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- X-Men: First Class. Release date: June 3, 2011. Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence. We’re already kicking off our list with a disclaimer about the number one spot.
- X-Men: Days of Future Past. Release Date: May 23, 2014. Cast: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender. Another contentious piece of chronology here, as Days of Future Past takes place in both 1973, and “The Future” simultaneously.
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Release Date: May 1, 2009. Cast: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston. In a blink and you miss it cameo in First Class, you’ll spot Wolverine in a bar, telling Prof X and Magneto to “go f**k themselves”.
- X-Men: Apocalypse. Release Date: May 27, 2016. Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender,Oscar Isaac. In Oscar Isaacs first of two different Egyptian Marvel characters, X-Men: Apocalypse sees the updated X-Men team fight off against the titular villain, Apocalypse.
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last updated 21 November 2023
We explain how to watch the X-Men movies in order by chronology and release date
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- X-Men First Class. This prequel is the earliest-set X-Men movie in the universe, with most of the action taking place in the year 1962 as a young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) teams up with a young Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) to track down a former Nazi mutant scientist (Kevin Bacon).
- X-Men: Days of Future Past. This is a tricky one. So technically most of the action of X-Men: Days of Future Past takes place in the year 1973, but it’s also a future-set movie that simultaneously takes place in the year 2023.
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The first-ever X-Men spinoff movie was the much-maligned X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which ostensibly tells the origin story of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine character.
- X-Men: Apocalypse. So this “prequel” most closely follows the events of X-Men: First Class and the 1970s setuff in Days of Future Past, as X-Men: Apocalypse is set in the year 1983 and finds the young adult versions of the X-Men battling the world-ending (and centuries-old) villain Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac).
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- LOGAN (2029) The final X-Men movie in continuity is easily distinguishable as Logan. For one thing, this movie takes place in 2029, which is six years after X-Men: Days of Future Past's future scenes, so obviously in this world, they stopped that from happening.
- DEADPOOL 2 (2018) If X-Men: Apocalypse screwed up the X-Men movie continuity, then Deadpool 2 just threw a grenade in there, making the Merc with a Mouth laugh the entire time.
- DEADPOOL (2016) Deadpool is a movie that has no idea where it is supposed to fit in the X-Men movie continuity. Since it is so referential, that really makes sense.
- THE WOLVERINE (2013) The Wolverine takes place in 2013. This movie has Logan going to Japan to relive a slightly altered version of one of his most beloved comic book storylines.
- X-Men First Class (2011) This prequel may not have been the first to be released in theaters, but within the X-Men universe, X-Men: First Class came the earliest.
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) Starring Hugh Jackman, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, McAvoy and more, Days of Future Past technically takes place in 1973, which is why we're placing it here in the timeline.
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) It's an origin story, of course, so some of Wolverine's beginnings take place in 1845 when he first discovers and harnesses his new powers.
- X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Set in the 1980s, Apocalypse finds the X-Men facing a powerful mutant enemy named En Sabah Nur (played by Oscar Isaac), who's intent on bringing destruction to the world.
Jan 22, 2022 · Plan for your next X-Men marathon. Here's how to watch the X-Men movies in order by release and chronologically.
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