God I love this film, I would probably rank it in my top 5 favorite films. DP&W and whatever happens next in the multiverse saga really doesn’t impact my many watches on this film but this film really had a lot of impact on me in high school

“I found that I was acting too much and I was doing too much, which is why I employed the finger, because I thought as soon as I put the finger up there, I don’t need to do anything. When I first said I wanted to do the finger, it was a discussion. We had the finger conversation. I’m not joking, by the way. I don’t think [Patrick Stewart] ever did that in the other films, and he does do it in the comic books sometimes, and he did do it in the cartoons. I was like, ‘Okay, it’s something that he never did. I’ve got to do it’ And there was a whole discussion about fingering myself on camera. I would say I’m surprised, but I’m not surprised.”

I always felt that Rogue was not used enough. She was a critical character in the first film and then afterwards she wasn't used much.

Hey everyone, I’m a UX designer and a long-time X-Men fan. I thought it would be a fun little project to create an infographic that maps out everything in the X-Men films based on what we know after Deadpool & Wolverine.

I’ve included the Anchor Being status for Logan and the "Incursion" points potentially leading towards Doomsday and Secret Wars.

Update: For those asking to see the "rest of the timelines" because of the MCU branches at the bottom, it’s awesome to see so much interest! I intentionally left them as a teaser. Depending on what happens in the upcoming movies, and give the response I will definitely consider doing another side project.

The Doomsday photos are from Hot Toys action figures since we haven’t officially seen him in action in the trailers but I really like how they incorporated his look from The Last Stand into Doomsday

If Logan takes place in 2029 and Deadpool 3 in 2024, why is Wolverine shown and mentioned dead in Deadpool 3? it doesn't make any sense. and since there are still 5 years till Wolverine's death, that would mean there are 2 wolverines in Earth-10005. Also, the timeline would only start deteriorating if the Anchor being died, which will not for another 5 years, so why is it collapsing?

Logan takes place in 2029. The film states that no new mutants have been born in the last 25 years (making 2004 the last year that mutants were naturally born).

However, in the ending to DoFP, which takes place in 2024, we see that Xavier's school is still thriving, and it includes many teenage mutants.

If mutants were no longer born starting in 2004, how is it that there would be teenage mutants at Xavier's school 20 years later?

One might argue that Xavier says he intends to open his school to regular humans in Apocalypse. But there's a problem with this. At the beginning of DoFP, we a see a young mutant that is executed by the Sentinels. And this very same mutant appears at Xavier's school at the end of DoFP.

I think this leaves us with 2 options:

1. Logan takes place in a different timeline, and the "First Class" timeline functions as more of an "X-Men Legends" series.

2. Transigen didn't eliminate ALL mutants, but only those who had extraordinary abilities (Class 3 mutants and above).

Personally, I think the first option is more likely. In fact, I see the X-Men saga as a series that contains multiple timelines. It's a multiverse. And each universe is related, but they have slightly different histories.

Original Timeline

X-Men Origins: Wolverine > X-Men > X2: X-Men United > X-Men: The Last Stand > The Wolverine

Legends Timeline

X-Men: First Class > X-Men: Days of Future Past > X-Men: Apocalypse > X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Logan Timeline

Logan

Deadpool Timeline

Deadpool > Deadpool 2

These timelines definitely inform each other, and they all share a similar sequence of events, but there are also distinctions that keep them separate. This is how I address the continuity discrepancies.

These are available on a website called Advanced Graphics

Logan was always better suited for the original timeline than the revised one imo. It just works so much better this way. The continuity issues with Origins are a little dodgy but I still think it can fit with enough explaining.

Honestly I liked it, pretty cool that he came back after his movie was canceled.

Alright so before you all say ‘you’re really not supposed to think about it this much’ trust me i know but obsessing over the X-Men timeline has become something of a hobby at this point.

Deadpool & Wolverine Spoilers Ahead So basically, in D&W which is set in 2024 its somehow suggested that it takes place after Logan in the same timeline which is set in 2029 which makes so little sense it makes my head hurt, however, I think I’ve come up with an explanation that at least comes close to making sense of it all.

At the beginning of D&W it’s said to take place on Earth #10005 but for this to work I’m going to say that this designation represents all the alternate timelines within that universe not just the specific deadpool timeline. So in D&W they introduce this concept of an anchor being who, when they die, the whole universe dies. I’ve expanded this logic to say that the anchor being lives in the anchor timeline which links together the various tangent timelines. So when the anchor being dies, the anchor timeline and all linked timelines die with it. So D&W does not take place in the exact same literal timeline of Logan but it’s in the same ‘branch’ of timelines if you like. This theory is supported by the graphic used by the TVA to represent the 10005 timeline, theres one main line with smaller lines coming out from it.

However this begs the question of why would Mr. Paradox place his time ripper device in a tangent timeline instead the Logan anchor timeline. We’ll have to assume thats because of deadpool’s multiversal importance and that activating the device in a tangent timeline would also retroactively destroy the entire branch of timelines.

After the events of D&W both Deadpool and Wolverine become anchor beings making that tangent timeline the new Earth #10005 main anchor timeline.

Ive also came up with this idea of a ‘multiversal time matrix’ which is just the year each movie was made but it’s basically a timeline for the TVA and the void. I know they’re supposed to exist ‘outside of time’ but theres clearly still a ‘before loki S1&2’ and an ‘after’ so they are running on some sort of timeframe. Basically this is just to explain how characters from multiple different time periods all end up in the void having aged as much as they have done in real life since their movies were made. Also to explain why when deadpool goes to the Logan timeline he shows up what is presumably 7 years later instead of in 2024 before logan even died. Sure he still could’ve went back in the logan timeline to try and stop him from dying but we’ll just say Logan’s death is a fixed point or some Doctor Who type explanation like that.

So with all that in mind I’ve placed the original X-Men trilogy and the wolverine trilogy in the main anchor timeline as none of these movies contradict each other in any major way. Theres still plot holes but nothing a little head cannon cant fix.

The 4 prequel era X-Men movies I’ve placed in a separate timeline that branches off some point in the early 20th century because theres just too much continuity errors in these movies to be explained by just the DOFP time travelling alone. First class always felt like more of a reboot than a prequel because it goes against all the backstory that was established in the previous films. I had this theory that Sebastian shaw was actually a time traveller from the post logan future who travelled back in time to wipe out humanity before they wipe out humans and thats what creates the first class timeline but there could be any number of reasons for the timeline splitting.

Lastly the Deadpool movies get their own branch off timeline because wade and some of the X-Men (the cameos in DP2) are all born way later than in the OG timeline. Theres also the different colossus. Ive stuck New Mutants into this timeline, i know it has loose ties to Logan but it could really just be placed in any one of these timelines. In both DP2 and new mutants we know the x-men are seen as heroes so i guess that ties them together.

As for ‘The Gifted’ and ‘legion’ theres really no point in trying to shoehorn them into this already complicated universe, they’re just their own thing.

So there you have it, not sure if this completely fixes everything but it’s the best i can do. For all the little continuity errors and plot holes that still exist within each timeline i made a separate post a few years ago trying to head cannon fix them all https://imgur.com/gallery/TyrQIi5