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[Blader]

I wouldn't put Logan as a guarantee of being in the post DOFP happy ending universe. It is basically its own thing.

Mangold said it was. The whole point of setting it in 2029 was to create some distance between in the ending of DOFP and Logan. If Logan was in its own world, then adding that gap of time wouldn't matter in the first place.

You get to hear him as Two-Face in Lego Batman, though. Not a bad consolation prize.

Didn't he have just one line?

 

[shawnbuddy]

What the hell is "Hypertime"?

It was D.C. Comics' attempt to have its cake and eat it too in the late 90s by creating a multiverse system where inconsistencies aren't important and retcons don't need special explanations, because they're explained away as the results of naturally occurring overlapping timelines.

 

[Slayven]

Time is broken

---- Brian Micheal Bendis

It was D.C. Comics' attempt to have its cake and eat it too in the late 90s by creating a multiverse system where inconsistencies aren't important and retcons don't need special explanations, because they're explained away as the results of naturally occurring overlapping timelines.

 

[Pizza]

Everything pre First Class was on timeline A. First Class onwards is a slightly different timeline B.

Even though the two are VERY similar, they're not the SAME timeline. The Xmen use the same time travel as Marvel and DBZ: you're going back (or forward) to a SIMILAR timeline, not necessarily actually your's.

Now Days of Future past happens. Stuff that's current day on the First Class timeline (but didn't impact the original movies tooo much) turns out to be awful in the long term. The timeline A gang send wolverine to the very similar Timeline B to change stuff. They time travel like Kingdom Hearts: you go into a sleep and wake up in your actual body in the past.

When Wolverine body jacks himself, he changes the timeline enough that the sentinels don't become stupid strong. That's pretty much the main thing he does. He saves timeline A, and when he wakes up he's in the future of timeline B that he created.

Timeline B could have still wound up being pretty similar to A, but stuff like Apocalypse, for example, would have probably still happened.

Maybe wolverine obliterated timeline A, where they would have all died anyways, or maybe they all died but he got to survive in the future of timeline B.

Either way, I'm almost positive Logan is wolverine bodyjacked by himself from an alternate timeline in the future of the First Class timeline. So if you go far enough forward the mutants still get wrecked, but just a different kind of wrecked instead.

 

[gforguava]

What the hell is "Hypertime"?

But really the best way to look at it is that continuity is a foolish thing because it can and will change at a creator's whim and yet all the retcons in the world don't actually change the original text because you can go back and read the original. All those pre-Crisis stories still existed post-Crisis.

And, yeah, the X-Men universe's timeline makes no sense so find whatever throughline works for you and go for it.

 

[excelsiorlef]

Mangold said it was. The whole point of setting it in 2029 was to create some distance between in the ending of DOFP and Logan. If Logan was in its own world, then adding that gap of time wouldn't matter in the first place.

I've also heard it wasn't.

I'm going to treat it as such until they make an effort to connect it because basically replacing one mutant genocide with another 6 years later is fucking lame.

X-Men deserve better than getting killed of screen so Logan can have pathos.

 

[Slayven]

But really the best way to look at it is that continuity is a foolish thing because it can and will change at a creator's whim and yet all the retcons in the world don't actually change the original text because you can go back and read the original. All those pre-Crisis stories still existed post-Crisis.

And, yeah, the X-Men universe's timeline makes no sense so find whatever throughline works for you and go for it.

Don't forget Superboy's jacket that if you strap to a nuke allowed him to travel to different universes

The Hyperjacket

 

[Gordon Shumway]

There is no timeline.

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[SRG01]

To make things even more confusing:

Spoiler

As pointed out by Emergency Awesome (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAwaE7mtqDw), Legion and The Gifted may be a part of their own universe as one of the characters is from Age of X.