PyramidHead
Contributor
But they did know exactly where she was going to be and when and their entire plan revolved around being in that exact place at that exact time. There is zero that Magneto could have offered to their plan which wouldn't have been done ten times better by Quicksilverat with a tenth of the risk.
also, if the plan was to try and reshape the future to be better, not just in terms of the sentinel program but overall regarding human/mutant relations, they may have felt that getting xavier and magneto back together was the best way to get that ball rolling.
Well, that was a bad plan and they nearly all died as a result.
A couple things were at play...
For one, Quicksilver was not in the original script, it was a young Juggernaut who original was supposed to break into the Pentagon. Stupid idea, which is why the director suggested Quicksilver. But they didn't want to change everything else, so it remains a little odd that he wasn't used more in the end.
Unless, and I think this kinda makes sense, they felt like they could count on Quicksilver to do something like break into the Pentagon as a little "trophy" for his thieving accomplishments, but maybe he wouldn't be interested in stopping an assassination. I could see there being a deleted scene or something where they ask him to stop Mystique and he's like "what's in it for me" again.
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i too watched the mystique reveal with a serious case of 'what the shit?', since it made so much sense for that to be stryker and to then segue into the whole weapon X thing.
but, on the flip side, if this means that the 3rd wolverine movie can now be an adaptation of the "Weapon X" mini-series (which will absolutely never happen but my nerd fantasy can hope) then it will all be worth it.
Well, in the comics there was a timeline where Apocalypse was the one who gave Wolverine his metal claws and bones, as a reward for becoming one of the Four Horsemen... that would be pretty interesting to see in the next movie.