10 More Movie Characters Whose Fates Are Never Resolved

The original X-Men trilogy was one of those movie franchises that had two outstanding entries, but just couldn't stick the landing. In 2014, eight years after X-Men: The Last Stand underwhelmed both critically and commercially, Days of Future Past took the bold step of erasing that timeline completely. So, when Logan (Hugh Jackman) returned to the present, a lot had changed.

The obvious differences came in the form of characters who were there that weren't there before. Neither Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) nor Scott Summers (James Marsden) were dead, and Hank McCoy appeared to be teaching at Professor X's school rather than working for the government. Still, this was just the ice tip of the iceberg for a very different world.

What followed Days of Future Past was a glimpse into the new timeline with X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix. The latter took the story up to 1992, and finished with Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) seemingly friends, just about as far from what they were when the franchise originally began in the year 2000.

However, there was no mention of Magneto when Logan returned in Days of Future Past, and thus no clue as to what Erik did with his life after that chess game with his friend at the end of Dark Phoenix. He may well have still gone down the route of the Brotherhood of Mutants, but with his story so vastly different as it had been, who's to say exactly what happened to one of Marvel's greatest-ever villains?