From there, you’re free to witness how the franchise evolved and changed in style.

It’s a complicated ordeal, with retcons, time travel, and continuity errors.

Here’s our best shot at making sense of the tangled timeline.

An X Men poster featuring several characters from the movies.

20th Century Fox

X-Men: Days of Future Pastis a time travel crossover between the originalX-Mentrilogy and theX-Men Beginningsprequel series.

The 2023 segments of the film take place several years afterThe Wolverine.

For this list, the film counts as anX-Men Beginningsentry.

This guide only covers theX-Menand mutant films produced by 20th Century Fox.

X-Men TV shows such asThe GiftedandLegionare not included.