I just finished watching X2 for about the third or fourth time with my roomates (who were seeing it for the first time) and since I’d seen it a few times already, my mind started wandering during a few scenes and now I have a few questions that other X Geeks might be able to help me out with since I can’t think of any reasonable answers.
The first is why when Xavier was attacking all the mutants on Earth via Cerebro, did it not affect Jason, the mutant who had him under hypnosis? You would think that William would have wanted him dead just as much, if not more than any other mutant.
The second one is why did Striker need to build a duplicate of Cerebro at Alkali Base when it would have been quicker and easier just to use the one under Xavier’s School?
The third is when Logan and Yuriko were fighting during the movie’s climax and Wolvering injected her full of liquid adamantium, did that kill her or, due to her own healing factor (I know it’s a movie invention and the comic book character was a cyborg with no healing factor so just pretend), is she still alive and conscious but paralyzed due to adamantium’s rigidity?
The fourth isn’t so much a nitpick as the other three but I’m just curious - was Nightcrawler wearing a uniform in the last scene like Bobby and Rogue? I could never get a good look and he was also wearing an overcoat so I couldn’t tell.
And the fifth and final question is, aside from Nicole de Boer, Michelle Branch, and Linda Park, is there any woman in the world more beautiful than Famke Janssen?
Ah, who’m I kidding? Question five was purely rhetorical. Of course there isn’t.
To answer your third question, yes, the adamantium injection killed her. Healing factors can not compensate for extreme trauma or complete bodily destruction (like say, a beheading, total incineration, or being filled with liquid metal).
To answer your fifth question, you’re wrong. Famke Jaansen is far more beautiful than any of the women you listed.
I’m still not buying it. William wanted them all dead and as brainwashed as Jason was, he would have included himself in that designation.
For dramatic purposes, he obviously could not have been killed or Xavier would have no longer been under his hypnosis but for logical reasons, he should have been writhing in agony along with every other mutant on Earth sans Magneto.
Question #2: Two possibilities: one is that, if the animation Mystique saw on Stryker’s computer is any indication, the Cerebro design needed to be modified to work the way it did. Using the enemy’s headquarters for the time needed to bring in the materials and make those modifications, in a place the X-Men would know better than anyone, would be foolish, especially when there’s still the possibility that there would be mutant stragglers after the invasion. Bringing up the materials thing again, it would probably be much easier to keep the necessary equipment and such in the Weapon X base (which has been used for large-scale experiments before) and build a Cerebro there than to shlep it to the mansion (remembering that you have to bring enough copters to carry all of it AND your elite forces).
Second possibility, suggested by someone at some nitpick website I read, is that using the Cerebro in the mansion would immediately tell the President who was responsible for this large proportion of the world suddenly dropping dead, inviting all sorts of possible retribution.
Question #3: I would usually say it killed her, but we don’t know the parameters of her mutant healing factor, and there are rumors that Kelly Hu has signed on for future sequels, so who knows?
Question #4: I don’t think he was. But that’s just my impression.
But remember that the only reason Stryker was leaving was because of the X-Men invading. If all had gone according to plan, he would’ve hung around, and probably personally murdered Xavier and Jason as the last two mutants on Earth. Heck, the soldiers he left behind to guard the chamber (the ones killed by Magneto and the grenade trick) probably had orders to storm the chamber and kill them after a certain amount of time (or, more likely, after a radioed-in order from Stryker once he was sure all other mutants were wiped out).
Besides, having Xavier affected by the device sets up an illogic loop: he’s affected, so he should be in agony, so he can’t apply the telepathy needed to kill mutants, so the agony should stop.
Umm… Xavier was never a mindless mutant-killing machine. It didn’t work like that.
IIRC, he was in an illusion, and Jason asked him to find his friends (all the mutants). As such, he was not looking for Jason himself (he already knew where he was), and would not affect him.
And of course, Xavier would not be looking for Xavier, so there is no reason he would be affected.
I think between Leaper and Nightime, the question’s covered pretty well. I also think that their screen names sound a couple of Marvel Mutant Hero Types, and that tickles me for some reason.
As for Stryker building his own version of Cerebro, I think it was more a matter of convenience and secrecy, than anything else. He knew he’d have to keep Xavier contained with Jason for a while, to break down Xavier’s mental defenses. I’m guessing (speculating wildly, to be honest) that he didn’t know how long it would take.
If he’d had to stay at the mansion for any length of time, waiting to use the original Cerebro, the odds of his large, heavily armed group of men being
a) noticed by more members of the civilian population than he could safely “disappear”
b) done in by some underhanded sneaky mutie trick
was longer odds than he cared to play.
And just a comment on Headcoat’s answer. I always saw that reasoning as the logic behind the whole adamantium skeleton in the first place. Once your super regenerating secret agent’s had adamantium bonded to his neck bones, he becomes completely unkillable by anything short of a tactical nuke.
Or, y’know, a handy injectable supply of still-liquid adamantium. But who keeps more than one o’ those in stock at this time o’ year?
