Goofs

In 1944, Charles' room has a picture of Albert Einstein which was not taken until 1947.

The Film shows CIA headquarters at Langley In 1962. The construction for the Langley headquarters didn't even start until 1965. The first secretaries didn't move into the building until 1968. In 1962 the CIA operated out of several different buildings in D.C.

(at around 4 mins) Édith Piaf's "La Vie en rose" is playing on a phonograph in the concentration camp. That song was not recorded until 1946. Also, the record shown in the movie has a Decca label, whereas Piaf actually recorded the song for a rival company -- French Columbia, a branch of EMI.

The bra styles that Emma Frost wears are not 1960s styles, they are modern styles worn today. Also, the boots that Angel wears are not 1960s style boots.

The Coast Guard cutter in Miami has "US Coast Guard" painted on its hull. Coast Guard cutters didn't add the letters "US" to their hulls until the 1990's. Before that they just said "Coast Guard"

(at around 18 mins) The turntable seen playing in 1962 Las Vegas is a Transcriptors Skeleton from 1973.

An Iowa class battleship is depicted in the film as part of the Cuban Missile Crisis blockade fleet. In real life, there was no such battleship in commission in 1962, the year of the Crisis. The only battleship to see service in the 1960s, the USS New Jersey (BB-62), was still in mothballs at this time and would not be in service until 1967. Furthermore, the film's CGI model of the ship shows her in 1980s configuration.

The chest pouches used by the Soviet soldiers were not created until after the Soviet-Afghan war. Before that, the Soviets used a belt-mounted pouch.

The tape recorder on Shaw's submarine seems to be a Revox A77 MK IV, which was not available before 1974. The first version of the A77 was introduced in 1967.

The scene where we see the young Charles meets Raven was set in 1944 and the rest of the movie is set in 1962, 18 years later, but James McAvoy is listed in the credits as Charles at 24 and Laurence Belcher is listed as Charles at 12, only 12 years apart.

Moira wears a miniskirt in several scenes. In 1962, hemlines were just above the knee.

(at around 15 mins) The scene when Magneto pulls the filling out of the bankers mouth. After removing the filling the man grabs the wrong side of his mouth in pain.

In the first X-Men movie, Charles Xavier says that he was 17 when he first met Erik Lensherr. In this movie, Charles and Erik are depicted as meeting for the first time and Charles is clearly older than 17, having already graduated from University.

(at around 29 mins) When talking to the CIA, Charles Xavier mentions that one of them is thinking about the "Apple Pecan" pie but, being English, he would pronounce it "pee-can" with the emphasis on the first vowel, not "p-caaan" with the emphasis on the second vowel.

(at around 1h 1 min) Before Shaw and his men attack the CIA HQ, Sean is shown eating an Oreo, but when Hank gets up to close the curtains, his hand is on his knee, with no Oreo visible. When the scene flips from the window back to the four mutants, he has the Oreo in his hand again.

The U.S. battleship at Cuba changes its hull number intermittently between 61 and 62.

(at around 1h 14 mins) When Charles is holding the gun to Erik's head while training, the gun is close to Erik's forehead, but not touching it. In the next shot the gun is touching Erik's forehead, then in the shot after that, it's back to being close, but not touching.

Many story elements contradict what was established in the present-day X-Men films. Xavier says that Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Storm were some of his first students. Only Cyclops's older brother, Alex Summers/Havock, is a member of the team. Scott, Jean and Ororo are not shown joining until 1983, twenty years after the school first opened. Xavier also deduces that Magneto designed his helmet to block his telepathy. This is also shown in the "First Class" trilogy, so Xavier should have known this already, rather than be caught by surprise. He also says that Magneto helped him build Cerebro, but now it is shown to have been built by the CIA. He and Magneto also have their falling out before he opens the school, so presumably Magneto could not have helped build Cerebro. Their fallout, and Charles's paralysis, also contradict X-Men: The Last Stand, in which the two of the appear to be working at the school, and Xavier is bald and able to walk when they recruit Jean Grey. Hank McCoy/Beast develops a cure for mutation, but seems surprised decades later when someone else does the same.

(at around 8 mins) When a young Erik gets angry and starts destroying the lab room through the glass in Shaw's office, you see the metal table with the one large, central, cylindrical leg, moved, flipped over and flung twice.

(at around 32 mins) When older Erik first meets up with Shaw, Emma has part of her hair tied back. When she turns into her diamond form, her hair is loose.

(at around 40 mins) When Shaw's submarine is hiding under the ice and Emma is going up to the surface to get him some ice, you can clearly see a very popular Swedish landmark named Lapporten in the background. This would suggest that they're actually hiding in the nearby lake and not in the sea. It would be very difficult, if not impossible to sneak a submarine into that lake since it's very far from the sea.

(at around 27 mins) When Colonel Hendry meets Sebastian Shaw on his yacht, they are supposed to be in Miami. In one of the wide angle shots, you can see a long suspension bridge in the background. There are no suspension bridges in Miami. It appears to be the bridge near Jekyll Island, GA.

The helicopter that brings Emma Frost has a registration number that starts with G that registration letter is for Great Britain.

The Soviet naval ships are shown flying a red flag with a large yellow sickle and hammer in the center. The Soviet naval jack was red with a white cross on the diagonal as well as from the center, a blue diagonal cross was superimposed on the flag with a small white sickle and hammer in the center.

There is a scene of a military parade on Red Square in Moscow. The parades there are held on May 9th (a WWII Victory Day). At some years there were parades for an Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution on November 7th. The movie is set immediately prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was in October. Also the snow in Moscow would be very unusual for this time of the year.

When the Soviet and the American fleets fire their missiles toward the island, between the missiles fired by the soviets there is the "S-125M (SA-N-1) SAM" which is a surface to air missile designed to shoot down airplanes and it has no ability to be launched toward land targets.

When Eric/Magneto meets the 1st German (Pig Farmer) he takes the German's knife away. He reads the blade which says 'blut und ehre' (blood and honor) before he stabs the German's hand. That saying was etched on Hitler Youth Knives, which is is a different knife than the one shown. The knife was a black handled Reichsarbeitsdienst Leader Knife and would have been correctly etched 'Arbeit adelt' (Work ennobles) and the handle was originally white or cream colored.

(at around 26 mins) In the bar scene, Charles tells a woman she has a mutated MCR1 gene. While the human melanocortin 1 receptor gene (note MC1R, not MCR1) was not cloned (discovered) until 1992, Charles is shown in this series to have knowledge in advance of the scientific world at large.

People often say that Mystique shouldn't be about the same age as Charles in this movie because she was much younger than he was in the original trilogy. It is actually explained by Hank (Beast) in this movie that her cells age at half the rate as that of a normal human being.

(at around 1h 21 mins) Erik's memory of celebrating Chanukah with his mother includes a seven-branched candelabra. In Jewish tradition, Chanukah is celebrated with an nine-branched candelabra. However, at every other time of the year, Jewish families will frequently use 2, 3 or 7 candles to celebrate the Sabbath every Friday evening.

Magneto goes to the bar in Argentina for information about Shaw, but he kills everyone there and doesn't ask a single question.

(at around 1h 11 mins) When Emma Frost cuts the glass of the interrogation room, she taps it towards the outside, yet it clearly falls inside the room.

(at around 55 mins) In the establishing scene outside the secluded Russian manor house an ostensibly Russian military helicopter lands, clearly displaying its UK Civilian Register mark of G-CHOP. The aircraft is a licence built Westland AB-47G.