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* EyeDentityGiveaway: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Senator Robert Kelly returns to Congress on television, but his eyes briefly flash gold on-camera, which the X-Men notice and deduce that the Robert Kelly on-screen is Mystique in disguise.]]

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* EyeDentityGiveaway: At several points in the film, a character is revealed to the audience to be Mystique in disguise when the character's eyes turn gold. [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Senator Robert Kelly returns to Congress on television, but his eyes briefly flash gold on-camera, which the X-Men notice and deduce that the Robert Kelly on-screen is Mystique in disguise.]]

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* ChekhovsGun: Toad is introduced spray-painting something green as Sabretooth returns from his failed kidnapping. This is revealed to be [[spoiler:a dummy torch for the Statue of Liberty, concealing Magneto's mutation machine.]]


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* ChekhovsGun: Toad is introduced spray-painting something green as Sabretooth returns from his failed kidnapping. This is revealed to be [[spoiler:a dummy torch for the Statue of Liberty, concealing Magneto's mutation machine.]]
* ChekhovsNews: In the scene where Rogue first meets Wolverine, a TV in the background is playing a news report about an upcoming meeting of world leaders. Nobody pays any attention at the time, but the meeting turns out later to be the focus of Magneto's plan.
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''X-Men'' is the first movie in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' directed by Creator/BryanSinger, based on the celebrated comic book franchise [[ComicBook/XMen of the same name]]. It came out in 2000.

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''X-Men'' is the first movie in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' ''Franchise/XMenFilmSeries'' directed by Creator/BryanSinger, based on the celebrated comic book franchise [[ComicBook/XMen of the same name]]. It came out in 2000.

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* CanadaEh: Northern Albertans are depicted as rude, beer-loving, rough-and-tumble rednecks.


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* CrassCanuck: Northern Albertans are depicted as rude, beer-loving, rough-and-tumble rednecks.

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* FauxActionGirl: Despite being one of Xavier's first students, Jean Grey is noticeably less competent than her teammates when it comes to using her powers. When Toad attacks the group, her only contribution is awkwardly lifting him into the air, which doesn't stop him from using his own mutation to take her out; and during the climax, she visibly struggles helping Storm transport Wolverine up to Magneto's machine. The sequels would justify her apparent inaptitude by establishing that Xavier had placed her under a mental block, to prevent her powers from overwhelming her. Once her full power is unleashed, she becomes unambiguously the most powerful character in the series.

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* FauxActionGirl: Despite being one of Xavier's first students, Jean Grey is noticeably less competent than her teammates when it comes to using her powers. When Toad attacks the group, her only contribution is awkwardly lifting him into the air, which doesn't stop him from using his own mutation to take her out; and during the climax, she visibly struggles helping Storm transport Wolverine up to Magneto's machine. The sequels would justify her apparent inaptitude ineptitude by establishing that Xavier had placed her under a mental block, to prevent her powers from overwhelming her. Once her full power is unleashed, she becomes unambiguously the most powerful character in the series.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: The "X-Men 1.5" DirectorsCut has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it DeletedScene where the energy pulse from Magneto's device washes over the X-Men. Jean Grey is the only one who shows a physical reaction to the flash; this would seem to be the event that activated the Phoenix Force which would become so important in the next two movies. The second film acted as if this scene had been left in, with Scott and Jean discussing how her powers had changed since the battle at the Art/StatueOfLiberty.

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The "X-Men 1.5" DirectorsCut has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it DeletedScene where the energy pulse from Magneto's device washes over the X-Men. Jean Grey is the only one who shows a physical reaction to the flash; this would seem to be the event that activated the Phoenix Force which would become so important in the next two movies. The second film acted as if this scene had been left in, with Scott and Jean discussing how her powers had changed since the battle at the Art/StatueOfLiberty.Art/StatueOfLiberty.
** Professor X speculates that Magneto isn't specifically looking for Logan. It turns out that [[spoiler:Magneto wanted Rogue and her power-stealing abilities.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: Toad is introduced spray-painting something green as Sabretooth returns from his failed kidnapping. This is revealed to be [[spoiler:a dummy torch for the Statue of Liberty, concealing Magneto's mutation machine.]]
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Magneto is first seen as a young child in the 1944 prologue and as an older man named Erik at the Senate hearings but the pieces are not quite put together that the two are the same person until he summons Wolverine's dog tags from Sabretooth and a shot is shown of his left forearm, tattooed with his number from Auschwitz.

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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Magneto is first seen as a young child boy bending gates in the 1944 prologue and as an older man named Erik at the Senate hearings but the pieces are not quite put together that the two are the same person until he summons Wolverine's dog tags from Sabretooth and a shot is shown of his left forearm, tattooed with his number from Auschwitz.
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Um... okay, so, comic books ''can'' be a little goofy at times.

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Um... okay, so, comic books {{comic books}} ''can'' be a little goofy at times.

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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: Magneto is first seen as a young child in the 1944 prologue and as an older man named Erik at the Senate hearings but the pieces are not quite put together that the two are the same person until he summons Wolverine's dog tags from Sabretooth and a shot is shown of his left forearm, tattooed with his number from Auschwitz.



* BladeBrake: Wolverine averts a fall off the Art/StatueOfLiberty by hooking one of the points of the statue's crown, then spinning around it to land on top. The point falls off only after he's done.

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* BladeBrake: Wolverine averts a fall off the Art/StatueOfLiberty by hooking one of the points of the statue's crown, then spinning around it to land on top. The point falls off only after he's done. He does another one when Sabretooth throws him off and he uses his claw to stop his fall.



* PistolWhipping: In the 1944 prologue, the concentration camp guards stop the young Erik from bending the gate further by whacking him in the head with the stock of a rifle.



* TheQuietOne: The Brotherhood members almost never speak. Mystique is silent but for one line early on, except when she's disguised. It's quite effective and adds to her, well, mystique. Sabretooth has four lines, Toad has three.

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* TheQuietOne: The Brotherhood members almost never speak. Mystique is silent but for one line early on, except when she's disguised. It's quite effective and adds to her, well, mystique. Sabretooth has four lines, Toad has three.three; each of them has an additional line (two for Sabretooth) while controlled by Charles.
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* BrokenPedestal: Implied with Magneto towards America as he notes the Statue of Liberty and how the USA failed to live up to expectations.
-->'''Magneto''': Magnificent, isn't she?
-->'''Rogue''': I've seen it.
-->'''Magneto''': I first saw her in 1949. America was going to be the land of tolerance, of peace.
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* KillAndReplace: The Brotherhood (given that the coroner thinks it was a bear attack, probably Sabretooth) killed Kelly's aide Guyrich and replaced him with Mystique.


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* YouKnowTheOne: After the first attempt to capture [[spoiler:Rogue]] fails, Magneto asks Sabretooth "Where is ''the mutant'' now?" [emphasis added] rather than using a name or pronoun that would clarify who he was after.
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* GoombaStomp: Played ''horrifyingly'' straight - the mutant Toad uses his InASingleBound abilities to land onto unsuspecting humans from great height, instantly breaking their spines and killing them.

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* BodyHorror:
** [[spoiler:Senator Kelly's mutation causes his body to become amorphous, and he manages to force himself through prison bars to escape from Magneto. As his condition destabilizes, however, it quickly ends with him being liquefied before Storm's very eyes.]]
** In their first encounter, Magneto easily subdues Wolverine (power over metal vs. a ''metal'' skeleton isn't exactly a fair fight) and briefly tortures him by pushing his claws apart. Some horrified onlookers visibly wince at the sight.



* BullyingADragon: The roughneck who lost (painfully) to Wolverine in a cage fight manages to deduce that Logan is a mutant... then gets the bright idea of harassing him to try and get back the money he lost. He ends up threatened with Wolverine's claws for his trouble, and if it hadn't been for Rogue, the fighter might not have walked away alive.



* DidntThinkThisThrough: The biggest flaw in Magneto's EvilPlan: [[spoiler:his machine turns normal humans into mutants, but he only tested it on a single subject, Senator Kelly, who escaped before Magneto could observe the full effects, but he decides to go ahead and use the machine on the assembled world leaders anyway, unaware that Kelly's mutation proved unstable and caused his death within a day or two. If Magneto's plan had successfully gone ahead, he would have been responsible for the deaths of dozens of world leaders and nearly everyone in New York City, which would have provoked a ''massive'' response against mutantkind, the exact opposite of the result Magneto was aiming for.]]



* FailedASpotCheck: [[spoiler:During the denouement, the X-Men notice Mystique's yellow eyes flash [[GlamourFailure through her disguise as Senator Kelly]], but no one else, either on the scene or watching the news coverage, seems to.]]



* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:Magneto's plan is to turn world leaders into mutants to try and force better treatment for his kind. The machine he intends to use on them, however, caused the death of the only other human Magneto used it on, so if his plan ''had'' worked, he would have wound up killing the very world leaders he hoped to convert, which would only have made things worse for mutants.]]



* KarmicTransformation: Senator Kelly, an anti-mutant bigot, is transformed into a mutant by Magneto.

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* KarmicTransformation: Senator Kelly, an anti-mutant bigot, is transformed into a mutant by Magneto. [[spoiler:The instability of the process results in Kelly's KarmicDeath.]]



* NotWearingTights: {{Lampshaded}} and played semi-straight, which has the characters wearing dark-color body armor-suits. Wolverine (newly recruited) comments on the outlandishness of the outfits, to which Cyclops jokingly asks, "Would you prefer yellow spandex?" In reference to the early uniforms of the X-Men comic book (and main color of most of Wolverine's comic book outfits.)

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* NotWearingTights: {{Lampshaded}} and played semi-straight, which has the characters wearing dark-color body armor-suits. Wolverine (newly recruited) comments on the outlandishness of the outfits, to which Cyclops jokingly asks, "Would "What would you prefer prefer, yellow spandex?" In reference to the early uniforms of the X-Men comic book (and main color of most of Wolverine's comic book outfits.)


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* TemptingFate: When Rogue suggests that he should wear a seatbelt, Logan barely gets a full sentence into how he doesn't need auto safety advice before hitting a tree and being launched through the windshield.


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* VillainBall: [[spoiler:Magneto dismisses Storm's claim of Senator Kelly's death and the ineffectiveness of his machine out of hand and tries to go ahead with his plan anyway. He simply assumes that Storm is mistaken despite not having any proof of his own that the machine will work as he hopes.]]
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Not in the movie itself, but in the “X-Men: The Mutant Watch” FauxDocumentary, Kelly’s fellow senators Howard Fulwood and Connie Kasamatsu criticize his proposed Mutant Registration Act as paranoid and dangerous. Fulwood even says the X-Men are heroes for risking their lives to protect humanity and tells a reporter Kelly is a “dangerous demagogue”.
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* HammyVillainSeriousHero: A minor example. During the climax, the mostly serious Cyclops, Jean, and Storm are attacked by Toad, who is played with an almost gleeful hamminess by Creator/RayPark.

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* TheGadfly: Professor X telepathically guides an anxious Logan--the latter has no idea where he is or why he's there, or why he's hearing a strange male voice inside his head, and because Dr. Jean Grey wanted to take a blood sample, Wolverine assumes that he's being experimented on--from the school's infirmary to Xavier's office, where Charles greets his guest with a polite "Good morning, Logan." Professor X is aware of the traumas that Wolverine had experienced, and it's a bit disconcerting that the former took advantage of the latter's paranoia for a little bit of fun, even if it was only for a short time.

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* TheGadfly: Professor X telepathically guides an anxious Logan--the latter has no idea where he is or why he's there, or why he's hearing a strange male voice inside his head, and because Dr. Jean Grey wanted to take a blood sample, Wolverine assumes that he's being experimented on--from the school's infirmary to Xavier's office, where Charles greets his guest with a polite "Good morning, Logan." Professor X is aware of the traumas that Wolverine had experienced, and it's a bit disconcerting that the former took advantage of the latter's paranoia for a little bit of fun, even if it was only for a short time. [[note]] Arguably, he probably thought that this was the best way to get Logan to his office peacefully without him scaring any of the students or attacking one of the adults. To his credit, he seems to be right; once he sees the Professor wrapping up a physics lesson with a few teenagers (including Kitty Pride), Logan seems to calm down a little and allow the Professor to explain. [[/note]]



* HateAtFirstSight: Wolverine and Cyclops show an ''immediate'' disdain for one-another before even a single line of dialogue is spoken.

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* HateAtFirstSight: Wolverine and Cyclops show an ''immediate'' disdain for one-another one--another before even a single line of dialogue is spoken.



* KidnappedForExperimentation: This is what the Brotherhood does to [[spoiler: Senator Kelly]]. They could have picked any human to use as a test subject for Magneto's device, but they chose him specifically because [[ItsPersonal they hate him for his encouragement of fear/distrust against mutants]]. Ironically, [[spoiler: Kelly]] escapes ''because'' of the experimentation, allowing him to warn the X-Men.



* LaserGuidedKarma: Senator Kelly has spent an entire political career speaking and working against mutants (who already have a hard life due to how society views them and (for some) the [[BlessedWithSuck nature of their powers]]). Because of this, he's abducted by the Brotherhood, and subjected to a machine that turns him into a mutant. Before he dies from the affects of said machine, he's forced to not only live as a mutant for the last days of his life, fully realizing [[HeelRealization what mutants have to live with]], but go to the very people he's oppressed (Jean Gray and the Professor) for help. As much as he needed to realize how badly he was treating mutants, his turning into water and dying might have been too harsh a punishment...

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Senator Kelly has spent an entire political career speaking and working against mutants (who already have a hard life due to how society views them and (for some) the [[BlessedWithSuck nature of their powers]]). Because of this, he's abducted by the Brotherhood, and subjected to a machine that turns him into a mutant. Before he dies from the affects of said machine, he's forced to not only live as a mutant for the last days of his life, fully realizing [[HeelRealization what mutants have to live with]], but go to the very people he's oppressed (Jean Gray and the Professor) for help. As much as he needed to realize how badly he was treating mutants, his turning into water and dying might have been [[AlasPoorVillain too harsh a punishment...]]


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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Er, rather, HeelRealization equals death. [[spoiler: After ''finally'' realizing how hard a mutant's life is, and how he's only made it worse by encouraging people to hate and fear them, Kelly seems to change his mind (at least a little) about the mutants of the world (as, at least, the ones with Charles Xavier are good). Then, right after he admits to Storm that he's starting to change his views, his body turns completely to water, killing him and horrifying her.]]
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* EyeDentityGiveaway: [[spoiler:At the end of the film, Senator Robert Kelly returns to Congress on television, but his eyes briefly flash gold on-camera, which the X-Men notice and deduce that the Robert Kelly on-screen is Mystique in disguise.]]
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* MotiveMisidentification: When everyone is certain that Magneto is trying to kidnap Wolverine, only to discover that [[spoiler:he's actually after Rogue]].
-->'''Wolverine:''' What do you want with me?\\
'''Magneto:''' ''You''? My dear boy, whoever said anything about wanting you? ''[glances towards [[spoiler:Rogue]], cue OhCrap expressions from [[spoiler:her]] and Wolverine]''

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* MotiveMisidentification: When everyone is certain Wolverine and Rogue have been chased and attacked several times by Magneto's band of mutants. The X-Men come to the conclusion that Magneto is trying to kidnap Magneto's after Wolverine, only possibly due to discover that [[spoiler:he's actually after Rogue]].
his self-regeneration abilities. Then Magneto corners the pair in a train station and has Wolvie completely at his mercy...
-->'''Wolverine:''' What the hell do you want with me?\\
'''Magneto:''' ''You''? You? My dear boy, whoever said anything about wanting I wanted you? ''[glances towards [[spoiler:Rogue]], cue OhCrap expressions from [[spoiler:her]] and Wolverine]''''[turns to look at [[spoiler:Rogue]]]''



* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Wolverine and Rogue]] have been chased and attacked several times by Magneto's band of mutants. The X-Men come to the conclusion that Magneto's after [[spoiler:Wolverine, possibly due to his self-regeneration abilities]]. Then Magneto corners the pair in a train station and has [[spoiler:Wolvie]] completely at his mercy...
-->[[spoiler:'''Wolverine:''']] What the hell do you want with me?\\
'''Magneto:''' You? My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you? ''[turns to look at [[spoiler:Rogue]]]''

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* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Wolverine and Rogue]] have been chased and attacked several times by Magneto's band of mutants. The X-Men come to the conclusion When everyone is certain that Magneto's after [[spoiler:Wolverine, possibly due to his self-regeneration abilities]]. Then Magneto corners the pair in a train station and has [[spoiler:Wolvie]] completely at his mercy...
-->[[spoiler:'''Wolverine:''']]
is trying to kidnap Wolverine, only to discover that [[spoiler:he's actually after Rogue]].
-->'''Wolverine:'''
What the hell do you want with me?\\
'''Magneto:''' You? ''You''? My dear boy, whoever said I wanted anything about wanting you? ''[turns to look at [[spoiler:Rogue]]]''''[glances towards [[spoiler:Rogue]], cue OhCrap expressions from [[spoiler:her]] and Wolverine]''

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-->'''Rogue''': Are you going to kill me?\\
'''Magneto''': Yes.

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-->'''Rogue''': -->'''Rogue:''' Are you going to kill me?\\
'''Magneto''': '''Magneto:''' Yes.



--->'''Magneto''': I've always thought of God as a teacher, a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding.

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--->'''Magneto''': --->'''Magneto:''' I've always thought of God as a teacher, a bringer of light, wisdom, and understanding.



'''Cyclops:''' ''(beat)'' Okay. ''(lowers hand off his visor)''

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'''Cyclops:''' ''(beat)'' ''[beat]'' Okay. ''(lowers ''[lowers hand off his visor)'' visor]''



-->'''Rogue''': When they [the claws] come out... does it hurt?\\
'''Wolverine''': Every time.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When everyone is certain that Magneto is trying to kidnap Wolverine, only to discover that [[spoiler:he's actually after Rogue]].
-->'''Wolverine:''' What do you want with me?\\
'''Magneto:''' ''You''? My dear boy, whoever said anything about wanting you? ''(glances towards [[spoiler:Rogue]], cue OhCrap expressions from [[spoiler:her]] and Wolverine)''

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-->'''Rogue''': -->'''Rogue:''' When they [the claws] come out... does it hurt?\\
'''Wolverine''': '''Wolverine:''' Every time.
* ItsAllAboutMe: When everyone is certain that Magneto is trying to kidnap Wolverine, only to discover that [[spoiler:he's actually after Rogue]].
-->'''Wolverine:''' What do you want with me?\\
'''Magneto:''' ''You''? My dear boy, whoever said anything about wanting you? ''(glances towards [[spoiler:Rogue]], cue OhCrap expressions from [[spoiler:her]] and Wolverine)''
time.



* MotiveMisidentification: When everyone is certain that Magneto is trying to kidnap Wolverine, only to discover that [[spoiler:he's actually after Rogue]].
-->'''Wolverine:''' What do you want with me?\\
'''Magneto:''' ''You''? My dear boy, whoever said anything about wanting you? ''[glances towards [[spoiler:Rogue]], cue OhCrap expressions from [[spoiler:her]] and Wolverine]''



-->'''Logan''': There's not many people that will understand what you're going through, but I think this guy Xavier is one of them. He seems to genuinely want to help you, and that's a rare thing for people like us.

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-->'''Logan''': -->'''Logan:''' There's not many people that will understand what you're going through, but I think this guy Xavier is one of them. He seems to genuinely want to help you, and that's a rare thing for people like us.



-->'''Promoter''': Whatever you do, don't hit him in the balls.\\
'''Fighter''': I thought you said anything goes.\\
'''Promoter''': Anything goes, but he'll take it personal.

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-->'''Promoter''': -->'''Promoter:''' Whatever you do, don't hit him in the balls.\\
'''Fighter''': '''Fighter:''' I thought you said anything goes.\\
'''Promoter''': '''Promoter:''' Anything goes, but he'll take it personal.



-->'''Rogue''': Does it hurt when [your claws] come out?
-->'''Wolverine''': Every time.

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-->'''Rogue''': -->'''Rogue:''' Does it hurt when [your claws] come out?
-->'''Wolverine''':
out?\\
'''Wolverine:'''
Every time.



-->'''Logan''': I'll take care of you.\\
'''Rogue''': You promise?\\
'''Logan''': Yeah, I promise.

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-->'''Logan''': -->'''Logan:''' I'll take care of you.\\
'''Rogue''': '''Rogue:''' You promise?\\
'''Logan''': '''Logan:''' Yeah, I promise.



--->'''Magneto''': Why do none of you understand what I'm trying to do? Those people down there--they control our fate and the fate of every other mutant! Well, soon our fate will be theirs.

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--->'''Magneto''': --->'''Magneto:''' Why do none of you understand what I'm trying to do? Those people down there--they there -- they control our fate and the fate of every other mutant! Well, soon our fate will be theirs.



--->'''Magneto''': Still unwilling to make sacrifices. That's what makes you weak.

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--->'''Magneto''': --->'''Magneto:''' Still unwilling to make sacrifices. That's what makes you weak.



-->'''Scott''': How?\\
'''Logan''': The traditional way: look!

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-->'''Scott''': -->'''Scott:''' How?\\
'''Logan''': '''Logan:''' The traditional way: look!



-->'''Promoter''': Whatever you do, don't hit him in the balls.\\
'''Fighter''': I thought you said anything goes.\\
'''Promoter''': Anything goes, but he'll take it personal.

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-->'''Promoter''': -->'''Promoter:''' Whatever you do, don't hit him in the balls.\\
'''Fighter''': '''Fighter:''' I thought you said anything goes.\\
'''Promoter''': '''Promoter:''' Anything goes, but he'll take it personal.



-->[[spoiler:'''Wolverine''']]: What the hell do you want with me?
-->'''Magneto''': You? My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you? ''(turns to look at [[spoiler:Rogue]])''

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-->[[spoiler:'''Wolverine''']]: -->[[spoiler:'''Wolverine:''']] What the hell do you want with me?
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me?\\
'''Magneto:'''
You? My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you? ''(turns ''[turns to look at [[spoiler:Rogue]])''[[spoiler:Rogue]]]''
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* MassTransformation: Given the genetic alterations to make the world leaders into Mutants Magneto's plan also qualifies.

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** Creator/DavidHayter, one of the scriptwriters, [[DeathByCameo is a security guard who Sabretooth attacks]] at the Art/StatueOfLiberty.

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** Creator/DavidHayter, one of the scriptwriters, [[DeathByCameo is a security guard police officer who Sabretooth attacks]] at finds an injured but disguised Mystique inside the Art/StatueOfLiberty.Art/StatueOfLiberty after the climax.



* DeathByCameo: Two of the writers (one of them being Creator/DavidHayter) show up as cops who are taken out in a sneak attack by Sabretooth and the Toad.
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* CarCushion: Sabretooth has a variation of this. Granted, it's a boat, not a car, but still, closest they could've done at Liberty Island. Sabretooth's healing factor lets him walk away uninjured.
* CatapultNightmare: Wolverine has an especially notable one. In all honesty, adamantium claws don't mix well with many activities.

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* CarCushion: Sabretooth has a variation is blasted out of this. Granted, it's a boat, not a car, but still, closest they could've done at the Statue of Liberty Island. Sabretooth's healing factor lets him walk away uninjured.
by Cyclops' optic blast and lands on a boat below.
* CatapultNightmare: Wolverine has an especially notable one. In all honesty, adamantium claws don't mix well with many activities.a nightmare where he remembers his conversion into a living weapon. He springs out of his bed screaming in agony and instinctively unsheathes his claws... and ends up impaling Rogue, who had heard him mumbling and was checking on him. Fortunately, she recovers by using her own powers to absorb his HealingFactor.



* JammedSeatbelts: Rogue gets caught in a burning truck this way at the beginning of the film. Wolverine, who was not wearing his, gets thrown a good twenty feet out through the windshield and is only saved from serious injury or death by his [[MadeOfIron unbreakable bones]] and HealingFactor.

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* JammedSeatbelts: Rogue gets caught in a burning truck this way at the beginning of the film.film and is unable to free herself from the seatbelt. Wolverine, who was not wearing his, gets thrown a good twenty feet out through the windshield and is only saved from serious injury or death by his [[MadeOfIron unbreakable bones]] and HealingFactor.



* KarmicTransformation: What Magneto intends for Senator Kelly (because he is an anti-mutant bigot) and [[spoiler:for the dignitaries on Ellis Island during the climax.]]

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* KarmicTransformation: What Magneto intends for Senator Kelly (because he is Kelly, an anti-mutant bigot) and [[spoiler:for the dignitaries on Ellis Island during the climax.]]bigot, is transformed into a mutant by Magneto.



* LectureAsExposition: Jean Grey at the beginning.

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* LectureAsExposition: Jean Grey at is introduced making a speech about mutant rights, which also informs the beginning.viewer of what a mutant is and how they are treated by the rest of humanity.



* MoodWhiplash: Happens a few times:

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* MoodWhiplash: Happens a few times:MoodWhiplash:



* NeckLift: Sabretooth does this to Storm and Wolverine.

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* NeckLift: Sabretooth does this to lifts Storm by the neck when he finds her at the train station, and Wolverine.later does the same to Wolverine during their final battle.



* OhCrap: Senator Kelly when his assistant Henry Guyrich turns into Mystique.

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* OhCrap: Senator Kelly panics when his assistant Henry Guyrich turns into Mystique.out to be Mystique in disguise.

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