Soo... the main, future Wolverine (that we've been seeing in the films) has his consciousness transported to the body of a Wolverine in the nice new timeline at the end, right? He wakes up and he's all like 'WTF. Why is everyone alive?'

Does this mean that there was a Wolverine in this nice new timeline who lived years up to that point, only to get his mind effectively erased and replaced with the mind of the old timeline wolverine who we spent the film with? I mean, they're both Wolverine but one was used to that nice new life at the school while the other was from the war torn future who suddenly wakes up in the body and has no idea what's going on...


Also, how does Professor X even know about the new timeline?

I stopped with X-Men after TLS. Is there a TL;DR of what happened with all the movies up to this point?

I stopped with X-Men after TLS. Is there a TL;DR of what happened with all the movies up to this point?

X-Men First Class is a neat prequel you should watch. Kinda messes up the time-line TLS established slightly but it doesn't have complete canonical bearing over the main movies.

The Wolverine is again, not really canonically relevant. Wolverine dicks around in Japan for a while and fights the Silver Samurai. It's a serviceable movie but not one of the best X-Men's.

DofP is set in the dystopian future where robots called Sentinels enslave/kill mutants. Wolverine is sent back in time to convince Mystique (who is now a protagonist for some reason) not to kill a guy called Bolivar Trask, creator of the sentinels, whose death sets in motion the dystopian future they want to avoid. Fassbender Magneto is kind of a background villain that tries to mess everything up.

Haven't seen Apocalypse.