I watched every X-Men movie and show!

Similar to another post I made earlier in the week, I also watched every live action movie and show and ranked them. I think this list is/should be far less divisive but let me know what you think! It was charming going back and watching where it all started, unfortunately it ends in a pretty shitty series of movies lol Disclaimer: I know Deadpool and Wolverine is technically MCU but it felt much more thematic to put it with the rest of the Deadpool trilogy rather than all by its lonesome with my MCU list. Also I'm not sure if there's another sub I should put this in, this is just my go to one when talking about Marvel movies so let me know if there's somewhere else I should post this rather than here!

MOVIES:

1. Logan

2. X-Men: First Class

3. X-Men: Days of Future Past

4. X-Men 2: United

5. Deadpool and Wolverine

6. Deadpool

7. X-Men

8. Deadpool 2

9. New Mutants

10. X-Men: Dark Phoenix

11. X-Men 3: the Last Stand

12. X-Men: Apocalypse

13. X-Men Origins: Wolverine

TV-SHOWS:

1. Legion

2. The Gifted

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Commentaires

nikos5632025-11-29 15:35

What's your favorite and what's the worst one?

TheJusticeAvenger2025-11-29 15:38

Going by how OP ranked them, Logan and Origins: Wolverine respectively

BowlBernis2025-11-29 15:39

I mean Logan is just such a fantastic movie. I loved First Class so it sat comfortably at the top of my list for awhile, but when I watched Logan... Oh my God, it's almost perfect and such a beautiful send off to the character.

As for the worst one? Ironically it would be Wolverine's first movie alone, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It's laughably bad from the script, to some of the acting, the CGI, the fight scenes, it's so bad it comes back around and is really funny to watch. So I think it's the worst made, but I enjoyed watching it for none of the reasons the movie wanted me to enjoy it for. Liev Schreiber and Hugh Jackman are the only things that weren't dog shit in the movie.

CrownReserve2025-11-29 15:45

I agree pretty much completely with your ranking, save I probably flip first class and DoFP.

emdash_162025-11-29 15:46

Where's The Wolverine?

Edboy7962025-11-29 16:02

Exactly, it's part of the Logan centric solo-ish trilogy

BowlBernis2025-11-29 16:28

Completely forgot about that one! I did watch it, I just forgot to put it in the ranking haha, I'll fix that up.

CalmGiraffe13732025-11-29 15:55

The show *The Gifted* is also set in a version of the X-Men universe. You should watch it as well!

CaptHayfever2025-11-29 16:09

Based on the list they wrote, they *did* watch it.

BowlBernis2025-11-29 16:31

I did watch it! It was a little teen drama-y for me but no shade if you liked it! I'd give it a 5/10 whereas Legion is more like an 8 or 9.

tenehemia2025-11-29 15:56

My list would be very close to yours with maybe some shuffling of the Deadpool movies. I appreciate you not shoving New Mutants to the bottom, too. I really love that movie. It's not on the level of the best of the franchise, but I think it's a great small story. The worst movies from the series all tried to tell huge stories with extra large stories needlessly tacked on as well (like Last Stand trying to do a Cure story and Dark Phoenix at the same time), and I appreciate that New Mutants was about this one small group of people in one place and that was all it needed to be.

BowlBernis2025-11-29 16:30

Exactly! It's a perfectly fine movie, if not a little boring. But it's at least focused rather than Apocalypse or Last Stand where there was just WAY too much going on. What would you rank the Deadpool movies since you said you'd shuffle them around?

No-Sweet-63372025-11-29 16:00

I’ve also seen all of this including The Gifted which is forgotten a lot but adds a ton of lore even if the show itself isn’t that great.

I don’t think people got that this show was set in the erased OG X-Men timeline because it came out after Days of Future Past had created a new timeline, plus the general audience wasn’t all that savvy to timelines like they are today, Endgame really helped to explain an even more complicated version of time travel to casual audiences, but back then, no one understood this show was set in a dead timeline and they dismissed it out of hand. It being soapy melodrama in places didn’t help. Neither did it not having any actual X-Men in it.

But the lore it adds to the X-Men franchise is great. The show covers the rise in Mutant hate towards the Dark Future shown at the beginning of Days of Future Past. The end of The Wolverine has Logan meeting up with Charles and Eric, then the entire show of The Gifted happens where X-Men have vanished after a huge 9/11 size event caused by a Mutant kills thousands.

I really enjoyed the first season of the show, there’s a black family that loses a child in the 9/11 Mutant incident, the father becomes the leader of an anti-Mutant ICE style gang. It’s very relatable and relevant to today oddly. The second season tried to be more like an actual X-Men thing with characters getting actual super suits and silly haircuts etc. The first season is superior, but the ending of the second season has Blink and Thunderbird jumping through a portal to go find the X-Men, which leads directly up to Blink and the now Warpath appearing at the beginning of Days of Future Past.

I recommend The Gifted to anyone doing an X-Men rewatch. Right in between The Wolverine and DoFP, it’s equal parts great and terrible but overall what it adds is worth it.

BowlBernis2025-11-29 16:33

Yeah it was kinda crazy how eerily relevant the Gifted was with everything going on today! I think the teen drama kinda held the show back a lot, but it by no means was a bad watch. I liked their portrayal of Thunderbird a good bit!

PattyRick272025-11-29 16:03

Don’t sleep on X-men: The Animated Series and X-men 97! Both are fantastic

BowlBernis2025-11-29 16:29

I have watched X-Men 97 and it's incredible! I'm so stoked for season 2. I tried watching the OG series and I just couldn't get into it haha, maybe I'll have to try again!

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