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Note: For this list only the creators of the characters first appearances are listed. As with all comic book characters, the X-Men and there supporting cast have had several reinventions and different contributions from different writers. Theses include different iterations in different mediums that all have added different concepts to the overall mythology of the characters.

Theirs Professor Charles Francis Xavier/Professor X, Eric "Magnus" Lensherr/Magneto, Dr. Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy/Beast, Scott Summers/Cyclops, Dr. Jean Elaine Grey and Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake/Iceman, who all made their first appearance in X-Men #1 (September 1963) by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine who was created by then Marvel editor-in-chief Roy Thomas, writer Len Wein, and Marvel art director John Romita Sr.. Although Romita designed the character, he was first drawn for publication by artist Herb Trimpe. The character first made his first appearance in the comic story "And Now... the Wolverine!" from The Incredible Hulk #181 (November 1974).

Raven Darkhölme/Mystique, who made her first appearance in a cameo role in the comic story "Shadow of the Gun!" from Ms. Marvel #16 (May 1978) before her first full appearance in the comic story "The St. Valentine's Day/Avengers Massacre!" from Ms. Marvel #18 (July 1978). She was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum.

Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde/ Shadowcat, who made her first appearance in the comic story "God Spare the Child..." from X-Men #129 (January 1980) by writer Chris Claremont and writer/artist John Byrne.

Ororo Munroe/Storm, who made her first appearance in the comic story "Deadly Genesis!" from Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975) by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum.

Anna-Marie Raven/Rogue, referred to as Anna-Marie D'Ancanto or Rogue on screen. She made her first appearance in the comic story "By Friends -- Betrayed!" from Avengers Annual #10 (1981) by writer Chris Claremont and artist Michael Golden.

Piotr "Peter" Nikolaievitch Rasputin/Colossus, he first appeared in the comic story "Deadly Genesis!" from Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975) by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum.

Lucas Bishop, who made his first appearance in the comic story "Payback" from Uncanny X-Men #282 (November 1991) by writers and artists John Byrne and Whilce Portacio.

Pietro Django Maximoff/Quicksilver, who first appeared in the comic story "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!" from X-Men #4 (March 1964) by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

Bolivar Trask and The Sentinels, who made their first appearance in the comic story "Among Us Stalk... the Sentinels" from X-Men #14 by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

William Stryker, whose character is an amalgam of various X-Men villains: Reverend William Stryker, an anti-Mutant bigot; Professor Andre Thorton, the malevolent mastermind of the Weapon X program; and Henry Peter Gyrich (whose name was used for a minor character in X-Men (2000)), a ruthless government official who dedicates his life and resources to destroying the Mutant populace. The character of Stryker first appeared in the comic book "X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills" (1982) by writer Chris Claremont and artist Brent Anderson. Whilst Thorton first appeared in the comic story "Weapon X: Chapter One" from Marvel Comics Presents #73 (March 1991) by writer/artist Barry Windsor-Smith. And Gyrich made his first appearance in the comic story "Hammer of Vengeance!" from Avengers #165 (November 1977) by writer Jim Shooter and writer/artist John Byrne.

Clarice Ferguson/Blink, she made her first appearance in the comic story "Enter Freely and of Your Own Will (The Phalanx Covenant, Generation Next Part 3)" from The Uncanny X-Men #317 (October 1994) by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Joe Madureira.

Roberto da Costa/Sunspot, who made his first appearance in the comic story "Renewal" from Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (November 1982) Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod.

James Proudstar/Warpath, who made his first appearance in the comic story "Away Game!" from New Mutants #16 (June 1984) by writer Chris Claremont and artist Sal Buscema.

Alexander Summers/Havok, he made his first appearance in the comic story "Wanted: Dead or Alive... Cyclops!" from X-Men #54 (March 1969) by writer Arnold Drake and artist Don Heck.

Mortimer Toynbee/Toad, who made his first appearance in the comic story "The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!" from X-Men #4 (March 1964) by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.

and Eric Gitter/Ink, who made his first appearance in the comic story "Final Genesis" from Young X-Men #1 (April 2008) by writer Marc Guggenheim and artist Yanick Paquette.

All other characters were created for the movie by the films writers.

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The film begins in 2023 in a post-apocalyptic future. Humanity has been enslaved by advanced Sentinel robots that are hunting down mutants. Professor Charles "X" Xavier (Patrick Stewart) is leading what is left of the X-Men and other mutant warriors in the fight against the Sentinels. Charles decides to send one of them back in time to 1973, to prevent the Sentinel's creator Dr Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) from being assassinated by Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), whose mutant DNA is the key behind the Sentinel's creation. Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) volunteers to go back in time. When Kitty Pryde (Elliot Page) sends him back, Wolverine wakes up in the past and is naked. Once arriving in the past, Wolverine sets out to convince a long-haired, young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) about the future and that it was Xavier himself who sent him back in time to find him. They set out to change the past and prevent the Sentinels from taking over the world 50 years in the future and to stop Mystique from assassinating Trask.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is the seventh movie in the X-Men series, preceded by X-Men (2000), X2: X-Men United (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009), X-Men: First Class (2011) and The Wolverine (2013), and followed by X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Logan (2017). The X-Men movies are all based on the Marvel Comic book series, also titled X-Men, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1962. The storyline for Days of Future Past was inspired by "Days of Future Past", a story in Marvel's 1981 comic books The Uncanny X-Men, issues #141 through #143. The storyline was adapted for the screen by English-born screenwriter/film producer Simon Kinberg and English screenwriters Jane Goldman and Matthew Vaughn.

In chronological order, X-Men: Days of Future Passed is a sequel that starts several years after the events of both The Last Stand and The Wolverine in a dystopian future and involves a travel back in time to 1973, 11 years after the events of First Class and 6 years before the events of Origins: Wolverine. Cast members from all those films appear. The first three X-Men movies, Origins: Wolverine and The Wolverine follow chronologically from a timeline established in First Class (although several retcons have been identified); however, in Days of Future Past, due to changes made into this original timeline, a new timeline is created, leading to a separate chronology in which X-Men: Apocalypse and Logan take place.

From the original trilogy and who appear from the start of this movie: Professor X, Magneto, Wolverine, Storm, Shadowcat, Iceman, Colossus and Rogue. From X-Men: First Class: Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Beast and Havok. Shortly before the theatrical release, director Bryan Singer revealed that an action sequence featuring Rogue and a few of her X-cohorts had been cut from the film. As it turned out, Rogue appears in different parts of the story in the different editions of the movie. Evan Jonigkeit plays the 1973 version of X-Men villain Toad. Magneto mentions that Angel (the girl with wings from First Class), Azazel, Emma Frost and Banshee are all dead. Mystique is also seen looking at the autopsy files of Azazel and Angel in Trask's office. Jean Grey, Cyclops and the future self of Beast appear at the end. At one point during the film, Wolverine mentions them (and Storm) to young Xavier and tells him to take special care of them. In the altered future, Jean and Cyclops are shown to still be alive.

This film basically takes the key ideas and plot points from the briskly paced two issue Claremont-Bryne comic book story arc and re-purposes those plot points with the established movie versions of the X-Men as well as including many additional subplots. In the film, it is Wolverine who is sent back to the year 1973 to find the young Charles Xavier; however, in the comic, it is Kitty Pryde (a.k.a. Shadowcat) who goes back in time to the year 1980 (which was present day at the time of the story's publication) and takes all the active X-Men straight to the assassination attempt. In the comic book, Kitty's past and future minds switch places, which allows us to see each time line from both perspectives; but, in the film, Wolverine's body remains motionless in the future and his future mind simply pushes aside his past mind. The assassination that sets the war in motion is of Senator Robert Kelly in the comic book, but since that character was killed with little consequence in the first X-Men movie, it is Bolivar Trask in this film. The would-be assassin in both versions is Mystique, but in the comic book, she was already decidedly evil and there was nothing close to the subplot of her redemption which is found in the movie. The end to both versions also differ, as in both cases, the heroes stop the assassination, but whether or not the war will fail to happen in the comics is left open to the reader, since the bad future in the comic books remains as a separate reality whether the heroes succeed or not.

Erik Lensherr/Magneto is very proud of his mutant abilities and is one of the most powerful mutants to have lived. However, in a breakdown of the trailer with Empire Magazine, director Bryan Singer addressed Magneto's use of a firearm: There's a line in the movie, "He's always had a way with guns". That's how he crippled Xavier, and he's such a powerful mutant, but in this particular moment he's holding a gun and I like that. He's a product of the Second World War and he knows how to use a gun as much as he does his powers. He has used firearms before, such as killing a German in First Class as well as threatening the police outside the train station in the first X-Men, proving he is not averse to using them when it suits his needs. To him, it is about turning mankind's trifling weapons against mankind. Also, the scene in which he uses it, he had planned to kill Mystique. But because she was a mutant and he also cared for her, he intended to give her a quick and painless death by shooting her.

In the comics, Magneto can levitate himself by virtue of being powerful enough to manipulate the trace particles of magnetizable materials (e.g. iron) that serve as nutrients for most organic life (meaning that he can also telekinetically manipulate not only Wolverine's body (containing metallic bones) but also other characters' bodies as well), and at any rate, his natural body has significant inherent magnetic properties. In the movies, it's been alluded that he uses his powers to levitate himself by levitating metal plates in his boots. This also has been shown in the train scene from the first X-Men. He also needed to form a platform to carry himself across the gap in the prison in X2.

In a mini documentary titled "The Bent Bullet", a promotional video for the film, it is revealed that Magneto is imprisoned after being arrested and secretly tried for the first-degree murder of (and conspiracy to murder) President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. According to the video, Magneto changed the trajectory of the second bullet Lee Harvey Oswald fired at Kennedy that would not have actually killed him, but due to Magneto's tampering hit the President in the head and subsequently killed him. In the film, Erik claims Kennedy was actually "one of us"; he was trying to save the President by bending the bullet away from him, but due to being interrupted, he lost control and accidentally hit the president in the head, ultimately resulting in JFK's death. The "Bent Bullet" promo is also a reference to the so-called "magic bullet" or "single-bullet" theories about Kennedy's assassination. Critics of the Warren Commission, the task force assigned to investigate the assassination, have contended for decades that the bullet that killed Kennedy and that wounded Texas Governor John Connally could not have followed a path through their bodies in any reasonable manner. More on the single-bullet theory can be read here.

To be more specific, Magneto is a free man as early as the 1980s, as can be seen in the prologue of X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), which still takes place in the unaltered timeline. So somewhere between the original 1973 and the 1980s, he got out, which seems pretty remarkable for a man who was imprisoned for the murder of John F. Kennedy. So what happened? Some speculations can be made. Magneto may have escaped, as he would do later in X2: X-Men United (2003). This would have necessitated him to live in hiding for years, as he would still have been a wanted man. Magneto does indeed have a secret base of operations in X-Men (2000), but he also comes out in the open quite often. Perhaps his face has aged enough by then to prevent anyone from recognizing him (the general public doesn't know him anyway), but the authorities would be expected to still keep an eye on him. In that case, they would also know not to assault him with metal weapons (which happens in the first X-Men). So this may imply that Charles Xavier (Professor X) or some other mutants learned about Magneto's innocence later on, and made a successful effort to free him. According to producer Simon Kinberg, a backstory was written for Bolivar Trask, which specified that he was part of the group responsible for attempting to assassinate the mutant JFK. Trask had military supporters in the US Government that were part of this conspiracy. In the original timeline, Trask was killed by Mystique, so it is possible that Charles did research into Trask on his own, and found out the truth about the JFK assassination. He may have made a case for Magneto, even used his mental powers to convince the people in charge. Or he simply helped him escape if the authorities did not listen and subsequently helped him to hide, until the commotion had died down. In any case, Charles' knowledge of his innocence would also explain why Professor X and Magneto temporarily reconciled in the 1980s.

No. 20th Century Fox owns the rights to the X-Men and Fantastic Four movies, while Disney (through Marvel Studios) owns the rights to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU); yet Magneto's children, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are seen in MCU projects, at the same time as Quicksilver is featured in this film, because both Disney and Fox share the rights to these two characters. The difference is that Quicksilver will not be portrayed by the same actor in both franchises because they are two different versions of him: he isn't a mutant in the MCU titles, and the X-Men do not exist therein; whilst the Avengers don't exist in the mutants/X cinematic universe.

Scarlet Witch, real name Wanda Maximoff, is the twin sister of Pietro/Quicksilver. The two appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (as well as briefly in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)) together, although Quicksilver is not portrayed by the same actor and he's presumed to have slightly different characteristics from the character in this film. In fact, of these twins, only Quicksilver appears in this film. Scarlet Witch was going to be directly mentioned, but was left out due to time constraints. During the finale, a shot of Pietro shows him with a younger girl (see here). However, she's not presumed to be Wanda, as Wanda is Pietro's twin and should be the same age. The little girl could be Polaris aka Lorna Dane, the half-sister of Wanda and Pietro and daughter of Magneto with similar magnetic powers, though her hair is red instead of green. This may be what confused people into thinking she was Scarlet Witch. In the Rogue Cut, Quicksilver's mother tells his younger sister, "Go bug your sister", to which she replies, "She bugs me", with a slight look of fear on her face, which implies that either Wanda or her powers scare her.

Before sending Wolverine back in time Kitty says that time will pass at the same pace in the past and future. Since Wolverine is in the past for at least a few days, this means that Kitty had to sit still, awake and maintain a vigil on Wolverine's mind for the same amount of time. This sounds very difficult and unlikely under lesser circumstances but she did it because she had to. It was a matter beyond life and death, and if she failed, she would fail the entire world, which would be more than enough motivation to try her best. She could also keep in mind that if she succeeded, all memory of the difficult few days (along with the last few years) would be erased. Also she didn't have to do it by herself, as others were there to give her water and emotional support. Although there is no evidence of it in the film, Xavier could hypothetically use his own powers to repress her need for sleep and hunger, as he is seen by her side the entire time.

Wolverine: Healing ability and claws, Skeleton is laced with heavy metal called "Adamantium" that makes him near indestructible (future only, as past Wolverine has not yet undergone the treatment)

Magneto: Manipulation of magnetic fields

Mystique: Shape-shifting into any humanoid

Xavier: Telepathy

Quicksilver: Super speed

Kitty Pryde (Shadowcat): Intangibility, Time-Phasing

Storm: Weather/climate manipulation

Bishop: Absorbs energy directed at him and channels it out

Sunspot: Flame control, Flight

Warpath: Super tracker, Strength

Iceman: Ice control

Havok: Shoots bursts of plasma from hands and chest

Toad: Super agility, whip-like tongue, toad-like appearance

Beast: Enhanced strength and agility, beast-like form

Blink: Creates teleportals (shortening distances of space, or altering the orientation of paths)

Colossus: Transforms his body into living steel, super strength

Cyclops: Optic blasts shoot from eyes

Jean Grey (Phoenix): Telekinesis (possibly full-blown psionic abilities), telepathy

Rogue: Able to drain and acquire life/powers/memories from others

Ink: Not actually a mutant, he gets tattoos from a mutant tattoo artist, each one giving him different powers. The only of such powers depicted in the movie is his biohazard tattoo that makes people extremely ill.

There is an unnamed mutant with quills on his head who appears to have the ability to control people for a couple seconds. Some have said that he is Spyke, a nod to Evolution, but his powers contradict this.

While not mutants, the post-apocalyptic sentinels have mutant DNA integrated into the mechanisms/robotics of their synthetic bodies, and this allows them to counteract mutants' powers, as sentinels also have the ability to physically transform. They are also equipped with faces that can discharge plasma rays capable of damaging almost anything given due time.

It is never truly explained how Kitty has those powers, or if she's always had them, or developed them at some point between her last appearance and this film. She's never had them in the comic books. It would appear that she learned it sometime after the beginning of the mutant war since their existence is news to the mutants she hasn't seen in years, including her mentor Charles Xavier. In any case, Kitty can phase herself and others through solid matter, so she could be said to be able to manipulate objects through space; perhaps those powers extend to phasing objects or people's consciousness through time as well. In the comic book story of "Days of Future Past", Rachel Summers (a telepath and daughter of Jean and Scott) sends Kitty back in time, the same way Kitty did with Logan in the movie. However, since Rachel was never introduced in the movies and Jean was never revealed to be pregnant, the producers felt it would have been far too untrue to the comic book to bring Rachel into the film without her being Jean & Scott's daughter. Since Kitty had a major role in the original comic book they tried to keep it that way by making her the one who sends Logan back in time. Also in the comic books, mutants have been shown to develop secondary mutations like Beast's blue form and Emma Frost's diamond form, so it can be assumed Kitty acquired this mutation. Writer Simon Kinberg reportedly had his first draft of the script hew more closely to the original storyline, with Rachel Grey sending Wolverine back instead of Kitty, and eventually changed his mind, adding the idea of secondary powers emerging later in life, and making Kitty able to phase through time and space.

It isn't directly stated in this movie. However, in the post-credit scene to X-Men: The Last Stand, it is revealed that Xavier transferred his consciousness to the body of a brain-dead man. This brain dead man was shown earlier in the film in a scene where Xavier discusses the ethics of transferring the mind of a dying cancer patient into this body. In the post-credit scene, the body wakes up and says, "Hello Moira", in Xavier's voice to an attending Dr. Moira McTaggert. In the mid-credits scene of The Wolverine, Xavier is revealed to be alive in his old wheelchair bound body. With Wolverine wondering how this is possible, Xavier simply responds with "As I told you a long time ago Logan, you're not the only one with gifts". Although a full explanation is absent from both The Wolverine and X-Men: Days Of Future Past, there are two different theories uttered by the producers of the franchise about how all this is possible. The first is in the DVD commentary for X-Men: The Last Stand, where it is theorized that the brain dead patient was, in fact, Charles Xavier's identical twin brother. This brother was born without any brain activity due to Charles' overpoweringly strong brain in the womb. The second was given by X-Men: Days Of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg in an interview. He stated that dialogue was written for the 2023 scenes that explained how Xavier's old body was reconstituted by an unnamed mutant to its old and familiar state, allowing Xavier's consciousness to transfer back to its own body. However, the dialogue didn't make the cut as it would clutter the film's already complicated plot with even more explanations.

In X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), a company creates a drug called "the cure", which removes mutant powers. By the end of the movie, Magneto has been given the cure. However, the very last scene before the end credits shows Magneto sitting alone at a chess table in the middle of a park, staring at the metal chess pieces. He raises his hand to one of the pieces and it moves ever so slightly before the credits roll. This implied that the cure was wearing off and eventually he would regain his powers. Perhaps the body eventually develops immunity to the cure, making its effect shorter with every exposure. This would also mean that all other mutants who took (or were forcefully given) the cure would regain their powers as well, and immunity also makes sense, since by the time of the future war, mutants are not being given the cure as a means to subdue them. Another indication that the mutant cure was never a permanent one is found in the extended version of the movie (the Rogue Cut), where Rogue (Anna Paquin), who willingly took the cure in The Last Stand, returns to the X-Men with her full mutant powers restored.

At the end of The Wolverine, Silver Samurai hacks off Logan's adamantium claws with a super-heated adamantium sword in order to drill into his bone marrow. Eventually, Wolverine's bone claws grow back, but he has lost his sharp, adamantium claws. Yet in this film, the Wolverine of the future has adamantium claws again. It's likely, given the escalation of the war against mutants, Magneto or the Professor found a way to re-graft adamantium blades over his bone claws so he'd be as formidable as possible. In the comics Magneto in a battle once liquefied the metal and sucked it out of Wolverine, almost killing him in the process. Most likely Magneto used his powers to restore them by liquefying and sliding adamantium from Wolverine´s bones back on to his bone claws to restore his full potential

Wolverine does in fact age, he just does so incredibly slowly. Wolverine looks to be about 35 to 40 years old, when he's actually close to 200 years old. While the X-Men films have always taken place in the "not too distant future", we can assume that about 20 years have passed since the original film (not a stretch from the actual 14 years). So, it's possible that he's simply added a few more years to his looks in that time. Also, in The Wolverine, Silver Samurai drilled into Logan's bone marrow and took the life from him while rapidly aging him in the process. Logan is saved and appears to heal completely. That being said, literally having the life sucked out of him and not to mention participating in yet another war that is decimating the planet may have taken a toll on him even with his healing ability. At the end of the film, after the future has been reset, Logan still has his grey hairs, but it seems somewhat less. There is also the obvious fact that, while Wolverine may not age, Hugh Jackman does, about which little can be done.

Legal complexities over the license to the character resulted in his omission from X-Men: The Last Stand and The Avengers. In May 2013, both Fox and Marvel Studios announced a resolution to the previous legal issues, that Quicksilver would appear in this film as well as an Avengers sequel though under certain parameters: no allusion to his relations to the X-Men or Magneto (the character's father) can be made in an "Avengers" film, and no reference to Quicksilver's membership in the Avengers can be made in an "X-Men" film; the rights agreement between Fox and Marvel Studios even goes so far as to stipulate the character cannot be referred to as a "mutant" in any Marvel Studios film. Additionally, the day after Fox announced Evan Peters as Quicksilver, Fox and Marvel Studios entered into a legal standoff over provisions of the rights agreement for the character, including the issue of whether Peters would be allowed to portray Quicksilver in any other film outside the "X-Men" franchise, possibly necessitating a second actor to play Quicksilver in any Marvel film, resulting in Marvel Studios hiring actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson to portray him in The Avengers: Age of Ultron, and both studios writing two different versions of the same character appearing in two competing film series. Since then, Disney, which owns the rights to Marvel Studios (hence to "The Avengers") has bought 20th Century Fox, which owned the rights to X-Men, making it possible for Evan Peters' Quicksilver to appear in other MCU projects, and Aaron Taylor Johnson's Quicksilver, or any other MCU character to appear in X-Men should they decide to continue this X-Men franchise. This allowed Evan Peters to portray his version of Quicksilver in "WandaVision". In the end of "WandaVision", however it is revealed his character is not Pietro Maximoff nor Quicksilver, but a guy named Ralph Bohner who believed to be Quicksilver due to Wanda's mind tricks. This might not be the end of this storyline and he may be revealed in the future to actually be a multiverse version of Wanda's brother, Pietro and the Quicksilver we know from the X-Men saga. However, this particular cameo wouldn't have been possible before Disney bought 20th Century Fox and the rights to the X-Men characters.

Accepting Charles' challenge that the future is now in her hands, Mystique makes the decision not to kill Trask. Instead, she is heralded for saving President Nixon (Mark Camacho) and his cabinet, the Sentinel program is subsequently cancelled, and Trask is arrested for selling military secrets. At the same time in the future, the Sentinel attacking Xavier, Kitty, and the unconscious Wolverine suddenly disintegrates. Wolverine wakes up in his own bed at the Xavier School and is surprised to see Beast, Storm, Iceman, Rogue, Jean Gray, and Scott Summers all going about their business. Professor Xavier reminds him that he has a history class to teach, and Wolverine says he might need some help with his knowledge of history since 1973. Realizing that Wolverine has returned from the past, Xavier asks what is the last thing he remembers. 'Drowning,' he replies. The final scene shows Wolverine's body being pulled from the water. As he regains consciousness, Colonel William Stryker (Josh Helman) agrees to take custody of him. As the scene cuts away, Stryker's eyes turn yellow, an indication that it is actually Mystique.

Yes, it occurs at the very end of the credits. In ancient Egypt, a group of people kneel before a cloaked figure, while chanting, "En Sabah Nur." This is the real name of the mutant Apocalypse who is thought to be the first mutant. Marvel Comics (incorrectly) states this means "The First One" in ancient Egyptian. He is assembling the pyramids with his mind while four men on horses watch (a reference to Apocalypse's Four Horsemen of which Archangel/Angel, Gambit, Wolverine, Psylocke, Banshee and even Hulk have been part). This foreshadows X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). The "Rogue Cut" of the movie also has this post-credit scene, and has an additional mid-credits scene, showing Magneto's cell below the Pentagon again, but this time, an unkempt Bolivar Trask is locked inside it.

The next film, X-Men: Apocalypse takes place in 1983 and therefore, young Magneto and Professor X are played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. Bryan Singer stated that he intends for X-Men: Apocalypse to be the last in this series of X-Men films. Hugh Jackman also said that Apocalypse and one more Wolverine film would be his last appearances as the character. The other Wolverine picture is Logan, and for that one, Stewart reprises Professor X in addition to Jackman reprising the titular character.

The original comic book on which this movie is based was published in 1981, three years before the first Terminator movie debuted. Many parts of the story changed, but the time traveling and history altering elements remained the same. The Sentinels came even earlier than the 1973 setting of the movie, debuting in 1965 in the comics. Possible inspiration could have come from two 1964 episodes of The Outer Limits, specifically "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand", both of which were written by Harlan Ellison and feature a similar time travel story. The Terminator itself was said to be inspired by these episodes, and Ellison even sued Orion Pictures (producers of The Terminator) when he felt that James Cameron had plagiarized his works. Ellison won the case resulting in a large financial settlement and his name being added to the Terminator credits. It is possible then that both this film and The Terminator simply share the same influences.

Stan Lee does not have a cameo in this movie and, in fact, only makes cameos in two of the X-Men films: playing a hot dog vendor at a beach in the first film, and a man mowing his lawn in the third film.

Basically, it is safe to say that the "Rogue Cut" makes the theatrical version even better. Some fans might not care about the different approach but a real effort to give the fans another satisfying version was made here. With a length difference of 17 minutes, the "Rogue Cut" does not only contain the infamous longer Rogue scene. Instead, some scene from the theatrical version are missing now or they will be solved differently.