My point was that young Magneto was portrayed as being the type to carry out his campaign with an aggression and overtness that should've made mutant terrorism far more acknowledged by the time of OT's near future, but Kelly still talked about is as more of a possibility.
Magneto was imprisoned and Cuba's incident was swept under the rug, not as a mutant issue, but as the Cuban Missile Crisis. No one knows what happened, but Magneto was recruiting people at the end of FC, and he probably wasn't able to enact his plan because he was captured. Think about how long it took him to enact his revenge on Shaw. It was careful planning when he was eliminating the former soldiers.
And the paris and DC incidents showed that you can't sweep everything under the rug like they did the Cuban incident.
The Paris and DC incidents happen due to Logan's interference in the timeline, which speed up Trask's agenda for the Sentinel Program.
The incidents in DOFP wasn't part of the OT timeline, but the ones in FC should still be.
They are, it's just a government coverup that is secured at the highest level. Plus, it's always shown in different films that the current President has no knowledge of every single secret and coverup, so this is likely the case. The mutant problem doesn't become an immediate threat because the most aggressive mutant is captured.
But she couldn't have lived through the experiments, hence she couldn't have been in the OT, which is the error. The extent of the experimentation to be conducted on her to glean the knowledge they needed in order to develop the Sentinels' adaptive abilities would've killed her.
She kills Trask and is then captured. It's likely the people who take over used different methods to extract what they needed from her, such as DNA and kept her alive because killing her means they can't continue research. Just because Trask wanted to dissect her like he did other mutants, doesn't mean the others who took over would do the same. This allows her to escape. It took 50 years for the Sentinel Program to launch, which was most likely put in motion after X3 happens.
For the adaptive Sentinels to have come into existence, Mystique couldn't have survived the experiments. Trask specifically said that a few drops of blood wouldn't be sufficient to gain the knowledge they required, they needed to harvest every last scrap of her genetic material. That and the fact that nobody DOES survive the experiments suggests that she doesn't.
People in POW camps have survived/escaped when others haven't in real life. People survived Nazi prison camps while others didn't, does that mean a scenario where someone did survive couldn't have ever happened?
It wasn't spelled out, but the inference was clear. Well, Jean sorta spells it out when she said they said they were just NOW seeing the BEGINNINGS of mutancy.
Kept hidden.
Not after the Paris and DC incidents.
Which are a result of Logan's interference.
Now you're just quibbling. They dropped a stadium on the front lawn and dragged the presidential bunker in the surface, all in live television
They? Only one man did that, and he was shown being taken down by his own kind on live television.
