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** Also Rebecca Romijn, the original Mystique.
** A blink-and-you'll-miss-it case: One of the mutants shown during the first test run of Cerebro appears to be a very young Storm, and another looks like Cyclops.
* [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]]: The movie steps on the toes of almost all the previous movies (Matthew Vaughn admitted that while basically an [[Ultimate Universe]], he only used the first two films as continuity references). For example, Xavier has his spinal injury much younger than he apparently did in either ''Wolverine'' or ''Last Stand'', and Magneto has his break with Xavier in the 60s before most of the characters from the other movies are even born, despite the scene in ''The Last Stand'' of him visiting young Jean Grey along with an noticeably elderly and mobile Xavier (not to mention Xavier getting his injury still with hair, while all his previous younger appearances had him bald and mobile).
** Xavier also initially gets Cerebro from the CIA and Beast rather than building it himself with Magneto, though that Cerebro is destroyed in Shaw's attack on the CIA, and a new one located at the mansion would have been needed anyway.
*** It is possible the two could have, at least temporarily, resolved their differences long enough to build Cerebro in the mansion together. This could also explain why they're still somewhat chummy at the opening of ''X3''.
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* [[Continuity Cameo]]: Rebecca Romijn showing up as an "older" Mystique.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The first scene with Erik in the camp is mostly identical to the first scene of X-Men, even down to some of the shots.
* [[Continuity Snarl]]: See [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]] above. At the very least this movie takes a [[Broad Strokes]] approach to the other movies in the series, especially ''X-Men Origins: Wolverine''. Most of the differences could theoretically be reconciled ([[Fan Wank|Maybe the Xavier at the end of Origins was a psychic projection]]! [[Wild Mass Guessing|Maybe Hank was wearing an image inducer in his cameo in X2]]!) But if you just saw the movies, the only reason you'd assume they were meant to be in the same continuity is [[Hugh Jackman]], the Romjin cameo, and the references to Stryker.
** But the Cerebro Mutant Tracker feature on the Blu-Ray appears to [http://media.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/35849/2011-09-08_2335.png ignore the continuity holes...]
*** You know what they say.. A Diamond is Forever.
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* [[Dartboard of Hate]]: Magneto, as an adult, tosses the coin into the "forehead" of a sketch of Dr. Schmidt.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Banshee. "Aw, ''I'' wanted to be called Mystique."
* [[Death Byby Origin Story]]: Erik's mother.
* [[Defence Mechanism Superpower]]: Darwin's power is... pretty much this trope alone.
* [[Defied Trope]]: [[Jason Flemyng]] pointed out in an interview that he tried to avoid the cliche shot of the villain looking over the shoulder at their tail, as it always looks like the villain has ''just'' realised they had a tail for the first time.
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** Many [[Homage|homages]] to old [[Spy Fiction]], most obviously early ''[[James Bond]]'' movies.
** A neon sign at a bar says "Marv's Beer," a reference to writer Marv Wolfman.
** The Oxford pub, [[wikipedia:Eagle chr(28)comicchr(29comic)|The Eagle]]. Which doubles as a reference to the reference to the Eagle Awards (named after the magazine) which the X-Men won in the 1970s and 1980s.
** The neon sign at the bar where they find Angel is "Atomic" -- which is a reference to how mutants were called "Children of the Atom" in the comics. Also an example of [[Shown Their Work]], since Las Vegas in the 60's and 70's was famous for the nearby nuclear tests, and everything was named after the famous atom; drinks, shows, and nightclubs.
** A memory-erasing kiss? Xavier must be taking lessons from [[Superman|another superhero]]...
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