Yeah, that is kinda crappy. Are there mutants not associated with X-Men or any of it's various spinoffs? If not I guess I can see how the X-Men rights would give them all of the mutants, but if there are than that seems kind of unreasonable to me.
(Hence I referred to him as Marvel's answer to Jamie Reyes, which I think of as a good thing).
Sure those are good sequels but there are plenty where part II actually is of considerable lesser quality or "wheels coming off" and IM2 doesn't fit that bill. I'd call out Gremlins 2, Ghostbusters 2, Die Hard 2, Tomb Raider 2 or X-Files 2 for starters. The dissenters of that movie pile on too harshly. I mean crap if it were that bad WOM in our social media age would've killed it not to unlike what happened with Green Lantern. Iron Man 2 just isn't a bad film despite some people thinking it had to be a film like you listed above.
