Disney Plus X-men Out of Order

The X-Men series as we know it is at an end and all we can do is wait to see how our favourite mutants are treated in the MCU.

Even though it kicked off the superhero boom back in 2000 with X-Men, the series went through some serious highs and lows over its 20-year run and, sadly, ended with more lows than highs, capped with the release of The New Mutants.

When it was planned, The New Mutants was set to be the start of a new spin-off series within the X-Men universe. However as a result of circumstances beyond its control, the long-delayed movie – which you can watch now on Sky Cinema and NOW – ended up being a damp squib of a series finale.

With the series at an end though, it does make it the perfect time to rewatch the entire series or experience it for the first time.

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You could choose to watch the series in release date order, which would be pretty simple and straightforward. If you want to be truly dedicated and watch in chronological order though, it's not the easiest task.

Thanks to X-Men: Days of Future Past, there are two timelines in the overall series, so unless you want to have a two-screen setup, you'll probably have to run through with one timeline, before looping back on yourself for the other timeline.

Given how they mess about with time, you could watch the two Deadpool movies in either timeline though. Same goes for The New Mutants which is pretty separate to anything that's come before.

We've put together a comprehensive guide of the best order to watch the movies in, even taking the timeline divergence into account. It'll make sense when you see it, honest.

(While we've got you, were you looking for Star Wars' timeline? We've got that covered. MCU movies in order? Help yourself. What about DC Comics movies' chronological order? Easy peasy. Harry Potter? Accio timeline!)

1. X-Men: First Class

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In 1962, Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and his childhood friend Raven Darkholme/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) meet holocaust survivor and fellow mutant Magneto (Michael Fassbender) for the first time.

They form the original X-Men team and help avert disaster during the Cuban Missile Crisis, but Mystique and Magneto disagree with Professor X about the future of mutantkind and abandon him. A stray bullet hits Charles and paralyses him.

2. X-Men: Days of Future Past

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In 1973, military scientist Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) creates an army of robot 'Sentinels' to control the perceived mutant threat.

Xavier, Beast (Nicholas Hoult) and Quicksilver (Evan Peters) break Magneto out of his prison under the Pentagon, while Mystique attempts to assassinate Trask after discovering that he has been experimenting on mutants.

— TIMELINE DIVERGENCE ALERT —

Timeline A

Mystique fails. She is captured and experimented on (oh the irony), which leads decades later to the development of adaptive Sentinels that will eventually drive mutants to the edge of extinction.

3a. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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We meet Logan (Hugh Jackman), who was born in a remote part of Canada in the 1800s. He and his half-brother Victor/Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) fight in wars throughout the 20th century and are eventually recruited into the military mutant squad Team X, led by William Stryker.

Logan grows disillusioned with the team and quits, but is later tricked into having adamantium bonded to his bones in order to help him capture a rogue Sabretooth. He avoids being turned into a mindless weapon, defeats the military's 'Mutant Killer', but ends up with amnesia thanks to a bullet in the brain.

4a. X-Men

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Wolverine meets a young mutant with uncontrollable powers called Rogue (Anna Paquin). They are rescued from an attack by Magneto (now Ian McKellen) and his 'Brotherhood of Mutants' by Xavier (now Patrick Stewart) and his new X-Men team.

Logan falls for Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), argues with Cyclops (James Marsden), Storm (Halle Berry) electrocutes a toad, and they foil Magneto's plan to turn the world's leaders into mutants.

5a. X2: X-Men United

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The military's anti-mutant nutjob William Stryker (Brian Cox) returns and attacks Xavier's school with the help of his mind-controlling mutant son, Jason.

Wolverine discovers some secrets about his past with Stryker and joins forces with Magneto – who Mystique has busted out of jail. They prevent Stryker from forcing Xavier to kill all the mutants on Earth with his powers. Jean is believed dead after staying behind to let the rest of the X-Men escape.

6a. X-Men: The Last Stand

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Jean returns under the control of her powerful and psychotic alternate personality, 'Phoenix'. She kills Cyclops and Xavier and teams up with Magneto.

The creation of a 'mutant cure' leads to a climactic battle on Alcatraz between Magneto's allies and the X-Men. Magneto is robbed of his powers and Jean convinces Wolverine to kill her. The cure is destroyed, although it is hinted that Magneto's powers are returning and Xavier has been resurrected.

7a. The Wolverine

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Logan lives as a hermit in the remote Canadian wilderness, tormented by the death of Jean Grey.

Contacted by a man whose life he saved during the World War II bombing of Nagasaki, Wolverine heads to Japan, where he is drawn into a plot to steal his healing factor.

8a. X-Men: Days of Future Past (future sequence)

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In a future where mutants are almost extinct, the Sentinels have the X-Men on the run. Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) sends Wolverine's consciousness back into his younger body in 1973 in order to prevent their horrible future from happening. Which is when you get…

TIMELINE B

3b. X-Men: Days of Future Past (past sequence)

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Logan prevents Mystique from killing Trask and being captured, creating a new timeline where Sentinels will not eradicate mutantkind (future Wolverine finds himself back in Xavier's mansion in his 'present', with all his X-Men friends still alive).

Mystique saves President Nixon from Magneto and is hailed as a hero, altering public opinion of mutants. The Wolverine of 1973 is captured by a young Stryker (Josh Helman).

4b. X-Men: Apocalypse

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In 1983, Mystique has become a legend to mutantkind. She reluctantly becomes leader of the X-Men to help fight the ancient mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), who has transformed Magneto into one of his Horsemen minions (no horses included) after the former villain's family was murdered.

Stryker captures the team and the young, new X-Men Jean (Sophie Turner), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan) and Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit McPhee) set out to rescue them, releasing a savage, apparently mindless Wolverine in the process. Apocalypse attempts to steal Xavier's body, but Jean transforms into the Phoenix and destroys him.

5b. X-Men: Dark Phoenix

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix offers a fresh take on Jean Grey's corruption by the Phoenix, which begins after a mission into space goes awry and Jean absorbs a cosmic force that she can't control.

Following the pattern of recent movies, it's set in the 1990s (1992 to be precise, with a prologue set in 1975) slotting it in between the '80s of Apocalypse and Deadpool's more modern adventures.

6b. Deadpool

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Sometime in the 21st century, motor-mouthed mercenary Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) falls in love with a sex worker called Vanessa (Morena Baccarin). Discovering that he has terminal cancer, he accepts an experimental cure to awaken his latent mutant genes.

Surviving horrible torture and a murder attempt, the now disfigured Wade (aka Deadpool) teams up with some B-list X-Men (sorry, guys) to defeat his nemesis Ajax (Ed Skrein).

7b. Deadpool 2

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Reynolds' sequel gives every appearance of being set in the modern day, not long after the previous entry, and includes cameos that cement it in the new timeline.

However, thanks to Cable's time machine and a post-credits sequence that cheekily crosses over into the old timeline, things could get very confusing in the future. Director David Leitch has admitted that they "never had a lot of conversations" about how the timeline works.

8b. The New Mutants

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In truth, you could place The New Mutants in either timeline as it's mostly separate from everything that's come before. It's "contemporary timeless" according to producer Karen Rosenfelt and "completely its own thing" according to director Josh Boone. Helpful!

The story follows a group of young mutants who are being held in a secret facility and must learn to master their powers when they face a terrifying threat. We likely won't see them again in the future, despite the original plan for future movies (sorry guys).

Given that there is a sort-of Logan connection as we see glimpses of the facility where X-23 was created, we're going to put The New Mutants in this timeline. In all honesty, though, watch it wherever you want to.

9b. X-Men: Days of Future Past (future sequence)

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Yep, this movie again. After Logan saves the day, he wakes up back in 2023 at the X-Men mansion to find all of his friends alive and well. So that's nice.

10b. Logan

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An ageing Professor X loses control of his powers, killing most of the X-Men, and a sinister government plot suppresses the X-gene through the distribution of genetically modified corn, essentially leading to the eradication of all mutants.

Wolverine works as a chauffeur while trying to look after the sickly Xavier. When he comes into contact with a little girl (Dafne Keen) created from his DNA, he goes on a quest to find a safe refuge for them. Xavier and Logan don't survive the trip, but they do at least manage to lead a new generation of young mutants to freedom.

X-Men Collection [Blu-ray]

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£20.99

Marvel's The New Mutants DVD [2020]

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£6.99

Marvel Dark Phoenix Pop! Vinyl Figure

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£9.99

Logan [streaming]

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£3.49

Once Upon a Deadpool [streaming]

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Deadpool Double Pack [Blu-ray]

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£14.77

X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga [Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011)]

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£13.69

Marvel X-Men Magneto Pop! Vinyl Figure

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£9.99

X-Men: Days of Future Past - The Rogue Cut [streaming]

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£3.49

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