![]() ![]() The Last Stand has been credited for nearly killed the franchise due to the film’s multitude of issues which included a change in directors, large studio interference by Fox, and the poor handling of adapting the iconic Dark Phoenix Saga. The reception to The Last Stand and X-Men Origins were disastrous among fans despite their large box office intakes. I mean, he was dust before Thanos made it cool. ![]() Even though the end of The Last Stand implies that Xavier transferred his consciousness to another body, this still doesn’t explain how he’s back in his original body. In the post-credits scene of The Wolverine, we see our first major continuity problem: Professor Xavier shows up with Magneto to ask for Wolverine’s help due to the upcoming Sentinel threat we would later see in X-Men: Days Of The Future Past.īut why is it a continuity error? Well, Xavier showing up here doesn’t make any sense, since Jean Grey killed him in in The Last Stand. The follow-up film, The Wolverine takes place after The Last Stand, covering Wolverine’s time in Japan. As the title of the film suggests, we see Wolverine’s origin story. Origins was supposed to launch a new prequel series in the franchise entitled X-Men: Origins, but we all know that didn’t happen. The timeline for these films goes: goes in the order of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men, X2: United, X-Men: The Last Stand, and The Wolverine. This timeline consists of the original X-Men trilogy: X-Men, X-2: United, and X-Men: The Last Stand, as well as the first two Wolverine films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine. The original timeline, aside from a few small issues here and there, is straightforward. The X-Men timeline hasn’t always been convoluted. As the sequel to X-Men: Apocalypse and the final film for our main X-Men, where exactly does Dark Phoenix fit in the X-Men timeline? But first, let’s start at the beginning. Dark Phoenix, the latest and final mainline X-Men films just released, although The New Mutants, if it ever even comes out, will technically be the final film of Fox’s reign over the X-Men. ![]() Without question, the X-Men franchise has the worst continuity of any film franchise and as each movie is released, the timeline only gets muddier, especially since the launch of prequel series. ![]()
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