The trauma activates Erik’s dormant mutant genes, causing him to bend metal for the first time. If we jump ahead from Apocalypse’s ancient Egypt to 1944 Poland, we meet Erik Lensherr (Magneto), a boy separated from his mother in a Nazi death camp. For now, we will ignore Apocalypse until we get to the time travel plot in Days of Future Past ( DoFP). The rest of the film’s events, however, are not relevant to the original timeline because they occur in the 1980s and are the direct result of a time travel incident happening in the 1970s. Our earliest look at history in the X-world comes in the prologue to X-Men: Apocalypse, where the titular villain debuts as one of the world’s first mutants. The Original Timeline: Character Crossovers in First Class and X-Men Origins: Wolverine I personally take a different approach to making sense of the timeline because I don’t necessarily consider films like Deadpool and Logan as existing in their own alternate realities, but rather can be viewed as part of the collective cinematic X-Men experience. The folks at Gizmodo just published an awesome article on how to map-out the expansive timeline of the X-Men movies. Here I will try to make sense of the X-timeline with special attention to the seeming contradictions that muddle the minds of movie-goers everywhere. What is more, with time travel elements being introduced in Days of Future Past and Deadpool 2, the timeline has been disrupted to the point of conscious plot deviations from preceding installments. Ever since 20th Century Fox decided to branch off into origin stories and solo adventures following their original trilogy of X-Men movies (2000-2006), the X-world has become confused and convoluted by time jumps and continuity errors. The X-Men film franchise, predating the dominant Marvel media brand known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) that generally progresses in chronological order, has left audiences with many questions surrounding the in-universe timeline. When does Dark Phoenix take place? Why is Beast not blue in X2? How come Professor X can walk at the beginning of X3? Does Magneto have an Irish accent in First Class?
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