12 Really Stupid Decisions In Comic Book Movie History

8. Choosing To Deal With Trask At The Wrong Time - X-Men: Days Of Future Past

There's a reason why the Baby Hitler Conundrum focuses on the idea of time travelling back to kill the infant future Fuhrer. It's because that's the easiest time to dispose of him (as well as it being more of a moral challenge), so it'd make sense that that's when you'd do it. You wouldn't wait until 3 minutes before he started being a murderous dictator, giving yourself a challenge for the sake of the cameras.

Well, you might not, but the X-Men did.

Faced with the need to stop evil geneticist Bolivar Trask, the Days of Future X-Men send Wolverine's mind back in time to the Days Of Past X-Men via Kitty Pryde to help them stop him leading the extermination of mutantkind. Not only is it ridiculous to choose that time when Logan had been alive for decades already, but it's all made worse by the fact that Xavier is a mess, Magneto is an incarcerated baddy and Mystique is off-grid.

Even if they didn't go back to when Trask was a child, choosing literally any time but this would have been preferable.