The X-Men Movie Timeline Still Makes No Sense 24 Years In (and That's OK)

Man, Deadpool & Wolverine sure gave us a bunch of Easter eggs and cameos that tie back to a variety of old Fox Marvel movies – and some non-Fox ones as well. But what the latest Marvel Studios film also manages to do is kind of make the Fox X-Men movie timeline even more confusing than it already was – and that’s saying something.

Still, perhaps what lies at the center of the new Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman film is a bigger question about how much any of this continuity stuff really matters anyway.

In a world where you can have 100 Deadpools, or a new Logan – even after the so-called final film in the Wolverine franchise killed off the character – does continuity or canon really make a difference anymore? The Fox movie-verse is essentially part of the MCU now – a franchise that in part rose to Hollywood prominence because of its mastery of the concept of the shared universe. But it’s hard not to wonder how much longer viewers will remain invested in the House that Kevin Feige built when the New Marvel Normal tells us that, thanks to the multiverse, death and change are essentially meaningless now.

Spoilers below this point follow for Deadpool & Wolverine!

Ironically, the Fox Marvel movies kind of knew that continuity didn’t matter. And it turns out that may have been a feature, not a bug.

Here are some of the (spoilery) questions we ponder in this video:

Does Logan exist in the same timeline as Deadpool?
How did X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: First Class break the timeline?
Did Days of Future Past really fix the X-Men universe?
How do the Human Torch, Blade, Gambit, Elektra and all the other Void characters fit into the main MCU timeline now?
Does Deadpool & Wolverine put the title characters in the MCU finally?
Does being part of a shared universe even matter anymore?

So let’s steal a TVA thingamajig and dig into this further with a look at the confusing X-Men movie timeline, as well as the bigger Fox/Marvel-verse and beyond – and what lessons they might teach us about the future of the MCU! From 2000's X-Men to X2, The Last Stand, First Class, Days of Future Past, the Deadpool movies, X-Men Origins, The Wolverine, and Logan, there is a lot of mutant examination that needs to happen!

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[oceantransistor]

Multiverse mixed with time travel is ultimate plot armor.

[xvi]

But why was Thor crying over deadpool?!

[Elibbb-sxkg]

"This timeliness is really confusing"- deadpool

[piopaolovalenzuela]

At the End of the Day Uncle Ben will die

[mjstwilight]

A shared universe that doesn’t sacrifice its own story is what we need, that is why previous mcu films worked.

[mayohyundai]

Like Mr. Paradox said, the fox universe is a mess when it comes to the timelines. Now we have a canon reason for that, Logan's death made soup of the timeline. Thats 100 percent not the original intention with the messy timelines but the lack of sense makes sense retroactively

[glaive]

The whole multiverse thing makes anything possible.

[Lemuel]

Multiple alternate timelines in a different branch.

[eon]

They should have just said First class, Deadpool and Logan were alternate realities.

[crithon]

These movies HURT MY BRAIN! just little WHY WAS THERE SET UP OR THE JACKET IN XMEN Origins Wolverine? YES! It's the Jacket from XMen 1, but he loses it before fighting Deadpool. ACK!

[mecfc]

So is Logan (2017) set in the universe of the first X-Men? He makes a reference to the Statue Of Liberty early in the film.

[anamariabianu]

It makes no sense because they are in separate parallel instance First Class Trilogy and X-Men Trilogy are in separate universes(where some events are identical in the two separate parallel universes).

[zacadelix]

My head canon is x1-x3 is one universe and wolverine origins-Logan is another and then first class-days of future past is separate and the rest just don’t exist

[nashsanadiki]

Yeah wasn't Azazel and other mutants rounded up and experimented on by Trask as Magneto mentioned in days of future past 😂

[medrayenbenromdhane]

yeah they screwed it up again this time again deadpool and logan events in same universe but logan events in 2029 but deadpool's is in 2024 it means logan still alive in the timeline of deadpool events

[bobafett]

You know it would’ve been cool to see nick cage come back as ghost rider for Deadpool and wolverine and I’m talking the first movie the second movie never happened in my world

[wachinimagaming]

My theory is Deadpool 2 just got retconned to be set in 2023 and Deadpool 3 is 6 years later in 2029. The opening of Deadpool 2 is a joke about the Logan movie releasing in OUR world, as we can see Professor X is still alive in the mansion played by James McAvoy (though he should technically look like Stewart by then). And before you say "he tried signing up for the Avengers in 2018 after Deadpool 2, " which he did, the 2018 of the MCU. His time machine lets him travel different worlds and times, like the end of X-Men Origins in 1979 to shoot Barakapool, and probably our world to shoot Ryan Reynolds in the early 2010s. That's my best guess at least.

[gabzpot]

Whatever. Time travel doesn't exist. Neither mutants. And is just a movie. Fun movies, for the most part. So, f**k it.

[abhinavgarg]

Someone please answer, Wolverine died in future how there was two Wolverine in current

[Sipan]

The movie made the existing timelines even more confusing