X-Men: Apocalypse - 15 Questions Left By The Stupidest X-Movie Ever
7. What Was Professor X Hoping To Achieve With His Speech
Before enacting his plan to destroy the world, Apocalypse projects a message around the entire globe to the soon-to-be-killed human race, telling them to cower as metal man moves earth.
Firstly, aside from providing the waylaid heroes the chance to catch up to him, why does he bother telling people he's going to kill them? They're going to die either way. Calling just mutants would have made some sense given his ideology, but even that feels like narratively treading water.
The more questionable bit about it though is how Professor X chooses to hijack the message; after delivering everything Apocalypse says verbatim in his own voice, Charles suddenly screams to the mutants to protect everyone else. Now that probably sounded great in his head, but to anyone listening it's an odd end to a threatening speech: "I'm going to kill you all. Those of you with powers, try and save everyone else." Confusing and still rather threatening.
Besides, he's already secretly communicating with Jean, isn't that going to be enough?