All 10 X-Men Movies In The Order You Must Watch Them

X-Men Origins: Wolverine mostly takes place in the 1980s. After seeing Wolverine as a young boy in the 1800s, a montage shows his involvement in most major wars. This ends with Wolverine meeting William Stryker in the late 1970s. Remember that: it'll come up again many movies from now.

Origins was an experimental movie. As far as anyone knew, the X-Men movies were done and Origins was going to be the subtitle of a new film series. A planned Magneto Origins movie was scrapped and replaced instead with X-Men: First Class.

It's mostly quick cameos that potentially disrupt continuity, but it can work. Quicksilver, Toad, Riptide, and Banshee can all hypothetically be seen in Origins, and while they don't fit in the canon of the films, they are never specifically identified. To make the continuous timeline work, accounting for vastly different ages and deaths, we have to assume these are different characters than the ones we come know from other films. Emma Frost says her name in a bonus feature on the DVD, but what didn't make it to screen doesn't count here.

The other thing that people point out is that Xavier is walking after being paralyzed in the previous film. However, in Days of Future Past, Xavier projects an image of himself for Mystique to see that is walking, so we can say that's what he's doing here as well. We'll assume he is projecting this upright image in The Last Stand when he is walking during a flashback.