10 Movies That Completely Swap Genre For Just One Scene
2. Bobby Comes Out - X-Men 2
Bryan Singers X-Men films have always centred on outsider characters, with Professor Xs mansion often presented as a new home where outcast mutants can build a new family. Singer took the mutants-are-minorities theme to a whole new level in X-Men 2, though with a scene that swaps genres completely. Make no mistake, the scene where Shawn Ashmores character Bobby Drake comes out to his parents isnt a scene from the superhero genre. This is a family drama, where Bobby is the different one who his parents dont know how to deal with. The closing line of the scene, Have you tried not being a mutant? really hammers home the parallels between mutants and other outsider groups, before Singer cuts away and gets back to his superhero action movie.
