10 Things The X-Men Franchise Wishes It Could've Done Differently

3. Introduced Gambit Earlier As A Major Character

When the X-Men movie franchise started, many fans were miffed by the absence of the one of the comics' most beloved mutants, Gambit.

And despite numerous aborted attempts to get him in the second and third X-Men movies, he didn't make his cinematic debut until 2009's spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine, as played by Taylor Kitsch.

Though a wet-around-the-ears Kitsch tried to make it work, the part was brutally underwritten and therefore failed to do justice to the one mutant fans wanted to see on-screen above all others.

Despite years and years of efforts to get a Channing Tatum-starring solo movie rolling, that project appears to be dead amid the general collapse of the franchise.

This really shouldn't have been such a gargantuan task to put together, but between the character's iffy treatment in Origins and the number of directors who walked away from the solo movie, clearly the wrong creative minds were at the helm.