Back to the past Wolverine is sent back to the past to change a dystopian future. This causes a timeline split in 1973 where James an alternative ‘Logan’ Howlett timeline is created. He is one of the This alternative few surviving timeline is where mutants. the movie, Logan, takes place. The Straits Times takes a look at how the events owed with each movie.

LOGAN’S TIMELINE 1832 James ‘Logan’ Howlett is born.

His bone claws and healing powers appear and he runs away from home. 1845 Laura Kinney She is a mutant who shares similar He ghts in several prominent abilities as Logan. She has healing battles, from the American powers and claws on each hand. 1861- Civil War to World War II. 1945 LEGENDS He is imprisoned in a Japanese The Wolverine X-Men (2000) 2029 prisoner-of-war camp and rescues (2013) a soldier named Yashida from the • Logan, with his X-Men: Days Of Nagasaki atomic bombing. X2 (2003) powers seemingly 1945 Future Past (2014) weakening, takes care X-Men: The Last X-Men: Apocalypse of an ailing Xavier. Stand (2006) (2016) • A young mutant Logan rejects Charles Xavier’s offer to named Laura shows up X-Men Origins: recruit him into his mutant division. Logan (2017) with similar powers as 1962 Wolverine (2009) Logan and needs their X-Men: First help as dark forces Class (2011) approach. Logan ghts in the Vietnam War and is captured. He escapes execution when Colonel Stryker takes him into his black 1971 ops military mutant team, Team X. 1983 2023 • Logan’s consciousness is sent from the • Logan, now in the Logan wakes up in Xavier’s dystopian future to this point. He nds Xavier Weapon X programme, mansion without any 1973 and Magneto to stop Mystique from killing manages to escape recollection of events that Bolivar Trask, as his death will lead to the from it with the help of have taken place in the This is approval of the Sentinel programme. a young Jean Grey. past 50 years. His last where the memories are of the AL • Magneto turns on them, throwing Logan • After his escape, a timeline TE into a river. Logan loses consciousness. company called Essex events in 1973, RN when he splits. AT Corporation retrieves IV • Mystique, impersonating E Logan’s les and almost TIM Stryker, rescues Logan drowned. EL blood samples. INE from drowning. Logan leaves Team X as he does not share O R the team’s belief I G I in violence. N A L T IM E 1979 L IN E He is persuaded by Stryker to join his Weapon X programme and has the indestructible metal alloy Adamantium grafted onto his skeleton. After he escapes the facility, Logan is shot in the head with an Adamantium bullet and loses his memory.

2006 2007 2013 2015 2023 • Logan goes back to Jean Grey is • Logan, who left the Logan returns • In a dystopian world, robots the abandoned Weapon X resurrected X-Men, now lives as a to the United called Sentinels now exterminate facility in search as the hermit. He is invited to States and is both humans and mutants. 2005 of answers. Phoenix and Japan to visit a dying approached by • With the help of Magneto and • He, along with the goes out of Yashida, the soldier he Magneto and the rest of the surviving X-Men, Logan is found by the X-Men X-Men and the control, saved in World War II. Xavier, warning Logan’s consciousness is sent and taken to Xavier’s Brotherhood of Mutants, forcing • Yashida turns out to him about a new back to the year 1973, to prevent mansion. He joins the X-Men stops Stryker’s plans to Logan to be evil and extracts the threat to the the introduction of the and battles Magneto and his wipe out all mutants. Jean kill her. Adamantium from mutant race. Sentinel programme. Brotherhood of Mutants. Grey sacri ces herself to Logan’s claws. ensure her team’s survival. Source: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX PHOTOS: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, WARNER BROS STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS: BILLY KER, BRYANDT LYN