Which order does the X-Men movies go?
Ok, so there are the original movies, X-men, X2 X-men United and X-men 3 Final Stand, which go in that order. Then there are First Class, Days of Future Past and the soon-to-be-released X-men Apocalypse. Which go in that order. As to where the two sets of movies fit together, it gets a bit more complicated. So, going by what year everything would have happened in, the chronology would go like this 1)First Class 2) The parts of Days of Future Past that happen in the past 3)Apocalypse 4)X-men 5)X2 6)Final Stand 7) The parts of Days of Future Past that happened in the future. However, Days of Future Past had a time travel plot that changes everything. After DOFP nothing in Xmen, X2 or Final Stand would have happened. It was all changed because time travel. Basically, comic and comic based movie continuity is messed up.
How is Professor X still alive in Xmen Days Of Future Past?
Perhaps the most contentious of the Days of Future Past continuity errors is the fact that Professor Charles Xavier is alive in the future despite having been killed in X-Men: The Last Stand. While the end credits button scene for The Last Stand does suggest that Professor X, or at least his consciousness, is still alive, Days of Future Past never explains why the character looks exactly the same, or is still a paraplegic. Some will say that Xavier’s consciousness jumped into the mind of a twin brother, but, as we see it, there are two better options for solving this problem. Option 1 is to have Professor X stay dead. Many films undermine their predecessor’s end credits scenes, and in this case the scene is vague at best. Our solution is to have it be Magneto who urges Wolverine to go back in time and save Mystique, rather than Charles. We suspect that Magneto, and likely all the mutants, are well aware that it is Mystique’s DNA that gives the future Sentinels their advantage, and so it’s easy to see Magneto realizing that the time travel solution is the only one. In turn, this choice would make the final scenes in Days of Future Past - where Wolverine discovers all of the X-Men crew alive and well – all the more poignant. Wolverine is relieved to see Jean and Cyclops alive, but the big reveal would then become Professor X, who then tells Logan all he missed in the mean time. Option 2 is a little more complex, but easier to pull off with minimal changes to Days of Future Past. Essentially, what we propose is a solution where Professor X is actually projecting a vision of himself into the minds of the X-Men, but he’s really in another person’s body. We know that Xavier and other telepaths are capable of this – we saw such powers on display in a few scenes from First Class – so it’s possible Professor X is tricking the X-men into thinking they are talking to him. This would also keep in line with The Last Stand button scene, and The Wolverine end credits scene as well. How we would find out that it’s not truly Professor X comes when young Charles (James McAvoy) communicates with elder Charles (Patrick Stewart) and sees through the visage. In that scene, Professor X could explain what happened and the ruse he has been pulling off for years. And again, the final scenes with Professor X could focus on how Wolverine saved the real Professor X from death.
Why is “X men: days of future past” hated?
I’m one of the people who hated it. Primarily because it makes no sense. That and the last thing the world needed was another Wolverine film.First, in the future, why was Professor X alive and in the form of Patrick Stewart? He died in the third X-Men film. There was a post-credits scene that implies his consciousness had possessed a coma victim, so surely if the Professor was alive in the future he would have had a different body. I’ve seen internet comments claiming that the body he possesses was his previously unknown and unmentioned twin, but that is not actually a part of any film and so is a glaring plot hole.Second, Kitty Pryde has the power to walk through walls. To make herself and the things she touches intangible. Now she can magically send other peoples consciousnesses back in time? Without even touching them? Nonsense.Third, Wolverine. Urgh. Of course, for plot reasons (and because, for some reason the world has an obsession with the boring character), it had to be Hugh Jackman, but after First Class (which, to be fair had its own collection of inconsistent nonsense but was at least more entertaining with it) I was enjoying a Wolverine-free X-Universe, but that wasn’t to last.Fourth, Mystique. I enjoyed Jennifer Lawrence’s take on the young Mystique in First Class, but in DoFP she was just completely wasted.And many, many more issues! That said, I love, and probably always will, Michael Fassbender’s Magneto.
What is a good summary of the entire X-Men movie series?
Unlike Marvel, The X-Franchise hasn’t done a good job of continuity and honestly you’re better off just considering each film it’s own “universe”. With that said I did a bit of research and came up with these two viewing orders.Chronologically it would look something like this.X-Men Origins: Wolverine (1843–1979)X-Men: First Class (1944–1962)X-Men: Apocalypse (1983)X-Men (1994)X2 (1994, about a month later)X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, But probably eliminated by X-men DoFP)The Wolverine (2013)Deadpool (2015–2016)X-Men: Days of Future Past (2023 {1973})The Best way to watch it though, would be like this (IMO)X-MenX2X-Men Origins: WolverineX-Men: Days of Future PastX-Men: First ClassX-Men: ApocalypseThe WolverineDeadpoolMakes the timeline a little clearer. You start with the first two X films, then watch Wolverine’s Origins and finish up with the events that “rebooted” the franchise and then move on to First Class to watch the “first” rebooted timeline. Yes, technically First Class occurs before DoFP, but I feel that DoFP works better to start with. Then move on to Apocalypse, Wolverine & Deadpool.Sources: [1] [2]Footnotes[1] How To Watch The X-Men Movies In Chronological Order[2] X-men movie universe timelines broken down