Instead of having 2 alternate universes meld together, here's how Fox could fix some of the big inconsistancies between the X-Men films...
- Inconsistancy...
--> FIX: (solution to make consistant)
- Professor Charles Xavier (Professor X) WALKING in X-Men: Last Stand (flashback of Jean Grey's recruitment) and at the end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (saving the escaped mutants from Stryker's Island)
--> FIX: (easy) it's Prof. X's personal psychic illusion, basically he's making everyone in his pressence view him as "normal"... much like, during
X-Men: First Class, he was somewhat of the opinion that Mystique should remain in her normal human appearance instead of her blue-scalely-ness.
- Emma Frost's age (or 2 Emma's)
--> FIX: X-Men: First Class' Emma is the "real" Emma. At some point she gets involved with the Weapon X program (or something bigger, like Weapon Plus), and in a matter similar to the cloning/creation of the Stepford Cuckoos, they make 1 known baby clone of her. She eventually steals the baby with plans on raising the child as her own daughter (sound familiar?). All too soon she realizes that the two of them would forever be on the run... so she gives the baby up for adoption and afterwards sacrifices her life along with an illusion that she is taking the baby with her into doom. The child clone is later adopted by Silverfox's parents, and that's how we end up seeing her in
X-Men Origins: Wolverine. OPTIONAL EXTRA: before releasing the baby for adoption, Emma surpresses a copy of her memories & personality into the baby's consciousness. Not exactly what Prof. X did at the end of
X-Men: Last Stand, but almost similar, at least over time as the new Emma grows up.
- Cyclops dying (AND the Pheonix being reduced down to a power complex of Jean's)
--> FIX: Prof. X was WRONG and the Pheonix is actually the Cosmic Force/Enitity we all know and love (just with a slightly different powerset & seeming limitations), thus Jean, not at all in-control but with little/hidden influence, "subconsciously" pulled Scott into a pocket deminsion (or the Astral Plane) where they aren't really dead. Just waiting for someone/something to pull them out and probably reanimate their physical bodies, like clone bodies (INTRO for Mister Sinister, spoiler for
X-Men: Apocolypse) or somehow residual Pheonix energy reconstructs "new" bodies.
- Sabertooth's look
--> FIX: After the events of
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Victor continues down a dark path attempting to make himself a more powerful mutant than Wolverine. He finds other mutant scientists/experimenters, and after little-to-no success (all but becoming more fueral), he decides to embrace his inner beast even further and moves to the forrest/jungle to live/train. Seemingly as a result, his mutation mutates slightly more (similar to Beast's situation but on a far smaller scale) and then we end up with the black-eyed, sharper-toothed Sabertooth as seen in
X-Men the movie, who is eventually recruited by Magneto.
- Nightcrawler being orphaned (even tho Mystique is so "Mutant and Proud" and surrounded by Brotherhood)
--> FIX: (per previews
X-Men: Days Of Future Past) Mystique and Magneto don't seem to be on the best of terms, maybe she's on the outskirts with the Brotherhood; between that unstable home environment, the fact that the father is always popping in & out of her life, AND that she's still pretty young... the "normal" young (single) pre-mother stuff just gets to her. (And in
X-Men: First Class they already established that when Mystique is old she'll still look young, so that addresses any age concerns)
- Prof. X & Magneto building Cerebro together (stated in X2: X-Men United), instead of Hank/Beast (as stated in X-Men First Class)
--> FIX: 1st Class' version of Cerebro was crap and built FOR a telepath, eventually Charles and Erik put aside their differences (temporarily at least) to recreate Cerebro into what it is in the
X-Men Trilogy, designed BY a telepath, and assembled by the Master of Magnetism! (
X-Men: Days Of Future Past would make a perfect excuse, like in the preview Wolverine telling Prof. X to "bring the X-Men together")
- Beast's age (he seemed quite a bit younger than Prof. X & Magneto in X-Men: Last Stand)
--> FIX: since his mutation is "beastly" (and evolving in comics), maybe (to a degree) it grants him a bit of extended youthfulness.
- And I’m thinking that X-Men: Days Of Future Past will already be explaining why we saw a non-beastly Hank McCoy on TV in the original X-Men, since we’ve all seen the preview…
--> FIX (MY GUESS): Nightcrawler/Forge’s Image Inducer… but where’s Forge?? Guess this one will be designed by good ol’ Dr. Hank McCoy!