G3 Magazine/movies/ X-Men: Days of Future Past
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magine a future without any
hope. Such a future would be
unimanigable. For the x-men
and all mutants as well as the
normal humans who dared to
help them a terrible fate awaits.
Sentinels, huge robots who
can adapt to any mutants ability, eliminates mutants and all
humans who harbour genes that
will lead to mutant offspring. A
group of mutants manages to
evade the Sentinels with the assistance of Kitty Pryde, who can
project a person’s consciousness
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back in time to deliver warnings.
The group consists of Storm,
Wolverine, Professor Xavier,
and Magneto. Their hideout is
in China and tensions run high
whilst the team tries to protect
everyone. After selecting Wolverine as the best likely candidate
to save the future, Kitty sends his
contentiousness back to 1973 to
prevent Mystique from assassinating Bolivar Trask, the creator
of the Sentinels. Professor Xavier,
and Magneto advise Wolverine
to seek out both of their younger
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and rebellious selves for aid.
Wolverine wakes in the distant
1973 and set out to find Xavier at
the X-Mansion, there he encounters Beast and Xavier. The school
is closed after most of the teachers and students were drafted for
the Vietnam War. A younger and
more depressed Xavier greets
Wolverine, who realises that
Xavier is abusing a serum that
Beast created for him in order to
walk. This serum has the effect
of suppressing Xavier’s telepathic
powers as well. Wolverine