History Headscratchers / X2XMenUnited

** Styker probably agreed to talk to him ''because'' he's about to kill every mutant in the word. If there's anything he'd like to say to Wolverine, this is apparently last chance to say it.

* I get that the X-Men are a metaphor for various forms of bigotry and that the audience is meant to be sympathetic toward them, but doesn't their position become just a little untenable by the end of the second movie? Xavier's not merely arguing that he should be allowed to exist with his unique abilities, but that he should be allowed to use them at his discretion and without oversight on the presumption that he's too good and pure to abuse them. By the second movie we know that Xavier secretly enlists child and adolescent mutants into his school,apparently without their parents' informed consent. He does this by using advanced technology that allows him to spy on anyone in the world, but also doubles as a super weapon that would allow him to indiscriminately kill entire species without retaliation. Then, after he was almost made to kill the mutant population at the behest of a human and then the human population at the behest of a mutant, he decides rather than rethinking his approach he would break into the oval office and implicitly threaten the leader of a sovereign nation alongside his cadre of human weapons, including the *man who almost assassinated said leader*. Is the audience meant to accept that it's reasonable to demand humanity to coexist with beings that could (and are sometimes willing to) wipe them out at their discretion?

What exactly was Stryker's plan here? He knows the base is overrun with dangerous mutants, one of whom he helped personally create... so upon finding said dangerous mutant, he doesn't call for backup or raise any alarm, but instead leaves his only bodyguard to fight him, possibly believing they'll fight to a stalemate and keep each other busy until the Dark Cerebro started working... except Lady Deathstrike was only working for Strkyer while she was mind-controlled, and we even see during the final moments of her battle with Logan that the mind-control wore off pretty fast. So to recap: what was Stryker's plan here? If Logan and Deathstrike were really equal, then neither would actually win. At best they'd fight to a stalemate until Deathstrike's programming wore off, at which point she'd probably want revenge on Stryker and would most likely ally with Logan against him. So once again, what exactly what Stryker's plan? Beyond giving us the best fight-scene in the movie, that is.

** While it was fairly contrived, you're ignoring the established limitations of the characters. Jean moves objects; she doesn't move herself -- or, logically, anything she's sitting inside. Iceman took a couple of seconds to freeze a cup of tea -- how quickly do you think he could have frozen several million gallons of water, moving at high speed? Nightcrawler would have been able to grab her if the water had been the only threat -- but she was visibly burning up by the time she got the jet off the ground (which detail would probably have caused complications if she had been able to lift it from the inside). And Storm, like Iceman, had shown no sign of that kind of power level or, indeed, fine control -- earlier in the film she could make tornadoes, but she sure as hell couldn't stop the jet from falling out of the sky.

-->'''Kelly''': Do you hate normal people?
-->'''Storm''': Sometimes.
-->'''Kelly''': Why?
-->'''Storm''': I suppose...because I'm afraid of them.

** If Apocalypse is any indication, she had a hard time because her powers ostracized her from her own family and community.

** A lobotomy that leaves the patient a vegetable is a failed and overly aggressive lobotomy. There was a time when lobotomies were the popular, if extremely unethical way to maintain control over a troublesome person without having to lock them up forever or kill them.

*** Again: I'm pretty sure she ''put'' the scars there in that ''one scene'' just to mess with Logan. She never shows having the scars in any other scene in either the second or third movies.

*** Keywords being "probably," and "some of it." And where the hell was Nightcrawler supposed to teleport them that wouldn't be in the way of a tsunami wave?