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

9. That Xavier And Magneto Built Cerebro

According to the timeline established in Bryan Singer's first X-Men movie, the huge re-imagined design for Cerebro was - by Xavier's admission to Wolverine in the first film, built by the Professor with the help of Magneto, whose insider knowledge helped him to develop his helmet to block the device's powers (more of which later.) But then in X-Men: Days Of Future Past it becomes clear that the Professor has been telling fibs, having very obviously stolen credit for the machine from Hank McCoy, whose early version, which was built to amplify brainwaves, inhabits an unnamed CIA science facility. Though this revelation is counter to the comics, there's no mistaking the fact that the film attributes Cerebro's invention and design to McCoy, and not Xavier, which makes sense since the intellects of the two characters are presented very differently in the film, with Hank a more clinically driven mind. Even worse, nobody seems to be acknowledging the real source of the Cerebro design...