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X-Men Days of Future Past

"Days of Future Past" is a storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book The Uncanny X-Men issues #141-142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps. An adult Kate Pryde transfers her mind into her younger self, the present-day Kitty Pryde, who brings the X-Men to prevent a fatal moment in history that triggers anti-mutant hysteria.

The storyline was produced during the franchise's rise to popularity under the writer/artist team of Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin. The dark future seen in the story has been revisited numerous times, and was adapted into the 2014 feature film X-Men: Days of Future Past. In 2001, fans voted the first issue of this storyline the 25th greatest Marvel comic.

The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 gave the numerical designation for the original "Days of Future Past" timeline as Earth-811 in the Marvel Multiverse.

The latest addition to the X-Men movie franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past is a Terminator-style film, borrowing the “send back in time to save us all” shtick and mutating it to fit its needs. Wolverine, played by the beloved Hugh Jackman, gets sent back through the decades to save the day and to give us a new perspective on the X-Men. Following X-Men: First Class’ success, this movie appeals to seeing an earlier version of your favorite heroes. It has the potential to offer an in-depth look at a different time period and style that fans haven’t seen in quite a while.

X-Men: Days of Future Past has a star studded-cast, including Ashmore; Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique; Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde; Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask; Halle Berry as Storm; and, of course Sir Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart reprising their roles as Magneto and Professor Xavier, respectively. The acting talent alone makes this the most anticipated X-Men movie to ever hit the big screen.

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Publisher | Marvel Comics
Publication date | January – February 1981
Genre | Superhero

Title | The Uncanny X-Men
Main character | X-Men
                                                                       | Brotherhood of Evil Mutants Sentinels

Creative team

Writer | Chris Claremont
    | John Byrne

Penciller | John Byrne
Inker | Terry Austin

Plot

The storyline alternates between the present year of 1980 and the future year of 2013. In the future, Sentinels rule a dystopian United States, and mutants are hunted and placed in internment camps. Having conquered North America, the Sentinels are turning their attention to mutants and other superhumans worldwide. On the eve of a feared nuclear holocaust, the few remaining X-Men send Kitty Pryde's mind backward through time, to possess the body of her younger self and to prevent a pivotal event in mutant–human history: the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly by Mystique's newly reassembled Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.[3]

Working with the present-day X-Men, Kitty Pryde's future self succeeds in her mission and is pulled back to her own time, while her present-day self is returned with no memory of any interim. The world of 2013 is not shown again in this story arc; the present-day X-Men are left to ponder whether their future dystopia has been averted or simply delayed.[4]

In other media

Novel
A novelization of the comic version of "Days of Future Past" by Alex Irvine was released May 2014 by Marvel Comics that tied into the release of the film, X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Television
The "Days of Future Past" storyline was adapted in the X-Men animated series. The storyline concepts were combined with another alternative future story—that of Bishop and the idea of a traitor within the ranks of the X-Men, though Mystique is still responsible for Kelly's assassination. Bishop plays the role of Kitty Pryde in the adaptation- albeit travelling completely back in time instead of just projecting his mind into his past self- while the 'traitor' is 'revealed' to be Gambit, with the X-Mens' interference revealing that Mystique had killed Kelly while in Gambit's appearance to try and frame the X-Men.
The series Wolverine and the X-Men has a similar storyline, where Professor X is in a coma for 20 years, and awakens to find that the mutants are imprisoned by the Sentinels. He telepathically connects with the X-Men of the past to try to prevent that future from happening. By the end of the first season, the Sentinel-dominated future was averted. However, a future based on the Age of Apocalypse appeared in its place.
A Days of Future Past incarnation appeared in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Days, Nights, and Weekends of Future Past."
A Madland level based on "Days of Future Past" appears in the Ultimate Spider-Man episode "Game Over". The scenario features a shot of Wolverine being blasted by a Sentinel in an homage to the cover of Uncanny X-Men #142.

Film

X-Men: Days of Future Past is the sequel to First Class. Several actors from the past of the franchise returned, including Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Daniel Cudmore, Nicholas Hoult, Jennifer Lawrence, and Lucas Till. Newcomers Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Fan Bingbing, Booboo Stewart and Evan Peters were also signed to play Bolivar Trask, Bishop, Blink, Warpath and Quicksilver, respectively. Although Wolverine is the one to actually return to his "younger" body, director Bryan Singer described Pryde as the prime facilitator and it is Pryde's phasing ability that enables time-travel to happen.[8] In this film, the catalyst for the Sentinel-dominated future was Mystique's assassination of Bolivar Trask and her subsequent capture, with analysis of her DNA allowing humanity to devise a new form of Sentinels that can rapidly adapt to mutant powers. After Shadowcat learns how to use her abilities to 'phase' someone into their past self, the surviving mutants decide to send someone back in time to the 1970s to prevent Mystique from killing Trask, with Wolverine being selected as the process is so physically dangerous that he is the only person who could survive the strain. Although the past Magneto nearly jeopardizes the plan when he tries to kill Mystique and take control of the Sentinels to attack humans, Wolverine is able to work with the younger Xavier and Hank McCoy—including one scene where he acts as a psychic 'bridge' so that the younger Xavier can communicate with his future self—to give the young Xavier a chance to talk Mystique down, resulting in her being publically shown defending President Richard Nixon from Magneto and Trask being arrested for trying to sell his plans to foreign powers. The film ends showing Wolverine waking up in a changed future where there are no Sentinels and the previously-deceased Scott Summers and Jean Grey are once again alive.