What is Days of Future Past?
Days of Future Past is a popular storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book The Uncanny X-Men issues #141 and #142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian alternative future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps. An adult Kitty 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 which triggers anti-mutant hysteria.
The storyline was very popular at the time and was produced during the franchise's rapid rise to popularity due to the writer/artist team of Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin. As a result of the storyline's popularity, the dark future seen in the story has been revisited numerous times. The first issue of this storyline was voted the 25th greatest Marvel Comic of all time by the fans in 2001.
How Can the Movie Fix the Mistakes of X-Men: First Class?
As seen in the video above there are a lot of mistakes in 2011 X-Men: First Class. Well not really mistakes how about “
continuity errors”. How is this fixed? There are a couple ways
1.)
Reboot it All For a Good Reason:
The time travel aspect of X-Men DOFP plays a big role in the story. The whole point of it was too change the Future. So why can’t they do it so that X-Men First Class becomes an alternate Universe then the X-Men Trilogy and Wolverines Movies. It makes sense. In the comic X-Men DOFP, once they stop the events that lead to the apocalyptic future Kitty Pryde returns to the Future and sees that she still has to live in that future since the Time Travel caused it to become an alternate timeline. If we did this in the movie then we could have the X-Men universe going on right now still existent, but then the movies could focus on the now single First Class Universe which could be a rebooted X-Men Universe.
2.)
Just Say it was something it Wasn’t:
This is the less popular way. Fox could just say that X-Men First Class was already a part of the changed alternate timeline I mentioned above. Then we’d all be very confused and Fox would get more hate then they already have amongst the comic book community.
What do the X-Men have to stop in the past?
The X-Men in the movie should stop…
1. Senator Kelly’s Death
2. The Killing of JFK (yes the President)
I got most of this idea from CBM user
Mark Julian. (You can check out his X-Men DOFP article
here ).
In the first X-Men movie The Brotherhood killed Senator Robert Kelly. The X-Men in the future believe that this is the cause of the sentinels being made so they send Kitty Pryde back to 2000 to stop the assassination. She goes back to her timeline and realizes that the sentinels are still there and the future is still the same.
This time they send Bishop back in time to November 22nd 1963 the day JFK was killed. Magneto having had his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants for a year now planned revenge on Kennedy. Why? He planned revenge because when the mutants saved the world Kennedy took the credit for it. So he controls the bullet that kills Kennedy. People blame the mutants for killing Kennedy because Magneto later hints at it during a meeting with FBI agent that he proceeds to kill. The X-Men believe this is another reason the sentinels came. They send Bishop back in time to stop this from happening.
Wait is it just a coincidence that the Sentinels in the Danger Room are the same as the ones in the future?
This is something that was really bothering me. It doesn't make sense to me that the X-Men would just so happen to fight something in the Danger Room that ends up coming to be a reality.
I got the following idea thinking of ways I could slip Mister Sinister and Apocalypse into this movie. So I thought, Maybe Mister Sinister (disguised as one of the X-Men, let’s say Beast) was sent by Apocalypse to go back in time, snuck into the Danger Room and stole the Sentinel idea from the danger room. Then disguised as some Government person, went to 2000 and told Bolivar Trask the idea. Maybe he even set up Magneto killing JFK and Senator Kelly also. So Apocalypse has been pulling the strings and once the X-Men finish their time traveling adventures, Apocalypse goes to the Future X-Men to destroy them which leads into a sequel…with all of the X-Men past present and future.
Who are the Future X-Men?
I think the future X-Men should be a mix of X-Men from the original DOFP Storyline and other X-Men who have come about in Marvels future. The line up
1.
Wolverine-James “Logan” Howlett-Hugh Jackman
2.
Shadowcat-Kate “Kitty” Pryde-Ellen Page
3.
Bishop-Lucas Bishop-Michael Jai White
4.
Storm-Ororo Munroe-Halle Berry
5.
Colossus-Piotr Rasputin-Daniel Cudmore
6.
Magneto-Erik Leshnerr-Ian McKellen & Michael Fassbender
7.
Nightcrawler-Kurt Wagner-Alan Cumming
So How does this all go down?
So I’ve told you all of these ideas and now I’ll tell you how they piece together
• Movie starts with a battle between the future x-men and sentinels
• In this battle Nightcrawler is killed and Colossus is captured
• The X-Men discuss how this all came to be at their base
• They come to the conclusion it was Senator Rob Kelly’s and John F. Kennedy’s death
• Bishop talks about a time traveling device he’s been working on.
• Cable suggests that we send two people back in time to prevent those events from happening
• Storm to make it clear says that the plan is two people both go back in time at the same time to different places in time
• She points out that if one of the missions is completed before the other and it fixes the timeline, but the second person is still on their mission it could ruin the whole thing
• Bishop volunteers to go back to 2963 to stop Magneto from killing JFK
• Bishop finishes to time gauntlets that send people or things back in time (obviously).
• He goes back to 1963
• He finds himself behind Magneto and Azazel on top of a roof of a building. He says something to them. Magneto and Bishop talk about Magneto’s plans and what they cause. Magneto shrugs it off an attacks Bishop. Bishop goes flying into the below ally and they fight there
• As they fight Azazel teleports onto he car that was carrying JFK
• He grabs JFK and teleports into the sky high above the city
• Azazel stops JFK and then teleports onto the roof of the building. As Bishop fights Magneto he hears a loud
thud and then screaming and gasps
• He runs out of the alley to see a crowd of people running away something and a crowd of people running towards something
• Bishop realizes he left Azazel on the roof
• Magneto starts to laugh. Bishop goes back in time to right before Magneto knocks him off of the building.
• As Magneto and Bishop fight Bishop 2 fights Azazel. Azazel is winning against Bishop2. He kicks Bishop 2 into the Alley.
• Azazel teleports onto he car that was carrying JFK
• He grabs JFK and teleports into the sky high above the city
• Azazel stops JFK and then teleports onto the roof of the building. Bishop 2 get up and hears a loud
thud and then screaming and gasps. Azazel had done it again. Bishop then goes back in time again to aid himself against Azazel
• Bishop 2 & 3 win against Azazel and lock him up and power reducing handcuffs from the future
• They then put another pair of the same Handcuffs on an Unconscious Magneto.
• As Bishop 3 tells Bishop 2 and Bishop the full story they here a cry out saying “
NO”.
• They see Mystique holding a gun pointed at them
• Magneto and Azazel unconscious in cuffs while Bishop 2 and Bishop fight Mystique.
• Bishop turns Magneto and Azazel in to the authorities and they are sent into a mass security prison in the middle of nowhere.
• Bishop returns to the future
• Nothing has changed. He shows up in the future in the middle of a battle with the Sentinels
• Bishop aids the X-Men and the X-Men clearly start to lose hope since the future hasn’t changed.
• After the battle the X-Men win and they go to discs the mission with Bishop.
• Bishop tells them what happened, then they start to plan the next mission
• The movie cuts back to 1963.
• The Brotherhood of evil mutants are in their base discussing Magneto’s capture
• Magneto has sent them a letter from prison
• It says that Mystique would be the leader of the Brotherhood. Mystique is in awe and quickly takes her role as leader. For them to take her more seriously when she’s not blue and scaly she gets a new human appearance
• Cuts back to the future
• Kitty Pryde is about to leave to go back to the year 2000
• Sentinels attack
• Kitty quickly goes back in time
• She arrives in a helicopter
• Mystique has her feet around the neck of Senator Robert Kelly. Mystique and John are startled
• Mystique asks who Kitty was
• Kitty tells her that she was Shadowcat and that she was coming back to the past to stop what she caused to happen in the future
• Mystique takes her feet off of Kelly and lunges for Shadowcat. Shadowcat Ran through Mystique. Mystique lunges for her again and they phase through the helicopter falling out of the sky
• They tumble and fight as they fall
• Mystique transforms into Azazel a past lover and they teleport to the top of a building
• It cuts back to the helicopter and the co-pilot flies to helicopter to its destination anyway
• They cut back to Shadowcat and Mystique as they fight.
• Shadowcat realizes that fighting Mystique won’t help so she goes back to the helicopter seconds before they fall out. When Shadowcat and Mystique fall out Shadowcat 2 grabs Robert Kelly by the hand and they phase through the floor
• After falling a certain distance Shadowcat releases a parachute. She lands on a roof and tells Senator Kelly to make sure he has the best Security he can get
• Before he can ask questions Shadowcat goes back to her time.
• There is a battle with a new very powerful sentinel called
Nimrod
• The X-Men struggle, but they defeat him.
• Before he shuts down
• He says…
• “
No…I have failed my master…Apocalypse…”
• THE END
That’s the basic outline of the movie. There are other things that happen, but those are the main points.
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You Hinted At a Sequel, What Would the Sequel Be About?
It’d be based off of the Age of Apocalypse 1990’s storyline. This move though would feature X-Men from the original X-Men Trilogy, X-Men First Class and the X-Men from Days of Future Past. Yes three Wolverines and Magnetos running around, but who cares? The movie would eventually lead up to a giant battle between Apocalypse and Phoenix (Jean Grey) which leads to a whole other universe being formed. This is the
real reboot of the X-Men franchise. They could recast characters, they couldn’t who knows…
Thanks for reading this far and I hope you liked my ideas. Constructive criticism please. Keep it on a low scale no harsh words please. If you agree say it, if you don’t say it, if you have an idea you think is better say it. Maybe I’ll like it better than my own.