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considered your typical comic book movie
sure it's got a guide that's well over a
hundred years old with unbreakable metal
blades that come out of his hands plus
the mind-reading old British man and
people with robot limbs and a bunch of
kids with special and improbable
abilities but still this is the realest
thing you'll ever see in your life of
course these things set in the x-men
universe means there's a bunch of Easter
eggs references and cameos linked to the
comics the other movies character
histories and a whole lot more so let's
get into that Plus also we'll try and
make some sense of this universes
complete nonsense timeline bearing in
mind spoilers and also bearing in mind
look create giveaway at the end two
things two things to bear kicking things
off let's talk comics the idea that the
adamantium inside Wolverines body is
slowly poisoning him has been touched
upon before the fact that his bones are
coated in it means that his healing
factor is slowed significantly in fact
his body is always compensating for its
presence and it was found when it was
removed his healing became almost
instantaneous like the movie is also
lost his healing factor a number of time
including recently in the death of
Wolverine but Logan like the comic makes
use of a healing serum to fix himself
and even grow back an eye like what we
saw happen with his clone x24 wolverine
also goes into a berserker rage like he
often does in the comics and
occasionally the movie defending our PG
the universe is feeling at that moment
in time he's also seen wearing a black
suit and white shirt combo like in the
death of Wolverine and yet these classic
muttonchops shaped out of his beard
towards the end of the film there have
been variations on an evil Wolverine
before not a clone called f24 but there
was once something similar in it there
was a robot replica designed with the
sole purpose of killing Logan who was
called Albert Wolverine ended up killing
Albert revealing all the cogs and
springs that robot duplicates tend to
have and interestingly he was actually
developed by Donald Pierce to make an
appearance in this movie also the
transition project where mutant
suppressants are used to stem the rate
of mutant growth that's also taken from
the comics the additional goal of the
transition projects though was to
capture x-23 in order to study
and create more clones using a DNA as
was revealed in the trailers in the
x-men movie universe there exists x-men
comics which are different from the
actual x-men comics that were created on
the request of Hugh Jackman by x-men
veteran Joe Quesada
with colors by Dan Panos Ian dr. oz
ASA's names who also created all the
covers the numbering of the comics
through somewhat parallel the events of
Logan for example issue 132 contains a
fight between Logan and Donald Pierce we
also get things like the fastball
special which has appeared in both the
comics and movies as well as the Dark
Phoenix which is also the rumored
storyline of the next x-men film these
comics also includes the classic
Wolverine costume which unfortunately we
never saw Hugh Jackman in but we do know
that in this universe that Kali is
represented to the world we also noticed
by the Wolverine toy that one of the kid
mutants has Logan's number played also
reads wer 1 1 2 which could relate to
issue 1 1/2 of the comics it's about
turning the team into kids or something
I don't know it's a tenuous link at best
Logan is also very loosely based off
Mark Millar's old man Logan and by very
loosely I don't mean any variation on
those words I mean it bears little to no
resemblance but there are some minor
similarities both the road trip stories
both have the x-men killed in a tragic
accident or in one it was Wolverine and
the other was Professor X and they're
both set in alternate timelines to the
main universe and I will get to that
timeline in a bit but until then let's
get some more bloody eggs laid alright
that down I didn't I didn't like it then
I still don't like it but I left it in
I'm not sure why so despite being set in
its own universe there are some
callbacks to previous films in the
series Logan as a samurai sword
referencing his time in Japan from the
Wolverine good you know he's a bit of a
weeaboo I mean it is a little bit come
on x-23 is spawned out of his DNA that
was retrieved in the post-credits
sequence of x-men apocalypse his dog
tags are seen which he requested after
taking part in the Weapon X program his
love of cigars carries over after he
spills a handful of them from a servo
serve I was short for service station by
the way it's an Australian thing I mean
you probably got that from the context
Professor X also mentioned tau but when
he was found he was a cage fighter which
would tell he was introducing the first
x-men
there's also mention of the battle that
happened at the Statue of Liberty
also from that feel
and we get the return of the mystical
and magical do whatever you needed to do
adamantium bullets in x-men origins
awful and adamantium bullet or two will
scramble his brains wiping away any and
all memories but this one can apparently
kill him how does that work
who knows neither makes much then but if
I had to pick one the continuity sake
i'ma go with the second one sings as it
is it's a better movie in literally
every sense we also get a few returning
characters plus characters lifted
straight from the comics Laurel X
Caliban the mutant that can track other
mutants was last seen in x-men
apocalypse played by different actor his
origin in this movie is similar to the
comics insofar as he helps track down
rogue mutants through an evil
organization though originally it was
the Morlocks Professor X's back freezing
people with his mind as always this time
a little more violently it's also got a
little bit of hair this time around
there's actually an explanation for why
this is and I'm going to get into that
okay so we all know that the prequel
flash reboot x-men trilogy sole purpose
was to explain why Professor X lost his
hair that's why it exists I'm sure of it
six or so hours built to this epic
moment but first we got it at a
reasonable length than the next time
around they pulled a total fake out his
hair got longer amazing twists and then
in a third film of Blue Monster witness
out his mind and mentally pushed it out
of his head like he was one of those
hair play-doh toys but now that his
mental faculties are failing his mind is
not so busy
so that means his hair has had time to
grow back just to clarify that comes
from the mouth of director James Mangold
himself so if you take issue with it I
advise you to sort it out with him give
his Twitter handle he won't care that's
for the comics we get the Reavers blade
again by Donald Pierce also enhanced a
bit a little bit less so than the comics
for example no tank treads for legs guy
but both groups do share a distaste for
mutant x-23 appears pretty much as she
is in the comics a clone of Wolverine
two claws on each hand and one on each
foot and she was created for the most
part by Xander right
there's mentioned in the film that
Wolverines probably killed Xander Isis
father which you almost certainly did
Dale rice worked on the original Weapon
X program so he's probably in oh one of
these games and I guess it was his death
that most likely instilled in his son
this hatred of mutants so in a way his
actions make sense because if an angry
unkillable man with
unbreakable metal bones killed my father
then yeah years later I would probably
make an exact copy of that man but also
make a female clone only to then be
surprised when one turns out to be a
psychopath who doesn't obey orders and
the other wanted to murder me that's
what I would do
wait and I wouldn't have done some of
the kid mutants have powers that reflect
that of other mutants that we've seen
there appears to be one with Iceman
skill sets Pyro's
but more likely sunspot because pyro
can't create fire he can only manipulate
it the vomit electrical powers we know
is based off Christopher Bradley because
that scene in the file he was originally
played by Frodo in x-men origins
unbearable I'm just joking I know he
played Pippin I'm a big fan of those
films and books the one called Joey
could possibly be Joey Bailey and
Richter the leader with his seismic
abilities in a character ripped straight
from the comics there's a few others
it's like vague telekinesis abilities so
you know possibly a gene great thing and
one of them has the ability to strangle
a man with grass that could be Dryad but
none of that's really crystal clear okay
let's get into a few locations we visit
Greenwood Cemetery and there's a couple
of names on a few tombstones that might
relate to some Marvel characters but
nothing concrete that's a place though
we have seen in some previous Marvel
Comics the kids are also making a break
for Canada which is Logan's place of
origin and Professor X is put up in this
almost anti cerebro it even mirrors the
way the original looks but acts as a
method of suppressing his telekinesis
also the company alkali transition
harkens back to alkali lake the location
of the Weapon X program this movie also
owes its inspiration to a few classics
which Hugh Jackman highlighted recently
so I rang James Mangold the director I
mean it's easy to say let's do something
like Unforgiven and Shane and wrestler
and then he went off and wrote it okay
so the wrestler and Unforgiven they
Center on these broken-down formal
warriors giving it one last go and Shane
involves a gunslinger cleaning up a town
there's quite a few parallels to the
movie Shane for one part of that story
involves the cowboy coming up against
the cattle baron attempting to run
people off their land which is kind of a
subplot Logan also tries to convey the
heavy burden of killing a man and what
that does to a person to Laura like
Shane does to this kid whose mum gave
him his haircut clearly and Laura
obviously recites Shane's speech
word-for-word at Logan's grave now
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right so timeline so if you've seen the
x-men movies you're probably aware the
original timeline seen in five of the
film was a race completely by Wolverines
time-traveling shenanigans engage the
Future past so regardless everything
that happened to Wolverine and the rest
prior to 1973 still happened as the
timeline only branched off from men who
still murdered his father fought his way
through multiple Wars maybe get some
Tmax stuff I don't know the timeline
around then it's a little unclear
despite this we know that some events
took place regardless of the timeline
they're like staples so Wolverines
traveling the country cage fighting
thing that is all about that happens web
enacts yep that's a thing and also the
incident at the Statue of Liberty but in
the new timeline we also know that in
the year 2023 six years before the
events of Logan Xavier is running his
school with a bunch of original x-men
shortly after this he must have started
experiencing seizures resulting in the
death of seven people presumably seven
of the x-men so it could be any
variation on Iceman rogue Colossus Kitty
Pryde beast storm Jean Grey or Scott
Summers and that's eight meaning at
least one survive or maybe they they
won't present I don't know
however the reason that Logan exists in
neither timeline
neither timeline is because it's
mentioned in that film that hasn't mean
a mutant born in something like 25 odd
years due to some kind of mutant
suppressant thing it's being pumped into
all the food if that's the case there
wouldn't be any mutant students at the
school in 2023
but the thing is all the x-men films
exist in their own personalized
dimension regardless that's the only way
to really explain how any
films relate to each other the first
three they kind of line up but after
that it's just it's just whatever just a
nightmare of a [ __ ] and the same
mutant being born in different eras
people forgetting things that happen to
them in prequel films and then you got a
Deadpool movie on top of that just to
further complicate everything
America foyer is Stewart please don't
look confusing but as my podcast co-host
and the Internet's best mate Nick Mason
says you only really need to soar to
remember the last one chronologically
because that's the way the Fox plays it
just [ __ ] crazy town up there all
right that'll do it any Easter eggs or
references that I've miss it'll be great
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