History Headscratchers / XMenDaysofFuturePast

** ''X1'' can easily still be in continuity. Magneto clearly hasn't given up his anti-human bent, and just because mutants may have more public sympathy in the new timeline, doesn't mean that there still won't be people actively prejudiced against them (remember just how long it took the Civil Rights movement to gain success in real life following the Civil War and Reconstruction) and there's 30 years in which something can happen to still lead to the drafting of the Mutant Registration Act, which was the catalyst of the original film's plot. It may not play out the exact same way, but the important background is still potentially there. As for ''X2'', Stryker is still out there, and still has a son who will be revealed to be a mutant and who Charles won't be able to help (he doesn't have Future!Logan to warn him about Jason Stryker in advance; all he had was ''Logan's'' memories of these events, and Logan didn't know about Jason). There's nothing to suggest that Stryker lost his position alongside Trask, and if Past!Logan doesn't have Future!Logan's memories (as was implied by the "blip" the first time he saw Stryker), there's no one to warn ''him'' about Weapon X. And as for the Phoenix, all we need is ''some'' minor change in events that leads to Jean surviving Alkali Lake, in which case she'll have the Professor available to help her control it (also: Xavier got a glimpse of Phoenix!Jean from Logan's memories, so this time around he ''may'' be prepared for its emergence after Liberty Island. If Jean is in full control of the Phoenix during ''X2'', she may stop both missiles and prevent the damage to the Blackbird that led to her death in the original timeline). So yes, there's actually quite a few ways that at least the first two films can still happen in BroadStrokes, but some minor change affects the final outcome, all ForWantOfANail.

* How is Quicksilver able to move bullets around with his bare hands? His power is super speed, not stopping time altogether. The bullets should have the same kinetic energy that they always have and bore through his hands just like they would in normal speed, only subjectively slower. It would have made more sense for him to block them with the various kitchen utensils laying around, rather than rearranging them like he was in ''TheMatrix''.

** I don't know that there's any evidence that ''any'' of the original trilogy are in continuity any more. Yes, the X-Men still end up existing, but that's because Professor X has Cerebro and could still have eventually found them all, albeit in a totally different way than we've seen. Rogue has her SkunkStripe, but that could easily have been due to the fact that she's twenty years older in that scene than she was in the original film, and her hair was always going to turn that color, she just wasn't prematurely aged by Magneto's machine. My key evidence for the fact that none of the films happened is the fact that [[spoiler: Jean is alive.]] Even if ''The Last Stand'' never occurred, she would still have turned into the Phoenix and had to be killed. But, it IS implied she became the Phoenix due to her exposure to that machine in the first film: therefore, if she didn't undergo her change, that means she didn't get exposed to the machine, and probably means the events at the dam in ''X2'' didn't happen either. There's other things that must have changed, like the situation with Stryker, and the fact that Mystique may not want to work with Magneto like she did in the first trilogy after he tried to kill her, but I think mainly Jean is our strongest evidence that the timeline has been completely rewritten.

* At the end of ''Days of Future Past'', we know that ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' never happens, which also means neither does ''Film/TheWolverine'', as it was directly driven by the events of ''X3''. Also, Jean Grey is alive and well, which causes problems with the ending of ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. On the other hand, Rogue is still sporting her SkunkStripe, which was caused by Magneto's machine in the [[Film/XMen1 original film]]. Not to mention Rogue is at the school at all, as is Wolverine. So that begs the question: What parts of the original trilogy's continuity are ''still'' in continuity? Did the events of ''X-Men'' and ''X2'' still happen, only in BroadStrokes with a few tweaks such as Jean not dying saving the others in ''X2''? Or is there some other explanation for details like Rogue's hair and both her and Logan still being X-Men? Or should it just be chalked up to the MST3KMantra?