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Brief Synopsis
"Mainstream/Core" Days of Future Past timeline. The Mutant Registration Act has passed, and been followed by a mutant-human war. The Sentinels rule over humanity for their own protection. Most of the X-Men have been slain. Home reality of Bishop, Rachel Summers.
In a possible future, mutants are treated as criminals. An army of Sentinels has taken over, killed those who resisted, and put the rest in concentration camps. Two women try to change the past....
All these stories may or may not take place in the same reality. Because they are similar, they are considered to belong in the Earth-811 timeline.
Beginning
In 1981 Kitty Pryde had just joined the X-Men. In 2000 her future self, Kate Pryde, with help from Rachel Summers, swapped minds with her. In the future Kitty found that Sentinels had taken over the United States and Canada. Only a handful of mutants had survived, including Franklin Richards, Wolverine, Colossus, Storm, Magneto, and Summers, the daughter of Cyclops (Scott Summers) and Marvel Girl (Jean Grey). Most superpowered beings had died at the hands of the Sentinels, including the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. The remaining X-Men escaped from their concentration camp to attack the Baxter Building, now the Sentinels' command center. Franklin, Wolverine, Storm, and Colossus died in the attempt.
In the present, Kate Pryde warned the X-Men that the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants would assassinate Senator Robert Kelly later that day because of his proposed Mutant Control Act. The backlash would lead to the construction of a Sentinel army, who deduce that they must eliminate all "impure" humans, including superpowered beings, to fulfill their mission. They would also eliminate the government so that they could operate most efficiently. The X-Men went to Washington, where Professor X was testifying before Kelly's committee, and stopped the assassination. Kate's mind returned to the future.[1]
Middle
Of course, preventing Kelly's assassination did not erase this possible future; it only created a new future. Pryde and Summers tried again. Summers traveled back in time. Nimrod, an advanced Sentinel, killed Pryde and followed. Summers visited Professor Xavier's school but quickly left (it had been destroyed by the army in her future, leaving her the only survivor).[2] She joined the X-Men for a time and then became a founder of Excalibur.
A related event, Days of Future Present, took place in the present but involved the Franklin Richards who apparently died in the first story. It also involved a new character, Ahab, who was Master of the Hounds in the future and had made Rachel one of his Hounds.
Another story, actually a prequel, appeared in a limited series, Wolverine: Days of Future Past (December 1997 - February 1998). This story explained, among other things, how Magneto wound up a paraplegic in the first story.
End
Unbeknownst to the present-day Excalibur, Kate Pryde had become lost in time and merged with Widget, their robot. When a team from Camelot found her in their time, she brought Excalibur (including Shadowcat, her younger self) forward in time. The Sentinels overran Camelot, leaving few survivors. After removing the machinery inside a defeated Sentinel, Excalibur and the others used it to infiltrate the Hive and reprogram the Hierarchy, the master controller of all Sentinels. Instead of protecting only "pure" humans, they would now protect all life.[3]
One last story has a similar title but definitely takes place in another reality (Earth-2992). In this story, "Days of Future Tense"[4], the survivors of Excalibur were wiped out by Black Air, a British intelligence agency collaborating with the Sentinels.
Days of Future Past in Other Media
X-Men (animated series)
The children's television series adapted this event but combined it with elements of Age of Apocalypse. In "Days of Future Past" (also known as "Future Tense," episodes 11-12) Bishop is a bounty hunter in the year 2050, at first working with the Sentinels but then with the mutant underground. Forge sends him back in time to prevent Kelly's assassination and unmask Gambit as a traitor. Nimrod follows Bishop into the past. Gambit saves Kelly from Mystique, who has disguised herself as Gambit. Before Bishop can kill both Gambits, Rogue removes his temporal transceiver, which sends him back to the future. In "Time Fugitives" (episodes 20-21) the future Bishop learns that Apocalypse created a mutant plague. He goes back in time again to destroy the plague before it can infect a mutant and become infinitely more dangerous. He does so, but Apocalypse kills all the X-Men, which prevents the existence of Cable in 3999. Cable appears, prevents the plague's first destruction, and instead uses Wolverine's healing factor to destroy it again. In "Beyond Good and Evil" (episodes 53-56) Bishop time travels yet again to prevent the Age of Apocalypse. On the trip home, he collides with Apocalypse, who has stolen Cable's time machine, and both go to the Axis of Time. Here, with the power to affect any and all times, Apocalypse tries to rewrite history. With the help of the Time Janitor (actually Immortus), Bishop frees some of Apocalypse's captive mutants, who cast Apocalypse out of the Axis.
X-Men: The Last Stand
In the Danger Room sequence that opens this movie, the X-Men fight a Sentinel in a ruined city. It may or may not be a reference to Days of Future Past.
Notes
- In 2001 the first chapter of Days of Future Past (X-Men #141) was named #25 on the list of greatest Marvel comics.[5]
Trivia
Event Locations: South Bronx, Baxter Building, Washington DC, Braddock Manor
Cast of Characters: Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde), Marvel Girl (Rachel Summers), Widget, Wolverine (Days of Future Past), Ahab, Nimrod, X-Men, Excalibur
See Also
- Characters from Earth-811
- Other things related to Earth-811
- Earth-811's Comic Appearances
- Reality Gallery: Earth-811
Links and References
- ↑ X-Men #141 and #142 (January-February 1981)
- ↑ New Mutants #18 (August 1984)
- ↑ Excalibur #66 and #67 (June-July 1993)
- ↑ Excalibur #94 (February 1996)
- ↑ citation needed
