8 Reasons Wolverine Is The Most Disappointing Part Of X-Men: Apocalypse

The end of Days Of Future Past had Wolverine taken by Mystique, in disguise as William Stryker, promising a very different Weapon X (or at least providing some ready-made conflict for a sequel). X-Men: Apocalypse brought back all of these elements, but pretended like nothing had happened different to the original timeline; Stryker had Wolverine for his own sadistic means, no questions asked.

Now, look, It's fine to change things up between movies as ideas develop, but in a 144 minute movie where little actually happened couldn't there have been a quick moment between Raven and Stryker that alluded to some event in the preceding ten years where identities changed hands? Instead of that, there was almost a desperation to ignore this; Mystique (and Quicksilver) didn't even meet Wolverine, almost definitely because that posed too much confusion after their interactions in DoFP.

This is so irritating not just because it kinda expected in a modern superhero film to have some element of cross-movie cohesion, but because the promise, both in the movies themselves and from the word of the filmmakers, was that this was going to be payed off. To leave it is insulting to the fans who've stuck with X-Men for the better part of two decades and renders the entire point of the plot hole filling time travel yarn moot.