10 Huge Movie Moments That Didn't Matter At All

2. The Whole X-Men Movie Franchise (2006-2014)

There are a lot of bad things about X-Men: The Last Stand. It’s a collection of dismal, awful ideas, written up into a crappy script, poorly executed by a talentless oaf to become a terrible, franchise-f*cking turd of a film. It’s no good, is the thing.

Several of the worst ideas in the film involved having Jean Grey murder her fiance Scott Summers and her surrogate father Charles Xavier because of the Phoenix, a demonic alternate persona that Xavier had been keeping hidden.

X-Men: The Last Stand’s post-credits coda springs the surprise that Xavier has somehow survived being disintegrated by transferring his mind into the body of a coma patient. The next movie sees his team work to bring him back to corporeal life again, finding a way to… no, no. That's not what happens.

In fact, the end of the next movie in that present-day timeline (James Mangold’s underrated The Wolverine) presents us with Charles Xavier back in his old body again with no explanation aside from a throwaway line about having ‘gifts’. It’s as if nothing had happened.

Wolverine is flabbergasted to see him, so clearly the movie isn’t walking back Xavier’s death. It’s just decided not to explain how he came back to life again. Of course, the franchise then massively course-corrects in the following film, which sees the events of X-Men: The Last Stand completely wiped from continuity… walking back Xavier’s death after all.