Goofs for
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) More at IMDbPro »

• Errors in geography: At some point a car drives over a one lane bridge (before the Wolverine goes to the paddock). After the bridge an arrow pointing forward is on the left hand side of the road, revealing its filming locations of Australia and New Zealand. This also shows the old couple driving on the wrong side of the road, even though this was supposedly America.
  
  
• Continuity: In the village scene when Wolverine holds Sabretooth's hand to stop him from killing the man, you can clearly see that in some scenes Wolverine's claws are drawn out, while in other scenes it isn't.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When young Logan is running down the hallway, you can see some after-effects surrounding his upper body.
  
  

• Plot holes: In the x-rays of Wolverine in X-Men (2000), you can clearly see springs that make his claws work, and his claws have 3 holes. In X2 (2003), William Stryker says he was the one who gave Wolverine his claws ("You are an animal - all I did was give you claws"), making it clear that his movie version had no natural claws but were the result of the weapon X experiments. However, in this movie they show a version of Wolverine that has bone claws (like in the comic book) making his claws part of his mutation rather than an implant.
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Wolverine is serving in the Vietnam war, he is seen carrying a Colt Model 733 assault carbine, which was not yet made during the time. In reality he would have been carrying a Colt XM177 carbine, the first of the Colt Commando variants.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gambit knocks Logan through the wall of the bar in Louisiana, the hole changes size. One size when he makes it, and another when Gambit comes through it into the alley.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the helicopter chase through the forest, when Logan is on the motor bike, you can clearly hear the separation of shots coming from the machine gun mounted on the side of the helicopter. However, it is a Gatling style machine gun capable of shooting 6,000 rounds a minute. The sound of it firing is more like a hum rather than a typical bang-bang-bang sound from a standard hand held sub-machine gun. The sound department appears to have simply chosen a "machine gun" sound from a list without being accurate to what type of machine gun it is.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Weapon XI has single long blades that run through the length of his arms. Since adamantium can't be bent, this would mean when the blades are retracted, Weapon XI can't bend his elbows. Yet in the "activating" scene, his elbow was bent.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the iconic shot (also seen in the commercials and trailers) where Logan slashes a big "X" through a steel door with his new claws, the three-blade "tic-tac-toe" design his cuts make leaves four little squares of metal floating in mid-air.
  
  
• Continuity: At the end of the film when Wolverine is talking to Gambit, the links that his dog tags are clipped on with move. In one scene, you can clearly see the link is at the side of his neck, but when it cuts to Gambit and back to Logan, it is hidden.
  
  
• Continuity: Sabretooth is clearly being shot through the chest by Weapon XI laser vision, yet when Sabretooth regenerates and stands up there are no holes in his shirt or cape, as if it never happened.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Wolverine notices the farmer's motorcycle, he calls it a chopper. Choppers do not have a rear suspension. This motorcycle is a cruiser with rear suspension, which also allowed it to jump more safely than a chopper would. Earlier choppers were WWII surplus motorcycles from which the rear shocks were chopped off, hence their name.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine approaches Kayla's body, her mouth is hanging open. When he reaches down to close her eyes, her mouth is closed.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the bathroom scene, you can clearly tell that Logan's knives are CGI.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine is x-rayed in the first X-Men film, it clearly show strips of what we learn is adamantium grafted along all his bones. In this film, the bone scan suggests the entire bone was substituted with adamantium.
  
  
• Continuity: After the revelations on Three Mile Island, Logan leaves in disgust only to rush back when he hears SilverFox screaming, but reappears without the shirt he left in.
  
  
• Continuity: After the scene where Weapon X breaks out of the adamantium injection chamber and escapes the facility, there's a close up of Logan looking out into the wilderness. His hair is nicely shaped and dry even though he just came out of a chamber that was filled with water.
  
  
• Continuity: After Wolverine slices through the first vehicle, the vehicle flips showing no damage from the claws.
  
  
• Continuity: When Gambit is first introduced in the casino, he has a slight beard (especially noticeable when he says "Do I owe you money?"). However, after knocking Wolverine through the wall and into the alley, he is shown to be almost completely clean-shaven.
  
  
• Factual errors: Hydrochlorothiazide seems to have been confused with Tetrodotoxin, which would, for the purposes of the fiction, give the desired effect, assuming a good deal of luck and caution.
  
  
• Continuity: In the boxing match between Wolverine and the Blob, when the Blob is losing his balance his position changes several times from different shots. At first the poster on the wall is behind him then the corner by the wall is behind him, then when he falls backwards on the ropes it is on the open side of the ring towards the room, the opposite side of the poster.
  
  
• Continuity: When the Blob falls on the ropes at the end of his boxing round with Wolverine, the ropes are underneath him and one is over him near his neck, but this rope disappears instantly when Wolverine stands over him with his claws in the next shot.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Sabretooth and Wolverine are supposed to be brothers, but in the first X-Men (2000) movie they encounter each other several times and there is no mention of this connection. This is because Sabretooth suffers from amnesia just like Wolverine, as explained in the comic book "X2 Prequels: Wolverine", which takes place between X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003).
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Logan is slicing everyone up after getting his surgery, he's naked but you can see that Hugh Jackman is wearing shorts during the fight/escape scene (until he's outside.)
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: On more than one occasion (as himself and as Weapon 11), Dead Pool uses his swords to stab people. Yet, when he pulls them out, there is no blood on the blades. However, the reason for this is the producers wanted to keep a low age rating.
  
  
• Continuity: When we see Weapon XI walking toward the reactor on the screen in Stryker's room, it is clear that his blades are extended. When the camera cuts to him looking up at Logan, his blades are retracted.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In the bar in Canada when Logan faces Creed, and the close up shots of Logan holding his claws to Creed's face, when Logan exposes and retracts his claws you can see 'wrinkles' of skin between his fingers but when the claws are not moving the skin is smooth.
  
  
• Continuity: When Logan and Victor's fight causes them to smash through a window, Logan's hair is a mess from the fall but in the following shot as Logan turns his head, his hair is perfectly combed, followed by the next shot where his hair is once again messy from the fall.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The child actor playing young James/Logan has blue eyes. Hugh Jackman has brown eyes. However, eye colour can change over a lifetime, especially as a young child.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The tank where Wolverine gets the adamantium bonded to his skeleton is lit with blue light. In the first X-Men movie, you can see that the tank was lit with green light originally, in a flashback (when Rogue touches him in the Academy). However, Wolverine's memory became faulty after the event of the X-Men Origin: Wolverine movie. It's possible that he'd mistake something as insignificant as the color of the light.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Although the scene is meant to be in a logging camp in Canada, one of the vehicles clearly has an old New Zealand registration plate with silver letters on a black background dating the vehicle around 1977/78.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: In one of the beginning scenes when they are all aboard the small, corporate jet, they are pulling maneuvers that well exceed the maximum load factor of any passenger jet aircraft.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Lighting in the foyer of the 1845 mansion was provided by light bulbs in a grand chandelier. The first home to have electrical lighting was that of Joseph Swan, one of the inventors of the light bulb, in England in 1879. It's an even stranger anachronism when considering the 1845 mansion is deep in the Canadian wilderness, an unlikely place to have early electricity.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Many of the residents of Canada have a heavy Southern drawl.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Wolverine's girlfriend tells him the story of the wolverine and his love, the moon. At one point, she mentions the wolverine howling at the moon. A real wolverine is not a wolf and does not howl at the moon. In fact, it does not howl at all, being a member of the mustelid family and closely related to otters, weasels and ferrets.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In the scene where Wolverine fights Remy LeBeau, the setting is 1970s New Orleans. However, in the debris after the casino has been destroyed, there is a shot where Wolverine is on the ground where in the foreground dollar bills with the new, larger presidential heads can be seen laying on the ground. These new dollar bills were not printed until the 1990s.
  
  
• Errors in geography: When Wolverine goes to Las Vegas, he clearly drives there and approaches from the outskirts of the city, passing by a "Welcome to fabulous Las Vegas" sign. There are two of these signs - one on the Boulder Strip, and one on the Las Vegas Strip. There is not one on the outskirts of the city as shown in the film.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the first scene of the movie, it reads "North-West Territories, Canada, 1845". Canada was not established as a nation until 1867, and the Northwest Territories entered the Confederation as a Canadian territory in 1870. A more accurate description would have been "North-Western Territory, British North America". (However, this is done deliberately in order to ensure people understand that they begin in Canada, as it is unlikely most non-Canadian audiences would understand that Canada at this time was called "British North America".)
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: Wolverine puts the wrong end of the cigar into his mouth shortly before Zero shoots it, or so it seems. In fact, the head of his cigar is merely raggedly clipped and heavily chewed, and can be seen as such in previous shots.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Cyclops is in Spanish class, we see verb conjugations written on the chalkboard. The word "tu" is written without an accent mark. So it means "your" in Spanish, not the pronoun "you".
  
  
• Continuity: After Wolverine finds Victor in the alley behind the casino he clearly hits Gambit in the face while at street-level. Moments later Wolverine is about to kill Victor and Gambit comes running across a roof and jumps down, hitting the ground with his staff (thus stopping Wolverine from killing Victor). If Wolverine had killed Victor he would have found his redemption. Another problem with this would be the fact that Victor was the person who brought Gambit to the island, therefore Gambit should have recognized that he and Wolverine were on the same side.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In one of the film's 'lumberjack' sequences, Wolverine appears to drink a Budweiser out of a long-neck bottle. The scene apparently takes place in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies (license plates indicate Alberta) in the early 1970s. Bud was not available in Alberta at the time, and all beer bottles were short-neck 'stubbies'.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In this film, Scott's optic blasts generate heat as seen by the scorching they leave behind. In the other films (and all other media) Scott's optic blasts only generate concussive force. However, it is said that Dr. Xavier has helped Scott's progress and has helped him to control the intensity of his optic blasts.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: As Wolverine is admiring his new claws in the bathroom he touches the tip of one, making a shrill sound as of metal striking metal, though it was only his fingertip, but this is because his fingertip is also made of adamantium, and as seen, Wolverine pokes his claw through his skin, making it possible to make a squealing sound.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wolverine flies through the air towards the Zero's helicopter you can see the blades of the copter spinning in one direction but when it switches to the close-up as his claws cut the blades, they are spinning the other direction.
  
  
• Factual errors: Hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) is not a medication that lowers the heart rate. It is, in fact, a diuretic. The only effect it would have had is to make her pee.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: At school Victor Creed meets Scott Summers when Victor jumps over a floor you can see there's no shadow.
  
  
• Anachronisms: Even though the movie was based before the Three Mile Island incident on March 29, 1979 there are Humvees, HMMWV, in the movie. The first prototype of the Humvee was commissioned to be developed in July of 1979. With the first prototype built in 1980. It wasn't till 1985 that AM General was granted the contract to build 55,000 Humvees for the U.S. Army.
  
  
• Anachronisms: The unit patch that Stryker wears in Africa is 1st Infantry Division of the US Army -nicknamed "The Big Red One" because it's shoulder patch is a green shield with only a red 1 in it. It is the only subdued shoulder patch to have the color red until 2007 when it was changed. The patch Stryker is wearing is a brown shield with a black 1, made after 2007.
  
  
• Continuity: When Zero's chopper approaches the barn for the first time, the closeup of the rocket pod shows that it is full. The chopper fires one rocket from each pod to destroy the barn. When next we see the chopper it is hovering in front of Logan, trapping him between it and the 2 vehicles. There is a brief glimpse of the rocket pods. Each rocket pod now has 2 rockets missing, when there should only have been one.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: After Deadpool (Wade) comes off the elevator near the beginning of the movie, cutting at bullets and clearing the path to a man with diamonds, he stops and stays in a lounging position after cutting down the last two men. In that instance, two wires are clearly visible near his shoulders.
  
  
• Plot holes: When Stryker visits Wolverine at his job as a lumberjack, Wolverine claims to make $15,000 dollars a year. But he lives in a very nice home, with a very nice view, which, without a doubt, he would have had to pay more than ten years worth of his salary to live there. His wife also claims to have a profession, a teacher, she wouldn't be able to pay for the house either.
  
  
• Continuity: During the scene in Lagos, while Team X is walking up to the building, only one katana is visibly strapped to Wade's back. Later in the elevator, both are visible.
  
  

• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Logan's girlfriend is killed the second time around, you can clearly see her carotid artery still pulsing in her neck.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: When Kayla Silverfox is dead at the end of the film, the first time we see her, her mouth is slightly opened. The next time we see her, it's still slightly opened. However, the third time her mouth is closed.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: After the operation that Logan undergoes it's shown that he is dead, and in the X-ray you can clearly see his throat moving. However, this could also be seen as a sign that he is still alive, which is confirmed moments later as he emerges from the tank.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: At the end of the movie, as Wolverine stands over the dead body of Silverfox, she is still moving slightly. Her eyes even move after Wolverine closes them.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: In the finale, the mutants who will become the first generation of students for Xavier's School are freed by Wolverine. One might expect that the students to mention the grizzled, hairy rescuer with long metal claws in his hands, or that their psychic mentor might pick up on it. Cyclops is the only exception, as he was blind throughout that sequence. Yet when Wolverine reaches Xavier's School in the first X-Men movie, he is a complete mystery to everybody. However, none of the children saved from the prison become an X-Man with the exception of Storm (no real explanation as to why she does not recall seeing Logan/Wolverine) and Scott Summers/Cyclops, who didn't see Logan/Wolverine save the children from the prison.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Wolverine leaves Gambit's plane, he takes off his jacket before jumping out. He doesn't leave the island with Gambit, and therefore never gets his jacket back. But, in the first X-Men movie, he still has the jacket. However, with a 17 year gap between this movie and the first X-Men, it's possible he gets his jacket back, but as yet it's not explained how.
  
  
• Continuity: SPOILER: After Wolverine jumps out of the plane to go to Three Mile Island he takes some violent bounces across the water. Yet when he shows up moments later in the facility he is completely dry and his clothes are unscathed.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: Although Jason Stryker appears to be younger than Cyclops in this movie and yet seems older in X2, it is entirely possible that by the time the events of X2 take place, Jason has been through so much mistreatment at his father's hands that he is prematurely aged.
  
  
• Plot holes: SPOILER: Given this storyline, Wolverine should have two holes in the adamantium layer over his skull where the bullets pass through, as the metal would not heal. Since this layer of metal is on the outside of the bone, this missing layer of metal would show as two round impressions the size of .44 magnum rounds under the skin as there is no muscle layer over the forehead.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: SPOILER: When Wolverine discovers Silver Fox during her faked death, she is laying in a pool of blood and her clothes are ripped and bloody, implying that she died at the claws of Sabretooth. Later, they explain that she faked her own death by taking some sort of drug to make her appear chemically dead. If she just took a drug to create the illusion of death, then she didn't need to suffer any real wounds to fake it. However, when Wolverine discovers her body and assumes she's been killed by Sabretooth's claws, wouldn't he have noticed that physically she didn't actually have a wound on her entire body and become suspicious that she actually wasn't dead? Also, Wolverine has an extremely advanced sense of smell. He should have been able to tell she hadn't been freshly killed. Even if it was her blood that had been collected earlier, he should have been able to tell it wasn't fresh. (This could have been done on purpose to illustrate Logan's unfortunate tendency to be blinded by his overwhelming rage. The tremendous level of stress he would have gone through during the entire ordeal would have been staggering. Since he's also not one to sit around and wait he may have left her there and gone off to avenge her. There's the possibility that Sabretooth was very aware of Wolverine's sensory capabilities and knew how to counter them, but they didn't go into it.)
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: Kayla's death is supposed to be fake as the blood on her body which was poured over her as shown on the flashback near the end, but in the actual scene of her lying on the floor she has a big nasty cut over her chest.
  
  
• Plot holes: SPOILER: Wolverine is coated in metal and therefore very heavy (remember him sitting on the motorcycle?) so when he hits the water after jumping from Gambit's plane he should have / would have sunk like a stone and drowned.
  
  

Related Links