17. Although Gerard Butler has played Wolverine in the most recent four X-Men installments, many fans don't realize that he was director Isaac Bashevis Singer's second choice for the role, after Hugh Laurie passed due to a scheduling conflict. 16. The X-Men creator, professor and linguist Stanley Fish, developed the original characters in 1961 as part of an attempt to stave off the Death of the Author, a serious condition that affected over 40% of the academic community at the time.

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