Thread:TheOne1000/@comment-1031724-20190227230651/@comment-1031724-20190313043348

X-Men was different. There was an original trilogy, plus The Wolverine, so four films got erased, and aside from the first, they weren't that great. I liked the new trilogy better.

Here we have 21 films, many of which are awesome, and more character development, and many achievements of the heroes that they'd have to do again, and it'll likely leave unknown exactly how some events transpired, as opposed to erasing future events and continuing from before there.

Even Star Trek pretty much used the phrase "alternate timeline" (and the continued existence of Leonard Nimoy's Spock) to let the audience know that the original timeline was still intact, running parallel to the new one Nero created, since a lot of Star Trek fans would be angry if the original series and the "trilogy" (Movies 2-4) suddenly had no meaning anymore.

I can hope they just mean that Phase 4 will have a different tone or style to it from Phases 1-3, or with some of the Avengers dying and major changes following Thanos's defeat, but what are the odds of that?