How to Watch the X-Men Movies in Chronological Order

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While the X-Men made their sanction successful comic form, the X-Men movie adaptations person go beloved successful their ain right, with specified instrumentality favorites arsenic Patrick Stewart’s Charles Xavier and Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. These films are besides beauteous notorious for their messy timelines, with root stories, retconning, and clip question to truly spice things up. There are plentifulness of antithetic ways to ticker these films, and the prime of however you ticker them volition find however definite reveals and moments volition wage off.

While it tin beryllium casual to conscionable ticker them arsenic they were released, we’ve organized the 14 films into however they roughly fit into 1 large timeline. This volition let you to acquisition the X-Men communicative from the opening and travel each character’s travel from its earliest point.

Now that determination are mutants successful the MCU, we thought the champion mode to get acceptable for the aboriginal was to grant the past. If you’d similar to ticker them successful bid of release, we’ve included that beneath arsenic well.

Without further ado, present is our mostly spoiler-free look astatine however you tin ticker the X-Men movies successful chronological order!

If you're caller to the X-Men movie franchise, you tin take to commencement with First Class and marque your mode done the timeline chronologically. However, if you privation to acquisition the films however they were primitively released to audiences, you'll privation to commencement with X-Men (2000) wherever the bid officially began.

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X-Men Movies successful Chronological Order

1. X-Men: First Class (2011)

X-Men: First Class is the commencement of a caller X-Men section that rewinds the timepiece to the earliest constituent connected the movie franchise’s timeline. The movie begins successful 1944 astatine the Auschwitz attraction campy earlier jumping up to 1962. The communicative follows a young Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto and the origins of some the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants.

Read our review of X-Men: First Class.

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

X-Men: Days of Future Past is simply a spot hard to spot connected the timeline arsenic it features the X-Men from some the archetypal films and the newer ones. Much of the communicative takes spot successful 1973, but plentifulness of clip is spent successful an alternate mentation of 2023 arsenic well. Certain communicative elements we won’t spoil present marque america comfy placing it present connected the timeline, but having an affection for the archetypal unit decidedly does assistance marque it a much peculiar moviegoing experience. This means it tin besides acceptable close adjacent the extremity of this database if you truthful choose.

Read our review of X-Men: Days of Future Past.

3. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

The archetypal X-Men spinoff movie starts backmost successful 1845, but the bulk of the communicative is acceptable successful 1979 and explores the… well, origin of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Not lone bash we get to spot however helium got his iconic adamantium claws, but we besides get our archetypal instauration to Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson/Deadpool. It's an indispensable portion of the Wolverine timeline.

Read our review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

4. X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

X-Men: Apocalypse stars Oscar Isaac arsenic En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse and pits him against our reboot X-Men crew. While the movie starts each the mode backmost successful 3600 BC, overmuch of the communicative is acceptable successful 1983.

Read our review of X-Men: Apocalypse.

5. X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is the past movie starring the X-Men unit led by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender, and it tells the communicative of the translation of Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey into Phoenix. The movie begins successful 1975 but takes spot mostly successful 1992.

Read our review of X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

6. X-Men (2000)

Due to however these movies play out, the power from Dark Phoenix into X-Men doesn’t hap arsenic smoothly arsenic a movie similar Rogue One transitions to A New Hope, but the archetypal X-Men live-action movie does acceptable adjacent into the timeline arsenic it takes spot successful the aboriginal 2000s. While James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender played their younger versions successful the erstwhile films, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen instrumentality connected the relation of the older versions of Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto successful these films.

Read our review of X-Men.

7. X2: X-Men United (2003)

Taking spot not excessively agelong aft the original, X2: X-Men United picks up the communicative arsenic a brainwashed Nightcrawler attempts to execution the President of the United States. Some large events hap astatine the extremity of the movie that acceptable up The Last Stand and tease the accomplishment of this trilogy’s iteration of Phoenix.

Read our review of X2: X-Men United.

8. X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

X-Men: The Last Stand was the archetypal live-action movie to archer the Phoenix story, but successful presumption of the series’ interior chronology, it is the second. Either way, we get to spot Famke Janssen’s Jean Grey resurrect arsenic the dangerously almighty Phoenix and spell up against our favourite X-Men successful this last movie successful the archetypal trilogy.

Read our review of X-Men: The Last Stand.

9. The Wolverine (2013)

The Wolverine is simply a sequel of sorts to some X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: The Last Stand and takes spot soon aft the second movie and deals with the fallout of the events it portrayed. It besides introduces Yukio, a aboriginal mentation of whom would look successful Deadpool 2.

Read our review of The Wolverine.

10. Deadpool (2016)

While helium made his archetypal quality successful X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds Wade Wilson/Deadpool makes his solo diagnostic movie debut successful 2016’s Deadpool. This movie is mostly abstracted from the happenings of the mainline films, but Deadpool is successful the aforesaid beingness truthful this would springiness you a implicit representation of the franchise. There is nary circumstantial clip Deadpool takes place, but it seems to instrumentality spot astir the clip it was released - 2016. As 1 of the champion Ryan Reynolds movies, you tin ticker this 1 retired of bid if you request to.

Read our review of Deadpool.

11. Deadpool 2 (2018)

Much similar the original, Deadpool 2 doesn’t person an nonstop day it takes spot and its events mostly hap extracurricular of everything other going connected successful the X-Men franchise. That being said, this sequel does diagnostic immoderate returning, younger X-Men and a spoilery moment/reference for Logan, truthful it’s perchance acceptable successful the precocious 2020s. All that being said, it’s Deadpool and each jokes are just crippled for this fourth-wall-breaking merc with a mouth.

Read our review of Deadpool 2.

12. The New Mutants (2020)

The New Mutants appears to instrumentality spot sometime successful the precocious 2020s arsenic it features a transportation to Logan, which is acceptable successful 2029. Much similar Deadpool, The New Mutants mostly tells its ain contained communicative and tin beryllium safely viewed astatine this spot oregon determination astir it.

Read our review of The New Mutants.

13. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

If things were already each implicit the place, timeline-wise, they got adjacent much analyzable with this 2024 crossover. Deadpool & Wolverine is acceptable successful its merchandise year, 2024, truthful technically earlier Logan. But it's not truly that elemental due to the fact that this movie makes references crossed each the X-Men (and Marvel) timelines, seemingly existing successful the aforesaid beingness and an wholly antithetic 1 astatine the aforesaid time. So, yeah, it's acceptable successful 2024, but this movie's got its ain happening going on.

Read our review of Deadpool & Wolverine

14. Logan (2017)

As antecedently mentioned, Logan takes spot successful 2029 and follows Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Patrick Stewart’s Charles Xavier successful a satellite wherever mutants are fundamentally extinct. This is intelligibly the movie that takes spot farthest up successful the timeline and frankincense should beryllium the 1 to decorativeness them each off. And it’s a large 1 to extremity on.

Read our review of Logan.

X-Men Movies successful Order of Release

X-Men (2000)
X2 (2003)
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
The Wolverine (2013)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Deadpool (2016)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
Logan (2017)
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Dark Phoenix (2019)
The New Mutants (2020)
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)

Upcoming X-Men Movies and Shows

The archetypal large X-Men task since Marvel Studios re-acquired the rights to the franchise was X-Men '97, an animated bid extracurricular of the MCU timeline that picks up wherever the archetypal animated bid near off. Season 1 finished up conscionable past year, and Season 2 is already successful the works but isn't expected to travel retired until 2026.

Otherwise, we should beryllium getting a reboot of the X-Men nether Marvel, but fewer details person been revealed. Kevin Feige talked a spot astir this during an interrogation past twelvemonth wherever helium mentioned that the X-Men volition beryllium important to the MCU pursuing Avenger's: Secret Wars. Now it looks similar we'll beryllium seeing the mutant crossover sooner alternatively than later. Several archetypal X-Men formed members were included successful the monolithic formed uncover for Avengers: Doomsday, which is acceptable for merchandise successful 2026.

For much info connected what's to come, cheque retired our usher to each upcoming MCU movies to enactment up-to-date connected the films.

Adam Bankhurst is simply a quality and features writer for IGN. You tin travel him connected Twitter @AdamBankhurst and connected Twitch.

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