X-Men Movie Series Continuity Errors

[AndroAsc]

So, I was watching all 6 X-Men movies, including those terrible Wolverine spinoffs in "chronological sequence", and the continuity errors are just terrible. For example:

1) Wolverine and Sabretooth being brothers, and parted on bad terms in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But when they met again in X-Men 1, it's as if they are strangers. Now, I understand that Logan suffered amnesia, so he would not recognize his brother, but for Victor it should have been obvious that it was Logan.

2) Professor X losing his ability to walk in X-Men: First Class, and yet at the end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, appears to be able to walk just fine. Did he miraculously recover from his injuries, only to become injured again before the events of X-Men 1?

3) Wolverine rescuing the young mutants in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, one of them was cyclops. Why did Cyclops not recognize Wolverine in X-Men 1-3? Logan is not an easy person to forget.

4) Emma Frost is obviously a hot fully-grown chick in X-Men: First Class, but in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, she ages backward and is now a teenage girl? Come on man... what the fuck!?!

5) Mystique being the adopted sister of Charles Xavier as shown in X-Men: First Class. With so many times they would have cross path in X-Men 1 to X-Men 3, why do they act like each other don't exist? Does it also not make sense to ask your friend (i.e. Magneto) how your sister is doing after all these years? Charles doesn't seem to the type to hold a grudge, and he did seem ok with Mystique leaving with Magneto in X-Men: First Class.

These are just the most obvious continuity errors that popped into my mind, when I saw these films in sequence. Seriously, is being a fucking retard a job requirement for movie script writers these days?

[Ralin]

Yeah, I've said before, First Class really should have been a clean reboot and it's pretty damned weird that they made it a point to show it was in continuity with the others, and then proceeded to actively mess with that continuity.

[RogueIce]

3) Wolverine rescuing the young mutants in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, one of them was cyclops. Why did Cyclops not recognize Wolverine in X-Men 1-3? Logan is not an easy person to forget.

Didn't he have bandages and crap over his eyes the entire time? So he never actually saw Logan.

I got nothing for the rest of them, though.

[Bob the Gunslinger]

I thought Origins and First Class were each in their own continuity. They have sort of a Superman Returns thing going on with respect to continuity.

Besides, having discontinuities makef them more faithful to the comics.

[Crazedwraith]

First Class was produced by Bryan Singer and if you discount the two non-Singer movies X3 and Wolverine Origins a lot of the continuity issues disappear. Except for Mystique. And the helmet/cerebro lines in the first movie

but hey its almost like they were trying to make the movie they were doing at the time good rather than stick rigidly to continuity. Imagine that.

[The Romulan Republic]

If people don't want to deal with continuity, they shouldn't make a film that's part of a series. You can't make a series and ignore what's already happened whenever it's convenient. Making a story full of inconsistencies is not good writing.

And I don't think one has to choose between making a good film and respecting continuity.

[Elheru Aran]

2) Professor X losing his ability to walk in X-Men: First Class, and yet at the end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, appears to be able to walk just fine. Did he miraculously recover from his injuries, only to become injured again before the events of X-Men 1?

Every now and then in the comics he regains the ability to walk and then later loses it... usually thanks to the intervention of some hero or the government or some new technology or whatever. It's not a huge stretch to assume that something similar happened here.

Alternatively: 'Xavier' was actually a mental projection of some sort, from Charles who is actually in a wheelchair in Westchester. He's walking for convenience's sake. This is not really an ability which has been exhibited in the movies, but he's probably capable of it especially if he's using some early version of Cerebro to amplify his 'signal'.

4) Emma Frost is obviously a hot fully-grown chick in X-Men: First Class, but in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, she ages backward and is now a teenage girl? Come on man... what the fuck!?!

This, I think, was supposed to be a different character.

Upon checking Wikipedia, apparently not... so probably a legitimate fuckup.

5) Mystique being the adopted sister of Charles Xavier as shown in X-Men: First Class. With so many times they would have cross path in X-Men 1 to X-Men 3, why do they act like each other don't exist? Does it also not make sense to ask your friend (i.e. Magneto) how your sister is doing after all these years? Charles doesn't seem to the type to hold a grudge, and he did seem ok with Mystique leaving with Magneto in X-Men: First Class.

Probably a bit of a legitimate fuckup. Although you could argue that Charles might have done one of his patented memory modifications on her so to protect himself and his growing school from getting busted... not that it particularly helps anyway. Might be explained in First Class; probably won't be. I don't think this is an issue that particularly matters to the film-makers.

[AndroAsc]

Well, all the X-Men movies including First Class are part of the same continuity (I think). I was reading up on wikipedia on the next movie, the one with the Sentinels, Time-Travel and Bishop, and they are assembling the cast of the First Class and classic X-Men.

[AndroAsc]

If people don't want to deal with continuity, they shouldn't make a film that's part of a series. You can't make a series and ignore what's already happened whenever it's convenient. Making a story full of inconsistencies is not good writing.

And I don't think one has to choose between making a good film and respecting continuity.

Amen to that. These people are supposedly professionals, which at the very least is read the script of the movies that have been made! As a casual viewer, I just pointed out a few glaring errors. How much more inconsistencies will a more OCD fan find?

[Grandmaster Jogurt]

What would you recommend, then? That when making First Class they ditch elements such as Charles's and Raven's relationship which made the movie so much better than it could have been just because oh shit the older movies might be contradicted a bit? Because if so, fuck that. First Class, while flawed, is so much better than the other movies and a large part is stuff that went away from the movie "canon".

Now if your suggestion is that they should've made it a clean total break, sure, that I can work with. At most it really changes the marketing since you could keep as many things from the old part as you wanted.

[Coop D'etat]

I think a fair bit of this can be answered by "no one liked Origins, so we decided to ignore it exists going forward."

[Kitsune]

One item. . .Doesn't Wolverine seem to get stronger / tougher through X-Men 1, 2, and 3?
Seems to take a while getting back up from heavy blows in 1 but seems to just get back up in 3