Warning: Full spoilers follow for Deadpool & Wolverine. Man, Deadpool & Wolverine sure gave us a bunch of Easter eggs and cameos that tie back to a variety of old Fox Marvel movies – and some non-Fox ones as well. But what the latest Marvel Studios film also manages to do is kind of make the Fox X-Men movie timeline even more confusing than it already was – and that’s saying something.
Still, perhaps what lies at the center of the new Ryan Reynolds/Hugh Jackman film is a bigger question about how much any of this continuity stuff really matters anyway. So let’s steal a TVA thingamajig and dig into this further with a look at the confusing X-Men movie timeline, as well as the bigger Fox/Marvel-verse and beyond – and what lessons they might teach us about the future of the MCU! In a world where you can have 100 Deadpools, or a new Logan – even after the so-called final film in the Wolverine franchise killed off the character – does continuity or canon really make a difference anymore? The Fox movie-verse is essentially part of the MCU now – a franchise that in part rose to Hollywood prominence because of its mastery of the concept of the shared universe. But it’s hard not to wonder how much longer viewers will remain invested in the House that Kevin Feige built when the New Marvel Normal tells us that, thanks to the multiverse, death and change are essentially meaningless now.
Ironically, the Fox Marvel movies kind of knew that continuity didn’t matter. And .