10 Movie Rules That Make No Sense

The X-Men franchise may be a load of silly fantasy hooey at the end of the day, but audiences nevertheless expect the movies to adhere to basic aspects of human existence - like ageing, for example.

Since the X-Men prequels kicked off with First Class, the series has increasingly stretched credibility by leaping forward a decade with each new movie, while the focal superheroes all look more-or-less the same age.

Given that Dark Phoenix takes place in 1992, some 30 years after First Class, we're left to assume that the likes of Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) are now in their early 60s. Right.

While you might play the mutant card and argue that their ageing is slowed by that process, that makes no sense at all considering that, in Dark Phoenix, Xavier and Magneto are suppose to be just a few years away from looking like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen respectively.

The only major character where this defense truly applies is Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), given both her shape-shifting abilities and Beast (Nicholas Hoult) flat-out saying in First Class that she ages slower than your average person.

It gets even sillier when you consider non-mutant Moira MacTaggert (Rose Bryne), who appears in both First Class and Apocalypse which are set 21 years apart.

Despite this, she barely seems to have aged at all - because the films were actually made just five years apart, of course.

This is one of those things that fans just need to roll with if they're going to actually enjoy the series without nitpicking it to death, but it's undeniably distracting all the same.