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X-Men

Thirteen Fox films, one of which changes 1973 and leaves the rest of them on the wrong side of it.

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Where to start with X-Men

Release order is the safe way in, but it starts with the three weakest-aged films. The alternative is to start where the timeline starts, which also puts the best film of the modern run third.

  1. 1
    X-Men: First Class (2011) X-Men: First Class

    1962, Xavier and Erik as young men who like each other, and no knowledge of anything else required. It is the cleanest entry point the series has.

  2. 2
    X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) X-Men: Days of Future Past

    The film that ties the old cast to the new one and then changes 1973 so that most of the earlier films no longer happened. Everything after it is on one side of that line or the other.

  3. 3
    X-Men (2000) X-Men

    The one that started all of it, and the first half of the history the 1973 change writes over. Worth watching precisely because you can see what was undone.

Then what? From there, the revised branch runs Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, and the original one runs X2, The Last Stand and The Wolverine. The two Deadpool films sit loosely alongside, Logan is set in 2029 and deliberately unplaced, and The New Mutants fits nowhere. Deadpool & Wolverine is a Marvel Studios film that closes the whole thing off.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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