If you have seen the recent movie X-men Days of Futures Past movie you might be scratching you head and trying to figure out some of the scenes from the movie. Especially the ending credit scene. If you haven't seen the movie, DONT READ THIS POST IT CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!!
Now that we have that out of the way lets start to break this movie down because even the ending confused me and I had to play that last scene through my head a couple times to figure out the movie. The last scene was amazing and I loved how they put a bunch of past x-men in it. But when suddenly Cyclops and Jean Grey are alive again and I was like, so did the past x-men movies even happen because of Wolverine changing the past? Did Wolverine still get his metal claws? Did the Phoenix take over jean grey?
To answer these questions we have to look at some key scenes. First; the scene with Wolverine being pulled out of the ocean. He was pulled out by the government and William Stryker(if you remember he was involved in giving Wolverine his metal claws), however after an eye flash he turns out to be Mystique. Even though it was mystique, clearly Wolverine is captured by the government and he probably gets his metal claws that way, but we will probably really find out what happens there in the next X-men movie. Moving on to the question if the X-men trilogy happened we have to look at the really small scene with Rogue. First of all she has the white hair strand, and if you remember she got that from Magneto's Machine in the first movie. So the first movie still happened, also she was holding Iceman's hand. I can't remember if her hand was gloved, if it was gloved then the events in the 3rd didn't happen, if it wasn't gloved then the 3rd X-men movie happened. To explain Cyclops and Jean Grey being alive we can only assume that when Wolverine shared his memories with Professor X that Professor X saw a few pieces of Jean turning into the Phoenix and trained Jean better in contracting the Phoenix. I feel however that the events in X-men Origins: Wolverine changed drastically. Personally I really want to forget the huge failure of an attempt of bring Dead Pool in a movie.
Finally for those people confused about the ending credits scene, the grey skin boy building a pyramid with a bunch of Egyptians chanting around was En Sabah Nur, he also goes by the other and better known name Apocalypse. Apocalypse is the first mutant and is an enemy in the x-men comic books. His powers include the complete control of the molecules in his body. Meaning he can change any part of his body into any thing he wants, guns, swords, engines and really anything you can name. He also has a high intelligence level, along with a long list of mutant powers. He is also immortal, thus the reason he is in ancient Egypt and in the next x-men movie set in the 1980's.
I hope this post answered the questions you have about the movie and watch this blog for more super hero movie break downs.
