Comments on: Watch: ‘The Wolverine’ Post-Credits Scene Illustrates Why Film Tags Can Backfire

By: Patrick Poland

Patrick Poland — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

Hey, I noticed in the Wolverine.. He had bone claws after the fight with the silver samurai.. How did he get his adomantium claws back for days of future past?

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

What a blooming idiot. There are easy explanations for all of this. If you actually cared to pay attention or do some research you would know. Hero's post below says it all. I guess movie going audiences are just too stupid/lazy now-a-days

Prof X is alive because in the end credits scene of the Last Stand he transferred his consciousness to a comatose man. He spoke about the morality of that during the film. That man was his twin brother. He had no consciousness because the power of Xavier's mutation destroyed it while they were in the womb. This happened in the comics.

The Wolverine end credits scene? Simple, that was when he was first being recruited, as Hero stated, at the beginning of the war, when the threat is first realized in the original timeline. I don't know why that's hard to understand

By: Derp Benedict

Derp Benedict — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

Uh, who cares? It served it's purpose: it got people excited about seeing Days of Future Past. This is just one of the many reasons fanboys suck. Quit whining.

By: Hero

Hero — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

-Original Timeline 1973: Boliver Trask is assassinated before showing his Sentinels to the United States, as he was assassinated at a meeting with the Vietcong by Mystique. Mystique is captured by William Stryker, experimented on by Trask Industries, and escaped to rejoin Magneto. Because Trask's meeting was with the Vietcong and selling military secrets (he was arrested for this in the New Timeline), Trask Industries was both leaderless and disgraced, and would remain so for nearly thirty years.
-Original Timeline 2006-2015: Following Magneto and Jean's attack on Alcatraz Island, the United States Military renews contracts with Trask Industries and eventually reactivated the Sentinel Program.
-Original Timeline 2015: In aftermath of Mutant Cure failure (Magneto and others regaining powers) Trask Industries successfully launches Sentinels around the world. In response, Xavier and Magneto recruit Wolverine to help stop Trask Industries.
-Original Timeline Before 2023: In response to X-Men attacks, Trask Industries uses Mystique's DNA to create Adaptable Sentinels.

By: Cekma

Cekma — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

If you look at xmen 1-3 and the wolverine films as 1 timeline and first class and 1973 portion of days of future as another then it all works.

If* you can just accept that prof x somehow was able to regenerate his body and that the Trask seen in X3 is not the same one that the plot of days of future is about.

By: cekma

cekma — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

This article is so wrong… do the research… the hulk after credit scene was addressed in the marvel one shot "The Consultant" it's revealed to be completely different then how you are describing it.

By: ASFan

ASFan — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

In the Days of Future Past comics, the past element is the present and the future is the future. Because they were fixing a future in the present times, time paradoxes weren't worried about. It obviously became problematic and paradoxical when they created the past versions of characters and made the present day mutants stand in the future.

By: Jimmy Logan

Jimmy Logan — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

Stop making a bunch of assumptions. There is another movie being made that explains the things that's happened between The Wolverine and Days of Future Past. They pretty much explain what's been happening up until the point that the Days of Future Past the Sentinels have been around for a while. Why would you make the assumption that it doesn't make sense that there wouldn't have been the appropriate time and money available in the 70's in order to create the Sentinels that we see in the future?

By: Steve Glansberg

Steve Glansberg — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure when Prof X was recounting the events that lead to the apocalyptic 2023, he said it took 50 years after the death of Trask to perfect the Mystique-sentinel hybrid weapons. So 50 years from 1973 is 2023, and the sentinel technology wasn't "dormant" during that time, it was in development.

As for "The Wolverine" post-credits tag, we aren't given enough information to know what Trask industries was up to in the 2010s that so alarmed the Professor and Magneto (maybe they were releasing increasingly dangerous sentinels, maybe Magneto got ahold of some plans for the future super sentinels). Whatever the case, I think you're right that "The Wolverine" tag does more harm than anything else, largely because of unnecessary confusion and a lack of clarification. But I also think you're jumping the gun with some of your criticisms about the overall X-Men timeline. They've done wonders patching it up as much as they have.

By: Jacob2014

Jacob2014 — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

In DOFP, I thought the Trask Industries went under after Mystique assassinated him. I think they somehow mentioned in the film that she was then tested on and the military began working on weapons zing the Sentinels using her mutation. Perhaps this took years, SEVERAL years, to perfect. After the events of the first 3 films, people became more aware of Mutants and their powers. This could've forced the government to secretly push the Sentinels forward with Mystique's powers (eventually).

By: No

No — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

Yes, you're asking for film logic and continuity on source material that are comic books?

By: SingersAdvocate

SingersAdvocate — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:45 +0000

Well, the X-Men battle a Sentinel in the Danger Room at the beginning of Last Stand… so… they were around, but not as big of a threat. I imagine their rationale is that sometime around when the Wolverine stinger takes place is when the Mystique Sentinels were beginning to be completed. Maybe we are supposed to assume that after 1973, the program was shut down for a while, or maybe tinkered with in secret, then re-activated after the events of X-Men, X2? As for Xavier, he clearly sent his consciousness to the comatose guy on Muir Island in TLS. They could have explained that he was projecting his old face onto those close to him, but decided it wasn't worth a throwaway line I guess

By: DIDIMISSIT

DIDIMISSIT — Fri, 13 May 2016 07:24:44 +0000

Your comments are all fine…what I came looking for is one of you to say, the whole purpose of the Wolverine Movie was that post-credits tag…because in 2 years, his bodyguard is no longer with him and I felt he was over killing Jean by the end of X3 Last Stand when he was on the balcony smiling…do you agree?