10 X-Men Characters Most SHAFTED By The Movies

2. Darwin

Darwin X-Men first class
20th Century Fox

X-Men: First Class was a major breath of fresh air when it premiered in 2011, but - as we saw with Emma Frost already - the film wasn't without its problems. Among the film's worst offences is the treatment of Darwin, a mutant who was unceremoniously killed off near the film's second act.

What makes this death so egregious is the fact that it doesn't make even remote sense. Darwin's powers allow him to adapt to anything in order to survive - the film goes out of its way, in fact, to hammer this point home - and yet a cheap fireball administered by Bacon's Shaw fells him then and there.

It's beyond silly, and emblematic of the franchise's tendency to waste potential in every avenue it possibly can. Darwin is scarcely referenced after the fact, and becomes only the sixteenth (or so) X-Men character killed before their time.

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