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** Because GunssDoNotWorkThatWay. An adamantium bullet isn't going to be any more effective than a regular bullet just because it's made of adamantium. In fact, for some applications it will be ''less'':

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** Because GunssDoNotWorkThatWay.GunsDoNotWorkThatWay. An adamantium bullet isn't going to be any more effective than a regular bullet just because it's made of adamantium. In fact, for some applications it will be ''less'':

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** Or an old forest ranger's outpost.

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** Or an old forest ranger's outpost. Notice that the coordinates on the money wrapper included an address, so it probably wasn't a pop-up building.


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** Maybe the Eden plan -- an Underground Railroad for mutants -- was not recent, and maybe older than the kids themselves. And the planners clued in the comic-book writers.
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Unhelpful reply. Using a harpoon was effective even with its one use, so the question is valid.


** Let me know when grappling guns and harpoons come in 30-round magazines, fit inside an assault rifle, and fire at 700RPM, then ask that question.
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*** There is no logical reason for him to have lied about that, and no reason for Logan to have lied about it. Xavier is ''still a telepath''. Lying to him is pointless.
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*** It cannot take place in the same timeline as the good future in ''Days of Future Past''. Logan states that no new mutants have been born in 25 years, which would be since 2004. The 2023 ending of DOFP clearly has children in it that are younger than 19 as students, who would have been born after 2004.
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** The Las Vegas scene shows that Xavier's seizures very much affects regular humans. Mariko and everyone around them would be in danger, though possibly they could give Xavier a much higher level of care than Logan can manage as an Uber driver living in Mexico.
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** Logan refers to a "self-promoting asshole in a leotard" so it seems like a former x-men was involved.
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* If Wolverine was left with none of his mutant friends after Professor Xavier had his seizure, why didn't he resort to going back to Japan and living with Mariko? At the end of ''Film/TheWolverine'' (which likely happens despite the CosmicRetcon in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' because Jean and Scott are still a couple and Wolverine is seen having his samurai sword in this film), it's clear that they feel something for each other and Wolverine moves on from Jean's death. So why not retire from superheroics and live with Mariko in Japan? It's not like he would endanger her by bringing Professor X with him, as Xavier's seizures only affected mutants...
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Deleted scene claims events of The Last Stand were not retconned.

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*** A deleted scene from the dinner table claims that Logan still killed Jean as he did at the end of The Last Stand.
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** Logan probably lied to Charles regarding the "no new mutants since 25 years ago" to keep the Westchester incident repressed from his mind. Just an offhand mention of the past X-Men would be enough to risk things like a seizure. Yes, the incident was mentioned on Logan's car radio at one point, but Charles never picked up on it. And of course, the X-Men would surely know of the [=GMO=]s within the 6 year gap, though ''however'' many of them survived Westchester to know what was going on is up to theorizing.


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** Caliban was told to dump him in a ditch and had reinforcements on his ass. If Logan just went up and killed Pierce, he'd be even more on the run because he was actually a pretty big cog in the machine, not just some PsychoForHire. Logan would not want to bother with more Reavers after him especially since he was already irritated with them before, and that they pose a ''serious'' risk to Charles' life.
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** They never knew the other kids were at Eden to begin with, because their eyes were dead set on Laura. Only ''once'' she made it with Logan did they finally track them down.
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** Because BulletsDoNotWorkThatWay. An adamantium bullet isn't going to be any more effective than a regular bullet just because it's made of adamantium. In fact, for some applications it will be ''less'':

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** Because BulletsDoNotWorkThatWay.GunssDoNotWorkThatWay. An adamantium bullet isn't going to be any more effective than a regular bullet just because it's made of adamantium. In fact, for some applications it will be ''less'':
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** It could also be that none of the mercs involved had enough lack of morals to kill unarmed children.
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** I don't know, is putting [=GMOs=] in food and drinks that would make everybody white and straight a good thing? Future kids will no longer be bullied, harassed, and killed by bigots for race or orientation. You're jumping on some ''very'' UnfortunateImplications there when you remember the Mutant Metaphor.

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** I don't know, is putting [=GMOs=] in food and drinks that would make everybody white and straight a good thing? Future kids will no longer be bullied, harassed, and killed by bigots for race or orientation. You're jumping on some ''very'' UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications there when you remember the Mutant Metaphor.



** ''You're jumping on some ''very'' UnfortunateImplications there when you remember the Mutant Metaphor.'' And here we risk setting off the arguments regarding the Mutant Registration Act once more. Mutants have been a stand-in for effectively every oppressed group in history at some point in the comics; and yet as advocates both in and out of universe regularly point out, homosexuals and other minorities cannot kill with a thought AKA Xavier, they cannot walk through any physical barrier AKA Shadowcat, they cannot OneManArmy the President's entire security detail AKA Nightcrawler, they cannot commit literal identity fraud AKA Mystique etc. We are talking about a race of people with powers that rival a lesser pantheon of gods, and it has to be said regarding the idea that this is some form of genocide, it was always going to come down to them or us eventually because humans are not used to sharing and potentially giving up their position at the top of the food chain. We're just lucky that this time it didn't end with a Sentinel apocalypse.

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** ''You're jumping on some ''very'' UnfortunateImplications unfortunate implications there when you remember the Mutant Metaphor.'' And here we risk setting off the arguments regarding the Mutant Registration Act once more. Mutants have been a stand-in for effectively every oppressed group in history at some point in the comics; and yet as advocates both in and out of universe regularly point out, homosexuals and other minorities cannot kill with a thought AKA Xavier, they cannot walk through any physical barrier AKA Shadowcat, they cannot OneManArmy the President's entire security detail AKA Nightcrawler, they cannot commit literal identity fraud AKA Mystique etc. We are talking about a race of people with powers that rival a lesser pantheon of gods, and it has to be said regarding the idea that this is some form of genocide, it was always going to come down to them or us eventually because humans are not used to sharing and potentially giving up their position at the top of the food chain. We're just lucky that this time it didn't end with a Sentinel apocalypse.
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** The first time they meet (outside the hospital) Logan is still trying to play dumb and hoping he goes away. The second time they meet (in Mexico, in the scrapyard) Logan's more focused on getting away; note that he does advance towards Pierce but ends up with every gun trained on him. The third time they meet, it's outside the Muson farmhouse and Logan is, once again, more worried about running away than killing one specific soldier. Logan simply spends most of this movie running away rather than trying to kill a single person (who, remember, wasn't that important in the overall Transigen hierarchy).

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** The first time they meet (outside the hospital) Logan is still trying to play dumb and hoping he goes away. The second time they meet (in Mexico, in the scrapyard) Logan's more focused on getting away; note that he does advance towards Pierce but ends up with every gun trained on him. The third time they meet, it's outside the Muson Munson farmhouse and Logan is, once again, more worried about running away than killing one specific soldier. Logan simply spends most of this movie running away rather than trying to kill a single person (who, remember, wasn't that important in the overall Transigen hierarchy).
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** Why should they worry about relatives? It's not against the law to write people's stories, particularly when they're public stories. I imagine evil mutants have simpler ways to get some cash (Juggernaut and other mutants are portrayed robbing banks several times).

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** Why should would they worry about get sued by relatives? It's not against the law to write people's stories, particularly when they're public stories. I imagine evil mutants have simpler ways to get some cash (Juggernaut and other mutants are portrayed robbing banks several times).
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** Why should they worry about relatives? It's not against the law to write people's stories, particularly when they're public stories. I imagine evil mutants have simpler ways to get some cash (Juggernaut and other mutants are portrayed robbing banks several times).

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