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*** Professor X retains his thick, wavy mane for most of the movie instead of being bald for its entirety. {{Justified}} in this case because Xavier didn't display any signs of male-pattern baldness in ''Days of Future Past'', so the hair loss which occurs later on is not natural.
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*** Professor X retains his thick, wavy mane for most of the movie instead of being bald for its entirety. {{Justified}} {{Justified|Trope}} in this case because Xavier didn't display any signs of male-pattern baldness in ''Days of Future Past'', so the hair loss which occurs later on is not natural.
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** Type -1: Xavier if his mutant powers are blocked or inactive (Type 0 before getting paralyzed).
** Type 0: Regular humans, Depowered mutants.[[note]]Although [[Film/XMenTheLastStand Magneto]] shows proof to the contrary...[[/note]]
** Type 1: William Stryker (at least when he was younger), Agent Moira [=MacTaggert=], Mariko Yashida, Kenuichio Harada, Shingen Yashida, Vanessa Carlysle.
** Type 2: Leech, Quill, Yukio, Warpath.
** Type 3: Wolverine, Cyclops, Rogue, Mystique, Sabretooth, Toad, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Pyro, Lady Deathstrike, Colossus, Jason Stryker, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Callisto, the Juggernaut, Angel/Archangel, Multiple Man, Arclight, Gambit, Kestrel, Agent Zero, Bolt, Emma Frost, Havok, Banshee, Darwin, Angel Salvadore, Azazel, Riptide, Weapon XI [[spoiler:(Wade Wilson)]], Viper, [[spoiler:[[PoweredArmor Silver Samurai]]]], Bishop, Blink, Sunspot, Past Sentinels, Deadpool, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Ajax, Angel Dust, Psylocke.
** Type 4: Professor X, Magneto, Storm[[note]]although her only power display which reaches this level occurs in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' when she summons multiple tornadoes over a large area; in most circumstances, her use of lightning, wind, fog and temperature change are highly localized, so they generally veer towards Type 3[[/note]], Jean Grey (after exposure to Magneto's machine), Sebastian Shaw, Quicksilver, Kitty Pryde (after she gains the ability to perform MentalTimeTravel), Future Sentinels, Apocalypse.
** Type 5: Professor X (while connected to Cerebro or empowered by Apocalypse), the Phoenix, Magneto (empowered by Apocalypse, which gives him the ability to manipulate the Earth's magnetic fields).
** Type -1: Xavier if his mutant powers are blocked or inactive (Type 0 before getting paralyzed).
** Type 0: Regular humans, Depowered mutants.[[note]]Although [[Film/XMenTheLastStand Magneto]] shows proof to the contrary...[[/note]]
** Type 1: William Stryker (at least when he was younger), Agent Moira [=MacTaggert=], Mariko Yashida, Kenuichio Harada, Shingen Yashida, Vanessa Carlysle.
** Type 2: Leech, Quill, Yukio, Warpath.
** Type 3: Wolverine, Cyclops, Rogue, Mystique, Sabretooth, Toad, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Pyro, Lady Deathstrike, Colossus, Jason Stryker, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Callisto, the Juggernaut, Angel/Archangel, Multiple Man, Arclight, Gambit, Kestrel, Agent Zero, Bolt, Emma Frost, Havok, Banshee, Darwin, Angel Salvadore, Azazel, Riptide, Weapon XI [[spoiler:(Wade Wilson)]], Viper, [[spoiler:[[PoweredArmor Silver Samurai]]]], Bishop, Blink, Sunspot, Past Sentinels, Deadpool, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Ajax, Angel Dust, Psylocke.
** Type 4: Professor X, Magneto, Storm[[note]]although her only power display which reaches this level occurs in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' when she summons multiple tornadoes over a large area; in most circumstances, her use of lightning, wind, fog and temperature change are highly localized, so they generally veer towards Type 3[[/note]], Jean Grey (after exposure to Magneto's machine), Sebastian Shaw, Quicksilver, Kitty Pryde (after she gains the ability to perform MentalTimeTravel), Future Sentinels, Apocalypse.
** Type 5: Professor X (while connected to Cerebro or empowered by Apocalypse), the Phoenix, Magneto (empowered by Apocalypse, which gives him the ability to manipulate the Earth's magnetic fields).
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** There is some uncertainty over the timeline for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', but it's somewhere around TheSeventies and/or TheEighties.
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** There is some uncertainty over the timeline for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', but it's somewhere around TheSeventies The70s and/or TheEighties.The80s.
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* SuperScream:
** An Xavier student in ''X2'' (implied to be Siryn) is shown using a sonic scream.
** Banshee (who is Siryn's father in the comics) in ''First Class'' has the ability to amplify his scream as an attack, to debilitate others, and even to fly.
** An Xavier student in ''X2'' (implied to be Siryn) is shown using a sonic scream.
** Banshee (who is Siryn's father in the comics) in ''First Class'' has the ability to amplify his scream as an attack, to debilitate others, and even to fly.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart, who's widely renowned as being handsome for an older bald man, was in his late 50s when he was cast as the elderly version of the character in the [[Film/XMen1 first movie adaptation]] (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making Professor X an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart, who's widely renowned as being handsome for an older bald man, was in his late 50s when he was cast as the elderly version of the character in the [[Film/XMen1 first movie adaptation]] (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] Charles became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making Professor X an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Dr. Charles Xavier is a HotScientist who unabashedly exploits his gorgeousness (along with his charm) to proposition coeds at Oxford. Charles is so fond of his hair that he ''immediately'' dismisses Hank's suggestion that he shave it off before he tests Cerebro. It's costume designer Sammy Sheldon's intention to make the character as stylish as possible within a conservative academic setting.
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** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Dr. Charles Xavier is a HotScientist scientist who unabashedly exploits his gorgeousness (along with his charm) to proposition coeds at Oxford. Charles is so fond of his hair that he ''immediately'' dismisses Hank's suggestion that he shave it off before he tests Cerebro. It's costume designer Sammy Sheldon's intention to make the character as stylish as possible within a conservative academic setting.
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** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/IanMcKellen were given ageing make-up because their characters are roughly fifteen years older than they are.
*** The viral website states the events of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' occurred in 2006 when Kitty Pryde appeared to be, at the most, in her mid-teens. The BadFuture is said to occur in or very close to 2023, putting Kitty in her early 30s even though the films were released just 8 years apart and Creator/ElliotPage was 26 during filming.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** During filming, Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/RoseByrne were 36 years old while Creator/MichaelFassbender was 38, but their characters are in their late forties/early fifties in 1983.
*** Creator/NicholasHoult was 25 years old during principal photography, but if we assume that his character was around 20 in 1962, then in 1983 Beast is pushing 40.
*** Creator/LucasTill is 8 months younger than Hoult, and Havok is only a couple of years younger than Beast. Alex Summers is roughly two decades older than his brother Scott, but Creator/TyeSheridan is just 6 years Till's junior.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/IanMcKellen were given ageing make-up because their characters are roughly fifteen years older than they are.
*** The viral website states the events of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' occurred in 2006 when Kitty Pryde appeared to be, at the most, in her mid-teens. The BadFuture is said to occur in or very close to 2023, putting Kitty in her early 30s even though the films were released just 8 years apart and Creator/ElliotPage was 26 during filming.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** During filming, Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/RoseByrne were 36 years old while Creator/MichaelFassbender was 38, but their characters are in their late forties/early fifties in 1983.
*** Creator/NicholasHoult was 25 years old during principal photography, but if we assume that his character was around 20 in 1962, then in 1983 Beast is pushing 40.
*** Creator/LucasTill is 8 months younger than Hoult, and Havok is only a couple of years younger than Beast. Alex Summers is roughly two decades older than his brother Scott, but Creator/TyeSheridan is just 6 years Till's junior.
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* PsychicRadar: Professor X can detect people around himself, amplified greatly with Cerebro to find almost anyone in the world. In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he uses it to mentally track a mutant who can teleport, and it's further revealed that he can sense the location of every mutant or every human on the planet. Concentrating hard enough will give them all a really serious PsychicNosebleed... followed by death.
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* PsychicRadar: Professor X can detect people around himself, amplified greatly with Cerebro to find almost anyone in the world. In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he uses it to can mentally track a mutant who can teleport, and it's further revealed that he can sense the location of every mutant or every human on the planet. frequently teleports to a different place. Concentrating hard enough will give them all everyone on the planet a really serious PsychicNosebleed... followed by death.
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*** The [[http://br.web.img1.acsta.net/newsv7/16/04/28/16/03/489905.jpg semi-transparent vertical "stripes"]] on Charles' white shirt. It even seems out-of-character for him to put on a garment which could potentially be distracting to some of his students as he had never been overtly objectified in the franchise before. (Another way to look at it is if a female teacher had worn the same shirt, it would be considered inappropriate.) This was clearly done by the costume designer to exploit Creator/JamesMcAvoy's desirability before his character loses his hair and becomes more serious. Xavier's lilac shirt is also mildly erotic because depending on his movements or body position, the outline of his pecs is sometimes well-defined, and there are a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where the shape of his nipples is visible through the thin fabric.
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*** The [[http://br.web.img1.acsta.net/newsv7/16/04/28/16/03/489905.jpg [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfnMzOdUEAE5638.jpg:large semi-transparent vertical "stripes"]] on Charles' white shirt. It even seems out-of-character for him to put on a garment which could potentially be distracting to some of his students as he had never been overtly objectified in the franchise before. (Another way to look at it is if a female teacher had worn the same shirt, it would be considered inappropriate.) This was clearly done by the costume designer to exploit Creator/JamesMcAvoy's desirability before his character loses his hair and becomes more serious. Xavier's lilac shirt is also mildly erotic because depending on his movements or body position, the outline of his pecs is sometimes well-defined, and there are a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where the shape of his nipples is visible through the thin fabric.
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*** Most (if not all) fans expected the young Professor X to be bald, but the studio wanted Creator/JamesMcAvoy to [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/x-men-star-james-mcavoy-705595 keep his hair]] in order to retain the actor's sex appeal.
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*** Most (if not all) fans expected the young Professor X to be bald, but the studio wanted Creator/JamesMcAvoy to [[http://www.[[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/x-men-star-james-mcavoy-705595 com/movies/movie-news/x-men-star-james-mcavoy-705595/ keep his hair]] in order to retain the actor's sex appeal.
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*** It's worth noting that [=McAvoy=]'s depiction of the character would later influence how Charles Xavier is portrayed in ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'', which takes place in an AlternateUniverse. Creator/HarryLloyd--who like [=McAvoy=] is also a British, brown-haired, PrettyBoy actor--was [[https://collider.com/harry-lloyd-legion-season-3-interview-charles-xavier/ offered the role]] without an audition, and he was instructed by Creator/NoahHawley to [[https://ew.com/tv/2019/02/07/legion-harry-lloyd-professor-xavier/ not shave his head.]]
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*** It's worth noting that [=McAvoy=]'s depiction of the character would later influence how Charles Xavier is portrayed in ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'', which takes place in an AlternateUniverse. Creator/HarryLloyd--who like [=McAvoy=] is also a British, brown-haired, PrettyBoy actor--was [[https://collider.com/harry-lloyd-legion-season-3-interview-charles-xavier/ offered the role]] without an audition, and he was instructed by showrunner Creator/NoahHawley to [[https://ew.com/tv/2019/02/07/legion-harry-lloyd-professor-xavier/ not shave his head.]]
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*** It's worth noting that [=McAvoy=]'s depiction of the character would later influence how Charles Xavier is portrayed in ''{{Series/Legion|2017}}'', which takes place in an AlternateUniverse. Creator/HarryLloyd--who like [=McAvoy=] is also a British, brown-haired, PrettyBoy actor--was [[https://collider.com/harry-lloyd-legion-season-3-interview-charles-xavier/ offered the role]] without an audition, and he was instructed by Creator/NoahHawley to [[https://ew.com/tv/2019/02/07/legion-harry-lloyd-professor-xavier/ not shave his head.]]
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** Cerebro as a giant room-sized, IMAX Dome-Theatre room with a central orbiting platform more or less translated from the movies to the comics and cartoons (''WesternAntimation/XMenEvolution'' began with a more comics!accurate Cerebro, i.e. just a souped up computer that filled up a decent office-space and then translated into upraded Cerebro).
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** Cerebro as a giant room-sized, IMAX Dome-Theatre room with a central orbiting platform more or less translated from the movies to the comics and cartoons (''WesternAntimation/XMenEvolution'' (''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' began with a more comics!accurate Cerebro, i.e. just a souped up computer that filled up a decent office-space and then translated into upraded Cerebro).
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart, who's widely renowned as being handsome for an older bald man, was in his late 50s when he was cast as the elderly version of the character in the [[Film/XMen1 first movie adaptation]] (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "Professor X an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart, who's widely renowned as being handsome for an older bald man, was in his late 50s when he was cast as the elderly version of the character in the [[Film/XMen1 first movie adaptation]] (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "Professor Professor X an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart, who's widely renowned as being handsome for an older bald man, was in his mid-50s when he was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "Professor X an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart, who's widely renowned as being handsome for an older bald man, was in his mid-50s late 50s when he was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films [[Film/XMen1 first movie adaptation]] (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "Professor X an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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--->'''[=McAvoy=]''': I had showed up on the first day of ''X-Men: First Class'', and I had shaved my head because I wanted to check what it looked like about a month before we started shooting--and it looked quite good--and they were like, "No, no, no, no, we want you to have long hair."
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*** This also applies to Charles and Hank. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Xavier acted as a big brother figure to [=McCoy=] (they're about a decade apart in age), but after 1963, Hank becomes responsible for Charles. Although [=McCoy=] certainly prevents his friend from doing anything too self-destructive, he inadvertently becomes Xavier's enabler by inventing an addictive telepathy-blocking serum. Considering that Hank was probably only around 21 years old when he suddenly found himself in the position of being Charles' long-term caregiver (plus he has no experience looking after someone who is mentally ill), it's understandable that he couldn't help his former mentor as well as he would've liked.
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*** This also applies to Charles and Hank. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Xavier acted as a big brother figure to [=McCoy=] (they're about a decade apart in age), but after 1963, Hank becomes responsible for Charles. Although [=McCoy=] certainly prevents his friend from doing anything too self-destructive, he inadvertently becomes Xavier's enabler by inventing an addictive telepathy-blocking serum. Considering that Hank was probably only around 21 years old when he suddenly found himself in the position of being Charles' long-term caregiver (plus he has no experience looking after someone who is mentally ill), it's understandable that he couldn't help his former mentor as well as he would've liked.liked.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'':
*** It's the first entry in the franchise which doesn't feature Wolverine or Professor X either as major characters or as cameos.
*** This is also the first ''X-Men'' film to be rated R in the USA, with much more graphic violence, profanity and sexual content than usual.
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'':
*** It's the first entry in the franchise which doesn't feature Wolverine or Professor X either as major characters or as cameos.
*** This is also the first ''X-Men'' film to be rated R in the USA, with much more graphic violence, profanity and sexual content than usual.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy) and he's widely renown as being very handsome for an older bald man. The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "[[FanNickname Professor Sex]]" an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy) and he's widely renown as being very handsome for an older bald man. The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "[[FanNickname Professor Sex]]" "Professor X an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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* TheProtagonist: When analyzing the First Class trilogy as a whole, Xavier the most prominent character because he receives the most CharacterDevelopment, and the climax of each entry is directly connected to a significant relationship in his life. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he and his HeterosexualLifePartner Erik are "[[FanNickname divorced]]." In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles makes amends with his estranged foster sister Raven. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he strengthens his bond with his surrogate daughter Jean. The AlternateTimeline turns out to be an opportunity for Professor X to rectify two grave errors that he had committed in the original timeline. By arranging the original trilogy and the First Class trilogy as one big saga, Creator/BryanSinger designates that Charles is the most important figure (even if he doesn't necessarily have the most screen time) by having him open and close the hexalogy. InUniverse, the X-Men wouldn't exist without Xavier.
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* TheProtagonist: When analyzing the First Class trilogy as a whole, Xavier the most prominent character because he receives the most CharacterDevelopment, and the climax of each entry is directly connected to a significant relationship in his life. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he and his HeterosexualLifePartner Erik are "[[FanNickname divorced]]."divorced." In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles makes amends with his estranged foster sister Raven. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he strengthens his bond with his surrogate daughter Jean. The AlternateTimeline turns out to be an opportunity for Professor X to rectify two grave errors that he had committed in the original timeline. By arranging the original trilogy and the First Class trilogy as one big saga, Creator/BryanSinger designates that Charles is the most important figure (even if he doesn't necessarily have the most screen time) by having him open and close the hexalogy. InUniverse, the X-Men wouldn't exist without Xavier.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). Stewart is the trope image for BaldOfAwesome, and he's widely renown as being very handsome for an older bald man. The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "[[FanNickname Professor Sex]]" an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). Stewart is the trope image for BaldOfAwesome, trilogy) and he's widely renown as being very handsome for an older bald man. The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "[[FanNickname Professor Sex]]" an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': [[spoiler:Cyclops. Double points for being killed by his lover! Triple points for being a RareMaleExample!]]
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:TemporaryLoveInterest Kayla. Then subverted when we learn her death was [[FakingTheDead faked]] and Stryker was specifically [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this so Logan would agree to join the Weapon X program, and double subverted when she is StuffedIntoTheFridge [[KilledOffForReal for real]]. Also, the old couple who help Logan and are killed by Agent Zero, and arguably John Wraith when he is killed by Victor.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Edie Lehnsherr is murdered by Dr. Klaus Schmidt just so her son Erik would embark on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against his former captor.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** [[spoiler:Erik's wife and daughter are killed off to fuel his anguish for the rest of the story, and to make him vulnerable to Apocalypse's influence.]]
*** [[spoiler:In a rare male example, Alex dies to kick-start his younger brother's Scott CharacterDevelopment.]]
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': [[spoiler:Cyclops. Double points for being killed by his lover! Triple points for being a RareMaleExample!]]
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:TemporaryLoveInterest Kayla. Then subverted when we learn her death was [[FakingTheDead faked]] and Stryker was specifically [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this so Logan would agree to join the Weapon X program, and double subverted when she is StuffedIntoTheFridge [[KilledOffForReal for real]]. Also, the old couple who help Logan and are killed by Agent Zero, and arguably John Wraith when he is killed by Victor.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Edie Lehnsherr is murdered by Dr. Klaus Schmidt just so her son Erik would embark on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against his former captor.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** [[spoiler:Erik's wife and daughter are killed off to fuel his anguish for the rest of the story, and to make him vulnerable to Apocalypse's influence.]]
*** [[spoiler:In a rare male example, Alex dies to kick-start his younger brother's Scott CharacterDevelopment.]]
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* {{Pacifist}}: Professor X is a conditional pacifist. He abhors violence and avoids it as much as possible (by his own admission, he isn't very good at it), but he recognizes that there are circumstances when it must be utilized to defend people's lives and his ideals. Xavier has proactively engaged in aggressive behaviour only thrice. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he tackles Magneto to distract the latter from [[spoiler:slaughtering the American and Soviet fleets with their own missiles]]. In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles punches Erik in the face for [[spoiler:betraying, abandoning and crippling him]] 11 years prior--note that the use of force in this case stems purely from a personal grudge, and it doesn't help Xavier's mission in any way. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he instigates a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind against the eponymous villain to save Mystique and Quicksilver, whom Apocalypse had threatened to murder. Earlier in the movie, Hank mentions that the Professor had turned down his request to restart the X-Men, and Raven remarks that "Charles wants students, not soldiers," but after their confrontation with Apocalypse, Xavier accepts that it's no longer sufficient for him to simply be a teacher. He retakes his position as the commander of his paramilitary group and ensures that his protégés will be combat-ready for the next big threat.
* PaletteSwap:
** Magneto always had some red and/or purple colour on his outfit, but in 2023, his uniform is completely black and grey, signifying that he's now part of the X-Men.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' costume designer Louise Mingenbach described [[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/fashion/201405/x-men-days-of-future-past-costumes#slide=2 Past Xavier's switch from his brown-and-pink casual wear to his more formal blues and greys]] that is typically associated with the character in the other movies.
---> "At the beginning of the film, Charles is medicating, and very possibly on hallucinogens, so we had that come through in his shirt. As he pulls himself together, he wears a nice blue oxford like all good, put-together men—a progression from that psychedelic Cat Stevens-wear."
* ParentalAbandonment:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Erik Lehnsherr's father was probably killed in a concentration camp, and [[Film/XMenFirstClass his mother was definitely murdered before him by Sebastian Shaw]] to try and induce his magnetism powers.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Judging by the sad and envious expression on Pyro's face when he stares at the Drake family photos, it's strongly implied that John's parents have disowned him (or they may have died when he was very young).
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/01/21/10-things-we-learned-on-the-set-of-x-men-apocalypse?page=1 Alexandra Shipp]] confirms that Ororo's parents died when a plane crashed into their home when she was five years old.
* ParentalFavoritism: Downplayed with Professor X since he never neglects any of his students whether as a teacher or as a ParentalSubstitute, but he is closer to those who are BirdsOfAFeather, like Hank in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and Jean in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. Hank and Jean do receive a bit more of his time and care.
* ParentalNeglect:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles' mother is hinted to be emotionally distant towards her son, which is why Raven's maternal act backfires spectacularly.
--->'''Charles''': ''(telepathically communicates to Raven disguised as Mrs. Xavier)'' My mother has never set foot in this kitchen in her life, and she certainly never made me hot chocolate, unless you count ordering the maid to do it.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Ben Hardy suggests that a [[http://attitude.co.uk/ben-hardy-teases-whats-in-store-for-his-character-angel-in-x-men-apocalypse/ lack of parental nurturing]] is a major factor in Warren turning to the dark side.
--->"People who don't get looked after enough can end up being very angry and I feel like this is where Angel's anger comes from and maybe that gives him the potential to transform and become one of the villains."
* ParentalSubstitute:
** Charles Xavier plays this role to all of the X-Men, but it's most notable in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' with a young Hank and the teenaged Alex and Sean, all of whom remain loyal to him before and after Cuba. [[spoiler:The mere mention of Sean's death in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' makes Charles visibly distraught, which is in direct contrast to all of the other names that Erik throws at him.]] Being a father figure to Jean is explored in more detail in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', and Quicksilver decides to stay with the Professor instead of getting to know his estranged father.
** There is one exception. In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles claims he had raised Raven, and Erik corrects him--they ''grew up'' together. He is not her father. [[spoiler:This ties into the end of the film, when he stops trying to control her and lets her make her own choice.]]
** Downplayed in the scene where 1973 Xavier interacts with Peter Maximoff before the former departs for Paris. Charles instinctually behaves in a paternal manner when he's around a young mutant, especially one who doesn't have much of a direction in his life (in Quicksilver's case, he's a juvenile delinquent who grew up without a father). Peter's smile at the end indicates that he appreciates the sentiment.
** ''Film/XMen1'':
*** Wolverine promises that he'll take of Rogue.
*** Scott Summers invokes this while Professor X is [[spoiler:in a coma]].
---->"You taught me everything in my life that was ever worth knowing."
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': IchirÅ Yashida for Mariko, as Shingen, her actual parent, is [[AbusiveParents not a nice man]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** [=McCoy=] is a teacher at the school, and he has a [[http://collider.com/x-men-apocalypse-news-things-to-know/ paternal relationship with the younger mutants.]] He begins to form a bond with Scott.
*** Apocalypse serves this role to his Horsemen. He also invokes this trope when he asserts that "You are all my children, and you're lost because you follow blind leaders." He also tends to call mutants "my child."
* PastExperienceNightmare:
** Wolverine is shown to have some nasty nightmares about his experience with Weapon X. They're so terrifying that he wakes up and stabs whatever's in front of him. Or ''whoever'', unfortunately for [[Film/XMen1 Rogue]] and [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Kitty Pryde]].
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Logan suffers chronic nightmares of [[spoiler:Jean Grey]], his [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore]] who he [[Film/XMenTheLastStand previously]] was [[spoiler:[[MercyKill forced to kill]]]].
* PatrickStewartSpeech:
** Given [[Creator/PatrickStewart who plays Professor X]], not surprising. Given who he ''is'', also not surprising. Xavier's core message requires having such a speech at hand and ready to give at a moment's notice (as true here as it was in the source material). The capacity to give such a speech is the only thing that he and Magneto are feuding over.
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', where he is played by Creator/JamesMcAvoy, he gives such a speech to Erik Lehnsherr. During their chess game, he attempts to convince Erik that human beings are capable of great understanding, and that mutants should be patient, as "we have it in us to be the better men." Erik skeptically replies, "We already are."
** An even more epic example occurs in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', where his older self gives one to his younger self, convincing the latter to "hope again," and that despite what happens (or in 1973 Xavier's case, ''will'' happen) to mutants, humanity can still be shown "a better path."
* PeoplePuppets:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Professor X briefly takes control of Toad and Sabretooth and attempts to rescue Rogue from Magneto.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'':
*** Professor X freezes hundreds of people in a large museum.
*** During the finale, Jean Grey is able to use Xavier (a fellow psychic) as a conduit to communicate with Scott.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Charles immobilizes everyone except for Moira at the CIA Headquarters so that he can have a private telepathic conversation with her.
*** Xavier mentally forces a Soviet officer to fire on the ''Aral Sea'', thus single-handedly preventing WorldWarIII.
*** Once Erik removes Shaw's telepathy-blocking helmet, Charles keeps Sebastian motionless.
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': In TheStinger, Logan notices that [[spoiler:everyone at the airport besides himself and Magneto has suddenly stopped dead in their tracks. Only one mutant in the franchise has been shown to possess this ability...]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Xavier possesses various people around Mystique at the airport to talk to her in a casual display of how creepy his power can be when he gets creative. He temporarily prevents Mystique's body from moving once he determines that she's pretending to be a secret service agent, although he still permits her to speak. President Nixon, his cabinet and Trask are put on "pause" when Charles tells Raven [[spoiler:he won't push her anymore and that she's free to decide Trask's fate]]. After the climax, he also [[spoiler:controls Magneto when Mystique knocks the latter's helmet off to free himself from the metal debris that fell on him earlier]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Professor X "insists" with his mind-control abilities that everyone at the CIA building "take a break" so that he and Havok can visit Agent [=MacTaggert=] without having to deal with security.
* PeriodPiece:
** The UsefulNotes/ColdWar is the setting for the First Class trilogy. ''First Class'' dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the 1973 portion of ''Days of Future Past'' included the Paris Peace Accords (which marked the end of the UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar), and ''Apocalypse'' takes place 1983.
** There is some uncertainty over the timeline for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', but it's somewhere around TheSeventies and/or TheEighties.
* PermaStubble:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Hank has light stubble throughout the movie which is meant to make him look older than his clean-shaven appearance in ''First Class''.
*** Sunspot sports a 5 o'clock shadow.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Charles has faint stubble instead of being clean-shaven (which is his regular look in the franchise), and at first, it seems to convey to the audience that he hasn't fully reclaimed his heroic Professor X identity. He's a relaxed, content principal, teacher, and low-key mutant activist, not a commander of a paramilitary group like in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. However, once he decides that it's necessary for him to step up his role as a leader of mutants, he still keeps the extra facial hair--this illustrates that Creator/JamesMcAvoy's character is "rougher-around-the-edges" than Creator/PatrickStewart's in the original timeline. Xavier's stubble is also a ShoutOut to Detective James "Sonny" Crockett from ''Series/MiamiVice''.[[note]]Charles' costumes were directly inspired by the character on the TV show.[[/note]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Professor X can kill everyone on the planet with Cerebro if he concentrates hard enough.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': The Phoenix effortlessly vaporizes hundreds of human soldiers and Magneto's mutant followers.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** It's explicitly emphasized that this is [[BigBad Sebastian Shaw's]] primary power--he can absorb energy... ''all kinds'' of energy. This makes him effectively bullet-proof, [[MoreDakka rocket and grenade-proof,]] [[ImplacableMan and can even absorb the energy of your punches, no matter how strong you are.]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld He also states that he is effectively immortal.]] Finally, he can absorb enough energy to simulate a nuclear bomb blast... and presumably come out the other side unharmed.
*** Havok is fearful of the damage his powers could do if he isn't kept isolated, and so prefers being in solitary confinement while in prison so he is at less risk of hurting someone by accident.
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': Negasonic Teenage Warhead destroys a large part of the scrapyard with her last attack, capsizing the grounded helicarrier and sends Angel Dust bouncing around like a pinball.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': En Sabah Nur single-handedly razes the city of Cairo to the ground with his MindOverMatter powers, potentially massacring millions of its inhabitants.
* PlayingGertrude:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/IanMcKellen were given ageing make-up because their characters are roughly fifteen years older than they are.
*** The viral website states the events of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' occurred in 2006 when Kitty Pryde appeared to be, at the most, in her mid-teens. The BadFuture is said to occur in or very close to 2023, putting Kitty in her early 30s even though the films were released just 8 years apart and Creator/ElliotPage was 26 during filming.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** During filming, Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/RoseByrne were 36 years old while Creator/MichaelFassbender was 38, but their characters are in their late forties/early fifties in 1983.
*** Creator/NicholasHoult was 25 years old during principal photography, but if we assume that his character was around 20 in 1962, then in 1983 Beast is pushing 40.
*** Creator/LucasTill is 8 months younger than Hoult, and Havok is only a couple of years younger than Beast. Alex Summers is roughly two decades older than his brother Scott, but Creator/TyeSheridan is just 6 years Till's junior.
* PlayingWithFire:
** Pyro can't generate fire, but is immune to it and can direct and grow any nearby fire. As such, he uses a lighter to create it when he needs to in the [[Film/XMen1 first]] [[Film/X2XMenUnited two]] movies, and he gets a wrist mounted flamethrower in the [[Film/XMenTheLastStand third]].
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Sunspot's mutant ability consists of converting the sun's energy into bursts of flame that he can aim at his enemies.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': The Ancient Egyptian Famine's mutant power is pyrokinesis. It's very much like Pyro's in that she only seems capable of manipulating already existent fire instead of being able to create it.
* PluckyComicRelief:
** Nightcrawler provides some of the more amusing moments in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** Banshee is the most fun character in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
** Quicksilver is a source of comedy in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** As referenced by the opening credits of ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'', Weasel's narrative purpose is comedy.
** Downplayed with Professor X in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' because he's predominantly a dramatic character, but writer Simon Kinberg reveals in his commentary that Charles was deliberately used to lighten up the mood of the first act.
--->'''Kinberg''': I tried to get a lot of humour into the movie whenever it was appropriate, and James [[=McAvoy=]] is a really good comedic actor, so there was a lot of good Xavier moments.
* POVCam:
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** We get a glimpse of what the world looks like through the ruby quartz lenses of Scott's sunglasses when he puts them on for the first time.
*** After Apocalypse notices Xavier's presence through the latter's telepathic link with Erik, Apocalypse stares straight at the camera (so we're seeing him through the Professor's perspective) with his glowing white eyes as he ominously states, [[spoiler:"Thank you for letting me in."]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild:
** ''Film/XMen1'' has the machine that turns ordinary people into mutants powered by Magneto, but using it weakens the power source (likely killing him if he uses it on full power), so he forcibly has [[spoiler:the power-stealing mutant Rogue absorb his ability and uses her]] to power the machine.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Stryker's mind-control serum is derived from chemicals secreted by the brain of his ''own son,'' Jason. Although still alive and still capable of using his impressive [[MasterOfIllusion powers of illusion]], Jason's been given a lobotomy to make him more pliable and is confined to a wheelchair, complete with a shunt in the back of his head used for collecting the fluid.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': The mutant cure is distilled from Leech's blood, although the scientists hope to eventually artificially synthesize it. Unlike other examples, Leech is treated rather well and seems fine with the arrangement.
* PowerIncontinence:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Rogue can't control her ability at all because she's a PowerParasite who can potentially kill anyone who touches her. She has to wear gloves and can't ever be intimate or close to anyone.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Alex Summers can emit powerful energy blasts, but he can't control their direction. This problem is solved by a special harness, which he even refers to as his "energy diaper" in a deleted scene.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Erik nearly crashes the plane when he's yelling at Charles. Xavier subjects himself to a PowerNullifier because he has lost control over his telepathy.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Scott Summers can't control his EyeBeams when they start manifesting. He has to be blindfolded until he is brought to the Xavier Institute, otherwise he'll destroy everything (and everyone) around him. There, Hank [=McCoy=] creates special filter sunglasses for him, enabling him to control his mutant ability.
* ThePowerOfLove:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': When Charles is helping all of the mutants train, the most effective memory to focus Erik's powers is Hanukkah with his mother.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': If Charles has a secondary mutation, it would be this--he has the ability to "transform" the people around him into better versions of themselves. [[spoiler:His unwavering love and support for his daughter figure Jean allows her to overcome her fears about her Phoenix power, and she fries Apocalypse with deadly efficiency, saving the world and the Professor's life in the process. Magneto pulls a HeelFaceTurn when he realizes that his love for Xavier is stronger than his hate towards human society, which has murdered his family twice over.]] Peter could've easily returned to his mother's basement and continue wasting his potential after the FinalBattle (especially considering that he had decided to withhold from Erik that he's his son), but it's implied that Maximoff was touched by Charles' worry for his well-being when Xavier had created a telepathic link between them while Quicksilver was fighting Apocalypse. It should be noted that Charles hadn't spoken to Peter in a decade, but the former's capacity for love is so great that he had opened his mind to a young mutant whom he barely knows, and he sincerely cared about whether Maximoff got hurt or not. The self-described "total loser" Quicksilver is now a member of the X-Men who can make a positive difference in the world.
* PowerPerversionPotential:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Xavier uses his telepathy to "guess" the drink orders of the women he flirts with. Executive producer Tarquin Pack lampshades this specific example in the rare "Extraordinary Abilities" featurette. (See the BonusMaterial entry.)
---->"If I had the ability to read minds, and I was at university, and I could influence people through my mental powers, I would probably also be a bit of a Lothario. ''(laughs)'' Who wouldn't be?"
*** Raven jokingly insinuates that Hank's large, ape-like feet might be an indication that he has a [[BiggerIsBetterInBed massive penis]].
*** Emma Frost seduces a Russian general by projecting a mental image of herself so he thinks she's having sex with him, when she's in fact sitting a distance away looking bored.
*** Raven shapeshifts from her teenaged form into a more mature woman (Rebecca Romijn in a cameo) in the belief that Erik would prefer her that way. Magneto is not impressed because he wanted "the real Raven." It took her two tries to realize that he wanted her natural blue form.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Charles and Alex discuss this as they're heading towards Moira's office.
---->'''Alex''': So you really haven't see her in all these years? You never looked her up? Not even in Cerebro?\\
'''Charles''': Alex, what do you take me for, some kind of pervert? Yes, I looked her up once, twice. But not in a long time, alright?
*** Quicksilver's flirtation with Moira in BulletTime is so brief that she doesn't even know it happened! Peter also employs his SuperSpeed in [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4euik8 this commercial]] and attempts to impress a young woman so that he can earn a date with her.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': During a montage of Charles and Erik finding and recruiting other mutants, their search brings them into a small, dingy bar where [[spoiler:Wolverine]] has no interest in their offer: "Go fuck yourself."
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': All are spoken by Logan.
*** "Go fuck yourself, pretty boy."
*** The extended cut adds two more: "Too many fucking wars," and "Talk or I'll throw you out that fucking window!"
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Charles Xavier, of all people, tells Wolverine to "Fuck off" in a CallBack to their first encounter.
*** ''The Rogue Cut'' has President Nixon grumpily utter, "Fuck me" after watching news footage of the Paris Peace Accords.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Magneto has the honour this time around when he comes face-to-face with Apocalypse and his then-three Horsemen. ("Who the fuck are you?")
* PrematurelyBald: Averted in Professor X's case; the First Class trilogy reveals that he doesn't lose his hair until he's around 50 years old.
* PretentiousLatinMotto: If you do a FreezeFrameBonus on the Xavier coat of arms, located on the tail of Charles' personal plane in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', the family motto reads, "Fratrem tuum adjuva," which means "Help your brother." Not only does this fit Professor X's compassionate personality to a tee, but it also suggests that his OldMoney ancestors on his father's side were philanthropists. Assisting those who are less fortunate must have been regarded as a sacred duty, as those Latin words supposedly designate what the Xavier family values the most.
* PrettyBoy: The movie series contains more examples of this trope than one would normally expect for a superhero property (which typically promotes a more traditional ideal of the masculine form). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvkCv5cCD5Y Honest Trailers]] even poked fun at this by saying that the X-Men franchise starred a lot of twinks.[[note]]So far, none have been revealed to be gay, but the Narrator is attracted to both sexes, so he just wishes they were.[[/note]]
** Bobby Drake's dainty facial features quickly communicate to the audience that he's a good-hearted person. This is especially true in the first movie, where he was only a minor character, but viewers were able to tell right away that "the cute guy" is sincere when trying to befriend Rogue. Moroever, being forced to abandon his family in the second film is more painful when his expression is very much like a puppy dog who has just been kicked.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Appearance-wise, Dr. Charles Xavier is strongly defined by his boyishness: he has a soft, round face, baby blue eyes, cherry-red lips (the colour is so deep at times that it almost looks like he's wearing lipstick), and is of shorter-than-average height. It's symbolic of his sensitive, nice guy qualities. Erik Lehnsherr even calls him "adorable" when Charles tries the Cerebro machine for the first time. With his fair complexion, the young telepath resembles a living porcelain doll, and his [[GlassCannon fragility]] becomes evident when he "[[BreakTheCutie breaks]]" physically and emotionally during the climax.
*** Dr. Hank [=McCoy=] is quite similar to Xavier (just younger and a lot more insecure), and while this may be a coincidence, it's nevertheless convenient that he shares some facial features with his mentor, like pale skin, blue eyes and thick reddish lips. The one big physical difference between them is that Hank is a lot taller.
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Wolverine invokes this when he confronts Harada, presumably as an attempt to deride the latter's masculinity. Harada has an elegant face, a slim build, and is an agile ninja, in contrast to the macho bruiser Logan.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Peter Maximoff is baby-faced with reddish lips and cute in an impish way. It's a visual cue to the audience that he's an immature prankster who doesn't take life seriously.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Professor X is around 50 years old, yet before he loses his hair, he's still gorgeous and youthful-looking for his age (he can pass for a man in his early 30s)--in fact, he doesn't appear all that different from his graduate student days in ''First Class''. This alludes to him embracing his former naïvety again, and it makes him look much more [[BreakTheCutie helpless and vulnerable]] when he becomes Apocalypse's prisoner. Being boyishly beautiful also emphasizes Charles' status as a victim when he's [[spoiler:{{Mind Rape}}d by Apocalypse, which is a metaphor for sexual assault]]. Because BeautyEqualsGoodness for Creator/JamesMcAvoy's Xavier, maintaining his dainty appearance even when he's being [[spoiler:viciously battered, bloodied and bruised on the astral plane connotes that he's a person with a tenderhearted soul who's dying]].
*** Repeating a theme from ''First Class'' is Hank being a mirror image of Charles with a few key differences. [=McCoy=] remains pretty and boyish in a similar way to Xavier, but despite being a decade younger, he is much more cautious and realistic than his ex-mentor, and he makes plans to ensure that the X-Men have everything they need when (and not if) the peace between mutants and humans is shattered.
*** Warren Worthington III is beautiful, and it's meant to be ironic that an angelic-looking youth is actually quite ruthless and deadly.
*** Although Nightcrawler falls more on the "cute" side, he is extremely attractive with his elfin features (particularly larger, more prominent ears) which are further enhanced by his adolescent development. They reflect his dorky personality, and even with the scars on his face, the impression Kurt Wagner leaves on viewers is that he's a lovely blue elf rather than a freaky blue demon.
*** Quicksilver is affirmed to be Magneto's son, so Peter's softer, delicate features juxtapose his father's VillainousCheekbones. Quicksilver fights for the heroic team, and Magneto sides with the BigBad. Maximoff's puckish looks also mark him as a ManChild and a BasementDweller. During his confrontation with Apocalypse, Quicksilver moves gracefully as a FragileSpeedster, and once Apocalypse takes away his SuperSpeed advantage, Peter is wholly defenseless. Because Maximoff's face exudes an aura of innocence, it evokes the imagery of a "lamb to the slaughter" when [[spoiler:Apocalypse offers his bare neck to Psylocke for execution]].
* TheProfessor: Dr. Charles Xavier [[Film/XMenFirstClass earned his "Professor of Genetics" title from the University of Oxford]]. Even before he became a paraplegic, he was considerably less action-oriented than the other mutants on his team, and is often protected by a combatant (e.g. [[Film/X2XMenUnited Cyclops]], [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Beast]], [[Film/XMenApocalypse Havok]]). Professor X serves as the TeamDad for the X-Men.
* ProgressivelyPrettier:
** When Wolverine was first introduced to the ''X-Men'' comics, he was about 5'3" and quite unattractive. After TallDarkAndHandsome Creator/HughJackman became famous for portraying the character in the films, people seem to forget that one of Wolverine's old nicknames was "dog face."
** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). Stewart is the trope image for BaldOfAwesome, and he's widely renown as being very handsome for an older bald man. The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "[[FanNickname Professor Sex]]" an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
* ThePromise:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Wolverine keeps his vow to Rogue by [[spoiler:nearly dying trying to save her life in the climax]].
--->'''Logan''': I'll take care of you.\\
'''Rogue''': You promise?\\
'''Logan''': Yeah, I promise.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles managed to uphold his promise not to use his telepathy on Raven for 18 years until [[spoiler:the shock and pain of a bullet in his spine]] became too much for him to bear, compromising his concentration.
--->'''Raven''': You promised me you would never read my mind.\\
'''Charles''': I know. I promised you a great many things, I'm afraid. I'm sorry.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Wolverine requests that the younger Xavier form the X-Men regardless of the outcome of their mission.
--->'''Logan''': Whatever happens today, I need you to promise me something. [...] The X-Men, promise me you'll find us. Use your power, bring us together. Guide us, lead us. [...]
--->'''1973 Charles''': I'll... do my best.
*** And later:
--->'''Logan''': It's good to see you, [[spoiler:Charles. It's good to see everyone.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Professor X''': ''(smiles warmly)'' Well, I had a promise to keep.]]
* ProperlyParanoid:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Senator Kelly is concerned about mutants that can enter the mind of others or walk through walls. As it turns out, Mystique has been impersonating his aide for a good long while.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': On multiple occasions, Erik warns Charles that humans will turn against mutants. At the end of the movie, he is proven right, as the United States and the Soviet Union unite forces to launch an attack on the group of mutants who has just saved their lives and prevented WorldWarIII.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Upon learning that someone who might be Magneto is in their midst, the Polish police who come to arrest him intentionally leave their badges and guns behind, using only bows and arrows in order to prevent him from using metal against them. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, they were not quite paranoid enough, as he instead uses the locket with his parents' photos in it that Nina has to kill them all.]]
* {{Protectorate}}:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Scott tells a [[spoiler:comatose]] Professor X that he will protect the students.
--->"If anything happens, I'll take care of them."
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Raven is this to Charles, although she finds his concern for her safety utterly suffocating.
* TheProtagonist: When analyzing the First Class trilogy as a whole, Xavier the most prominent character because he receives the most CharacterDevelopment, and the climax of each entry is directly connected to a significant relationship in his life. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he and his HeterosexualLifePartner Erik are "[[FanNickname divorced]]." In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles makes amends with his estranged foster sister Raven. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he strengthens his bond with his surrogate daughter Jean. The AlternateTimeline turns out to be an opportunity for Professor X to rectify two grave errors that he had committed in the original timeline. By arranging the original trilogy and the First Class trilogy as one big saga, Creator/BryanSinger designates that Charles is the most important figure (even if he doesn't necessarily have the most screen time) by having him open and close the hexalogy. InUniverse, the X-Men wouldn't exist without Xavier.
* ProudBeauty:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Dr. Charles Xavier is a HotScientist who unabashedly exploits his gorgeousness (along with his charm) to proposition coeds at Oxford. Charles is so fond of his hair that he ''immediately'' dismisses Hank's suggestion that he shave it off before he tests Cerebro. It's costume designer Sammy Sheldon's intention to make the character as stylish as possible within a conservative academic setting.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Professor X is a HotTeacher who doesn't seem to be concerned in the slightest that his [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfnMzOdUEAE5638.jpg:large translucent white shirt]] would be deemed inappropriate in any other school with teenagers and children. His sunglasses are the most flashy of the film because of their gradient lenses, and they enhance his sex appeal while also giving him the air of a fashion model. Xavier runs his hand through his luscious locks (which is his equivalent of a peacock's tail) to tame some wayward strands before he meets Moira to ensure that he's at his most attractive. Even after he goes bald, he conjures a mental projection of himself which still proudly has a feathered mullet on its head when he faces a life-and-death struggle with Apocalypse. It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt if the Professor fails, but even if he's doomed, he'll at least look fabulous on the astral plane (heck, he still manages to be pretty even when he's [[spoiler:soaked in his own blood]]). Make no mistake, folks; Charles is ''vain''.
* PstandardPsychicPstance:
** Charles had frequently used this gesture as a crutch when he was younger, but he lets go of the habit when he's around 50 years old, as displayed in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Jean performs this gesture when she uses her telepathy. She must have learned it from Xavier.
* PsychicBlockDefense:
** Magneto's helmet blocks out Professor X's and Jason Stryker's psychic abilities.
** Emma Frost can protect herself from Xavier's mind-reading powers when she activates her secondary mutation and covers herself in a diamond-like skin.
** Apocalypse can shield himself and his Horsemen from Professor X's telepathy.
* PsychicPowers: [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Kitty Pryde]] describes Professor X as "the most powerful brain in the world," and [[Film/XMenApocalypse Stryker]] similarly calls him "the world's most powerful psychic." [[Film/XMenFirstClass Sebastian Shaw]] is so impressed by the strength of Xavier's telepathy that he tries to recruit Charles even though Shaw already has a formidable psychic as his second-in-command. (This indicates that Shaw considers Xavier's mutation to be more potent than Emma Frost's.) Professor X's gift is why [[spoiler:[[Film/XMenApocalypse Apocalypse]] covets his "extraordinary" abilities--the best that he has encountered in "a thousand lifetimes"--and selects him to be his next mutant host]].
* PsychicRadar: Professor X can detect people around himself, amplified greatly with Cerebro to find almost anyone in the world. In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he uses it to mentally track a mutant who can teleport, and it's further revealed that he can sense the location of every mutant or every human on the planet. Concentrating hard enough will give them all a really serious PsychicNosebleed... followed by death.
* PurpleIsPowerful:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** The 1973-era Sentinels; they are programmed to eliminate mutants.
*** Blink's BattleAura and FacialMarkings. She's either the second-to-last or the last mutant left standing when the X-Men and the Free Mutants directly confront the Future Sentinels.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** In his natural gaseous form, the god-like Apocalypse is purple, and his teleportation "bubble" also has a purple tint. The walls of [[spoiler:Cerebro glow purple when Xavier is [[BlackEyesOfEvil possessed]] by him]].
*** The highlights in Psylocke's hair, her Horseman leotard and her psionic blade are purple, and she's very dangerous.
*** Mystique's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHZqjkPXrA risqué dress]] is shiny and purple, and she's the most effective combatant at the cage match.
*** The wormhole produced by Nightcrawler's teleportation ability is a luminous purple.
*** In a shot of Jean Grey screaming in the [[spoiler:astral plane]], a purple filter was used over her face, and it's a sign that [[spoiler:her Phoenix powers are being unleashed]].
*** Inverted with Professor X, who is wearing a lilac (which is a pale shade of purple) shirt when he's Apocalypse's prisoner, and he's weaker than the god-like mutant.
* TheQuietOne:
** ''Film/XMen1'': 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 two lines, Toad has three.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Lady Deathstrike gets a single line of dialogue.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'':
*** Colossus utters one line.
*** Multiple-Man has a total of two lines.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Azazel only says a few lines.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Colossus' speaking part consists of a single word.
** ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Although Colossus ''finally'' averts this trope, Angel Dust plays it straight, letting Ajax do most of the talking for the bad guys.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Psylocke's and Angel's dialogue are limited to a few lines each.
* RealEventFictionalCause:
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' has a fictionalised version of the Three Mile Island incident, in which the nuclear plant is actually a secret laboratory for mutant experimentation, and a fight between Wolverine, Sabretooth and Weapon XI caused one of the plant's cooling towers to collapse.
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', the Cuban Missile Crisis was instigated by [[BigBad Sebastian Shaw]] as part of his plan to have mutantkind become widespread from the nuclear fallout and dominate over humans.
* RedHerring:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Magneto looks at Wolverine's dogtags before asking Sabretooth, "Where is the mutant now?" This is to mislead the audience into the same line of thinking as the heroes, that Magneto is after Wolverine, instead of his true target [[spoiler:Rogue]].
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Will Yun Lee (Harada) was promoted to have rigorous sword training, but most of his action scenes involved archery. If you're familiar with the comics character, one might be surprised that in this film, [[spoiler:Harada is NOT the Silver Samurai]].
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': There are two incidents which fooled some audience members into believing that this would be the moment where [[spoiler:Xavier would become crippled]]: the first was when the Blackbird crashed, and the other was when [[spoiler:Charles experienced the trauma of Shaw's death telepathically]]. Afterwards, these viewers then assumed that [[spoiler:Xavier's disability will be dealt with in a sequel, but then he is accidentally wounded by Magneto]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': The Blackbird, along with all the various equipment that is kept underground at the school, seem to foreshadow their use later on in the film. [[spoiler:Their only purpose is to cause the explosion that destroys the entire school and kills Havok.]]
* RedOniBlueOni:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' features a rivalry between Pyro and Iceman.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': Victor is the red to Logan's blue.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Erik is rather hot-headed while Charles is more level-headed. [[http://roashina.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/x-men-first-class-magazine.jpg ''Empire'' magazine even colour-coded the front covers of their May 2011 issue accordingly.]]
* RedShirt:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Most of the mutants in Magneto's army and the human soldiers deployed to Alcatraz Island were quickly obliterated by the Phoenix.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Warpath, Blink, Bishop, Sunspot and Colossus are glorified extras whose main purpose in the story is to serve as cannon fodder for the 2023-era Sentinels.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Xavier is ''very'' confident about his ability to seduce women.
--->'''Charles''': Heterochromia was in reference to your eyes, which I have to say are ''stunning''. One green, one blue. It's a mutation, it's a very groovy mutation. I've got news for you, Amy. You are a mutant.\\
'''Amy''': First you proposition a girl, and then you call her deformed. How is that seduction technique working for you?\\
'''Charles''': I'll tell you in the morning.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Quicksilver blatantly uses his super speed when he first meets Wolverine, Professor X and Beast because he knows no one would believe what they said about him. It's implied this is how he gets away with everything he does.
* RetCanon: The movies inspired a number of elements that made their way into the comics and the various cartoons:
** During Creator/GrantMorrison's run, the X-Men adopted black leather outfits in order to better match their movie counterparts. This lasted up until Creator/JossWhedon's ''Astonishing X-Men'' run, where the team started wearing colorful outfits again in order to seem less threatening.
** For a time, Mystique adopted her scaled, reptilian appearance from the comics.
** Magneto's plastic prison was used by ComicBook/TheUltimates in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''.
** ''Ultimate X-Men'' also used a version of William Stryker directly inspired by his role in ''X-2'' (in the original comics, Stryker was just a bigoted preacher).
** Toad adopted his AdaptationalBadass qualities from the movies for a while, before reverting back to being a massive loser.
** The movie introduced the idea of Iceman being significantly younger than the original X-Men, which was used in ''Ultimate X-Men'', ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''.
** The depiction of the Xavier Institute as an actual school for mutants was also taken from the first movie. Prior to that, the school aspect was just a cover, and the only real "students" were the X-Men themselves.
** Cerebro as a giant room-sized, IMAX Dome-Theatre room with a central orbiting platform more or less translated from the movies to the comics and cartoons (''WesternAntimation/XMenEvolution'' began with a more comics!accurate Cerebro, i.e. just a souped up computer that filled up a decent office-space and then translated into upraded Cerebro).
* RetCon: At least one character per movie: Sabretooth, Lady Deathstrike, Juggernaut and [[spoiler:Deadpool]].
** Considering the way the movies have changed around some of the comic book characters' generations, there's likely to be more in the future if more movies are going to be made based somewhat on the comics.
** ''First Class'' retcons certain elements of ''The Last Stand'', notably the fact that Charles and Erik were still shown to be working together while middle-aged during the flashback sequences in the latter film.
*** ''Days of Future Past'' goes even further by using time-travel to completely erase the events of ''Last Stand'' out of existence.
* {{Ronin}}: In ''Film/TheWolverine'', IchirÅ Yashida invokes this to describe Wolverine metaphorically. The latter's "lack of a master" translates to "a lack of purpose," and this turns him into an immortal drifter. [[note]]His comic counterpart does indeed have samurai background.[[/note]] This doubles as Fridge Brilliance because Logan's strong reaction to Professor X's supposed death in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', the post-credits airport scene [[spoiler:(where Wolverine only cares about what Xavier has to say, not Magneto)]], and the 2023 portion of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' prove that Charles is essentially his "master."
* RuleOfSexy:
** ''Film/XMen1'': In the comics, Mystique wears clothing even when she's in her natural form. Her movie counterpart, however, is ''stark naked''.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Most (if not all) fans expected the young Professor X to be bald, but the studio wanted Creator/JamesMcAvoy to [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/x-men-star-james-mcavoy-705595 keep his hair]] in order to retain the actor's sex appeal.
--->'''[=McAvoy=]''': I had showed up on the first day of ''X-Men: First Class'', and I had shaved my head because I wanted to check what it looked like about a month before we started shooting--and it looked quite good--and they were like, "No, no, no, no, we want you to have long hair."
*** After Emma Frost uses her psychic ability to fool the Soviet general into believing that he has engaged in foreplay with her, she decides to remain in her lingerie (instead of putting her dress back on) while she snacks on crackers.
*** There is absolutely no practical reason for Mystique to be exposing her cleavage when she's dressed in the combat uniform. Costume designer Sammy Sheldon admits in the "Suiting Up" featurette on the Blu-Ray release that her goal with that outfit was "to make [Mystique] look sexy."
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': In the March 2014 issue of ''Empire'' magazine, the actor states that he was more than willing to get rid of his luxurious locks, but once again the producers nixed the idea.
--->'''James [=McAvoy=]''': I wanted to go bald in this one, [...] but they didn't go for it. I was gutted.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Professor X retains his thick, wavy mane for most of the movie instead of being bald for its entirety. {{Justified}} in this case because Xavier didn't display any signs of male-pattern baldness in ''Days of Future Past'', so the hair loss which occurs later on is not natural.
*** The actors in their 30s who play characters who are in their late 40s/early 50s ([=McAvoy=], Fassbender and Byrne) were not given any ageing make-up, and there is very little grey in their hair. This is especially jarring with Professor X (at least when he's not bald), who should appear at least 30 years older than Jean Grey and Scott Summers, but Creator/JamesMcAvoy's youthful features make him look like he's only about 15 years their senior.
*** Psylocke's [[http://www.maactioncinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/c048fcd98aae2d23da146cca1f366a5b.jpg revealing uniform]] isn't sensible for a battle, but it does provide {{Fanservice}}. It's actually sexier in the movie-verse than in the comics because of the addition of a boob window. Louise Mingenbach (the costume designer) confesses on the "Clan of Akkaba: Apocalypse and his Horsemen" documentary on the Blu-Ray that a Los Angeles sex shop had created the latex suit.
*** The [[http://br.web.img1.acsta.net/newsv7/16/04/28/16/03/489905.jpg semi-transparent vertical "stripes"]] on Charles' white shirt. It even seems out-of-character for him to put on a garment which could potentially be distracting to some of his students as he had never been overtly objectified in the franchise before. (Another way to look at it is if a female teacher had worn the same shirt, it would be considered inappropriate.) This was clearly done by the costume designer to exploit Creator/JamesMcAvoy's desirability before his character loses his hair and becomes more serious. Xavier's lilac shirt is also mildly erotic because depending on his movements or body position, the outline of his pecs is sometimes well-defined, and there are a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where the shape of his nipples is visible through the thin fabric.
* RuleOfSymbolism:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': the presence (or at least the desire to have it) or absence of Magneto's telepathy-blocking helmet is a fairly good gauge of how unhealthy or healthy his relationship with Professor X is. [[http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=108298 As Simon Kinberg puts it]], the finale marks the beginning of the characters' FriendlyEnemy dynamic:
--->"At the end of the movie, [Magneto] flies away without his helmet, with the implication that he'll go off and continue to be Magneto in some form, but not be able to hide it from Charles, who'll be able to read his mind and track him. There's a truce of some kind between Charles and Magneto, but there's a part of Magneto that will always be the Magneto we know from the comics."
*** [[http://screenrant.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-photos/ This article]] has made the following observation about the elderly Erik:
---->"From the photos, we see that Ian [=McKellen's=] older Magneto has no need for his iconic helmet that protects him from mutant telepaths since he's once again allied with old friend Charles Xavier."
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** The Four Horsemen [[http://nerdist.com/x-men-apocalypse-set-visit-bryan-singer-interview/ represent four different aspects of a cult's power]] to attract and recruit new members.
---->'''Bryan Singer''': It has a political faction, and I'd always felt Magneto could fill those shoes. It always has a military faction, so Archangel could fill those shoes as the guardian. There's also a youth faction. Those that you're trying to seduce and grow into your cult--the young, whose minds are malleable [such as Storm]. And lastly, the sexual component, because cult leaders tend to sexualize their position and have sex with half the people in their cult. And the Psylocke character, who was a very bright character in the comic, but is always looking for guidance and leadership, always trying to find the right guy, so she ends up with Apocalypse in this one.
*** [[https://in.movies.yahoo.com/post/137684622919/x-men-apocalypse-on-set-of-the-darker-heavier There are bookends]] in Charles' study which are shaped like the mythological figure Atlas, and they symbolize his heavy burden of trying to save the world.
---->We look around Xavier's school some more, exploring every nook and cranny of Prof. X's office. We spot a couple of Atlas-themed book-ends, with two muscular men carrying planets on their backs. It makes us flashback to that dark room, where we saw [=McAvoy=] cry. If ever there was a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders, it's James [=McAvoy=]'s Professor X.
*** Charles and Erik have at least one costume which was strongly influenced by ''Series/MiamiVice'', and they are basically dressed as Detective Crockett and Detective Tubbs, respectively. Like Crockett and Tubbs, Xavier and Lehnsherr are HeterosexualLifePartners.
*** An InUniverse version [[spoiler:when Magneto signals his HeelFaceTurn by slamming down two huge girders in Apocalypse's path in the form of an X.]]
* TheRunaway:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Rogue runs away from home after her power manifests while kissing her boyfriend, which causes him to have a seizure and fall into a coma for three weeks.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': A young James Howlett and Victor Creed flee from home together after James stabs and kills Thomas Logan for murdering his father, then finds out that Thomas was his real father.
* SafelySecludedScienceCenter: The pristine wilderness of Alkali Lake is used to conceal Colonel William Stryker's Weapon X Base. Underground and partly built into the nearby dam, it was first used for the experiments that gave Wolverine his adamantium-coated bones; during ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Stryker is found to have expanded his experimental efforts to brainwashing mutants and recreating Cerebro as part of an attempt to wipe out the entire mutant population.
* SayMyName:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Professor X desperately yells "SCOTT!!!" when he realizes that Stryker has set up a trap for him.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** In 1973, Xavier angrily screams "''ERIIIIIIIIK!!!''" when Sentinels begin shooting at the crowd that has gathered at the White House. Although Magneto (who is wearing a telepathy-blocking helmet) has not yet appeared in his line of vision, Charles just ''knows'' that no one else would be causing this mayhem.
*** Logan hollers "CHARLES!" to warn his ally (who is wheelchair-bound) that he's about to be hit by a large chunk of the stadium.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Xavier yells "JEEEEEEAN!!!" to snap her out of her visions of the world's end.
*** An alarmed Raven shouts "CHARLES!!!" when her unconscious foster brother is kidnapped by Magneto.
*** Apocalypse ''bellows'' Charles' name several times at LargeHam levels while searching for his escaped prisoner.
*** Desperate for help, Cyclops yells "HANK!!!" twice as [[spoiler:Apocalypse partially fuses Scott into a ''wall''.]]
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Professor X uses his psychic ability to experience Senator Kelly's memory of being exposed to Magneto's machine.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles can "eavesdrop" on a conversation that Emma Frost has with a Soviet general by telepathically [[PeoplePuppets inhabiting a nearby soldier]].
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Past Xaavier is able to figure out where Raven is heading because when he had temporarily "possessed" a stewardess who had bumped into his foster sister, the stewardess had picked up Raven's plane ticket from the floor, and he can read its contents from the stewardess' field of vision. In ''The Rogue Cut'', Future Professor X can view the mansion through Magneto's and Iceman's minds, and he gives them instructions as they walk in hidden passageways towards the Cerebro room.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Charles sees Jean's visions of planet-wide destruction as if they were his own.
* {{Seers}}:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': After being briefly overwhelmed by her telepathy, Jean Grey tells Scott that "something bad is supposed to happen."
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Yukio knows when, where and how a person will die.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Jean's precognitive ability expresses itself as a terrible dream full of death and mass destruction.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': The rule-abiding, NiceGuy Iceman juxtaposes the rebellious, {{Jerkass}} Pyro. At the museum's food court, John is being rude to a young man who asks to borrow his lighter, and Bobby tells his friend to knock it off, plainly disapproving of John's annoying behaviour. When the police order the mutants to get on the ground, Drake immediately obeys, but Allerdyce attacks the officers with giant fire balls.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles Xavier is the Sensitive Guy to Erik Lehnsherr's Manly Man. They display this dynamic in their personalities (AllLovingHero vs. AntiHero) and physique (PrettyBoy vs. TallDarkAndHandsome) as well as their philosophies and methods (WideEyedIdealist vs. PayEvilUntoEvil).
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Charles in 1973 is more accurately an Overly Sensitive Guy with Wolverine taking over the Manly Man role. Logan has to act as the "glue" which barely holds the emotionally fragile Xavier together in order to complete their mission. Their opposite natures are most directly contrasted in the Pentagon kitchen scene, where Charles attempts to persuade the guards that he and his partner have a valid reason to be there, while Wolverine just knocks them out with a frying pan.
* SequelEscalation:
** Each film in the original trilogy was bigger/more expensive than the previous one, which is why Fox started spin-offs instead of making an ''X4''.
** The scope of the First Class trilogy gradually increased with each subsequent entry, but the production budget of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' ([[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=x-men2016.htm $178 million]]) is $22 million ''lower'' than ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' ([[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=xmen2014.htm $200 million]]).
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: Mystique uses this several times in the films.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': She seduces a guard by taking the form of a hot blonde [[spoiler:[[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction so she can use him in Magneto's escape from prison.]]]] She later utilizes it on Logan by trying to seduce him in the form of Jean Grey. Logan catches her, and she goes through several other forms, including Storm, Rogue and even Stryker, but he tells her to leave.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': She upgrades her age by about 15 years to please Erik, which doesn't really work for her until he tells Raven that he prefers her ''[[YouSexyBeast without]]'' the shapeshifted appearance.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Mystique does a sultry variation of her Raven form and pretends to be a disco-loving interpreter to gain access to a Vietnamese general's hotel room in order to steal his invitation to the Paris Peace Accords.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Her electric purple ensemble is quite revealing, and it's meant to be a distraction to the big, burly guards at the fight club venue; one underestimates her by calling her "little mouse."
* ShirtlessScene:
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' took this to an extreme, much to the delight of Creator/HughJackman fangirls. During a dramatic escape scene, not only does he erupt from a tank of water completely shirtless (and indeed naked, muscles + dripping water...), but he then proceeds to escape, running and fighting his way out of the building. Viewers get a lovable full-body shot (in which censorship is ''barely'' provided by his leg from a mostly-side-shot) when he jumps off a waterfall.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The younger Magneto is bare-chested when he's analyzing the Sentinel schematics.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** The body Apocalypse is transferring himself into at the beginning of the film is wearing nothing but a loincloth.
*** Angel's torso is bare when Apocalypse transforms him into Archangel.
*** [[spoiler:Wolverine is seen shirtless when he escapes the Weapon X facility.]]
* SiblingYinYang:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Eleven years after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles and Raven have not only become estranged, but also polar opposites in almost every way, especially in regards to ideology and diplomacy. Her [[spoiler:sparing of Trask and the president shows that she isn't quite as far gone]] as originally believed, though.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Although Charles and Raven are on better terms than in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', they still strongly disagree over how humans in general treat mutants. He believes the world is gradually becoming more tolerant of their kind, but she has seen with her own eyes that there's still a lot of oppression. [[http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/x-men/254859/x-men-apocalypse-trailer-3-analysis-15-things-we-learned This article]] uses the metaphor of Xavier being a peaceful [[NonActionGuy dove]] and Mystique is an aggressive [[ActionGirl hawk]].
--->'''Charles''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FeG41pNZq8 I have plans for this place.]] I mean to turn it into a real campus, a university. Not just for mutants, either; for humans, too. Living and working, growing together.\\
'''Raven''': You know, I really believed that once. I really believed we can change them.\\
'''Charles''': We did.\\
'''Raven''': Just because there's not a war, doesn't mean there's peace. You wanna teach your kids something, teach them that, teach them to fight, otherwise they might as well live in this house for the rest of their lives.
* SingleTear:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': The wheelchair-bound Professor X sheds a single tear of joy when he's able to stand again on his own--but then he quickly realizes that he's in a LotusEaterMachine and tries to resist Jason's ability.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Charles wipes a single tear from his cheek after he uncovers a happy memory from Erik's childhood involving the latter's mother with his telepathy. Despite living a much more comfortable and privileged life than his friend, the one beautiful thing that Charles never got to experience is a mother's warm affection.
*** In the same scene, a visible tear falls down Erik's face because he didn't know he still carried that cherished memory of his mother.
*** After [[spoiler:Charles gets shot]], he only sheds one noticeable tear which is partly because of [[spoiler:his injury]], but mostly because he is forced to tell Erik that [[spoiler:no, they really do not want the same thing, and knows that this realization will push his friend away for good]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Magneto sheds a lone tear when he remembers [[spoiler:the close friendship he once had with Charles]].
* SkywardScream:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Logan does this in a flashback where he wakes up in a tank of water with no memories and metal claws shoot out of his hands.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Wolverine does this [[spoiler:after reluctantly killing Jean Grey/Phoenix]].
** This was done ''three times'' in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Xavier does this right after [[spoiler:a bullet enters his spine]].
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Blink lets out a small cry towards the heavens after [[spoiler:being stabbed by three Sentinels]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Magneto, whose powers have been boosted by Apocalypse, does this as he disintegrates the Auschwitz concentration camp.
* SleevesAreForWimps:
** Wolverine is often seen wearing a tank top.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Colossus' uniform is sleeveless, showing off his muscles and more of his transformation when using his power.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': During the training scene, everyone gets matching grey tracksuits, but inexplicably, Havok's doesn't have sleeves.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse': Unlike their male teammates, Storm's and Psylocke's Horsemen apparel expose their arms.
* SlidingScaleOfLeadershipResponsibility: Previous films had established that Professor X is typically The Hammond on this scale, but during the FinalBattle in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he moves up three steps and briefly becomes The Superman. When Apocalypse gives Charles a SadisticChoice--surrender, or Mystique and Quicksilver will die--Beast and Cyclops volunteer to rescue their teammates, but Xavier stops them because he would rather sacrifice himself than see anyone he cares about get hurt. This turns out to be an unacceptable option because Charles is the Earth's BarrierMaiden (and he obviously doesn't want to put billions of lives at risk), but he then challenges Apocalypse to a mind duel, which creates a much-needed distraction. [[spoiler:Xavier gets pummeled on the astral plane, and he only asks Jean Grey--whom he loves like a daughter and is naturally protective of her--to intervene when he knows he's dying.]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Xavier and Magneto in the first film, ''First Class'' and ''Days of Future Past'', and alluded to again in ''The Last Stand'' at the very end where Erik is at a park with a chess board... The chess motif is there to establish the attitudes of both men as TheChessmaster, and it's a metaphor for their struggle over the future of mutantkind.
** And subverted in real life. Everyone on the set naturally assumed that the erudite Creator/IanMcKellen and Creator/PatrickStewart knew how to play chess, but neither of them did. As Stewart explained, he was always too busy with his career. They had to be taught by a world champion; Stewart said it was "like learning to drive with [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Michael Schumacher]]".
** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', it was more like discussing with a chess table between Charles and Erik, without playing much. The lack of play and banter almost seems to symbolize the extreme distance and hostility (perhaps the worst in the series) between them, including Erik's violent outburst just minutes earlier.
* SoftGlass:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'':
*** Angel is able to jump through a skyscraper window without obtaining so much as a scratch, ''shirtless''.
*** And then there's Storm, whose face is slammed through a glass table during a fight scene, yet she doesn't suffer from any cuts.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': A glass ceiling that has been cracked into a thousand pieces falls right on top of Erik, and he doesn't get a single scratch. In RealLife, the stunt double suffered from mild injuries, according to Creator/BryanSinger's commentary, because real glass was used for that scene.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'':
*** It's the first entry in the franchise which doesn't feature Wolverine or Professor X either as major characters or as cameos.
*** This is also the first ''X-Men'' film to be rated R in the USA, with much more graphic violence, profanity and sexual content than usual.
* SpandexLatexOrLeather: Black leather. ''First Class'' has them wear spandexy-Kevlar and denim (modelled after real life battle fatigues), and DOFP has kevlar plates mixed with spandex and regular pants.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Unlike her comic book counterpart, Negasonic Teenage Warhead doesn't die in her [[Film/{{Deadpool 2016}} first appearance]] in the movie-verse.
* SpotlightStealingSquad:
** Wolverine is by far the most guilty of this. He is the main protagonist of six films (the original trilogy and his spin-offs), the SupportingProtagonist of one, and he has a cameo in two.
** Professor X is a close runner-up; he was an important secondary character in the original trilogy and ''Film/{{Logan}}'', a main character in the ''First Class'' tetralogy, and has three cameos.
** Magneto is a major character in the original trilogy and the ''First Class'' tetralogy, and he has a cameo in one movie.
* StaringDownCthulhu: In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', immediately after Xavier accomplishes a DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu by modifying the final sentence of Apocalypse's [[spoiler:planet-wide]] NewEraSpeech, Charles brazenly glares at his captor, unflinching and undaunted by any punishment that may befall him. It proves that Professor X will oppose Apocalypse with every fiber of his being, [[DefiantToTheEnd no matter how futile it is]].
* TheStinger:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': [[spoiler:Professor X transfers his mind into the man with the coma...]]
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': [[spoiler:Two years later, Magneto is shown to have regained his mutant power and Xavier is revealed to be alive. They both meet with Logan at an airport and ask him to join them fighting the new weapon that the humans have created to destroy the mutants.]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': [[spoiler:En Sabah Nur uses his MindOverMatter powers to build a pyramid in Ancient Egypt while his Four Horsemen are seen in the background.]]
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': The after-credits scene is where [[MediumAwareness Deadpool tells the people in the audience to go home, since the show's over]] (while dressed as [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] to make sure the ShoutOut is clear). However, he later relents, and uses the time left in the movie to mention that the sequel will bring Cable into the mix.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[spoiler:It involves the abandoned Alkali Lake facility being raided by [[{{Foreshadowing}} Essex Corp.]] If you don't understand the significance, [[Characters/XMenMarauders Mr. Sinister]]'s name is Nathaniel Essex. The genetic material from Wolverine [[Film/{{Logan}} later results in the creation]] of ComicBook/{{X 23}}.]]
* StoryBreakerPower:
** Professor X's {{Telepathy}} is such that most of the movies would be over very, very quickly if he did not frequently get incapacitated or rendered powerless in some way.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Quicksilver gets PutOnABus after the Pentagon raid because, as that raid shows, he is ''downright unstoppable''. While moving at SuperSpeed, simply tapping a person is the practical equivalent of getting hit by a heavyweight boxer, and he can take out an entire room of armed guards so quickly that their bullets weren't even able to reach the people they had shot at when he started.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Kurt's energy level drains rapidly if he teleports too many people at the same time, and he's inert for part of the FinalBattle. John Ottman divulges in the "Unlimited Powers: VFX, Stunts and Set Pieces" featurette on the Blu-Ray the reason for the limitation on the character's endurance.
--->'''Ottman''': This is why we knocked Nightcrawler out. Because for the whole third act, if he's around, he can just bamf people endlessly.
* StringTheory:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Erik has a minor one on the wall of his Geneva hotel room for his Nazi hunt before going to the [[SwissBankAccount banker]].
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': While hunting Ajax in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge montage, Deadpool creates one of these as he eliminates one lead after the other.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': [[spoiler:Cyclops. Double points for being killed by his lover! Triple points for being a RareMaleExample!]]
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:TemporaryLoveInterest Kayla. Then subverted when we learn her death was [[FakingTheDead faked]] and Stryker was specifically [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this so Logan would agree to join the Weapon X program, and double subverted when she is StuffedIntoTheFridge [[KilledOffForReal for real]]. Also, the old couple who help Logan and are killed by Agent Zero, and arguably John Wraith when he is killed by Victor.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Edie Lehnsherr is murdered by Dr. Klaus Schmidt just so her son Erik would embark on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against his former captor.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** [[spoiler:Erik's wife and daughter are killed off to fuel his anguish for the rest of the story, and to make him vulnerable to Apocalypse's influence.]]
*** [[spoiler:In a rare male example, Alex dies to kick-start his younger brother's Scott CharacterDevelopment.]]
* SuperheroSchool: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is both an educational institution for young mutants and the secret base for the X-Men.
* SuperheroTeamUniform: In contrast to their comic book counterparts, who have a variety of colorful costumes, [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack the movie X-Men all wear relatively matching black leather suits]].
* SuperpowerLottery:
** Professor X is one of the most powerful fictional psychic characters, and while he's not telekinetic, his ability to rewrite minds[[note]]which he had threatened Logan with in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''[[/note]] and hijack any person he wants make telekinesis seem like child's play.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Sebastian Shaw's base ability of EnergyAbsorption is set so high and is so versatile that not even Erik can hold him [[spoiler:once he's absorbed the power of a nuclear reactor.]] He cannot be punched or shot as he nullifies kinetic energy, and he's smart enough to have crafted a helmet that completely blocks Charles' telepathy.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Because En Sabah Nur can [[GrandTheftMe transfer his consciousness to new host bodies]] and [[PowerParasite acquires the powers of every new host]], he's amassed so many superpowers over thousands of years that many ([[AGodAmI including himself]]) believe him to be a god. His powers include SuperStrength, [[MindOverMatter mass telekinesis]] at the molecular level, a [[BarrierWarrior protective forcefield]] that can block almost any attack, [[VillainTeleportation teleporting around the world]] through a purple force field, [[HealingFactor healing powers]] (from his latest host), and [[SuperEmpowering amplifying the powers of other mutants]]. His goal in the film is to [[spoiler:acquire Xavier's PsychicPowers by using him as a new host and MindControl the entire planet]].
* SuperTeam:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Jean Grey and Storm willingly ally with Wolverine and Nightcrawler, plus Magneto and Mystique ([[EnemyMine relunctantly]]) to stop Styker from committing mutant genocide.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': Colonel Stryker assembles Team X which features James Howlett, Victor Creed, John Wraith, Agent Zero, Christopher Bradley, Wade Wilson and Fred Dukes. Some of them don't get along very well.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Professor X, Magneto, Beast, Mystique, Havok and Banshee form the proto X-Men. Charles Xavier's primary goal is to avert WorldWarIII, while the other members are seeking {{Revenge}} against Sebastian Shaw for murdering someone they cared about.
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': The eponymous character teams up with Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead to take down Ajax, Angel Dust and their mooks.
* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: Xavier if his mutant powers are blocked or inactive (Type 0 before getting paralyzed).
** Type 0: Regular humans, Depowered mutants.[[note]]Although [[Film/XMenTheLastStand Magneto]] shows proof to the contrary...[[/note]]
** Type 1: William Stryker (at least when he was younger), Agent Moira [=MacTaggert=], Mariko Yashida, Kenuichio Harada, Shingen Yashida, Vanessa Carlysle.
** Type 2: Leech, Quill, Yukio, Warpath.
** Type 3: Wolverine, Cyclops, Rogue, Mystique, Sabretooth, Toad, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Pyro, Lady Deathstrike, Colossus, Jason Stryker, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Callisto, the Juggernaut, Angel/Archangel, Multiple Man, Arclight, Gambit, Kestrel, Agent Zero, Bolt, Emma Frost, Havok, Banshee, Darwin, Angel Salvadore, Azazel, Riptide, Weapon XI [[spoiler:(Wade Wilson)]], Viper, [[spoiler:[[PoweredArmor Silver Samurai]]]], Bishop, Blink, Sunspot, Past Sentinels, Deadpool, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Ajax, Angel Dust, Psylocke.
** Type 4: Professor X, Magneto, Storm[[note]]although her only power display which reaches this level occurs in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' when she summons multiple tornadoes over a large area; in most circumstances, her use of lightning, wind, fog and temperature change are highly localized, so they generally veer towards Type 3[[/note]], Jean Grey (after exposure to Magneto's machine), Sebastian Shaw, Quicksilver, Kitty Pryde (after she gains the ability to perform MentalTimeTravel), Future Sentinels, Apocalypse.
** Type 5: Professor X (while connected to Cerebro or empowered by Apocalypse), the Phoenix, Magneto (empowered by Apocalypse, which gives him the ability to manipulate the Earth's magnetic fields).
* SwappedRoles:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Professor X was Wolverine's mentor in the original trilogy, but in 1973, Logan has to try to motivate and counsel an emotionally damaged Xavier.
---->'''Professor X''': Logan, you're going to have to do for me what I once did for you. Lead me, guide me.
*** Not surprisingly, the abrasive Wolverine isn't very good at this task, and it's lampshaded in the following exchange:
---->'''Past Charles''': I'm sorry Logan, but they sent back the wrong man.\\
'''Logan''': You're right, I am. Actually, it was supposed to be you, but I was the only one who could physically make the trip.
*** This also applies to Charles and Hank. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Xavier acted as a big brother figure to [=McCoy=] (they're about a decade apart in age), but after 1963, Hank becomes responsible for Charles. Although [=McCoy=] certainly prevents his friend from doing anything too self-destructive, he inadvertently becomes Xavier's enabler by inventing an addictive telepathy-blocking serum. Considering that Hank was probably only around 21 years old when he suddenly found himself in the position of being Charles' long-term caregiver (plus he has no experience looking after someone who is mentally ill), it's understandable that he couldn't help his former mentor as well as he would've liked.
* PaletteSwap:
** Magneto always had some red and/or purple colour on his outfit, but in 2023, his uniform is completely black and grey, signifying that he's now part of the X-Men.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' costume designer Louise Mingenbach described [[http://www.gq.com/entertainment/fashion/201405/x-men-days-of-future-past-costumes#slide=2 Past Xavier's switch from his brown-and-pink casual wear to his more formal blues and greys]] that is typically associated with the character in the other movies.
---> "At the beginning of the film, Charles is medicating, and very possibly on hallucinogens, so we had that come through in his shirt. As he pulls himself together, he wears a nice blue oxford like all good, put-together men—a progression from that psychedelic Cat Stevens-wear."
* ParentalAbandonment:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Erik Lehnsherr's father was probably killed in a concentration camp, and [[Film/XMenFirstClass his mother was definitely murdered before him by Sebastian Shaw]] to try and induce his magnetism powers.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Judging by the sad and envious expression on Pyro's face when he stares at the Drake family photos, it's strongly implied that John's parents have disowned him (or they may have died when he was very young).
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[http://ca.ign.com/articles/2016/01/21/10-things-we-learned-on-the-set-of-x-men-apocalypse?page=1 Alexandra Shipp]] confirms that Ororo's parents died when a plane crashed into their home when she was five years old.
* ParentalFavoritism: Downplayed with Professor X since he never neglects any of his students whether as a teacher or as a ParentalSubstitute, but he is closer to those who are BirdsOfAFeather, like Hank in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' and Jean in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''. Hank and Jean do receive a bit more of his time and care.
* ParentalNeglect:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles' mother is hinted to be emotionally distant towards her son, which is why Raven's maternal act backfires spectacularly.
--->'''Charles''': ''(telepathically communicates to Raven disguised as Mrs. Xavier)'' My mother has never set foot in this kitchen in her life, and she certainly never made me hot chocolate, unless you count ordering the maid to do it.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Ben Hardy suggests that a [[http://attitude.co.uk/ben-hardy-teases-whats-in-store-for-his-character-angel-in-x-men-apocalypse/ lack of parental nurturing]] is a major factor in Warren turning to the dark side.
--->"People who don't get looked after enough can end up being very angry and I feel like this is where Angel's anger comes from and maybe that gives him the potential to transform and become one of the villains."
* ParentalSubstitute:
** Charles Xavier plays this role to all of the X-Men, but it's most notable in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' with a young Hank and the teenaged Alex and Sean, all of whom remain loyal to him before and after Cuba. [[spoiler:The mere mention of Sean's death in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' makes Charles visibly distraught, which is in direct contrast to all of the other names that Erik throws at him.]] Being a father figure to Jean is explored in more detail in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', and Quicksilver decides to stay with the Professor instead of getting to know his estranged father.
** There is one exception. In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles claims he had raised Raven, and Erik corrects him--they ''grew up'' together. He is not her father. [[spoiler:This ties into the end of the film, when he stops trying to control her and lets her make her own choice.]]
** Downplayed in the scene where 1973 Xavier interacts with Peter Maximoff before the former departs for Paris. Charles instinctually behaves in a paternal manner when he's around a young mutant, especially one who doesn't have much of a direction in his life (in Quicksilver's case, he's a juvenile delinquent who grew up without a father). Peter's smile at the end indicates that he appreciates the sentiment.
** ''Film/XMen1'':
*** Wolverine promises that he'll take of Rogue.
*** Scott Summers invokes this while Professor X is [[spoiler:in a coma]].
---->"You taught me everything in my life that was ever worth knowing."
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': IchirÅ Yashida for Mariko, as Shingen, her actual parent, is [[AbusiveParents not a nice man]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** [=McCoy=] is a teacher at the school, and he has a [[http://collider.com/x-men-apocalypse-news-things-to-know/ paternal relationship with the younger mutants.]] He begins to form a bond with Scott.
*** Apocalypse serves this role to his Horsemen. He also invokes this trope when he asserts that "You are all my children, and you're lost because you follow blind leaders." He also tends to call mutants "my child."
* PastExperienceNightmare:
** Wolverine is shown to have some nasty nightmares about his experience with Weapon X. They're so terrifying that he wakes up and stabs whatever's in front of him. Or ''whoever'', unfortunately for [[Film/XMen1 Rogue]] and [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Kitty Pryde]].
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Logan suffers chronic nightmares of [[spoiler:Jean Grey]], his [[TheLostLenore Lost Lenore]] who he [[Film/XMenTheLastStand previously]] was [[spoiler:[[MercyKill forced to kill]]]].
* PatrickStewartSpeech:
** Given [[Creator/PatrickStewart who plays Professor X]], not surprising. Given who he ''is'', also not surprising. Xavier's core message requires having such a speech at hand and ready to give at a moment's notice (as true here as it was in the source material). The capacity to give such a speech is the only thing that he and Magneto are feuding over.
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', where he is played by Creator/JamesMcAvoy, he gives such a speech to Erik Lehnsherr. During their chess game, he attempts to convince Erik that human beings are capable of great understanding, and that mutants should be patient, as "we have it in us to be the better men." Erik skeptically replies, "We already are."
** An even more epic example occurs in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', where his older self gives one to his younger self, convincing the latter to "hope again," and that despite what happens (or in 1973 Xavier's case, ''will'' happen) to mutants, humanity can still be shown "a better path."
* PeoplePuppets:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Professor X briefly takes control of Toad and Sabretooth and attempts to rescue Rogue from Magneto.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'':
*** Professor X freezes hundreds of people in a large museum.
*** During the finale, Jean Grey is able to use Xavier (a fellow psychic) as a conduit to communicate with Scott.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Charles immobilizes everyone except for Moira at the CIA Headquarters so that he can have a private telepathic conversation with her.
*** Xavier mentally forces a Soviet officer to fire on the ''Aral Sea'', thus single-handedly preventing WorldWarIII.
*** Once Erik removes Shaw's telepathy-blocking helmet, Charles keeps Sebastian motionless.
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': In TheStinger, Logan notices that [[spoiler:everyone at the airport besides himself and Magneto has suddenly stopped dead in their tracks. Only one mutant in the franchise has been shown to possess this ability...]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Xavier possesses various people around Mystique at the airport to talk to her in a casual display of how creepy his power can be when he gets creative. He temporarily prevents Mystique's body from moving once he determines that she's pretending to be a secret service agent, although he still permits her to speak. President Nixon, his cabinet and Trask are put on "pause" when Charles tells Raven [[spoiler:he won't push her anymore and that she's free to decide Trask's fate]]. After the climax, he also [[spoiler:controls Magneto when Mystique knocks the latter's helmet off to free himself from the metal debris that fell on him earlier]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Professor X "insists" with his mind-control abilities that everyone at the CIA building "take a break" so that he and Havok can visit Agent [=MacTaggert=] without having to deal with security.
* PeriodPiece:
** The UsefulNotes/ColdWar is the setting for the First Class trilogy. ''First Class'' dealt with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the 1973 portion of ''Days of Future Past'' included the Paris Peace Accords (which marked the end of the UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar), and ''Apocalypse'' takes place 1983.
** There is some uncertainty over the timeline for ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'', but it's somewhere around TheSeventies and/or TheEighties.
* PermaStubble:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Hank has light stubble throughout the movie which is meant to make him look older than his clean-shaven appearance in ''First Class''.
*** Sunspot sports a 5 o'clock shadow.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Charles has faint stubble instead of being clean-shaven (which is his regular look in the franchise), and at first, it seems to convey to the audience that he hasn't fully reclaimed his heroic Professor X identity. He's a relaxed, content principal, teacher, and low-key mutant activist, not a commander of a paramilitary group like in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''. However, once he decides that it's necessary for him to step up his role as a leader of mutants, he still keeps the extra facial hair--this illustrates that Creator/JamesMcAvoy's character is "rougher-around-the-edges" than Creator/PatrickStewart's in the original timeline. Xavier's stubble is also a ShoutOut to Detective James "Sonny" Crockett from ''Series/MiamiVice''.[[note]]Charles' costumes were directly inspired by the character on the TV show.[[/note]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Professor X can kill everyone on the planet with Cerebro if he concentrates hard enough.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': The Phoenix effortlessly vaporizes hundreds of human soldiers and Magneto's mutant followers.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** It's explicitly emphasized that this is [[BigBad Sebastian Shaw's]] primary power--he can absorb energy... ''all kinds'' of energy. This makes him effectively bullet-proof, [[MoreDakka rocket and grenade-proof,]] [[ImplacableMan and can even absorb the energy of your punches, no matter how strong you are.]] [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld He also states that he is effectively immortal.]] Finally, he can absorb enough energy to simulate a nuclear bomb blast... and presumably come out the other side unharmed.
*** Havok is fearful of the damage his powers could do if he isn't kept isolated, and so prefers being in solitary confinement while in prison so he is at less risk of hurting someone by accident.
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': Negasonic Teenage Warhead destroys a large part of the scrapyard with her last attack, capsizing the grounded helicarrier and sends Angel Dust bouncing around like a pinball.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': En Sabah Nur single-handedly razes the city of Cairo to the ground with his MindOverMatter powers, potentially massacring millions of its inhabitants.
* PlayingGertrude:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Creator/PatrickStewart and Creator/IanMcKellen were given ageing make-up because their characters are roughly fifteen years older than they are.
*** The viral website states the events of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' occurred in 2006 when Kitty Pryde appeared to be, at the most, in her mid-teens. The BadFuture is said to occur in or very close to 2023, putting Kitty in her early 30s even though the films were released just 8 years apart and Creator/ElliotPage was 26 during filming.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** During filming, Creator/JamesMcAvoy and Creator/RoseByrne were 36 years old while Creator/MichaelFassbender was 38, but their characters are in their late forties/early fifties in 1983.
*** Creator/NicholasHoult was 25 years old during principal photography, but if we assume that his character was around 20 in 1962, then in 1983 Beast is pushing 40.
*** Creator/LucasTill is 8 months younger than Hoult, and Havok is only a couple of years younger than Beast. Alex Summers is roughly two decades older than his brother Scott, but Creator/TyeSheridan is just 6 years Till's junior.
* PlayingWithFire:
** Pyro can't generate fire, but is immune to it and can direct and grow any nearby fire. As such, he uses a lighter to create it when he needs to in the [[Film/XMen1 first]] [[Film/X2XMenUnited two]] movies, and he gets a wrist mounted flamethrower in the [[Film/XMenTheLastStand third]].
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Sunspot's mutant ability consists of converting the sun's energy into bursts of flame that he can aim at his enemies.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': The Ancient Egyptian Famine's mutant power is pyrokinesis. It's very much like Pyro's in that she only seems capable of manipulating already existent fire instead of being able to create it.
* PluckyComicRelief:
** Nightcrawler provides some of the more amusing moments in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** Banshee is the most fun character in ''Film/XMenFirstClass''.
** Quicksilver is a source of comedy in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' and ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** As referenced by the opening credits of ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'', Weasel's narrative purpose is comedy.
** Downplayed with Professor X in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' because he's predominantly a dramatic character, but writer Simon Kinberg reveals in his commentary that Charles was deliberately used to lighten up the mood of the first act.
--->'''Kinberg''': I tried to get a lot of humour into the movie whenever it was appropriate, and James [[=McAvoy=]] is a really good comedic actor, so there was a lot of good Xavier moments.
* POVCam:
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** We get a glimpse of what the world looks like through the ruby quartz lenses of Scott's sunglasses when he puts them on for the first time.
*** After Apocalypse notices Xavier's presence through the latter's telepathic link with Erik, Apocalypse stares straight at the camera (so we're seeing him through the Professor's perspective) with his glowing white eyes as he ominously states, [[spoiler:"Thank you for letting me in."]]
* PoweredByAForsakenChild:
** ''Film/XMen1'' has the machine that turns ordinary people into mutants powered by Magneto, but using it weakens the power source (likely killing him if he uses it on full power), so he forcibly has [[spoiler:the power-stealing mutant Rogue absorb his ability and uses her]] to power the machine.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Stryker's mind-control serum is derived from chemicals secreted by the brain of his ''own son,'' Jason. Although still alive and still capable of using his impressive [[MasterOfIllusion powers of illusion]], Jason's been given a lobotomy to make him more pliable and is confined to a wheelchair, complete with a shunt in the back of his head used for collecting the fluid.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': The mutant cure is distilled from Leech's blood, although the scientists hope to eventually artificially synthesize it. Unlike other examples, Leech is treated rather well and seems fine with the arrangement.
* PowerIncontinence:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Rogue can't control her ability at all because she's a PowerParasite who can potentially kill anyone who touches her. She has to wear gloves and can't ever be intimate or close to anyone.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Alex Summers can emit powerful energy blasts, but he can't control their direction. This problem is solved by a special harness, which he even refers to as his "energy diaper" in a deleted scene.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Erik nearly crashes the plane when he's yelling at Charles. Xavier subjects himself to a PowerNullifier because he has lost control over his telepathy.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Scott Summers can't control his EyeBeams when they start manifesting. He has to be blindfolded until he is brought to the Xavier Institute, otherwise he'll destroy everything (and everyone) around him. There, Hank [=McCoy=] creates special filter sunglasses for him, enabling him to control his mutant ability.
* ThePowerOfLove:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': When Charles is helping all of the mutants train, the most effective memory to focus Erik's powers is Hanukkah with his mother.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': If Charles has a secondary mutation, it would be this--he has the ability to "transform" the people around him into better versions of themselves. [[spoiler:His unwavering love and support for his daughter figure Jean allows her to overcome her fears about her Phoenix power, and she fries Apocalypse with deadly efficiency, saving the world and the Professor's life in the process. Magneto pulls a HeelFaceTurn when he realizes that his love for Xavier is stronger than his hate towards human society, which has murdered his family twice over.]] Peter could've easily returned to his mother's basement and continue wasting his potential after the FinalBattle (especially considering that he had decided to withhold from Erik that he's his son), but it's implied that Maximoff was touched by Charles' worry for his well-being when Xavier had created a telepathic link between them while Quicksilver was fighting Apocalypse. It should be noted that Charles hadn't spoken to Peter in a decade, but the former's capacity for love is so great that he had opened his mind to a young mutant whom he barely knows, and he sincerely cared about whether Maximoff got hurt or not. The self-described "total loser" Quicksilver is now a member of the X-Men who can make a positive difference in the world.
* PowerPerversionPotential:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Xavier uses his telepathy to "guess" the drink orders of the women he flirts with. Executive producer Tarquin Pack lampshades this specific example in the rare "Extraordinary Abilities" featurette. (See the BonusMaterial entry.)
---->"If I had the ability to read minds, and I was at university, and I could influence people through my mental powers, I would probably also be a bit of a Lothario. ''(laughs)'' Who wouldn't be?"
*** Raven jokingly insinuates that Hank's large, ape-like feet might be an indication that he has a [[BiggerIsBetterInBed massive penis]].
*** Emma Frost seduces a Russian general by projecting a mental image of herself so he thinks she's having sex with him, when she's in fact sitting a distance away looking bored.
*** Raven shapeshifts from her teenaged form into a more mature woman (Rebecca Romijn in a cameo) in the belief that Erik would prefer her that way. Magneto is not impressed because he wanted "the real Raven." It took her two tries to realize that he wanted her natural blue form.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Charles and Alex discuss this as they're heading towards Moira's office.
---->'''Alex''': So you really haven't see her in all these years? You never looked her up? Not even in Cerebro?\\
'''Charles''': Alex, what do you take me for, some kind of pervert? Yes, I looked her up once, twice. But not in a long time, alright?
*** Quicksilver's flirtation with Moira in BulletTime is so brief that she doesn't even know it happened! Peter also employs his SuperSpeed in [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4euik8 this commercial]] and attempts to impress a young woman so that he can earn a date with her.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': During a montage of Charles and Erik finding and recruiting other mutants, their search brings them into a small, dingy bar where [[spoiler:Wolverine]] has no interest in their offer: "Go fuck yourself."
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': All are spoken by Logan.
*** "Go fuck yourself, pretty boy."
*** The extended cut adds two more: "Too many fucking wars," and "Talk or I'll throw you out that fucking window!"
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Charles Xavier, of all people, tells Wolverine to "Fuck off" in a CallBack to their first encounter.
*** ''The Rogue Cut'' has President Nixon grumpily utter, "Fuck me" after watching news footage of the Paris Peace Accords.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Magneto has the honour this time around when he comes face-to-face with Apocalypse and his then-three Horsemen. ("Who the fuck are you?")
* PrematurelyBald: Averted in Professor X's case; the First Class trilogy reveals that he doesn't lose his hair until he's around 50 years old.
* PretentiousLatinMotto: If you do a FreezeFrameBonus on the Xavier coat of arms, located on the tail of Charles' personal plane in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', the family motto reads, "Fratrem tuum adjuva," which means "Help your brother." Not only does this fit Professor X's compassionate personality to a tee, but it also suggests that his OldMoney ancestors on his father's side were philanthropists. Assisting those who are less fortunate must have been regarded as a sacred duty, as those Latin words supposedly designate what the Xavier family values the most.
* PrettyBoy: The movie series contains more examples of this trope than one would normally expect for a superhero property (which typically promotes a more traditional ideal of the masculine form). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvkCv5cCD5Y Honest Trailers]] even poked fun at this by saying that the X-Men franchise starred a lot of twinks.[[note]]So far, none have been revealed to be gay, but the Narrator is attracted to both sexes, so he just wishes they were.[[/note]]
** Bobby Drake's dainty facial features quickly communicate to the audience that he's a good-hearted person. This is especially true in the first movie, where he was only a minor character, but viewers were able to tell right away that "the cute guy" is sincere when trying to befriend Rogue. Moroever, being forced to abandon his family in the second film is more painful when his expression is very much like a puppy dog who has just been kicked.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Appearance-wise, Dr. Charles Xavier is strongly defined by his boyishness: he has a soft, round face, baby blue eyes, cherry-red lips (the colour is so deep at times that it almost looks like he's wearing lipstick), and is of shorter-than-average height. It's symbolic of his sensitive, nice guy qualities. Erik Lehnsherr even calls him "adorable" when Charles tries the Cerebro machine for the first time. With his fair complexion, the young telepath resembles a living porcelain doll, and his [[GlassCannon fragility]] becomes evident when he "[[BreakTheCutie breaks]]" physically and emotionally during the climax.
*** Dr. Hank [=McCoy=] is quite similar to Xavier (just younger and a lot more insecure), and while this may be a coincidence, it's nevertheless convenient that he shares some facial features with his mentor, like pale skin, blue eyes and thick reddish lips. The one big physical difference between them is that Hank is a lot taller.
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Wolverine invokes this when he confronts Harada, presumably as an attempt to deride the latter's masculinity. Harada has an elegant face, a slim build, and is an agile ninja, in contrast to the macho bruiser Logan.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Peter Maximoff is baby-faced with reddish lips and cute in an impish way. It's a visual cue to the audience that he's an immature prankster who doesn't take life seriously.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Professor X is around 50 years old, yet before he loses his hair, he's still gorgeous and youthful-looking for his age (he can pass for a man in his early 30s)--in fact, he doesn't appear all that different from his graduate student days in ''First Class''. This alludes to him embracing his former naïvety again, and it makes him look much more [[BreakTheCutie helpless and vulnerable]] when he becomes Apocalypse's prisoner. Being boyishly beautiful also emphasizes Charles' status as a victim when he's [[spoiler:{{Mind Rape}}d by Apocalypse, which is a metaphor for sexual assault]]. Because BeautyEqualsGoodness for Creator/JamesMcAvoy's Xavier, maintaining his dainty appearance even when he's being [[spoiler:viciously battered, bloodied and bruised on the astral plane connotes that he's a person with a tenderhearted soul who's dying]].
*** Repeating a theme from ''First Class'' is Hank being a mirror image of Charles with a few key differences. [=McCoy=] remains pretty and boyish in a similar way to Xavier, but despite being a decade younger, he is much more cautious and realistic than his ex-mentor, and he makes plans to ensure that the X-Men have everything they need when (and not if) the peace between mutants and humans is shattered.
*** Warren Worthington III is beautiful, and it's meant to be ironic that an angelic-looking youth is actually quite ruthless and deadly.
*** Although Nightcrawler falls more on the "cute" side, he is extremely attractive with his elfin features (particularly larger, more prominent ears) which are further enhanced by his adolescent development. They reflect his dorky personality, and even with the scars on his face, the impression Kurt Wagner leaves on viewers is that he's a lovely blue elf rather than a freaky blue demon.
*** Quicksilver is affirmed to be Magneto's son, so Peter's softer, delicate features juxtapose his father's VillainousCheekbones. Quicksilver fights for the heroic team, and Magneto sides with the BigBad. Maximoff's puckish looks also mark him as a ManChild and a BasementDweller. During his confrontation with Apocalypse, Quicksilver moves gracefully as a FragileSpeedster, and once Apocalypse takes away his SuperSpeed advantage, Peter is wholly defenseless. Because Maximoff's face exudes an aura of innocence, it evokes the imagery of a "lamb to the slaughter" when [[spoiler:Apocalypse offers his bare neck to Psylocke for execution]].
* TheProfessor: Dr. Charles Xavier [[Film/XMenFirstClass earned his "Professor of Genetics" title from the University of Oxford]]. Even before he became a paraplegic, he was considerably less action-oriented than the other mutants on his team, and is often protected by a combatant (e.g. [[Film/X2XMenUnited Cyclops]], [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Beast]], [[Film/XMenApocalypse Havok]]). Professor X serves as the TeamDad for the X-Men.
* ProgressivelyPrettier:
** When Wolverine was first introduced to the ''X-Men'' comics, he was about 5'3" and quite unattractive. After TallDarkAndHandsome Creator/HughJackman became famous for portraying the character in the films, people seem to forget that one of Wolverine's old nicknames was "dog face."
** Professor X in the comics is a middle-aged bald guy who is average-looking at best with no striking physical features (and considering that he's usually drawn with a severe facial expression, he could be deemed slightly below average). Creator/PatrickStewart was cast as the elderly version of the character in the films (Xavier is in his early-to-mid 70s in the original trilogy). Stewart is the trope image for BaldOfAwesome, and he's widely renown as being very handsome for an older bald man. The younger [[HotScientist Charles]] became a ''sex symbol'' within the film fandom after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', which starred Creator/JamesMcAvoy, a PrettyBoy extraordinaire, and the studio had dictated that the actor conserve his thick, wavy tresses for the role. The filmmakers of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' then surpassed this by making "[[FanNickname Professor Sex]]" an extremely young-looking 50-year-old[[note]][=McAvoy=] was 36 during principal photography and wasn't subjected to any ageing make-up[[/note]] LongHairedPrettyBoy who's glamorous like an '80s fashion model, plus he was lightly [[HotTeacher objectified]] for the first time in the movie franchise with a white shirt that had semi-transparent "stripes," and a thin lilac sweater that didn't exactly mask the contour of his pectoral muscles (or even his nipples, for that matter). The younger fangirls who weren't familiar with the comics and/or Stewart's performance genuinely became ''upset'' when [=McAvoy=]'s Xavier lost all of his hair in the third act.
* ThePromise:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Wolverine keeps his vow to Rogue by [[spoiler:nearly dying trying to save her life in the climax]].
--->'''Logan''': I'll take care of you.\\
'''Rogue''': You promise?\\
'''Logan''': Yeah, I promise.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles managed to uphold his promise not to use his telepathy on Raven for 18 years until [[spoiler:the shock and pain of a bullet in his spine]] became too much for him to bear, compromising his concentration.
--->'''Raven''': You promised me you would never read my mind.\\
'''Charles''': I know. I promised you a great many things, I'm afraid. I'm sorry.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Wolverine requests that the younger Xavier form the X-Men regardless of the outcome of their mission.
--->'''Logan''': Whatever happens today, I need you to promise me something. [...] The X-Men, promise me you'll find us. Use your power, bring us together. Guide us, lead us. [...]
--->'''1973 Charles''': I'll... do my best.
*** And later:
--->'''Logan''': It's good to see you, [[spoiler:Charles. It's good to see everyone.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Professor X''': ''(smiles warmly)'' Well, I had a promise to keep.]]
* ProperlyParanoid:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Senator Kelly is concerned about mutants that can enter the mind of others or walk through walls. As it turns out, Mystique has been impersonating his aide for a good long while.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': On multiple occasions, Erik warns Charles that humans will turn against mutants. At the end of the movie, he is proven right, as the United States and the Soviet Union unite forces to launch an attack on the group of mutants who has just saved their lives and prevented WorldWarIII.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Upon learning that someone who might be Magneto is in their midst, the Polish police who come to arrest him intentionally leave their badges and guns behind, using only bows and arrows in order to prevent him from using metal against them. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, they were not quite paranoid enough, as he instead uses the locket with his parents' photos in it that Nina has to kill them all.]]
* {{Protectorate}}:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Scott tells a [[spoiler:comatose]] Professor X that he will protect the students.
--->"If anything happens, I'll take care of them."
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Raven is this to Charles, although she finds his concern for her safety utterly suffocating.
* TheProtagonist: When analyzing the First Class trilogy as a whole, Xavier the most prominent character because he receives the most CharacterDevelopment, and the climax of each entry is directly connected to a significant relationship in his life. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', he and his HeterosexualLifePartner Erik are "[[FanNickname divorced]]." In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Charles makes amends with his estranged foster sister Raven. In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he strengthens his bond with his surrogate daughter Jean. The AlternateTimeline turns out to be an opportunity for Professor X to rectify two grave errors that he had committed in the original timeline. By arranging the original trilogy and the First Class trilogy as one big saga, Creator/BryanSinger designates that Charles is the most important figure (even if he doesn't necessarily have the most screen time) by having him open and close the hexalogy. InUniverse, the X-Men wouldn't exist without Xavier.
* ProudBeauty:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Dr. Charles Xavier is a HotScientist who unabashedly exploits his gorgeousness (along with his charm) to proposition coeds at Oxford. Charles is so fond of his hair that he ''immediately'' dismisses Hank's suggestion that he shave it off before he tests Cerebro. It's costume designer Sammy Sheldon's intention to make the character as stylish as possible within a conservative academic setting.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Professor X is a HotTeacher who doesn't seem to be concerned in the slightest that his [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfnMzOdUEAE5638.jpg:large translucent white shirt]] would be deemed inappropriate in any other school with teenagers and children. His sunglasses are the most flashy of the film because of their gradient lenses, and they enhance his sex appeal while also giving him the air of a fashion model. Xavier runs his hand through his luscious locks (which is his equivalent of a peacock's tail) to tame some wayward strands before he meets Moira to ensure that he's at his most attractive. Even after he goes bald, he conjures a mental projection of himself which still proudly has a feathered mullet on its head when he faces a life-and-death struggle with Apocalypse. It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt if the Professor fails, but even if he's doomed, he'll at least look fabulous on the astral plane (heck, he still manages to be pretty even when he's [[spoiler:soaked in his own blood]]). Make no mistake, folks; Charles is ''vain''.
* PstandardPsychicPstance:
** Charles had frequently used this gesture as a crutch when he was younger, but he lets go of the habit when he's around 50 years old, as displayed in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Jean performs this gesture when she uses her telepathy. She must have learned it from Xavier.
* PsychicBlockDefense:
** Magneto's helmet blocks out Professor X's and Jason Stryker's psychic abilities.
** Emma Frost can protect herself from Xavier's mind-reading powers when she activates her secondary mutation and covers herself in a diamond-like skin.
** Apocalypse can shield himself and his Horsemen from Professor X's telepathy.
* PsychicPowers: [[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast Kitty Pryde]] describes Professor X as "the most powerful brain in the world," and [[Film/XMenApocalypse Stryker]] similarly calls him "the world's most powerful psychic." [[Film/XMenFirstClass Sebastian Shaw]] is so impressed by the strength of Xavier's telepathy that he tries to recruit Charles even though Shaw already has a formidable psychic as his second-in-command. (This indicates that Shaw considers Xavier's mutation to be more potent than Emma Frost's.) Professor X's gift is why [[spoiler:[[Film/XMenApocalypse Apocalypse]] covets his "extraordinary" abilities--the best that he has encountered in "a thousand lifetimes"--and selects him to be his next mutant host]].
* PsychicRadar: Professor X can detect people around himself, amplified greatly with Cerebro to find almost anyone in the world. In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', he uses it to mentally track a mutant who can teleport, and it's further revealed that he can sense the location of every mutant or every human on the planet. Concentrating hard enough will give them all a really serious PsychicNosebleed... followed by death.
* PurpleIsPowerful:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** The 1973-era Sentinels; they are programmed to eliminate mutants.
*** Blink's BattleAura and FacialMarkings. She's either the second-to-last or the last mutant left standing when the X-Men and the Free Mutants directly confront the Future Sentinels.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** In his natural gaseous form, the god-like Apocalypse is purple, and his teleportation "bubble" also has a purple tint. The walls of [[spoiler:Cerebro glow purple when Xavier is [[BlackEyesOfEvil possessed]] by him]].
*** The highlights in Psylocke's hair, her Horseman leotard and her psionic blade are purple, and she's very dangerous.
*** Mystique's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXHZqjkPXrA risqué dress]] is shiny and purple, and she's the most effective combatant at the cage match.
*** The wormhole produced by Nightcrawler's teleportation ability is a luminous purple.
*** In a shot of Jean Grey screaming in the [[spoiler:astral plane]], a purple filter was used over her face, and it's a sign that [[spoiler:her Phoenix powers are being unleashed]].
*** Inverted with Professor X, who is wearing a lilac (which is a pale shade of purple) shirt when he's Apocalypse's prisoner, and he's weaker than the god-like mutant.
* TheQuietOne:
** ''Film/XMen1'': 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 two lines, Toad has three.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Lady Deathstrike gets a single line of dialogue.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'':
*** Colossus utters one line.
*** Multiple-Man has a total of two lines.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Azazel only says a few lines.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Colossus' speaking part consists of a single word.
** ''Film/Deadpool2016'': Although Colossus ''finally'' averts this trope, Angel Dust plays it straight, letting Ajax do most of the talking for the bad guys.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Psylocke's and Angel's dialogue are limited to a few lines each.
* RealEventFictionalCause:
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' has a fictionalised version of the Three Mile Island incident, in which the nuclear plant is actually a secret laboratory for mutant experimentation, and a fight between Wolverine, Sabretooth and Weapon XI caused one of the plant's cooling towers to collapse.
** In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', the Cuban Missile Crisis was instigated by [[BigBad Sebastian Shaw]] as part of his plan to have mutantkind become widespread from the nuclear fallout and dominate over humans.
* RedHerring:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Magneto looks at Wolverine's dogtags before asking Sabretooth, "Where is the mutant now?" This is to mislead the audience into the same line of thinking as the heroes, that Magneto is after Wolverine, instead of his true target [[spoiler:Rogue]].
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Will Yun Lee (Harada) was promoted to have rigorous sword training, but most of his action scenes involved archery. If you're familiar with the comics character, one might be surprised that in this film, [[spoiler:Harada is NOT the Silver Samurai]].
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': There are two incidents which fooled some audience members into believing that this would be the moment where [[spoiler:Xavier would become crippled]]: the first was when the Blackbird crashed, and the other was when [[spoiler:Charles experienced the trauma of Shaw's death telepathically]]. Afterwards, these viewers then assumed that [[spoiler:Xavier's disability will be dealt with in a sequel, but then he is accidentally wounded by Magneto]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': The Blackbird, along with all the various equipment that is kept underground at the school, seem to foreshadow their use later on in the film. [[spoiler:Their only purpose is to cause the explosion that destroys the entire school and kills Havok.]]
* RedOniBlueOni:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' features a rivalry between Pyro and Iceman.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': Victor is the red to Logan's blue.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Erik is rather hot-headed while Charles is more level-headed. [[http://roashina.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/x-men-first-class-magazine.jpg ''Empire'' magazine even colour-coded the front covers of their May 2011 issue accordingly.]]
* RedShirt:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Most of the mutants in Magneto's army and the human soldiers deployed to Alcatraz Island were quickly obliterated by the Phoenix.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Warpath, Blink, Bishop, Sunspot and Colossus are glorified extras whose main purpose in the story is to serve as cannon fodder for the 2023-era Sentinels.
* RefugeInAudacity:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Xavier is ''very'' confident about his ability to seduce women.
--->'''Charles''': Heterochromia was in reference to your eyes, which I have to say are ''stunning''. One green, one blue. It's a mutation, it's a very groovy mutation. I've got news for you, Amy. You are a mutant.\\
'''Amy''': First you proposition a girl, and then you call her deformed. How is that seduction technique working for you?\\
'''Charles''': I'll tell you in the morning.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Quicksilver blatantly uses his super speed when he first meets Wolverine, Professor X and Beast because he knows no one would believe what they said about him. It's implied this is how he gets away with everything he does.
* RetCanon: The movies inspired a number of elements that made their way into the comics and the various cartoons:
** During Creator/GrantMorrison's run, the X-Men adopted black leather outfits in order to better match their movie counterparts. This lasted up until Creator/JossWhedon's ''Astonishing X-Men'' run, where the team started wearing colorful outfits again in order to seem less threatening.
** For a time, Mystique adopted her scaled, reptilian appearance from the comics.
** Magneto's plastic prison was used by ComicBook/TheUltimates in ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen''.
** ''Ultimate X-Men'' also used a version of William Stryker directly inspired by his role in ''X-2'' (in the original comics, Stryker was just a bigoted preacher).
** Toad adopted his AdaptationalBadass qualities from the movies for a while, before reverting back to being a massive loser.
** The movie introduced the idea of Iceman being significantly younger than the original X-Men, which was used in ''Ultimate X-Men'', ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', and ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''.
** The depiction of the Xavier Institute as an actual school for mutants was also taken from the first movie. Prior to that, the school aspect was just a cover, and the only real "students" were the X-Men themselves.
** Cerebro as a giant room-sized, IMAX Dome-Theatre room with a central orbiting platform more or less translated from the movies to the comics and cartoons (''WesternAntimation/XMenEvolution'' began with a more comics!accurate Cerebro, i.e. just a souped up computer that filled up a decent office-space and then translated into upraded Cerebro).
* RetCon: At least one character per movie: Sabretooth, Lady Deathstrike, Juggernaut and [[spoiler:Deadpool]].
** Considering the way the movies have changed around some of the comic book characters' generations, there's likely to be more in the future if more movies are going to be made based somewhat on the comics.
** ''First Class'' retcons certain elements of ''The Last Stand'', notably the fact that Charles and Erik were still shown to be working together while middle-aged during the flashback sequences in the latter film.
*** ''Days of Future Past'' goes even further by using time-travel to completely erase the events of ''Last Stand'' out of existence.
* {{Ronin}}: In ''Film/TheWolverine'', IchirÅ Yashida invokes this to describe Wolverine metaphorically. The latter's "lack of a master" translates to "a lack of purpose," and this turns him into an immortal drifter. [[note]]His comic counterpart does indeed have samurai background.[[/note]] This doubles as Fridge Brilliance because Logan's strong reaction to Professor X's supposed death in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', the post-credits airport scene [[spoiler:(where Wolverine only cares about what Xavier has to say, not Magneto)]], and the 2023 portion of ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' prove that Charles is essentially his "master."
* RuleOfSexy:
** ''Film/XMen1'': In the comics, Mystique wears clothing even when she's in her natural form. Her movie counterpart, however, is ''stark naked''.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Most (if not all) fans expected the young Professor X to be bald, but the studio wanted Creator/JamesMcAvoy to [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/x-men-star-james-mcavoy-705595 keep his hair]] in order to retain the actor's sex appeal.
--->'''[=McAvoy=]''': I had showed up on the first day of ''X-Men: First Class'', and I had shaved my head because I wanted to check what it looked like about a month before we started shooting--and it looked quite good--and they were like, "No, no, no, no, we want you to have long hair."
*** After Emma Frost uses her psychic ability to fool the Soviet general into believing that he has engaged in foreplay with her, she decides to remain in her lingerie (instead of putting her dress back on) while she snacks on crackers.
*** There is absolutely no practical reason for Mystique to be exposing her cleavage when she's dressed in the combat uniform. Costume designer Sammy Sheldon admits in the "Suiting Up" featurette on the Blu-Ray release that her goal with that outfit was "to make [Mystique] look sexy."
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': In the March 2014 issue of ''Empire'' magazine, the actor states that he was more than willing to get rid of his luxurious locks, but once again the producers nixed the idea.
--->'''James [=McAvoy=]''': I wanted to go bald in this one, [...] but they didn't go for it. I was gutted.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Professor X retains his thick, wavy mane for most of the movie instead of being bald for its entirety. {{Justified}} in this case because Xavier didn't display any signs of male-pattern baldness in ''Days of Future Past'', so the hair loss which occurs later on is not natural.
*** The actors in their 30s who play characters who are in their late 40s/early 50s ([=McAvoy=], Fassbender and Byrne) were not given any ageing make-up, and there is very little grey in their hair. This is especially jarring with Professor X (at least when he's not bald), who should appear at least 30 years older than Jean Grey and Scott Summers, but Creator/JamesMcAvoy's youthful features make him look like he's only about 15 years their senior.
*** Psylocke's [[http://www.maactioncinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/c048fcd98aae2d23da146cca1f366a5b.jpg revealing uniform]] isn't sensible for a battle, but it does provide {{Fanservice}}. It's actually sexier in the movie-verse than in the comics because of the addition of a boob window. Louise Mingenbach (the costume designer) confesses on the "Clan of Akkaba: Apocalypse and his Horsemen" documentary on the Blu-Ray that a Los Angeles sex shop had created the latex suit.
*** The [[http://br.web.img1.acsta.net/newsv7/16/04/28/16/03/489905.jpg semi-transparent vertical "stripes"]] on Charles' white shirt. It even seems out-of-character for him to put on a garment which could potentially be distracting to some of his students as he had never been overtly objectified in the franchise before. (Another way to look at it is if a female teacher had worn the same shirt, it would be considered inappropriate.) This was clearly done by the costume designer to exploit Creator/JamesMcAvoy's desirability before his character loses his hair and becomes more serious. Xavier's lilac shirt is also mildly erotic because depending on his movements or body position, the outline of his pecs is sometimes well-defined, and there are a few blink-and-you'll-miss-it moments where the shape of his nipples is visible through the thin fabric.
* RuleOfSymbolism:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': the presence (or at least the desire to have it) or absence of Magneto's telepathy-blocking helmet is a fairly good gauge of how unhealthy or healthy his relationship with Professor X is. [[http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=108298 As Simon Kinberg puts it]], the finale marks the beginning of the characters' FriendlyEnemy dynamic:
--->"At the end of the movie, [Magneto] flies away without his helmet, with the implication that he'll go off and continue to be Magneto in some form, but not be able to hide it from Charles, who'll be able to read his mind and track him. There's a truce of some kind between Charles and Magneto, but there's a part of Magneto that will always be the Magneto we know from the comics."
*** [[http://screenrant.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-photos/ This article]] has made the following observation about the elderly Erik:
---->"From the photos, we see that Ian [=McKellen's=] older Magneto has no need for his iconic helmet that protects him from mutant telepaths since he's once again allied with old friend Charles Xavier."
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** The Four Horsemen [[http://nerdist.com/x-men-apocalypse-set-visit-bryan-singer-interview/ represent four different aspects of a cult's power]] to attract and recruit new members.
---->'''Bryan Singer''': It has a political faction, and I'd always felt Magneto could fill those shoes. It always has a military faction, so Archangel could fill those shoes as the guardian. There's also a youth faction. Those that you're trying to seduce and grow into your cult--the young, whose minds are malleable [such as Storm]. And lastly, the sexual component, because cult leaders tend to sexualize their position and have sex with half the people in their cult. And the Psylocke character, who was a very bright character in the comic, but is always looking for guidance and leadership, always trying to find the right guy, so she ends up with Apocalypse in this one.
*** [[https://in.movies.yahoo.com/post/137684622919/x-men-apocalypse-on-set-of-the-darker-heavier There are bookends]] in Charles' study which are shaped like the mythological figure Atlas, and they symbolize his heavy burden of trying to save the world.
---->We look around Xavier's school some more, exploring every nook and cranny of Prof. X's office. We spot a couple of Atlas-themed book-ends, with two muscular men carrying planets on their backs. It makes us flashback to that dark room, where we saw [=McAvoy=] cry. If ever there was a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders, it's James [=McAvoy=]'s Professor X.
*** Charles and Erik have at least one costume which was strongly influenced by ''Series/MiamiVice'', and they are basically dressed as Detective Crockett and Detective Tubbs, respectively. Like Crockett and Tubbs, Xavier and Lehnsherr are HeterosexualLifePartners.
*** An InUniverse version [[spoiler:when Magneto signals his HeelFaceTurn by slamming down two huge girders in Apocalypse's path in the form of an X.]]
* TheRunaway:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Rogue runs away from home after her power manifests while kissing her boyfriend, which causes him to have a seizure and fall into a coma for three weeks.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': A young James Howlett and Victor Creed flee from home together after James stabs and kills Thomas Logan for murdering his father, then finds out that Thomas was his real father.
* SafelySecludedScienceCenter: The pristine wilderness of Alkali Lake is used to conceal Colonel William Stryker's Weapon X Base. Underground and partly built into the nearby dam, it was first used for the experiments that gave Wolverine his adamantium-coated bones; during ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Stryker is found to have expanded his experimental efforts to brainwashing mutants and recreating Cerebro as part of an attempt to wipe out the entire mutant population.
* SayMyName:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Professor X desperately yells "SCOTT!!!" when he realizes that Stryker has set up a trap for him.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** In 1973, Xavier angrily screams "''ERIIIIIIIIK!!!''" when Sentinels begin shooting at the crowd that has gathered at the White House. Although Magneto (who is wearing a telepathy-blocking helmet) has not yet appeared in his line of vision, Charles just ''knows'' that no one else would be causing this mayhem.
*** Logan hollers "CHARLES!" to warn his ally (who is wheelchair-bound) that he's about to be hit by a large chunk of the stadium.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** Xavier yells "JEEEEEEAN!!!" to snap her out of her visions of the world's end.
*** An alarmed Raven shouts "CHARLES!!!" when her unconscious foster brother is kidnapped by Magneto.
*** Apocalypse ''bellows'' Charles' name several times at LargeHam levels while searching for his escaped prisoner.
*** Desperate for help, Cyclops yells "HANK!!!" twice as [[spoiler:Apocalypse partially fuses Scott into a ''wall''.]]
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes:
** ''Film/XMen1'': Professor X uses his psychic ability to experience Senator Kelly's memory of being exposed to Magneto's machine.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles can "eavesdrop" on a conversation that Emma Frost has with a Soviet general by telepathically [[PeoplePuppets inhabiting a nearby soldier]].
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Past Xaavier is able to figure out where Raven is heading because when he had temporarily "possessed" a stewardess who had bumped into his foster sister, the stewardess had picked up Raven's plane ticket from the floor, and he can read its contents from the stewardess' field of vision. In ''The Rogue Cut'', Future Professor X can view the mansion through Magneto's and Iceman's minds, and he gives them instructions as they walk in hidden passageways towards the Cerebro room.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Charles sees Jean's visions of planet-wide destruction as if they were his own.
* {{Seers}}:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': After being briefly overwhelmed by her telepathy, Jean Grey tells Scott that "something bad is supposed to happen."
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': Yukio knows when, where and how a person will die.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Jean's precognitive ability expresses itself as a terrible dream full of death and mass destruction.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': The rule-abiding, NiceGuy Iceman juxtaposes the rebellious, {{Jerkass}} Pyro. At the museum's food court, John is being rude to a young man who asks to borrow his lighter, and Bobby tells his friend to knock it off, plainly disapproving of John's annoying behaviour. When the police order the mutants to get on the ground, Drake immediately obeys, but Allerdyce attacks the officers with giant fire balls.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Charles Xavier is the Sensitive Guy to Erik Lehnsherr's Manly Man. They display this dynamic in their personalities (AllLovingHero vs. AntiHero) and physique (PrettyBoy vs. TallDarkAndHandsome) as well as their philosophies and methods (WideEyedIdealist vs. PayEvilUntoEvil).
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Charles in 1973 is more accurately an Overly Sensitive Guy with Wolverine taking over the Manly Man role. Logan has to act as the "glue" which barely holds the emotionally fragile Xavier together in order to complete their mission. Their opposite natures are most directly contrasted in the Pentagon kitchen scene, where Charles attempts to persuade the guards that he and his partner have a valid reason to be there, while Wolverine just knocks them out with a frying pan.
* SequelEscalation:
** Each film in the original trilogy was bigger/more expensive than the previous one, which is why Fox started spin-offs instead of making an ''X4''.
** The scope of the First Class trilogy gradually increased with each subsequent entry, but the production budget of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' ([[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=x-men2016.htm $178 million]]) is $22 million ''lower'' than ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' ([[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=xmen2014.htm $200 million]]).
* ShapeshiftingSeducer: Mystique uses this several times in the films.
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': She seduces a guard by taking the form of a hot blonde [[spoiler:[[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction so she can use him in Magneto's escape from prison.]]]] She later utilizes it on Logan by trying to seduce him in the form of Jean Grey. Logan catches her, and she goes through several other forms, including Storm, Rogue and even Stryker, but he tells her to leave.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': She upgrades her age by about 15 years to please Erik, which doesn't really work for her until he tells Raven that he prefers her ''[[YouSexyBeast without]]'' the shapeshifted appearance.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Mystique does a sultry variation of her Raven form and pretends to be a disco-loving interpreter to gain access to a Vietnamese general's hotel room in order to steal his invitation to the Paris Peace Accords.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Her electric purple ensemble is quite revealing, and it's meant to be a distraction to the big, burly guards at the fight club venue; one underestimates her by calling her "little mouse."
* ShirtlessScene:
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' took this to an extreme, much to the delight of Creator/HughJackman fangirls. During a dramatic escape scene, not only does he erupt from a tank of water completely shirtless (and indeed naked, muscles + dripping water...), but he then proceeds to escape, running and fighting his way out of the building. Viewers get a lovable full-body shot (in which censorship is ''barely'' provided by his leg from a mostly-side-shot) when he jumps off a waterfall.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': The younger Magneto is bare-chested when he's analyzing the Sentinel schematics.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** The body Apocalypse is transferring himself into at the beginning of the film is wearing nothing but a loincloth.
*** Angel's torso is bare when Apocalypse transforms him into Archangel.
*** [[spoiler:Wolverine is seen shirtless when he escapes the Weapon X facility.]]
* SiblingYinYang:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Eleven years after ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Charles and Raven have not only become estranged, but also polar opposites in almost every way, especially in regards to ideology and diplomacy. Her [[spoiler:sparing of Trask and the president shows that she isn't quite as far gone]] as originally believed, though.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Although Charles and Raven are on better terms than in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', they still strongly disagree over how humans in general treat mutants. He believes the world is gradually becoming more tolerant of their kind, but she has seen with her own eyes that there's still a lot of oppression. [[http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/x-men/254859/x-men-apocalypse-trailer-3-analysis-15-things-we-learned This article]] uses the metaphor of Xavier being a peaceful [[NonActionGuy dove]] and Mystique is an aggressive [[ActionGirl hawk]].
--->'''Charles''': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FeG41pNZq8 I have plans for this place.]] I mean to turn it into a real campus, a university. Not just for mutants, either; for humans, too. Living and working, growing together.\\
'''Raven''': You know, I really believed that once. I really believed we can change them.\\
'''Charles''': We did.\\
'''Raven''': Just because there's not a war, doesn't mean there's peace. You wanna teach your kids something, teach them that, teach them to fight, otherwise they might as well live in this house for the rest of their lives.
* SingleTear:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': The wheelchair-bound Professor X sheds a single tear of joy when he's able to stand again on his own--but then he quickly realizes that he's in a LotusEaterMachine and tries to resist Jason's ability.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** Charles wipes a single tear from his cheek after he uncovers a happy memory from Erik's childhood involving the latter's mother with his telepathy. Despite living a much more comfortable and privileged life than his friend, the one beautiful thing that Charles never got to experience is a mother's warm affection.
*** In the same scene, a visible tear falls down Erik's face because he didn't know he still carried that cherished memory of his mother.
*** After [[spoiler:Charles gets shot]], he only sheds one noticeable tear which is partly because of [[spoiler:his injury]], but mostly because he is forced to tell Erik that [[spoiler:no, they really do not want the same thing, and knows that this realization will push his friend away for good]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Magneto sheds a lone tear when he remembers [[spoiler:the close friendship he once had with Charles]].
* SkywardScream:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Logan does this in a flashback where he wakes up in a tank of water with no memories and metal claws shoot out of his hands.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Wolverine does this [[spoiler:after reluctantly killing Jean Grey/Phoenix]].
** This was done ''three times'' in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Xavier does this right after [[spoiler:a bullet enters his spine]].
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Blink lets out a small cry towards the heavens after [[spoiler:being stabbed by three Sentinels]].
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Magneto, whose powers have been boosted by Apocalypse, does this as he disintegrates the Auschwitz concentration camp.
* SleevesAreForWimps:
** Wolverine is often seen wearing a tank top.
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': Colossus' uniform is sleeveless, showing off his muscles and more of his transformation when using his power.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': During the training scene, everyone gets matching grey tracksuits, but inexplicably, Havok's doesn't have sleeves.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse': Unlike their male teammates, Storm's and Psylocke's Horsemen apparel expose their arms.
* SlidingScaleOfLeadershipResponsibility: Previous films had established that Professor X is typically The Hammond on this scale, but during the FinalBattle in ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', he moves up three steps and briefly becomes The Superman. When Apocalypse gives Charles a SadisticChoice--surrender, or Mystique and Quicksilver will die--Beast and Cyclops volunteer to rescue their teammates, but Xavier stops them because he would rather sacrifice himself than see anyone he cares about get hurt. This turns out to be an unacceptable option because Charles is the Earth's BarrierMaiden (and he obviously doesn't want to put billions of lives at risk), but he then challenges Apocalypse to a mind duel, which creates a much-needed distraction. [[spoiler:Xavier gets pummeled on the astral plane, and he only asks Jean Grey--whom he loves like a daughter and is naturally protective of her--to intervene when he knows he's dying.]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Xavier and Magneto in the first film, ''First Class'' and ''Days of Future Past'', and alluded to again in ''The Last Stand'' at the very end where Erik is at a park with a chess board... The chess motif is there to establish the attitudes of both men as TheChessmaster, and it's a metaphor for their struggle over the future of mutantkind.
** And subverted in real life. Everyone on the set naturally assumed that the erudite Creator/IanMcKellen and Creator/PatrickStewart knew how to play chess, but neither of them did. As Stewart explained, he was always too busy with his career. They had to be taught by a world champion; Stewart said it was "like learning to drive with [[UsefulNotes/FormulaOne Michael Schumacher]]".
** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', it was more like discussing with a chess table between Charles and Erik, without playing much. The lack of play and banter almost seems to symbolize the extreme distance and hostility (perhaps the worst in the series) between them, including Erik's violent outburst just minutes earlier.
* SoftGlass:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'':
*** Angel is able to jump through a skyscraper window without obtaining so much as a scratch, ''shirtless''.
*** And then there's Storm, whose face is slammed through a glass table during a fight scene, yet she doesn't suffer from any cuts.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': A glass ceiling that has been cracked into a thousand pieces falls right on top of Erik, and he doesn't get a single scratch. In RealLife, the stunt double suffered from mild injuries, according to Creator/BryanSinger's commentary, because real glass was used for that scene.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'':
*** It's the first entry in the franchise which doesn't feature Wolverine or Professor X either as major characters or as cameos.
*** This is also the first ''X-Men'' film to be rated R in the USA, with much more graphic violence, profanity and sexual content than usual.
* SpandexLatexOrLeather: Black leather. ''First Class'' has them wear spandexy-Kevlar and denim (modelled after real life battle fatigues), and DOFP has kevlar plates mixed with spandex and regular pants.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Unlike her comic book counterpart, Negasonic Teenage Warhead doesn't die in her [[Film/{{Deadpool 2016}} first appearance]] in the movie-verse.
* SpotlightStealingSquad:
** Wolverine is by far the most guilty of this. He is the main protagonist of six films (the original trilogy and his spin-offs), the SupportingProtagonist of one, and he has a cameo in two.
** Professor X is a close runner-up; he was an important secondary character in the original trilogy and ''Film/{{Logan}}'', a main character in the ''First Class'' tetralogy, and has three cameos.
** Magneto is a major character in the original trilogy and the ''First Class'' tetralogy, and he has a cameo in one movie.
* StaringDownCthulhu: In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', immediately after Xavier accomplishes a DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu by modifying the final sentence of Apocalypse's [[spoiler:planet-wide]] NewEraSpeech, Charles brazenly glares at his captor, unflinching and undaunted by any punishment that may befall him. It proves that Professor X will oppose Apocalypse with every fiber of his being, [[DefiantToTheEnd no matter how futile it is]].
* TheStinger:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': [[spoiler:Professor X transfers his mind into the man with the coma...]]
** ''Film/TheWolverine'': [[spoiler:Two years later, Magneto is shown to have regained his mutant power and Xavier is revealed to be alive. They both meet with Logan at an airport and ask him to join them fighting the new weapon that the humans have created to destroy the mutants.]]
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': [[spoiler:En Sabah Nur uses his MindOverMatter powers to build a pyramid in Ancient Egypt while his Four Horsemen are seen in the background.]]
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': The after-credits scene is where [[MediumAwareness Deadpool tells the people in the audience to go home, since the show's over]] (while dressed as [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff Ferris Bueller]] to make sure the ShoutOut is clear). However, he later relents, and uses the time left in the movie to mention that the sequel will bring Cable into the mix.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[spoiler:It involves the abandoned Alkali Lake facility being raided by [[{{Foreshadowing}} Essex Corp.]] If you don't understand the significance, [[Characters/XMenMarauders Mr. Sinister]]'s name is Nathaniel Essex. The genetic material from Wolverine [[Film/{{Logan}} later results in the creation]] of ComicBook/{{X 23}}.]]
* StoryBreakerPower:
** Professor X's {{Telepathy}} is such that most of the movies would be over very, very quickly if he did not frequently get incapacitated or rendered powerless in some way.
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'': Quicksilver gets PutOnABus after the Pentagon raid because, as that raid shows, he is ''downright unstoppable''. While moving at SuperSpeed, simply tapping a person is the practical equivalent of getting hit by a heavyweight boxer, and he can take out an entire room of armed guards so quickly that their bullets weren't even able to reach the people they had shot at when he started.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Kurt's energy level drains rapidly if he teleports too many people at the same time, and he's inert for part of the FinalBattle. John Ottman divulges in the "Unlimited Powers: VFX, Stunts and Set Pieces" featurette on the Blu-Ray the reason for the limitation on the character's endurance.
--->'''Ottman''': This is why we knocked Nightcrawler out. Because for the whole third act, if he's around, he can just bamf people endlessly.
* StringTheory:
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Erik has a minor one on the wall of his Geneva hotel room for his Nazi hunt before going to the [[SwissBankAccount banker]].
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': While hunting Ajax in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge montage, Deadpool creates one of these as he eliminates one lead after the other.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge:
** ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'': [[spoiler:Cyclops. Double points for being killed by his lover! Triple points for being a RareMaleExample!]]
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': [[spoiler:TemporaryLoveInterest Kayla. Then subverted when we learn her death was [[FakingTheDead faked]] and Stryker was specifically [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this so Logan would agree to join the Weapon X program, and double subverted when she is StuffedIntoTheFridge [[KilledOffForReal for real]]. Also, the old couple who help Logan and are killed by Agent Zero, and arguably John Wraith when he is killed by Victor.]]
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Edie Lehnsherr is murdered by Dr. Klaus Schmidt just so her son Erik would embark on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against his former captor.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'':
*** [[spoiler:Erik's wife and daughter are killed off to fuel his anguish for the rest of the story, and to make him vulnerable to Apocalypse's influence.]]
*** [[spoiler:In a rare male example, Alex dies to kick-start his younger brother's Scott CharacterDevelopment.]]
* SuperheroSchool: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is both an educational institution for young mutants and the secret base for the X-Men.
* SuperheroTeamUniform: In contrast to their comic book counterparts, who have a variety of colorful costumes, [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack the movie X-Men all wear relatively matching black leather suits]].
* SuperpowerLottery:
** Professor X is one of the most powerful fictional psychic characters, and while he's not telekinetic, his ability to rewrite minds[[note]]which he had threatened Logan with in ''Film/X2XMenUnited''[[/note]] and hijack any person he wants make telekinesis seem like child's play.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Sebastian Shaw's base ability of EnergyAbsorption is set so high and is so versatile that not even Erik can hold him [[spoiler:once he's absorbed the power of a nuclear reactor.]] He cannot be punched or shot as he nullifies kinetic energy, and he's smart enough to have crafted a helmet that completely blocks Charles' telepathy.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': Because En Sabah Nur can [[GrandTheftMe transfer his consciousness to new host bodies]] and [[PowerParasite acquires the powers of every new host]], he's amassed so many superpowers over thousands of years that many ([[AGodAmI including himself]]) believe him to be a god. His powers include SuperStrength, [[MindOverMatter mass telekinesis]] at the molecular level, a [[BarrierWarrior protective forcefield]] that can block almost any attack, [[VillainTeleportation teleporting around the world]] through a purple force field, [[HealingFactor healing powers]] (from his latest host), and [[SuperEmpowering amplifying the powers of other mutants]]. His goal in the film is to [[spoiler:acquire Xavier's PsychicPowers by using him as a new host and MindControl the entire planet]].
* SuperTeam:
** ''Film/X2XMenUnited'': Jean Grey and Storm willingly ally with Wolverine and Nightcrawler, plus Magneto and Mystique ([[EnemyMine relunctantly]]) to stop Styker from committing mutant genocide.
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'': Colonel Stryker assembles Team X which features James Howlett, Victor Creed, John Wraith, Agent Zero, Christopher Bradley, Wade Wilson and Fred Dukes. Some of them don't get along very well.
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': Professor X, Magneto, Beast, Mystique, Havok and Banshee form the proto X-Men. Charles Xavier's primary goal is to avert WorldWarIII, while the other members are seeking {{Revenge}} against Sebastian Shaw for murdering someone they cared about.
** ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'': The eponymous character teams up with Colossus and Negasonic Teenage Warhead to take down Ajax, Angel Dust and their mooks.
* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: Xavier if his mutant powers are blocked or inactive (Type 0 before getting paralyzed).
** Type 0: Regular humans, Depowered mutants.[[note]]Although [[Film/XMenTheLastStand Magneto]] shows proof to the contrary...[[/note]]
** Type 1: William Stryker (at least when he was younger), Agent Moira [=MacTaggert=], Mariko Yashida, Kenuichio Harada, Shingen Yashida, Vanessa Carlysle.
** Type 2: Leech, Quill, Yukio, Warpath.
** Type 3: Wolverine, Cyclops, Rogue, Mystique, Sabretooth, Toad, Nightcrawler, Iceman, Pyro, Lady Deathstrike, Colossus, Jason Stryker, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Callisto, the Juggernaut, Angel/Archangel, Multiple Man, Arclight, Gambit, Kestrel, Agent Zero, Bolt, Emma Frost, Havok, Banshee, Darwin, Angel Salvadore, Azazel, Riptide, Weapon XI [[spoiler:(Wade Wilson)]], Viper, [[spoiler:[[PoweredArmor Silver Samurai]]]], Bishop, Blink, Sunspot, Past Sentinels, Deadpool, Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Ajax, Angel Dust, Psylocke.
** Type 4: Professor X, Magneto, Storm[[note]]although her only power display which reaches this level occurs in ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' when she summons multiple tornadoes over a large area; in most circumstances, her use of lightning, wind, fog and temperature change are highly localized, so they generally veer towards Type 3[[/note]], Jean Grey (after exposure to Magneto's machine), Sebastian Shaw, Quicksilver, Kitty Pryde (after she gains the ability to perform MentalTimeTravel), Future Sentinels, Apocalypse.
** Type 5: Professor X (while connected to Cerebro or empowered by Apocalypse), the Phoenix, Magneto (empowered by Apocalypse, which gives him the ability to manipulate the Earth's magnetic fields).
* SwappedRoles:
** ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'':
*** Professor X was Wolverine's mentor in the original trilogy, but in 1973, Logan has to try to motivate and counsel an emotionally damaged Xavier.
---->'''Professor X''': Logan, you're going to have to do for me what I once did for you. Lead me, guide me.
*** Not surprisingly, the abrasive Wolverine isn't very good at this task, and it's lampshaded in the following exchange:
---->'''Past Charles''': I'm sorry Logan, but they sent back the wrong man.\\
'''Logan''': You're right, I am. Actually, it was supposed to be you, but I was the only one who could physically make the trip.
*** This also applies to Charles and Hank. In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Xavier acted as a big brother figure to [=McCoy=] (they're about a decade apart in age), but after 1963, Hank becomes responsible for Charles. Although [=McCoy=] certainly prevents his friend from doing anything too self-destructive, he inadvertently becomes Xavier's enabler by inventing an addictive telepathy-blocking serum. Considering that Hank was probably only around 21 years old when he suddenly found himself in the position of being Charles' long-term caregiver (plus he has no experience looking after someone who is mentally ill), it's understandable that he couldn't help his former mentor as well as he would've liked.
