Logan: Where Are All The X-Men?*
Summary
- Logan takes place in a bleak future where mutants are on the brink of extinction, leaving Wolverine at the end of his road.
- The movie is ambiguous about the fate of the other X-Men, but introduces a new generation of mutants to carry on their legacy.
- Dr. Zander Rice's plan to eliminate mutants parallels Charles Xavier's accidental disaster, setting the stage for Logan's dark narrative.
Logan takes place in a near future where mutants are close to extinction, but the Marvel movie is ambiguous about what happened to all the other X-Men who populated the earlier movies in the franchise. James Mangold’s R-rated Wolverine threequel is subversively bleak for a comic book movie, finding its titular adamantium-clawed antihero at the end of his road, ready to retire. When his long-lost cloned daughter, Laura, comes knocking, Logan reluctantly agrees to help her, and his hope for the future of mutantkind is restored. But that hope wouldn’t need to be restored if the powerful X-Men hadn’t been nearly wiped out by an off-screen tragedy.
Before Disney acquired the studio, 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise continued with Deadpool 2, Dark Phoenix, and The New Mutants after Logan. But Logan’s near-future setting makes it the end of the series chronologically, and it provides a bittersweet conclusion to the long-running superhero saga. At the end of Logan, all the X-Men are dead, but the movie leaves a promising new generation of mutants to take their place. As central as the X-Men's death is to Logan's narrative, the movie isn’t clear about what happened to them.
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Dr. Zander Rice Tried To Eradicate Mutantkind
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Dr. Zander Rice, the head surgeon at the scientific collective Alkali-Transigen, set out to eradicate mutantkind. He used genetically modified food products to spread a virus across the world that put an end to natural mutant births. Rice distributed a formula that was supposedly designed to repress the mutant gene through soft drinks and breakfast cereals, but it ended up killing mutants en masse. His plan was to eliminate the existing mutants so that he could start over and create his own mutants to be born, bred, and sold as weapons.
The X-Men who weren’t killed by Rice were accidentally wiped out by Charles Xavier when he suffered a telepathic seizure. Later dubbed the “Westchester Incident,” Xavier's seizure proved deadly for the X-Men surrounding him, and it also severely injured 600 civilians. The U.S. government declared Xavier’s deteriorating brain a “weapon of mass destruction,” forcing him and Logan to relocate to Mexico. Mangold told ComingSoon.net that he originally planned to open Logan with the deaths of the X-Men but changed his mind because this “made the movie about X-Men dying” and detracted from the character-driven nature of the story he wanted to tell.
Logan takes very loose inspiration from Marvel Comics' Old Man Logan, which similarly sees an aged Wolverine operating after the death of the X-Men. In Old Man Logan, Mysterio tricks Wolverine into killing his allies, leaving him with irreparable feelings of guilt.
Laura Represents The Future Of Mutantkind Close Logan’s quest to save Laura and her friends is so important because they’re mutantkind’s last hope. If he can’t stop the Reavers from bringing them back to Rice’s lab for further experimentation and weaponization, then mutants will become truly extinct, and humans will have to fend for themselves. The X-Men might have all died by the end of
Logan – including Wolverine himself after his heartbreaking final sacrifice – but Laura can lead a new generation of mutants to protect humanity from evil in the future. She turns the cross on Logan’s grave into an “X” to immortalize the team’s legacy.
Are The X-Men Who Died In Logan The Same As The Ones From The Other Fox Movies?
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Even with the knowledge that Logan takes place after all the other X-Men movies, it can still be a bit confusing to understand just which versions of the heroes died here. Given the Fox X-Men franchise started one timeline, jumped to a prequel era, then hopped between the two with Days of Future Past and continued on, there's certainly room for confusion. Surprisingly, Logan doesn't take place as far in the future compared to the other movies as you may think.
Days of Future Past is messy, but it's the key to understanding the history of the world Logan is set in. Days of Future Past starts in the near future, moving forward from the events of X-Men (2000) through X-Men: The Last Stand and The Wolverine. Logan travels back, meeting up with the cast from X-Men: First Class, and he alters events in the past that would eventually lead to Sentinels eradicating humans. In doing so, he changes the whole timeline. The end of Days of Future Past sees Wolverine return to the near-future of the original trilogy, though the timeline has been retroactively altered due to his actions. Those who died in earlier movies are seen alive.
It's here that Logan follows on from - a timeline in which the X-Men who died in movies like The Last Stand are back, and, in general, things seem more pleasant. However,
Logan takes place only 5 years later, indicating that Doctor Rice's genocide and Professor Xavier's accident are soon to come. It's a tragic footnote to what seemed to be a happy ending in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but so goes most stories featuring the X-Men.
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Director James Mangold
Release Date March 3, 2017
Studio(s) 20th Century , Marvel
Writers Michael Green , Scott Frank , James Mangold
Cast Hugh Jackman , Patrick Stewart , Dafne Keen , Elizabeth Rodriguez , Daniel Bernhardt , Richard E. Grant , Doris Morgado , Boyd Holbrook
Runtime 137 Minutes Expand Upcoming MCU Movies
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Related Wolverine's 12 Most Impressive Displays Of Power In All 8 Hugh Jackman X-Men Movies Hugh Jackman"s Wolverine is one of the most impressive X-Men for a reason, and their are multiple examples featured across his 8 movie appearances.
Dr. Zander Rice, the head surgeon at the scientific collective Alkali-Transigen, set out to eradicate mutantkind. He used genetically modified food products to spread a virus across the world that put an end to natural mutant births. Rice distributed a formula that was supposedly designed to repress the mutant gene through soft drinks and breakfast cereals, but it ended up killing mutants en masse. His plan was to eliminate the existing mutants so that he could start over and create his own mutants to be born, bred, and sold as weapons. 
Even with the knowledge that Logan takes place after all the other X-Men movies, it can still be a bit confusing to understand just which versions of the heroes died here. Given the Fox X-Men franchise started one timeline, jumped to a prequel era, then hopped between the two with Days of Future Past and continued on, there's certainly room for confusion. Surprisingly, Logan doesn't take place as far in the future compared to the other movies as you may think. 
Logan R Where to Watch *Availability in US
