I've been watching the X-Men movies, and I noticed some horrific mistakes. The timeline is where those mistakes come from. A guy tried to explain it all away with alternate dimensions, but only one X-Men movie has anything to do with alternate dimensions and time-travel. The rest is, ipso facto, unexplained.
Okay. I should start at the beginning. First, they made X-Men 1. It starts with a young Magneto being ripped from his family at the hands of the Nazis. That takes place in Poland, 1944. Fast forward into the not-too-distant future, where we see Rogue, a teen-ager. Wouldn't that make her older than, or as old as, the pro-fessor? Anyway, after nearly accidentally killing her friend with her powers, she discovers Xavier's School For The Gifted. Xavier, around Magneto's age, is now sixty, seventy-something, and his students are anywhere from children to thirty plus. Jean Grey is, in this movie, thirty-plus; yet in X-Men: The Last Stand, we see a flashback, in which she's about thirteen years old, talking to the professor and Magneto, still sixty, seventy-something. Still with me? In X-Men: Apocalypse, Xavier is a young man, maybe seventeen years old, and Jean Grey is there, maybe seventeen.
That's a problem for me. Unless, Jean Grey ages slowly, like Logan.
In X-Men 1, Logan also discovers the school, and he meets Jean Grey. But, wait! They've met before! In X-Men Apocalypse, she uses her telekinesis to open his cage, while also making people unable to see her, since she's supposed to be locked up and all. They lose him, and they have to follow the trail of dead, bloody bodies to find him again. He initially doesn't trust Jean, but when he realizes he likes her a lot, he lets her read his mind. Then he vanishes. Why doesn't Jean recognize him in X-Men 1? Why don't Professor Xavier and Magneto recognize him? They caught their first glimpse of him in X-Men: First Class, when they were young men. They both read his mind - yet they never seem to catch on that they've en-countered him before.
In X-Men 2, Jean and Storm meet Kurt Wagner, also known by the name Nightcrawler. But...they met him before, too. In X-Men: Apocalypse, where Professor Xavier was a young man! Aaaand, they knew both his real name, and his mutant name.
I'm getting off-topic. My point is, Logan meets the gang in X-Men 1, X-Men: First Class, and Apocalypse. They never recognize him. Yes, these movies were made in a certain order, but there's no way to watch them in order, because they all become acquainted more than once. To make it worse, the storyline of how old they were when they met is inconsistent! And there's more than that. In First Class, young man Magneto has numbers on his arm. It looks like they were burned into his flesh. In X-Men 1? Blue ink. Blue ink - seriously!
In Apocalypse, we also see Angel getting his feather wings replaced by adamantium wings. Magneto and Xavier are young in that movie. In X3, when the two of them are old, Angel shows up at Xavier's school with feather wings. Not to mention that unlike Xavier and Magneto, he isn't much older.
So there we have it. Rogue should be around the professor's age, and Jean Grey doesn't age. Not normally. And, since Scott was a teenager when Xavier was a young man, he doesn't age, either. In fact, they're all immortals - Beast, and yes, Mystique as well. How else would Magneto age, while Beast and Mystique look like they've only aged four years? They went to college together! Magneto and Mystique were lovers. She should be old and saggy, but she's not. Beast should be gray, but he's not. And for telepaths, Xavier and Jean sure have the wool pulled over their eyes when it comes to Logan.
Oh, and by the way, Professor X was crippled in First Class, as a young man. But, in the flashback in The Last Stand, he's walking as an old man. And do you remember when we see Cyclops running from Victor, and William Stryker gives him a shot to knock him out? They're roughly, oh, I don't know, twenty years apart. Yet in X2, when Stryker is an old, gray-haired man, Cyclops has only aged a little.
So they're not perfect. The timeline is confusing - hell, it's downright laughable. I guess X does not mark the treasure.
Okay. I should start at the beginning. First, they made X-Men 1. It starts with a young Magneto being ripped from his family at the hands of the Nazis. That takes place in Poland, 1944. Fast forward into the not-too-distant future, where we see Rogue, a teen-ager. Wouldn't that make her older than, or as old as, the pro-fessor? Anyway, after nearly accidentally killing her friend with her powers, she discovers Xavier's School For The Gifted. Xavier, around Magneto's age, is now sixty, seventy-something, and his students are anywhere from children to thirty plus. Jean Grey is, in this movie, thirty-plus; yet in X-Men: The Last Stand, we see a flashback, in which she's about thirteen years old, talking to the professor and Magneto, still sixty, seventy-something. Still with me? In X-Men: Apocalypse, Xavier is a young man, maybe seventeen years old, and Jean Grey is there, maybe seventeen.
That's a problem for me. Unless, Jean Grey ages slowly, like Logan.
In X-Men 1, Logan also discovers the school, and he meets Jean Grey. But, wait! They've met before! In X-Men Apocalypse, she uses her telekinesis to open his cage, while also making people unable to see her, since she's supposed to be locked up and all. They lose him, and they have to follow the trail of dead, bloody bodies to find him again. He initially doesn't trust Jean, but when he realizes he likes her a lot, he lets her read his mind. Then he vanishes. Why doesn't Jean recognize him in X-Men 1? Why don't Professor Xavier and Magneto recognize him? They caught their first glimpse of him in X-Men: First Class, when they were young men. They both read his mind - yet they never seem to catch on that they've en-countered him before.
In X-Men 2, Jean and Storm meet Kurt Wagner, also known by the name Nightcrawler. But...they met him before, too. In X-Men: Apocalypse, where Professor Xavier was a young man! Aaaand, they knew both his real name, and his mutant name.
I'm getting off-topic. My point is, Logan meets the gang in X-Men 1, X-Men: First Class, and Apocalypse. They never recognize him. Yes, these movies were made in a certain order, but there's no way to watch them in order, because they all become acquainted more than once. To make it worse, the storyline of how old they were when they met is inconsistent! And there's more than that. In First Class, young man Magneto has numbers on his arm. It looks like they were burned into his flesh. In X-Men 1? Blue ink. Blue ink - seriously!
In Apocalypse, we also see Angel getting his feather wings replaced by adamantium wings. Magneto and Xavier are young in that movie. In X3, when the two of them are old, Angel shows up at Xavier's school with feather wings. Not to mention that unlike Xavier and Magneto, he isn't much older.
So there we have it. Rogue should be around the professor's age, and Jean Grey doesn't age. Not normally. And, since Scott was a teenager when Xavier was a young man, he doesn't age, either. In fact, they're all immortals - Beast, and yes, Mystique as well. How else would Magneto age, while Beast and Mystique look like they've only aged four years? They went to college together! Magneto and Mystique were lovers. She should be old and saggy, but she's not. Beast should be gray, but he's not. And for telepaths, Xavier and Jean sure have the wool pulled over their eyes when it comes to Logan.
Oh, and by the way, Professor X was crippled in First Class, as a young man. But, in the flashback in The Last Stand, he's walking as an old man. And do you remember when we see Cyclops running from Victor, and William Stryker gives him a shot to knock him out? They're roughly, oh, I don't know, twenty years apart. Yet in X2, when Stryker is an old, gray-haired man, Cyclops has only aged a little.
So they're not perfect. The timeline is confusing - hell, it's downright laughable. I guess X does not mark the treasure.
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