X-Men: 10 Massive Questions About Its Confusing Canon
2. Why Did Charles Never Mention Mystique Before?
Over the course of the original X-Men trilogy, Charles Xavier was the leader of the X-Men while Mystique was a henchwoman to Magneto and his Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants. In these three movies, nobody mentioned once that Mystique had once been Charles best friend and that theyd known each other since childhood. However, this was established as canon very quickly within Matthew Vaughns prequel X-Men: First Class. As soon as this friendship was established in First Class, fans began asking why did neither of them ever mention this before? The obvious, real-world answer is that Bryan Singer had never intended to play Charles and Raven as former friends when making the original X-Men movies. Matthew Vaughn and the other writers of First Class must have come with the idea, leaving Singer to ret-con wildly when the time came to mesh the two iterations of the franchise together in Days Of Future Past. He included a line for Patrick Stewart to say (Raven was a dear friend of mine I drover her away), allowing the whole story to retroactively fit together, if you squint a bit and forget about every previous movie. Many fans get peeved by the inconsistent use of superpowers in Days Of Future Past (Mystique's DNA being useful for absorbing powers, while Kitty can now send minds in time... both brand new powers they'd never displayed before), but in the shoehorning in of a friendship for Charles and Raven peeves me more, personally.
