X-Men: First Class/YMMV


 * Alternate Character Interpretation: In First Class, when Erik, did he know that he would be causing excruciating pain to Charles who was   or was Erik so consumed by his anger and need for revenge that he forgot that detail?
 * Or maybe he didn't know that he would end up hurting Charles.
 * Broken Aesop: See Unfortunate Implications below. It's a movie, in part, about defying prejudice and embracing the differences between people -- but in the end, the ethnic minorities (those who aren't dead, anyway) still end up with the bad guy, and the good guys are white.
 * Some Double Standard / Hypocrisy action undercuts Erik's "go naked" argument to Raven. He tells her her blue form is just as valid as normal human skin, but is also not worth covering up the way he (and everyone else) covers up his skin. In the same speech he also compares her to an animal (a tiger) and refers to her as a "creature". Erik's Aesop remains consistently broken right up through to X-Men: The Last Stand, when.
 * Complete Monster: Even Stryker gets blown clean out of the water in terms of unrepentant evil by Sebastian Shaw. He gives new meaning to the word "evil."
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The whole First Class soundtrack is amazing, but special points go to the main theme First Class, Frankenstein's Monster, and Sub Lift. Rage and Serenity counts as this and a Crowning Music of Heartwarming.
 * Fashion Victim Villain: Let's face it, the helmet that Shaw wears to block telepathy is a little ridiculous looking. Lampshaded by Shaw when he, and on learning Xavier isn't present quips, "Well, at least I can take this silly thing off.".
 * Evil Is Cool: What else did you expect with villains that seem to have just got out of a Bond movie?
 * Evil Is Sexy: Emma Frost, Angel and Mystique (the Ms. Fanservice trio). For some, Azazel counts too.
 * Harsher in Hindsight: In First Class Xavier brings up Agent Stryker's "son William, whom you were thinking about, which is very nice". Considering how William Stryker treats his own son...
 * When Charles and Erik attempt to recruit he turns them down. Had he not done this, he may have found haven and thus avoided his  What's even more tragic is that the only people who could remember that incident at all would be Professor X or Magneto, but who can remember some guy they met 40 years ago briefly in a bar?
 * Also, the scenes with Charles happily running with Hank and training with Erik. Those would be the last chances he'd ever have to use his legs...
 * Moe: First Class managed to make Mystique seem Moe.
 * Memetic Mutation: "__ was never an option."
 * Also, young Magneto is a shark.
 * Moral Event Horizon: When Shaw kills Magneto's mother.
 * Narm: The Reveal of . What should be an Awesome Moment of Crowning is made . The way he's standing, stiff as a board with his arms straight down, isn't helping either. A more dramatic pose could have made all the difference.
 * Jennifer Lawrence may be a good actress, but the way she delivered her "Mutant and Proud" lines oftentimes came off like she was about to burst out laughing at the end of the take.
 * The Instant Death Bullet used on Erik's mother. She literally flings up her hands. It just doesn't work.
 * Unfortunate Implications: First Class seems to gets the worst of this.  Not to mention turning both foreign good guys (Moira and Banshee) into Americans.
 * Also, there's only one Communist mutant shown in this movie. He looks like Satan.
 * What an Idiot!: One example are the
 * As the trope page for Just Following Orders points out, it's a complicated, morally gray concept.
 * What happens afterwards is the worst:
 * The Woobie: Charles and Raven.
 * WTH? Casting Agency: Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw?
 * This crisis was however averted, with Bacon becoming the physical incarnation of Evil Is Cool as Brad Jones can attest to.
 * This crisis was however averted, with Bacon becoming the physical incarnation of Evil Is Cool as Brad Jones can attest to.