now, instead of targeting all mutants, it will be used against everybody else. There was a similar scene in the first arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'', in 2001. |
| 258 | * ANaziByAnyOtherName: William Stryker's genocidal desires peg him as one. |
| 259 | * NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Jean Grey starts exhibiting some new powers as the Phoenix struggles to break free. At first, they are just an extension of her telekinesis, such as disrupting electronic equipment, but by the climax she already has omniscience, which lets her predict the moment when the dam burst, and can also suppress other mutant's powers, since she interferes with Nightcrawler's teleportation to stop him from coming after her. Only the latter is present in the sequel, as she manages to disable Cyclops' eye beam during their reunion. |
| 260 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: |
| 261 | ** Colossus' voice was dubbed, apparently to add to his Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger resemblance. |
| 262 | ** Though never acknowledged as such, the nameless President of the United States who narrowly survives Nightcrawler's assassination attempt at the beginning of the film is clearly UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush. |
| 263 | * NoMatterHowMuchIBeg: Colonel Stryker tells his men to kill anyone approaching the Cerebro room, because [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Mystique is in play]]. |
| 264 | -->''Kill anyone who approaches. Even if it's me.'' |
| 265 | * NoPeekingRequest: Implied non-verbally. Rogue is forced to flee to Bobby's parents' house in her nightdress, and ends up changing clothes with Bobby in the room. He politely turns his back while she undresses, but can be seen briefly sneaking a peek at her from behind. (Given that she doesn't ask him to leave the room entirely, it comes across as intentionally flirtatious--particularly since the two [[TheBigDamnKiss share their first kiss]] shortly afterward) |
| 266 | * NoSell: |
| 267 | ** Magneto performs a No Sell of his own, thanks to his telepathy-blocking helmet: while the mind-controlled Xavier is attacking the mutants of the world with his powers, Magneto is completely immune to the psychic attack that has literally every other mutant on Earth writhing on the ground in agony. For good measure, once he's managed to temporarily disable Cerebro and stop the attack, he finds himself face to face with Jason, who makes one final attempt at telepathically attacking him- to no avail; cue [[OhCrap horrified stare from Jason]], as Magneto smugly taps the side of his helmet by way of explanation. |
| 268 | ** Lady Deathstrike shoots Cyclops with a sedative dart gun, however, his X-Men uniform and thick coat shield him from it. |
| 269 | * NotRightInTheBed: Mystique disguises herself as Jean Grey to seduce Wolverine. In addition to the changed behavior, Wolverine immediately spots the ruse because of his SuperSenses. |
| 270 | * NumberOneDime: [[spoiler: Wolverine throwing away his dog-tags at the end shows how he's decided to leave his past where it lays and move on to the future.]] |
| 271 | * ObliviousJanitorCut: Gets egregious, when a janitor walks past Mystique ''disguised as him''. |
| 272 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Unless it's an emergency, Rogue generally tries to avoid using her powers willingly, as she's utterly terrified of killing someone with them. However, Magneto and Mystique mocking her new [[MarkOfTheSupernatural skunk stripe]] that they indirectly gave her in the first film enrages Rogue so much that she ''immediately'' takes off her glove with the intention of trying to harm them, only being stopped by Bobby. |
| 273 | * OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo: The film goes by a few different titles, perhaps because "X-Men United" sounds like a soccer team to viewers outside of North America. This movie and ''Film/Deadpool2'' are the only entries in the franchise with a number in its name. |
| 274 | * OhCrap: |
| 275 | ** "I used to think you were one of a kind, Wolverine. I was wrong." |
| 276 | --->'''Wolverine:''' ''(as Deathstrike whips out her claws)'' Holy shit. |
| 277 | *** Followed by another one after he realises Deathstrike also shares his HealingFactor. |
| 278 | ** Magneto and Mystique have the smiles wiped right off their faces when Rogue, furious at their teasing about the white stripes in her hair (which they are directly responsible for) gives them a DeathGlare as she starts to pull a glove off. |
| 279 | ** Jason, who's spent the entire movie playing Xavier like a fiddle, has a moment of panic when Magneto proves immune to his illusions. |
| 280 | * OminousLatinChanting: Mozart's "Dies Irae" underscores Nightcrawler's attack on the White House. |
| 281 | * OneDialogueTwoConversations: Kelly's and Stryker's conversation in the hallway. To Stryker, Kelly seems to be trying to de-escalate the situation after the attempt on the president's life. Of course, Kelly is really Mystique, so the question about [[SecretTestOfCharacter Stryker trying to start a war is really not rhetorical]]. |
| 282 | * OohMeAccentsSlipping: Creator/HughJackman's delivery of "You don't wanna go that way, trust me" sounds mildly Australian. |
| 283 | * OpposedMentors: Pyro had the choice between [[BigBad Magneto]] or [[BigGood Xavier]]. This is often the case with some characters in the comics too. |
| 284 | * ParentalAbandonment: Judging by the sad and envious expression on Pyro's face when he stares at the Drake family photos, it's strongly implied that John's parents have disowned him (or they may have died when he was very young). |
| 285 | * PartyScattering: Near the beginning, Prof. X and Cyclops are captured at the same time, but taken to different areas where different things happen to them. Storm and Jean go after Nightcrawler and eventually run into Magneto. The government kidnaps several mutants and take them to their facility. Wolverine and a few of the students escape the mansion and hide out at Iceman's house for a while. They come back in the third act. |
| 286 | * PeoplePuppets: |
| 287 | ** Professor X freezes hundreds of people in a large museum. |
| 288 | ** During the finale, Jean Grey is able to use Xavier (a fellow psychic) as a conduit to communicate with Scott. |
| 289 | * PhlebotinumBomb: Cerebro is [[spoiler:redesigned to kill only mutants..and then redesigned to kill only non-mutants]]. |
| 290 | * PineappleSurprise: Magneto pulls the pins from a squad of soldiers all at once using his powers. |
| 291 | * PoweredByAForsakenChild: Stryker's mind-control serum is derived from chemicals secreted by the brain of his ''own son,'' Jason; though still alive and still capable of using his impressive [[MasterOfIllusion powers of illusion]], Jason's been given a lobotomy to make him more pliable and is confined to a wheelchair- complete with a shunt in the back of his head used for collecting the fluid. |
| 292 | * PowerIncontinence: Mystique's shapeshifting goes haywire once Xavier's psychic attack on the mutants intensifies. |
| 293 | * PowerPerversionPotential: The film had Mystique shift into various women to try and seduce Wolverine. It seemed to be working, too... until she shifted into someone he thought of like a daughter. |
| 294 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: |
| 295 | --> '''Pyro:''' You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news? I'm the worst one. |
| 296 | * ProductPlacement: Logan searches for beer in the mansion. After learning there is none, he settles on, of course, a Dr. Pepper. Later at Bobby's house, he raids the fridge for beer. Several bottles of Dr. Pepper can be seen inside the fridge. |
| 297 | * PsychicRadar: It's already been seen in the previous film that Cerebro amplifies Xavier's powers to give him greater range and accuracy. Here he uses it to allow him to track even a mutant who can teleport and it's further revealed that he can use it to sense the location of every mutant or every human on the planet. Concentrating hard enough will give them all a really serious PsychicNosebleed... followed by death. |
| 298 | * [[PsychoticSmirk Psychotic Wink]]: Magneto performs one after admonishing the (dead) guard for unwittingly aiding in his escape. |
| 299 | * RealMenLoveJesus: Nightcrawler is a devout Catholic who questions if his demonic appearance is a curse from God for some misdeeds that he must atone for. |
| 300 | * RemovingTheEarpiece: Wolverine does this when the rest of the team are discussing their plan and he realizes if it goes the way they're hoping it will, he won't get a chance to confront the guy who holds the information about his past. When they next look up, he's gone. |
| 301 | * RevealingInjury: Wolverine recognises a disguised Mystique by the claw-marks he gave her in the previous film. |
| 302 | * SayMyName: Professor X desperately yells "SCOTT!!!" when he realizes that Stryker has set up a trap for him. |
| 303 | * ScareChord: Pyro's leitmotif contains some scarechords, most evident when he uses his powers on the policemen. |
| 304 | * ScarsAreForever: Mystique has scars from Logan stabbing her in the previous film. Even when she shapeshifts, they're still there, though she is able to shapeshift clothing over them. |
| 305 | * TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: Mystique and a prison guard. Sure, she drugged and injected him with iron, so that Magneto could ''rip it from his blood'' and escape, but he got to make out with Rebecca Romijn. Lucky bastard. This trope is basically lampshaded when Magneto [[BondOneLiner tells the guard]] that he should never trust a beautiful woman -- especially one who's interested in ''him''. |
| 306 | * SchrodingersButterfly: The deleted scenes show that Jason didn't just make Xavier think he was back at the institute, he made him think that he succeeded in convincing Jason to let him escape from the LotusEaterMachine. |
| 307 | * ScreamingWoman: Subverted, when the soldiers attack, a girl starts screaming. [[spoiler:She's Siryn, and [[MakeMeWannaShout screaming is her superpower]]. She nearly defeats the soldiers that way, and although she still gets knocked out, her scream wakes up all the other mutants and gives them a chance to escape.]] |
| 308 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: While waiting in the X-Jet with Rogue and Bobby, Pyro decide to ignore Wolverine's order to stay put, [[spoiler: and join the Brotherhood.]] |
| 309 | * SealedEvilInACan: Stryker has Magneto locked up in a plastic prison, where without his powers he's a defenseless, elderly man. One guard takes advantage of this to physically abuse him at every opportunity. As the saying goes, "you can catch the devil, ''but you can't hold him long.''" At some point in their worst nightmares, the guards must have considered what was going to happen if Magneto got access to any amount of iron. Magneto's RoaringRampageOfRevenge when that very thing happened demonstrated that mercy from him wasn't on the table... |
| 310 | * SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The rule-abiding, NiceGuy Iceman juxtaposes the rebellious, {{Jerkass}} Pyro. At the museum's food court, John is being rude to a young man who asks to borrow his lighter, and Bobby tells his friend to knock it off, plainly disapproving of John's annoying behaviour. When the police order the mutants to get on the ground, Drake immediately obeys, but Allerdyce attacks the officers with giant fire balls. |
| 311 | * SequelHook: The final shot of the film is [[spoiler:an orange bird-like silhouette shining underneath Alkali Lake, foreshadowing the rise of the Phoenix]]. |
| 312 | * SexyDiscretionShot: Briefly. Due to being forced to flee the mansion in the middle of the night, Rogue winds up at the Drake house in her nightdress, and is forced to change into some of Bobby's mother's old clothes. There's a brief shot of her from behind as she slips out of her nightdress to change before Bobby politely turns his back, with the camera following suit. |
| 313 | * ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Interestingly done, where Rebecca Romijn played Mystique in disguise--sans blue makeup. |
| 314 | * ShapeshifterShowoffSession: Mystique "reintroduces" herself to Wolverine by posing as Jean and sneaking into his tent for a booty call. Halfway through their initial kiss, however, Wolverine notices [[ScarsAreForever the scar he gave her in the previous film]]; knowing that her cover is blown, Mystique immediately reverts to her true form, then tauntingly asks what he wants while shifting between various other shapes - first Jean, then Storm, then Rogue, then ''Stryker'' - before Wolverine finally tells her to get out. |
| 315 | * ShapeShifterSwanSong: Mystique shapeshifts through a couple of persona when Cerebro-2 almost kills her. [[spoiler:She survives, though.]] |
| 316 | * ShapeshiftingSeducer: Mystique seduces a guard by taking the form of a hot blonde [[spoiler: [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction so she can use him in Magneto's escape from prison.]]]] She later uses it on Logan by trying to seduce him in the form of Jean Grey. Logan catches her, and she goes through several other forms, including Storm, Rogue and even Stryker (though that one was a taunt rather than a seduction), but he tells her to leave. |
| 317 | * ShapeshiftingSquick: Mystique seduces Wolverine. He's fairly surprised when she mimics Storm, a little conflicted at Jean Grey's appearance, but profoundly creeped out when he sees her shapeshift into Rogue (essentially a movie version of his traditional underage female sidekick). Turning into Brian "Original Lecter" Cox was just icing on the cake. |
| 318 | * SharedUnusualTrait: Jason Stryker has differently-colored eyes, as does the illusory little girl he creates. |
| 319 | * ShipTease: Nightcrawler and Storm. It doubles in content if you read the novelisation. |
| 320 | -->'''Nightcrawler:''' I'm not going anywhere, Ororo. |
| 321 | -->'''Storm:''' I like it when you say my name... |
| 322 | -->'''Nightcrawler:''' I like saying your name... |
| 323 | * ShootEverythingThatMoves: Col. Stryker tells his mooks that after he leaves, they are to shoot ''anyone'' who comes down the corridor, [[VoluntaryShapeshifting even if it was him]]. He knew that Mystique was on-site. |
| 324 | * ShootingSuperman: After using their tranq darts on some of the students, two of Stryker's men are confronted by Colossus. The big guy activates his power, but the agents try firing anyway. After the darts bounce off of him, Colossus throws the agents through a wall. |
| 325 | * ShoutOut: |
| 326 | ** Mystique scrolls through a list of mutants on a computer, searching for ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. ''All'' [[http://thefilmexperience.net/storage/2000s/x2-strykercomputer.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1307909380497 of those names]] are from [[Comicbook/XMen the comics]]. While all of those names were in a single folder, [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Franklin]] [[RealityWarper Richards]] had a folder all his own. |
| 327 | ** Both Magneto and the Professor reference ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'' at separate points. Erik is seen reading it in his cell at the beginning, and Charles ends the film telling some of his students about it. |
| 328 | * ShownTheirWork: The screenwriters did research on [[ItsForABook how to blow up a dam]] for the climactic scenes of the movie; this went mostly unremarked upon in the film (though no doubt the director and effects artists got some use out of it), but was described at some length in the novelization. |
| 329 | * SicklyGreenGlow: Stryker's secret base is entirely lit in an unhealthy green light. |
| 330 | * SingleTear: The wheelchair-bound Professor X sheds a single tear of joy when he's able to stand again on his own--but then he quickly realizes that he's in a LotusEaterMachine and tries to resist Jason's ability. |
| 331 | * SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Discussed between Jean and Wolverine at one point: |
| 332 | -->'''Jean:''' Women like to flirt with a dangerous man. But they don't marry him. They marry the good guy. |
| 333 | -->'''Logan:''' I could be the good guy. |
| 334 | -->'''Jean:''' Good guys stick around, Logan. |
| 335 | * SkywardScream: Logan does this in a flashback where he wakes up in a tank of water with no memories, covered in blood and metal claws shooting out of his hands. |
| 336 | * SlasherSmile: Magneto sports one of these when he's breaking out of his plastic prison using iron balls that he pulled out of the blood of one of the guards. He's killing all the guards who've abused him, and the grin on his face is chilling. ''It's payback time.'' |
| 337 | * TheSleepless: The kid who can change channels by blinking. |
| 338 | -->'''Wolverine:''' Shouldn't you be asleep?\ |
| 339 | '''Jones:''' I don't sleep. |
| 340 | * SlipIntoSomethingMoreComfortable: Downplayed and subverted. Rogue and Bobby [[TheBigDamnKiss kiss for the first time]] shortly after Rogue slips out of her nightdress to change clothes with Bobby in the room. While her new get-up is fairly modest and unremarkable, it ''does'' include a long pair of gloves--allowing her to touch Bobby without harming him. |
| 341 | * SlippingAMickey: Mystique slips a drug into Magneto's guard's drink in order to knock him out so she could inject enough metal in his body for Magneto to sense and manipulate to break out of prison. |
| 342 | * SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: In the original movie, Magneto was a WellIntentionedExtremist who wanted to help humanity evolve in order for them to better understand mutants. After some months trapped in a plastic prison being constantly tormented by his guards, he has devolved into a full-blown villain, bent on driving the entire human race to extinction. |
| 343 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Siryn only gets two scenes in the film, but her second appearance has her using her sonic scream to disable the soldiers invading the mansion and alert everyone else. While some of the children get captured and she herself gets tranquilized, because of her alarm Colossus is able to rescue her and most of the students manage to escape via the evacuation tunnels, plus Rogue, Bobby and Pyro flee with Logan. |
| 344 | * SparedByTheAdaptation: The novelization spares Jean Grey. She levitates the plane from the inside and gets saved with everyone else. |
| 345 | * SpotTheImpostor: The trope is averted when Stryker is able to recognize his "handiwork" on sight -- it's enough to fool the soldiers, but somehow the Colonel can tell with one close-up look. Which actually isn't that surprising. Parents can tell the difference between identical twins even when others can't. |
| 346 | * SpottingTheThread: Wolverine figures out Mystique isn't Jean because she has the scars where he stabbed her in the previous movie. Later in the same movie, Stryker takes one look at Mystique from across a large room and knows she's not Wolverine simply saying "I know my own work". In the novelization, it's her smell that alerts Wolverine even before he exposes the scars, but he plays along to try and find out what she wants. |
| 347 | * StandardSnippet: Mozart's ''Dies Irae'' plays during the opening scene where Nightcrawler is bamfing through the White House, and it's arguably the most memorable music moment in the entire movie. |
| 348 | * StealthPun: William Stryker's son Jason is given the new name "Mutant 143." "143" is another way to say "I love you." If the Stryker family was devoid of anything, it was love - Stryker '''hates''' his son. |
| 349 | * TheStoolPigeon: Magneto was a Lacerated Larry in the beginning: It is strongly implied that Stryker had arrived at Magneto's cell beforehand and injected him with the same brainwashing serum from his son to get him to lure Professor X into his prison so X could be captured. |
| 350 | * SuperheroMovieVillainsDie: Colonel Stryker and Jason are left to die when the dam breaks and when the facility collapses, respectively. Lady Deathstrike is the only major antagonist to get an explicit on screen death, as she succumbs to her wounds following the battle against Wolverine. |
| 351 | * SuperpowerfulGenetics: The mutant gene is said to be passed down from the father (but not explicitly stated to be located on the Y chromosome). Though given the tension of the scene, it seems likely that Pyro was simply exploiting Mr. Drake's ignorance to make him squirm. |
| 352 | * SuperSmoke: This film handles Nightcrawler's teleportation in a combination of this way and like his comic counterpart. He leaves behind very little evidence of his teleporting (whereas in the comic, it's basically a Nightcrawler-sized cloud) until his attack on the Oval Office antechamber, which is an enclosed space. Here he seems to almost dissolve into particles, then the particles rush to another location almost immediately and reconstruct into Nightcrawler, at least over short distances. |
| 353 | * SuperStrength: Lady Deathstryke has both this and SuperToughness, taking one of Cyclops optic blasts which knocked out the guard standing next to her before knocking him out with one kick, [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punching Wolverine across room]], hammer-tossing the 6-feet, well-muscled and metal skeletoned mutant with enough force to crack concrete and one-handedly tossing him higher than 10 feet. Especially significant when you consider she has an adamantium skeleton as well. |
| 354 | * SuperTeam: Jean Grey and Storm willingly ally with Wolverine and Nightcrawler, plus Magneto and Mystique ([[EnemyMine relunctantly]]) to stop Styker from committing mutant genocide. |
| 355 | * SwissCheeseSecurity: For a safe-haven built specifically for members of a [[FantasticRacism persecuted minority group]], Xavier's school includes surprisingly few security systems (apart from a hidden escape tunnel for making a quick getaway). As a result, Stryker's soldiers encounter remarkably light resistance when they storm the place, mostly forcing the students to defend themselves with their powers. Granted, Xavier might not see the need for particularly tight security since his powers allow him to sense most threats ahead of time, but it still comes off as pretty negligent. |
| 356 | * SwordSparks: Numerous sparks fly in Wolverine's battle with Lady Deathstrike. Notably, since sparks are made by little bits of metal flying off the blade, this should be impossible in an adamantium-on-adamantium duel, since adamantium is invulnerable. |
| 357 | * TakeThat: |
| 358 | ** Logan desperately tries to change the radio on the car when Music/{{NSYNC}}'s "Bye Bye Bye" plays after Pyro turns it on. Every passenger of the car also cringes in disgust and/or annoyance. [[note]] The film was released in 2003, shortly after *NSYNC had gone on an extended hiatus--when many people remembered their music as an embarrassing relic of the late '90s.[[/note]] |
| 359 | ** When Magneto says that he believes one of the heroes knows the location of Stryker's secret base, Logan angrily says that "the Professor already tried," clearly thinking that Magneto's referring to his own memories. Magneto was ''actually'' talking about Nightcrawler, and snidely remarks, "Once again, you think it's all about ''you,''" as a small dig at the fact that [[SpotlightStealingSquad Wolverine, both before and after this film, tends to get the most focus when it comes to any and all types of X-Men related content.]] |
| 360 | * TakingTheBullet: Subverted when [[ImmuneToBullets Colossus]] covers some young students from gunfire, telling them to escape. And then proceeds to kick ass. |
| 361 | * TearsOfBlood: Flavor two example: When [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Lady Deathstrike]] fights Wolverine at the end, her defeat by [[spoiler: [[BodyHorror having liquid adamantium injected into her]]]] makes it look as though she's crying tears of [[spoiler: liquid metal]]. |
| 362 | * {{Technopath}}: The film has a boy who changed the TV by blinking, and later controlled a computer display the same way. Don't know if he's up to turning a toaster into a lethal weapon, though. |
| 363 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: The X-Men have to team up with Magneto and Mystique in order to prevent William Stryker from wiping out mutantkind in its entirety. [[spoiler:Magneto and Mystique betray them once the threat has passed, and take Pyro with them after his FaceHeelTurn]]. |
| 364 | * TeleFrag: Nightcrawler cites this as the reason he refuses to teleport anywhere he can't see - "otherwise I could wind up inside a wall." |
| 365 | * TeleportationRescue: The X-jet is damaged by an Air Force fighter's missile and Rogue falls out of the plane. Nightcrawler teleports out to catch her, then teleports back. He also rescues the children imprisoned at Stryker's base later in the same film (probably more efficient than breaking down the door or blasting the lock). |
| 366 | * TeleportersVisualizationClause: Nightcrawler's teleportation abilities depend on him having a line-of-sight to his destination, and warns the team that trying to travel blindly might result in him [[TeleFrag re-materializing inside a wall]]--meaning that he can't help them get inside Stryker's base under the dam. However, when they have to rescue Professor X from behind the sealed doors of Dark Cerebro, Nightcrawler is called upon to perform a BlindJump; thankfully, Nightcrawler ''just'' manages it with some emotional support from Storm. |
| 367 | * TeleportSpam: Nightcrawler's attack on the White House, where he's kicking, throwing, punching, and just beating the crap out of every agent from every angle, with the last one in glorious slow motion. |
| 368 | * ThatManIsDead: The film features an interesting inversion, when Magneto strikes up a conversation with John Allerdyce; |
| 369 | -->'''Magneto''': What's your name?\ |
| 370 | '''John''': John.\ |
| 371 | '''Magneto''': What is your ''real'' name, John?\ |
| 372 | '''John''': ... Pyro. |
| 373 | * ThrowingOutTheScript: The President discusses his speech as he walks down a hall with some staffers, then his speech is in the teleprompter, and he's going live when Professor X and the rest of the X-Men pay him a visit and provide him with documents from Col. Stryker's office. The X-Men leave, time resumes for the staffers, and the President touches the file on his desk and begins to improvise... |
| 374 | * ThwartedCoupDeGrace: A guard's bullet prevents Nightcrawler from killing the president when the latter had his knife already raised above his head. |
| 375 | * TimeStandsStill: The audience is led to believe this has happened at the beginning of the film, although it transpires that in fact Professor X has used his mind-controlling powers to put everyone on "pause." |
| 376 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The soundtrack has a track named after a character death (and it's punny: [[spoiler:"Death Strikes Deathstryke"]]). |
| 377 | * TranslationTrainWreck: A simple search of dialog online turned up a copy of the film made much more introspective by adding the subtitles to ''Film/{{Amelie}}''. |
| 378 | * TroubleMagnetGambit: Mystique puts a syringe filled with iron in solution into an off-duty guard's butt. How bad this would be for him in the long term is unknown considering that he seems only a little bit under the weather the next day but he's also hung over and recovering from some kind of drug. But long-term effects don't really matter because Magneto uses the extra iron in the guard's blood to escape, killing the guard and [[CaptainObvious that's definitely fatal]]. |
| 379 | * VerbalSaltInTheWound: When the X-Men and the Brotherhood are forced to team up, Rogue notices that she's being laughed at by Mystique and Magneto, who needle her over the side-effects of Magneto's doomsday device in the previous movie by remarking "we ''love'' what you've done with your hair." Rogue goes so far as to [[TheGlovesComeOff remove one of her gloves]] before Iceman ushers her away. |
| 380 | * VillainousRescue: When the Blackbird is shot down by a military missile, Jean tries in vain to stop it from falling. Suddenly, some of the damage undoes itself, and the plane starts to slow down before coming to a complete stop in mid-air. In the next shot, Magneto is shown calmly holding the Blackbird in place. |
| 381 | * WeaponizedBall: [[ExtraOreDinary Magneto]] breaks out of his custom made jail cell by pulling the iron from the blood of a guard. He then forms the iron into small balls which he uses as offensive weapons, smashing his cage and killing the rest of the guards. |
| 382 | * WeaponizedTeleportation: Nightcrawler uses his power to great effect during the attack on the White House, teleporting to punch, kick and hurl mooks from all directions, leaving them disoriented and unable to fight back. |
| 383 | * WellDoneSonGuy: |
| 384 | ** Bobby Drake. As his visit to his parents shows. |
| 385 | ** One of Stryker's commands for Jason was "make me proud." In turn, Jason's illusory self can be heard whimpering, "He's going to be so mad at me!" when Storm disrupts his control of Xavier.. |
| 386 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Colossus and most of the student body flee the Mansion, and disappear from the film without a single further reference. |
| 387 | * WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Two students at Xavier's school definitely qualify: one of them can change TV channels just by blinking his eyes, thus giving him the same super-powers as a hand-held remote control; the other has a blue forked tongue and ''nothing else.'' The latter overlaps with AdaptationalWimp: he's evidently meant to be the films' equivalent of Artie Maddicks, who had the power of clairvoyance in the comics.[[note]] In the comics, Artie was a deformed young boy who could see visions of distant events, but struggled to tell other people about them due to being [[TheSpeechless mute]]. His film counterpart is only ever shown to share his muteness (not his useful powers).[[/note]] |
| 388 | * WhileYouWereInDiapers: Stryker says this to Senator Kelly (or who he thinks is Kelly): "I was piloting Black Ops missions in the jungles of north Vietnam, while you were sucking on your mama's tit at Woodstock, Kelly." |
| 389 | * TheWhiteHouse: Nightcrawler breaches security at the White House and comes within an inch of stabbing the president before being winged by a Secret Service agent, allowing him to break his mind control. |
| 390 | * WhooshInFrontOfTheCamera: Mystique infiltrates Colonel's Stryker's office. When the secretary enters and sits down in front of her computer, Mystique comes out from her hiding place and wooshes behind the secretary's back. When the secretary turns to see what's happening, Mystique has changed into a [[BeneathNotice janitor]]. |
| 391 | * WindowLove: Wolverine and Stryker, with a semi-transparent sheet of ice between them. |
| 392 | * WouldHarmASenior: Mitchell Laurio has no qualms about brutalising Magneto when he's powerless. |
| 393 | * WouldHitAGirl: |
| 394 | ** After Lady Deathstrike attempts to sedate Cyclops, he hits her with an optic blast, but she recovers quickly due to her HealingFactor. |
| 395 | ** The brutal confrontation between Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike is one of the most violent duels in the franchise. |
| 396 | ** With his MasterOfIllusion ability, Jason tricked his mother into committing suicide with a power-drill to her temple. |
| 397 | ** Pyro has no problem throwing a fireball at the female cop that has him at gunpoint. |
| 398 | * WouldHurtAChild: Stryker has a bunch of the X-children locked up in his facility, [[spoiler:whom he's keeping on-site to make sure his plan to get Xavier to kill all the mutants is working as intended]]. |
| 399 | * YouAreNumberSix: Colonel Stryker had his son Jason lobotomized after lashing out against him and his wife. Since then, the Colonel simply refers to him as "Mutant 143". When Professor X expresses his shock over it, asking why he'd do this to his own son, Stryker simply answers with: "No, Charles. [[IHaveNoSon My son is dead.]] Just like the rest of you." |
| 400 | * YouCantGoHomeAgain: After Stryker's raid on the school, Bobby, Rogue, Logan and Pyro stop by the Drake family house in hopes of regrouping, which in the process reveals Bobby's mutant abilities to his parents. His ''own brother'' calls the police and reports them as a threat despite the mutants not harbouring any ill intentions. After Pyro stupidly attacks the officers in the standoff that follows, Bobby is forced to flee with the others knowing he can never come back. |
| 401 | * YouShallNotPass: The ending is an example of this trope, with Jean Grey staying behind to hold off the inevitable just long enough for the rest of the team to escape. [[spoiler: Although everyone, including her, thinks that NoOneCouldSurviveThat, she manages to [[DisneyDeath survive]]]]. |
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