WTF Moments in the X-Men Films

WTF Moments in the X-Men Films

I'm not going to complain about Wolverine's height or Colossus' accent or the matching black leather suits. This is the stuff that's bigger than all that.

Editorial Opinion
By canadianturd - Apr 26, 2010 02:04 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men
Source: canadianturd

Wolverine's milk moustache
Shameless film promotion. Wolverine drinks beer, beer and more beer. Sure he has strong bones, but that's only because of his adamantium skeleton. I got douche chills when I saw this.



Storm's contribution to X-Men
I didn't mind her in the first two X-Men, but this line is a classic! At truly wtf moment before wtf existed.

STORM "Do you know What happens to a toad when it is struck by lightning? The same thing that happens to everything else." BOOM!

Blob's boxing match
I don't know how many people were waiting for this, but I was interested to see Wolverine go toe-to-toe with the Blob. Didn't really understand why they didn't make his fat his mutant power. I remember when they fought in the X-Men cartoon, Wolverine went to stab Blob in the stomach and his arm was sucked in, leaving Wolverine helpless. Even Wolverine's claws couldn't bust that bitch open. The Blob is a cool character...

So why the hell did they make him go from a tank destroyer to a blubbering trainwreck? (Instead of "trainwreck" was going to put "emotional bulimic", but I think trainwreck was much more clever) I have never, and hope I never again see Wolverine in boxing gloves. That was truly a stupid and surreal moment in X-Men history.

Kitty quoting Einstein to Professor X
Kitty decides to interject while Professor X is teaching a class. I believe it went down something like this.

KITTY: "But didn't Einstein say..."
ME: "KITTYSHUTTHEF***UP!"

Silver Fox and Emma Frost being sisters
This was a cheap, crowbar wrap-up to a dismal storyline, trying to make an obvious and desperate link from Wolverine to X-Men. It was just another layer of shit piled onto the already bloated pig that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Buy it on blu-ray at Amazon!


Me-ow!

Misuse of characters
Jubilee and Psylocke were probably the worst victims of this. They didn't get to exercise their powers once (At least Jones got to turn on a couple tv sets). In Psylocke's case, she was killed by the Phoenix so it's not likely we'll ever see her again. Unless the producers decide to ignore the continuity again and pretend it didn't happen.

When Colossus showed up in X2: X-Men United the theatre cheered! I got chills! It was such a great build up only to have Colossus disappear into the wall for the rest of the flick. He was drastically under-used in both X-Men sequels. Probably the most disappointing part of this particular debacle was the much anticipated fight between Colossus and Juggernaut that never was. He never really had his day in the sun is what I'm sayin'.

Angel was handled poorly as well. Ben Foster is an awesome actor and did a good job as Angel. He wasn't given a proper story or enough screen time to have even bothered.

Sabretooth's lack of character development
I defended Sabretooth's look too long before the movie came out. People would say "He doesn't look like Sabretooth!" I would say, "Oh, it's character development! They're in the Army!" There was no character development with Sabretooth.

They couldn't even change his outer look. That damn black trenchcoat stayed perfect throughout the years of assassinating (not to mention Wolverine's white tank top). Although Sabretooth was one of the redeeming qualities of the movie (which doesn't say much) the character was too much all over the place. It was retarded.

Professor X offering his school to Storm
This was the first indication that I wasn't going to enjoy X-Men: The Last Stand. Professor X tells Storm that he would like her to takeover the school when he's gone. Foreshadowing!

The one other scene in a movie I could compare this to is Kids from 1995, when Telly gives that girl AIDS at the end. Yeah, that's pretty much the equivalent to this scene.

The real Legacy Virus is Halle Berry's legacy as Storm.

Deadpool
I don't even have to say anything about Deadpool because everything I could say has been said and there's no one out there with have a brain that would dare disagree with the bald face fact that this Deadpool was a [frick]ing travesty!



Multiple Deaths/Depowering/Funerals
Sabretooth went out like a chump in the first X-Men. They should have had him return as a bigger threat in the sequels.

The apparent and unexplained death of Cyclops. Who by the way, really went out like sniveling bitch. Very upsetting!

Mystique is depowered after saving Magneto from a cure dart. Although I wasn't really all that broken up over Mystique being depowered.

Then we have Professor X explode into a billion pieces, followed by a really drawn out, sappy funeral scene. Professor X should not have went out the way he did. That was handled stupidly.

Magneto being temporarily depowered by Beast was pretty sweet. I like how the cure doesn't even work at the end of the movie. The whole war and everything that happened was completely pointless.

I hated that they didn't utilize Rogue or develop her character further than they did. They just sort of tossed her aside in the third to make room for Shadowcat. I wasn't a fan of that.

The Adamantium Bullet
Bar none, the most jaw-dropping [frick]-up in comic book movie history. This left Wolverine fans all around the world dumb-founded. It was a half-assed attempt to tie-up the major loose end of Wolverine losing his memory.

Oh, and Juggernaut look like a giant penis.
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airbeyonder18
airbeyonder18 - 4/26/2010, 3:18 PM
Very...strong words, but very well put. Nicely done.
Paulley
Paulley - 4/26/2010, 4:23 PM
i could live with a lot of things from the first three movies.. i didnt like some of the thing but i could live with it... i was even getting passed the Deadpool thing but the Adimantium bullet and the misuse of Emma Frost took the biscuit.

Also Betsy 'Psylocke' Braddock was never in the X-men films... i dont care what they put in the credits that was not in any way Betsy Braddock. >:(
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 4/26/2010, 5:22 PM
nice job man but i remeber when i was six laughing at that line storm said to toad but im just a sucker for the cheap laugh
MONTEZ
MONTEZ - 4/26/2010, 9:45 PM
nice. i agree with it all. would simply add nightcrawler going awol with no explanation in the third film. dumb fox.
ElBicho
ElBicho - 4/27/2010, 6:34 AM
Ha, nice stuff! Now do the wtf moments from the Spiderman franchise!
1chris2
1chris2 - 4/27/2010, 12:55 PM
i couldnt agree more. and i agree on all of those points,and have some too. how about in x-2 hank mccoy is on the tv,and in the last stand he is a blue beast wtf? and they were going to add beak in wolverine and changed him to bolt wtf beak is way more interesting then bolt and the new mutants,and generation-x would be great characters to add,as well as sinister,and apocalypse. also the thing that took away from alot of the x-men was all the stories are about wolverine not the title characters x-men.how does victor go from victor to sabretoothe,what happened to sabretoothe if he cannot die then he should have been in x-2,or x-3?what happened to nightcrawler? why didnt gambit get more story?they need to fill the holes they left open,and give the other characters some story instead of wolverine all the time although i like seeing wolverine i also love the others just as much.they also should make a new x-men movie,a generation-x film,district-x,wolverine 2,x-men 4 and 5,first class,gambit,deadpool,and x-men 2099. and fill all the holes and problems they made and it would give the other characters a chance to shine. if not give the rights back to marvel they know how to make great comic book films. marvel needs all of its propeties back so we get great films then maybe even in spiderman we get more doc ock,lizard and the symbiotes.
1chris2
1chris2 - 4/27/2010, 12:56 PM
and great article sorry for the rant that just me some times.
1chris2
1chris2 - 4/27/2010, 12:58 PM
and clossus,iceman,angel,gambit,glob herman beak,and even nightcrawler in x-3, and cyclops all got $c%wed in the films. man they have their work cut out for them to make things right.
Blackreverend
Blackreverend - 4/27/2010, 4:40 PM
All valuable points...
One of the things that killed it for me is how they tried to bring in classic characters by changing them all together...

For example in "X-Men: The Last Stand", Wolvie goes looking for Jean only to be ambushed in the forest by Lance Gibson as Spike?

My favorite character would never follow Magneto or be stupid enough to take on his aunt's co-worker. The cartoon version was so much cooler...
Stumblin
Stumblin - 4/28/2010, 12:19 PM
Well said thought it has been said many times. Origins was a complete f^ck up, no doubt about that, the six shooter with adamantium bullets bothered me more than anything. Why waste the time and effort to make that for what purpose to take down a killing machine that has been alive since the 1800's? Yeah, never mind the fact he faced countless firing squads (without the metal skeleton) I would imagine at least one of the solders pointed at his head, in which case he should have lost his memory a dozen times already...god I really loathe this movie.
KiddSoul
KiddSoul - 4/29/2010, 3:56 PM
Yeah you are right on point canadian! Major screw up Fox Studios!!!
breakUbatman
breakUbatman - 5/1/2010, 1:40 PM
Lets not forget that Wolverines claws have spaces in between them yet he can block an optic blast from "The Deadpool", the same type of blast that slices a cooling tower into pieces.

The worst travesty was the dicing of the falling ladder even Daffy Duck would balk at that crap
HavokNinja93
HavokNinja93 - 5/1/2010, 9:21 PM
I wish I could redo the whole franchise. these movies could have changed the way these movies are made, if only the writers and directors would have stuck to the source material.
UberGeek
UberGeek - 5/1/2010, 11:45 PM
i'll never understand why they didn't keep in the orignal line Storm said to Toad;

STORM "Do you know what happens to a toad when it is struck by lightning?...they croak!"

also it's very cheesy but i think it would have been funny if Wolvernine said the "Who are you, The Conductor?"
when he first meets Magneto on the train.

Personaly though i hope First Class is a total reworking of the x-men fransise, start it from the begining and do it right.
Podeswa369
Podeswa369 - 5/2/2010, 10:38 AM
I'm glad someone finally said something about the X-men franchise and how poorly the stories were written. When Silver Fox and Emma Frost were sisters I became dizzy and started seeing stars...then they introduced Deadpool and I proceeded to throw up everywhere.
canadianturd
canadianturd - 5/4/2010, 4:12 PM
@ MovieTheaterLad Obviously we have a difference of opinion. You defend lazily crappy movies and I have some taste.
breakUbatman
breakUbatman - 5/5/2010, 7:18 AM
@Movietheatre

I agree with you on some point but the last come on. If the adamantium bullet is something the comics would do, why not the costumes then? I'm pretty sure the could have had something more plausible like a chip in his head or something. The bullet is just lazy: one shot that conveniently erases portions of memory? Come on, even wanted was more believable.

Sabretooth was a cool character most definately but I that back to back nonsense didnt sit well with me at all. If they had been forced into the situation then yes but just like that Creed decides to be a cool dude.

On top of that what bugged me eve nmore is that Wolverine was willing to just walk away from Stryker after being played, surely he should have lost his temper

But more importantly why so emotional dude?
GenLee01
GenLee01 - 5/15/2010, 11:49 PM
Um correct me if I'm wrong but isnt an adamantium bullet the most indastructible bullet in the world because its ...ummm.....adamantium....? So that being said how does an adamantium bullet go straight through adamantium skull ?? and erase his memory...?? Not to mention Wolverine got shot in the head back in the second film and wow oh wow it went though his metal skull and popped out a couple of minutes later.



This sounds extreme but this is what I would do . Scrap every single movie that they are preparing for the x men and completly start new with everyone. Writers / directors down to the actors. Honestly I believe you need to get as close as possible to the real story. They need to cast Wolverine for ohhh I dont know a Canadian that is short.I have nothing against Hugh Jackmans commitment to the character but come on a 6 ft Austrailian playing wolverine....I love his portraile of the character but I hate the writers and directors version of the character if that makes sence.


Colossus needs to atleast have a Russian accent. Correct me if Im wrong.
razoreddie
razoreddie - 5/16/2010, 7:53 PM
I can't believe that no one mentioned the easter egg after the credits of that travesty of a film, "X-3 The Last Stand". Xavier? Waking up in the brain dead body on Muir Island? That was a total WTF moment. It annoyed me almost as much as Sabretooth not knowing who Logan was in the the first movie.
GenLee01
GenLee01 - 5/17/2010, 10:33 AM
Come to think of it wolverine and Lady Death Strike didnt know each other either. That is very important to the story line as a whole.Or at least they didnt know each others history I mean they knew of each other but thats it.
marvel72
marvel72 - 5/23/2010, 10:41 AM
@ canadianturd good article,this is why marvel/disney need to get all there franchises back.
start over,how can anyone put colosuss & juggernaunt into x-men 3 & not have them collide.
FutureCBMHero
FutureCBMHero - 5/26/2010, 2:24 PM
I have flexibility in changing storylines bit, but I agree with most people about this stuff. The thing I'm actually most flexible on is the deaths, because I think in action someone has to die, right?

I hope First Class really is more of a reboot than a continuation.

I love Hugh Jackman, but I say he should retire Wolverine now. He's gotten 4 movies out of him. I'd be okay with a 5th, but he should give it a rest and move on with his career, and allow the reboot to happen. As long as he stays Wolverine, I don't think we can move on. The only mainstay character I'd be okay with seeing through the reboot is Patrick Stewart as Prof X, and that is because he was born for that role.

My Deadpool explanation is like this. Stryker cloned Wade to create that shitty attrocity, and then he could make as many of them as he wanted using th source material. Wade is frozen somewhere and thaws out and then we can get a real Deadpool.
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