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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