Deadpool Movie Continuity Problem?

[sanjiv2001]

Wolverine: Origins, which takes place from the 1800s to 1960s, features Deadpool (same actor, too). He has already been created and at the end of the movie, he survived. In the new Deadpool movie, however, it shows him being created in the year 2016, but Wolverine stills knows him somehow. How is this possible?

[MindofShadow]

Fox erased everything remember? DoFP?

[kcekada]

I think the Deadpool franchise will play fast and loose with any previously established continuity. And let's face it, the X-Men franchise is just a mess in that regard.

[WillieMorgan]

When it comes to the continuity that exists between the X-Men movies it's probably best to take it with a pinch of salt (or possibly a few).

This film series has lasted longer than anyone involved with it ever thought it would. It wasn't designed to slot together perfectly.

[Holt]

The simple answer: the people in charge have spent the last several years trying to erase everything that happened in The Last Stand and Origins.

In the new Deadpool movie, however, it shows him being created in the year 2016, but Wolverine stills knows him somehow. How is this possible?

Easy, he just met Wolverine at some point in the new timeline. IIRC doesn't he say this isn't the first time he's encountered the X-Men?

[Personamanx]

I'm still wondering how 1996's "Generation X" movie works into things.

[XPac]

Fox erased everything remember? DoFP?

Theoretically if the events of Wolverine Origins takes place before the events of DOFP (and I'm not entirely sure that's the case) then it should be uneffected.

[Holt]

Theoretically if the events of Wolverine Origins takes place before the events of DOFP (and I'm not entirely sure that's the case) then it should be uneffected.

The explanations for how the reboot worked makes no sense since it also somehow altered things that should already have happened before Mystique changed the timeline at the end of the movie. For instance, there's no reason it should have somehow made Psylocke and Angel be born decades earlier, but it somehow did because they're just trying to ignore what happened in The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

[Anubhavkumarc]

I like to think Deadpool movie universe is different from Singer's X-Men universe, mostly because of costumes (stupid reason I know).

[PretenderNX01]

[ImprobableQuestion]

This movie is definitely set later in new time line that Wolverine and Mystique created, as Colossus is much older. They never explicitly say it was Wolverine's healing factor that Deadpool was a test subject for, since at this point we don't know if Weapon-X ever got him (Wolverine now has bone claws in both timelines so which one the next Wolverine movie takes place in will be a bigger question).

[Star_Jammer]

I'm still wondering how 1996's "Generation X" movie works into things.

Instead of wondering if it ever did?

[Kusanagi]

Deadpool even calls out the continuity mess in the movie, it's pretty clear they won't care about it on this side of the franchise.

[sanjiv2001]

Is it possible that Wolverine, the only one who knows what happened in both timelines, knew Deadpool would be created at some point and tried to seek him out?

[DennisTheMenace]

Theoretically if the events of Wolverine Origins takes place before the events of DOFP (and I'm not entirely sure that's the case) then it should be uneffected.

Origins takes place (the 'current' setting) in the early 1980's. The vehicles give that away.

X-Men continuity was screwed up by First Class. I believe it was meant to be a complete and total reboot of the X-Franchise and then they backtracked on that idea and tried to tie them together with DOFP.