Watch-order guide
How to watch X-Men in order
Fair warning: the X-Men timeline is famously broken — Days of Future Past rewrites it on purpose. Release order is the sane first watch; the chronological order below follows each film's primary setting.
- Films
- 14
- Full marathon
- 28h 3m
- Years
- 2000–2024
- Genre
- Action
Release order (best first watch)
- X-Men (2000)
1h 44m - X2 (2003)
2h 13m - X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)1h 44m
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)Mostly set in 1979–80s1h 47m
- X-Men: First Class (2011)Set in 1962
2h 12m - The Wolverine (2013)2h 6m
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)Resets the timeline2h 12m
- Deadpool (2016)1h 48m
- X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)Set in 19832h 24m
- Logan (2017)Set in 20292h 17m
- Deadpool 2 (2018)2h
- Dark Phoenix (2019)Set in 19921h 54m
- The New Mutants (2020)1h 34m
- Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)Multiverse romp — watch last2h 8m
Chronological order (story timeline)
Ordered by each film's main time period; the series' own contradictions make any timeline approximate.
- X-Men: First Class (2011)Set in 19622h 12m
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)Mostly set in 1979–80s1h 47m
- X-Men (2000)1h 44m
- X2 (2003)2h 13m
- X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)1h 44m
- The Wolverine (2013)2h 6m
- X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)Resets the timeline2h 12m
- X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)Set in 19832h 24m
- Dark Phoenix (2019)Set in 19921h 54m
- Deadpool (2016)1h 48m
- Deadpool 2 (2018)2h
- The New Mutants (2020)1h 34m
- Logan (2017)Set in 20292h 17m
- Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)Multiverse romp — watch last2h 8m
