X-Men: Days of Future Past - Discussion Thread - SPOILERS

[Mister Fandango]

Ugh. Gambit. Overrated then, overrated now.

He's a fun and interesting character who actually has a background worth telling stories about.

As opposed to, say, someone as incredibly dull as Cyclops. Talk about a complete and utter snorefest. They had to make his dad a space pirate to give him anything remotely interesting. "Uh, I'm a pilot and stuff and, like, I can shoot lasers out of my eyes. But rubies totally stop it. Somehow. Or something. But normal glasses with a red tint seem to work, too. And, uhm, oh yeah, Jean Grey totally digs me. That makes me cool, right? RIGHT?!"

Gimme Gambit any day.

 

[Tosk]

Gambit sucks, "I gar-on-tee!"

 

[RoJoHen]

Xavier was already back from the dead by the end of X3.

Barely. And also not really the point.

There's no point in lumping Xavier together with Scott and Jean as things brought back by DOFP.

He was brought back in the sense that he apparently wasn't disintegrated by the Phoenix and his consciousness left in the body of a random coma patient.

At the end of DOFP, he's back, along with Jean and Scott, perfectly alive and well. Since we never got a story about how Xavier managed to survive being blown up by the Phoenix, and were only given little teasers along the way, it counts in my book as his official return.

 

[Davros]

Ugh. Gambit. Overrated then, overrated now.

Agreed.

I'm with you guys on this, but I don't mind his first appearance being one of the more valuable comics in my collection. If I had to sell it I wouldn't miss it.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Ugh. Gambit. Overrated then, overrated now.

He's a fun and interesting character who actually has a background worth telling stories about.

That stuff must've been added after I stopped reading comics.

 

[Ethros]

Never really read that much of the comics with him in, but I always thought he was awesome in the 90s animated series. Him and Wolverine had some great rapport/scenes together over the series.



So when I think of Gambit it's that version I always think of. I can see why people weren't fans of Tayor Kitsch, but I'm not sure about Channing Tatum either. Just because he's a bit too meaty & muscly for him IMO

 

[Set Harth]

He was brought back in the sense that he apparently wasn't disintegrated by the Phoenix and his consciousness left in the body of a random coma patient.

His body was disintegrated by Jean. Also, the patient wasn't completely random: for some reason, he sounded exactly like Xavier ( and we somewhat suspiciously were never given a good look at his appearance ).

At the end of DOFP, he's back, along with Jean and Scott, perfectly alive and well.

But the difference is that he was also perfectly alive and well at the beginning of DOFP, and at the end of The Wolverine. Scott and Jean weren't. Thus lumping the three of them together doesn't make sense. You might as well say that the end of DOFP counts as the "official return" of Kitty and Wolverine.

Since we never got a story about how Xavier managed to survive being blown up by the Phoenix

We did; it was in TLS ( and the mid-credits scene of The Wolverine ). DOFP simply declined to go into further detail. But that doesn't mean the time travel in DOFP was what brought Xavier back to life.

 

[Mr Light]

BTW I just stumbled onto an awesome deal. You buy the Blu-Ray/DVD Combo of Taken 2 at Best Buy for $5... and it comes with a free movie ticket to X-Men DOFP! I'm going to see it second time this weekend

 

[Random_Spock]

BTW I just stumbled onto an awesome deal. You buy the Blu-Ray/DVD Combo of Taken 2 at Best Buy for $5... and it comes with a free movie ticket to X-Men DOFP! I'm going to see it second time this weekend

Awesome! Have fun!

That's a good deal for a dvd combo.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Logan lost his metal claws in Japan during The Wolverine. How'd he get them back?

(Sorry if this question was answered somewhere in the 48 pages of this topic.)

 

[Mr Light]

Magneto has the ability to manipulate metal.

Wolverine and Magneto are working together.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Magneto has the ability to manipulate metal.

Wolverine and Magneto are working together.

Mighty generous of Magneto, if he's the one to thank for Wolverine's new claws.

 

[Mr Light]

As we saw in the ending of The Wolverine, Xavier and Magneto are working together and they continue to be doing so twenty years in the future. Since they're all teammates it makes perfect sense that Mags would make Wolvie into a decent fighter again. (those bone claws break SO easily!)

 

[Star Wolf]

As we saw in the ending of The Wolverine, Xavier and Magneto are working together and they continue to be doing so twenty years in the future. Since they're all teammates it makes perfect sense that Mags would make Wolvie into a decent fighter again. (those bone claws break SO easily!)

And if alliances should happen to change it makes a berserk Wolverine oh so much more controllable by Magneto

 

[Mr Light]

Wolvie was always that vulnerable to Mags, though. See: Fatal Attractions

 

[Star Wolf]

Wolvie was always that vulnerable to Mags, though. See: Fatal Attractions

That's not a movie, different canon

 

[Mister Fandango]

I wish someone would finally just admit that Magneto doesn't actually control magnetism so much as he's a telekinetic with a limitation for metal. Cause, you know, it's funny how he can "magnetically" control any type of metal, even non-ferrous stuff. Doubly so when the vast majority of the time, he's literally just moving stuff around with pin-point precision, rather than stuff jerking around as magnetic fields toss them here and there.

For example, how would you actually freeze Wolverine in place, assuming adamantium was even responsive to magnets in the first place?

 

[Mr Light]

If Movie-Magneto can pull out train tracks and use them to reprogram advanced computers (!), he can definitely remove or add the adamantium from Logan's bones.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Always ahad a problem with the Magneto- thing in the films. Tehre are many mutants with many mutant powers and yet in The Last STand and Days of Future's Past, they go out of their way to say that their guns and equipment (TLS) and the Sentinals (have no metal). Magneto is not the only mutant around.

Hi, reprogramming the Sentinals was something I didn't have a problem with, though I did have problem with using train tracks to do it.

I almost wish that Trask had just made them regular metal. It would have made sense, as these robots were being developed before the start of the film, and Magneto has been in jail for some years.

A good middle ground solution: Trask used a non-magnetic metal, thinking that if Magneto escaped than he still wouldn't be able to control, but then he learns that Magneto has that effect on non-magnetic metal.

 

[Enterprise1701]

How can the Sentinels be constructed with no metal? Don't all computer circuits need metal??????????