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???