X2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of X2 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to X2

[albert]

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos' make-up took five hours to apply as opposed to seven for the previous movie.

[jesus]

Body count: thirty-seven.

[bernard]

In the final classroom scene, Professor Xavier talks about a book called "The Once and Future King" by T.H. White. Magneto was reading the same book (a retelling of the King Arthur legend) in prison before Stryker's interrogation, and is meant to point at Magneto being a once and future leader of mutants.

[bernice]

Originally, the idea was that Jean Grey was temporarily rendered blind after her violent reunion with Cyclops. This was initially filmed as such, but ditched during production. A remnant of this idea was left in the finished movie however; when Wolverine shuts a dam door, saving the X-Men from a wall of water, Jean Grey is the only character not looking at him.

[dustin]

Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler) left the franchise after one movie, because the crew believed it wasn't worth going through the long preparation. This also includes the fact that Cumming did not enjoy putting on the heavy make-up, because his appearance was minimal. So, it was written in the video game series that Nightcrawler decided to leave, because he no longer wanted to live the violent lifestyle that X-Men have to endure.

[cassandra]

Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris: The screenwriters appear as surgeons in Logan's Weapon X flashbacks.

[sandra]

(at around 42 mins) The ice wall separating Wolverine and Stryker in their reunion-in-the-mansion battle was real ice, and weighed 3,500 pounds.

[leo]

In William Stryker's backstory: Stryker had sent his mutant son Jason to Professor Xavier's School for the Gifted so Jason could be cured of his disease, and was angered when Professor Xavier told him that Jason's mutation is not a disease, and Stryker accused Professor Xavier of lying. But, Jason used his mutant powers to project images and visions in the mind of his mother, which drove Stryker's wife to commit suicide, and Stryker made it his personal mission to rid the world of all mutants, and Stryker schemed to use Jason to project images into Professor Xavier's mind and to manipulate him to use Cerebro to commit genocide upon the mutants.

[fred]

(at around 1h 8 mins) When Rogue falls out of the jet, the stunt was performed by Anna Paquin, not a stunt double.

[ethel]

Beast and Gambit were considered as new characters, but they ultimately went with Nightcrawler, because he was the most outsider-like of the choices. Beast appeared in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), and Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

[eli]

Magneto's helmet was subtly redesigned from X-Men (2000), as Sir Ian McKellen found the original to be very uncomfortable.

[ava]

One of four X-Men movies where Stan Lee, creator of the original comics, didn't appear. The other three are X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), and X-Men: First Class (2011). When asked at conventions why he didn't appear in movies in which his presence would be expected, his usual response was "nobody asked me."

[phyllis]

(at around 35 mins) While Professor X and Cyclops are visiting Magneto at his plastic prison and both of them are abducted, one of the students is watching a nature documentary about mother rats and the danger of leaving its helpless babies alone. Immediately afterwards, Stryker's men attack the school and kidnap the children.

[harry]

Halle Berry dropped out of Gigli (2003) to reprise her role as Storm.

[bernard]

Brian Cox (William Stryker) and Michael Reid MacKay (Jason Stryker) played father and son. In reality, Cox is only seven years older than MacKay.

[oscar]

Most of the extras playing frozen people were actually mimes, who are used to not moving.