The Problem With The X-Men: First Class Series

I've been living a lie.

This whole freaking time I've been watching the First Class series, I thought they were prequels. And I bet you did too. But guess what? That is not what they are. The First Class series is not a prequel nor a sequel. It is a reboot. Here's how I found out:

Originally, when I first clicked "Play" on X-Men: First Class, I looked up BEFORE the movie if it was a prequel or a reboot. It said that when the producers were making the movie, their vision was to have it set as a reboot but then after Days Of Future Past, it was taken as a prequel. I took it as a prequel, even when that was never how it was supposed to be. And this was all proven in Apocalypse.

In X-Men: Apocalypse, everything just started to roll downhill. NOTHING was adding up. And it wasn't until the final SECONDS of Dark Phoenix that I realized it was a reboot. After Mystique died, I just started to lose my mind.

I feel like this was almost entirely FOX's fault for leaving this open. None of this whole prequel/reboot thing was ever talked about. I would have liked the First Class series 400 times better if I knew it wasn't supposed to be a prequel. I thought First Class and Days Of Future Past were AWESOME and the reason I didn't like the others as much was because I was thinking the ENTIRE time it was an origin story. First Class FELT like an origin story.

After Dark Phoenix, though, it slowly started to click:

X-Men, X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand were the original 3 movies. ( Of course ) X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Apocalypse, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix were the 3 reboot movies. The Wolverine and X-Men: Days Of Future Past were the 2 sequel movies after The Last Stand. And finally, X-Men Origins: Wolverine was the only prequel movie.

It took me a while to really process that all but in the end, it made sense. I'm guessing this is how it all went down:

Like I said before, X-Men: First Class was designed to be a reboot, but after the events of Days Of Future Past, X-Men fans thought of it as a prequel/sequel kind of situation. Then when the director of the first X-Men film, Bryan Singer came along to do Apocalypse, he wanted to steer the whole "reboot" idea back into place. And so he did. ( Please don't quote me on any of that, those are just my thoughts 🙃 )

I really wish this was all settled back when the reboot films first came out, because it would have made a lot more sense and avoided a lot less anger but whatever. 😂😂😂

I think this reboot series was a great addition to the X-Men universe, but it would have been a lot better if this question was answered at the very beginning.

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