How is Charles Xavier alive in X-Men: Days of Future Past? Didn't he die in The Last Stand?
There is post credit scene in the last stand, Charles being alive. Also, in the spin-off movie Wolverine, Magneto and Charles comes together to airport to meet Wolverine. Some say, Charles teleported himself to his twin brothers body.
How is Professor X still alive in Xmen Days Of Future Past?
Perhaps the most contentious of the Days of Future Past continuity errors is the fact that Professor Charles Xavier is alive in the future despite having been killed in X-Men: The Last Stand. While the end credits button scene for The Last Stand does suggest that Professor X, or at least his consciousness, is still alive, Days of Future Past never explains why the character looks exactly the same, or is still a paraplegic. Some will say that Xavier’s consciousness jumped into the mind of a twin brother, but, as we see it, there are two better options for solving this problem. Option 1 is to have Professor X stay dead. Many films undermine their predecessor’s end credits scenes, and in this case the scene is vague at best. Our solution is to have it be Magneto who urges Wolverine to go back in time and save Mystique, rather than Charles. We suspect that Magneto, and likely all the mutants, are well aware that it is Mystique’s DNA that gives the future Sentinels their advantage, and so it’s easy to see Magneto realizing that the time travel solution is the only one. In turn, this choice would make the final scenes in Days of Future Past - where Wolverine discovers all of the X-Men crew alive and well – all the more poignant. Wolverine is relieved to see Jean and Cyclops alive, but the big reveal would then become Professor X, who then tells Logan all he missed in the mean time. Option 2 is a little more complex, but easier to pull off with minimal changes to Days of Future Past. Essentially, what we propose is a solution where Professor X is actually projecting a vision of himself into the minds of the X-Men, but he’s really in another person’s body. We know that Xavier and other telepaths are capable of this – we saw such powers on display in a few scenes from First Class – so it’s possible Professor X is tricking the X-men into thinking they are talking to him. This would also keep in line with The Last Stand button scene, and The Wolverine end credits scene as well. How we would find out that it’s not truly Professor X comes when young Charles (James McAvoy) communicates with elder Charles (Patrick Stewart) and sees through the visage. In that scene, Professor X could explain what happened and the ruse he has been pulling off for years. And again, the final scenes with Professor X could focus on how Wolverine saved the real Professor X from death.
How is Charles Xavier alive?
Okay. There is something that comic book fans, and by extension comic book movie fans, have to accept. Characters are going to be killed by one writer and then later brought back by another writer who wants to tell a story with that character. Don't look for reasons how the characters come back from the dead - IT DOESN’T MATTER. Charles Xavier has “died” about a dozen times in the comics. Sometimes the writers come up with convoluted explanations for them being “alive” again. Usually those explanations are stupid.These are licensable characters. That means they are eternal. Any character that can sell toys, t-shirts, and posters isn't going to stay dead. These are character that have more stories than can exist in one lifetime. Don't look for a continuous coherent thread through all of those stories. There will be time shifts, resets, and reboots. It is the job of the writers to create the illusion of change, not actual change.Charles Xavier showed up alive in the 2023 scenes of X-Men: Days of Future Past because the director, Bryan Singer, wanted Charles in his story and thus chose to ignore Charles’ death in X-Men: The Last Stand.If you can't accept that and must have an in-story explanation, the director of X-Men: The Last Stand, Brett Ratner, knew the studio would want Charles back and provided a possible excuse in a post-credits scene. That scene shows that Charles’ mind was transferred into the body of his brain dead twin brother. Now that you know that ridiculous explanation, don't you wish you'd just accepted that Charles is a licensable character and that's why he's alive.The events of Days of Future Past utterly erased the entire movie X-Men: The Last Stand, so Charles never died.
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, why does Charles feel bad for Wolverine?
Do you mean when past Charles reads Logan’s mind? It's because he's seeing all of the physical and emotional trauma he has endured in his lifetime, which has been dramatically extended due to his healing factor, ranging from multiple loves of his life dying (usually in his arms as he screams into the air) to the unimaginable torture he was forced to experience as part of the Weapon X program. Charles also sees Logan’s memories of the Sentinel-controlled future he's trying to prevent, so it's likely that he saw some of Wolverine’s friends and allies (some he presumably knows personally) being ruthlessly slaughtered by the upgraded Sentinels.
Is Charles Xavier in X-Men: Apocalypse aware that he changed the past in Days of Future Past?
Yes. The timeline of Apocalypse follows the new future established in Days of Future Past.In this timeline, Wolverine suddenly comes over to the mansion one day, explains about the possible bleak future, convinces Xavier and Hank to help stop the said future from occurring, they together do all of the things in X-Men: Days of Future Past, then around 10 years pass and the events of X-Men: Apocalypse happens.The current chronological timeline is as below:X-Men: First ClassX-Men: Days of Future PastX-Men: ApocalypseThe events in X-Men, X-2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand and The Wolverine did not happen in this new timeline. Some parts of X-Men Origins: Wolverine has happened and other parts haven’t - and probably won’t, either.
If X-Men: Days of Future Past is the sequel to X-Men: Last Stand, why is Charles Xavier alive?
In an after-credits scene (X-Men:The Last Stand), Xavier speaks to Moira McTaggert through the body of a comatose man, implying that his consciousness survived by transferring itself into the body (An action that Xavier had discussed at the beginning of the film as part of an ethics class, the question being if it would be ethically right for a mutant like himself to attempt such a transference). In the directors commentary for the DVD, it is revealed that the man that Charles transferred his consciousness to was really his identical twin brother, whose mind had been destroyed at birth when Charles power's manifested. (Link: Charles Xavier)However, we have to assume that even Xavier's twin brother survives on a wheel chair.