13. Storm Teases Jean About Logan/Jubilee's One And Only Big Scene
Here's a BOGO for all our readers, because each of these snippets axed from the second outing for Marvel's merry mutants, X-Men United, don't really deserve a full entry each. But each one is interesting in its own way. In the first scene, Jean and Storm are flying in the Blackbird to capture the mysterious teleporting mutant who attacked the President. After talking with the Professor, Jean tries to fly the plane using only her telekinesis. When she doesn't do so well at that, Ororo rags her about being put off her game by Logan's return. Jean's must-see response is hilarious. If the start of this scene sounds familiar, that's because audiences saw the start but not the end in the finished version of the movie. But that wasn't all that was dropped for X-Men United: the popular firework-tossing mutant Jubilee's entire scene was chopped. Audiences were due to get a brief glimpse of her abilities during the students' museum field trip before she restrains herself, as the above image shows. In all honesty, this sequence probably wound up being too similar to Iceman and Pyro showing off what they can do in the museum, and their misbehavior was more important to the plot. If these scenes sound interesting, simply click the Next button and view the following entry - there's a video showing these two clips, as well as the next one, back to back.
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