Cover to Uncanny X-Men #141. Art by John Byrne.

Days of Future Past is the name of a popular storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book Uncanny X-Men issues #141 and #142, published in 1981. It deals with a dystopian alternate future in which mutants are incarcerated in concentration camps. An older Kitty Pryde transfers her mind into the younger, present-day Kitty Pryde, who brings the X-Men to prevent a fatal moment in history which triggers anti-mutant hysteria. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (501x750, 792 KB)Cover to Uncanny X-Men #141, by John Byrne. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (501x750, 792 KB)Cover to Uncanny X-Men #141, by John Byrne. ... John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is a British-born naturalised American author and artist of comic books. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... The Uncanny X-Men, first published as simply The X-Men, is the flagship Marvel Comics comic book series for the X-Men franchise, it features the adventures of the eponymous group of mutant superheroes. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the philosophical concept and literary form. ... In science fiction stories involving time travel, an alternate future or alternative future is a possible future which never comes to pass, typically because someone travels back into the past and alters it so that the events of the alternate future cannot occur. ... Internment camp for Japanese in Canada during World War II Internment is the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. ... It has been suggested that Widget (Marvel Comics) be merged into this article or section. ...

The storyline was very popular at the time and was produced during the franchise's meteoric rise to popularity, which was largely due to the Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past writer/artist team of Chris Claremont and John Byrne. As a result of this popularity, the dark future seen in this story was revisited later on several occasions. i eat poop alot A media franchise is an intellectual property involving the characters, setting, and trademarks of an original work of media (usually a work of fiction), such as a film, a work of literature, a television program, or a video game. ... Dark Phoenix on the cover of the Dark Phoenix TPB; art originally from Uncanny X-Men #135, by John Byrne. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is a British-born naturalised American author and artist of comic books. ...

Plot

The storyline alternates between the present day, in which the X-Men fought Mystique's new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and a future timeline caused by the X-Men's failure to prevent them from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, in which robot Sentinels ruled the United States and mutants were forced to live in concentration camps. The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ... Mystique (Raven Darkholme) is a Marvel Comics character associated with the X-Men franchise. ... The Brotherhood of Mutants, originally known as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and briefly as the Brotherhood, is a Marvel Comics supervillain team devoted to mutant superiority over normal humans. ... Robert Kelly is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda. ... The Sentinels are a type of fictional robot in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Internment camp for Japanese in Canada during World War II Internment is the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. ...

The X-Men were forewarned of this tragedy by the 2013 AD version of their teammate Kitty Pryde, whose mind travelled back in time and possessed her younger self to prevent this future from ever coming to pass. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Shadowcat (Kitty Pryde) is a Marvel Comics superhero, a member of the X-Men. ...

She succeeded in her mission and returned to the future. Despite her success, the future timeline from which she hailed still exists, but as an alternate timeline rather than as the actual future.

A version of Rachel Summers, who was a key player in the original storyline, travelled through time from a similar alternate future to the present day and joined the X-Men. Nimrod, the "ultimate Sentinel", followed her to the present and became a foe of the X-Men and the Hellfire Club. Another supervillain, Ahab, later followed her to the present in the "Days of Future Present" crossover. Rachel Summers is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superheroine created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne. ... Nimrod is a robotic supervillain, an enemy of Marvel Comics’ X-Men. ... The Hellfire Club is a Marvel Comics supervillain team that frequently battle the X-Men. ... Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypal supervillains and his arch-enemies The Fantastic Four (in background). ... Ahab, real name Roderick Campbell, is a fictional character, a cyborg supervillain from the future in the Marvel Comics universe. ... It has been suggested that Gaming crossovers be merged into this article or section. ...

Ahab kidnapped the children Franklin Richards (son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, and in the future timeline Rachel's love) and Nathan Summers (son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor, and as an adult the mutant hero named Cable), but was defeated by the X-Men, X-Factor, the New Mutants and the Fantastic Four. Franklin Richards is a fictional character in Marvel Comics universe. ... Mr. ... Susan Storm Richards is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers, a. ... Cyclops (Scott Summers) is a fictional character who exists in the Marvel Comics Universe, a superhero who is the field leader of the X-Men. ... Madelyne Pryor is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... X-Factor is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics. ... The New Mutants is the name of two defunct Marvel Comics superhero teams, as well as the title of two series featuring those teams. ... The Fantastic Four is a fictional American team of comic-book superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

Meanwhile, Rachel joined 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, in which a time-travelling Excalibur and several Marvel UK heroes overthrew the Sentinel rulers of the future America. This storyline also revealed that Excalibur's robotic "mascot" Widget had been possessed by the spirit of the future version of Kitty Pryde. World map showing the location of Europe. ... Excalibur is a Marvel Comics superhero group, an offshoot of the X-Men, usually based in the United Kingdom. ... Alan Davis (born 1956) is a British writer and artist of comic books. ... The Mighty World of Marvel #1: The very first Marvel UK title published in 1972. ... Widget is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...

The second revisiting was after Rachel was lost in the timestream, and was only seen in a vision by her teammate Captain Britain. This story, "Days of Future Tense", revealed the final fate of the "Days of Future Past" timeline's Excalibur team. Captain Britain (Brian Braddock), briefly known as Britannic, is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. ...

By 2005, Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 has given the numerical designation of "Days of Future Past" Earth as Earth-811. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is a definitive guide to the imaginary universe of Marvel Comics. ... Within Marvel Comics, most tales take place within the fictional Marvel Universe, this in turn is part of a larger multiverse. ...

Other Important Issues

As a note, a prelude to Days Of Future Past was done in a three part mini-series entitled "Wolverine: Days Of Future Past." This 3 issue mini dealt with ramifications between the catalyst for the creation of the alternate future up until the main storyline in Uncanny X-Men 141-142. Among other things, the prelude explains why Logan leaves for Canada and why Magneto is in a wheelchair in the main two issue story. Further details are covered in Uncanny X-Men 188,189,192,193,199, as well as Excalibur 52,66,67 and Marvel Team Up 150.

In other media

Animated series

See also: Days of Future Past (X-Men episode)

The Days of Future Past storyline was adapted in the X-Men animated series, where its concepts were combined with another alternate future story - that of Bishop and the idea of a traitor within the ranks of the X-Men. In the original comic book version of this story, this traitor was responsible for killing the X-Men, and was believed by Bishop to be Gambit - combined into the Days of Future Past plot, this traitor was made responsible for being the one who killed Senator Kelly, and turned out to be Mystique, merely imitating Gambit's form. Days of Future Past is a 2 part episodes from the animated TV series X-Men Animated Series. ... The X-Men Animated Series debuted in the 1992-1993 season on the Fox Network. ... Bishop (Lucas Bishop), is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero who is a member of the X-Men. ... Gambit (Remy Etienne LeBeau) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero who is a member of the X-Men. ... Mystique, as a name, can refer to: Mystique, a comic book character from the Marvel Comics universe. ...

The future that Kelly's death led to was much the same as the comics - Sentinels went into mass production and were unleashed upon an unsuspecting mutant population. Every mutant on Earth was captured and led to concentration camps, but soon, the Sentinels decided that, in order to protect mankind, they would have to take over. Under the machines' tyrannical rule, the entire North American continent was soon turned into a wasteland, its human population living in fear of their robotic masters and its mutant population rendered almost extinct. Only a small group of mutant rebels remained free and unharmed, led by an aged Wolverine. In this future time of 2050, Bishop is not the mutant police agent that he is in his comics' future, but a bounty hunter who soon captures Wolverine and his teammates; when the Sentinels betray him, however, he sides with Wolverine and the machinesmith, Forge, who has invented a time portal that he will use to alter history and prevent their nightmarish future from ever occurring. Bishop volunteers and travels back in time, only to arrive amnesiac and pursued by the future super-sentinel, Nimrod. After an encounter with the present-day X-Men, a battle with Nimrod and a mind-scan by Professor X, Bishop's memory returns and he implicates Gambit as the traitor he has been sent to stop. Unsure of how to react, the X-Men travel to Washington to guard Kelly and wind up battling the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Their leader, Mystique, uses her shape-shifting powers to disguise herself as Kelly's aid and lure him away, before assuming Gambit's form and preparing to kill him, thereby implicating the X-Men as a national threat. The real Gambit arrives in time to stop her, but when Bishop finds himself confronted with two Gambits, he is about to shoot both of them for security's sake when Rogue stops him, tearing off the armband that keeps him anchored in time, hurling him back to his own future. For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ... Forge is a Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men. ... Nimrod is a robotic supervillain, an enemy of Marvel Comics’ X-Men. ... Charles Francis Xavier, also known as Professor X, is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero, known as the leader and founder of the X-Men. ... The Brotherhood of Mutants, originally known as the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and briefly as the Brotherhood, is a Marvel Comics supervillain team devoted to mutant superiority over normal humans. ...

Arriving back in his future, it first seemed to Bishop that nothing had changed and that the world was still as he had left it, but he soon discovered that something had changed - a deadly plague now raged across the world, engineered by the ancient mutant, Apocalypse. Travelling back in time once more to stop the virus, Bishop succeeded, but the X-Men perished in the effort. This in turn caused the erasure of the future reality of 3999, home-time to the mutant mercenary Cable, who travelled back to before Bishop's arrival in the past and altered events once more to ensure the destruction of the virus, the survival of the X-Men and the preservation of both his and Bishop's timelines. This article or section may contain excessive or improper use of copyrighted images and/or audio files. ... Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers, a. ...

When the time-portal-generating mutant Trevor Fitzroy was assigned the task of travelling back to the mid-20th Century and killing a young Professor X, his actions created an alternate present (analogous to the comic book's Age of Apocalypse). Bishop and his sister, Shard travelled to this time and teamed up with the alternate versions of Wolverine and Storm, undoing Fitzroy's actions. As the siblings returned to their own time, Shard emerged through the portal, but Bishop was cast off-course by a temporal anomaly - in 3999, Apocalypse has wrested the power of time-travel from Cable, and his transit through the timestream clashed with Bishop's, hurling them both into limbo, the "axis of time." There, Bishop was pestered by the maniac "janitor of time," Bender (actually the disguised form of the Avengers foe, Immortus) while Apocalypse mastered the axis's ability to touch all times, forming a complex plot to re-write time using the combined power of captured psychic mutants. Bishop was instrumental in putting this scheme to a stop, liberating some of the psychics at a key juncture, who then used their powers to banish Apocalypse from the timestream. Trevor Fitzroy is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an enemy of the X-Men, in particular Bishop. ... The Age of Apocalypse is a popular X-Men story arc. ... Shard (Shard Bishop) is a mutant character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ... Storm (real name Ororo Munroe) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. ... Spoiler warning: Kang the Conqueror is a supervillain in Marvel Comics. ...

As of the end of the series, the storyline remains unresolved, with nothing having been shown to alter Bishop's future from the dystopia seen in Days of Future Past.

X-Men: The Last Stand

The Days of Future Past reality is shown in the opening sequence of the motion picture, X-Men: The Last Stand, as Wolverine and Storm teach a Danger Room combat session, in which the battlefield is a devastated city, and their opponent, a Sentinel. The Wolverine death scene is jabbed at when Wolverine tells Colossus to 'fast ball special' (i.e. throw) him at the Sentinel. The scene shows him hurled into the Sentinel's death ray and the screen whites out - only to show Wolverine alive and well next to the now decapitated Sentinel's head. For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ... Storm (real name Ororo Munroe) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. ... The Danger Room is a fictional training facility built for the X-Men of Marvel Comics. ... The Sentinels are fictional robots in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... Colossus (Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero in the X-Men. ...

Trivia

• In UX# 141 Kate Pryde says "The fact remains that on Hallowe'en, 1980 - today - the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants will murder presidential candidate Robert Kelly along with Charles Xavier and Moira MacTaggert." (This may indicate that the Rachel we see later on is a different one as her Charles Xavier was killed by the US Army years later. Kate, however, may have been simply mistaken.)
• The first issue of this storyline was voted 25th greatest Marvel Comic of all time by the fans in 2001.
• The gravestone of this world's Eric Masterson appears in Fantastic Four#405.
• In "Genesis", the first episode of the television series Heroes, the character of Hiro Nakamura cites Kitty's travelling through time as teaching him about the concepts of time travel. However, he erroneously cites the issue number as X-Men #143. In later episodes, there are appearances of a Future Hiro, who has also returned from a dystopian apocalyptic future to prevent it. "Five Years Gone" depicts that future where that set of heroes fails to stop New York City from being destroyed in a nuclear explosion.

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Collected Editions

• Days of Future Past (TPB) ISBN 0-7851-1560-9 collects Uncanny X-Men #138-143 and Annual #4
• Days of Future Past (Graphic Novel) ISBN 0-87135-582-5 collects Uncanny X-Men #141-142
• Essential X-Men Vol. 2 ISBN 0-7851-0298-1 collects (reduced to black and white) Uncanny X-Men #120-144

See also

• Multiverse (Marvel Comics)