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

6. That Bolivar Trask Clearly Turned Into Someone VERY Different In The Future

These two men are clearly very different, and yet in the X-Men universe, thanks to the wonders of continuity errors, they effectively play the same character. The earliest version of Bolivar Trask obviously appears in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, where he is played by the excellent Peter Dinklage - the very distinctive actor who has made Game Of Thrones his own - and who is clearly close to middle-age, unless his hair-style, moustaches and the lines on his face are misdirection. But then, close to forty years later, Trask appears again as part of the White House staff, looking suspiciously young, and suspiciously of an entirely different ethnicity. This second Trask, played by Bill Duke was clearly initially intended to become a future antagonist for Singer's original X-Men series, had it been extended beyond the awful Last Stand, given that he exhibits some noticeable similarities to the original Bolivar Trask, including his work developing weapons to use against mutants. But clearly that isn't going to continue, and presumably this Trask will simply disappear into the ether with Juggernaut and Phat and all of the other characters we're supposed to forget existed. If Fox are clever they will in some way retcon reference the Trask of The Last Stand to be a version of Simon Trask - the founder of Humanity's Last Stand, the radical anti-mutant group who appeared in the comics in 1995, bringing together the military background and that story to explain why the two Trasks are so radically different, but you have to think the issue will just be brushed under the carpet again.