*SPOILER WARNING FOR ALL X-MEN MOVIES*
What doesn’t help is the films are released in the wrong order. So to start off, here are their chronological and release orders.
Release Order: X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of the Future Past, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, Logan, Deadpool 2, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, New Mutants (2020).
Chronological Order: X-Men: First Class (1962), X-Men: Days of Future Past (1973 sequence), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (1979/1981), X-Men: Apocalypse (Alternate 1983), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (Alternate 1992), X-Men (2003), X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), The Wolverine (2013), Deadpool (2016), Deadpool 2 (2018), The New Mutants (2019) X-Men: Days of Future Past (2023 sequence), Logan (2029).
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This is the movie that really screwed up the timeline (Image: FOX)
Here's where it starts getting confusing. Even with the chronological order, there is an old timeline and a new one.
The movie that really screwed everything up was X-Men: Days of Future Past with all its timey-wimey antics. But before we get to that, we’re going to have a look at the original timeline, before it was altered.
Granted there are scenes in some of the movies set before the change in 1973, like X-Men: First Class in 1962 and WW2, and Wolverine’s spin-offs in different parts of the 19th and 20th century.
But since the change took place in 1973, anything prior to that year goes unchanged in either timeline, so will not be included.
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Original Timeline:
1973: In the original events of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Mystique assassinated Peter Dinklage’s Trask.
She is captured and has her DNA used to advance Trask’s Sentinel robots, giving them an ability to adapt to any mutant power.
1979/1981: In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Logan is given his adamantium skeleton and claws by William Stryker.
Logan loses him memory after defeating a mouthless Deadpool (timeline inconsistency), and we see a shot of a walking, bald Professor X.
1983: The events of X-Men Apocalypse do not occur.
1992: The events of X-Men Dark Phoenix do not occur.
2003: The events of X-Men occur.
2003: The events of X-Men 2 occur.
2006: The events of X-Men: The Last Stand occur.
Logan was never the same after he had to put down Jean Grey in X-Men: The Last Stand (Image: FOX)
2013: In The Wolverine, Logan has become a bearded recluse, psychologically damaged by the death of Jean Grey in The Last Stand.
He ends up in Japan for the events for a spin-off story where he loses his adamantium claws, but on his return to the US, he’s greeted in an end credits sequence by Professor X and Magneto.
They ask him to come with them after sharing news of the rapidly advancing Sentinels, a direct tease for X-Men: Days of Future Past.
2016: It is unknown whether the events of Deadpool occur or not.
2018: It is unknown whether the events of Deadpool 2 occur or not.
Things aren't looking bright in 2023, so some badass time travel is needed (Image: FOX)
2023: The world is a post-apocalyptic landscape in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
The last surviving mutants hide in pockets around the world from the genocidal advanced Sentinels.
Realising their only hope is to change the timeline, Wolverine, who has his adamantium claws back (presumably thanks to Magneto), agrees to be sent back to 1973.
There he will work with a younger Professor X and Magneto, to prevent Mystique’s assassination of Trask and her capture.
Wolverine arrives in 1973 ready to change the past (Image: FOX)
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So what changed in Days of Future Past?
Rather than creating another timeline like the rebooted