X-Men: Days Of Future Past - 11 Awesome Moments That Have Been Wiped Out

7. Weapon X - X-Men Origins: Wolverine

There are a lot of things wrong with Origins' imagining of the Weapon X (and beyond) programme: it horribly undermines Deadpool as a character, it confusingly introduces characters at impossible ages (like Cyclops and Emma Frost) and it turned Brian Cox's brilliantly malignant Stryker into a diluted, less menacing version in Danny Huston's hands. But as X-Men story arcs go, the story of how Wolverine got his adamantium skeleton is as fundamentally an important story as anything reimagining the civil rights struggle, or the perpetual puberty allegories. The mystery of his being was one of Singer's strongest threads, and one of the reasons why he was promoted from interesting side character to franchise leader, and though solving any mystery inevitably takes away some of the magic, that part of the origin story needed to be told. And surprisingly, Hood captured the actual sequence well, balancing Wolverine's exposed nerve emotion with Stryker's veiled megalomaniac desire to make his pet project work, and there was enough brutality in there to sell the scene. The problem for the Days Of Future Past timeline is confusing, since it now seems to suggest that Wolverine will not get his adamantium skeleton in the same way - since Mystique is now masquerading as Stryker - so we might not even get to see another more accomplished director take on the same sequence, unless Singer intends to retread that ground.