10 Movie Characters That Sequels Totally Forgot

X-Men was arguably the film which really kicked off the twenty-first century superhero boom and Marvel Comics as the source material that would come to dominate blockbuster filmmaking. And at the heart of it was Anna Paquin's Rogue.

It was her discovery of her powers that kicked off the plot and brought her to meet Wolverine then Professor Xavier and his school, and it was her powers that were also necessary for Magneto's final scheme. She was both the audience surrogate and the central plot macguffin.

Although she was less integral to X-Men's two sequels, both movies still featured an ongoing personal story for Rogue about her struggle with the destructive nature of her powers and being the one lead character actually to want to take the mutant cure in The Last Stand.

So, when Paquin was announced amongst the reunited original X-Men cast teaming up with their prequel equivalents in the crossover Days Of Future Past, you might have thought there would still be an important role for her to play.

When the movie came to theatres, though, Rogue made it onto the screen for barely a second without a single line, only appearing in the background in the rewritten future of the film's epilogue.

The so-called "Rogue Cut" would later put a whole excised plotline for the character back into the movie. That Rogue was so easy to remove from Days Of Future Past with no impact on the plot, though, shows how easy it was for the film to forget the character who was once the central part.