It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over !!!
Okay, sometimes there are extra 'bits' after credits, but they are typically comedies (Dodgeball, Ferris Buller, Canonball Run, Something Like Mary) or Pixar cartoons. But action flicks!?
Truthfully I was a little pissed about the end of X-Men 3, so eventhough I considered waiting until the end of the credits, I just wanted to get out of there.
Well it turns out that there another scene that explains it all, why cetain people lost their powers and others died, and how the series can continue after all (should they choose to). If you've seen the film and didn't watch the end (past the credits) then highlight the space below to see what happens and the conclusions drawn from it. If you haven't seen it then you've been warned, below is obvious spoilers:
Basically you see Xavier is still alive and is awoken on a bed, by the person who is now in charge of the acadamy. Aparently the reason why we don't see Scott/Cyclops die is because he's also still alive, and Grey/Phoenix will still come back from the dead - eventhough she gets stabbed to "death" by Logan/Wolvereen!
Magneto's powers come back as do Mystic's, since the 'cure' is not permanent, as was first thought. You see a little clue of this before the credits when Magneto barely moves a metal chess piece. It was unclear, at least to me, as to whether that chess scene was showing that he was regaining his powers or a picture of a feble old man/mutant - it now appears to be the former.
Man I'm so pissed, but I'm not going to watch the whole flick again, just to see the end! If it wasn't a screener that I was going to and I had a ticket stub, I would be demanding to be let back in to see the end! As it is, I'll probably have to theatre hop and watch the end of it after watching some other film! The theatres need to tell their customers about it before they go in!