10 Movie Moments That Outraged Fanboys In 2013

6. Silver Samurai - The Wolverine

Granted, this movie moment isn't quite as controversial as some of the comic book-inclined inclusions you'll read about later on this list, but it was enough to get a lot of die hard Marvel fans' knickers in a twist. The Wolverine, of course, takes our eponymous hero to Japan, where he does battle with ninjas, a bullet train, and an old friend looking to steal his powers of immortality. For the most part, it was a solid blockbuster, though perhaps not quite as good as fans expected. The outrage moment comes from the fact that Kenuichio Harada, who is the Silver Samurai in the X-Men comic books, isn't who he should be - despite the fact that there's a Silver Samurai in the movie. Instead of employing the iconic villain in the traditional sense, director James Mangold has the Silver Samurai as a giant robot being controlled from inside by that old friend we just mentioned: a elderly man named Yashida. And lots of fanboys saw this as a kind of... well, cop-out.
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