X-Men: First Class (film) (2024)

• 1 Appearances
• 2 Plot
• 3 Gallery
• 4 Cast
• 5 Notes
• 6 Trivia
• 7 Gallery
  • 7.1 Alternate Posters
• 8 See Also
• 9 Links and References
  • 9.1 References

Featured Characters:

• X-Men (First appearance chronologically) (Origin revealed)
  • Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr)⏵ (First appearance chronologically) (Main story and flashback) (Joins and leaves team)
  • Professor Charles Xavier⏵ (First appearance chronologically) (Joins)
  • Mystique (Raven Darkhölme)⏵ (First appearance chronologically) (Joins and leaves team) (Impersonates Sharon Xavier, William Stryker, Sr., Banshee, Sebastian Shaw)
  • Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy)⏵ (First appearance chronologically) (Joins)
  • Havok (Alex Summers) (First appearance) (Joins)
  • Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (First appearance) (Joins)

Supporting Characters:

• CIA
  • Division X
    • Agent Moira MacTaggert⏵ (First appearance chronologically) (Leaves)
    • "The Man in Black" (First appearance; dies)
    • Darwin (Armando Muñoz) (First appearance; dies)

Antagonists:

• Hellfire Club (First appearance) (Disbands)
  • Sebastian Shaw (First appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
  • Emma Frost (First appearance) (Leaves)
  • Riptide (Janos Quested) (First appearance) (Leaves)
  • Azazel (First appearance) (Leaves)
  • Angel Salvadore (First appearance) (Joins and leaves team)
• Brotherhood of Mutants (First appearance chronologically)

Other Characters:

• Edie Lehnsherr (Death)
• SS
• Jakob Lehnsherr
• Sharon Xavier (First appareance; photo)
• Norman (First appearance)
• Amy (First appearance)
• Colonel Robert "Bob" Hendry (First appearance; dies)
• CIA
  • Director John A. McCone
  • William Stryker, Sr. (First appearance)
  • Agent Levine (First appearance)
• William Stryker, Jr. (Mentioned)
• John F. Kennedy (Appears on screen) (Topical Reference)
• ⏴James Howlett⏵ (Cameo)
• Various Soviet soldiers and military officers
• Various American soldiers and officers

Races and Species:

• Humans (Main story and flashback)
• Mutants (Main story and flashback)

Locations:

• Earth-10005
  • Earth
    • Europe
      • Poland
        • Oświęcim
          • Auschwitz
      • Switzerland (First appearance)
        • Geneva (First appearance)
        • Bern (First appearance)
      • United Kingdom (First appearance)
        • England (First appearance)
          • Oxford (First appearance)
            • Oxford University (First appearance)
      • Soviet Union (First appearance)
        • Russia (First appearance)
          • Moscow (First appearance)
            • Russian Military Retreat (First appearance)
    • Turkey, Asia (Mentioned)
    • North America
      • United States of America
        • New York
          • Westchester County
            • Salem Center
              • Xavier's Mansion
        • Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Mentioned)
        • Nevada
          • Las Vegas
            • Hellfire Club (First appearance)
        • Virginia (First appearance)
          • Arlington (First appearance)
            • Pentagon (First appearance)
          • Fairfax County (First appearance)
            • McLean (First appearance)
              • Langley (First appearance)
                • C.I.A. Headquarters (First appearance)
          • Richmond (First appearance)
            • Covert CIA Research Base (First appearance)
        • Washington, D.C.
          • National Mall (First appearance)
            • Lincoln Memorial (First appearance)
            • Washington Monument (First appearance)
            • Capitol Building (First appearance; vision)
        • Florida (First appearance)
          • Miami (First appearance)
      • Cuba (First appearance)
        • Bay of Pigs (First appearance)
    • South America (First appearance)
      • Argentina (First appearance)
        • Villa Gesell (First appearance)

Items:

• Magneto's Helmet (First appearance chronologically)
• Cerebro (First appearance chronologically) (Destruction)
• Banshee's Wings (First appearance)
• Hank McCoy's Serum (First appearance)
• X-Uniforms (First appearance chronologically)

Vehicles:

• X-Jet (First appearance chronologically) (Destruction)
• Caspartina (Only appearance; destruction)

Events:

• World War II
• Holocaust
• Cold War
• Cuban Missile Crisis

Erik Lehnsherr, the young Magneto, is forced to live in a death camp during the Holocaust. Erik pulls apart a metal gate when the Nazi soldiers separate him from his parents. Seeing this, the Nazi collaborator and secret mutant Sebastian Shaw becomes fascinated by the boy's potential and attempts to get him to move a German coin. When this fails, he has his mother brought in, threatening to kill her if he does not succeed in moving the coin. When this does not work either, he shoots the woman, causing Erik to tear apart the lab in horror.

Professor Charles Xavier and his associate, Raven Darkhölme, are contacted by agents of the CIA to help investigate the Hellfire Club, a clandestine organization of mutants with suspected criminal operations. The association with the CIA soon brings Xavier into contact with other mutants, including Erik Lehnsherr, Havok, Darwin, Beast and Banshee.

Xavier's mutant group then comes into conflict with the Hellfire Club, which leads to the murder of Darwin at the hand of the Hellfire Club's leader. Xavier resolves to stop the Hellfire Club and begins training his young group in preparation for conflicts to come. During subsequent confrontations with the Hellfire Club, Erik and Charles' views regarding the path of the emerging mutant race diverges, resulting in the end of their friendship and the fracturing of their emerging team. Erik, now going by the name "Magneto", leaves the team to form the Brotherhood of Mutants, with Darkhölme following him, while Xavier continues to shape the others into a team with a higher purpose: the X-Men.

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• James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier
  • Laurence Belcher portrays a 12-year old Charles Xavier
• Michael Fassbender as Magneto / Erik Lehnsherr
  • Bill Millner portrays a young Erik Lehnsherr
• Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert
• Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique / Raven Darkhölme
  • Morgan Lily portrays a 10-year old Raven Darkhölme
• January Jones as Emma Frost
• Nicholas Hoult as Beast / Hank McCoy
• Oliver Platt as "The Man in Black"
• Jason Flemyng as Azazel
• Lucas Till as Havok / Alex Summers
• Edi Gathegi as Darwin / Armando Muñoz
• Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw
• Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee / Sean Cassidy
• Zoë Kravitz as Angel / Angel Salvadore
• Matt Craven as CIA Director John A. McCone
• Álex González as Riptide / Janos Quested
• Rade Šerbedžija as Soviet General
• Glenn Morshower as Col. Bob Hendry

Additionally, Beth Goddard and Éva Magyar appear as Sharon Xavier and Edie Lehnsherr, respectively. Georg Nikoloff portays Erik's father. Annabelle Wallis appears as Amy, a woman with heterochromia. Don Creech portrays William Stryker, Sr. James Remar, Michael Ironside, and Ray Wise appear as a U.S. General, a U.S. Navy Captain, and the U.S. Secretary of State, respectively. Hugh Jackman and Rebecca Romijn make uncredited cameos as James "Logan" Howlett and the adult Mystique, respectively.

• In the comics, Alex Summers is the younger brother of Scott Summers. In X-Men: First Class however, Alex is apparently much older than Scott, and no familial relationship between the two is mentioned. However, in X-Men: Apocalypse, they were indeed revealed to be brothers.
• Sheldon Turner earned a story credit due to the film covering the same setting as his discarded X-Men Origins: Magneto script. Bryan Singer has stated he never read Turner's screenplay. In turn, the contributions by Josh Schwartz and Jamie Moss went uncredited.^[1][2]

• Although it is made clear in the credits and from behind-the-scenes information that the character played by actor Álex González is Riptide, the film makes no mention of this. The character is never referred to by name and has no spoken dialogue.
• X-Men: First Class is the only X-Men film in the original timeline that is unaffected by the changes to the timeline in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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