10 WTF Moments In X-Men: Apocalypse

10) The Unexpectedly Brutal Opening Scene

There are times when X-Men: Apocalypse pushes the PG-13 boundaries pretty forcefully. The titular villain’s fiery, melty death at the end of the film is fairly unflinching, while Wolverine’s berserker rampage – complete with copious shots of blood and of Logan sinking his claws into the soldiers trying to apprehend him – looks like test footage for next year’s R-rated Wolverine film. The most brutal moment in the movie, however, can be found right at the beginning.

As En Sabah Nur’s worshippers attempt to prevent their deity from transferring into another body, his Four Horsemen use their powers to go to town on the assailants, variously dissolving and crushing them like a car compacter. The sheer WTF-ness of the moment comes from two things: 1) the inventive, almost Cronenbergian-style body horror of the killing, and 2) how Bryan Singer managed to get the scene past the censors.