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The first three films in the series are X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), starring Hugh Jackman as James "Logan" Howlett / Wolverine, Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier / Professor X, Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm, Anna Paquin as Marie D'Ancanto ...
Erik Lehnsherr was born in 1930. His parents were Jews from Düsseldorf, Germany.During the Nazi regime, the family is taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, where Lehnsherr, then a boy, is separated from his parents, causing him to manifest his mutant power and bend the metal gate separating them until the Germans knock him unconscious.
They convince Maximoff to help them break Erik Lehnsherr out of his prison beneath the Pentagon. Maximoff does so by vibrating the glass roof of Lehnsherr's cell fast enough to shatter it, and when security guards confront them in a kitchen, Maximoff uses his super speed to disarm and disorient them before Lehnsherr can use his powers to harm ...
Peter Maximoff, having learned he is Lehnsherr's biological son, arrives and uses his super-speed to evacuate everyone except Alex, who got killed in the explosion prior to his arrival. Colonel William Stryker 's forces, believing Xavier to be responsible, capture McCoy, Raven, Peter, and MacTaggert, and take them for interrogation.
This version's real name is Erik Magnus Lehnsherr. McKellen's incarnation appears in X-Men (2000), X2 , and X-Men: The Last Stand in addition to an uncredited appearance in the mid-credits scene of The Wolverine while Fassbender's incarnation appears in X-Men: First Class , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] X-Men: Apocalypse , [ 11 ] and Dark Phoenix .
Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver: Erik's mutant son who can move at superhuman speed. Peters described the character as more mature and subdued in the film, being focused on using his abilities for good as a member of the X-Men. [14] Kodi Smit-McPhee as Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler: A German mutant who can teleport.
First Class is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and focuses on the relationship between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, and the origin of their groups—the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, respectively, as they deal with the Hellfire Club led by Sebastian Shaw, a mutant supremacist bent on enacting ...
Throughout the films X-Men (2000), X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand, Jean serves as a member of the X-Men until she was possessed by the Phoenix Force and eventually killed by Wolverine. Additionally, she makes minor appearances in The Wolverine , in which his guilt over killing her haunts the titular character, and X-Men: Days of Future Past , in ...