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"Finally a cure for my chainsaw hands!" exclaimed Chainsaw Hands Joe. "There is no cure," said Johnny Five-Dicks, "there's nothing wrong with us."
I'm crying, stop.
I remember this tumblr post.
I mean 5 dicks seems cool.......Unless you have 10 testicles
"The spikey guy was pointless" 😂
He was crucial to helping people calm down with friendly hugs 😂
you beat me to it
It was just a little prick.
Yeah I don't get how that guy worked his way into the cool mutant group😅
Aah now that's my sense of humor! 😂
Colossus hurling Wolverine is an old time X-Men classic move from the comics. It's called the Fastball Special. I've seen it hundreds of times, but it was nice to see it in the film...
Shehulk made it weird...lol
@@cthulhuspawn6290 "First rule of the fastball special, we don't talk about the fastball special."
So…Logan is in upstate New York and he gets a mental calling from Jean in Muir Woods, north of San Francisco.
Logan goes to Muir Woods and meets with Jean and Magneto. He finds out they’re going to Alcatraz (just a few short miles south.
Logan then goes cross-country to New York to tell Storm they’re gonna attack Alcatraz, then flies there.
Dude. Pick up a phone.
Jean was just going behind the bushes and Magneto and Wokvie followed her.
Dude from the 19th century forgets that phones have been invented! 😂
But this way he gets to use more of Scott’s vehicles.
the man mowing the lawn at the beginning is comic writter Chris Claremont. He co-created A BUNCH of X-Men characters like Rogue, Mystique, Stryker, Sabertooth, Pyro... All the classic "must read" X-Men stories were written by him ❤
Him and JimLee were an awesome combination
@@natt3975 Claremont-Byrne combination FTW with the X-men.
Very,very true-as someone who grew up reading the Uncanny X-Men comic books written by Claremont,penciled by John Byrne and inked by Terry Austin,l fully appreciate the tremendous debt the X-Men franchise owes to Mr. Claremont.
Juggernaut is technically not even a Mutant he got his powers from a magical artifact
Well in these movies, he is.
I think he was a mutant originally but the Cytorak(?) crytsal amplified it to make him an unstopable 'Juggernaught' I think he had the mutation that if he started running he could run through almost anything but the crytstal allowed him to run through say mountains. I also think he's also meant to be Magneto's brother/half brother too
@@TrickyDicky2006Charles half brother*
And the Phoenix is an entity, not some schizophrenic second personality
@@pickleboy6059, step-brother. Cain's dad married Charles's mom.
"They" didn't move Charles's conscience. He did it himself in the moment of his body's death. As he had planned.
And it’s not quite “Johnny Silverhanding” because part of the class mentions that the body was born without a consciousness or something, so less ethically dubious then if it was just a guy in a coma
consciousness, not conscience.
And that's Moira from First Class.
talk about spoilers@@couch.patati-patata
Let us not forget the completely ridiculous backstory given to the body. It's his braindead twin brother, "P. Xavier". Look it up. It's just as real as it is ridiculous. lol
In the comic, it showed Dark Phoenix consuming entire planets and suns to quench her hunger. She craved it, and was addicted (like a drug) to the euphoria she got off of it. She just kept wanting more and more. When she died in the comic books, the entire Xmen fandom wept. That comic book issue went mint...back then. In fact, I think I still have my copy.
There was also another comic book series called What If.... And one issue was What If Phoenix Had Not Died? Narrated by the Watcher, it showed how Dark Phoenix had eventually consumed all of the suns and life in the universe.
I've been going through my comic collection, and I found my copy of What If...Phoenix Had Not Died? In her rage, she kills Cyclops and then consumes the entire universe in her grief.
@@paulp9274 Yeah, I think I have that issue too. It's one of those issues that just one reread is sometimes never enough.
I think one of my favorite X-men issues was Merry Xmas Kitty Pryde. I believe it was #43. Was that Jim Lee's first issue? Or last?
@Codametal #143, and it was John Byrne's last issue as artist. I haven't found most of my older X-Men yet, but I have that one, too.
Traditionally Mystiques power is changing her humanoid form. So sex, height, weight, skincolor, down to fingerprints and retina structure.
She cannot change her form like a „true“ shapeshifter
Simone, "Wait, is she so powerful that..."
Me, "Yes. Whatever you are going to follow up with, yes."
This is the only movie where we see a comic book accurate design for the Sentinels. And it's only a head, upside down in a simulation for one shot. Crazy.
Jean is so powerful she turned Scott into Sonic the Hedgehogs dad
And Lois Lane’s boyfriend (Superman Returns)
So powerful she just disintegrated people in a snap!
15:36 and let's give it up to Simone for having the most adorable sneeze ever.
She's like a kitten in human form.
@@Kaspar.C0LD My wife always yells at me, "Will you PLEASE turn down the volume on your sneezes!?!?!" after I startle the hell out of her.
"The spikey guy was *pointless*" That made me laugh even if it wasn't intended.
"X gon' give ya trivia" ahahaha XD 10/10 Simone well done!!!
Surprisingly, this movie’s de-aging holds up better than the later instances in other movies.
The return of Professor X and the introduction of Moira MacTaggert was intended to feature in the unproduced X-Men 4.
James Marsden / Cyclops was already working on Superman Returns, when he agreed to film his cameo in The Last Stand.
The punch line being, Superman Returns shared a director with the previous two X-Men films, Bryan Singer.
Or as MrSundayMovies put it: "James Marsden left the X-Men franchise after deciding to be made a cuckold in a different superhero movie"
@@ericlayton8888and because of the surprise inclusion of Beast working against the harvesting of mutant blood, that led to the working title of the film being 'Blue Harvest' 😉
"What's the deal with the spiky guy he seemed kinda pointless."
AYYYYYYY
YES!!! Beast is my all time favorite Mutant! And perfectly casted by Kelsey Grammar
He was completely stupid for wanting to end the school after Xavier was destroyed. 🙄🤦♂️
@@nsasupporter7557 I blame the writers
Magneto did remove Wolverine's adamantium in fatal attraction, which angered Professor X so much that he lobotomized Magneto
And led to the best X-Men arc ever! :D
That’s heavy.
At the beggining, when collossus throws wolverine. In the books it was called a fastball special. It was a maneuver that has evolved when different characters performed it.
"It's the conjunction of spheres! Somebody call Geralt!" 🙂
To answer your question about Vinnie Jones, he is 185cm (6’ 1”), so technically, not excessively tall. He does have an imposing physique, so combined with the right camera angle, he may look incredibly intimidating.
Edit: Rebecca Romijn’s family name is pronounced ROH-MAINE, her grandfather is Dutch.
LIKE THE LETTUCE
His muscles in this film are prosthetics.
Vinnie was a football (soccer) player in the UK who was famous for being a "hard-man" player. One of his most famous moments was grabbing the crotch of an opposing player while they were waiting for a corner kick to be taken... if you Google it the pictures are online to this day...
His acting career was started by appearing in a London gangster movie and he then moved to playing mostly villains in several movies and series.
Charles has the ability to transfer his mind into new bodies. They don't even need to be empty.
As far as Spike, it's because he was popular at the time because he was a featured character in the X-Men: Evolution TV series
The guy wolverine fought in forest was spike and. Guy with spikey face is another character. The. Xmen evolution spyke Has better powers and is storm nephew.
Spyke went underground to live with the Morlocks.
@@cedricbrookins4851 The spiky mutant was named Kid Omega, no relation to the Kid Omega that was introduced in Grant Morrison’s New X-Men run.
Answers to a couple questions:
Vinny Jones does not look like that; its a muscle suit. He is actually infamous for this role because he refused to get in shape for the role; and also the one liners obviously.
I believe Magneto is able to bend adamantium; I believe adamantium was never stated to be unbendable just unbreakable and it doesn't melt once hardened. Also if I recall Magneto bends Wolverine's claws in the earlier films.
"What happens if the kid gets injected" The cure is derived from his blood, so likely nothing.
Magneto in the co.ics at one point actually ripped out the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton.
Vinny Jone was asked to do a cameo in the new DP and Wolverine movie but he turned it down because he didn't want to suit up again
The comics are flexible (no pun intended) when it comes to adamantium's properties (and there are several types) but IIRC the only person who was able to bend a piece of adamantium was the Hulk...the piece of adamantium in question was the size of a sewing needle.
George - "... the SPIKEY guy seemed POINTLESS..." 🤣
So for those who aren't in the know. The quote that George likes so much is from an old af meme video on YT here that predates the movie. Someone took old footage of the X Men cartoon and did voice overs for the Juggernaut.
This is a Dodge.
If I remember correctly its origin is audio from Halo 2 or 3 multiplayer, some dude is just dominating on Juggernaut play mode and starts making one liners as he's taking people down, such as the infamous "I'm the juggernaut, bitch!" and the lesser known "Imma smack you with my pimp cane!"
@@STOCKHOLM07Like Piccolo
Quill and Spike were both derived from an old comic character Porcupine. This character was a nemesis of Hank Pym. Since Marvel retained the license for Antman, Porcupine would probably have also been off limits to 20th Century Fox for this film. Incidentally the quills in the comics were poisonous.
James Marsden had scheduling conflicts because the director of the first two movies, Bryan Singer, left this in pre-production to do Superman Returns, and took Marsden with him. Fox made Marsden be in it for a little bit so they could at least write him out. Singer was then replaced by Matthew Vaughn, who finished the casting and then also left. Brett Ratner then was brought in and actually directed it this time.
And Romaijn is just pronounced "Ro main".
Like the lettuce!
This is the first movie with all of the original 1963 comics X-Men team members: Professor X, Cyclops, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Angel, Beast, and Iceman.
It's funny you say the thing about Magneto shooting electromagnetic pulses through brains. He literally killed Jean via massive stroke in exactly that way in a very famous story. It was a big deal at the time and retconned much later, but for a character named the Phoenix it was the longest she stayed dead in Comic history. Well over a decade, i believe.
“The longest time she stayed dead”
What a line!
The spikey guy, is the bad guy in Rush hour 1, probably a friend of Bret Ratner who directed this movie,
Great reaction guys.
21:57 Magneto could ball up Wolverine like a piece of tin foil if he wanted to.
We actually see Magneto bend Logan’s arms against his will in the first movie.
To answer George's question, in New X-men #150 (2001), Magneto did use his electromagnetic powers to give Jean Grey "a planetary-scale stroke", which killed her.
(Yes, fellow X-fans, I know that it was an imposter using Mags' appearance and power set, but a UA-cam comments sectoon is not the place to try and explain the rat's nest that is the Xorn saga 😂)
Kelsey Grammer as Beast was the highlight for me
I can't believe neither of you went for 'pointless' joke with Spikey Man. 😱
They did. After the movie @30:30
I thought that was an unironic use of 'pointless.'
"Spike" - in the comics there had been a villain girl named "Marrow" in '95 who had joined the team that could pull bone knives, but in the 2000 X-Men cartoon it changed to a boy named Spyke, was actually Storm's nephew. Movie character is just a nod to them, not meant to have any major development.
"Can Mystique/Magneto/Wolverine do/not do this?" Generally up to whoever is writing that week, and may change. Mystique used to just be appearance change, then at one point could grow wings with great effort, now has complete control over her moleculte structure if they want her to.
Truly, comic writing is like D&D; there's ground rules but largely it's up to how the DM interprets things.
The Mutant that fights Storm is named Callisto. She’s very different in the comics. Her powers here are just plot devices. To find Jean and Mystique. Then to be able to fight Storm on some level. She basically has enhanced senses including agility and speed. Just not that fast.
Notice they cast a hot girl to play Callisto, so mid 2000s casting 😄
“In the not too distant future” - has any movie ever been set in the too distant future?
You're asking the right questions
I guess Dune has. It’s set in the year 10191. Lol
The Time Machine. Old movie. Far future lol
Dune.
The adamantium thing happened in the Fatal Attractions storyline. Specifically X-Men #25 and Wolverine #75.
I just noticed a reference to The Exorcist during Mystique's first interrogation scene. They ask "where is he?" and she says "In here. With us. " which is a the exact same response that Pazuzu gave to Father Karras when he asked where Regan was... so damn subtle yet so good! It made me realize the subtle similarities of an excorcism during Mystique's transfer. and how Mystique as well as all Mutants are treated as eassentially no different than demonic beings or sick, possessed people.
They made an amalgamation of powers with Callisto giving her Quicksilver speed.
and Caliban's mutant tracking ability.
The guy playing Warren Worthington III/Angel is Ben Foster. His role is pretty small in this one, but he was also in "The Punisher" with Thomas Jayne...his performance in that one knocked me on my butt! He's a fantastic actor.
He also plays a great right-hand man to Russel Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma.
it wasnt until now that i realised something about the scene where they find jean by the lake, and they have to clear the mist away....
she obliterated scott, scott was the mist.
also the fire wolverine used to light his cigar was a simulation....
The mist was the lake.
Can’t wait for days of future past.
Hopefully, it's the Rogue Cut which flows better, IMO.
How can Simone NOT notice the only character on the poster dressed all in red with unnatural red hair?
My understanding is Rebecca Romijn last name is pronounced like the lettuce BTW
7:53 her voice reminds me of Mass Effect every time I hear it. She voiced a Quarian leader on the migrant fleet. Very noticeable accent but I can never remember her name...
Shohreh Aghdashloo. Should watch The Expanse, she is great in that.
WTAF??? Shohreh Aghdashloo Is THE absolute legendary queen on The Expanse, but everyone just associates her with voice over work?? 😲😲😭
I never hated this film like some did when it came out. Sure it wasn’t my favorite but it had some good parts especially as the director had very little time after all the changes.
I never once hated this film either. It’s not as near as bad as people pretend.
@@xavierstewart5756Or they just don't like it. Cause you know, people have different tastes. They aren't "pretending"
I think it was largely, on the account of X-Men fans, because they so quickly rushed over and botched the Dark/Phoenix Saga, even relegating what little there was of it to almost a secondary story to the Mutant Cure story.
It's a common complaint of film adaptations of long running media (such as comics), that major story events are minimized to a part of a single, relatively short film.
If planing for a long X-Men film run, a better bet would have been to just do the Mutant Cure story, with finding a comatose Jean Grey near the end. Setting that up for future stories. In the comics she returned as Phoenix Hero before going "Dark" (It was far more complicated than that, as is typical of the comics, with universal forces, and cones, etc.).
Definitely not worth all the hate it gets. If anything, it tried to do too much with the simultaneous Cure and Dark Phoenix story lines and didn't do either one justice.
It's not awful. It starts well, but loses energy after a while.
If Angel had any sense he'd have left Vancouver, gone to the Bible Belt, and started a megachurch to be fabulously wealthy!
That's what I was thinking, do you know how many people would think he was an angel in the south lol, he just needed a baptist dad instead
Angel is, according to the comics, already fabulously wealthy.
1:29 This part establishes a curious detail about this canon. Here, Professor Xavier has lost his hair but still has the ability to walk. In later movies, he loses the ability to walk while he still has hair. 🤷♂
If you're curious about the post credits scene, there was a part cut from the film that showed that the patient that had no brain activity was named "P. Xavier". This person was intended to be the twin of Charles (an adaptation from the twin sister he had in the comics). The explanation was supposed to be that when they were born, Charles' mental powers were so strong that they led to his twin brother being born without any brain activity. The doctor (Moira McTaggart) kept watch over the twin for Charles. Then, just before Jean killed him, Charles transferred his mind into his twins body (pretty much resurrecting himself in the process). Because the studio made the cuts to the film and there were no other references to the twin, it led to a lot of confusion from that scene.
27:43 The original idea was to show Leech standing by the window, leaving it up to the audience to decide, whether or not Rogue actually took the cure.
Yes, Professor X has a comatose twin brother.
I knew the comatose body was his twin, but I don't understand why he still needed the wheelchair after transferring his consciousness to it.
@@joshuayepez3635 He got shot in the spine again. He does work at a school after all. 'Murica.
@@DrD0000M, 🤣😂🤣😂🤣
If he's been comatose his whole life, I suppose his muscles could be super atrophied and such.
@@proudpapaprick, valid point, but with daily physical therapy, he should overcome that at some point, right?
3:34 - "They fighting the transformers?" - If I'm not mistaken that's supposed to be the head of a sentinel, giant robots that were used to hunt down mutants in the comics. I guess they threw it in as an Easter egg for the fans.
29:33 - "Rebecca Romeeshen?" - It's pronounced ro-mane.
When you guys get to X-Men: Days of Future Past, make sure that you watch The Rogue Cut.
Also, please use the OMG counter on every video.
Simone's "boop" at 10:08 cracked me up. 🤣 🤣 🤣
This movie did pretty much get a bad reputation when it first came out. I don’t personally find it that bad, it’s just has it’s moments here and there. Also, I just love quoting that one meme of the movie.
“I’m the Juggernaut, b-!”
I think it was the first time a meme was ever referenced in a mainstream movie. Which, considering it was back in 2006, was pretty forward-thinking.
The movie was not bad; it was entertaining and enjoyable. Now Deadpools were aweful; silly and stupid. lol
@@mannys4036 Who hurt you?
So… Juggernaught is Xavier’s half-brother. He’s not a mutant, his helmet is empowered by some obscure god of destruction. He cannot (by definition) be stopped once he’s in motion. But remove his helmet, and he stops being empowered by his god. Spider-Man is very effective at dodging his attacks, jumping onto his shoulders, and pulling the helmet off. Once he’s at rest, he can be kept at rest, but once he’s in motion he cannot have his motion halted.
When he is finally integrated into the MCU, he’ll probably play in the Dr. Strange / Moon Knight space.
15:58 in the movies I don’t believe so, but he could manipulate the metal in your body and block blood flow to your brain, heart, etc…or just rip the metal out of your body, like we saw in X2 during his prison escape.
Yes, Mystique injected metal into the guard. My interpretation is that she only did that to give Magneto enough metal to use effectively, and make a quick escape.
He is able to control the electromagnetic spectrum in the comics and if I remember correctly, in the animated series as well, but they don’t really explore that element of his abilities in the movies.
In the sequence with a young Jean Grey, the man with the Lawn Mower is the legendary Chris Claremont who had a long run on X Men, almost 20 years. He created the Dark Phoenix Story Line ,and many of the story lines in X Men. He created Magneto's backstory of being a Holocaust Survivor.
15:57 Yeah Magneto can do that and much more in the comics. He has full control of the electromagnetic spectrum.
He can manipulate the magnetic field of any object(doesn't have to be metal). He basically has telekinesis. He can generate and shoot blast of electricity and other energy. Has slight matter manipulation.
He's pretty broken😅
I can't believe it was only from watching THIS Reaction, that I now see "The Cure" in a different light (Thanks to George).
In the comics, a proto-cure gun was about to be shot at Rogue but the gunman was jostled and the shot hit Storm instead. She was nearly suicidal after being so brutally maimed but through the following years she overcame her handicap and capably lead the X-Men even without her powers.
Out of all of the "X-MEN" Movies, My Number 1 Favorite is actually "X2: X-MEN UNITED".
There was an explanation video of how Multiple-man is the most powerful mutant.
I would argue that Rogue is the most powerful mutant. Imagine if she collected hairs from people: she would have access to their genetic code at all times.
My favorite X-Men movie. Thank you so much for reacting to it !!!
Just for future reference, Romijn is pronounced "romaine" like the lettuce.
Also, fun fact: she's married to the chubby kid from stand by me
Yeah, but she was also married to John Stamos, Uncle Jesse from Full House
Actually it's pronounced Romein. It's Dutch.
@@huangjun_art Yes I know, my name is also Dutch. Rebecca Romijn, however, pronounces it "romaine". Probably because she lives in america where that's easier for everyone else. Kinda like how Jake Gyllenhaal pronounces his last name "jillenhall" instead of the proper Swedish pronunciation.
27:30
"Losing the girl to dark magic" was a somewhat common trope back in the 90's.
nothing hits harder than knowing that if you couldn't have her before, now not only can't you have her even less, but you have to take her down because she's beyond saving.
there's an episode from either Goosebumps or Weird Science (I think. LOOONG time ago.) where the lead guy finds the perfect girl and she's turned full Dark Phoenix at the end... I was watching it hoping for the happy ending, and short of went full Vader at that: "nNNnnnNnoooOOoOoooo!"
from there, Mission Impossible 2 in 2002, averted by Ethan getting the cure for the Chimera at the end, 2006 here, with Logan killing Jean, Brutal Legend from 2009 with Eddie losing Ophelia, 2019 with GOT and Danny, and Arcane in 2021, with Jinx being the living image of my 8th grade crush.
....so, yeah... "nNNnnNNnnOoOoOooOoO!"
Simone’s sneeze is the cutest thing ever! 😂
Simone hears Shohreh Aghdashloo, "From Arcane!" Clearly someone hasn't seen the greatest sci-fi show in existence...
You mentioned Magneto could have shielded them instead of sending in the pawns , when you think about it he could have just dropped the bridge on the building and had no fight
The problem with comics is they never put all your favorite characters together. Well, check out Uncanny X-Force.
Wolverine, Fantomex, Psylocke, Deadpool, Archangel, Cable, and Nightcrawler.
One of the good things about this movie is, the Charles Magneto relationship mirroring that of Malcom X and Martin Luther King Jr.
You two are a great duo. You play off of each other so well, it's always fun watching your reactions. Keep up the good work!
An interesting point: Scott, AKA Cyclops, has the laser eyes because his eyes are portals to another dimension that's mostly pure energy. It's not an ability he's accessing, but more of a bridge he's standing in the middle of between our world and the world that has that energy source.
8:30 absurd what they did to Cyclops
Made it out to Hatley Castle for a wedding a few years back, I recognized so much of it!
Since Iceman is my second fave after Spiderman, when he finally went full ice, i had chills! Actual unintentional pun.
Just like on Spider-Man and his amazing friends animated series, X-Men:Children of the Atom arcade game.
Dreams fulfilled.
I'm pleased that the viewers picked up George's slack and made some jokes about how the SPIKY guy was POINT-less 😂
The Spikey Guy had a decent amount of screen time in one of the old xmen cartoons as well. unless this came out first i always assumed thats why he had such a big role, he was somewhat recognizable.
15:57 Mag-fukin-neato can make a gravity field around something and just crush it, so yes technically he can stop a brain/heart.
22:38 If Squirrel Girl were in the film it would have ended after 30 minutes.
Oh, God. We need a cinematic Squirrel Girl asap!! I know people will complain (no matter what) but fuk'em.
@@richardrobbins387If the people accepted a Deadpool and Barbie movie, they would accept Squirrel Girl. As long as it stays true to the character.
30:30
George: "what the hell's the deal with that spikey guy, he seems kinda pointless"
In his defence, he's definitely not "pointless" 😏
I have that wolverine/xmen comic. He did rip the adamantium from wolverine's body, like it was spaghetti noodles or liquid metal. "It begins with a small tug, an almost gentle pull, a harder yank then a wrenching tear".
at the time this came out, this was my favorite x-film
"The spikey guy is pointless." All three of these movies were just amazing to me back then and even more now. X-Men has always challenged our ideas, opinions and ethics throughout it's history. So much of it is a matter of perspective. Some days, we are more Magneto than Charles, or mutants more than humans. The first time seeing that house lift in the theater with so much chaos going on, it was so intense, I still love the effects of this movie. I never noticed who was on the cover/poster till you said it. It was so obvious what story they were gonna do at the end of the last one that maybe that person's appearance didn't even register. Cheers.
16:00 Electromagnetism. Nope. Seems to be only metal/magnetism in a brute force kinda way, can't directly control electronics/nerves.
Side Tangent: Misaka Mikoto from "A Certain Scientific Railgun"
always fun to compare her to Magneto, since she seems to be the opposite side of that. Direct electromagnetic control; which can extend to magneto-like abilities, but more subtle and nuanced.
For what it’s worth, I also don’t remember Charles waking up and talking to Moira. In the comics, Moira is his CIA non-mutant love interest and mother of his son Legion. But the post-credit scene of The Wolverine (the second solo movie, not his origin story), Logan is confronted by Magneto and Xavier. He spends most of the movie freaking out that he killed Jean, so I was never sure how Xavier was alive for that scene. I guess now we know.
The "Spike" character was just a friend of the director. That's why he got the role.
The only thing I can think of about "Spiky-Guy" is that the actor had a big role in 'Lost' at the time, and they wanted to feature the actor?
Kelsey Grammar as Beast was one of those chef's kiss perfect castings. Much like Patrick Stewart as Xavier.
When Magneto (in the comics) rips the adamantine out of Wolverine, it comes out as… flowing liquid blobs. Magneto can absolutely bend it.
Wolverine’s healing is VERY slowed down by the adamantium. Without it, he heals SO much faster… but his claws are made of bone and break easily.
George says Magneto doesn’t know how to play chess… he really does. In the end scene here, he plays against Charles. Plus in the newer (alternate timeline) he and Charles play all the time.
The scheduling conflict for Marsden was Superman Returns, Singer took him when he left X-men.
The actor who's the anti-mutant mutant, I swear, every movie this kid's in his character just goes through the craziest shit.
Leech, in the comics he was way more weird looking. In the movie he's just a kid with a shaved head.
It's unknown if the scene at the end with Magneto means that the cure isn't forever, or if Magneto is just such a high-powered/high-level mutant, that it would take more of the cure to remove his powers.
This is the first time I've noticed that the post credits scene actually has a set up. Mostly because I didn't see the post credits scene when I saw the movie because we didn't use to expect them. So I've only seen it in isolation.
In the comics, Quill (Porcupine guy) could actually shoot his spikes at people. I'm guessing they didn't want to put the SFX into making him do that, so they sort left him, as you put it, pointless.
30:31 The "spikey guy" wasn't pointless at all; he had a LOT of them!
The woman that Storm electrocuted is named Callisto, and in the comics she was the leader of a group of mutants that looked less than normal called the Morlocks. Storm and her engaged in hand to hand combat to see who would lead the Morlocks, and storm ripped out her heart, and later on it was revealed that Callisto had 2 hearts and could live without one. No one ever dies in comics. The boy they derive the cure from was a Morlock named Leech, his best friend Artie was the kid in X2 that Wolverine was holding who stuck his tongue out at Stryker
23:20 Simone! That is a great question and one I've never heard asked... I... don't... know. Well done!
Probly same thing that happens to venomous snakes. They have an immunity to their own secretions so they don't accidentally kill themselves.