History Awesome / XMenFirstClass

* Banshee using his sonic scream powers as a makeshift sonar pulse to find Shaw's submarine (with Charles reading his mind).

** "I agree with everything you said. We are the future. But unfortunately, [[YouKilledMyFather you killed my mother]]."
** [[CallBack "I'm going to count to three,]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath and then I'm going]] [[TranquilFury to move the coin."]] Chillingly badass.

* Sean's first flight is incredible. He's soaring all over the Xavier estate on his own power. The phrase [[Film/IronMan1 "Yeah, I can fly."]] comes to mind.

* The speech the Russian general gives about how he's already lived through one war and desperately hopes that they won't be forced into a new one. It just shows how some humans aren't all evil and that the Russians and Americans [[NotSoDifferent aren't so different]].

** The Argentina triple-kill sequence. It's effortless.

** Even better because it was his idea rather than Charles or Hank. The teenager came up with it, not the two genius.

** [[OneManArmy Storming a Soviet military retreat by himself]]

!!Meta

* The film was very well received critically, marking a return to form of the ''X-Men'' film franchise after the duds of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' and ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''.
* [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x230q37_x-men-first-class-unused-character-sequence-professor-x-magneto-mystique-beast-emma-frost-sebastian_shortfilms This unused character sequence]] featuring Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Beast, Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw is pretty cool despite its brevity. Too bad it wasn't included in any promotional material or the Blu-Ray/DVD release.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8ra_spWpFA Everything GREAT About ''X-Men: First Class''!]] by [=CinemaWins=].

* Sean's first flight is incredible. He's soaring all over the Xavier estate on his own power. The phrase [[Film/IronMan "Yeah, I can fly."]] comes to mind.

** When he uses a huge anchor and its chain as a weapon, the look on Charles' face is priceless because it shows that even ''he'' hadn't anticipated just how much power a mutant could have. It's even more awesome for the audience, because we know that that's only a fraction of Magneto's full potential, as anyone who remembers [[spoiler:the scene where he lifts the entire Golden Gate Bridge]] in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' can attest.

** Erik [[spoiler:catching all those dozens of missiles mid-flight and sending them back despite the various distractions]]. Lifting the sub was a fantastic display of his raw power, but the level of control and precision he shows here proves just how dangerous he really is.

* Darwin demonstrating his reactive evolution abilities. That and how he just comes off like a charismatic badass. [[spoiler: It's an absolute, tear-jerking, damn shame he [[WeHardlyKnewYe got killed off so early]] and we never get to see his full potential]].

* Darwin demonstrating his reactive evolution abilities like a charismatic badass. [[spoiler: It's an absolute, tear-jerking, damn shame he [[WeHardlyKnewYe got killed off so early]] and we never get to see his full potential]].

* Darwin demonstrating his reactive evolution abilities like a charismatic badass. [[spoiler: It's an absolute, [[TearJerker tear-jerking]], damn shame he [[WeHardlyKnewYe got killed off so early]] and never got to see his full potential]].

** "I agree with everything you said. We are the future. Unfortunately...you killed my mother."

* Xavier using Cerebro for the first time. You can tell he's exilarated to expand his powers so far and so high. Then the "recruitment" sequence that follows. This is the birth of the X-Men!

** Lifting the submarine out of the water.

!!The Movie

* [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x230q37_x-men-first-class-unused-character-sequence-professor-x-magneto-mystique-beast-emma-frost-sebastian_shortfilms This unused character sequence]] featuring Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Beast, Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw is pretty cool despite its brevity. Too bad it wasn't included in any promotional material or the Blu-Ray/DVD release.

* Xavier using Cerebro for the first time. You can tell he's exilerated to expand his powers so far and so high. Then the "recruitment" sequence that follows. This is the birth of the X-Men!

* Sean's first flight is incredible. He's soaring all over the Xaiver estate on his own power. The phrase [[Film/IronMan "Yeah, I can fly."]] comes to mind.

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** [[CallBack "I'm going to count to three,]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath and then I'm going to move the coin."]] Chillingly badass.

--> (''He taps Colonel Hendry on the shoulder, vaporizing him instantly.'')

* [[CallBack "I'm going to count to three,]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath and then I'm going to move the coin."]] Chillingly badass.

* Practically all of Erik's scenes are awesome: the bank, the Argentina sequence, [[OneManArmy storming a Soviet military retreat by himself]], the satellite dish, the sub lift, and more:
** When he uses a huge anchor and its chain as a weapon, the look on Charles' face is priceless because it shows that even ''he'' hadn't anticipated just how much power a mutant could have.
*** Even more awesome for the audience, because we know that that's only a fraction of Magneto's full potential, as anyone who remembers [[spoiler:the scene where he lifts the entire Golden Gate Bridge]] in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' can attest.

** And, finally, three simple words: "I prefer... Magneto."
* Shaw gets one early on when he demonstrates his power to Colonel Hendry by taking a grenade which the good Colonel brought along in case of a double-cross, pulling the pin, and absorbing the explosion.

--> (''He taps Colonel Hendry on the shoulder, vaporizing him almost instantly.'')

* Xavier using Cerebro for the first time, and the "recruitment" sequence that follows.
* There's also the moment when Xavier is interviewed by the senior CIA officers who initially scoff at his claims of being telepathic by taunting him, expecting the usual cold reading fakery. When Xavier then responds by casually commenting about precise top secret missile location information he easily learned from their minds, their OhCrap reactions are priceless at being confronted with the real thing.

* With the chips down, Professor X stops the Cuban Missile Crisis single-handedly by causing one of the Russian naval officers to launch a ballistic missile on the Russian cargo ship carrying missiles to Cuba. As Moira says, "That was ''inspired'', Charles." Damn straight it was.