X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Director Finally Attempts To Address The Movie's Unresolved Plot Twist

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Director Finally Attempts To Address The Movie's Unresolved Plot Twist

X-Men: Days of Future Past ended with us learning that Wolverine had been rescued by Mystique posing as William Stryker but X-Men: Apocalyse failed to address that in any way. Now, Bryan Singer explains...

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By JoshWilding - Jul 05, 2018 01:07 AM EST
At the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Wolverine was skewered by Magneto and thrown into a river, seemingly left for dead. However, the movie ended with William Stryker rescuing him, something everyone assumed would result in Logan receiving his Adamantium skeleton. However, eagle-eyed moviegoers noticed that it wasn't Stryker at all; it was Mystique disguised as the comic book villain! 

It was a moment which left us with a lot of questions; would she be the one who turns Logan into Wolverine? Was she going to rescue him, thereby helping him to avoid becoming Stryker's Weapon X?

Unfortunately, X-Men: Apocalypse didn't offer any answers because while we saw that Logan hadn't managed to avoid his fate, there was no reference to what Mystique being disguised as Stryker meant. Now, Bryan Singer has taken to Instagram to attempt to explain what was going on in that scene and while it's not particularly satisfying, it does at least go some way in addressing the divisive scene. 

What do you guys think? As always, let us know your thoughts in the comments section down below. 

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L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 7/5/2018, 1:35 AM
Real reason: It's always gotta be about Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique.
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 7/5/2018, 4:37 AM
@L0RDbuckethead - no dofp was a farewell to the original xmen crew. the yellow eyes is an easter egg for x1 as it ended with the senator having yellow eyes too.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 7/5/2018, 7:14 AM
@mastakilla39 - Debatable.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/5/2018, 1:45 AM
It kinda IS addressed in Apocalypse tho.
Basically when Mystique saves Kurt, she tells him that she doesn't babysit anyone, her "job" is to save mutants and that's it, which is what happened in DOFP.

As for Logan's path, shit gets depressing for him, because this means that he was always meant to go down that ugly path full of pain for him.
I guess there weren't enough "ripples to change the tide" for him. :/

BTW i'm glad for that, sorry Logan. :P
Humperdink
Humperdink - 7/5/2018, 2:26 AM
@Doomsday8888 -

It kinda IS addressed in Apocalypse tho. she tells him that she doesn't babysit anyone, her "job" is to save mutants and that's it"


So she turned into Stryker and said (when asked what to do with Logan) that she'd "take him from here" only to leave immediately and let him be tortured and experimented on by the REAL Stryker?

That makes absolutely no sense and her quote in Apocalypse doesn't address or resolve anything.

It definitely doesn't constitute "saving" him. Especially if she left him in the hands of people that wanted to do him harm and exploit him in the first place.
Humperdink
Humperdink - 7/5/2018, 2:32 AM
@Doomsday8888 -
because this means that he was always meant to go down that ugly path full of pain for him.


Well...yeah because Mystique had a chance to free him and chose not to. She apparently didn't do anything to actually help him so how that's saving someone is beyond me.

She literally pulled a dying man out of the river and sent him straight into a blacksite facility to be mentally and physically tortured and experimental on.


I guess there weren't enough "ripples to change the tide" for him.


You mean like Mystique/Stryker just letting him go free?
That's all she needed to do.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/5/2018, 2:46 AM
@Humperdink
No, we don't know what happened for sure, but i think it's fair to assume that she DID save Logan, only for him to be captured later by Stryker, since he set his eyes on Logan after the events of DOFP.

Pretty easy to explain tbh.
StormXmen123
StormXmen123 - 7/5/2018, 5:22 AM
@Humperdink - there is ten years between DoFP and Apcolpyse.

She could have easily rescued him in 1973. And the in the intervening time he is recaptured by the real Stryker and Weapons X programme. Leading to him escaping in 1983.

Look while I like the xmen films. even I can admit their continuity isn't great, but her it not a matter of continuty. The time has is so big numerous things can happen.
BullyFU
BullyFU - 7/5/2018, 6:46 AM
@Humperdink - She knew Wolverine was at the bottom of the lake and saved him as far as not leaving him stuck down there. She didn't know Stryker would be torturing him, or that he would experiment on him. She had to get out of the military facility before the real Stryker showed up also. It's not great but it is an answer. Had she done nothing, Wolverine would be trapped at the bottom of the lake still, impaled by concrete.
PBIRD
PBIRD - 7/5/2018, 7:34 AM
@Doomsday8888 - wow that was a bunch of made up shit you just said
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/5/2018, 7:41 AM
@PBIRD
Man, there's a f*cking 10 year gap between DOFP and Apocalypse, if you seriously can't come up with an acceptable scenario that could explain this plothole then i feel pity for you all.
For real. :/
Humperdink
Humperdink - 7/5/2018, 12:54 PM
@Doomsday8888 -

Basically we'd be just making stuff up. None of what we say is canon.

It's up to the storytellers to explain and patch the holes in their story WITHIN the story not later on twitter or instagram and with the X-men FOX has poorly coordinated with it's own creators which is why we had a British and Scandinavian version of Caliban as Logan director Mangold stated. Lack of communication and structure is the issue with these films.

X-men filmmakers have to tell a contain story that makes sense within it's own fictional universe and as Deadpool himself stated it really doesn't.
PBIRD
PBIRD - 7/5/2018, 2:06 PM
@Doomsday8888 - you're doing the studios job for them, now i dont like being anyones B**#$ so i dont do that. If there is a 10 year gap... easy, "where did you get the metal claws wolverine????" "long story kid, tell you later".

OMG! ITS THAT EASY! but this studio is suck a [frick]ing shit show, they just dont care cause they got idiots like you who will fill in the blanks for them, so why should they be required to try??????

You act like they thought about it... they cashed their checks and went back to sleeping with underage boys at pool parties.
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/5/2018, 8:35 PM
@PBIRD
Oh shit, i didn't realize i was dealing with a f*cking troll, thanks for wasting my time, man!😩
Equivocal
Equivocal - 7/5/2018, 1:45 AM

quit it.

reboot it.

sell it.

bury it.

just enough.
dracula
dracula - 7/5/2018, 1:50 AM
To bad Tom Hardy is Venom he would have made a great Wolverine
Thanson
Thanson - 7/5/2018, 9:29 AM
@dracula - He was always my top choice for the MCU's Wolverine. Honestly, nobody else was even in my mind as he was so perfect for the role.
L0RDbuckethead
L0RDbuckethead - 7/5/2018, 1:54 AM
Someone else posted this earlier. It's such a good practical looking costume for Wolverine, I hope the MCU version gets a proper costume.
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