The X-Men films have always played fast and loose with their own continuity, after cycling through a few different directors (and back again) who all just kind of did whatever they wanted, without paying respect to things that came before. Even Bryan Singer had elements from his own first movie ignored when he helped Fox come up with the story for X-Men: First Class (like Patrick-Stewart-Professor-X saying he met Magneto when he was 17). Judging from Singers irrational desire to move the films forward tenyears every single iteration, we now have a Havok and a Beast who should arguably be around 40 years old when in reality theyre still being played by Lucas Till (25) and Nicholas Hoult (26). They seemingly havent made any effort to age them up whatsoever. You can also forget about the fact that Professor X looks 30 but should be about 50 already, or that Jubilee and Archangel are young here when they were roughly that age in the original trilogy as well, which is set in the 21st Century, if you remember. Wolverine and co. might have helped change the past in 1973, but not so much that it made other random X-people be born sooner, surely? Ah well. Bryan Singer doesnt care, he just wants you to shut up and accept it.
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