X-Men/Trivia

Trivia tropes for the comics:

Trivia tropes for the animated series:

• Fake American: Most of the voice actors were Canadian. Professor Xavier's was English, which is especially amusing given how the film series would make the character himself English.
• Hey, It's That Voice: Alec King is Professor X, Rip Rockefeller is Wolverine, Jonathan Doors is Magneto, Natalie Lambert is Jean Grey, Soichiro Yagami is Mister Sinister, Claire Redfield is Jubilee, Janet King was Moira MacTaggart, Artemis is Morph and Beastly is Graydon Creed
  • Tara Strong is Illyana Rasputin/Magik. Sabretooth, Puck, and Shaman are Don Francks (Cree Summer's father).
  • Kor is Apocalypse.
  • Aisha is Rogue.
• In the Japanese dub of the first animated series:
  • Cyclops is Spike Spiegel and Ryoji Kaji
  • Wolverine is Might Guy
  • Charles Xavier is Adell's father
  • Rogue is Washuu
  • Iceman is Duo Maxwell and Iruka Umino
  • Bishop was Heihachi Mishima
  • Gambit is Shinomori Aoshi
  • Cable is The Nine-Tailed Fox and Takeda Shingen
  • Storm is Michiru Saotome
  • Mr. Sinister is M. Bison, Charles Zi Britannia and Cell
  • Apocalypse is Raoh
  • Magneto is Dabura
  • Banshee and John Cassidy are Iori Yagami and Haruki Kusakabe
  • The Sentinels are Lockon Stratos and Ryusei Date
  • Forge is Yagyu Jubei and Capt. Synapse
  • Archangel is Haohmaru and Dayakka
  • Juggernaut is Bian Zoldark and Heart (And counting as an Actor Allusion of sorts)
  • Lilandra is Frau Bow
  • Spiral is Nami
  • Mojo is Ian Vashti and Vindel Mauser
  • Colossus is Solid Snake and Seth
  • Omega Red is Liquid Snake (and being not the first time both voice actors worked together in the same work) and Souther
  • Sauron is the other Seth
  • Callisto is Tsunade and Michiru Kaioh

Trivia tropes for the film series:

• Alternate DVD Commentary: Riff Trax did a few for X-Men, X2 and The Last Stand.

"Cerebro?"

"Magneto!"

• Ascended Fanon: Used in-universe. The young students come up with the idea of having cool code names. When Charles and Erik show up, Raven (er, Mystique) suggests they go by "Professor X" and "Magneto" respectively. Both eventually go along with it. Moira similarly coins the term X-Men.
• Development Hell: The Wolverine is a minor case, being postponed by director Darren Arranofsky leaving, the 2011 earthquake in Japan, and Hugh Jackman filming Les Misérables.
• Did Not Do the Research: In First Class, getting a coin pushed through your brain wouldn't hurt nearly as much as shown, since there are no nerve endings there.
  • • It's been suggested that the pain Charles experiences is primarily psychic or psychological, rather than physical.
• Fake Nationality - The Canadian Wolverine and the American young!Cyclops are both played by Australian actors. Americans Xavier and Juggernaut and the Polish Magneto are all played by British actors (although in the case of Juggernaut and Xavier, their nationalities are never mentioned and they don't hide their natural accents so one could assume that the movie versions were simply from England)- which also includes the Scottish James McAvoy and the Irish Michael Fassbender. The German Nightcrawler is played by the Scottish Alan Cumming. Storm, who is from Morocco, and the Canadian Sabretooth are both played by Americans (by two different Americans, in the case of Sabretooth). The Americans Rogue and Jean Grey are played by a Canadian and a Dutch actress respectively, while the American Iceman is played by a Canadian. The Russian Colossus is also played by a Canadian but like the Xavier and Juggernaut examples above, the movie version is never given a clear nationality. Phew.
  • In First Class, Magneto is German-Irish and Xavier is Scottish (and the nationality is still unclear, as he lives his childhood in New York but graduates in Oxford). Not to mention Nick Hoult (English), and Rose Byrne (Australian) playing Americans.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: For starters, you got Captain Picard mentoring Kamala/Xenia Onatopp and Jinx, with Senator George Henderson their biggest obstacle. And Solid Snake wrote the screenplay. Not even STARTING on Magneto starring as a certain extremely powerful wizard for the next three years in an arguably more iconic film than any X-Men movie.
  • For First Class, Robbie Turner/Mr Tumnus as Professor Xavier and Stelios/Lt. Archie Hicox as Magneto
    • Tony Stonem as Beast
    • Betty Draper as Emma Frost
    • Ree as Mystique
    • Ellen Parsons as Moira MacTaggart
    • young!Johnny Cash as Havok
    • Jimmy Adler as Banshee
    • Dr. Jeffrey "Big Love" Cole as Darwin
    • Leland Palmer/Harry Morgan as the US Secretary of State
    • And Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw
    • Daryl Revok, a.k.a. Viper plays the naval captain during the climax.
    • Boris the Blade is the Soviet General.
    • Turns out General Morshower's been in the army a little longer than we thought...
    • The CIA Agent who is the first to try and stop Shaw when he invades the CIA compound is Tony Curran, better known for playing Vincent Van Gogh in Doctor Who, or being in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie, along with Jason "Azazel" Flemyng. Curran also played a knight in an episode of Primeval when Flemyng was in it, making this at least the third thing they're been in together.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: The truck driver who takes Rogue to the bar/cagematch arena is George Buza, who voiced Beast in the '90s cartoon. Crosses into Hey, It's That Guy! if you've watched The Adventures of Sinbad.
  • In a similar vein, Chiara Zanni and David Kaye appeared respectively as the White House tour guide and a TV show host. On X-Men: Evolution, they're the respective voices of Jubilee and Professor Xavier.
  • R. Lee Ermey is commanding the troops in X-3.
• Production Posse: Bryan Singer brings along cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel, writer Michael Dougherty (and in the second, editor-composer John Ottman, who was busy during the first)... and neglects them the third by dragging them along for Superman Returns.
  • In First Class, Matthew Vaughn brought his producer/writing partner Jane Goldman, and actor Jason Flemyng (who even though of not doing make-up heavy roles after Clash of the Titans, but opened an exception to Vaughn).
• Refitted for Sequel: The bathroom set in X2 was originally built for a flashback scene Cyclops discovering his powers in the first, that was left before being shot.
• What Could Have Been: Originally, Kevin Nash was going to play Sabertooth, with Tyler Mane as his stunt double.
  • The Last Stand is filled with this.
  • Singer Glenn Danzig of Misfits was the first choice for Wolverine (back when Carolco Pictures held the film rights) since he fit the character's build. After the long development hell period, Danzig had aged and it was decided to seek other options.
  • On the DVD commentary for the second film one of the writers mention their ideas for adapting the Dark Phoenix Saga, with Jean committing suicide by telekinetically forcing Scott to look at her and then removing his visor.