the time-displaced wolverine encourages the young charles xavier to later recruit jean for the future team, along with ororo munroe and scott, arguing that the good they accomplished outweighs the bad they experienced. commentary in the film confirms that the young red-haired girl's identity in the field who was marveling at magneto levitating the robert f. kennedy stadium was in fact her character as a young child. when the timeline reset, logan is astonished to discover that jean and cyclops are alive and well in the new timeline, suggesting that the events of the original "x-men" films played out very differently.