The death of a universe will occur this year as the Fox led X-Men saga comes to an end, by the sounds of things a fairly painful whimper of one rather than one on a note of success. The timeline of the X-Men franchise has been often discussed, now it looks to be becoming complete for the most part with only questions surrounding the Deadpool movies remaining as these have an almost self-contained continuity and may yet find themselves rolled across into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Looking back across the films we largely have two timelines, ignoring a lack of attention to detail the filmmakers had. A loose line up is:
The original timeline of events is:
First Class > Origins > X-Men > X-Men 2 > X-Men 3 > Wolverine > Days of Future Past
The events of that final film creating a second timeline which rolled together with the predating movie gives us:
First Class > Days of Future Past > Apocalypse > Dark Phoenix > The New Mutants > Logan
The largest continuity error seems to be that of Apocalypse. The films events involve the devastating return of Apocalypse but that return not depending on any of the actions of the movie canon, this means that by all accounts he should have emerged and revealed the existence of mutants in the original timeline too, this creates one of the criticisms the film received after Days had worked to reset the canon in the previous movie.
Given two, reportedly awful, movies are coming out this year and will likely bring Fox's X-Men saga to an end:
1 - Did you give up on the continuity of the X-Men franchise?
2 - Given the strong focus on the character, does it hold up for you as a viewer if taken from purely Logan's continuity, especially as he is the one character to exist throughout almost the entire arcing narrative continuously?
3 - Did Fox deliver on the X-Men premise?
Looking back across the films we largely have two timelines, ignoring a lack of attention to detail the filmmakers had. A loose line up is:
The original timeline of events is:
First Class > Origins > X-Men > X-Men 2 > X-Men 3 > Wolverine > Days of Future Past
The events of that final film creating a second timeline which rolled together with the predating movie gives us:
First Class > Days of Future Past > Apocalypse > Dark Phoenix > The New Mutants > Logan
The largest continuity error seems to be that of Apocalypse. The films events involve the devastating return of Apocalypse but that return not depending on any of the actions of the movie canon, this means that by all accounts he should have emerged and revealed the existence of mutants in the original timeline too, this creates one of the criticisms the film received after Days had worked to reset the canon in the previous movie.
Given two, reportedly awful, movies are coming out this year and will likely bring Fox's X-Men saga to an end:
1 - Did you give up on the continuity of the X-Men franchise?
2 - Given the strong focus on the character, does it hold up for you as a viewer if taken from purely Logan's continuity, especially as he is the one character to exist throughout almost the entire arcing narrative continuously?
3 - Did Fox deliver on the X-Men premise?
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