10 Terrible Mistakes That Almost Ruined The X-Men Movies For Everyone

4. Continuity Errors

Again, a lot of these have been conveniently wiped out as Days of Future Past ended with Iceman, Rogue, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Beast, Storm, Jean Grey, Cyclops and Professor Xavier very much alive and well in the future, but some remain problematic and even the ones that were fixed should never have happened in the first place. First of all, there are characters who were played by a number of actors who couldn't possibly be the same person. Bolivar Trask has been played by both Bill Duke - a six foot tall black man - and Peter Dinklage - a white man with dwarfism. Moira MacTaggart has been played by both Olivia Williams and Rose Byrne - both brunette actresses, so not a big deal? Well, apart from the fact that the character's were approximately the same age forty years apart. And then look at Sabertooth - Tyler Mane played the very lion-esque looking version of the character in X-Men and showed no signs of remembering Wolverine, who the Liev Schreiber version of the character apparently grew up with (while also looking decidedly non-lion-like). Very messy - and that's just a handful of examples. You then also look at things like how Magneto and Xavier supposedly invented Cerebro - and yet we see Beast inventing it in First Class. And then you look at things like the fact that Magneto accidentally paralysed Xavier in the 1960s, then abandoned him to wage war on humans with his Brotherhood. However, they must have made up at some point before the events of X-Men, because the two are seen together as friends in The Last Stand's flashback, where they visit the house of the young Jean Grey in the 1970s. Essentially, there is A LOT wrong with the X-Men movie franchise in terms of continuity issues. Thank God that a lot of it is behind us, due to the events of Days of Future Past.