Why Jean? - X2 (2003) Discussion

[–] Petals121 9 years ago

I actually thought the same thing. If she was strong enough to walk out, hold the water back and then lift the plane so that they could fly off then why did she need to leave the plane at all? Just lift the plane from inside. It's like they decided beforehand that she had to die and then they couldn't come up with a decent reason for her death so they just threw something together at the last minute and hoped that people wouldn't notice that it didn't make any sense.

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[–] speeddmon 9 years ago

How else was she going to rise from the water and shout "I am Phoenix"

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[–] fiero-49251 9 years ago

Did she? lol! I remember her saying it in the animated series anyway! ;-/

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[–] speeddmon 9 years ago

Not in the movie :(

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[–] speeddmon 9 years ago

Why didn't storm do a whirlwind and lift it up or Strike it with Electricity to give it some extra power. Aagh really writers?

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[–] justanicknamed 9 years ago

Because she hadn't really used her powers as Phoenix before. We also saw in the third movie that she didn't have her skills fully mastered.

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[–] JasonRebourne 9 years ago

Both of those would probably have ended up destroying the Blackbird.

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[–] speeddmon 9 years ago

Come on!

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[–] JasonRebourne 9 years ago

Her whirlwinds only seem to destroy things and I imagine a lightning bolt striking a plane would blow it up.

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[–] DarkMessias 9 years ago

She didn´t really lift the Jet with her powers, she started and controlled it while holding the water back long enough.
You can argue that if she can hold back the water, controll the Jet and speak to the others via Professor X, she should be powerful enough to just lift the Jet but on the other hand, she didn´t really hold of the watermasses.

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[–] WhoopsieThree-D 8 years ago

Why didn't storm do a whirlwind and lift it up or Strike it with Electricity to give it some extra power. Aagh really writers?

There were a lot of ways Jean sacrificing herself could've been avoided. Like you guys have said, I don't see why Jean couldn't have done what she did from safely inside. Or Iceman could've gotten out and formed a wall of ice around them. Nightcrawler could've teleported everyone to a safer area. Bryan Singer even addresses other possible options beside Jean exiting the jet on the DVD commentary. But, according to him, "there was just too much water".

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[–] Alexmonty 8 years ago

Nightcrawler could've teleported everyone to a safer area.

I just finished watching the movie and my first thought was why didn't Nightcrawler jump and teleported her the moment the airship was airborne just like he did with Rogue earlier.

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[–] EllenRipley112 8 years ago

Remember when Wolverine said "YOU! Get her! NOW!" and he tried? He said, "She's not letting me!" It's a safe assumption she kept that control on him right up until she "died".

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[–] tsromdal 8 years ago

As DarkMessias says, she didn't lift the jet by herself. Its engines helped lifted it.

So the logic in the film is that she does not believe she can lift the jet, and maybe she really cannot. But she had confidence she could part the flood for as long as necessary.

Her priorities are therefore:
1) Must stop the water
2) Then get the jet airborne by telekinetically using the controls and powering up the engines
3) Say her goodbyes if she can hold the water that long

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