Days of Future Past X-MEN Movie-Verse Timeline

[CyclopsWasRight]

I googled X-Men movie time-line and found this which is quite detailed, so i thought i'd post it here.

HOWLETT HOME, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA, 1845

- Young James Howletts mutant powers manifest after witnessing the murder of his Father.

- He kills the murderer using his newfound claws. The dying man reveals he was James' Father.

- Victor, the young son of the murderer, takes his friend and now step brother with him as they run from the scene

CIVIL WAR BATTLEFIELDS, UNITED STATES, 1861-1865

- James Howlett now goes by the name of James Logan or just Logan.

- He and his Brother fight in the US Civil War.

THE GREAT WAR BATTLEFIELDS, VARIOUS, 1914-1918

- Logan and Victor fight in the great war.

WORLD WAR II BATTLEFIELDS, VARIOUS, 1939-1945

- Logan and Victor fight in WWII.

POLAND, 1944

- Erik Lensherr (Magneto) is forcibly separated from his parents by Nazi soldiers in German-occupied Poland. Under this stress, Lensherr's powers began to manifest and in his panic, Lensherr twisted open a metal fence separating him from his parents before being knocked unconscious.

- Questioned about his Mutant powers by Nazi collaborator Sebastian Shaw (under the alias Dr. Klaus Schmidt). Shaw murders Erik's mother and tortured him over the next several years in an attempt to draw out the boy's mutant powers through his anger.

XAVIER MANSION, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1944

- A young Charles Xavier (Professor X), meets a young Raven Darkholme (Mystique)

- NAGASAKI, JAPAN, AUGUST 5th, 1945

- Logan is a P.O.W when the bomb approches, he is freed by Japanese soldier Yashida, but declines. Yashida prepares to commit seppuku but is prevented when Logan takes him into a well and shields him from the blast. He and Yashida remain in the well for an unspecified amount of time and part ways.

SWITZERLAND, 1962

- Erik Lensherr tortures a banker to trace the wherabouts of Dr. Schmidt, from a bar of Nazi gold he aquired.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY, ENGLAND, 1962

- Charles Xavier publishes a thesis on Mutancy. Lives with friend Raven Darkholme.

HELLFIRE CLUB, LAS VEGAS, CALIFORNIA, 1962

- CIA officer Moira MacTaggert, disguised as a stripper, follows a U.S. Army Colonel into the Hellfire Club, where she sees Schmidt (now known as Sebastian Shaw), telepathic Emma Frost, Riptide and teleporter Azazel making plots against the United States.

ARGENTINA, 1962

- Erik Lensherr attacks and kills a group of former Nazis and learn the whereabouts of Dr. Schmidt.

CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, 1962

- Moira MacTaggert, seeking Xavier's advice on mutation, takes him and Raven to the CIA, where they convince the Director that mutants exist and Shaw is a threat. Another CIA executive sponsors the mutants and invites them to the secret "Division X" facility.

- MacTaggert and Xavier find Shaw as Lensherr is attacking him, rescuing Lensherr from drowning as Shaw escapes.

- Xavier brings Lensherr to Division X, where they meet young scientist Hank McCoy (Beast), a mutant with prehensile feet, who believes Raven's DNA may provide a "cure" for their appearance.

- Xavier and Lensherr uses McCoy's mutant-locating device Cerebro to recruit stripper Angel Salvadore, Taxi driver Armando Muñoz (Darwin), Army prisoner Alex Summers (Havok), and Sean Cassidy (Bansee).

Xavier and Lensherr learn of Shaws plan to start WW3 by orchestrating a conflict between the Us and Cuba from a captured Emma Frost.

- Shaw (wearing a helmet designed to block telepaths), Riptide and Azazel attack the Division X mutants. Angel Salvadore joins Shaws group and Darwin is killed.

XAVIER MANSION, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1962

- Xavier and Lensherr take the Division X mutants to Xaviers Mansion home to train them. They form the First Class of the future "Xavier Home for Gifted Youngsters".

- Hank McCoy attempts to cure himself of his Mutancy and accidently Mutates himself further becoming a blue furred beast man.

BLOCKADE LINE BETWEEN CUBA AND UNITED STATES, CARRIBEAN SEA, 1962

- With Beast piloting, the mutants and MacTaggert take a jet to the blockade line, where Lensherr uses his magnetic power to lift Shaw's submarine from the water and deposit it on a nearby island. During the ensuing battle, Lensherr seizes Shaw's helmet, allowing Xavier to immobilize Shaw. Lensherr tells Shaw that he shares Shaw's exclusivist view of mutants but, to avenge his mother, kills Shaw—over Xavier's objections—by forcing the Nazi coin of his youth through Shaw's brain.

- Fearing the mutants, both fleets fire their missiles at them, which Lensherr turns back in mid-flight. In a struggle, Xavier keeps Lensherr from destroying the fleets with the missiles, but when MacTaggert shoots at Lensherr, a deflected bullet hits Xavier in the spine.

- Lensherr leaves with Angel Salvadore, Riptide, Azazel, and Mystique, who has now defected to his team.

XAVIER MANSION, WESCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1962

- A wheelchair-bound Xavier (whether temporary paralysis or permenant is unknown) and his mutants return to the mansion, where he intends to open a school. MacTaggert promises never to reveal his location and they kiss; at a CIA debriefing later, she says she has no clear memory of recent events. Elsewhere Lensherr, now calling himself "Magneto", frees Frost from confinement.

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, BETWEEN 1962 & 1973

- At some unspecified point after the Xavier Institute is opened, William Stryker takes his son Jason to the Xavier Institute to cure him of his mutancy. Prof Xavier explains that it's part of who he is and Stryker leaves angry

VIETNAM WAR BATTLEFIELDS, VIETNAM, 1962-1973

- Logan and Victor fight in the Vietnam War

- Victor kills a superior officer, Logan stands with him and both are sentenced to death by firing squad.

- They survive and are locked in confinement until Col. William Stryker recruits them to a mutant spec ops team dubbed "Team X"

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1973

- Events of the upcoming movie X-Men Days of Future Past.

LAGOS, NIGERIA, 1973

- Team X working for William Stryker, discovers adamantium.

- Logan, sick of killing, leaves the team and his brother.

HOME OF THE GREY FAMILY, UNKNOWN, UNITED STATES, 1974

- Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsherr visit young Jean Grey to recruit her for the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.

ROCKY MOUNTAINS, CANADA, 1978-79

- Logan and Kayla Silverfox are in a relationship.

VARIOUS, UNITED STATES & CANADA, 1979

- Victor hunts and kill the former members of Team X & kills Logans girlfriend Kayla in order to torture his brother.

- Stryker offers Logan power enough to defeat Victor and enact revenge for Kayla. Logan has indestructable Adamantium metal bonded to his bones.

- Stryker betrays Logan who now refers to himself as Wolverine and attempts to kill him.

- Victor kidnaps a Teenage Scott Summers (Cyclops).

- Strykers plan to create an ultimate mutant weapon is revealed, he has been imprisoning Mutants and using their DNA to duplicate their powers to place into one individual called Weapon XI, Logan was the final donor.

- Logan tracks Victor to the mutant prison. Kayla is revealed to be alive and Logan helps her rescue her sister and the other mutant prisoners

- The Three Mile Island Accident of March 28, 1979 occurs and diguises the mutant activity on the island.

- Wolverine loses his memories and has only his dog tags with Wolverine stamped on them as a clue to his identity.

- Prof X arrives at Three Mile Island and rescues the former Mutant prisoners.

UNKNOWN, UNITED STATES, 1984

- A young Warren Worthington III (Angel) powers manifest.​

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

All following events take place in "The Not Too Distant Future".

SUBURBAN HOME, MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI

- Teenager Marie (Rogue) powers manifest when she kisses a local boy and saps his lifeforce. Shortly after she runs away from home

UNITED STATES CONGRESS, CAPITOL HILL, WASHINGTON D.C.

- Dr. Jean Grey and Senator Robert Kelly adresses the US Congress over the proposed "Mutant Registration Act", which would force mutants to publicly reveal their identities and abilities. Present are Magneto and Professor Charles Xavier, who privately discuss their differing viewpoints on the relationship between humans and mutants.

ALBERTA, CANADA

- Rogue meets Wolverine in a bar where he cage fights for money. She stows away in his trailer when he leaves.

- Wolverine crashes his caravan and is attacked by Sabertooth (Victor), the current X-Men members Cyclops and Storm intevene and drive off Sabertooth, they take Wolverine and Rogue back to Xaviers School for Gifted Youngsters.

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- Wolverine wakes to finds himself being examined by Jean Grey, he attempts to leaves the underground X-Base, is introduced to Charles Xavier and the X-Men where they offer to help him uncover his lost memories.

- Rogue meets Bobby Drake (Iceman) and John (Pyro)

BROTHERHOOD OF MUTANTS LAIR, UNKNOWN LOCATION

- Magneto scolds Sabertooth over him not bringing back the mutant he was sent to abduct.

- Senator Kelly is abducted by Magneto's allies Toad and Mystique and brought to their lair.

- Magneto uses Kelly as test subject of a machine that artificially induces mutation. Kelly then uses his new mutant abilities to escape imprisonment.

VARIOUS, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- After an accident causes Rogue to use her powers on Wolverine, she is led to believe she isn't welcome at the school and leaves.

- Xavier uses Cerebro to find Rogue at a train station.

- Mystique infiltrates Cerebro and sabotages the machine.

- At the train station, Wolverine convinces Rogue to stay with Xavier, but a fight ensues when Magneto, Toad and Sabretooth arrive to take Rogue.

- Kelly arrives at Xavier's school, shortly before dying due to the instability of his artificial mutation.

- The X-Men learn that Magneto intends to use Rogue's power-transferring ability so that she can power the machine in his place, putting her life at risk instead of his.

- Xavier attempts to use Cerebro to locate Rogue, but Mystique's sabotage causes him to fall into a coma. Fellow telepath Jean Grey fixes and uses Cerebro, learning that Magneto plans to place his mutation-inducing machine on Liberty Island and use it to mutate the world leaders meeting for a summit on nearby Ellis Island.

STATUE OF LIBERTY, NYC HARBOR, NEW YORK

- The X-Men confront the Brotherhood on the Statue of Liberty and defeat them before they can carry out their plan.

- Toad and Sabertooth are presumed dead

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- Professor Xavier recovers from his coma. The group learns that Mystique is still alive, and impersonating Senator Kelly.

- Xavier tells Wolverine that near where he was found in Canada is an abandoned military base that might contain information about his past.

MAGNETOS PLASTIC PRISON CELL, UNDISCLOSED LOCATION

- Xavier visits Magneto in a prison cell constructed entirely of plastic, and the two play chess.

WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON D.C.

- A blue skinned teleporter mutant (Nightcrawler) attempts an assassination against the US President but is stopped at the last minute.

ALKALI LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

- Wolverine, in search of his past finds only an abandonned and derelict facility.

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- Wolverine returns to the school, reunited with Rogue, her boyfriend Iceman, Cyclops, Storm, and Jean Grey. He is requested by Professor Xavier to watch over the children at the school, while Storm and Jean find Nightcrawler with the help of the professor and Cerebro.

MAGNETOS PLASTIC PRISON CELL, UNDISCLOSED LOCATION

- Cyclops and the Professor visit Magneto in his plastic prison to see if he had any part in the attack on the President. Reading Magneto's mind, the Professor discovers that William Stryker has been extracting information from Magneto. A trap is sprung and Cyclops and the Professor are captured by Stryker and his assistant Yuriko Oyama (Deathstryke).

WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON D.C.

- William Stryker informs the President and Senator Kelly (Mystique in disguise) of the secret facility and technology underneath the Xavier school and gets permission to infilitrate the mansion.

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- A military raid of the X-Mansion begins, with the soldiers sedating every student they find. However, the plan backfires when Wolverine strikes back and kills a large number of Stryker's men, while Colossus escorts most of the students as they escape through a series of hidden tunnels in the school.

- Wolverine confronts Stryker, who fails to shed any light to his past.

- Iceman, Rogue, Wolverine and Pyro, escape while Stryker breaks into Cerebro.

OFFICES OF WILLIAM STRYKER, UNKNOWN LOCATION

- Mystique gains information about Magneto's plastic prison and provides a means for him to escape, but also finds a plan about a Cerebro, and learns that Stryker is building a second one.

- Disguised in a flesh coloured form, she seduces and injects a guard with a syringe full of Iron.

CHURCH, UNKNOWN LOCATION

- Jean Grey and Storm track and confronnt Nightcrawler. He claims to not remember why he attacked the President only stating he could see it happening but couldn't control himself.

MAGNETOS PLASTIC PRISON CELL, UNDISCLOSED LOCATION

- Magneto senses the Iron in his guards body. He extracts the Iron through the guards pores, killing him and uses the metal to escape the prison.

THE DRAKE FAMILY HOME, BOSTON

- Wolverine, along with Rogue, Iceman and Pyro head to Iceman's (Bobby Drake's) parents' home in Boston, where he reveals his powers to his parents. After a 9-1-1 call from Bobby's brother Ronny, the Boston Police Department arrive just as the group is about to leave. Pyro uses his fire manipulation powers to fend off the police, but gets carried away and is prevented from causing further damage by Rogue.

- The X-Jet pilotted by Jean Grey with Storm and Nightcrawler arrives to pick them up

UNITED STATES AIRSPACE

- The X-Jet is targeted by two Air Force fighter jets. They manage to force the pilots to eject with the help of Storm and Jean; however, they are hit by a missile which threatens to crash them. Only due to the sudden intervention of Magneto do they survive.

UNKNOWN RURAL AREA

- The X-Men then team up with Magneto and Mystique. Magneto has learned Stryker orchestrated the attack on the President to confirm a strike on the X-mansion, and has been experimenting on mutants, using a drug injected directly into the back of the neck to control them. Jean reads Nightcrawler's mind and determines that Stryker's base is located at Alkali Lake, inside the dam where he plans to kill the world's mutants by building a second Cerebro.

ALKALI LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

- Through his son, Jason, Stryker gains control over the Professor. His son is able to project powerful visions in the mind, blinding a person to reality, and through this the Professor is brainwashed to use Cerebro to find and kill all mutants.

- Mystique infiltrates Stryker's base by impersonating Wolverine but is discovered.

- Storm and Nightcrawler search for the kidnapped students.

- Jean is attacked by a brainwashed Cyclops while trying to rescue the Professor and in the process causes damage to the generators that keep the dam from collapsing. The force of Jean's telekinetic blast clashing with Cyclops' optic blast awakens him from his brainwashing, but also cracks the dam.

- Wolverine simultaneously finds Stryker in an adamantium smelting room, where he recovers his memory of the adamantium process of 15 years prior.

- Stryker leaves Wolverine to fight against Deathstryke. Wolverine battles Deathstryke and kills her by pumping liquid Adamantium into her stomach.

- Storm and Nightcrawler find the children and break them out of their cell.

- Magneto and Mystique kill the rest of Stryker's men by setting off their grenades, and Magneto stops Jason and the Professor before the mutants are killed. While disguised as Stryker, Mystique uses Jason to convince the Professor to kill all humans.

- Magneto, Mystique, along with their new initiate, Pyro, then use Stryker's helicopter to escape Alkali Lake, chaining Stryker to concrete rubble.

- Nightcrawler teleports Storm inside of Cerebro where she creates a snowstorm to free the Professor from his telepathic illusion.
They all then flee the base as water engulfs it.

- As they all escape the crumbling facility, Wolverine finds Stryker on a landing pad, where Stryker attempts to bargain Wolverine for his life with stories of his past. He elects to go with the X-MEN, leaving his loner life behind.

- The X-MEN board the X-Jet as the damn explodes and beginds flooding the area. A malfunction aboard the X-Jet prevents it from taking off; Jean sacrifices herself by leaving the jet and creating a telekinetic wall as a shield against the flood.

WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON D.C.

- The X-Men are able to supply the President with files from Strykers private offices, and the Professor warns him that humans and mutants must work together to build peace or they will destroy each other through war.

- ALKALI LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

- A view over Alkali Lake, shows a vague shape of a 'Phoenix' flying above it.

- DANGER ROOM, XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- The X-Men in battle against a giant robot in a holographic traing room.

- Kitty Pryde and Colossus have joined the team.

WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON D.C.

- Beast consults with the President and various government and military personal over Magnetos threat to human and mutankind.

WORTHINGTON LABS, ALCATRAZ ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO

- Pharmaceutical company Worthington Labs announces it has developed an inoculation to suppress the X-gene that gives mutants their abilities and makes them different from other humans, offering the "cure" to any mutant who wants it. While some mutants are interested in the cure, including the X-Men's Rogue, many others are horrified by the announcement. In response to the news, the X-Men's adversary, Magneto, raises an army, warning his followers that the "cure" will be forcefully used to exterminate the mutant race.

UNKNOWN LOCATION

- Magneto stops a convoy of mutant prisoners, he recruits Maddox (Multiple Man) and Cain Marko (Juggernaut) and rescues Mystique. As they leave Mystique is shot with a "cure" injection, becomes Human and is abandonned by Magneto

ALKALI LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA

- Cyclops, still emotionally distraut about the loss of Jean, returns to Alkali Lake. Jean appears to Cyclops, but as the two romantically kiss, Jean takes on a fearsome appearance. Psychically sensing trouble, Professor X sends Wolverine and Storm to investigate. When they arrive, the two X-Men encounter telekinetically floating rocks, Cyclops' glasses, and an unconscious Jean. Cyclops himself is nowhere to be found.

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- Xavier explains that when Jean sacrificed herself, she unleashed the powerful alternate personality she calls "Phoenix". Wolverine is disgusted to learn that Xavier has kept Jean in check telepathically, but when Jean awakens, he realizes she is not the Jean Grey he knew. Jean pleads with Wolverine to kill her, but when he refuses, the Phoenix surfaces and knocks out Wolverine, before escaping to her childhood home.

- Beast returns to the X-Men

THE GREY FAMILY HOME, UNKNOWN, UNITED STATES

- Magneto, alerted to the presence of an immeasurably strong and powerful mutant, realizes that it must be Jean Grey. Magneto and his allies are already at Jean's childhood home when Xavier and his X-Men arrive. The two men vie for Jean's loyalty until the Phoenix resurfaces. She destroys her family's house, disintegrates Xavier, and leaves with Magneto.

WORTHINGTON LABS, ALCATRAZ ISLAND, SAN FRANCISCO

- Warren Worthington III (Angel) refuses the mutant cure from his Father and flies away to the Xavier Institute.

- Magneto diverts the Golden Gate Bridge to provide access to Alcatraz Island, the location of Worthington Labs facility. The military troops defending the facility are armed with plastic "cure weapons" able to neutralize the attacking mutants, and non-metallic to counter Magneto's powers. Magneto lets the lesser-powered mutants charge ahead, with heavy initial losses, but then they rapidly begin to overwhelm the troops.

- The X-Men Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Iceman, Colossus and Kitty Pryde arrive to battle Magneto and his troops.

- Iceman battles his former friend Pyro

- Beast injects Magneto with the cure, nullifying his powers. Meanwhile, Kitty has entered the facility to find Jimmy (Leech), who is the source of the cure and saves him from the murderous Juggernaut. They escape as Army reinforcements arrive, only to be obliterated by Phoenix, lashing out with her power and destroying everything around her including the lab itself. Wolverine realizes that due to his self-healing power, he is the only one who can approach her. He tells Storm to evacuate everyone and faces Phoenix alone, his power barely neutralizing her disintegration attack. Jean, momentarily gaining control, begs Wolverine to save her. Telling Jean he loves her, Wolverine kills her and holds her dead body as he weeps.

XAVIER INSTITUTE, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

- The school continues without Xavier, with Storm now as headmistress and Logan as a teacher.

- The US president appoints Beast as ambassador to the United Nations,

- Rogue returns, telling Iceman she has taken the cure and the two hold hands skin-to-skin.

VARIOUS, UNITED STATES

- Magneto sits alone at a chessboard in a San Francisco park. He gestures forlornly towards the queen, causing it to tilt slightly revealing that the mutant cure is only temporary.

- Dr. Moira MacTaggert checks on a comatose patient who greets her with Xavier's voice. Startled, she replies, "Charles?"

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All following events take place in "The Not Too Distant Future".

Roughly 8 years after the events of X3

YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA

- Logan has retreated into the wilderness to live alone due the grief of killing Jean Grey. A group of local hunters kill a Bear Logan had cared for, he attacks them and is inerrupted when a Japanese woman called Yukio intervenes. She informs him she was hired by Yashida to find Wolverine so he could thank Logan for saving his life in 1945.

TOYKO, JAPAN

- Logan is introduced to Shingen Yashinda, Elder Yashida, Mariko Yashida

UNKNOWN, THE FUTURE

- The events of the upcoming X-Men Days of Future Past movie​

 

[Specter313]

*ahem*

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=462877

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Doesn't have a timeline just a list of dates of each movies release and some snippets

 

[CyclopsSummers]

Roughly 1994, as twice is it mentioned to be 15 years after Wolverine has lost his memories (1979)

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where can we see X1 sets in 1994 ?
According to me the trilogy set in 2000's

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Well in X1 Charles says it's been 15 years since Logan lost his memory and in X2 Stryker said "how long has it been 15 years?"

Logan lost his memories in 1979 so 5 years from 1979 is 1994.

 

[DigificWriter]

This timeline makes no sense.

There's no way in hell that the mid-90s constitutes "the not-too-distant future".

Not only that, everything we currently know about DoFP points to its events taking place in 1973, 2013, and 2023, which really doesn't match up with this timeline.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

It was 'not too distant future' from the previous scene... 'Poland 1944'

It may not be the 90s, thats just going by dialogue and Origins date of Logan losing his memory.

The original trilogy has no official date

 

[Double B]

You don't release a film in 2000, have 'the not too distant future' on the screen and intend said scene to take place in 1994. It doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense in terms of narrative.

If they meant 'the not too distant future from 1944' and intend it to take place in 1994, they'd say 1994.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

I'll remove the 1994 then. Guess we won't know the official dates of the OT until after DOFP

 

[DigificWriter]

The original trilogy has no official date

Right now, it doesn't, but if the present of DoFP is set in 2013, TLS will be retroactively confirmed to be set in 2003, which is a year that can be expanded to include X1 and X2 as well since there really doesn't seem to have been a significant amount of time passing between the three films.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

The Wolverine should be around 2011 then since the mid-credits scene is two years before het meets Magneto & Xavier again.

 

[DigificWriter]

The Wolverine takes place AT LEAST 1-3 years after The Last Stand. If TLS takes place in 2003, that gives us a period of at least 2004-2006 for The Wolverine (including the mid-credits scene), and there's nothing to suggest that there's not some passage of time between that scene and the present of DoFP. In fact, things we know suggest that there IS a significant passage of time between that scene and the present of DoFP.

 

[S. Grundy]

Also, Stryker is going to be a 27-year-old in DoFP, so it is looking like XMO is being wiped from continuity.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ Not sure where you got the character's age from or what led you to the conclusion that his age wipes Origins: Wolverine from continuity.

 

[S. Grundy]

Going by the actors age, but okay he may not necessarily have to play his age, he can be in his early 30s. But even then he's still going to be younger than Danny Huston, and most likely actually have a southern accent.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ The age of an actor means diddly sqatt. Unless it's been specifically said that Stryker's only 27 in this movie, there are zero legit conclusions that can be drawn from Helman's casting insofar as continuity and the timeline are concerned.

 

[S. Grundy]

I know, that's why I said in my post "he may not necessarily have to play his age, he can be in his early 30s."

 

[DigificWriter]

I figured I'd share the two timeline breakdowns I've worked out based on what we've been shown in X1, X2, TLS, FC, and TW, the two possible year settings for O:W, and what we currently know about DoFP:
Possible Timeline #1
1845, c. 1860s, 1917, 1973 - Prologue of O:W
1944 - Prologues of X1 and FC
1945 - Prologue of TW
1962 - FC
1973 - 'Past' portions of DoFP
1979 - O:W
1983, 1993 - Prologue of TLS
2003 - X1, X2, and TLS
c. 2004 - TW
c. 2006 - Epilogue of TW
2013 - 'Present' portions of DoFP
2023 - 'Future' portions of DoFP

Possible Timeline #2
1845, c. 1860s, 1917, 1975 - Prologue of O:W
1944 - Prologues of X1 and FC
1945 - Prologue of TW
1962 - FC
1973 - 'Past' portions of DoFP
1981 - O:W
1983, 1993 - Prologue of TLS
2003 - X1, X2, and TLS
c. 2004 - TW
c. 2006 - Epilogue of TW
2013 - 'Present' portions of DoFP
2023 - 'Future' portions of DoFP

 

[lordofthenerds]

^ What makes you say Origins takes place in either 1979 or 1981? The Three Mile Island accident? In that case, what makes you say 1981? In X1, Xavier said that it had been nearly 15 years since Logan had lost his memory, and in X2 this point was reiterated by Stryker when he said he hadn't seen Logan in 15 years.

So, wouldn't it make more sense to assume that Origins took place in 1988?

 

[DigificWriter]

^ I honestly view those bits of dialogue as having been retconned by subsequent films.

The Three Mile Island accident did inform the 1979 date for O:W, but the 1981 date is informed by/drawn from the Wikipedia article on the film, which gives a date for the Vietnam War portion of the film as 1975 and states that the bulk of the film's remaining events take place 6 years later, giving us a date of 1981.

 

[S. Grundy]

Was it the incident though? Stryker could have set up shop there after the incident, knowing one is going to be snooping around there. Plus you know, the Three Mile Island incident didn't involve a cooler tower collapse.

 

[X-Maniac]

Would Stryker be able to set up a mutant prison and experimentation lab alongside an operational nuclear power station? I doubt it. Seems more likely he set up there after the Three Mile Island incident made the island a no-go area. If so, that makes the end of Origins some years after 1979.

 

[BMM]

Agreed. Also, doesn't Gambit make a comment about it being easy to set up shop on Three Mile Island because of the fear of radiation exposure?

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Making Stryker a Mutant would be great. He openly hates Mutants and tries to supress them. It'd be a metaphor for hating a part of himself. Like a self hating Jew

Plus his son is a mutant and the X-Gene is hereditery right?