‘Logan’: The ‘X-Men’ Scenes to Revisit After the Final Wolverine Movie
[Warning: this story contains spoilers for Logan]
Logan is the rarest of superhero movies, one that somehow manages to be a 10th installment in a film series that against all odds refuses to be bogged down by continuity. There’s no setting up the next film or post-credit scenes. There’s no trying to twist the narrative to awkwardly fit what’s come before.
Still, Logan does pick and choose from the best of the X-Men films (there’s a reference to X-Men‘s statue of liberty scene) and plays off the long relationship viewers have with both Logan and Patrick Stewart’s Prof. X.
After watching the film, these scenes in particular stand out as ones that are time to revisit.
Wolverine and Prof. X meet in X-Men (2000)
The central relationship in the X-Men franchise has always been Prof. X and Magneto, but as Days of Future Past suggested — Logan drives home — the father/son dynamic between Logan and Charles is essential to the mythos. This scene is also a striking reminder to how far Xavier has fallen in Logan — going from a put-together man running a school to a fugitive hiding out in the desert.
Wolverine fights at the Statue of Liberty in X-Men (2000)
In Logan, Charles tells Logan he’s being waited for at the Statue of Liberty, to which Logan responds, that “was a long time ago.” (For…