# X-Men: Days of Future Past (spoilers included) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2014, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079 "2014-05-23T11:12:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/81 "2014-05-28T16:48:46Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > Wikipedia says almost definitely probably yes. > > [Mystique (character) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystique_%28comics%29#Powers_and_abilities) Well, not bombs or guns… basically she works like the T-1000. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/82 "2014-05-28T19:19:41Z")
> [@Sean\_Factotum](#): > > Well for the stadium lifting part, the rebar in the concrete would allow him to move the entire structure, at least those parts that were structurally connected to that concrete. I would guess. Actually, being able to magnetically lift a stadium is less hard for me to get my mind around than the fact that at one point he dragged Mystique based only on the fact that she had a bullet shell lodged in her leg. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/83 "2014-05-28T22:35:17Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Who was sitting in Peter’s lap? Wanda is his twin. It couldn’t have been Polaris, could it? Is it “Peter” in the movie? In the comics, he’s “Pietro.” “Peter” in an X-Men context makes me think of Piotr Rasputin before Pietro Maximoff. > [@RikWriter](#): > > But Chris Claremont DOES have a cameo as a Senator, which is beyond cool. That is entirely appropriate. These X-Men are much more Claremont’s babies than they are Stan’s. > [@johnspartan](#): > > Actually, being able to magnetically lift a stadium is less hard for me to get my mind around than the fact that at one point he dragged Mystique based only on the fact that she had a bullet shell lodged in her leg. What, you can’t drag a body around by a little bullet in it? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/84 "2014-05-29T02:43:12Z")
If I may be allowed a small vulgarity, I got serious wood seeing Apocalypse at the end. He was one of my favorite X-villains 1A to Magneto’s 1. Until they nerfed him after the X-Cutioners song. But that’s a rant for another time. I really hope the actor playing has gravitas similar to Ian McKellen. Apocalypse is a thousands years old walking nightmare. Pee Wee Herman he ain’t. Look at Magneto (Ian) during the final battle. As old as he is watching him looking at Charles and then turning to walk out? I turned to my son and said “well, those Sentinels are about to get a whuppin’”. Apocalypse should have that same weight. As for this movie, I really enjoyed it. Too much Wolverine but that’s really my only real complaint. I did have lowered expectations after the two Wolverine movies and X3. What a pile of crap those were. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/85 "2014-05-29T04:15:10Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > Actually, being able to magnetically lift a stadium is less hard for me to get my mind around than the fact that at one point he dragged Mystique based only on the fact that she had a bullet shell lodged in her leg. He dragged the bullet. She was just around it at the time. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/86 "2014-05-29T08:06:56Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > As for this movie, I really enjoyed it. Too much Wolverine but that’s really my only real complaint. I did have lowered expectations after the two Wolverine movies and X3. What a pile of crap those were. Was there really too much Wolverine? Seemed like he didn’t really do anything except be the plot device that allowed the time travel, and then follow the other mutants around watching them do their thing. Seemed more like an audience surrogate then anything. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/87 "2014-05-29T14:05:10Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Was there really too much Wolverine? Seemed like he didn’t really do anything except be the plot device that allowed the time travel, and then follow the other mutants around watching them do their thing. Seemed more like an audience surrogate then anything. I agree with this. I was more taken aback by James McAvoys performance. I think he carried this movie ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/88 "2014-05-29T14:18:16Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > He dragged the bullet. She was just around it at the time. Good thing the slug was steel jacketed, right? > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I was more taken aback by James McAvoys performance. I think he carried this movie Agreed on that. He’s a great actor and I totally forgot he was in Shameless until my wife said “Hey, isn’t that the guy who was the boyfriend in that show about the drunk dad? What’s it called?” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/89 "2014-05-29T14:27:23Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Good thing the slug was steel jacketed, right? Doesn’t have to be. Magneto can manipulate ferrous _and non-ferrous_ metals, plus a whole lot more. Besides, there’s plenty of iron in Mystique’s blood as well. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/90 "2014-05-29T14:36:57Z")
Is there? I thought that only worked in X2 because she injected the guards with a buttload of extra iron. Or is there something special about Mystique’s hemoglobin in particular? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/91 "2014-05-29T15:17:54Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > Is there? I thought that only worked in X2 because she injected the guards with a buttload of extra iron. Or is there something special about Mystique’s hemoglobin in particular? Mystique definitely injected a ton of iron filings into the guard. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/92 "2014-05-29T16:04:54Z")
I know it’s “comic book physics” and all, but it seems a regular bullet in a leg, if you pull on it magnetically, at best you’ll either move the bullet IN the body (which would presumably be very painful and bloody) or pull the bullet back OUT of the body (which wouldn’t be a lot more pleasant). But dragging someone along the ground because of a bullet that’s in their leg seems a bit suspension of disbeliefy. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/93 "2014-05-29T16:13:34Z")
Now I wonder what would have happened if she tried to morph into someone who was missing that leg and then back into herself. Or into a version of Mystique that didn’t have a bullethole in her leg. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/94 "2014-05-29T17:08:42Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > Was Emma Frost one of the dead mutants Erik mentioned to Charles? Yes. Probably the only one of the First Class mutants who got killed off who I was actually said to see go. (I know others were disappointed about Banshee, but he never really hit a chord with me. And I doubt anyone cared much about Azazel or bug-Angel). > [@silenus](#): > > And for all that, Magneto isn’t an Omega-class mutant. Just a very powerful one. Depends on what terms you’re using - lots of people cite Magneto as being an Omega-class mutant, especially if you’re just working off the “really strong” definition of Omega. (The term has been so murky and used in different ways that it’s basically useless, IMO). ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/95 "2014-05-29T18:07:24Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > Probably the only one of the First Class mutants who got killed off who I was actually said to see go. I might have been sad to see her go if they had gotten a good actress for the role. January Jones was easily the worst thing about that movie. > [@](#): > > And I doubt anyone cared much about Azazel I actually had a silly wish to get to see Azazel and Mystique make a baby Nightcrawler. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/96 "2014-05-29T18:27:10Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Was there really too much Wolverine? Seemed like he didn’t really do anything except be the plot device that allowed the time travel, and then follow the other mutants around watching them do their thing. Seemed more like an audience surrogate then anything. Maybe I just got tired of seeing him, he was in damn near every scene. (The fact that I was upset because my wife grabbed me and went all “oooh, look his shoulders and chest” is a vile slander). Again I liked the movie, I just wanted to see more X-types battling Sentinels. And why do they keep scrimping on Colossus? He and Storm have always been my favorite X-book characters. This movie may have rescued the franchise from the trash heap. I’m really looking forward to X-Men:Apocalypse now. I wonder if Singer has any ideas on the Age of Apocalypse storyline. but please god no Cable/Stryfe. And bring back Sabretooth. The 80’s Sabretooth. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/97 "2014-05-29T18:30:14Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > But dragging someone along the ground because of a bullet that’s in their leg seems a bit suspension of disbeliefy. …Oh my, say it ain’t so! McAvoy was great, and Fassbender was electrifying as usual. That shot of him striding down a Pentagon hallway in his leather coat, shades, and pimp hat single-handedly made the 1970s fashion aesthetic cool again. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/98 "2014-05-29T18:32:19Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Is it “Peter” in the movie? In the comics, he’s “Pietro.” “Peter” in an X-Men context makes me think of Piotr Rasputin before Pietro Maximoff. Yup, in the film, he’s “Peter Maximoff”. As for the little girl sitting in his lap – from a canon standpoint, it’d make more sense for that to be Polaris, yes, since Wanda has always been portrayed as a twin sister to Peter / Pietro…though, as the little girl in the film was never named, who knows? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/99 "2014-05-29T18:34:46Z")
There is a quote floating around somewhere that it’s not Wanda on Peter’s lap and that there is a deleted scene where they mention he has a twin sister. I’m not sure where I saw that, possibly over at io9. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079/100 "2014-05-29T18:58:46Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > Mystique definitely injected a ton of iron filings into the guard. … so that Magneto would have enough material to make his magic flying balls that trashed his special plastic prison cell. The guard dying from the many many holes was just a bonus for them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/x-men-days-of-future-past-spoilers-included/689079.md?page=6)