X-Men timeline question: Emma Frost in Wolverine Origns?

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Okay, so it is widely accepted that Emma Frost is the girl who turns her skin into diamond in Origins: Wolverine - Wolverine's girlfriend Kayla's sister. How can this be? She is so young, but the Xavier that appears at the end of that film is older and bald already.

In X-Men: First Class, when the younger Xavier first encounters Emma Frost, she is a mature woman. How can Emma Frost be young in Origins, but older in First Class, when First Class must have taken place before Origins because of Xavier's age in Origins? 

The only answer that would make sense, provided I am not missing something that would explain all of this, is that Emma Frost is NOT the girl in Origins who must then just be a girl who can make her body invulnerable, and that Origins took place after First Class due to Xavier's age, along with Cyclops' age relative to Xavier in Origins.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

It would seem that you're not missing anything, and that's not her.

Don't beat yourself up over it, though.  Even if it was her, that wouldn't be the only continuity problem between Origins Wolverine and First Class.  Young Xavier paralyzed while older Xavier is walking?  Have fun trying to explain that one.

Anonymous · Answer

Hear ye, hear ye- and save thyself the ulcers.

When a comic gets *moviealizated,* the Hollywood guys try to
change around as many things as they can- I say- because
they want to be able to claim that they have created an entirely
different franchise from the comic book, in the likely event
that their relationship with the owners of the comic books
copyright goes South for the Winter.

By all accounts, Stan Lee is the original Sabertooth (you know,
that guy who always beat up Wolverine, even when he didn't have
Adamantium). So that the Hollywood people don't want to go There
with him, because Health Insurance gets sort of thin out There.

It is also possible that a big selling point on changing the storylines
is the idea that non-Comic Fans don't want to pay big bucks to watch
something they already saw in a dollar comic book.

Summary: Movie Continuity ignores Comic Book Canon where it can. *Capisch?*
Blasphemy sells big.

X-Men timeline question: Emma Frost in Wolverine Origns?

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