User blog comment:Mebadatbball/X-Men Origins: Wolverine/@comment-409955-20090505114048

Bear in mind that nobody makes movies for fanboys only; these things cost eleventy squillion pesos to make and therefore they make a movie that has the widest possible appeal. X-Men movie fans? Check, got em on board, there's akiddy Cyclops and walking Prof X. X-Men comics fans? Well, they've been screaming for Gambit since film 1, toss him in there this time fer Chrissake! Hard core fans of Wolverine? Guess you can't do a backstory without Weapon X, so we need Wraith, Deadpool, Zero - check, check, check. Lord of the Rings fans? WTF - ahh hell, give the hobbit a role as well. Chicks? Sure, lets make Logan a big sentimental nancy.

So, thats why 'X-Men movie continuity' is different to 'Earth-616' continuity. Enjoy it as an action film, at which it rocked.