-The report clearly establishes that, by the time of Kennedy’s death, Azazel and Tempest were dead. You remember them from
First Class, right? Red Nightcrawler and Winged Zoe Kravitz? No? Well, they’re dead now.
-Magneto was found guilty of killing Kennedy, and was imprisoned inside of a plastic cell. That was 1964. We know — or
think we know — that
Days of Future Past takes place in the ’70s. That’s a long time behind bars.
-Here’s where things get interesting. T
he report claims that there may have been an “Oswald Double,” another Lee Harvey Oswald running around Dallas in the days leading up to the assassination. It also claims that Jack Ruby, the man who killed Oswald, later couldn’t remember anything about that day. It seems clear, then, that Kennedy was actually killed by a shapeshifter. Was Ruby’s mind controlled by a telepath? Which shapeshifter? Which telepath?
-The report finds an older Magneto — Ian McKellen, not Michael Fassbender — back behind bars. It would appear that he’s been there for a long time. So maybe he went back to prison sometime after
X-Men: The Last Stand, or maybe that movie was never a thing that happened at all, hooray! At one point, Young Magneto is quoted as saying: “I did not shoot your president. But I know who did, and you’ll never find her. She has a way of hiding in plain sight.” Old Magneto echoes these statements: “Whoever said that was
Oswald in the warehouse? And whoever said the killer was a
man? And whoever said
I wanted Kennedy dead because my brothers and sisters were being killed?
Humans.”
-Reading between the lines here, it’s clear that Magneto was at the grassy knoll that day to
prevent Kennedy’s assassination. Someone — a former ally, with the ability to shapeshift — was imitating Oswald. Magneto wanted to save Kennedy’s life, maybe to promote peace between humans and mutants. His former ally wanted to incite further war, or maybe just wanted vengeance. It seems very likely that the former ally in question is Mystique.
Bummer. I guess they had to make way for Halle Berry's "triumphant and much demanded" return as Storm, so they had to cut some costs elsewhere.
