Directed by Bryan Singer, starring Alan Cumming, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox, Bruce Davison, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, James Marsden, Kelly Hu, Patrick Stewart, Rebecca Romijn (add more)
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When Storm and Jean are getting Nightcrawler from the church and he falls down, you can see him flipping over with his feet about to go over his head. Just as he is about to stop, he starts rolling the other way (evidence of a deleted harness). [Jean stops him from falling to the ground with her powers. When she saw that he was "spinning" she could have spun him back around to hold him in a better position so she and Storm can talk to him.]
In the scene where Nightcrawler tries to kill the President, the Agent who shoots him is lying on the floor right behind him. This means that Nightcrawler was shot in the back of the arm. But when Storm and Jean are cleaning his wound in the church, the bullet hole is more in the center of his arm. [In the church scene you can see it's not a hole but more of a deep scratch. The bullet didn't enter it just scratched the side of his arm. That's why the wound is there, not in the back of his arm.]
In the beginning of the movie in the museum scene when everyone other than the mutants are stopped and frozen in time, look closely and you will see a young girl who slightly moves positions even though she is supposed to be completely still. [They are not frozen in time. Prof X took control of their minds so they would be unaware that any time had passed or that anything had happened. If someone needed to adjust for balance the professor would have allowed it.]
In the scene where Logan was shot and the bullet pops out of his head, the slug is intact. Considering that his skull is adamantium, it should have been squashed flat from the impact. [The slug isnt completely intact, it's flattened somewhat just not completely. When a bullet is stopped by something it doesn't have to completely flatten.]
In the scene where Wolverine is shot in the head the bullet stays in its place until it falls off. Wolverine's skull is indestructible Adamantium (that doesn't even bend slightly from the impact), and there's a physical law that an object that operates a certain amount of energy towards another object has the same energy operating on it in return. Considering the bullet's high speed (which means high energy) and the fact that there is not enough material around Wolverine's skull to absorb the bullet's energy, the bullet should have bounced right back. [If angled correctly the bullet would hit the skull and stay in place. Eventually his skin would begin to heal and pop the bullet out. You can see this occur when you play pool (billiards) and you hit the cue ball into another and the cue ball transfers all of its energy to the other object and stops.]
Corrected by shortdanzr
When Wolverine is shot in the head, his Adamantium skull blocks the bullet, which means he only has a simple flesh wound. Based on this and on how fast he heals from far worse injuries, it shouldn't have taken him so long to heal, and it shouldn't have knocked him out in the first place. [The wound doesn't heal as fast because the bullet is lodged in place - it's only once it's been worked loose that the healing can take place, and, as we see, this is exactly what happens. It's also reasonable that Logan should be knocked out - his brain is effectively encased in a metal casing, which has just been hit, at extremely high velocity, by another metallic object. It's like standing inside a bell when it rings - the vibrations are more than enough to make you dizzy - this would be far worse. The shockwaves running through his brain would be more than enough to knock him senseless.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
The credits list Colossus/Peter Raputin. It should be Rasputin. [And technically "Piotr" as well, but we'll let that one go.] [Comic book/movie difference - Colossus' name is never stated. Actually, he's only identifiable by his power - no one calls him anything.]
Nightcrawler's bottom teeth change from straight to jagged throughout the movie when Storm and Jean are cleaning his wound in the church and he says "....here", they're straight but when he's 'hissing' at the President they're jagged. [At least in these two scenes, they're always jagged - it's more obvious when he opens his mouth wide, because they are contrasted against his throat, but even when his jaw is closed, the tips of his teeth are pointed.]
Many Dr. Pepper bottles can be seen in this movie. When the bully's cigarette explodes, he knocks over a table and a Dr. Pepper bottle spills. The obvious one where Bobby freezes it. When Logan is looking through Bobby's fridge. [This is simply product placement advertisement, and therefore not actual trivia.]
Logan takes a bullet to the head which knocks him out. The scene develops where the wound begins to heal (finally) and the slug pops out. Lead is a soft metal and adamantium is the hardest and indestructible. How did the slug lodge? There's not enough flesh in that spot to hold it in place. [It lodges for the same reason you can stick a coin to your forehead. I'm not quite sure what that reason is, but if it works for a coin being pressed by a hand, it would definitely work for a malleable bullet travelling at extremely high speeds.]
In the Oval Office at the end of the film, Professor Xavier uses his telepathy to freeze all the people in the room. When the shot switches to a front view of the X-Men, watch the frozen people in the background closely. They are all quite good at being perfectly still, except for a blonde woman who is blinking rapidly and breathing heavily. [He only freezes their consious minds. The unconsious part of the mind controls breathing, heartbeat, etc. Think about it. If nobody breathed while he froze everybody, they'd all be dead when they woke up.]
In the scene where the X-men's jet had just gotten hit by the missile, and Rogue is thrown from the plane, Nightcrawler warps out and grabs her, then warps back into the plane. Doesn't he later say in front of Cerebro that he can't warp to places he can't see? I don't think he possibly could have seen into the plane from below and behind it. [It's more that he has to know it's safe to warp to places (ie. know where walls and other objects are), than that he needs to have actual visual contact.]
In the end, when the President is visited by the X-Men, Professor X has stopped time, but right before he speaks, you can see a female journalist in back of him blink 3 times after the lightning stops. [The Prof. only froze their consious minds. The subconsious part of the mind controls things like breathing, blinking, heartbeats, ect.]
In the shot where the guard is holding the tray at the metal detector to take it to Magneto the drink in the glass is brown, but when he is walking up the tunnel the drink is green. [A simple lighting situation. Not a mistake, just the appearence of the drink altered by the intensity of the light in the scene. Brown and Green are often confused when situations like this occur.]
When Deathstrike and Wolverine are fighting in the end on the wire cage on top of the tank, watch the way she uses her 'claws'. When she stabs Wolverine in the back, her hand is clenched in a fist but her hand should be outstretched since the metal comes out of her fingers. [Watch the scene frame-by-frame and you will see that the hand is not clenched in a fist but outstretched like it should be.]
When Stryker stands in the Oval Office to talk about his plan for invading Xavier's school, you can see an 'X' behind him in the decor, just above the door. [This is not actually an addition for the film - the "X" exists as part of the decor in the real White House.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
Nightcrawler is set up all through the movie as being a Catholic, using a rosary and so on, yet when he recites the 23rd Psalm, he recites the Protestant version and not the Catholic one. [There are not different versions for different religions, just different translations, he would recite the English version he was more familiar with. Since he was a native speaker of German, not English, he would have originally learned them all in German.]
Pyro says that the mutant gene is carried by males, yet Iceman's brother is not a mutant. This is impossible. If the mutant gene is carried by the father, then the gene must be on the Y chromosome. Refresher: Males; XY Females; XX. This means that the father must be a mutant as well unless something triggers the mutation in the fetus. Which also means if a child ends up being male, it will always get the father's Y chromosome, and the brother to Iceman must be a mutant also. [Every human being has an X gene, and males have a unique Y gene, so the mutant gene might as well be the father's X gene. Thus explaining the existance of female mutants. Maybe the females carry the gene, but what could be called an "inactive version" of it, reproduction-wise. There's also the much simpler explanation that Pyro was lying to wind up Bobby's father, who's already pretty uncomfortable with the idea that his son's a mutant.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
When Nightcrawler is running down a long corridor, a guard is firing at him. Then Nightcrawler teleports and the guard stops firing for a moment. However, he resumes firing before Nightcrawler reappears and kicks him through a doorway. [The reason could be that the guard did that because he was scared and confused. He already knew Nightcrawler was a teleporter and he couldn't guess when and where he's going to appear again. So maybe what happened was that he saw Nightcrawler teleporting and stopped firing for a moment because he was shocked and then he started firing at the air again "just in case".]
After the gas is released in the plastic prison, Xavier turns around, reaches for the plastic doors and calls Scott. Right before he passes out you can see smear marks from his makeup on the door from a previous take. [It's not make up. His breath condensed on the plastic and was then smeared by his sweaty hand prior to being rubbed by his head.]
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