Professor X and Magneto’s history

This is yet another big issue with the X-Men movies, because these two have been central characters of the franchise from the very beginning. And if their history made sense in the first trilogy, it was completely nonsensical once First Class arrived.

Thus, in the first movies, Charles explicitly said that he met Erik when he was in his late teens and that they have been friends for a while – as revealed in Last Stand, they were friends until their forties or even beyond.

First Class throws this overboard, since they are both adults at their first meeting, when Erik is searching for those responsible for his mother’s death. First Class was an excellent movie as far as I am concerned, with Fassbender’s performance being one of the best I’ve ever seen in comic book movies.

However, these small details diminish what Matthew Vaughn achieved. Of course, Bryan Singer later acknowledged it was a mistake to write the line concerning the meeting between the two. But does that make up for it? No, it doesn’t.