Nah, after such intense grueling warfare those who weren't sent home after Europe stayed to help rebuild. There was only a couple months (May 7 to August 15) between the war ending in each theatre. As an infantryman it's incredibly unlikely that Logan would've been both at the Normandy landings and a Japanese POW when Hiroshima was hit.
ETA: It's *possible,* sure... but a better (very minor) bit suggesting that Origins was overwritten.
No matter how intense, it wouldn't be all that "grueling" to
him. And staying to help rebuild doesn't sound like his style, really. I can believe that he'd request to be kept on the front lines and that such a request would be granted, given his fighting skills and prowess. (I could also believe he might be quite persuasive if there were any resistance, and like
@Skywalker I could even see him disregarding orders to go on his own initiative! And heck, for all we know it could have been Victor who deserted and his brother followed him, too.) Also, a minor and immaterial point overall I know, but it was Nagasaki rather than Hiroshima.
Now, while I
don't find this particular "issue" to be a good example of a contradiction between
Origins and other films, it
does indeed seem obvious to me that we had some "soft rebooting" and retconning going on with these films well before
Days Of Future Past came along, beginning with
Origins...
See, here's the problem that I have with that: If the bulk of X-Men Origins: Wolverine takes place in 1979, then that means that X-Men is set in 1994! Hardly the "not too distant future" of a movie released in 2000. The dialogue in both X-Men & X2 is very consistent in stating that Wolverine's amnesia dates back 15 years.
It was also specifically stated by Xavier in the first film that that he was 17 when he initially met Erik. It doesn't seem to me that he's meant to be so young in
First Class when their first meeting is shown. It was furthermore implied by Stryker in
United that Wolverine didn't have claws before
he gave them to him. I think you just have to "squint" on details like that from the first trilogy of films.
I find that the continuity flows much better if you basically disregard Origins: Wolverine.
Doesn't get you around the above, not to mention a lot of other things like Xavier's being crippled in 1962, whereas he was walking around in the 80s in
The Last Stand. (I know
Future Past sought to paper this over a bit with the serum that let him walk while suppressing his powers, but it still doesn't really fit since he clearly HAS his powers in his ambulatory scenes in both
Origins and
Last Stand. On the other hand, they did also show in the
DOFP airport scene that he is capable of projecting an
image of himself upright while in reality being wheelchair bound, so that helps...but then you still have to assume something different from what was intended in X3 and
Origins, that Xavier wasn't actually physically present for those scenes and it was merely a projection. It would seem the serum was also intended to explain Hank's human appearance in
X2, but then why would he be so amazed at and tempted by the boy's power to suppress his beastly appearance in
Last Stand?) Then you have the whole situation with characters such as Moira and others, which no doubt been have been brought up already in this thread.
I mean, this stuff doesn't really bother me, and I don't think there's much point in nitpicking it all, but it's pretty evident that the continuity got tweaked at multiple points as things went along. And that's fine.
Did DoFP actually use any 'Origins' footage in that flashback? I'm pretty sure it was all just recycled from the X1 & X2 flashes, but I've never exactly gone frame by frame to check.
Yes. The part where Victor breaks his bone claws is in there.
