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explains his mission and
convinces Xavier to help free
Magneto from a prison cell
beneath the Pentagon,where he
is being held for allegedly killing
President John F. Kennedy. They
succeed with the help of Peter
Maximoff, a mutant with superhuman speed. Meanwhile Mystique prevents William Stryker
from accommodating a group of
mutant G.I.s for Trask’s research.
Trask desperately tries to sell his
Sentinel program to the Congress,but is unsuccessful. Mystique impersonates a Vietnamese
general to gain access to a meeting with Trask, who is attempting to sell his Sentinel technology to communist nations. Trask’s
mutant sensor detects Mystique
and without any further due she
tries to kill him. Xavier, Magneto, Beast, and Wolverine arrive
just in time to stop her. Magneto
then, attempting to save mutants
from a cruel fate, tries to kill
Mystique and prevent Mystique
being captured and her DNA
being used by Trask’s company to
create Sentinels that are near-invincible due to their ability to
adapt to any mutant power. She
flees out of a window. The fight
ends up onto the streets and in
front of the public. Although
Trask is saved, the world is horrified by the existence of
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mutants. President Richard Nixon approves Trask’s program and
arranges an unveiling of the Sentinels. Trask is fortunate enough
to uncover some of Mystiques
blood, form when Magneto shot
her in the leg. Meanwhile, Magneto (who has recovered his telepathy-blocking helmet)arrests
the prototype Sentinels in transit
and lines their polymer-based
frames with steel, allowing him
to control them. At the mansion,
Xavier stops taking his serum
and slowly
regains his
Wolverine wakes in the
mental powers,at the cost
distant 1973 and set
of losing the
out to find Xavier at
ability to walk.
Through Wolthe X-Mansion”
verine, Xavier
speaks to his future self and is
inspired to campaign for human-mutant peace once again.
He uses Cerebro and tracks
down Mystique, who is heading
to Washington. During the unveiling of the Sentinel prototypes
Xavier, Wolverine, and Beast
search for Mystique. Magneto
commandeers the Sentinels and
attacks the crowd, he then sets
a stadium around the White
House as a barricade. Nixon and
Trask are taken to a safe room,
accompanied by the Cabinet,
Secret Service officers, and
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