9. Nobody Wants X-Men: The Last Stand
The X-Men franchise has unwittingly become a painfully complicated series. After each failure, 20th Century Fox tried to combat that with a sharp change in direction; The Last Stand didn't work, so let's go back to the beginning; seeing Wolverines past didn't work, so let's go to his future. As its grown, the series has done something incredibly novel in the superhero genre; instead of flat out rebooting, just move forward in the existing universe. Of course, this leads to a plethora of inconsistencies, not to mention massive quality drops, so it seems a new tact is being taken. Instead of scrapping the whole lot with a new direction (Spider-Man gave up on a series that was two-thirds good), the poorer entries are just going to be ignored. X-Men: First Class gave up on many of the plot points seen in The Last Stand (and Origins: Wolverine); Magneto becomes evil and Charles ends up in a wheelchair in 1962, yet the third film shows the two as friends and fully mobile when Jean was a child. The Wolverine attempted to give Brett Ratner's disappointing entry some credit, having Logan haunted by his memories of the dead Jean, but that all seems to be for naught; the loss of the threequel from the continuity looks to become concrete with next years Days Of Future Past. Bringing together the original films cast and the First Class gang, itll retcon anything director Bryan Singer didn't like about the franchise since he left.