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

4. Wolverine Loses His Claws - The Wolverine

It was always somewhat confusing as to how the second stand-alone Wolverine movie would fit into the main X-Men franchise, it was clearly set after The Last Stand - hence the ghost of Jean Grey - but featured a Professor X who wasn't as dead as he definitely should have been, and it was precisely this sort of contradiction that Singer's timeline fixer sought to eradicate. It's just a shame that all of the events of the film are now pretty much wiped out, since there were some genuinely thrilling moments that went a long way to healing the wounds left by X-Men Origins. The idea of the Silver Samurai was a little out there, and the good work setting up the Viper was destabilised badly when she shed her skin, but together they at least formed a threat for the invulnerable Wolverine, whose diminished powers helped ramp up the thrill count further, and the symbolic de-clawing of the berserker was the perfect culmination of that threat. The moment he has his claws sliced off, followed by the skin-crawlingly visceral sight of his bones being drilled for their marrow is one of the most enduringly awful images in the franchise, and it's a shame that this rare sight of a villain getting the better of Wolverine on such a scale has now been wiped out.