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X-Men: First Class -- Professor X Puts Magneto In A Dress
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X-Men: First Class introduces Professor X and Magneto as young men trying to assemble the first team of mutant superheroes. As part of that recruitment effort, we nearly got a scene wherein Magneto wears a dress, because Michael Fassbender in drag is apparently enough to convince someone to sign up for a secret government program.
Most of the scene made it to the movie. Xavier and Magneto go to a strip club to find a dragonfly mutant named Angel Salvadore. She ends up dying off-screen between sequels, so this is basically a wasted trip.
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"Sorry, we were looking for the good character who turns into Archangel. Our bad."
They take her in the back for a "private dance," only to have Magneto reveal his powers to her by magically lifting a bucket of champagne.
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In real life, Fassbender uses his sexual magnetism to lift those.
In the film, that's all Angel needs to realize that these two obvious creeps are in fact mutants, so she spreads her wings, quits her job, and moves into the lucrative world of unpaid crime-fighting. But in the original version of the scene, we also got a display of Xavier's abilities. Xavier is one of the most powerful telepaths in the universe -- he can read and control minds, hypnotize people, cast illusions, and screw with memories. How does he show off this amazing, literally mind-blowing ability?
He makes Magneto look like a cocktail waitress.
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"That's a very specific look."
"It's not the first time I've thought about it ..."
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