I noticed a mistake in the X-Men series...

[Yayo]

Okay,
So we learnt from X-Men: First Class that Professor Xavier was injured at the end of the movie and it resulted in him becoming paralysed when he was quite young. Anyway, I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine on the weekend and at the end of the film where Prof. X (played by Patrick Stewart) appears and rescues the mutant youngin's, he was completely mobile. Could someone please explain this to me? Were the other X-Men movies set in an alternative universe to the prequels? Could someone please explain this to me?

[Emtokay]

But since Prof. X has powerful mind control powers, him not being in a wheel chair might've been the image he wanted in the other mutants minds

[Yayo]

I highly doubt that...

[Emtokay]

What's to say he didn't? First impressions are a big thing.

[Yayo]

I suppose it's possible but considering what he's asking of them, I don't think that he would. Sorry if I seemed a bit rude, I just think that it's not true.

[Nyx]

Yeah, I noticed that too, and there was the same thing in one of the first 3 movies where Xavier and Magneto visit some house, and if I remember correctly, he's walking there.

In the comics he goes back and forth a lot, one thing puts him in the wheelchair, another lets him walk again, then yet another puts him back in the wheelchair.. long story. It could be that the walking in the movies happened during one of those periods when he could walk (I'm not 100% sure about the timeline). It could also be some kind of mini-reboot, or they just didn't care about patching those things up.

[Yayo]

Since it's the same movie series, I was very confused. In First Class, Charles appeared to be in his twenties when he was paralysed by the bullet. However, when he's played by Patrick Stewart, he's clearly older and still mobile.

[archaic]

Mobile again not still.

[Yayo]

Haha, very true. So, what have we concluded?

[archaic]

Movie logic + narrative causality + selective amnesia = Franchise reboot ?

[Nì'awtua Eyktan]

I see First Class as a reboot of the X-Men series. Like the new Spiderman movie or the Star Trek movie.
Or you can blame some time traveling mutant for screwing up the timeline, like Nero got Kirk's father killed (not to mention Vulcan ).

[Emtokay]

I know why that happene, they ere supposed to get the actor who played Xavier in first class to be at the end of wolverine but he said no or something. So they got that other guy. Also in comic books (according to Chook my source of all information to do with marvel) Xavier wasn't paralyzed because of magneto

[Emtokay]

Up to another part in the Xmen series, Gene once had the power to heal Prof. X's spine but then it got damaged again.

Also Prof. X is walking again after a witch/mutant with greatest power ever known said there shall be no more mutants while she is alive then bam, everyone lost their powers including Xavier meaning he can walk again.

[Yayo]

I know that you said it may not have been referenced in the comic book series, but isn't the movie a 'completely' different universe from the comic books?

[Emtokay]

It's all based off the comit books