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

3. That Beast Forgot That Time He Cured Himself And Appeared On TV

When Hank McCoy accidentally accentuates his mutation and turns into the blue Grinch in X-Men: First Class, it's pretty clear that he can't just switch off his transformation at will like Bruce Banner in the Avengers, and the character is torn up by his quest to be normal. That will clearly change in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, since Hank appears in his human guise - a fact explained by Nicholas Hoult as the result of his having developed a serum that helps to control his mutation, as long as he doesn't get too angry - so a lot like Bruce Banner, then. But by the time The Last Stand comes around and Kelsey Grammer is playing the older, more magisterial Beast, he has clearly forgotten that such a serum existed, or at least has forgotten how to make it, since he openly states that it's a long time since he saw his own skin when the issue of the mutant cure comes up. Even worse, McCoy seems to have also forgotten that only a couple of years earlier, he was appearing on TV, in his recognisably human form, for an interview on the mutant threat. So either he suffered some sort of brain injury following the appearance that wiped out key aspects of his memory, or there's something once more wrong with the continuity.