X-men is a film franchise of superheroes produced by Lauren Shuler Donner based on marvel Entertainment which is having the same name as in marvel studios. In 1994 Lauren Shuler bought the film rights of X-Men from 20th Century Fox Studios. First movie of X-men was released in 2000 from their onwards the franchise has multiple sequels throughout the time consisting of financial success.
20th Century Fox was bought by the Walt Disney Company as a part of 21st Century Fox entertainment assets. From then onwards the rights of the X-Men went to Marvel Studios along with cancellation of all the films that were planned by fox entertainment during the 20th century. The X-men franchise ended with the film Mutant and now will be included in the marvel Cinematic Universe.
Origin Of X-Men Movies
In the year 1963 Stan Lee was in a role for the invention accompanied by the artist Steve Ditko and Jack Wikey and gave birth to new characters like fantastic four, thor, iron man all are in the comic book . In the later years stan lee started writing some of the other books like romantic books, adventure ,etc. By the time superhero comic books started gaining popularity but the characters were not enough to attract more readers so he decided to arrange a new team named as avengers and started writing the plot of Amazing spiderMan 4. And also tried to come up with new heroes. Then he decided to create a new character named X-men which became very popular. But later X-men became the second tier character in the sixties maybe because of the suit color. However X-men gained popularity after the release of the movie in 2000 which gained a huge fanbase.
History Of X-Men Movies
“X-Men: First Class”
Charles Xaviers and Raven Darkholme were the two young men who were working in the conjunction when they got to know that X-Men already exist in the year 1962. They get to know about X-Men when they were working under a secret department of america known as Division X.
Xavier was so much worried so he also bring erik to help the team but the team also fall under a mutant named as hellfire club who were trying control the world after looking into it erik and Xaviers were are worried about the new mutant that was going to take birth that might be harmful for the world allows X-men to create a new mutant named as brotherhood of mutant.but then the group was disbanded in the year dring 21st Century.
X-Men
Professor x ordered Cyclop and storm to head toward the north to save the two mutants named Wolverine and Rouge.from the member of the mutant named as Sabretooth.because they were defeated and taken to x-Mansion. So to find them they use Xaviers memory and now they were aware of the pain. To be in safeguard they use to turn on the new machine which will help them to relocate the new mutant by the time Xavier falls into the trap and goes into a coma. Jeson Roy uses Cerebro and finds that the two mutants are in the brotherhood island, forced to use the machine that will destroy the world.
It is time for the X-Men to rise again and fight against the brotherhood during which Mystique was defeated by Wolverine and Toad was killed by Storm. Later the whole team was captured by Magneto’s power as a liberty statue.from them only Wolverine was able to free himself because of his healing power and stab himself to remove the binding. Then Sabertooth got defeated by wolverine, released the rest of them and with the help of his team destroyed the machine.
“X-Men United”
Wolverine went for the search of Alkali lake but was unsuccessful and went back to the Xavier Institute and joined X-men again.Xavier after finding which mutant was responsible for it and sent john and storm to bring him. They went in search of him in the church but instead found Kurt Wagner. Wagner was brainwashed by someone and forced him to do the work. By the time William Stryker captured professor X and cyclops. He went into the mansion and captured all the students but somehow wolverine, rouge and other two managed to escape the institute after a little fight with stryker. They were again attacked by police who were tipped by Bobby’s brother but somehow they manage to escape.
Soon after the Alkali lake battle Xaiver and wolverine somehow manage to reach the president’s white house and talk to him who was going to give a speech about the mutant attack. Xavier shares the document to Stryker and warns that human and mutant should work as a team inorder to maintain a peace otherwise they will be destroying each other in the war.
X-Men The Last Stand
Cyclop ignored his duties as a teachand a team leader as he was depressed and Logan took this chance and tried to act as his replacement. On the other side Worthington Labs published the news that the cure for the mutant is ready to use which led Dr. Hank to return to the X mansion and discuss this matter with Xavier. Cyclop left the X mansion and went to the shore of the Alkali lake and in ranger blasted the water and surprisingly it was protected by jean by using the sonic power. She is the old Jean who went undercover after the last fight and returned back with more power.
Xavier was worried about her power and took logans and storm’s company to go to the childhood room to convince her to join their brotherhood where they found that Magneto was also present there to recruit her in their newly formed brotherhood. Due this a battle started where Xavier was killed by Jean and was taken by magneto . After the death there was a great recruitment for a leader so storm took the lead of the X-men and became the headmistress of the Xavier Institute.
X-Men: Days Of Future Past Movie
Uptil now most of the mutants and humans were killed by the powerful sentinels and the rest X-men members are scattered and Magneto was also defeated by the enemy allies. Now only the remaining mutants and humans come together and use Shadowcast’s power to change the time back to 1973 to stop Mystique from killing the allies which could lead the whole world to a dark future. Shadow cast’s only power is to send someone back to a month include X-Men and Wolverine. Since Wolverine has a healing power which will help him to survive so he was sent by X-men.
While wolverine was busy changing the past, the X-Men were forced to defend the church where they were hiding from a big sentinel attack so that they could distract them from wolverine while wolverine could complete his task. But since Sentinels were very powerful no X-men can survive except Shadowcat , Professor X and wounded Magneto. Shadowcat cut the connection with wolverine and kept him behind and the future us erased because of the wolverines 1973 act.
X-Men: Apocalypse
It is the night part of the X-Men series which is the sequel of X-Men : Days of Future past. The movie is developed in 1983 setting the plot that shows an Egyptian mutant that rises and tries to capture the world. All we think about X-men : Apocalypse is that this movie shows a great fight between the x-men and the egyptian mutant. The movie was first released in the year 2016. .it also shows the rise of the Apocalypse Mutant which is very powerful who helps to defeat the Egyptian mutant.Meanwhile Erik found a new life along with his wife and daughter in Poland. It was the first mutant character from Marvel’s X-Men Universe. Around 7 years after the end of the fight a teacher of the university started telling the story about how the mutant saved the white house and the president from the attack of the enemy mutant. On the other hand, En Sababah Nur was finally born after many years. He is an Egyptian mutant who went to sleep for many years but now he is here to rule the whole world. X-Men are here to save the world from him although most of the X-Men and mutants are scattered away for many years because of the sentinels.
Logan
Xavier’s aging causes mental instability which results in seizure in the year 2028. This causes him to lose his control over his power and cause an unstable Physical Attack. This attack effect the X-mansion caused the death of 600 people 6, mutants along with many X-men.
Logan and Xaviver disbanded Wolverine by the year 2029. At this point everything was great about Logan maintaining the university as well as X-Mansion. For the last 25 years no new mutant had been born and the remaining mutant was forced to hide since many of them were attacked and killed by the Sentinels. However, the rest of the adventures of X-Men are published in comic books in later years.
X-Men Movies Release Order
A newcomer can easily watch X-men in a release order and can also understand it rather than trying to use time traveling and trying to understand the past connection.
- X-Men
- X2: X-Men United
- “X-Men: The Last Stand”
- “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
- “X-Men: First Class”
- The Wolverine
- “X-Men: Days of Future Past”
- Deadpool
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- Logan
- Deadpool 2
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix
- New Mutants
X-Men Movies Watch Order And Timeline
This is just the order without following the two different timelines. This is the easiest order to watch X-men.
Easy Way
- “X-Men: First Class”
- “X-Men Days of Future Past”
- “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- Dark Phoenix
- New Mutants
- X-Men
- X2: X-Men United
- “X-Men: The Last Stand”
- The Wolverine
- Deadpool
- Deadpool 2
- Logan
Two Different X-Men Timeline
Prime Timeline
- “X-Men: First Class”
- “X-Men Origins: Wolverine”
- X-Men
- X2: X-Men United
- “X-Men: The Last Stand”
- The Wolverine
- “X-Men: Days of Future Past”
Second Timeline
- X-Men: First Class
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (past events)
- X-Men: Apocalypse
- X-Men: Dark Phoenix
- New Mutants
- Deadpool
- Deadpool 2
- Logan
There are a lot of problems with the X-Men time. Many articles make the timeline according to them but the simple one is to follow it as a two timeline which helps the viewer to watch it peacefully without any confusion.
X-Men Tv And Webseries
- Legion (2017–2019)
- The Gifted (2017–2019)
- New Mutant X (2001-2004)
- Generation X (1996)
Books And Comics Of X-Men
Comics
- Wolverine, vol. 4 (2010–2012)
- Wolverine, vol. 5 (2013–2014)
- Wolverine, vol. 6 (2014)
- Wolverine, vol. 7 (2020–ongoing)
- Wolverine: First Class (2008–2009)
- Wolverine: MAX (2012–2014)
- Wolverine: Origins (2006–2010)
- Wolverine: The Best There Is (2010–2011)
- Wolverine and the X-Men, vol. 1 (2011–2014)
- Wolverine and the X-Men, vol. 2 (2014)
- Wolverine: Weapon X (2009–2010)
- Wolverines (2015)
- X-23, vol. 3 (2010–2012)
- X-23, vol. 4 (2018–2019)
- X-Cellent (2022–ongoing)
- X-Corp (2021)
- X-Factor, vol. 1 (1986–1998)
- X-Factor, vol. 3 (2005–2013)
- X-Factor, vol. 4 (2020–2021)
- X-Force, vol. 1 (1991–2002)
- X-Force, vol. 3 (2008–2010)
- X-Force, vol. 4 (2014–2015)
- X-Force, vol. 5 (2018–2019)
- X-Force, vol. 6 (2019–ongoing)
- X-Man (1995–2001)
- X-Men, vol. 1 (1963–1981)
- X-Men, vol. 2 (1991–2001)
- X-Men, vol. 2 (2004–2008)
- X-Men, vol. 3 (2010–2013)
- X-Men, vol. 4 (2013–2015)
- X-Men, vol. 5 (2019–2021)
- X-Men, vol. 6 (2021–ongoing)
- X-Men 2099 (1993–1996)
- X-Men ’92, vol. 2 (2016)
- X-Men Adventures, vol 1 (1992–1994)
- X-Men Adventures, vol 2 (1994–1995)
- X-Men Adventures, vol 3 (1995–1996)
- X-Men Blue (2017–2018)
- X-Men Classic (1990–1995)
- X-Men: Evolution, vol. 1 (2002)
- “X-Men: First Class, vol 2”
- X-Men Forever, vol. 2 (2009–2010)
- X-Men Forever 2 (2010–2011)
- X-Men Gold, vol. 2 (2017–2018)
- X-Men: Legacy, vol. 1 (2008–2012)
- X-Men: Legacy, vol. 2 (2012–2014)
- X-Men Legends, vol. 1 (2021–2022)
- X-Men Legends, vol. 2 (2022–ongoing)
- X-Men: Red, vol. 1 (2013)
- X-Men: Red, vol. 2 (2022–ongoing)
- X-Men: The Hidden Years (1999–2001)
- X-Men: The Manga (1998–1999)
- X-Men Unlimited, vol. 1 (1993–2003)
- X-Men Unlimited, vol. 2 (2004–2006)
- X-Statix (2002–2004)
- X-Treme X-Men, vol. 1 (2001–2004)
- X-Treme X-Men, vol. 2 (2012–2013)
Novels
- Dazzler: The Movie (1984)
- Deadpool: Bad Blood (2017)
- Excalibur: Weird War III (1990)
- The New Mutants (1982)
- Wolverine: Bloodlust (1990)
- Wolverine: Bloody Choices (1991)
- Wolverine/Nick Fury: The Scorpio Connection (1989)
- X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills (1982)
- X-Men: No More Humans (2014)
All Characters Of X-men
- Professor X
- Mystique
- Havok
- Banshee
- Mangneto
- Moira Mac Taggert
- “Storm”
- Cyclops
- Jean Grey
- Iceman
- “Rogue”
- Nightcrawler
- Wolverine
- Shadowcat
- Colossus
- “Beast”
- Sunspot
- Blink
- Bishop
- QuickSilver
- Yukio
Upcoming Movies And Planned Movies
- X-Men New Mutant (2023)
- Deadpool 3 (2024)
Video Games Released By X-Men
- The Uncanny X-Men (1989, NES)
- X-Men: Madness in Murderworld (1989, Commodore 64, PC)
- “X-Men 2: The Fall of the Mutants” (1990, PC)
- Wolverine (1991, NES)
- X-Men (1992, Arcade)
- Spider-Man/X-Men: Arcade’s Revenge (1992, Genesis, SNES)
- X-Men (1993, Genesis)
- Wolverine: Adamantium Rage (1994, Genesis, SNES)
- X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (1994, SNES)
- X-Men: Children of the Atom (1994, Arcade, PC, PlayStation, Saturn)
- X-Men 2: Game Master’s Legacy (1995, Game Gear)
- X-Men 2: Clone Wars (1995, Genesis)
- X-Men vs. Street Fighter (1996, Arcade)
- “X-Men 3: Mojo World” (1996, Game Gear, Master System)
- X-Men: The Ravages of Apocalypse (1997, PC)
- X-Men: Mutant Academy (2000, Game Boy Color, PlayStation)
- X-Men: Mutant Wars (2000, Game Boy Color)
- X-Men: Mutant Academy 2 (2001, PlayStation)
- X-Men: Reign of Apocalypse (2001)
- X-Men: Wolverine’s Rage (2001)
- X-Men: Next Dimension (2002)
- X2: Wolverine’s Revenge (2003)
- X-Men Legends (2004)
- X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse (2005)
- “X-Men: The Official Game (2006)”
- “X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)”
- “X-Men: Destiny (2011)”
- “Uncanny X-Men: the Days of Future Past (2014)”
Trivia Challenge Of X-Men
- What is the name of Quicksilver’s Father ?
Ans: Magneto.
- Name the first Person to be born with Mutant ?
Ans: Apocalypse.
- Whom did Storm marry ?
Ans: Black Panther.
- Who was the Aging mentor in the movie Lagon ?
Ans: Dr. Charles Xavier.