The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
This movie contains 18 potentially triggering events.
More allegory than representation. Wolverine is sent back in time as an older person to his younger self, he inhabits his younger body and fixes things to make the end of the world not happen basically. At one point he gets overwhelmed by his trauma and forgets who or where he is. May be reminiscent of dissociative amnesia. He murders people “but only the bad guys” which isn’t great for DID rep or allegory as people with DID/OSDD/UDD or plurality are often treated as though we are dangerous or have a “secret evil personality”. Mystique is a shapeshifter who grew up under a different name, sometimes she gets mad at people referring to her as her old name or says that “she’s a different person now”. Could be seen as identity disturbance. She does murder people and is morally grey which isn’t great too. James McAvoy is in this movie prominently. I mention this because he played major roles in the movies “split” and “glass” both notably very stereotypical and ableist movies about a person with DID who becomes a murderer/kidnapper and is violent and the DID/plurality is played up for a scare factor. It is hard for me to ignore this while watching even though James McAvoy most likely did not play the role out of spite and was just ignorant, but it’s uncomfortable and added to misrepresentation of DID that many people believe is true.
There’s a running theme throughout the franchise that mistique/raven has insecurities about her natural form as she is very visibly different to most humans. Blue skin, yellow eyes, scales etc.
Debatable, one character has a birth name she doesn’t go by anymore and people still use that for her but she only addresses it once Elliot page, a trans actor, is also listed in the credits under his deadname but there’s not much Fox can do to change that after distribution.
Charles Xavier has a spinal cord injury which is why he uses the wheelchair he is most often seen in. Mutant identity could be seen as an allegory for race and/or disability
In reference to the other comment here, Xavier does not try to convince Wolverine he is mentally ill; he tries to convince him he's on drugs. The scene is very brief and Xavier's attempt at gaskighting Wolverine is not very effective.
Debatable, a "drug" that heals spinal trauma while suppressing mutant powers, is being used arguably addictively. There is a bit of a heroin vibe to it's use.
During a fight scene, a character is held under water in an ornamental pond for quite some time before fighting free.
Wolverine has flashbacks to being restrained and submerged when he was being experimented on in his backstory.
A character is thrown into the water while restrained and weighted down. He is under for a long time, but survives due to his mutant power.
Charles Xavier is played by both sir Patrick Harris and James McAvoy, both of which do not use wheelchairs themselves. I kind of understand why they didn’t cast a disabled actor for some of the scenes as Charles regains full control of his muscles in some points of the movie, that being said ambulatory wheelchair using actors do exist. This is not the first time McAvoy has played a character with a disability he doesn’t have, in my opinion “spilt” and “glass” are worse than this movie as those movies directly reinforce and spread harmful misinfo about DID/OSDD, but this is still offensive regardless. Mutants could also be seen as an allegory to disability, especially in the case of “visible mutants” who cannot hide or are forced to hide their differing looks. Mutants are also systematically oppressed and genocided.
No, but a stadium is torn completely off its foundations and made to hover in the air. We see pieces of it falling off, (nearly) hitting people, and lying around on the ground - large chunks of concrete with metal wires sticking out. Someone lies trapped under large debris from the stadium for a while.
Spoilers: A younger Professor X uses a serum that causes him to regain use of his legs and but temporarily lose his powers. There are visuals of needle insertion. If you are sensitive to needles you might need to look away.
There is a scene in a military med-tent with mutants in quarantine, there is the inference of medical tests being done but you don't see any performed. There are also photos later of autopsied bodies as the result of medical experimentation.
Logan has a PTSD attack that causes him to have flashbacks and lose awareness of his surroundings and the people he is with. He calms down moments later.
I don't remember anyone being unhappy with their appearance or having a distorted self-image. Someone is unhappy about being paralyzed from the waist down, but that's about functionality.
I don't remember if there are any tight spaces, but someone lies trapped beneath a large piece of debris from a destroyed building for a while, and a group of people are inside what amounts to a large free-standing metal container, which is opened (nearly the entirety of one side torn off) before we see them inside it. Well, we HAVE seen them inside the container when it was part of a building (it's the inner shell of a bunker and just felt like a room before it was ripped out of the building), but that somehow wasn't as bad as when it becomes a large box standing on a lawn.
Yes, heavy allergory to disability with people that are mutants/exhuman/inhuman/etc. There is internalised ableism where Charles Xavier takes a “mutant cure” which helps him walk but he loses his psychic and telekinesis abilities. Both people who play Charles are able bodied themselves. Plus we have a disabled villain trope with Peter Dinklage, a famous actor with dwarfism, is the main villain. There is a lot of talk of government sanctioned eugenics towards mutants.
We see Hugh Jackman naked from the back, full body. Mystique, who's in many scenes, is naked and has the shape of a regular woman, but she's blue, her skin is textured unlike a human's, and she has neither visible genitals nor nipples.
Mystique seduces a Vietnamese general before knocking him out— the extent of sexual content here is the man asking to see her with her clothes off and her taking off her coat.
there is a scene of a plane almost crashing from inside if you’re scared of these scenes this will trigger you. a spaceship that is very plane shaped does explode.