X-Men: Apocalypse - 25 WTF Moments

20. Why Has Nobody Aged?

Nicholas Hoult Beast
20th Century Fox

Look, it's somewhat inevitable criticism, but not one of the cast has actually aged a day since First Class, when they're officially supposed to be 20 years older. Magneto, Professor X and Moira MacTaggert should be closing in on 50 ish, yet all look at least 10 years younger (because that's precisely what they are).

Meanwhile Lucas Till (who is supposed to be at least mid-30s, looks the same age as his kid brother, Mystique looks like she's 25, Beast doesn't even have a grey hair in his luscious blue coiff and even Colonel Stryker (somehow rewarded with promotion despite f*cking up a massive military operation last time and losing mutants) still looks like Stiffler from his American Pie heyday.

The choice to leap forward a decade might have fit the need to add in lots of pop culture references, but it didn't work for the characters because no work at all went into making it look like they'd aged. The only one who does look like he's aged, ironically is the invincible, near immortal Wolverine.

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