X-Men: First Class

Continuity mistake: A sleepy Raven snuggles up to Charles and tells him to read something to her. He reads her his thesis. The way he holds his thesis and the way his left hand rests on the sofa behind her is different between shots. (00:13:40)

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Other mistake: In the credits James McAvoy is listed as Charles Xavier (Age 24), then Laurence Belcher is listed as Charles Xavier (Age 12). The opening scene plays in 1944, while the rest of the movie plays in 1962 - a difference of 18 years, not 12.

Other mistake: Sebastian Shaw finds the mutants at the CIA outpost, removes his helmet and approaches them to deliver his monologue. When the shot cuts to the group of mutants huddled together, Havok can be seen making a goofy face at someone off set before turning his head forward and getting back into character. (01:05:48)

Revealing mistake: Watch when young Charles meets young Raven. Look closely and you can see the zipper on the child actress' costume.

Rob245

Continuity mistake: The bartender points a gun at Erik, and his finger is inside the trigger guard. When Erik pushes the trigger using his superpower, suddenly the trigger guard is free of the finger. This is intentional, intended to illustrate the fact the Erik pushes the trigger, rather than the bartender pulling it. (00:24:40)

Uri Raz

Character mistake: When trying to teach Banshee to fly, he is told to make his sound waves super sonic. Sound waves cannot be super sonic. Sound can only travel at the speed of sound, it always does. I guess they were trying to tell him to use a very high frequency, but the speed would still be the speed of sound.

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Continuity mistake: When Erik is first attempting to lift the submarine, he'd using his left hand. In subsequent scenes, specifically when Riptide turns into heavy wind to break Erik's grasp, he's now using his right hand.

Revealing mistake: When Xavier saves Erik from drowning, the two have an exchange of words while floating at the water's surface. During these shots the water is churning violently around them but the two look stationary, indicating they are standing on a solid platform.

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Answer: It is shown in X-Men: Days of Future Past that Hank made a serum that can help him walk.

Chosen answer: The short answer is events in this film negate what happened in X-Men 3 as well as Origins: Wolverine or one could say this film essentially became a reboot. Since no real answer seems to be given, and since the X-Men 3 film makers didn't know Charles would later be shown to become paralyzed prior to visiting Jean, they had no need to explain why he's walking. One can only speculate on the possible ways Charles walks in these 2 previous movies (and this isn't taking into account the timeline shift from X-Men Days of Future Past). We do know from DOFP that Hank/Beast created a serum for Charles that allowed him to walk, albeit without his powers. Hank could have kept working on this serum which would allow Charles to walk and still maintain some of his powers. Then at some point Charles stopped taking the serum, confining him to the wheelchair once again. Either because they ran out of the serum or because Charles came to the realization he needs to accept what happened and not hide it, especially if he's teaching children to accept who they are. Charles also has the power of "astral projection" and the power to appear in the minds of others, so Charles could simply not be there at Jean's house, but is back home, in his wheelchair.

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