That was because she was allergic to the paint.
The way it seems to work is that your consciousness gets sent to the past for as long as Kitty Pryde does her thing. Once she stops, you go back to the future, which may or may not be changed. We don’t really know when the future is in this movie. It might be just be our current time, and that’s where Wolverine went back to.
I had read an article on that, and frankly it didn’t affect my enjoyment in the slightest. To my inner 14-year-old boy, she looks just as naked, no how matter how much more of her is actually covered.
The reason about going back in time was more about stopping the sentinel program from getting started (or at least getting the Mystique inspired upgrades). The saving Mystique thing was more of a bonus goal added by Professor X.
Past Professor X and Magneto just went about it in different ways. Professor X wanted to do it by stopping the murder that caused the program to get funding (and hopefully helping Mystique in the process) and Magneto (past at least) wanted to discredit the sentinel program and start the human/mutant war before the sentinels were upgraded to be virtually immune to mutant powers.
Magneto didn’t say anything in the future arc to counter Professor X’s plan either because he trusted his past self to act appropriately and didn’t want to screw things up or he’d gotten over the whole war between humans and mutants thing.
The opening sequence seemed to imply that she was aware that Cable had had time to warn the team.
Based on the sequence at the end the future arc was in the 2040’s. Professor X mentioned that Wolverine had 70 years to catch up on. Also, if I recall correctly, the date on Wolverine’s clock was in that decade.
Nixon was a crook and a liar, but I never thought of him as a coward.
Just like Buddy Ebsen.
I know I’m late to the party, but the movie explains this.
Kitty knows that if she sends someone too far back in time, it can shred their mind. That’s why they had to send wolverine back.
Presumably, she’s shredded a few minds figuring that out by accident, and can remember doing that because the timeline wasn’t altered.
The plot hole that bothered me is that Magneto shreds a railway to allow him to control the sentinels… any nobody notices. “Hmm, this rail line that carried something from the trask factory to the white house is mysteriously destroyed, as if by that mutant that can control metal who was busted out of solitary a few days ago. Oh well, I’m not paid enough to report this.”
Not really a plot hole. I’m sure it was noticed the next time that a train took that rail and crashed… but who is going to be connecting all those dots?
Once again, I’m not saying she has to wear actual clothes, and then carry them around. I’m saying she morphs her body to look like it has clothes on in blue form.
But like I said, maybe that’s why she has scales and smooth surfaces where she should have openings. That’s as close to convention as she has to get to be self-modest?
Canonically, if she’s using half her concentration to get that look, then she’s only half paying attention to whatever else she’s doing.
A rail-line that goes from the mutant-killing robot factory to the white house is going to have people going “gee, Bob, why do you think this line got busted right after we shipped those Sentinels out?” I don’t think it was a generic rail line somewhere in the country, I think that was the specific railroad going to the Trask Industry production facility and nowhere else (since Magneto was in the factory right before jumping on the train).
A throwaway line of “this is the last train out of the facility for the week” would have satisfied me, since that means no other trains would be going over that section of rail.
While it’s true that she needs to concentrate to maintain anything other than her blue form minus clothes, I think at least part of the reason she walks around in the blue form in the nude is that she wants people to accept her for what she is, and she’s not willing to cover anything up just for society’s acceptance. Similar to how some women walk around topless almost demanding someone challenge them, or some gay men wear the leather speedo to the gay pride parade - they want to be accepted and are willing to be in your face to do it.
I do wonder what she does when it’s chilly out, because presumably if she morphed a coat she’d still feel cold, since the coat is really just her outer layer of skin.
The clip from the previous X-Men movie that establishes this here.
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While it’s true that she needs to concentrate to maintain anything other than her blue form minus clothes, I think at least part of the reason she walks around in the blue form in the nude is that she wants people to accept her for what she is, and she’s not willing to cover anything up just for society’s acceptance. Similar to how some women walk around topless almost demanding someone challenge them, or some gay men wear the leather speedo to the gay pride parade - they want to be accepted and are willing to be in your face to do it.
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That was more her established motivation in the very first movie. I don’t recall the specific clip, but someone mentioned to her that she could use her power to look normal, and she said that she doesn’t because she shouldn’t have to.
My theory: Professor X is a very powerful telepath. As such he is simply projecting, whether conciously or not, his own image of himself over the body that he now inhabits. My question: If that’s a new body, why is he still in the chair?
Probably from whatever accident put his new body in a coma to begin with?
We saw it yesterday. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I am getting tired of it being All Wolverine, All The Time. That for me was part of why the Quicksilver sequences were so fresh - for a while at least I didn’t have to hear about his claws and how painful his life is, again.
I thought they did a good job of handling the paradoxes of time travel, although obviously you can pick holes in any such plot. Better handled than most such reboots.
Regards,
Shodan
Magneto: What the fuck, Charles? Get up and get yourself a beer! And what’s up with the new body?
My theory is that in the X-Men universe, their version of Patrick Stewart got into a car accident in Scotland and was left in a persistent vegetative state. Before he died, Professor X transferred his consciousness into Patrick Stewart’s body, thus transition from being a character played by Patrick Stewart, to actually possessing Patrick Stewart.
I’m really late to the party, having just seen the movie last night. I also didn’t follow the comics or see all of the movies, so I wasn’t sure who all of the characters were, but the only thing I want to know is: why did Magneto need RFK Stadium? Was it just a concrete shield? Did he not like the Redskins’ name either? What’s the story?
Sidenote: my favorite little throwaway bit was Logan/Wolverine inadvertently puncturing the waterbed.
I think he was just grandstanding. rimshot
Dropping the stadium around the White House means that the President and his cabinet can’t get away, and more importantly, the cops/military can’t get in to bother Magneto as he slaughters the American leadership with their own sentinels.
You know, I honestly think that this makes more sense than anything else I’ve read about this movie.