1. What's Up With The Completely Insane Technological Leap?
The past X-Men films have wisely kept their science-fiction technology on the conservative side, for obvious reasons. The X-Men had futuristic body armor, Professor X had a mind-reading device, but otherwise the technology stayed relatively within the possibilities of the modern era. But in this new film, instead of playing fast and loose with small technological changes, Days Of Future Past takes a massive leap into the future, severely upsetting its own continuity from the previous films. This jump from The Wolverine (or even just X-Men 3) to Days Of Future Past implies a step from "the near future" to "the far future" that doesn't seem technologically possible. As mentioned earlier, it is implied in The Wolverine that Professor X and Magneto knew of the as of yet unexplained ultimate weapon before this war broke out, but were unable to prevent its use. It is theoretically possible that Trask Industries unleashed their arsenal very soon after Logan's meeting with those two, but the instant development of spaceship-like aircraft (not just the X-Jet) and futuristic fortresses requires much more suspension of disbelief. Perhaps it took Trask Industries some time to unleash their ultimate weapon, but the ages of Storm, Kitty, and Iceman implies that it cannot be too far after the end of X-Men: The Last Stand (whose continuity they are still wrestling with, lest we forget). If this winds up to be another case of "corporate arsenal kept secret from everyone including the highest members of the government", we can accuse the writers of at least one count of severe laziness. How this paradox is to be solved remains to be seen, but one must wonder what ever became of the relatively grounded world X-Men 1 through The Wolverine took place in... Do you have any questions about the new X-Men movie (or just the series' continuity in general) that we missed? Drop them in the comments along with any theories of your own.
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