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Originally Posted by nakobass

Was First Class a reboot or a prequel? I've heard people say it's both, but it can't be. I really hope they just go ahead and do a full reboot without trying to tie in to the other movies. No matter how good the director may be, that just puts limits on everything he can do to make it a great X-men movie.

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Originally Posted by Alienweirdo

I heard it was a film that helped set up X-men and X2, but ignored the events of X3 and XO:W hence the appearance of Emma Frost in both.

I loved X-men First Class, made me love the franchise again after the abhorrent mess that was X3 and the offensive rubbish that was Origins...

Prequel.
Emma Frost isn't emma silverfox. If they were smart though with how vain emma is, they'd have her take the younger version's body at some point since her diamond form was cracked. This would also setup the lesson plan and ending of X3 with Xavier.

So far the only scenes it ignores are the helicopter ending in XMO:W, and the jean grey recruitment in X3, but both of those can be rationalized into a first class 3 later too somehow. All they need to do is have Magneto go back to the Institute briefly for Jean Grey, and possibly the helicopter scene too. (If Xavier is controling Eric to keep an eye on him after the events of XFC2 if they do the assassination story, it'd make sense and fit with continuity, but that'd make XFC3 take place during and after XMO:W too and it could setup the entire "Jean grey" split personality removal xavier did. Of course this means he would have to go bald in XFC2 or prior to those scenes in XFC3. If xavier is controlling Magneto with the helmet gone, it'd also potentially let him walk again with Eric's help until Eric storms off from being controled.)