Dangit, I must have blinked.
Could Kitty Pryde have sent herself to the past by applying her hands to her own head? How does she determine how deep into the past she sends her subject? Does she have a potentiometer or rheostat? How did Magneto escape The Pentagon in the original narrative?
I’ve seen some argue that the headphones were just for ear protection, but were a bit of a disguise. Problem is that, while portable music player did exists back then, they weren’t popular enough. The excuse would make more sense modern day.
Apologies for resurrecting a thread but I just watched this movie today, it was pretty fun but I have some very random questions. Also apologies if these were answered earlier, I’ve saved this thread to read it later.
That said:
Mystique - Regarding her powers, its shown that she can create clothes as well as reshape her body. Are those clothes part of her, can she remove them or not? Or are they more like an octopus changing the texture of its skin to hide beside a rock. I didn’t like the Professor X/Mystique backstory (I realise that was introduced on X-Men: First Class) that felt contrived. Although I don’t have a great deal of back-knowledge of X-Men beyond watching some of the cartoons back in the day that relationship never rang true for me. Also, I thought a mutants powers manifested at puberty? I’m not good at guessing ages but in First Class when first introduced she seemed younger than that, and it was kind of implied in both movies that she had been born blue and discovered her shape-shifting powers later. Personally I found it a lot more interesting to think that she had led a normal life before her powers manifested at puberty, and its not clear what she looked like before that, she may even have been male. Which brings me onto another question, was there a Transgender rights subtext to the movie, there was quite a bit of gender-shifting going on, even beyond Mystique, Professor X is shown taking over several women’s bodies (such as the stewardess). I’m aware X-Men has always been pretty much a fantasy reflection of race and other minority struggles in real life, so was it widening the umbrella a little?
Wolverine - This is a problem with a number of time-travel movies and it kind of taints the happy ending for me. Basically when Logan ‘wakes up’ back in the alternate future what happened to the mind of the version of him that lived the intervening period, was that version basically over-written and destroyed? Its not as if they even merged because Logan has no idea what has taken place and Professor X has to fill him in. Basically…uuuggghhhh…
Quicksilver - Fun character, pretty much unstoppable unless you catch him unawares. I liked how he braced Magneto’s head before acclerating him past the guards, my question is does Quicksilvers powers extend past his own body to whatever he is touching, because braced or not that sort of G-force would have severely messed Magneto up otherwise.
They’re a part of her body. Technically, Mystique is nude in all of her film appearances.
(Per a scene from the first X-Men movie, where an aid to Senator Kelly ends a cellphone call, tucks the phone into his suit jacket, and then turns out to be Mystique in disguise, she’s also got a Nokia lodged somewhere in her ribcage.)
I believe that relationship is new to this movie franchise. I don’t think it’s appeared anywhere else in the comics or other spin-off media, but I could be mistaken.
That’s often the case, but not always. Some mutants don’t gain their powers until much later in life - others get them while they’re still in the womb. Puberty is the most common, though.
Also, the comics have introduced the idea of “secondary mutations” for when they want to give an established mutant character a new powerset.
Probably not intentionally. Bryan Singer did make an overt association with gay rights in X-Men 2 (“Have you tried not being a mutant?”) at least in part because Singer is himself gay. And the X-Men comics have always had a lot of queer subtext, dating back to Chris Claremont’s original run as writer in the '70s. Mystique, in particular, was in a relationship with another woman named Destiny, and at one point it was hinted that Nightcrawler was the son of Destiny and a gender-shifted Mystique, but that was eventually dropped for a much stupider origin story.
But I don’t think these are instances of consciously making a metaphor for trans rights on behalf of the writers.
Same thing happened to poor Marty McFly, too.
Superspeed powers are, in general, very firmly under the heading of, “Don’t think about this stuff too hard.” They’re nearly impossible to write without introducing gigantic logical, plot, or characterization holes.
wince this is probably another of those ‘Don’t think about it too deeply’ things…
That’s an interesting concept, its a pity they didn’t proceed with it.
Ah OK, thanks.
On a sidenote I thought the same thing when I read the Harry Potter novels and some interviews by JK Rowling, it would be interesting to know if transgender rights are an interest of hers. (at least one too many ‘interest’ in that sentence…)
From a quick google search:
Oh dear…apparently she has failed to please absolutely everyone.
I think it was someone pointing that out in a thread on the SD that brought it to my attention, Hot Tub Time Machine had it happen as well.
Makes sense 
Thanks for the replies Miller!
I feel miniaturization powers are even worse. The logical gaps in Quicksilver’s powers are nothing compared to Ant-Man’s.
RIGHT??!! I about facepalmed my brain into the next row when they increased the ant to dog sized. THAT ISN"T GOING TO WORK! Those legs, for one, won’t support that!
Right. In the comics Juggernaut is the one Prof X has a backstory relationship with (they’re stepbrothers - Chuck’s mom married Cain’s dad). Mystiques backstory relationships are with Sabertooth (they had a son together), Rogue (foster mother/daughter), and Nightcrawler (biological mother/son).
As of Wolverine and the X-Men and All New X-Men, Mystique also had or will have sons by Wolverine (Raze) and Xavier (Charles Xavier II). Or, possibly all that (will have) happened in an alternate timeline.
Comics, everybody!