Unsurprisingly, X-Men 2 and X-Men: The Last Stand continue from there in linear fashion. Next, the chronology moves onto the original X-Men, which was set in an undefined “near future” when the film was released in 2000. The prequel saga concludes with the 1992-set X-Men: Dark Phoenix.
An augmented Wolvie with anger management issues then crops up in the 1983-set X-Men: Apocalypse. Then, while some key scenes in X-Men Origins: Wolverine take place in 1973, the majority of the movie – notably the scenes where Logan gets his adamantium skeleton – is set in 1979.
Ignoring the numerous flashbacks to the 19th century ( X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and World War II ( X-Men, X-Men: First Class, X -Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine), the mutants’ screen story begins in the 1962-set X-Men: First Class, continuing into the 1973-set X-Men: Days of Future Past. On the face of it, the chronology is fairly straightforward. This is where things get super complex, because even supercomputer Cerebro would struggle to get its circuits around the intricacies of the X-Men timeline. Famous X-Men characters were reinvented for the excellent First Class.
