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

X-Men: The Last Stand is nowhere near the last stand these characters will make. Somehow, this movie grossed more than the previous two movies and ensured the future for prequels, sequels, spinoffs, soft reboots, and prequels to the sequels.

Taking place a few years after X2, this movie was originally supposed to be the ending of the series, but 11 years later new movies are still coming out. The main issue with film continuity is the death and return of Xavier.

Moira MacTaggert, who apparently has only aged about 5 years since the 1960s, has a brain dead patient in her care. When Xavier is obliterated by Jean Grey, he transfers his consciousness into this body. The unnamed body was apparently Xavier's brain-dead twin brother. Where is this ever mentioned? Well, unless you happened to watch all of the DVD special features, it never comes up. The special feature claims that if you know X-Men comics, this will obviously make sense.

The closest we ever see is in Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men. Morrison wrote a story where Xavier had an evil twin sister in the womb with him whom he attempted to kill before she was born. There's actually a panel drawn of an unborn baby punching another baby in the face while in utero - it's incredibly weird. His sister, Cassandra Nova, is stillborn so the possibility of Xavier transferring his consciousness doesn't exist, even using comic book logic. The movies don't even have the common courtesy to give a passing reference to how he returned before showing up alive and well.