10 Movies With Plot Points That Go NOWHERE

10. Quicksilver Is Magneto's Son - X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse is, to be kind, a big 'ol mess, and one of its most intriguing, potential-rich character threads gets set up only to fall by the wayside by film's end.

The film establishes in quite unambiguous terms that Quicksilver (Evan Peters) is the son of Magneto (Michael Fassbender), and it appears as though the story is building towards some sort of emotional connection between the two at film's end.

Bafflingly, despite the obvious potential for Quicksilver to play an emotional hand in bringing Magneto back from Apocalypse's (Oscar Isaac) seductive influence, no such scene ever takes place.

This wouldn't have proven quite so frustrating had it not also been completely ignored in the sequel, Dark Phoenix.

And given that Fox's X-Men franchise is now effectively done, fans will never get closure on this plot point. Peters himself called the situation "sad" and tried to lend some context to it:

"Originally I think they were going to have Quicksilver tell Erik that he was his son but it felt a little forced in a situation... Would [Quicksilver] want [Erik] to know that as [Erik's] destroying everything in that moment, and is that going to be enough to turn [Erik] to the good side? So it was kind of like, would you really want to put yourself out there in that situation? You might wanna wait until you're having some coffee or chilled out and tell him."