I alluded to it in the X-Men viewing order post, and I wanted to put it in as a spoiler to the Logan review, and forgot, but here it is.
The entire X-franchise has messy continuity.
I mean each film has good continuity with each film that succeeds it, but when you try to take it all in as one big picture, glitches creep in.
Radical recasting, age timelines for characters being wrong (to the point you have to assume powers and codenames passed to descendants), powers manifesting differently, etc, etc.
The most glaring glitch being, the "First Class" quadrilogy cast not aging through jumps across decades.
"Logan" fixes this, and it didn't take a fountain of youth potion that was drunk offscreen, or a temporal anomaly, or nothing.
They fixed it with a comic book, and a line of dialog.
In "Logan" the X-Men comic book exists.
Logan looks at it, and says words to the effect of "this stuff happened, but not like this".
Boom, there you go.
The other movies are the comic book, and the comic book got stuff wrong, so that sweeps away all the mistakes.
"First Class" cast didn't age?
The comic artist forgot to age them.
White Queen was in "First Class" and "Origins Wolverine", and she was younger in "Wolverine"?
The two writers didn't communicate and/or do their homework.
Sabretooth looks and acts radically different in "X-Men 1" vs "Origins Wolverine"?
Different artists with different visions.
Ditto Sunspot in "Days Of Future Past" and "New Mutants".
Ditto Colossus in "X-Men 2" and "Deadpool".
And on and on, and on.
It fixes everything.
There you go.
Enjoy the series unfettered by whiny nitpickers.
As usual, I'll retro-link this in the big Marvel/Fox crossovers thingie.
After the Fox-Men viewing order, and before Merged Marvel viewing order.
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