X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past is a 2014 superhero film directed by Bryan Singer, adapting one of the most iconic and beloved storylines of the original X-Men comics.

In a dystopian future where Sentinel robots have been created to identify and hunt down mutants, the surviving X-Men hide in a remote Chinese temple. Their only hope is Time Travel to the past, to avert Mystique's assassination of Bolivar Trask (played by Peter Dinklage) in 1973, which resulted in the creation of the Sentinels who have been exterminating all mutants. Wolverine volunteers for the dangerous mission, and wakes up in his younger body decades earlier. With the help of newly recruited mutant Peter Maximoff, Wolverine and Professor X free an imprisoned Magneto from his plastic prison under the Pentagon, only for Magneto to go his own way, leaving Xavier, Logan and Hank McCoy to try to thwart Mystique.

Considered one of the best X-Men films of all time, behind Logan, X-Men: Days of Future Past is also the only X-Men film to get an Academy Award nomination (for Best Visual Effects). It was followed by X-Men: Apocalypse in 2016 and Dark Phoenix in 2019.


 * Alternate Timeline: The finale of the film resulted in this.
 * Bad Future: The present-day scenes are set in this future.
 * Big Bad: Bolivar Trask.
 * Bullet Time: The Quicksilver scene at the kitchen uses this to depict his speed.
 * Darker and Edgier: The Bad Future scenes have helped give this film a more dreary tone.
 * Killer Robot: The Sentinels.
 * Logo Joke: At the very end of the 20th Century Fox logo, the X-Men leitmotif was heard.
 * Meanwhile in the Future: The past and future segments are presented as though they are happening in parallel.
 * Precision F-Strike:
 * Charles Xavier remembers when Logan swore at him, but instead of saying "Go fuck yourself" like in the previous film, Charles says "Fuck off".
 * The Rogue Cut has a second one from Richard Nixon.
 * Re Cut: The film has a 2015 extended edition called the Rogue Cut where Anna Paquin's Rogue is more prominent in the film.
 * Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The main storyline of the film.
 * The Stinger: There is a teaser for X-Men: Apocalypse where a young En Sabah Nur is making the pyramids with his Four Horsemen watching.
 * Time Travel: Well, yeah.