LOGAN Timeline Explained! (What Happened to the X-Men?)

hi guys I'm Eric box and I just saw Logan and this was really one of the best films in the superhero genre that I have ever seen like this is exactly the Hugh Jackman Wolverine movie that we've been wanting somehow topping x-men origin what but really other than this being a poignant emotionally powerful redemption tale and conclusion the Jackman portrayal of the Wolverine character Logan hinted at a lot of interesting theories about the x-men universe so in this video I'm going to quickly offer my best explanation for those big questions and how Logan fits into the x-men timeline and obviously a huge spoiler warning here go watch the movie first and then coming back here okay first up biggest question a lot of you have been wondering about what happened to the x-men so throughout the movie it's implied that pretty much all of the old mutants have died off specifically there's a mention of a mysterious West Chester incident and a radio broadcast reports the deaths of hundreds of people and seven mutants for gets turned off now obviously West Chester New York is the location of Charles Xavier Earth Institute and later in the film Charles confesses his guilt over accidentally killing mutants now this was probably the result of one of his mass features which occurred throughout the movie when Charles doesn't take his meds causing everyone in the nearby vicinity to be paralyzed unable to breathe now Logan and Laura seem to be able to sustain it with their regeneration powers but Caliban mentions that it could have killed him also several people in that casino look severely injured or dead and then earlier in the film Donald Pierce says that Charles at Caesars mind was labeled as a weapon of mass destruction by the government so I think that all of the stems from this West Chester incident when Charles suffered a massive seizure killing seven mutants except Logan the only one strong enough to survive it now who were those seven mutants we may never find out but my guess is that it's some mix of the faces that we saw at the end of Days of Future past like rogue storm Hank McCoy Kitty Pryde Iceman and maybe Scott Summers and Jean Grey but I feel like Jean Grey would be powerful enough to sustain it and I have another thought about Cyclops not to bring up it a bit but this brings me to another question is Logan in the x-men movie timeline so yes according to the director while marketing the film James Mangold and Hugh Jackman suggested that Logan would be it's own solo story set in the Year 2029 not so much concerned with the continuity of the x-men timeline like the other movies are but technically it does take place in the timeline as it was reset in Days of Future past the events of that movie in x-men apocalypse are part of this movie's backstory so for example at the end of the movie Logan learns that Xander rice was the son of a scientist whom he killed in the alkali Lake lab which we saw an x-men apocalypse there's also an awesome moment when someone says to Logan I heard you were in Phoenix you know in Phoenix yeah I'm sure Logan is very proud of that point in the timeline now there are a lot of other Easter eggs that I plan to break down in greater depth in another video but next question what about the other mutants one of the big mysteries of the film is why mutants have been dying off Pierce mentions early on that most naturally occurring mutants have gone extinct like the tiger which is also apparently extinct in 2029 there's also a new saber headline that refers to the decline of mutant birth rates this whole movie has a children of men vibe with a mutant fertility crisis leading to this old man sacrificing himself to ensure the survival of this young generation of news and at the end of the movie we learned what caused this mutant extinction Vanda ricin if company were slipping and anti-mutant toxin into corporate food and water supplies basically orchestrating mutant genocide through the stuff we consume every day in fact this is set up earlier in the film with Logan talking with the farmer Morrison about how big government took over the water line and all the nearby corn plantations to make sugar and corn syrup which are and pretty much everything we and for that there's another scene that underlines how dangerous all this corporatization and automation are to the little guy with the self-driving semi trucks running Logan off the highway so that brings me to another question how does this all fit in with Xander Rice's plan so Rice's goal was to gradually wipe out all natural mutants so that he could have a monopoly on his own artificial weaponized mutants created in his transition lab in Mexico City he did that by fertilizing Mexican women with the DNA gathered from mutants with Logan's DNA used to make x-23 Laura but after he his experiments to control the children failed rice had a breakthrough with x24 and adult clone of wolverine rice explained in the middle of the movie that children have to be taught rage and loyalty whereas an adult's Wolverine clone could just be programmed with it and now that x24 made them unnecessary rice had the other kids killed but the nursing staff in the facility helps them escape lady and rice using Pierce in the Reavers the next 24 to hunt them down bringing me to the next question what is eaten and is it real so early in the film the nurse Gabriela hires Logan to take Maura to specific coordinates in North Dakota but shortly after that Logan flips through Lourdes x-men comics and sees the same coordinates belonging to a fictional mutant sanctuary called Eden so at this point he assumes it's all made up but then later on we learned that the kids actually did use the coordinates as a rendezvous point at this lookout tower in North Dakota so they're not just random coordinates they did lead to something and we hear one of these kids talk to someone over the radio telling them that they've been approved across the Canadian border they just have to run eight miles north through the woods so where are these kids going exactly and who were they talking to over the radio and is there an actual mutant sanctuary called Eden like the comic suggested so it seems like the movie is saying Eden was indeed fictional but the kids used the concept of the Eden and the coordinates in the comics to meet up at this outpost then presumably they would cross the border into Canada where rice and his men couldn't follow them and that guy they were talking to was probably some friendly Canadian who was just going to meet the north of the border to ensure their safe passage however I have a theory and it's kind of a stretch but just hear me out I think that it's possible that Eden is real and that's where the kids are headed at the end of the movie and maybe we'll see it in if there's ever a sequel that follows x-23 here's where i'm coming from on this when Mogan argues with Laura about the comics and whether they're real he makes a condescending reference to the writer of the comics like they were an x-men insider who lied about what really happened so I think that it's possible that the person behind the comics was actually one of the x-men and which of the x-men has Wolverine historically found the most aggravating psyche right so whether it was Cyclops or someone else I think they might have snuck in these coordinates into the comics as a secret message to mutant leading them to this outpost meeting place and then once they arrived there he would get in touch with them and tell them to cross the border to get taken to Eden a real secret place run by real surviving mutants and those mutants could have been the voices on the other end of that radio call now maybe that's how you read this already or maybe this theory is totally bogus but I think it's possible and it's interesting so shut up in any way speaking of that comic book one final big question what are the x-men in the world of Logan I talked about this in one my trailer breakdown but it's kind of crazy that specific uncanny x-men comic books show up in this movie like I get that these heroes would have a fan following for example over in the MCU there are those Captain America Trading Cards but remember those are made for like war propaganda purposes they were justified in the world of the movie and those are not nearly as meta as having the fans of the x-men chronicle their history with actual x-men comics and for those comics to be the same version of the comics that inspired all these movies and by the way I should say that these aren't real-life X and comics issues but Fox did bring in the x-men artist Joe Quesada to illustrate them so that they'd have the same look and design so what do these comics need and why does another new mutant kid have a Wolverine action figure and why did they trim his beard to give him the classic Wolverine mutton-chop and why do we see Pierce keep addressing Wolverine Charles and Caliban as this they were former celebrities so again my theory is that this is all the end result of whoever created the comic books within this universe spreading and popularizing this distorted legend about the x-men in order to try to keep mutants relevant and popular among young generation and yeah maybe to secretly rescue mutant refugees and a side effect of this underground comic book propaganda campaign is that mutants like Wolverines became pop culture figures but unfortunately that led to two bad consequences one since Wolverine is recognizable it makes it that much harder for him to try to blend in and get around undetected whenever he tries to stay out of trouble and two since the mutants were more popular in the general public instead of hunting them down or or restricting their rights like in the past Xander rice came up with a secret toxin to wipe them all out which ended up being far more lethal and effective but really what I love about this is not only does it create this interesting reality for the world of the story it brings Logan back to where x-men all started the comics that we read and loved as kids this was Hugh Jackman's final performances Wolverine and it's so fitting that we say goodbye to him as he's surrounded by kids clutching Wolverine toys those kids represent us the Nerds like many of us were around this age when we first saw Jackman play Wolverine and even if you're older admit it you still had that action figure and I just love how Logan which is a grounded gritty realistic Western still uses x-men fan service in these targeted ways to deliver this perfect emotional finale okay that covers all the big stuff and you may have had other questions about Logan but as I mentioned I'll be working on another breakdown the movie so keep an eye out for that also be sure to check out my video about the Deadpool to preview scene that played before the movie and let me know what you think in the comments and if you like this video please hit like and 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Length: 10min 32sec (632 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 06 2017