History Film / XMenOriginsWolverine

* CompellingVoice: Kayla's power, though it only works with an added touch. [[spoiler:At the end of the film she commands Stryker]] first to put a gun to his chin, but stops short of [[PsychicAssistedSuicide making him shoot himself]], instead saying "Turn around. [[CruelMercy Now walk until your feet bleed]]. [[UpToEleven And then keep walking]]."

** Part of Gambit’s wardrobe along with NiceHat.

* NiceHat:
** John Wraith is always wearing his cowboy hat in pretty much every scene.
** Gambit wears his hat throughout most of the film. [[http://angryweb.net/2009/04/28/lauren-shuler-donner-talks-gambit-spin-off-and-x-men-first-class/ It's a nice one, indeed.]]

* StaticCharacter: Averting this with Wolverine was one of the criticisms of the film ("[[http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1616 Although it can take credit for clearing up some of the mysteries surround the title character's identity, those revelations serve to make Wolverine less compelling]]").

** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' hints that the adamantium was injected and shaped by doctors, and (in a flashback) Logan is seen fighting off several doctors who've been working on him before escaping the Alkali Lake facility covered in blood. In this movie, the adamantium bonding process is hands-free, no doctors ever work on Logan, and the adamantium is grafted to his bone claws, something he wasn't mentioned as having in the earlier films. Additionally, the X-rays don't show the two giant holes he should have in his skull.

* TheStinger: The film has, depending on your screening, either [[spoiler:a now-amnesiac Logan in a bar, "drinking to remember"]] or [[spoiler:the [[LosingYourHead living disembodied head]] of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, having gained his mouth back and his MediumAwareness as well.]] DVD releases have both. There's also [[spoiler:General Stryker getting arrested]], but everyone got that one.

* {{Fanservice}}: Other than Logan's shirtless scenes, Kayla looks pretty good in her lingerie.

* RedOniBlueOni: Victor is the red to Logan's blue.

* ShirtlessScene: The film took this to an extreme, which was much to the delight of Creator/HughJackman fangirls. During a dramatic escape scene, not only does he erupt from a tank of water completely shirtless (and indeed naked) (muscles + dripping water...) but he then proceeds to escape, running and fighting his way out of the building. Viewers get a lovable full-body shot (in which censorship is ''barely'' provided by his leg from a mostly-side-shot) when he jumps off a waterfall.

* SmugSnake:
** Stryker. Down to the overconfidence part.
** Also Agent Zero has his moments.

* {{Mondegreen}}: When Logan addresses the very overweight Fred J. Dukes as "bub", Fred gets mad because he mishears it as "Blob". (Fred J. Dukes would actually become the mutant known as the Blob).

** The aftermath of ''ComicBook/FatalAttractions'' establishes that Wolverine's mutation originally included bone claws and the adamantuim only merely coated the claws. This is confirmed when Rogue uses Wolverine's powers, and she grows bone claws of her own.

* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Shortly after Logan receives his adamantium infusion, he slices up several items in a farmhouse bathroom (including a porcelain sink) with his now impossibly sharp claws, despite applying what appears to be no more than the force required to move an unrestrained arm.

** Part of Gambit’s wardrobe along with FingerlessGloves and a NiceHat.

* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: Hydrochlorothiazide would ''not'' allow someone to fake death by slowing their heart down. They would instead lose control of their bowels. Que medical majors laughing uncontrollably at the movie.

* SlidingBikeSlide: Even Wolverine pays tribute to this scene, where during the "fight" against the helicopter, he stops his bike in moving and changes the way with his claws on the ground, making this iconic pose for the movie.

* CanonDiscontinuity: A very well known example of this trope. After the film came out, no one was really happy with the result (from the fans to the production team--even Creator/HughJackman has stated it didn't feel like a Wolverine movie), and the various contradictions it has with the original trilogy. The prequel franchise was then rejiggered with ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' (containing a completely different Emma Frost) and this film is ignored almost entirely in ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Days of Future Past]]'', where even ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'' is taken into account. Minor references to ''Origins'' in other films include an audio clip of Wolverine yelling, "Kayla!" that plays when Wolverine is unconscious during ''Film/TheWolverine'', and footage of Sabertooth stepping on his bone claws appearing when Xavier looks into his mind in ''Days of Future Past.'' ''Film/{{Logan}}'' features his old dog tags and [[spoiler:the adamantium bullet, which becomes a ChekovsGun.]]

* CanonDiscontinuity: A very well known example of this trope. After the film came out, no one was really happy with the result (from the fans to the production team--even Creator/HughJackman has stated it didn't feel like a Wolverine movie), and the various contradictions it has with the original trilogy. The prequel franchise was then rejiggered with ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' (containing a completely different Emma Frost) and this film is ignored almost entirely in ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Days of Future Past]]'', where even ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'' is taken into account. Minor references to ''Origins'' in other films include an audio clip of Wolverine yelling, "Kayla!" that plays when Wolverine is unconscious during ''Film/TheWolverine'', and footage of Sabertooth stepping on his bone claws appearing when Xavier looks into his mind in ''Days of Future Past.'' ''Film/Logan'' features his old dog tags and [[spoiler:the adamantium bullet, which becomes a ChekovsGun.]]

* CanonDiscontinuity: A very well known example of this trope. After the film came out, no one was really happy with the result (from the fans to the production team--even Creator/HughJackman has stated it didn't feel like a Wolverine movie), and the various contradictions it has with the original trilogy. The prequel franchise was then rejiggered with ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' (containing a completely different Emma Frost) and this film is ignored almost entirely in ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Days of Future Past]]'', where even ''[[Film/XMenTheLastStand The Last Stand]]'' is taken into account. Minor references to ''Origins'' in other films include an audio clip of Wolverine yelling, "Kayla!" that plays when Wolverine is unconscious during ''Film/TheWolverine'', and footage of Sabertooth stepping on his bone claws appearing when Xavier looks into his mind in ''Days of Future Past.''

** Agent Zero uses a [=PT92=] and a [=PT92=] Inox as his pistols of choice. The PT92 wasn't introduced until the 1980s, and the Inox came around in the 1990s.

* ArtisticLicenceMedicine: Hydrochlorothiazide would ''not'' allow someone to fake death by slowing their heart down. They world instead lose control of their bowels. Queue medical majors laughing uncontrollably at the movie.

** John Wraith uses a massively anachronistic H&K G36K rifle with AG36 underbarrel grenade launcher, some 20 odd years before the rifle or grenade launcher were ever developed.

** Agent Zero uses a PT92 and a PT92 Inox as his pistols of choice. The PT92 wasn't introduced until the 1980s, and the Inox came around in the 1990s.

* AbortedArc: The film ended with the reveal that ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} had survived being decapitated, setting the character up for future appearances. The poor portrayal, coupled with the movie's mediocre earnings, led to the studio abandoning any plans for a sequel for several years, and releasing the unrelated ''Film/TheWolverine'' instead. A solo ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'' movie was released in 2016, but it's completely unconnected to this film.

** In early appearances of ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} in ''ComicBook/NewMutants'' and ''ComicBook/XForce'', Deadpool mentions having been part of the Weapon X program. The film plays with this by turning Deadpool into a member of Team X, and later, Weapon XI.

* CompositeCharacter: The film went along with the comic book's then implication of Dog Logan and Victor Creed/Sabretooth being the same individual; years later, however, the comics show Dog and Sabretooth as not being the same person. Movie Victor also takes on Rose's role from the ''Origin'' comic as the person who helped Logan run away.