X-Men: Apocalypse

Trivia: Director Bryan Singer makes a cameo as a soldier that shoots Wolverine.

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Trivia: Apocalypse's followers are referred to as The Four Horsemen in the comic, and there is also a brief mention of it in the movie (when Charles and Alex go to see Moira). The song playing when apocalypse goes to recruit Angel is "The Four Horsemen", by Metallica.

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Trivia: The program playing on the TV at Ororo Munroe / Storm's home which Apocalypse watches is the 1967 Star Trek episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" which also features the return of a godlike being.

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Trivia: With this film, Bryan Singer broke the record and became the first director to have made four movies in a single superhero franchise. Singer directed "X-Men", "X2", "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and "X-Men: Apocalypse." This record was eventually matched three years later by the Russo Brothers, who have made four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to date.

Trivia: The scene of Scott's powers appearing in a school bathroom as a teenager was written for the original "X-Men" but never filmed for time and budgetary reasons.

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Trivia: SPOILER: The Essex Corporation shown in the post-credits scene is a reference to the classic X-Men villain Mister Sinister, whose real name is Nathaniel Essex.

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Trivia: As well as making his usual cameo appearance, Stan Lee appears with his wife Joan for his cameo in this film.

Trivia: At the end of the movie, when Erik and Charles are saying their goodbyes, Erik asks Charles "Does it ever keep you up at night, the feeling one day they will come for you and your children", to which Charles replies "Yes it does, and I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes looking for trouble at my school." They have the same conversation, almost word-for-word, at the end of the original X-Men.

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Trivia: SPOILER: After Jean Grey fights off Apocalypse, the fire that surrounds her takes on the brief shape of a fiery Phoenix, an allusion to an X-Men storyline in the comics.

Trivia: Just as the Fox fanfare intro finishes, the ending of the music takes a cue from X-Men, and just as the screen fades out, the 'X' in 'Fox' is last to fade away from the screen.

Trivia: When they leave the cinema after watching Return of the Jedi, Jean Grey quips that "at least we can all agree the third one is the weakest" or words to that effect, a sly dig at X-Men: The Last Stand which is considered the weakest of the original trilogy and not directed by Bryan Singer.

Factual error: When Stryker's chopper with the mutants on board flies over the lake it enters a tunnel that barely clears the rotors. As any student pilot could tell you, this would lead to an immediate crash as the downwash from the rotors struck the bottom and sides of the rounded tunnel and reduced lift to zero.

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Apocalypse: Everything they've built will fall! And from the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one.

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Question: What happened to Psylocke after the movie? Would you say this indicates an appearance in another upcoming X-Men film?

Answer: Psylocke is purposefully shown literally just walking away after the dust has settled. She could very well show up in another film somewhere along the line but nothing has been confirmed as of yet.

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