I hated Xavier in the first movies, even though Patrick Stewart! I think a lot of it is that he was just so smug, and a lot of it was the whole 'oh hey, Scott, trusted leader of my X-men. I know you and your crack first-flight team have logged many hours in the Danger Room learning to function as an efficient unit, but take this weird Canadian with anger issues and no memory and a tendency to just fuck off at inconvenient moments on this mission, would you?'

Which may have something to do with a) my ridiculous love for Scott and b) my massive hate-on for Wolverine. I just, seriously, do.not.get why people like him (apologies if you do, it's just a mystery to me).

I totally love Charles though. He's such an arse, and yet completely adorable and the end of the film made me cry like a baby.

I don't find Erik/Toad much of a leap either. I shall go looking for that after work :-)