History Fridge / XMenFilmSeries

* Meta Brilliance: [[Creator/IanMcKellen Magneto]] knows all about being part of a persecuted minority.
* If you inspect the title sequence of each film, they feature Xavier’s Cerebro sphere, against a weapon each villain uses in their film.
** ''Film/XMen1'' features cells mutating, which fits for an origin story about mutants but it also has to do with Magneto's machine that causes mutations in normal humans]].
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' has Stryker’s Cerebro sphere.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' has a sample of mutant blood, which refers to Leech’s mutant-neutralizing blood]].
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' has the coin used by Sebastian Shaw [[spoiler: which later is used by Magneto to kill him, himself succeeding the villain he fought against]]. Cerebro doesn’t appear, because it was constructed as a prototype in the film.
** ''Film/XMenDaysofFuturePast'' has Mystique’s cells being converted into Trask’s Sentinel machinery.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' has En Sabah Nur’s pyramid device.
** ''Film/DarkPhoenix'', while being the most toned-down title sequence (no Cerebro), features fire in the film title. The Phoenix is shown to be both villainous and heroic in the film [[spoiler: as well as not being the main villain of the film (that's the D'Bari)]], so a traditional title would not have worked out.
* The connection between ''Series/{{The Gifted|2017}} '' and ''Series/{{Legion|2017}}'' and the X-Men films can be found if you take into account a recent episode of Legion where David talks about the theory that their are strings of alternate timelines that diveverge and diverge at different points due to different decisions.
* Past Xavier ([=McAvoy=]) seems to be a lot more cocky and overconfident since ''Film/XMenDaysofFuturePast''. Well, obviously: he’s changed history, defeated a mutant god and mentally controlled the mutant who defeated the aforementioned mutant. With that said, his overconfidence does get the better of him on those occasions.
** Future Xavier (Stewart) never went through those events. So he appears more sober and serious, and doesn’t underrate anything or anyone. His battle with the Phoenix in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' was for the first time and he came off the worst for it, because he never had previous experience with it or anything like it.
* In contrast to the above, Past Erik (Fassbender) becomes markedly less daring. He doesn’t have a BreaktheHaughty arc, but he is more cautious and willing to keep his head down and look after his own, only rising up to retaliate under situations of major loss (his family’s slaughter in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' and Raven’s death in ''Film/DarkPhoenix'').
** Future Erik (McKellen) is more ambitious and willing to endure risks and losses (including mutant lives, even those of close ones) to fulfill his goals. He went too far when he sought to manipulate the Phoenix, which went on a destructive rampage that shocked even him; his past version in contrast sought to have the Phoenix eliminated.

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* ''Fridge/XMen1''
* ''Fridge/X2XMenUnited''
* ''Fridge/XMenTheLastStand''
* ''Fridge/XMenOriginsWolverine''
* ''Fridge/XMenFirstClass''
* ''Fridge/TheWolverine''
* ''Fridge/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''
* ''Fridge/Deadpool2016''
* ''Fridge/XMenApocalypse''
* ''Fridge/{{Logan}}''
* ''Fridge/Deadpool2''
* ''Fridge/DarkPhoenix''
* ''Fridge/TheNewMutants''

** Film/XMen1 features cells mutating, which fits for an origin story about mutants but it also has to do with [[spoiler: Magneto making a machine that causes mutations in normal humans]].
** Film/X2XMenUnited has Stryker’s Cerebro sphere.
** Film/XMenTheLastStand has a sample of mutant blood, [[spoiler: Leech’s mutant-neutralizing blood]].
** Film/XMenFirstClass has the coin used by Sebastian Shaw [[spoiler: which later is used by Magneto to kill him, himself succeeding the villain he fought against]]. Cerebro doesn’t appear, because it was constructed as a prototype in the film.
** Film/XMenDaysofFuturePast has Mystique’s cells being converted into Trask’s Sentinel machinery.
** Film/XMenApocalypse has En Sabah Nur’s pyramid.
** Film/DarkPhoenix, while being the most toned-down title sequence (no Cerebro or mechanism), features fire in the film title.

* Past Xavier ([=McAvoy=]) seems to be a lot more cocky and overconfident since Days of Future Past. Well, obviously: he’s changed history, defeated a mutant god and mentally controlled the mutant who defeated the aforementioned mutant. With that said, his overconfidence does get the better of him on those occasions.
** Future Xavier (Stewart) never went through those events. So he appears more sober and serious, and doesn’t underrate anything or anyone. His battle with the Phoenix in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' was for the first time and he came off the worst for it, because he never had previous experience with it or anything like it.

** Film/XMen1 features cells mutating, which is okay for an origin but it also has to do with [[spoiler: Magneto making a machine that causes mutations in normal humans]].

* The connection between ''Series/TheGifted '' and ''Series/{{Legion}}'' and the X-Men films can be found if you take into account a recent episode of Legion where David talks about the theory that their are strings of alternate timelines that diveverge and diverge at different points due to different decisions.

* The connection between ''The Gifted '' and ''Legion'' and the X-Men films can be found if you take into account a recent episode of Legion where David talks about the theory that their are strings of alternate timelines that diveverge and diverge at different points due to different decisions.
* Past Xavier (McAvoy) seems to be a lot more cocky and overconfident since Days of Future Past. Well, obviously: he’s changed history, defeated a mutant god and mentally controlled the mutant who defeated the aforementioned mutant. With that said, his overconfidence does get the better of him on those occasions.

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* Storm using a summoned blizzard to [[spoiler: force Jason to release his illusion's hold on Xavier in ''X2'' makes a lot more sense if you see TheCameo of a younger Jason frozen in cryogenic stasis in ''Origins: Wolverine'']].
* ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': In the comics, it takes being fatally shot to kick-start Wade Wilson's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Super-Cancer]] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain into his]] HealingFactor. In the movie, [[spoiler: it takes Weapon XI being fatally injured by being cut and probably having his torso smashed to kick-start his Deadpool-ness.]] It may have been an AuthorsSavingThrow, but it works.
** That, and Wade Wilson's stint as Weapon XI? What sort of horrifying experimentation and mental conditioning do you think he went through? It's the perfect set-up for the famous Deadpool insanity! And it's even followed up on in one of the endings, when [[spoiler:Deadpool's head looks at the camera.]]
* If you read ''The Once and Future King'' (featured in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'') after watching the ''X-Men'' movies, you will find dozens of ways that it is relevant, some of which, based on the film commentary, the directors weren't even thinking of. For example:
** Obviously, the ending of the Arthurian mythos is about good friends being divided by differing principles and priorities and fighting each other.
** There's a lot of discussion (by Merlin) of the need to forget and move on from past, and even ongoing, oppression and injustice, on the basis that starting a war is inherently wrong even if you've got a lot of justification for doing so.
** Arthur, early in his kingship, is described as a cheerful and idealistic young man who more or less regards suffering as non-existent due to not having truly experienced any. Now watch ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and look at Xavier...
* Wonder why Jean Grey suddenly went psychotic with the power of the Phoenix in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''? She has been trapped under water for an indefinite period of time, and in addition to her schizophrenic personality being released, it's quite likely she suffered brain damage.
* It takes Professor X so much longer to find all the mutants, who are a much smaller portion of the population, then it did for him to find all the humans. The reason why had already been provided earlier in the film. Xavier had trouble locking on to Nightcrawler because he's a teleporter and his mind is slippery to a psychic. It may suggest that other mutants are mildly shielded against telepaths, and it makes sense that Professor X has a much harder time finding all of the mutants than humans who have no shielding against him.
* Xavier mentions that Nightcrawler is hard to track because of his teleportation powers. With some better wording and adjustment, this could explain why Charles couldn't just command Azazel to help him at the end of First Class.
* Some fans chalked up the lack of Cerebro in X3 to just being something cut for time. However, you'll recall that in X2, Stryker stole either the entire thing or most of it, and that Nightcrawler couldn't take any of it with him when he was getting Storm and Xavier out of the Dark Cerebro room.
** One of the commentaries in X2 (possibly inadvertently) lampshades this, joking that after the horrible experiences Xavier had in the first two movies, Cerebro would be turned into the swimming pool. Think about it, first the sabotage by Mystique in X1, then being trapped in his own head and subsequently mind controlled into nearly killing first all mutants, then the rest of the population. He's got to be sick of it by X3!
* The first ''Film/XMen1'' movie is essentially a loose adaptation of "Days of Future Past" that reverses the roles of the X-Men and the Brotherhood. In both versions, Senator Robert Kelly tries to get the [[SuperRegistrationAct Mutant Registration Act]] passed through Congress, the Brotherhood targets him in retaliation, the X-Men jump in to save him, and one side is motivated by horrific memories of living in a concentration camp. The difference? In the movie, Magneto is the one haunted by memories of concentration camp life. In the comics, it's the X-Men. \\
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In the movie, Magneto suffered horribly in Auschwitz, so he and the Brotherhood kidnap Senator Kelly, fearing that his actions will lead mutants to a similar fate. In the comics, the X-Men suffer horribly in a Sentinel-run concentration camp in the future, so they go back in time to ''save'' Kelly from the Brotherhood, hoping that this will stop the years of conflict that created their BadFuture in the first place. The X-Men and their nemesis suffer the same fate, but take completely opposite actions in response.

* In ''First Class'', Shaw's mutant minions are all extremely powerful mutants in their own right. Why did he have such potent subordinates? Easy: he started almost 20 years before Charles and Erik began searching for new mutants.
* At the climax of ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' when Xavier begs Magneto to spare the soldiers that fired upon them, stating that "they were only following orders," that was indeed one of the worst things to say to a Holocaust survivor of all people, but it's brilliant when you remember that Charles was a telepath for the majority of his life and could always look into people's minds to say the right things to get them to do what he wanted. The only person he refused to scan was Raven, and he therefore often made insensitive comments around her. With Magneto wearing the protective helmet, Xavier has been deprived of a sense that for him is as vital as sight, so when he unexpectedly loses it, he found himself in the position of a man who is suddenly blinded and expected to process visual cues.
* In ''First Class'' a lot of people think Mystique's defection to Magneto was rushed, but take a closer look at events. Every time she shows even hints of her real form, Xavier criticizes her, making her feel less comfortable about herself, leading to her maintaining a human cover, which puts a strain on her. Note than in the first scene with her as an adult, she takes on her mutant form when she's not in public. Following that conversation with Xavier, she maintains a human form all the time, even when she's with her friends, other mutants. Then she finds kinship in Beast, who also does not accept her real form. The only guy who encourages her to take the emotional pressure off of herself and be who she really is, is Magneto. She didn't go to Magneto simply because she was in love with him, she went because she no longer felt comfortable hiding who she was and living a lie due to her brother.
** There's potentially another side to this, though. Charles is uncomfortable when she brings up dating him and shows up naked, sure, but has no problem with platonic cuddling when she's dressed. Erik effectively tells her her natural body is a costume, and needs no further covering. As far as acceptance goes, there is room for interpretation. Plus, it's not like she wouldn't have to hide with Mags, too.
* In ''First Class'', there is constant mention of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons to parallel the rise of mutants, which is a nice call-back to a scene near the beginning of ''X-Men 2'' when Storm explains the history of Neanderthals with modern science hinting that Neanderthals might not have been wiped out completely by Cro-Mognons. ScienceMarchesOn indeed!
* In the finale of ''First Class'' [[spoiler: Stryker is seen trying to convince the joint chiefs to fire on the mutants. Such authorization would have to come from Kennedy himself because, at very least, they are firing on foreign soil. Magneto is shown to have a revenge streak a mile long. Kennedy dies less then a year later to bullets that take a ''very'' unusual path through his body. Put it together...]]
** Matthew Vaughn has actually said that if there's a sequel, he wants this to be how it starts.
** Take a look at the coastline of the beach they're firing on... it looks quite a bit like [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Gitmo_Aerial.jpg Guantanamo Bay]], which ''is'' [=US=] territory and therefore would not require presidential approval to fire upon.
* Take another look at the ''First Class'' Cerebro scene, while Charles is tracking down the mutants. The typical humans are shown in black and white, while the mutants are in full, vibrant color. It occurred to me after this film that this is how Charles sees mutants in relation to the rest of the world. Humans are old-fashioned and dull, while mutants are vibrant and beautiful. An indication that for all of his talk of cooperation between humans and mutants, he isn't free of his own prejudices? (wallwalker)
** Don't forget that Cerebro is a mutant detection system. What sense is a detection system if it doesn't mark the things you are looking for to make them stand out? The humans are no mutants, therefore not relevant, therefore not marked.
* So how in the world can a kid possibly convince his parents to adopt a strange, little girl who broke into their house... oh right, he's a telepath who can control minds.
* ''FridgeHorror'' for Hank, if you use X-Men comic canon to fill in the movie-related gaps (and igre continuity errors). Not only did he warp into a very hard to ignore blue furry mutant, but Raven left him and eventually hooked up with Azazel the mutant that murdered his father!
* Half way between FridgeBrilliance and WildMassGuessing: In the comics, Havok (aka Alex Summers) is Cyclops (aka Scott Summers) brother. While no connection is made between the two in the movies, Havok's blasts look very similar to Cyclops. And while Havok is definately too old to be Cyclops brother, he's just the right age to be his ''father''.
** As I understand it, WordOfGod says exactly that.
** What about Alex Summers Jr. being Cyclop's brother? He inherited his father's ability as well, but the exact same instead of eye blasts. or, like his comic book incarnation, Alex (Jr.) could have gotten "hand blasts" like Cyclops getting "eye blasts". Variations of the same power, inherited. Maybe the title "Havok" will be passed from father to son?
*** Don't think so; if you look closely at the Cerebro scene, you can see a boy that looks like a young Scott (ya know, the one with the baseball and the sunglasses?)
*** That makes no sense, though, unless Scott was an ''incredibly'' spry and youthful 50-something by the time of the original movie.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' has made it movie canon that Scott Summers is Havok’s younger brother.
* Mystique working those oversized barbells in ''First Class'' may have been their explanation for her level of badass in the first three movies, turning from the traditional FemmeFatale of the comics and cartoon into a martial arts expert.
* In the comics, Darwin just ''teleported away'' from the Hulk rather than adapt into something that could beat him - which helps the fan theory that [[spoiler:he survived Shaw's cherry bomb, by teleporting away and leaving the exploding blast where he was.]]
** [[DidntThinkThisThrough Which would've killed everybody else]]. But if he can adapt to any situation, it's possible he can adapt to being vaporized, and reform over time.
** Or as I thought in the cinema and got me a “Shh“ from the whole audience; He could transfer his energy to Havok since he survived like that his very first time as an X-men.
* In X3 the Proffesor and Magneto go to Jean's childhood home where she is waiting for them. No one else is seen in the house beside these three, and considering that Jean's parents must have still lived there, due to their surname 'Grey' being on the mailbox afer 20 years or so... this means that after arriving at her old home, Jean (or rather the Phoneix) killed and vaporized her parents...
** We don't know that they were home at the time.
* In X3 I thought Magneto's plan seemed...well, not very well thought out. I understood his tactics, but his using "the pawns" as human (mutant?) shields and wasting literally hundreds of mutants went against Magneto's belief in mutants being precious and better than humanity. Then I remembered Erik has just lost the two constants in his life, the only true companions he had since the camps - Mystique to the Cure and Charles, his oldest friend, to the Phoenix. Of course he's going to have a weak plan, he's thrown it together while he was angry and upset.
* In the first three X-Men movies, I always wondered why Mystique was nude besides RuleOfSexy. Even in the the comics, she at least had some type of clothing. In First Class, we get to see her struggle with her appearance and wanting to be normal. Even with her fellow mutants, Raven keeps the appearance of looking like everyone else, hiding her her real appearance. When Erik comes along, he tells her that her true form is beautiful and encourages her to stop trying look like everyone else. In the scene where she appears in her natural blue appearance nude before Charles before the big mission, we not only see how they've grown apart but when she stops hiding her true form. Her being nude shows Raven is no longer hiding her true self and no longer conforming to society.
* At the beginning of the second movie, Storm is talking about Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon men. At first it seems unimportant, but then I realize it can be applied to humans and mutants: Magneto believes mutants will replace humans (theory that Cro-Magnons replaced Neanderthals), while the X-Men believe thet co-existance is possible (theory that modern humans are the result of Neanderthals mating with the Cro-Magnon)
* Magneto's disgusted remark of "You homo sapiens and your guns" in the first movie makes all the more sense if you remember how his mother died and [[spoiler:Charles lost the use of his legs]] in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
* Hank's disgust at something he himself once tried in the third film makes perfect sense: when he joined the others in the hanger, and they still accepted him, he realized Raven had been right the night before.
* ''X-Men First Class'' is a Deconstruction of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, which is appropriately where its origins lay. Charles Xavier, brilliant scientist and cheerful patriot for his country, ends up betrayed by his own country for being a mutant and has his best friend and his adoptive sister leave him when it became apparent their ideals differed from his. Erik Lehnsherr, Holocaust survivor and AntiHero, ends up adopting his enemy's philosophy and turning against mankind. The teenage super team ends up with one of their party dead, two performing a FaceHeelTurn, and the other three deeply traumatized from having to fight. Science ends up causing as many problems as it fixed. The idea of having nuclear power enhance the X-gene is immediately scoffed at. Women and minorities are pushed into the background and therefore either lash out (Mystique and Angel) or prove much deadlier than they appear (Moira and Emma Frost).
** Similarly, ''X-Men Days of Future Past'' was a very decent homage as well as Deconstruction of UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}, with the government and large corporations being portrayed as corrupt and evil, but only in the hands of corrupt and evil people like Boliver Trask. The heroes and [[AntiHero anti-heroes]] are disillusioned and harsh towards one another, particularly Charles Xavier, but a good deal of his character development involves him learning to [[SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers hope and trust again so as to save the future]].
* Magneto's description of God in ''Film/XMen1'' sounds a lot like Professor X, and the connection becomes more obvious after it's revealed in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' that Magneto views mutants to be gods among insects, and there is no one in the world he respects (and loves, as we learn in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'') more than his old friend.
-->'''Magneto''': I've always thought of God as a teacher, a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding.
* Magneto abandoning Mystique after she's depowered in ''X3'' is still callous, but also makes a certain amount of sense; Magneto is pushing the "mutants ''must'' defeat humanity'' part of his mutant supremacy doctrine harder than ever. If he's seen associating with a human, even a depowered mutant, it could seriously undermine his credibility and ruin his influence -- which, in turn, would cripple the army he's trying to build to protect all of mutantkind. He's still an asshole, but he's making his decision on the basis of TheNeedsOfTheMany -- and Magneto has ''always'' prided himself on being the practical, realistic one when compared to Xavier.
* After the universe-reshuffling events of 'Days of Future Past', X-Men Origins: Wolverine was retconned, so none of the events in the film took place, including what happened to Wade Wilson/Deadpool... come the same year as a new X-Men film (Apocalypse) is set for release, and Deadpool gets his origin retold the way it was meant to be with his own film, which still fits him into the X-Men timeline. Because Bryan Singer rebooted the X-Men timeline, he not only gave Jean and Scott a second chance, he gave Deadpool one as well!
* In Film/XMenOriginsWolverine, How did Logan grow up to be such a decent person with a sibling as violent and feral as Victor? Well, just compare the way they were raised before they decided to run away from home. Logan was raised by his legal father, John Howlett, who was a kind and loving man who taught Logan the value of kindness and mercy while Victor was raised by both him and Logan's biological father, Thomas Logan, who was a dipsomaniacal and unkind man, who would probably beat Victor out of spite, unwittingly teaching him the knowledge of pain and hatred, to the point of possible trauma. So, as they entered the battlefield, Logan would keep the good ethics taught to him by his legal father to control his own anger while Victor would succumb to his hatred and unleash his sociopathic urges on both his enemies and allies, turning him into a monster far worse than his father. In short, the way they were raised in their childhood is what shaped them to who they are now.

** Future Xavier (Stewart) never went through those events. So he appears more sober and serious, and doesn’t underrate anything or anyone. His battle with the Phoenix in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' was for the first time and he came off the worst for it, because he never had previous experience with it or anything like it.
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* ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': In the comics, it takes being fatally shot to kick-start Wade Wilson's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Super-Cancer]] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain into his]] HealingFactor. In the movie, [[spoiler: it takes Weapon XI being fatally injured by being cut and probably having his torso smashed to kick-start his Deadpool-ness.]] It may have been an AuthorsSavingThrow, but it works.
** That, and Wade Wilson's stint as Weapon XI? What sort of horrifying experimentation and mental conditioning do you think he went through? It's the perfect set-up for the famous Deadpool insanity! And it's even followed up on in one of the endings, when [[spoiler:Deadpool's head looks at the camera.]]
* If you read ''The Once and Future King'' (featured in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'') after watching the X-Men movies, you will find dozens of ways that it is relevant, some of which, based on the film commentary, the directors weren't even thinking of. For example:
** Obviously, the ending of the Arthurian mythos is about good friends being divided by differing principles and priorities and fighting each other.
** There's a lot of discussion (by Merlin) of the need to forget and move on from past, and even ongoing, oppression and injustice, on the basis that starting a war is inherently wrong even if you've got a lot of justification for doing so.
** Arthur, early in his kingship, is described as a cheerful and idealistic young man who more or less regards suffering as non-existent due to not having truly experienced any. Now watch ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and look at Xavier...
* Wonder why Jean Grey suddenly went psychotic with the power of the Phoenix in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''? She has been trapped under water for an indefinite period of time, and in addition to her schizophrenic personality being released, it's quite likely she suffered brain damage.
* It takes Professor X so much longer to find all the mutants, who are a much smaller portion of the population, then it did for him to find all the humans. The reason why had already been provided earlier in the film. Xavier had trouble locking on to Nightcrawler because he's a teleporter and his mind is slippery to a psychic. It may suggest that other mutants are mildly shielded against telepaths, and it makes sense that Professor X has a much harder time finding all of the mutants than humans who have no shielding against him.
* Some fans chalked up the lack of Cerebro in X3 to just being something cut for time. However, you'll recall that in X2, Stryker stole either the entire thing or most of it, and that Nightcrawler couldn't take any of it with him when he was getting Storm and Xavier out of the Dark Cerebro room.
** One of the commentaries in X2 (possibly inadvertently) lampshades this, joking that after the horrible experiences Xavier had in the first two movies, Cerebro would be turned into the swimming pool. Think about it, first the sabotage by Mystique in X1, then being trapped in his own head and subsequently mind controlled into nearly killing first all mutants, then the rest of the population. He's got to be sick of it by X3!
* Meta Brilliance: [[Creator/IanMcKellen Magneto]] knows all about being part of a persecuted minority.

* The title sequence of each main X-Men film depicts a weapon that is used in the film against the X-Men, countered by the X-Men's Cerebro sphere. [[spoiler: The first film features genes mutating, which recalls Magneto’s mutation machine. X2 features Stryker's own Cerebro. The Last Stand features a vial of Leech’s mutant-cancelling blood. First Class features Shaw’s coin. Days Of Future Past features a mix of cells and Sentinel circuitry. Apocalypse features his pyramid.]]

* In X3 the Proffesor and Magneto go to Jean's childhood home where she is waiting for them. No one else is seen in the house beside these three, and considering that Jean's parents must have still lived there, due to their surname 'Grey' being on the mailbox afer 20 years or so... this means that after arriving at her old home, Jean (or rather the Phoneix) killed and vapourised her parents...
** We don't know that they were home at the time.
* In X3 I thought Magneto's plan seemed...well, not very well thought out. I understood his tactics, but his using "the pawns" as human (mutant?) shields and wasting literally hundreds of mutants went against Magneto's belief in mutants being precious and better than humanity. Then I remembered Erik has just lost the two constants in his life, the only true companions he had since the camps - Mystique to the Cure and Charles, his oldest friend, to the Phoenix. Of course he's going to have a weak plan, he's thrown it together while he was angry and upset.
* In the first three X-Men movies, I always wondered why Mystique was nude besides RuleOfSexy. Even in the the comics, she at least had some type of clothing. In First Class, we get to see her struggle with her appearance and wanting to be normal. Even with her fellow mutants, Raven keeps the appearance of looking like everyone else, hiding her her real appearance. When Erik comes along, he tells her that her true form is beautiful and encourages her to stop trying look like everyone else. In the scene where she appears in her natural blue appearance nude before Charles before the big mission, we not only see how they've grown apart but when she stops hiding her true form. Her being nude shows Raven is no longer hiding her true self and no longer conforming to society.
* At the beginning of the second movie, Storm is talking about Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon men. At first it seems unimportant, but then I realize it can be applied to humans and mutants: Magneto believes mutants will replace humans (theory that Cro-Magnons replaced Neanderthals), while the X-Men believe thet co-existance is possible (theory that modern humans are the result of Neanderthals mating with the Cro-Magnon)
* Hank's disgust at something he himself once tried in the third film makes perfect sense: when he joined the others in the hanger, and they still accepted him, he realized Raven had been right the night before.

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* The second ''[[Film/X2XMenUnited X-Men]]'' movie involves a plot in which Professor Xavier is brainwashed into using a copy of Cerebro to attempt to wipe out the human race. The heroes manage to interrupt him before Xavier can actually kill anyone - but a scene montage shows that an undetermined amount of people experienced a severe headache for a short time. The movie doesn't give any details on how many people were affected, but the montage implies that A LOT of people experienced the severe headache. Now, think about what would happen if a huge number of people were suddenly affected by a severe headache that incapacitated them, even for a short time. Car crashes, plane crashes, surgeons screwing things up in the middle of surgery...
* In the movies, Magneto is a survivor of the Holocaust and his experiences with Nazi Germany has led to his fierce commitment for mutant rights. Yet he is not a peaceful mutant rights advocate, but basically he represents a point of view of "Mutant Supremacy". He wants to wipe out normal humans because he feels they are inferior. So there is no difference between the Nazis and Magneto, both view(ed) some other human beings as inferior races which do not have a right to exist and have to be wiped out.
** The Nazis based their philosophy on racial superiority. Magneto's is based on evolutionary superiority. A subtle difference, but an important one in his mind. One could argue that he would seek a peaceful alternative if he thought that was a viable option, but based on his experiences, it isn't. The Nazis attacked other races based on unsubstantiated fear whereas Magneto has mankind's well-documented history as a stupid and violent race on which base his own fears.
** I don't believe he mentioned it in ''First Class'' (where he seemed to be driven mostly by pure revenge) but comic and original trilogy Magneto has often taken the Holocaust as evidence that humans kill others just for being different. And if humans will commit genocide over difference in '''race''', an entirely different '''species''' had better take a "them or us" stance and strike first.
* The third movie ends with Rogue taking the cure so she can be with Iceman, but as the ending goes on to show, the cure isn't permanent. Bobby had better hope he's not doing anything that involves physical contact with the girl that he can touch for the first time in their relationship when the cure wears off.
** Canon holds that Rogue is a Class 2 mutant, and Magneto a Class 6. The cure could very well work entirely on Rogue and leave Magneto with power.
** On a more positive note, if the cure doesn't prove permanent for Rogue, she's still got Leech there with her at the school. Spare another milliliter of cure serum for Rogue, Leech?
** Also, if the return of Magneto's powers are any indication, the happy couple will get some fair warning in advance. Magneto could only ''just'' wobble that chess piece a bit. The first indication for Rogue will be when she suddenly starts feeling kind of cold and realizes she can see her breath, and Iceman's feeling a bit worn out just from kissing her.
* In "First Class", Charles leaves Shaw paralyzed momentarily, so he can't hurt Erik. Then, Erik proceeds to kill Shaw by driving a metal coin through his head. Erik is now delighted he has killed and tortured his enemy- cause let's face it, a metal coin through the skull will hurt. Wrong. Charles had incapacitated Shaw by putting his conscience into Shaw's head so to control him. It was Shaw who died because it was his brain the coin was put through- but it was Charles who felt every moment of a small, metal, object being driven through his skull. [[SarcasmMode Nice one, Erik.]]
* Since Charles hadn't reached puberty yet when we see him as a kid in 1944, that means a traumatic event triggered his mutation--most probably it was the death of his father.
* Think of how Raven went from just [[Film/XMenFirstClass wanting to be accepted and live a happy life with Charles]], to killing without remorse, even [[Film/XMen1 nearly killing her first and oldest friend]].
* It’s becoming pretty obvious that due to the events of X-Men:Apocalypse that humanity has gone back to treating Mutants in the AlternateTimeline the same way they did in the original one.
** In ''Film/Deadpool2016'' we have the Work Shop where Mutants are being essetinqlly tortured to unlock their genes and then sold to the highes bitter.
** ''New Mutants'' shows teenagers being locked in an asylum for no other reason then the fact that they are Mutants
** Lets just let the situation in ''Film/{{Logan}}'' speak for itself.
** Fortunatley it was later revealed that ''Logan''was not the canon future.
* The second ''[[Film/X2XMenUnited X-Men]]'' movie involves a plot in which Professor Xavier is brainwashed into using a copy of Cerebro to attempt to wipe out the human race. The heroes manage to interrupt him before Xavier can actually kill anyone - but a scene montage shows that an undetermined amount of people experienced a severe headache for a short time. The movie doesn't give any details on how many people were affected, but the montage implies that A LOT of people experienced the severe headache. Now, think about what would happen if a huge number of people were suddenly affected by a severe headache that incapacitated them, even for a short time.
** Car crashes, plane crashes, surgeons screwing things up in the middle of surgery...
* In the movies, Magneto is a surivivor of the Holocaust and his experiences with Nazi Germany has led to his fierce commitment for mutant rights. Yet he is not a peacful mutant right advocist, but basically he represents a point of view of "Mutant Supremacy". He wants to wipe out normal humans because he feels they are inferior. So there is no difference between the Nazis and Magneto, both view(ed) some other human beings as inferior races which do not have a right to exist and have to be wiped out.
** The Nazis based their philosophy on racial superiority. Magneto's is based on evolutionary superiority. A subtle difference, but an important one in his mind. One could argue that he would seek a peaceful alternative if he thought that was a viable option, but based on his experiences, it isn't. The Nazis attacked other races based on unsubstantiated fear whereas Magneto has mankind's well-documented history as a stupid and violent race on which base his own fears.
** I don't believe he mentioned it in ''First Class'' (where he seemed to be driven mostly by pure revenge) but comic and original trilogy Magneto has often taken the Holocaust as evidence that humans kill others just for being different. And if humans will commit genocide over difference in '''race''', an entirely different '''species''' had better take a "them or us" stance and strike first.
* The third movie ends with Rogue taking the cure so she can be with Iceman, but as the ending goes on to show, the cure isn't permanent. Bobby had better hope he's not doing anything that involves physical contact with the girl that he can touch for the first time in their relationship when the cure wears off.
** Canon holds that Rogue is a Class 2 mutant, and Magneto a Class 6. The cure could very well work entirely on Rogue and leave Magneto with power.
** On a more positive note, if the cure doesn't prove permanent for Rogue, she's still got Leech there with her at the school. Spare another milliliter of cure serum for Rogue, Leech?
** Also, if the return of Magneto's powers are any indication, the happy couple will get some fair warning in advance. Magneto could only ''just'' wobble that chess piece a bit. The first indication for Rogue will be when she suddenly starts feeling kind of cold and realizes she can see her breath, and Iceman's feeling a bit worn out just from kissing her.
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* ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': In the comics, it takes being fatally shot to kick-start Wade Wilson's [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Super-Cancer]] [[NiceJobFixingItVillain into his]] HealingFactor. In the movie, [[spoiler: it takes Weapon XI being fatally injured by being cut and probably having his torso smashed to kick-start his Deadpool-ness.]] It may have been an AuthorsSavingThrow, but it works.
** That, and Wade Wilson's stint as Weapon XI? What sort of horrifying experimentation and mental conditioning do you think he went through? It's the perfect set-up for the famous Deadpool insanity! And it's even followed up on in one of the endings, when [[spoiler:Deadpool's head looks at the camera.]]
* If you read ''The Once and Future King'' (featured in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'') after watching the X-Men movies, you will find dozens of ways that it is relevant, some of which, based on the film commentary, the directors weren't even thinking of. For example:
** Obviously, the ending of the Arthurian mythos is about good friends being divided by differing principles and priorities and fighting each other.
** There's a lot of discussion (by Merlin) of the need to forget and move on from past, and even ongoing, oppression and injustice, on the basis that starting a war is inherently wrong even if you've got a lot of justification for doing so.
** Arthur, early in his kingship, is described as a cheerful and idealistic young man who more or less regards suffering as non-existent due to not having truly experienced any. Now watch ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and look at Xavier...
* Wonder why Jean Grey suddenly went psychotic with the power of the Phoenix in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand''? She has been trapped under water for an indefinite period of time, and in addition to her schizophrenic personality being released, it's quite likely she suffered brain damage.
* It takes Professor X so much longer to find all the mutants, who are a much smaller portion of the population, then it did for him to find all the humans. The reason why had already been provided earlier in the film. Xavier had trouble locking on to Nightcrawler because he's a teleporter and his mind is slippery to a psychic. It may suggest that other mutants are mildly shielded against telepaths, and it makes sense that Professor X has a much harder time finding all of the mutants than humans who have no shielding against him.
* Some fans chalked up the lack of Cerebro in X3 to just being something cut for time. However, you'll recall that in X2, Stryker stole either the entire thing or most of it, and that Nightcrawler couldn't take any of it with him when he was getting Storm and Xavier out of the Dark Cerebro room.
** One of the commentaries in X2 (possibly inadvertently) lampshades this, joking that after the horrible experiences Xavier had in the first two movies, Cerebro would be turned into the swimming pool. Think about it, first the sabotage by Mystique in X1, then being trapped in his own head and subsequently mind controlled into nearly killing first all mutants, then the rest of the population. He's got to be sick of it by X3!
* Meta Brilliance: [[Creator/IanMcKellen Magneto]] knows all about being part of a persecuted minority.

* The title sequence of each main X-Men film depicts a weapon that is used in the film against the X-Men, countered by the X-Men's Cerebro sphere. [[spoiler: The first film features genes mutating, which recalls Magneto’s mutation machine. X2 features Stryker's own Cerebro. The Last Stand features a vial of Leech’s mutant-cancelling blood. First Class features Shaw’s coin. Days Of Future Past features a mix of cells and Sentinel circuitry. Apocalypse features his pyramid.]]

* ''FridgeHorror'' for Hank, if you use X-Men comic canon to fill in the movie-related gaps (and igre continuity errors). Not only did he warp into a very hard to ignore blue furry mutant, but Raven left him and eventualoly hooked up with Azazel the mutant that murdered his father!
* In X3 the Proffesor and Magneto go to Jean's childhood home where she is waiting for them. No one else is seen in the house beside these three, and considering that Jean's parents must have still lived there, due to their surname 'Grey' being on the mailbox afer 20 years or so... this means that after arriving at her old home, Jean (or rather the Phoneix) killed and vapourised her parents...
** We don't know that they were home at the time.
* In X3 I thought Magneto's plan seemed...well, not very well thought out. I understood his tactics, but his using "the pawns" as human (mutant?) shields and wasting literally hundreds of mutants went against Magneto's belief in mutants being precious and better than humanity. Then I remembered Erik has just lost the two constants in his life, the only true companions he had since the camps - Mystique to the Cure and Charles, his oldest friend, to the Phoenix. Of course he's going to have a weak plan, he's thrown it together while he was angry and upset.
* In the first three X-Men movies, I always wondered why Mystique was nude besides RuleOfSexy. Even in the the comics, she at least had some type of clothing. In First Class, we get to see her struggle with her appearance and wanting to be normal. Even with her fellow mutants, Raven keeps the appearance of looking like everyone else, hiding her her real appearance. When Erik comes along, he tells her that her true form is beautiful and encourages her to stop trying look like everyone else. In the scene where she appears in her natural blue appearance nude before Charles before the big mission, we not only see how they've grown apart but when she stops hiding her true form. Her being nude shows Raven is no longer hiding her true self and no longer conforming to society.
* At the beginning of the second movie, Storm is talking about Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon men. At first it seems unimportant, but then I realize it can be applied to humans and mutants: Magneto believes mutants will replace humans (theory that Cro-Magnons replaced Neanderthals), while the X-Men believe thet co-existance is possible (theory that modern humans are the result of Neanderthals mating with the Cro-Magnon)
* Hank's disgust at something he himself once tried in the third film makes perfect sense: when he joined the others in the hanger, and they still accepted him, he realized Raven had been right the night before.

* The connection between ''The Gifted '' and ''Legion'' and the X-Men films can be found if you take into account a recent episode of Legion where David takes about the theory that their are strings of alternate timelines that diveverge and diverge at different points due to different decisions.

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* ''First Class'', so...just what is Shaw's helmet made out of that prevents telepaths from reading his mind?
** Isn't it made of metal? Why couldn't Magneto just take it off of him from a distance?
*** Not all metals are magnetic.
** Probably the same material as the nuclear chamber in his sub, since Charles couldn't reach anyone that went inside.
** [[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Vibranium?]].
** Thought why would he need it, since Shaw specifically mentions being able to absorb energy, and unlike his comic version, it isn't limited to kinetic energy, as he was able to absorb both a grenade blast and a lot of radiation. Shouldn't that count for whatever energy is used for telepaths to read minds? Assuming the phrase 'Psychic energy' often used in comics to describe telepaths and telekinetics use of their powers applies to the films too, as noted previously, thought now removed for some reason.
*** Actually a grenade blast is kinetic energy.
** Tin. It is a well known secret that tin blocks outside brain waves from getting in. It's why tin has been mostly replaced by aluminum for civilian purposes.
** Given that Shaw's helmet is basically Anti-Cerebro (one amplifies telepathic powers, the other blocks them), there is likely more to it than material it's made of, namely some complex and small electronics inside. Whoever built it apparently was a Beast-level genius.
* Shaw's entire plan in ''First Class'': Putting aside the genocide and assuming Shaw is correct that mutants would be able to weather the radiation... Between the mutants that would die in the nuclear blasts themselves, those that would die of starvation and disease before they could be found by Shaw (assuming he would actually look for them) and those whose mutations would kill them once activated or altered by the radiation, you MIGHT have a couple thousand mutants worldwide to inherit the earth. That's probably not enough to repopulate the world with genetic sustainability -- again assuming that the fallout hasn't sterilized a significant portion of the survivors. Of course, Shaw was never portrayed as being particularly sane.
** Shaw threw Erik around while inside the nuclear chamber, and while getting his ass kicked Erik showed no signs of the negative side effects of being in a nuclear chamber. So apparently, mutants are immune to radiation. Thought, this is also the 1940-60s, while we understood radiation isn't friendly, we still didn't know everything about it. Shaw was shown to be qualified in genetics, its possible his knowledge of radiation isn't exactly that great, and just assumed ''"Hey, mutants are immune to radiation, and I can both manipulate a Nuclear holocaust and turn myself into an atomic bomb. Lets see how this all plays out, maybe I can genocide all humans and leave the mutants to live freely, ForScience!!."'' Of course, it was never mentioned what his plan was for food after all the animals are wiped out, [[ImAHumanitarian unless he plans for them to eat each...]] Lets not think about it.
** With the number of nukes both sides had at the time of the historical Cuban Missile Crisis, the entire world would hardly be a lifeless wasteland. One of the reasons to Soviets wanted missiles on Cuba was the fact that nuclear [=ICBMs=] were still relatively new tech, and being able to hit the US with short-ranged missiles would seriously increase the number of nukes the USSR could actually deliver onto US soil.
*** Also, most of the damage in a 1960's nuclear war would be limited to the US, USSR, and Europe. Shaw might have just planned on building his new mutant civilization in Australia, Africa, South America, or some other place that would be relatively unscathed.
** Remember that '''First Class''' was set in the 60s - the era that brought us heroes like Spiderman (bit by a radioactive spider), The Hulk (caught in a Gamma Bomb blast) and the Fantastic Four (bombarded with cosmic radiation). Shaw's plan seems downright logical from that perspective.
** Something to be noted is that studies show that the number of people roughly need to sustain a viable human population without causing genetic in-breeding is 500, so 2,000 mutants would be more than enough to maintain a viable mutant population.
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* '''''Film/Deadpool2'''''