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This article is about the comics storyline. For the 2014 film, see X-Men: Days of Future Past. For other uses, see Days of Future Past (disambiguation).| "Days of Future Past" | |
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 Cover of The Uncanny X-Men 141 (Jan, 1981)Art by John Byrne and Terry Austin. | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Publication date | January – February 1981 |
| Genre | |
| Title(s) | The Uncanny X-Men #141–142 |
| Main character(s) | X-Men Brotherhood of Evil Mutants Sentinels |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Chris Claremont John Byrne |
| Penciller(s) | John Byrne |
| Inker(s) | Terry Austin |
| Trade paperback | ISBN 0-7851-1560-9 |
| Graphic novel | ISBN 0871355825 |
| Essential X-Men Vol. 2 | ISBN 0785102981 |
"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. 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.
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.
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.
Sequels
Main article: Days of Future PresentRachel Summers, a character seen in the future segments of "Days of Future Past", later travels through time to the present day and joins the X-Men. A supervillain, Ahab, follows her to the present in the "Days of Future Present" crossover. In this story, Ahab kidnaps the children Franklin Richards (son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman and, in the future timeline, Rachel's lover) and Nathan Summers (son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor) but is defeated by the X-Men, X-Factor, the New Mutants and the Fantastic Four.
Rachel joins the European mutant team Excalibur, whose series twice revisited the "Days of Future Past" timeline. The first time was in a story by Alan Davis entitled "Days of Future Yet To Come," in which a time-traveling Excalibur and several Marvel UK heroes overthrow the Sentinel rulers of future America. This storyline also reveals that Excalibur's robotic "mascot" Widget had been possessed by the spirit of the future Kitty Pryde.
A similar but distinct reality is seen in a vision by her teammate Captain Britain. This story, "Days of Future Tense," reveals the final fate of that timeline's Excalibur team.
A prelude to "Days of Future Past" was produced in a three-part mini-series entitled Wolverine: Days of Future Past. This three-issue mini dealt with ramifications between the catalyst for the creation of the alternative future up until the main storyline in Uncanny X-Men 141-142. The prelude explains why Logan leaves for Canada and why Magneto is in a wheelchair in the main two issue story.
Another view of this reality was presented in the second issue of Hulk: Broken Worlds. A short story, "Out of Time," examines the life of Bruce Banner (the Hulk) in a Sentinel prison camp.
In other media
Novel
- A novelization of the comic version of "Days of Future Past" by Alex Irvine is to be released in May 2014 by Marvel Comics to tie 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. Bishop plays the role of Kitty Pryde in the adaptation.
- 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 and The Last Stand. 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.
Video games
- Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 has a "Days of Future Past"-inspired stage serving as an alternative to the standard Metro City stage, with an "Apprehended"/"Slain" poster similar to the famous one, featuring characters from both Marvel and Capcom that starred in Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, but did not return for the Marvel vs. Capcom 3 games. Taking the place of the playable Wolverine is Mega Man.
Popular culture
- In "Genesis", the first episode of the television series Heroes, the character of Hiro Nakamura cites Kitty's traveling through time as teaching him about the concepts of time travel. Hiro states that the comic taught him that time is a circle, even though it actually insinuated that time branched. The episode "Five Years Gone" was a further homage to the story, featuring Hiro and his friend Ando travelling into a future where New York has been destroyed and people with abilities are being hunted, forcing them to travel back into the past to prevent the original explosion.
Collected editions
- Days of Future Past (TPB) ISBN 0-7851-1560-9 collects X-Men #138-141, The Uncanny X-Men #142-143 and X-Men Annual #4
- Days of Future Past (Graphic Novel) ISBN 0-87135-582-5 collects X-Men #141 and The Uncanny X-Men #142
- The black and white Essential X-Men Vol. 2 ISBN 0-7851-0298-1 collects X-Men #120-141, The Uncanny X-Men #142-144
Notes
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"X-Men #141". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
"Uncanny X-Men, The #142". Grand Comics Database. Retrieved 2008-01-21. - 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time, Volume 1 (2001)
- Claremont, Chris (1980). The Uncanny X-Men #141: Days of Future Past. Marvel Comics.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - Claremont, Chris (1980). The Uncanny X-Men #142: Mind out of Time. Marvel Comics.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - http://www.comixfan.com/xfan/forums/showthread.php?t=28304 which notes the various points of difference between the two realities, and the OHOTMU entry for Days of Future Past, which identifies Days of Future Tense as Earth-9620 and Days of Future Past as Earth-811
- Hulk: Broken Worlds Book 2
- Plumb, Ali (July 31, 2013). "Exclusive: Bryan Singer Talks X-Men: Days of Future Past". Empire Magazine. Retrieved August 4, 2013.
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