10 Things Fans Don't Want To Accept About Fox's X-Men Movies
6. They Proved That Continuity Doesn't Matter
When most fans talk about the Marvel Cinematic or DC Extended Universe, continuity is something that comes up more often than not. Within those shared worlds, it's become crucial that every plot point line up perfectly, and when they don't (like in Spider-Man: Homecoming's opening flashback), it's as if Marvel Studios or Warner Bros. have committed a crime.
Fox decided to reboot the X-Men franchise with "prequel" movie X-Men: First Class, but the timelines never really matched up, and as each instalment jumped from decade to decade, characters didn't age.
Even in Deadpool 2 - which was set in the present - the version of the X-Men from the movies set in the eighties at the time were shown making a cameo appearance in the background. It made zero sense from a continuity standpoint, but it didn't need to, and putting story before timelines is no bad thing.
Each X-Men movie was like a comic book story arc; there may be references to the last one and teases for the next, but they're their own thing. Is that really so bad? Ultimately, the proved it's really not.