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X-Men Continuity? (some spoilers)

posted 10 years ago by littlefuzzy
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I went on a kick and watched all of the X-Men and Wolverine films, and I was wondering, are X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), X-Men First Class (2011) and The Wolverine (2013) all part of the main X-Men continuity with the first three films and Days of Future Past?

Some spoilers ahead:

In First Class, Emma Frost is bad, and the professor is injured, but still has his hair. The school hasn't started getting new people yet (hence the first class name.) In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Emma Frost is a teenage prisoner at the facility, and a walking but bald Professor X shows up to save everyone.

In Days of Future Past, it showed that the Professor was taking a drug to cure his paralysis, but it cost him the use of his mental powers.

Next, in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, he lost his memory after being shot in the head with an adamantium bullet, sometime in the 1960s-70s. However, in The Wolverine, he has memories from World War II. Or did his memories continue to heal after taking the bullet?

So, are the Wolverine films (or at least the first one,) not part of the main continuity, or are those just continuity errors?

Moving on to Days of Future Past, it was about Bolivar Trask (played by Peter Dinklage) creating the Sentinels, but before Wolverine was sent back to the past, Trask was assassinated in 1973 (I think that's the right year.) After the events of the movie unfolded, it looked like Trask and everyone else were 'lovey-dovey' towards mutants. In X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) there was a character named Trask (played by Bill Duke.) The events of that movie didn't seem to connect him to the Trask in X-M:DoFP, although he was still against the mutants.

Are some of these problems just because the writers are making it up as they go along, or are some of the movies in a different continuity like a reboot or something, even though they have some of the same actors? I get that Hulk (2003) and The Incredible Hulk (2008) are different interpretations of the same character, just like Spider-Man 1-3 vs. The Amazing Spider-Man 1-2. Obviously, the events of Days of Future Past reset history from the 70s onward, and wiped out the first three X-Men movies and possibly the two Wolverine movies (the first one, in particular.) Conceivably, The Wolverine (2013) might have been made in the altered timeline, giving a reason why he would recall events from WWII. However, Magneto and Professor X show up at the end, leading into Days of Future Past.

Another question, if the timeline was altered and Wolverine hadn't received the adamantium yet, would he EVER get it in the altered "peaceful" timeline? Actually, I thought Stryker had recruited Wolverine before 1973 (although the adamantium was later), according to Origins. Yet he was a young soldier in Days of Future Past.

Another Wolverine question: In The Wolverine (2013) did he get his adamantium claws back? Maybe Mariko was able to reattach them or something (they did have a large stock of adamantium, or did the Silver Samurai use it all up?)

I am a VERY casual X-Men comic reader, and I haven't read them in several years.

[–] george59883-36-312142 10 years ago

Continuity is crazy in X-Men films now, but the only films that are currently in continuity are First Class and Days of Future Past. Everything was at one point in continuity, but you ended up pointing out several of the continuity errors and I think that since Origins was so bad that Fox kind of hid that in their back closet and probably won't mention it again. That is why we probably won't get a Ryan Reynolds deadpool film, but Days of Future Past just created the future where we actually everything is nice and all death and destruction. It isn't explained how he got his claws back in Days of Future Past, but he just has them so yeah. Maybe Magneto, but it just isn't explained. We also don't know how they will get him the Adamantium with the stinger having Mystique as Stryker.
I find every film in the series important because the future won't nearly have the same effect in Days of Future Past as it does with out knowing the characters from the first series so I just find it that they created a new universe so they could retire the original cast and give the new kids and Jackman their story.