While Wolverine has enjoyed comic book popularity since the 1970s, Australian star Hugh Jackman reinvented the adamantium-clawed mutant ever since he starred in X-Men. Then came the sequels and standalone Wolverine movies like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Logan, cementing his presence in pop culture.
Now, with The Wolverine star joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) in Deadpool & Wolverine, have a look at the right order to stream every Wolverine movie in order.
How to watch the Wolverine movies in chronological order
The first Wolverine movie to watch chronologically is X-Men Origins: Wolverine as it traces his story before he joined the mutant team known as X-Men. The last one to watch is Logan for it traces an aging phase of his life in a post-apocalyptic future.
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
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X-Men: First Class (2011)
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) (the 1970s sequences)
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X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
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X-Men (2000)
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X2: Men United (2003)
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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
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The Wolverine (2013)
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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) (the 2023 sequences)
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
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Logan (2017)
Between X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Logan, the only standalone Wolverine movie to watch is The Wolverine which finds the titular mutant revisiting his past in Japan.
Then, there are also the X-Men movies with Wolverine being a core member of the team. While his appearances are brief in the team’s origin stories X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse, he plays a pivotal role in the original X-Men trilogy (X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand).
X-Men: Days of Future Past is where things get tricky as the movie shifts between the 1970s (the same timeline as X-Men Class) and a dystopian 2023 (continuing the events of the original X-Men trilogy). With Wolverine travelling between these two timelines, you can watch the movie either after X-Men: First Class or after The Wolverine.
The timeline is about to branch out even more with Deadpool & Wolverine. The third movie in the Deadpool franchise, it pairs Hugh Jackman’s clawed mutant alongside Ryan Reynolds’ red-costumed mercenary Deadpool. The exact time period of the movie remains unclear until the movie is released. It can either be set before Logan as Wolverine looks younger here but it can also be alternatively set in a whole other dimension (given that Deadpool & Wolverine connect the rest of the movies with the Marvel Cinematic Universe).
How to watch the Wolverine movies in release order
The release order of the Wolverine movies can be divided into standalone movies that focus mainly on Wolverine (X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Wolverine, Logan) and the X-Men movies. The latter can be divided further into prequels like X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Apocalypse and the original X-Men trilogy (X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand) with X-Men: Days of Future Past connecting both series.
To help you get the essential Wolverine movie experience, the list below shows how you can watch every Wolverine movie in the order they were officially released. We've also included streaming offers to show you where to watch them online on streaming services in India. Get your claws ready!
