On Monday, we had our long awaited revelation about what year X-Men: Apocalypse would be set in. We have known for a long time that it would likely be another 10-year jump into the 1980s, but the confirmation of a full decade jump to 1983 raises some intriguing story possibilities.

This jump in time will allow Xavier to recruit his first “A-list” students like Scott, Jean, and Storm. It also will allow audiences to see an Xavier, Magneto, Beast, and even a Mystique who have grown accustomed to their powers and their roles in life after so much hand-wringing in previous “First Class” installments. But perhaps most tantalizing of all, there will be a new period to explore.

Because if X-Men: Apocalypse is anything like the last two team movies, when it happens will be just as important as what happens. X-Men: First Class’ 1962 backdrop let these characters emerge in the same year that Sean Connery first uttered the immortal words, “Bond, James Bond.” And one look at how director Matthew Vaughn and Michael Fassbender realized Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto in that movie will tell you that he could have just as easily donned the tux for a moment. This was also the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, which allowed for a third act confrontation built around all the stakes of the moment when the world came closest to nuclear annihilation.

Continuing the trend more earnestly, X-Men: Days of Future Past primarily spent its time in 1973, the year of the Paris Peace Accords that “ended” the Vietnam War. And like the Cold War in the previous movie, that conflict hangs heavy on the sequel, particularly with how worn-out and cynical a shaggy-haired and drug-addled Charles Xavier has become after his students were drafted, as well as in the angry, youthful radicalism of Mystique: Consider that she began the picture in Saigon fighting higher-ups who sought to take advantage of war-weary enlisted men.