The comics

This was unexpected – a sort of break in the fourth wall that came out of nowhere. It’s revealed that Laura is an X-Men fan, which says something about how the mutants are/were perceived by the humans. But it’s a bit difficult to understand what’s being said.

The ending of Days of Future Past saw Mystique stop Magneto and become a hero. However, the same thing happened during the Apocalypse events – with Magneto once again taking center stage in destroying the world.

So now the world knows that there are good and bad mutants – but, as always with minorities, only the bad will be taken into account, and the mutants will be seen as threatening. So who wrote Laura’s comics, and why were they included? Are the X-Men described as heroes or villains in those comics?

And, more importantly, what events are depicted? As far as this last question is concerned, we may not find out, since James Mangold was pretty firm when he said that Logan will be connected with the shared universe in as few ways as possible.