Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1713281-20140523065821/@comment-1895174-20140528005244

ProfessorKilroy wrote: LoveWaffle wrote: Eh, no. Logan and Xavier know each other, so X-Men could not have happened. Mystique is Stryker now and Jean is alive and well, so X2 couldn't have happened. Certain similar events may have occurred - Rogue could have found her way to the Mansion without Wolverine's involvement - but common sense dictates X-Men and X2 happened in the original timeline.

Well, Stryker could still be alive. Perhaps Mystique was only temporarily impersonating Stryker. Maybe Wolverine still goes through the procedure and loses his memory. If that were the case, X-Men and X2 could largely happen similarly. But the thing is, we don't know! 'Cause anything could be different. With Apocalypse being set in the 80s, maybe Apocalypse wasn't in the original universe, and it was some change in the events of 1973 that caused him to wake up. That's the gist of the new timeline. A new timeline where Apocalypse was resurrected, where Jean never went crazy on us, and where Taylor Kitsch is instead Channing Tatum.

And because Jean never went crazy on us, we know X2 couldn't have happened.