History Film / XMenDaysOfFuturePast

''X-Men: Days of Future Past'' is a 2014 sci-fi superhero movie in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', adapting the Creator/MarvelComics story [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast of the same name]]. The seventh installment in the series, it is a sequel to ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', ''Film/TheWolverine'' AND ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' as well as both sequel and {{prequel}} to the original ''X-Men Trilogy'', re-combining the semi-tangled film universe into a single narrative. The film is directed by Creator/BryanSinger, of ''Film/XMen1'' and ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' fame, with ''First Class'' director Creator/MatthewVaughn serving as a producer. It is the first movie in the franchise to receive an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nomination (Best Visual Effects). An alternate version of the film with 17 minutes of additional footage was released on Blu-Ray/DVD in 2015 and subtitled ''The Rogue Cut''.

* Ororo Munroe / Characters/MarvelComicsStorm (Creator/HalleBerry)

* RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: [[spoiler:Future Charles Xavier does this for his younger self by convincing him to hope again.]]

** While the ComicBook/ScarletWitch is absent in the film in spite of her relationship with Quicksilver, a girl with red hair is later seen with him. Interestingly, she is only credited as "Peter's Little Sister," making her identity ambiguous (some think she's Peter's ''half''-sister ComicBook/{{Polaris}}), though it definitely counts as a MythologyGag. Creator/BryanSinger says there was a cut-out scene where the little girl was told to "go bug your sister." This scene is restored in ''The Rogue Cut''.

* Alex Summers / ComicBook/{{Havok}} (Creator/LucasTill)

* TriumphantReprise: The return of the title theme music from ''X2'' returns to be the title theme for this movie, which also signifies the return of Bryan Singer to the director's chair.

* AllThereInTheManual: The significance of the mutant seen in the TheStinger (as well as the [[spoiler:four riders]] appearing on the background) can only be understood if you know him from the [[ComicBook/XFactor comics]].

** Several of the deaths in the BadFuture. [[spoiler:First time out, Colossus has his head caved in ''whilst in his metal form'' and Iceman's head is snapped from the the rest of his body in his frozen form, only for the events to later be {{defied}}. In the climax, Bishop explodes due to being "force fed" too much energy, Colossus is ripped in two, Sunspot loses an arm, and Iceman has most of his torso vaporized.]]

** Hank clearly likes the horn-rimmed kind because he continues to wear them 11 years after ''First Class''. The surface area of the lenses are slightly larger and more square-ish to reflect the style of the TheSeventies.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Most of the the characters in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'' are perfectly okay with using lethal force, but this is a specific plot point in this film. It's stated that the young version of Mystique never killed anyone (even the people she used her {{Shapeshifting}} powers to impersonate), but [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Jumped Off the Slippery Slope]] when she decided to kill Bolivar Trask. Her decision to kill Trask set off a chain of events resulting in a BadFuture, which is the main reason Wolverine travels back in time to stop her.

* PortalCut: Blink takes off a Sentinel's arm when one of her portals closes on it. Unfortunately, it closes because said arm has just stabbed her. If the X-Men had thought to weaponize this, as it is one of the few things that unambiguously damages a Future Sentinel, they might have actually had a chance against them.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Trask is seen handing out plans to his new Sentinel units to the foreign powers at the summit in Paris. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a major mistake on his part, as he gets arrested for selling military secrets to other countries in the new timeline. Once the President had a chance to take a closer look at the activities he has been involved in to advance his work, it was prison for Trask.]]

* HurtingHero: The younger Charles has completely fallen apart at the seams, haunted by the hardships he had suffered during the Cuban Missile Crisis and losing most of his students and staff to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.

** The images from the BadFuture of mutants being branded to identify them, camps full of mutants, and those who helped them being marched to off-screen executions is strongly reminiscent of the Holocaust. Given the X-Men series's penchant for drawing that parallel, it's undoubtedly deliberate.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: You'd think that Hank would try to get a therapist to help Charles with his depression and substance abuse, yet it doesn't happen. It could be {{justified|Trope}} that Xavier wants to avoid mental health professionals because it's suggested that he was treated like a schizophrenic patient as a child (and considering how a few psychiatric practices of the 1940s are viewed as unethical today, Charles has no desire to risk a repeat of his past experience) or because he cannot simply find a therapist [[AllTherapistsAreMuggles whom he can trust with the knowledge of the mutants's existence]].

* VanityLicensePlate: The license plate of Wolverine's [[CoolCar 1973 Buick Riviera]] reads "U-LUCKY."

* Bobby Drake / ComicBook/{{Iceman}} (Creator/ShawnAshmore)

* PortalDoor: Blink has the mutant power to create these at will for transport and to redirect attacks.

* Ororo Munroe / ComicBook/{{Storm}} (Creator/HalleBerry)

* HopeSpot: When Magneto and Storm combine their powers to throw the X-Jet throw it the horde of advancing Sentinels, then detonate the plane's reactor core to cause a massive explosion that obliterates all on-screen Sentinels and sends a massive cloud of metallic shards in all directions, it looks as if the X-Men might be able to fend off the attack. However, as the camera switches between the X-Men and focuses on Magneto, it pans down to his torso in a MortalWoundReveal, as he had been stabbed in the abdomen by a large fragment. [[spoiler: Mere moments later, [[TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath Storm is impaled by a Sentinel that had escaped the explosion.]] It is then revealed that several Sentinels had scaled the cliff from above and below for a surprise attack.]]

* HopeSpot: When Magneto and Storm combine their powers to throw the X-Jet into the horde of advancing Sentinels and detonate it to take them out, it looks like it worked. [[spoiler:Then, after they TakeAMomentToCatchYourDeath, Storm is impaled by a Sentinel and it's revealed that a large group of them have scaled the cliff from above and below for a surprise attack.]]