"X-Men: First Class," the fifth film in the X-Men big-screen franchise, hit theaters this weekend and took audiences even deeper into the origins of Marvel's mutant team. The origins of the movie itself, however, lie between the pages of almost 50 years of X-Men comic books, which the film draws heavily upon in order to craft its own tale of how the X-Men came to be.
Given all of that source material, we decided to take a look at just which elements of the comics made it onto the screen, and how the movie follows — or in some cases, takes a twist on — those classic X-Men stories.
If you haven't seen the film yet, consider this your SPOILER WARNING. We'll be discussing details of the plot throughout this guide.
The most obvious contrast viewers will notice from the comics to the film is that this movie sets the founding of the X-Men squarely in the early 1960s. In a strange way, this simultaneously agrees and disagrees with their comic origins; it’s a fact that X-Men 1, by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, hit newsstands in July of 1963. But within the Marvel Universe, the characters must remain young and vital for each new generation of readers, so Marvel has instituted what’s come to be known as a "sliding timeline."
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