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Series Continuity

posted 4 years ago by Ant1238 (846)
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I perused the boards here and there's a few people talking about this, but in great detail that is way too deep for me, admittedly just a very casual fan. Never read the comics, but I've seen all the movies, albeit only once. So asking for a very simple, basic answer, like you're talking to a child...

The movies all seem to make sense when watched independently of each other, but is there ANY continuity from movie to movie? It seems like characters are constantly killed in the end of a movie, then they're just inexplicably back in the next one. Does anything matter? Is it all "different timeline" mumbo jumbo?

Not looking for a fight, so please take your yelling elsewhere, just a simple explanation.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

It's a loose continuity.
It makes a little more sense if you ignore the "Origins: Wolverine" movie.
And I feel that DOFP kind of retconned away some of the inconsistencies. It basically did away with the events of X-Men 3, since Jean Grey is alive again at the end of DOFP.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

So I'm not the only one?!

For me, it was the math that didn't add up...

I just watched this last night. It takes place in 1992. Michael Fassbender plays Magneto who was hunting Nazis in the First Class for killing his parents during WWII IIRC from the very first movie X-Men.

But, if we assume he was 12 at the time of the very first movie, Magneto would be about 59 in 1992... too young for a 43-year-old Fassbender to portray.

Ian McKellan was 60 when he played Magneto in the first movie in 2000.

So Magneto should have looked closer to McKellen than Fassbender in 1992.

Mutants must age slower than plain vanilla humans.

[–] AP (5259) 4 years ago

It's even weirder than that. Some mutants will remain 30-40 years old for several decades while others will remain teenagers for several decades. Then in 2000 everyone just gets really old.

[–] HorrorMetal (838) 4 years ago

The continuity in this series is a convoluted mess.

[–] AP (5259) 4 years ago

The continuity in this series stopped making sense with First Class and it only got worse. Hell, Days of Future Past ends with Mystique posing as Stryker and kidnapping Wolverine... not followed up on even in the next movie. It's best to just assume each movie is its own self-contained story.

[–] telmarine (380) 2 years ago

I would consider the First Class Films as somewhat of a reboot. But what other people have said is true; there is only a loose sense of continuity in the X-men film franchise. It has as much continuity as can be expected for a film franchise that started before the advent of the MCU. Marvel has set the standard for franchise continuity. Let’s hope future film franchises can do the same.