This issue may have just recently been rectified by the timeline-changing events of X-Men: Days of Future Past, but the fact that it took eight years, several other movies hobbled by continuity problems and a whole movie to resolve it says a great deal about what a huge mistake killing off so many characters in the same movie was in the first place. Now, Brett Ratner isn't the kind to give a flying toss about what fans think of his movies, and that certainly shows in his callous disregard of the first two X-Men films directed by Bryan Singer. Charles Xavier and Jean Grey were two of the most crucial elements of those films, and although Jean did in all fairness cop it at the end of X2, it seems trite to repeat the trick in the very next movie. Not to mention Rogue, whose powers are unceremoniously taken from her and her story all but disregarded in her half-hearted subplot. Thankfully, as mentioned above, all of these deaths have now been kind of resolved in that they never actually happened in the new continuity offered by DoFP. That might be a head-scratcher to some but a cause for celebration for others. Hooray!
