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X-Men Watch Order

Twenty years, two casts, and a timeline the films rewrote mid-run.

The complete Fox X-Men watch order. All thirteen films from X-Men (2000) to The New Mutants, in release order or the least contradictory chronological order.

How many X-Men movies are there?

There are 13 films out so far. Nothing further is currently announced.

Where each title sits in the story

Chronological order, grouped by period. The number on each is its release position. Where those jump around, release order and story order disagree.

  1. The 1960s – 80s

    3 titles

    1. X-Men: First Class, released 7 of 13
    2. X-Men: Apocalypse, released 9 of 13
    3. Dark Phoenix, released 10 of 13

  2. Logan's Long Past

    1 title

    1. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, released 4 of 13

  3. The Original Timeline

    5 titles

    1. X-Men, released 1 of 13
    2. X2: X-Men United, released 2 of 13
    3. X-Men: The Last Stand, released 3 of 13
    4. The Wolverine, released 5 of 13
    5. X-Men: Days of Future Past, released 8 of 13

  4. The Merc Era

    3 titles

    1. Deadpool, released 11 of 13
    2. Deadpool 2, released 12 of 13
    3. The New Mutants, released 13 of 13

  5. The End

    1 title

    1. Logan, released 6 of 13

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The Original Trilogy

2000 – 2006 · Original Timeline · The films that made the modern superhero movie.

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X-Men

14 Jul 2000

The film that proved comic-book movies could be taken seriously.

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02

X2: X-Men United

2 May 2003

A military scientist hunts mutants, forcing an alliance with Magneto.

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03

X-Men: The Last Stand

26 May 2006

A mutant "cure" splits everyone, and Days of Future Past later erases most of it.

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02

The Wolverine Films

2009 – 2017 · Solo · Logan, on his own.

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04

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

1 May 2009

Logan's backstory, contradicted by nearly every film that followed.

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05

The Wolverine

26 Jul 2013

Logan in Japan, after The Last Stand and before Days of Future Past.

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06

Logan

3 Mar 2017

2029. No new mutants have been born in years, and Logan is dying. The best film here.

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03

The First Class Era

2011 – 2019 · New Timeline · A younger cast, one decade per film.

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X-Men: First Class

3 Jun 2011

1962. Charles and Erik meet, and the Cuban Missile Crisis goes differently.

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08

X-Men: Days of Future Past

23 May 2014

1973 and a ruined future at once: the film that rewrites the whole continuity.

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09

X-Men: Apocalypse

27 May 2016

1983. An ancient mutant wakes up and decides to start over.

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10

Dark Phoenix

7 Jun 2019

1992. A second attempt at the Phoenix story, and the end of the Fox run.

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04

Deadpool

2016 – 2018 · Adjacent · Same universe, entirely different register.

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Deadpool

12 Feb 2016

A mercenary gets cancer, gets experimented on, and starts talking to the audience.

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12

Deadpool 2

18 May 2018

Cable arrives from the future, and Deadpool assembles a team that mostly dies.

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05

Outliers

2020 · Adjacent · The ones that stand apart.

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The New Mutants

28 Aug 2020

A horror-tinged coda, delayed for years and released into a franchise that had already ended.

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Post-credit scenes

7 of the 13 X-Men films checked have at least one scene during the credits, 10 in total. The other 6 have nothing after them.

Every film, scene by scene

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