Deacon

He did a great job on Excalibur.

Hugo Holbling

I may be well wide of the mark, but when Jean "died" i noticed Iceman looking kinda strange. Is it possible he froze her before she could've drowned, thus avoiding the need to go into the Phoenix storyline?

Monkeybot

I dunno, I thought the changes in Jean's eyes and the fire that surrounded her right before she died made the Phoenix storyline kind of inevitable.

Pomp

Oh, hell, yes. That was during Peter David's run as writer, wasn't it? Best. X-Book. Ever.

KoopaFanatic

That, and the end shot with the phoenix superimposed over the water.

Shadowy Man

Yeah. Exactly. And the fact that Jean Grey did the voice over at the end while they showed this. And maybe even Professor X's glance out the windows and subsequent "everything will be all right".

Deacon

Very Wrath of Khan

Oh, and the two "Once And Future King" references.

LOVE THAT BOOK!!!

Monkeybot

I guess tiny details like that would count too

Animesh

As we were leaving, my son spotted Jubilee in the closing credits. I imagine she's just one of the kids in the school, but I would have figured, during the invasion, that she would have . . . blown up something.

ex-idaho

I seem to recall some firework like effects during the raid on the school that were initiated by a young girl. At the time I thought I wonder if thats supposed to be Jubilee.

I thought they did a great job putting in little inside bits for those that were into the X-Men universe instead of playing totally to the average movie goer. Including cameos of Beast and dropping names of possible future characters was great.