10 Movie Universes That Make NO SENSE

10. X-Men

The X-Men franchise is undeniably one of the most seminal and important blockbuster IP ever made, but as it surged in popularity it also began to lose its grip on any sort of internal consistency.

The biggest issues abounded in the wake of the (admittedly terrific) X-Men: Days of Future Past, where director Bryan Singer used time travel to effectively jettison aspects of the existing continuity he didn't much care for.

But with each new prequel-sequel movie leaping forward roughly a decade in time, it became increasingly laughable to see actors like Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Nicholas Hoult apparently playing people in deep middle-age.

The prevailing sentiment from the filmmakers seemed to be that the time jumps were worth ignoring the laws of ageing for, even if most fans might disagree given the middling quality of both X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix.

This is without even getting into peripheral movies like Deadpool, Logan, and The New Mutants, none of which slot into any semblance of the continuity in a coherent way.

Though the majority of Fox's X-Men-branded movies have been relatively entertaining, the lack of consistency is majorly headache-inducing.

Hopefully the MCU might take a more measured approach when they inevitably integrate the mutants into the series in the future.