The mid-credits scene has Wolverine confronted by Magneto and an resurrected Professor X, recruiting him for his mission on DOFP. But the world as we see it at the end of this film looks nothing like the dystopian future that DOFP shows us. In fact, don't we see a living Bolivar Trask on the television, when DOFP hinges on him having been assassinated decades before?
shareOn the TV you don't see Trask, you see a commercial for the company he started. It's very possible that the company lived on after his death and kept his name as a memorial to the man that started it.
And it does suck that we never see how Professor X is resurrected. But Magneto and Professor X recruit him there and presumably shortly thereafter the war with the sentinels begins which leads to the dystopian future you see in Days of Future Past. And I've always assumed that Magneto replated his bone claws with adamantium.
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We did see how Xavier survived- in the post-credits scene at the end of X3. He psionically transferred himself into the vegetable that Moira was looking after.
Why does he look like Xavier in a wheelchair then? Easy. That's his telepathic projection of himself that Logan is familiar with.
Although this bonus scene is never really tied into DOFP beyond this, I just assumed this was Future Charles and Erik in a joint telepathic attempt (via Future Kitty perhaps) to see if they could affect the past. Basically a precursor to the plot of DOFP.
I believe You missed a major plot point from Last Stand where Chuck postulates the ethics of transferring the consciousness of a brain healthy twin with a failing body to one that was brain dead. The post credit scene (one of many), implies that Chuck was a twin and he did exactly that.
shareThe twin thing was never mentioned on screen. It is something from the director's commentary. In it we were told that the idea was that the coma patient was Xavier's twin but they cut that detail from the final cut.
As a result of there being no canonical reason for his appearance, Singer was originally planning to introduce his own explanation for it in DOFP which was supposed to be that a mutant reformed Xavier's new body to look like his old one but that too was dropped.
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It was never revealed why he dropped it. However, I would guess that it was either because he came to realize that any attempt to explain it was silly and thus it was better to leave it as something the audience should speculate about or because he did not feel as though he could seamlessly work it into his narrative. When jumping ahead in time, a writer has to strike a balance between what information needs to be revealed and what information can be left as a mystery. The reason for that is because not everything can be believably addressed in dialogue, and flashbacks may derail the intended flow of a piece. The time when it made sense for Xavier to explain his situation would have been right after Wolverine asked him; "How?" in this movie's mid-credit scene. Ten years later, every character would know the how so him going over it wouldn't seem like an organic conversation but rather forced dialogue existing for the sole purpose of providing information to the audience.
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