Questions tagged [x-men-days-of-future-past]
2014's superhero film, based on Marvel Comics' characters X-men. It acts as a sequel to both X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: First Class. The story, inspired by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline "Days of Future Past"
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How is Trask alive in X-Men: The Last Stand given the plot of X-Men: Days of Future Past?
At the start of X-Men: Days of Future Past, it was explained that Trask was assassinated by Mystique in 1973 and the whole movie was basically about Wolverine going back in time to prevent that ...
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Was Wolverine a bodyguard before or after fighting in Vietnam?
In the 2009 movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Wolverine is shown fighting in Vietnam, then recruited by the government into the X-Team, then quitting the X-Team, then 6 years later being in a ...
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How and why did Magneto rejoin the X-Men?
At the end of the movie X-Men: First Class, Magneto leaves Charles Xavier and the X-Men to go start the Brotherhood of Mutants. Between the end of X-Men: First Class and the beginning of X-Men: Days ...
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What is Magneto's helmet made of?
In the scene below from X-Men: First Class, Sebastian (Magneto's precessor) claims that his russian friends made the helmet for him (0:40)
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How do some of the X-Men come back in "Days of Future Past"?
In Days of Future Past, Magneto has his powers again, Charles Xavier is alive and Rogue has her powers when in X-Men: The Last Stand, Magneto got the 'cure', Xavier was killed by Jean and Rogue got ...
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What's the reason for the decade jump in the recent X-Men trilogy?
In the recent X-Men trilogy (X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Men: Dark Phoenix), they take place in the 70s, 80s, and 90s respectively. But why the 10-year jump when it was not ...
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Wolverine didn't wake up in the future so he didn't change the past?
It is really puzzling me. In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Kitty says:
Basically, your body will go to sleep while your mind travels back in time. As long as you're back there, past and present will ...
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Which X-Men movies' timelines were erased by Days of Future Past? [duplicate]
In Days of Future Past (2014), Wolverine erases the old timeline and starts a new one.
Which X-Men films' timelines were erased?
Please no spoilers.
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How does the timeline of Logan fit into the X-Men universe?
According to this page, Logan is just 5 years after the happy ending of DOFP. Is this correct?
It doesn't seem to make sense to me. Logan seems to be almost post-apocalyptic (well at least for the ...
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In Days of Future Past, did the past and present occur in real time?
I'm a little confused with Logan going back in time. I'm kind of applying Back to the Future time travel rules, where Doc said the future would change all around Jennifer and Einstein and they wouldn'...
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Is Pietro Maximoff the son of Erik Lehnsherr?
I know outside movie canon, Peter Maximoff, also known as QuickSilver, is the son of Magneto in comics. However, what about him in this "X-Men: Days of Future Past" and X-Men movies, is he ...
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Wolverine's Past after Days of Future Past
Logan went back in Days of Future Past and changed the past but he still ended up with Charles Xavier.
But as we can see in the climax of Days of Future Past, Striker takes him, and we can see that ...
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Why did Erik leave his Helmet at the end of DOFP?
As the title states, why did Erik, the mutant terrorist known as Magneto, just leave his telepathy-blocking helmet at the end of Days of Future Past? A helmet he has personal attachment to, and had ...
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Wolverine's DoFP selective amnesia?
Wolverine seems to have selective amnesia during Days of Future Past, where he alternates between having little to no memory of his pre-Weapon X life, and being able to recall minor details about his ...
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What happened to Magneto after the past changed in X Men Days of Future Past?
In X Men Days of Future Past, After the history was changed, Logan wakes up and we see that everyone is there, including Charles, Jean, Scott, Storm, and Beast. However, Magneto was not there. He was ...
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Is Logan no longer the Wolverine?
Logan in 1973 (X-men Days of Future Past) managed to set a new future for himself and for everyone else, which suggests that he may well have never had the chance to meet the real Stryker (again)...
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Why does Wolverine have metal claws in X-men Apocalypse? [duplicate]
The latest trailer shows Wolverine's claws at the end, but according to what I'd think is the new continuity after Days of Future Past, he should no longer have adamantium, is there an explanation for ...
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Where do the timelines of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past lie exactly?
In X-Men: The Last Stand, we saw that Wolverine kills Jean Grey and Scott Summers was killed. Later, In The Wolverine, Logan recovers from his past. However, in X-Men: Days of Future Past, Scott ...
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How do Sentinels get the ability to adapt every mutant power from Mystique's DNA?
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Sentinels are able to adapt or compensate every single mutant power. It is shown that they get this ability from a research based on Mystique's DNA. However, Mystique's ...
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Is Professor X dead or alive [duplicate]
In X-Men: The Last Stand Professor X dies, so how is he alive in X-Men: Days of Future Past? That makes no sense if he dies before they reach that future.
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Isn't the Quicksilver from Avengers 2 the same as the Quicksilver from X-Men: Days of Future Past?
According to the X-Men series he is a mutant. But in the Avengers 2 he is depicted as having received his powers through a Hydra experiment.
There are talks in the X-Men about how he is the son of ...
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Wolverine in the river at the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past
Wolverine had been in the river for a full day before he was dredged up by Striker. He can regenerate, but how does he come back from the dead?
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Why bring Professor Xavier to Pentagon?
When they went to rescue Magneto in X-Men: Days of Future Past, why did they take Xavier since he had no real powers and did nothing? He literally couldn't do anything and was a burden on the team ...
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Does Wolverine still have his adamantium claws after the change in events?
Wolverine ends up changing history from 1973 and manages to change the outcome of the future. In the scene where Wolverine gets pulled from the bottom of the bay and onto the boat, General Stryker (...
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Why did Logan turn back to that specific time in the future
So Kitty uses her power to send Logan back to the past to change it in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
It all works 'fine' but when Logan finishes his job and saves the future, what makes him appear right ...
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What song is playing during Quicksilver's first appearance?
When Professor X and the others first meet Quicksilver in his basement in X-Men: Days of Future Past, there is a song playing in the background.
Anyone know what that song is, and why it might have ...
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Which Wolverine Existed During the Time Gap?
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During X-Men: Days of Future Past it is explained that the actions Wolverine takes in the past will not come into effect until he wakes up. So when he wakes up in the present the ...
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What is the song playing on the radio in X-Men: Days of future past?
When Wolverine awakes in his 1973 self in X-Men: Days of Future Past he hears a song on the radio. This same song is heard when he awakes in his future self again at the end of the movie, which is ...
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Why do Xavier and Magneto meet Wolverine in "The Wolverine (2013)"?
From what I understood from X-Men: Days of Future Past, it happens in the future, many years after The Wolverine (2013). Why then do Xavier and Magneto meet Logan in 2013? They must have been sent ...
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How true is Magneto's future catharsis?
Magneto's future self in X-Men: Days of Future Past seems to be a refined and wiser man to some degree. While there were earlier instances of him working together with the X-Men and this time it might ...
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Why is Bolivar Trask a person of short stature?
The character of Dr. Bolivar Trask from X-Men: Days of Future Past, who hates or at least fears the rising population of mutants as a threat for humanity and ultimately develops the Sentinels as a ...
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Why is the Professor still in a wheel chair?
Charles Xavier died in X-Men Last Stand. But according to the post credits scene of that movie and this link, Charles transferred his mind to his brain-dead twin brother's body. So now that he is ...
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Who is that girl in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'?
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff is holding a small girl while watching Magneto on TV with his mother standing near. Now I wonder who she is. Quicksilver has a twin sister ...
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Why does Wolverine still have Adamantium claws in X-Men: Days of Future Past?
On the future scenes of Days of Future Past Wolverine's adamantium claws can be seen (they even appear on the movie's poster). But towards the end of the The Wolverine, I remember those claws were cut ...
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What happened to Charles Xavier after X-Men 3?
I remember watching X-Men 3 and seeing Charles Xavier get disintegrated by Phoenix, however the post-credits scene and his appearance in later movies indicate that he actually survived. How is that ...
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Is this the same character?
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, Toad appears with a different appearance compared to his depiction in the 1st X-Men movie, played by a different actor. Even their ages are contradictory. Is this Toad ...
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Where does The wolverine end credit scene fall?
In X-Men: Days of Future Past, where does the end credit scene of The Wolverine fall? I mean when did that event occur in Days of Future Past?
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