Corrected entry: In the recently released prequel, X-Men: First Class, Mystique's "normal" form has blonde hair. In this movie, when she is shown in her human form, she has dark hair.
Corrected entry: When Wolverine states to Storm he's the only one who can stop Jean at the end - what about the child who they were rescuing who can take mutant powers away?
Correction: The kid's power only has a range of a few feet. He'd have been torn apart long before he got close enough to Jean to affect her.
Corrected entry: In the opening scene at Jean Grey's house, we see the water from the hose going up, but neither Magneto nor Xavier has the power to do this: Magneto can control metal and Xavier is a telepath.
Corrected entry: In the opening scene when Xavier uses his telekinetic ability to lift the cars in the street outside the Grey house, Magneto says "Oh Charles, I like that one!", a reference to the fact in the first film he used the same trick outside the train station.
Correction: Nope, totally wrong. He says "I like THIS one", referring to Jean, the one's who's actually lifting the cars, not to what she's doing.
Corrected entry: During the final battle, Magneto pulls cars up from the bridge behind him and catapults them onto the island. However, in later wide shots we can see behind him and the bridge is still jammed solid with vehicles.
Correction: It would be a good idea for him to constantly drag more cars closer to him, whilst fire others, so he'd have a ready supply "car-tillary", for later use.
Corrected entry: In the big fight scene at the end of the movie against The Brotherhood, Storm fights Callisto (Speed/mutant-detector) and kills her via electricity which comes out of her hands. Since Storm's power is to control weather, and weather control and electric shock are two very different things, she shouldn't be able to do this (in the first movie she had to summon lightning down from the sky to use against Toad).
Correction: There is no error, the lightning simply never comes out of her hands. All the lightning strikes comes from the sky. If you watch the scene you see she just uses her hands to point or direct the lightning towards Callisto, but the lightning comes from behind her.
Corrected entry: Near the beginning when the boy is cutting his wings, his hand is reaching behind his back. During different shots he's reaching behind him with different hands. (00:03:30)
Correction: There is no mistake. The camera shot simply changes from filming Angel directly to filming the mirror reflection, and there is plenty of time for Angel to turn to face the mirror. You can tell the second shot is a reflection because the position of his mole switches sides. The mole is always opposite of the hand/arm Angel uses.
Corrected entry: We see that Pyro is able to create fire to blow up flying cars. However, in X2, he says that he cannot create fire. He only controls it, which is why he always has his lighter.
Correction: Earlier in the movie we get to see how he has rigged up a small device to his forearm, that functions as a lighter, producing a small flame for him to work with.
Corrected entry: The protruding rock that Cyclops stands on when he shoots his optical beams into Alkali Lake was actually a fiberglass prop affixed onto the existing rocks by production designer Ed Verreaux.
Correction: Using false terrain is a very common filmmaking practice. This isn't trivia.
Corrected entry: The loud voice in the background giving orders as the soldiers trade in their weapons and equipment for the plastic cure guns is R. Lee Ermey, the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket.
Correction: Pointing out the name of the actor playing a part does not qualify as trivia.
Corrected entry: While Wolverine is trying to walk toward Jean in the final showdown. His clothes (and chunks of his skin) are ripped off. There are a view shots where his pants have been ripped down to boxer brief length, but after he reaches Jean, they are full pants again.
Correction: If you look closely, you can see that Wolverine's pants haven't really been cut down to shorts, but rather there's a big hole torn from mid-thigh to mid-calf.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Rogue talks to Wolverine about going to get the cure, she reveals that her real name is Marie. In the first X-men film, Rogue introduces herself to Wolverine as Marie after he reveals that his real name is Logan therefore eliminating the need for her to reveal her name in the third film.
Corrected entry: How did Mystique know where Magneto was in the forest? He doesn't tell her, and there's no secret meeting base or anything, just a quick set-up hideout and a bunch of tents set up by the mutants.
Correction: We do not know if this meeting place was somewhere where they had already been. Somewhere that the officials and Xavier's people would not think to look.
Corrected entry: In the forest of the Brotherhood, when Wolverine first extends his claws, the sleeve of his leather jacket can be seen above his fist. Despite the fact that he never is seen taking it off, he is only wearing a tank top a second later.
Correction: That's not his leather jacket's sleeve. That's his wrist band.
Corrected entry: In the van when the brotherhood attacks to get Mystique, she is shot with one of the darts of the gun. This should leave three. Magneto keeps the gun. But when Jean takes it apart and plays with Magneto, there are four again.
Correction: The handgun used by the guard in the moving prison does not resemble the guns used later by the soldiers. There is no way to say for certain how many needles go into the handgun, so it may have held five darts.
Corrected entry: In the second film Magneto escapes the entire prison with only the aid of 3 ball bearings. He could have easily ripped the cars apart and used them as bullets against the troops guarding Lech and hit them with 100% accuracy or even made the cars spin like tops and slam into the guards. All he did was throw cars in random directions and let Pyro light them and hope for the best. This goes beyond a character mistake, as Magneto's often been shown to make very good use of metal around him, whereas here he just doesn't bother so it benefits the plot.
Correction: Still, it is his choice to use the cars as artillery shells rather than bullets. Maybe he just wanted to attract attention while his fellow mutants got to Leech, maybe he simply wanted a big, flashy and intimidating show for the humans watching. It is impossible to say for certain what a character's motives are, based on such circumstantial evidence as this.
Corrected entry: When Magneto is leading the Brotherhood across the Golden Gate Bridge, Jean is walking to his far left. In the following shots, Jean jumps to Magneto's far right.
Correction: Actually what happens is this: we first see them walking with her on his left, then Magneto stops, everyone behind him keeps walking past him, then they stop and everyone, including Magneto, turns around to face the other direction, resulting in Jean now being on his right, then Magneto proceeds to move the bridge.
Corrected entry: Towards the end, when Wolverine looks down and sees the cartridge of the cure on the ground, 4 needles are visible in it. The next shot of it, with no-one touching it in the meantime, only 3 are visible.
Correction: There are only three needles in the cartridge, you have to look at the center of the needles to see this. The mistake takes place when they stab Magneto and there are four needles stabbed into Magneto and not three.
Corrected entry: When racing to the room where Jean Grey and Professor X fought, Wolverine's claws are fully extended. In the next shot, when he drops to his knees, his claws are suddenly sheathed, with not enough time passing or sound to indicate he retracted them.
Correction: As he's falling to his knees, that is more than enough time to retract his claws, as we've seen in other scenes. They take about 1 second to retract. You couldn't hear them retract because there was so much noise from the fight Jean just had. The wind was blowing and the house was falling apart.
Corrected entry: In X-Men 2, we see a shot of Hank McCoy on a TV screen in a bar, who is not blue and covered with hair. In X3, they act like they've known him for years that way. He even mentions his old uniform not fitting him.
Correction: In the comics, Hank undergoes many changes to his mutant powers, looking fairly human initially (but having greatly increased strength and oversized limbs). The blue skin and fur only came after an experiment designed to make him look more normal. It's very plausible that this change occurred between the two films, also that he was initially part of the X-Men but left to further the cause politically.
Correction: You mean Mystique can't change her hair color when she is in human (prequel) form? In the X-Men: First Class prequel she struggled with people accepting her "looks" so when making herself look "normal" she clearly makes her hair blonde too.
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