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Original vs post DOFP timeline?

posted 7 years ago by bozo_500 (12115)
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-Set in the original X123/Origins/FC/The Wolverine timeline? (as direct references are made about X1/2 events maybe X3 too...but the original timeline concluded with the DOFP 2023 Sentinels dark future so can't be that, plus the event of X1/2/Origins/TW could've still happened albeit slightly different (the samurai sword is seen, plus del scene of Logan talking about Origins) or maybe Logan and Prof Xs mind meld in DOFP gave him the memories of the original timeline and its not as if Charles is in a fit state to remember correctly and Logan wouldn't correct him as technically those events did happen – see the deleted scene of him saying Logan killed Jean

-set in the DOFP/Apocalypse timeline? (has to be this as there is no Original timeline beyond 2023... seems a stretch that merely 6 years after the perfect alternate future of the DOFP 2023 ending could go so wrong but maybe it could (as Terminator showed and as Beast explained in DOFP - the future is inevitable).. and perhaps all the DOFP stuff - the original timeline wiped, the mind meld, professors knowledge of two timelines etc (combined with the mutant suppressor stuff in food stuff and his age) is what caused the Professors to gradually lose his mind, suffer seizures that killed the team (and obviously Logan could survive it)

So yeah it must be set in the years after the optimistic DOFP alternate future :( ..

unless Logan is the 'real world' with F bombs aplenty, blood gore etc and all the previous films are merely PG13 adaptations of the comics (therefore its its own timeline)

[–] AP (5255) 7 years ago

The X-Men movies have had terrible continuity. I stopped caring a long time ago and just assume each movie is its own thing.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

IMHO, this is how I see the X-Men movies timeline, based on using Wolverine as the thread that holds them together:
1.) X-Men Origins: Wolverine
2.) X-Men: First Class
3.) X-Men: Apocalypse
4.) X-Men
5.) X2: X-Men United
6.) X-Men: The Last Stand
7.) The Wolverine
8.) Deadpool
9.) X-Men: Days Of Future Past
10.) Logan

There will be those who disagree with this, and that is fine. This is only how I see the films making chronological sense, even with certain discrepancies in the films (especially X-Men Origins: Wolverine).
Being a fan of comic book movies (ALL comic book movies - DC, Marvel, etc.), I have, for the most part, been happy with the movies made since 1978's glorious Christopher Reeve Superman, because when I was younger, superheroes were not treated with the respect they deserved. Most movies and TV shows (i.e. 1960's Batman) never treated them as anything other than campy exercises.
2000's X-Men changed all that, so I like them all, even the ones with questionable ideas behind them.
There have been a few I didn't care for (Howard The Duck, TMNT (never was a big fan of the comics), Transformers, but for the most part, I have liked (and in some cases, LOVED) all the superhero films from 2000 on.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4474) 7 years ago

Personally, it's rather easy for me to believe that this film is set in some different universe. Of course its connection with the other movies can't be ignored, but still.