Okay, X-Men 2 - fantastic film.

A gripe. Not so much with the film, but with the concept of all the various Marvel universes co-existing. I'm not an expert on the Marvelverse, so I could be missing something, but:

The superheroes of most Marvel comics manage to exist as heroes, as people the public rely on for protection, despite some of them being outside the law and so on. I've no problem with that, despite the existence of over four and a half thousand Marvel characters existing in the same country, mostly in the same small number of cities (New York seems popular for freaks of nature - odd that), being an untenable stretch on the already strained fabric of believability.

However, in X-Men, the social situation is so different - there's government paranoia over mutants, supremacist attitudes on all sides, the world on the precipice of massive change, the possibility of a mutant Holocaust being just a few years away. It's so much darker that it deserves its own universe, separate from the Marvel mainstream. You don't see the same degree of hatred directed at even the vigilante superheroes. They aren't referred to as part of the mutant problem (which is, in itself, a throwback to the Jewish problem, that demanded a Final Solution).

X-Men should not be in the same universe as the Marvel superheroes. It's as simple as that.