12 Things Fox Want You To Forget Before X-Men: Days Of Future Past

4. That Moira MacTaggert Clearly Discovered The Key To Eternal Youth

Forget taking a ship with Captain Jack Sparrow to the ends of the Earth, the quickest way to finding out the secret to eternal youth is to ask long-time X-Men ally Dr Moira MacTaggert, who so far has appeared twice in the X-Men universe under two different directors. Because for someone who should have aged more than 40 years between the two appearances, the character appears to have actually defied the ageing process entirely, without even the claim to being a mutant to back up her phenomenal lack of change. In The Last Stand, MacTaggert appears as a geneticistic and mutant biologist, much as she does in the comics, and was played by the 38 year old Olivia Williams, which is somewhat confusing considering that in First Class she appears as an all action FBI agent, who was played by the then 31 year old Rose Byrne. Unless MacTaggert ages like some sort of reverse Narnian, the X-Men films are basically asking us to accept that the character aged 40 years without gaining any wrinkles. But then the X-Men universe isn't really the best at keeping track of characters' ages, since Emma Frost appears twice, once as a fully grown adult in the 1960s and then again as a child in the 1970s, and Scott Summers clearly appears in First Class' Cerebro sequence, meaning he'd be in his 50s when X-Men comes around.