X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Plote Holes

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Plote Holes

Every movie has some plot holes. "X-Men: Days of Future Past" has few of them, but are these plot holes ruin the movie? or can we still enjoy and love one of the best X-Men movies ever made?

Editorial Opinion
By dcmarvel86 - Jun 02, 2014 01:06 AM EST
Before I start, I just want to say that I loved X-Men: Days of Future Past. In my opinion it is one of the best X-Men movies, and maybe one of the best comic book movies ever made. I enjoyed it, and had fun watching it 3 times.


 
However, once you watch a film 3 times, you can’t stop but noticing some plot holes. And there are few really big plot holes in DOFP.
 
But just because there are plot holes in the movie, that doesn’t make the movie bad, and these holes don’t take anything from this great movie.


 
Paradox?

Let’s face it, when it comes to continuity in the X-Men movies, it’s becomes very strange, and if you try to make sense of it, your head will probably blow up. But there was one big plot hole in this movie that keeps hunting me when I sleep.
But before that. Everything that happened since “X-Men: First Class”, all the way to the events of DOFP is the original timeline. Everything that happens after Mystique doesn’t kill Bolivar Trask is the new timeline (that includes the happy future, where everybody is happy, and Wolverine teaches history).  

 

In the beginning of the movie, Professor X explains to Wolverine that back in 1973 he was a very different man. No shit, he was a broken man, using some magical drug that allows him to walk (didn’t he watched “The Dark Knight Rises”? there are easier ways to deal with back problems), but in the process he can’t use his powers. OK, this is a nice twist. So with the help of Wolverine, young Charles becomes the Professor X that we all know and love in the original timeline.
But wait, so the new timeline was created after Wolverine was sent back in time, but how the hell in the original timeline Professor X got on his feet? We see that he is a mess in 1973, but in X-Men 1, he is the Professor X we all know? So, in the original timeline (which in it Wolverine wasn’t sent back in time), how did Charles became the man he is today?



Well, when it comes to time travel, who knows. But it’s little funny that in the original timeline, Charles eventually became Professor X without Wolverine’s help. 
        
 
10 years a slave?



X-Men: First Class was set in 1962, DOFP is set in 1973, and the JFK assassination was in 1963. Is that means that Magneto was in prison for full 10 years?
So why when Mystique saves Havok and his team, he asks her where is Magneto? Isn’t everyone knows that Magneto is the “assassin”? It happened 10 years ago, is Havok doesn’t read news?    
 
The girl that walks through walls is a time machine?



WE all love Kitty Pryde, especially now, when she became a time machine. Wait! Her powers are to walk through walls? Well that’s weird.
Yep, it’s weird that someway, Shadowcat can project a person's consciousness back in time. But I can live with these weird turn of events. As you all know, in the comics it was Kitty who went back in time, but since Hugh Jackman is the hot stuff, and the general audience doesn’t know who Kitty Pryde even is, it makes sense to send Wolverine back in time. So it’s in a way a fan service. And let’s face it, once you start sending people back in time, everything goes and possible. So maybe Kitty learned to use her powers to send people back in time. Maybe, doesn’t make any sense, but it served the plot of the movie very good.    
 

Isn’t Professor X dead?


So in X3, Professor X gets killed. He gets disintegrated by the Phoenix. But somehow someway, in the post-credits scene of “The Wolverine”, he is alive. How?
Well, in the post-credits scene of X3, we get a clue that Professor somehow sent his consciousness into a comatose patient. But even if it’s true, how did that patient looks like Professor X?
Well my theory is that Professor X uses his powers to project his appearance into everyone’s minds, so in fact he is now in a different body, but he uses his powers to make everyone else see him as he wants them to see him. Weird, strange and everything else, but this is my theory.      
 
Magneto has power problems?


This one is little funny. So the JFK assassination happened because Magneto couldn’t stop the bullet that killed the president. Really? In DOFP Magneto not only could control the Sentinels, he lifts a whole Stadium in the air, and also can bend a bullet to hit Mystique in the leg, while she is jumping from a window. So he could do all these thing but he couldn’t stop a freaking bullet from killing Kennedy? Not cool EriK.       
 
The opening scene of X-Men 3?



This one was a plot hole in “First Class”, and it’s still a problem. In the opening scene of X3, we see not-so-young Professor X (who is WALKING) and not-so-young Magneto meeting the young Jean Grey, about 20 years before the events of X3.
So not only Professor X is WALKING!!!, he and Magneto are BFF’s. How? Well I guess we should all blame Brett Ratner for this one.

 
How did Wolverine get adamantium claws back?



In the future Wolverine has adamantium claws, and it’s a plot hole, since in “The Wolverine”, Logan loses his adamantium. In the post-credits scene, that takes place two years after the events of “The Wolverine”, he see a conformation that Logan still has bone claws. So how come in DOFP he has adamantium claws?  

   
Possible explanation to this plot hole is in the post-credits scene in “The Wolverine”. Yes, Logan has bone claws, but when he goes through the metal detector, it makes a sound (which happens to him because he has adamantium in his body). Also, when Magneto shows up, Logan tries to attack him, but Magneto uses his power to control metal to stop Logan, so it’s possible that he still has adamantium in his body, and later Magneto somehow cover Logan’s bones with it again. Anyway, with the new timeline “The Wolverine” never happened, so who cares?
           
 
X-Men Origins: Wolverine never happened?



No that movie never happened. Not for us, and not for Bryan Singer. We get to see some flashbacks from the other movies, but no footage from X-Men Origins. And if that movie never happened it solves lots of plot holes. So, yes, “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”. Simple as that.
This is why in 1973, Wolverine is in New York instead of fighting in Vietnam with Sabretooth. This is why the Sabretooth we see in X-Men 1 is so different from the one we see in origins. This is why William Stryker is so young. This is why the “Emma Frost” we see in origins, isn’t Emma Frost. This is why Cyclops doesn’t remember Wolverine saving his life when he was younger. This is why there was no creepy CGI Professor X in the end of origins. This is why, and thank God, we “never” seen Deadpool on screen.
So, yes. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” never happened. Not in the movie’s timeline, and not in real life. There are only 6 X-Men movies, and I’m ok with that.

      
 

Fast mutants are not allowed on planes?

Quicksilver, how about that outfit? But who cares? Quicksilver was one of the best things about DOFP. That Pentagon was awesome, and it really set the bar really high for mutants who run really fast (better be cool Aaron Taylor-Johnson).
But why? why, after the cool things that Quicksilver did in his part, why would the team will tell him “well, Quicky, thanks for the help and all of that, you can move really fast, and probably can save the future all by yourself, but hey, it’s time to say goodbay”. WHY?
They just say bye-bye to him, and got on that plane, leaving him. After the amazing thing he just did, shouldn’t you like tell Beast that he can stay and take Quicksilver instead? Well, I guess Singer realized that if Quicksilver joins the party, he will save the day in 2 fast seconds, Anyway, Quicksilver was cool, just go to show you one little thing: don’t hate on something until you watch the movie!!!

   

So, if you want me to do more plot holes for other movies, just like this article. And if you haven’t watched DOFP, what the hell is wrong with you???         
   
 
 
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Poolio
Poolio - 6/2/2014, 2:46 AM
Magneto was convicted in a secret trial, they say it in the movie.
Poolio
Poolio - 6/2/2014, 2:51 AM
And maybe Magneto couldnt stop the assassination because (according to conspiracy) there was another shooter on the grassy knoll. So maybe his magnetism caused the second shooter's bullet to hit Kennedy?
RobGrizzly
RobGrizzly - 6/2/2014, 2:57 AM
Great. Now write one for Man of Steel.
And The Dark Knight Rises.
And Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Days of Future Past arguably has more plotholes than those 3 movies combined.

Yet somehow X-Men gets a pass. The point is, people let whatever they want ruin a movie for them, whether it's fair or not.
Kurne
Kurne - 6/2/2014, 3:04 AM
There was a quick glimpse of Victor stepping on Logan's claws from Origins... But that was it. They also left out Danny Huston's Stryker in favor of Brian Cox.

I do wonder how '73 Stryker went from this



to this ('75)

Klone
Klone - 6/2/2014, 3:04 AM
@Kurne

He's a wizard.
Kurne
Kurne - 6/2/2014, 3:14 AM
Ah the perks of stopping an assassination.
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 6/2/2014, 3:24 AM
Kitty's powers work through her manipulating "space", that's how she walks through walls, so her secondary mutation allows her to also manipulate "time" as the two are connected, someone posted a big scientific analysis online that I'm sure you can find on Google, haha. It makes more sense than Emma Frost's secondary ability to turn into diamond anyway.

Quicksilver not going with them after his scene was NOT a plot hole. I mean he was just a teenager, I don't think they'd want him going up against an environment where a mutant-torturer maybe AND the fact he could hardly just up and leave his mother and sisters.

And I don't remember much of The Wolverine but wasn't it ONLY his claws that were cut off? So the rest of the Adamantium would still be there. I'm sure Magneto moulded it back to his bone claws like in the comics, it would've been helpful for them to say but not needed I guess.
Emblemmaniac
Emblemmaniac - 6/2/2014, 3:32 AM
That patient is supposed to be Professor X braindead twinbrother.
kong
kong - 6/2/2014, 3:36 AM
Half of these aren't plot holes because they don't even matter! The reset of time changed everything. Only thing that exists are the past scenes of DOFP and First Class. Only difference is past Wolverine won't remember anything if he appears in Apocalypse or any other movies set in the past.
WYLEEJAY
WYLEEJAY - 6/2/2014, 3:37 AM
Singer told you all..........your just supposed to forget them. There......see......he has it all figured out.
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 6/2/2014, 3:54 AM
@GliderMan

I agree with you, he was a great part but not THE best part.
kinghulk
kinghulk - 6/2/2014, 4:19 AM
regarding the magic bullet i assumed magneto was telling the truth about trying to save mutant Kennedy. like omega said it would have been a split second so i thought magneto assumed the bullet was gonna hit so he bent it out of the way and accidentally into the Kennedy.
Superpotts
Superpotts - 6/2/2014, 4:59 AM
@OmegaDaGod I agree with you.

The thing I really want to know is what happens to Wolverine's consciousness when "present" Wolverine comes to the happy "present" and seemingly takes over that body, assumedley erasing everything he had done since 1973.... Ironically teaching History. Seems like a stupid mistake just for the chance at a joke :/
Futers11
Futers11 - 6/2/2014, 5:45 AM
I wanna know how they plan on doing films with younger versions of the original cast when around 2000 there meant to look like the original actors who played them???
MightyZeus
MightyZeus - 6/2/2014, 6:37 AM
I don't actually notice many plot holes, most of these are inconsistencies. X-men 3 does not matter anymore and neither does Wolverine Origins. The only films which matter now and which are part of the timeline are First Class and DOFP.
Odin
Odin - 6/2/2014, 7:32 AM
The comatose guy is professor twin brother P. Xavier. He is brain dead because when they were in womb, Charles powers had first extremely brief activation causing P's (Patrick?) brainfunctions to shut down. The reason he sits in wheelchair in DOFP is that since new body had been lying on bed for entire lifetime, muscels are too weak to move, at least so that he could keep up with other people.
AstonishingArachnid
AstonishingArachnid - 6/2/2014, 8:15 AM
I hope this is the last time travel CBM because there are always plot holes in time travel movies. I don't think there's one without them. I thought DoFP wouldn't have that many plotholes, but damn I was left scratching my head at the end. Also the ending is kinda weird considering the fact that the Wolverine everyone knowns in the new timeline has been murdered by an alternate universe Wolverine who steals his body and Xavier seems to be OK with this.
CaptainAmerica31
CaptainAmerica31 - 6/2/2014, 8:16 AM
I love how people call things that aren't even plot holes, plot holes.
WinterSoldier33
WinterSoldier33 - 6/2/2014, 9:16 AM
you have got to be the biggest idiot


secret trial
sikwon
sikwon - 6/2/2014, 9:47 AM
One of my issues is...10 years is a long time. Assuming Havok was just a kid (16,17) in First Class then by DoFP he would be atlwast, 26 years old. That's not a kid that is drafted into Vietnam. There's no way that he's as easily manipulated at that point in his life to be willingly walking into a situation ware he's going to be controlled and experimented on. Especially since 1st class went to great lengths to show him as rebellious and head strong. 10 years is a long time, they through all his character development away to squeeze him into that scene. Same thing with Toad. Granted this is a much better toad then in X1 but they clearly gave zero consideration to him having aged. By setting 1st class so far in the Past that's the biggest timrline/character issues. Yes X men started in the 60's but how are they going to bring some of these characters into modern times. Some of their mutations may age them slower but for a character like Havok you simply can't use him in a modern story now. They started their universe to far in the past and used to many characters to do it. DoFP may have reset the time line and erased events but characters still age. We're going to have to over look aging in the movies just like we do in the comics. Emma for example... she's not dead any more but she was maybe 28 in 1st class (just a guess, she was a grown, mature woman) so by the time the make AoA set in the 80's she'll be around 40. Fine but when they get to the present she'll be in her 60's!! So they either can't use her any more, will not even consider aging as a factor or mutants age slower. Either way, every single time they use a mutant from the 1st class era we will be a bit taken aback. It's one of those things that for me, makes the story difficult. There can never be character consistency because there's a 50 year gap for some of the characters. And as expansive as the X verse is character wife there are a lot of them that are now either removed from the story or just difficult to fit inti/account for. I mean Havok, Emma, Beast, these are important characters that will be in their 60's by the time they make a modern movie. It's just another example of something we have to just ignore with the Xverse. The real problem is that they don't realize how much fans genuinely care about some of these characters and stories.
RextheKing
RextheKing - 6/2/2014, 10:18 AM
If you just erase origins altogether the only real plothole is in X3 when Professor X was walking, had his powers, and was still buddies with Magneto. Even though it's easy to just blame Ratner, since he made the first bad X film, it was first class that actually made it a plot hole. I loved first class so don't think I'm hating, its just the truth.

Like you said origins shouldn't even be considered to be part of the same continuity since it conflicts with Emma, Cyclops, Stryker, and Wolverine in the rest of the timeline before DoFP but after first class and conflicts with Quicksilver and Wolverine after DoFP. Let's not forget what they did to Deadpool also.
BenjiWest
BenjiWest - 6/2/2014, 10:34 AM
Anyone else think the Beast "power suppressing drug" was close to the cure thing from X3? Why was Hank so surprised then in X3, when he had managed to suppress his own powers already...
AC1
AC1 - 6/2/2014, 11:03 AM
1) Not a plot hole, Prof X just got his act together on his own much later in the original timeline, while Wolverine sped it up in the new timeline.
2) They do say in the movie that Magneto was never publicly revealed as JFK's killer; he was imprisoned in secret.
3) Yeah, they could've at least thrown in a line of dialogue to explain away Kitty's new powers.
4) The comatose body belongs to Xavier's brain-dead twin (according to the X3 commentary), explaining why he looks the same - as for why he needs a wheelchair again... maybe he'd grown attached to it? Could be because his brother's body would be unable to walk (he never learned how, plus he'd been in bed his whole life so his muscles would be very weak and unable to support him) so he'd need the wheelchair anyway.
5) Prof X walking could mean that Beast had made a better version of his cure, which allowed him to use his powers - then some time later, his powers wore off, and he needed his chair again. As for him and Magneto being friends - it's a bit of a stretch, but Erik has jumped back and forth between bad and good many times, so he could've just been going through a good phase.
6) Yeah, seems that's how he got his claws back.
7) The less remembered about X-Men Origins Wolverine, the better.
8) Quicksilver was just a kid, they probably didn't want to exploit him. Plus, he probably would've said no anyway - he was only interested in breaking into places and stealing stuff.

@sikwon Emma's still dead, she died before Wolverine arrived in 1973, meaning the stuff he changed also happened after her death. Same with Azazel, Angel Salvadore, and Banshee. As for Havok... yeah, it's going to be tricky using him in the future, there were rumours they were going to make him Cyclops' dad in this series but that'd be kind of weird. I can actually buy Beast as being like 60 years old though, he's always seemed older than the others (except Prof X and Magneto) anyway.
AC1
AC1 - 6/2/2014, 11:13 AM
I think the biggest plot-hole is Wolverine's consciousness arriving in his body in the happy future - did Wolverine's original mind wipe out the mind of the version who'd been living in the new timeline? Did the two versions "merge" or something? It would've made more sense for Wolverine's original mind either to just disappear altogether, or (as I'd prefer) Wolverine's original mind stayed in his younger body for the entire time, and he just lived out the 50 years after the main events of the movie.

Also, doesn't the happy future in the ending kind of ruin the ending of X-Men Apocalypse, seeing as we know everyone's going to survive?

@BenjiWest it had probably been a long time since Hank stopped using his version of the cure, so it would've been the first time in many years that he'd seen his hand looking human. Having said that, Hank's cure thing could also explain the human looking Hank McCoy who appeared on that TV screen in X2.
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 6/2/2014, 12:40 PM
Rulk - 6/2/2014, 7:10 AM

"The only films which matter now and which are part of the timeline are First Class and DOFP"

@ MightyZeus - Incorrect. If you don't account for some of the other movies especially the death of Cyclops and Jean Grey... the ending of DOFP where Wolverine is stunned that they're both still alive doesn't make sense and loses their emotional impact.

Try showing just First Class and DOFP only to a fresh mind who hasn't seen any Xmen movies. That DOFP ending will come off somewhat confusing and less heartfelt.


@Rulk

You can easily assume cyclops and jean grey died in the Sentinel attack in the future, much like Beast and Angel

I'm just sayin
Forthas
Forthas - 6/2/2014, 2:23 PM
I think that in the best scene in the film, Quicksilver's jail break, there might be a legitimate plot hole. When he is moving around the room, we are led to believe that he is listening to his headphones. However, I imagine he is moving faster than the speed of sound so he should not be able to hear anything. Plus the player would have to be playing as fast as he is moving relative to him, but even so...you cannot change the speed of sound no matter how fast you play something.

The scene was so good through I happily suspend my disbelief and would rather them have the scene than make it conform to real life physics.
jaysin420
jaysin420 - 6/2/2014, 5:16 PM
Quicksilver was so awesome they could even use him to fix some of the remaining plotholes.

Like did Prof X really die? Nah, Quicksilver saved him at the last second.
marvel72
marvel72 - 6/2/2014, 6:36 PM
why didn't they take quicksilver with them on the plane? he could of solved all their problems,what with him moving so fast its like time had stopped.
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 6/2/2014, 6:38 PM
Its a FOX movie, what do we expect?

Yeah plenty in it, still it was one of the best X-movies, still wanna see X-MEN FIRST CLASS with the REAL FIRST CLASS ;P
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 6/2/2014, 6:39 PM
marvel72 @ If they done that, the movie would have ended an hour early :PP
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