Questions about X-Men lore.

[triggrhappy94]

I recently saw the new X-Men movie. Love it. Could have been more consistant with the cineamotography, but what they did was interesting. Probably some of the best camera work I've seen in any recent big action movie. They could have thrown in some cannon-fodder mutants too.

Spoiler

Sure Darwin dies, but its not the same. He was a main character, one of my favorites in the moive that far.

So, my question is: Movie Bob says that this movie, through continuity, viods certain events in the third, and Origins. What are those events, and how are they vioded?

 

[WolfThomas]

Spoiler: What moviebob said in the thread for his review

in "Wolverine," We see Xavier still able to walk in 1979. According to this movie, he's been crippled since 1962. Thusly, those two films cannot exist in the same timeline.

By the same token, this ALSO invalidates the additional wrinkle to Jean Grey's backstory shown in flashback in "X-Men 3," because in that scene Xavier is still walking AND he and Magneto are still pals in the late-70s/earily-80s - NEITHER of those things lasted past 62 according to "First Class." And since so much of "X3's" plot relies on that event having taken place, it cannot have happened either.

Meanwhile, we can still assume that the first two films are "safe" (for now) because of the TWO "ageless" characters from the original series who appear in the same form here: Not only do we get the much-ballyhooed Wolverine cameo, there's also the bit where Magneto tells Mystique she's too young to be making advances at him and she "ages herself up" into Rebecca Romijn, who played the character as an adult in the originals.

 

[Watson767]

A small one I noticed was Xavier being wheelchair bound, where as he was walking at the end of Wolverine. Theres probably many more but thats the one I spotted