16. There's Real DNA In First Class (X-Men: First Class)
Believe it or not, there is a degree of realism in this series of films about people who shoot laser beams out of their eyes, can control the weather and that kid with the pointy eyebrows from About A Boy grows up to be Frasier Crane. The idea of homo superior loosely derives from Darwinian theories of evolution, after all. That was the initial inspiration for the X-Men, and it's played up a little in the original trilogy, but real-world science makes its proper debut in First Class. When Xavier makes his presentation on mutants to the CIA he's not just showing off a random image of the classic DNA strands. It's specifically an image of the DNA molecule, created by Dr Rosalind Franklin, which helped Dr Francis Crick and Dr James Watson in discovering their Nobel prize-winning double helix shape.
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