History Film / XMenDaysOfFuturePast

* VillainHasAPoint: During Charles and Erik's argument on the flight to Paris, Erik makes a valid point about how Charles abandoned everyone, as while he and Hank were too busy hiding and pretending to be something they're not, fellow mutants, including Angel, Azazel, Banshee, and Emma, were experimented on and killed. This said, considering that a large part of the responsibility for the multiple traumas that led to Charles abandoning the world falls with Magneto himself, he's nevertheless not exactly the best messenger for this particular point.

* VillainHasAPoint: During Charles and Erik's argument on the flight to Paris, Erik makes a valid point about how Charles abandoned everyone, as while he and Hank were too busy hiding and pretending to be something they're not, fellow mutants, including Angel, Azazel, Banshee, and Emma, were experimented on and killed.

* LackOfEmpathy: Played with. In their argument on the plane, Erik is clearly disgusted that Charles would take a serum that restores his ability to walk at the expense of his mutant ability to read minds... which can't help but come across as this in the moment, given that it was ''him'' who was responsible for Charles losing his ability to walk in the first place. This is vocally lampshaded by Wolverine, who notes that Erik was clearly always the self-righteous asshole he knows him as. In total fairness, however, Magneto does seem to be regretting his words once the argument has ended, and makes a point of sincerely apologising to Charles for it later when tempers have cooled, implying he's not totally callous about it.

** Between going through a personal hell, his mind clearly not working straight, it being the '70s and him shooting up to dull the pain, Xavier really resembles a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran. Creator/JamesMcAvoy has even called it his ''Film/BornOnTheFourthOfJuly'' look.

* AllThereInTheStinger: If you haven't seen the end-credits scenes of ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'' or ''Film/TheWolverine'', good luck understanding how (or why) [[spoiler: Professor X is still alive.]]

** The first sequence depicting the BadFuture is a CurbStompBattle given by the Sentinels, ending in a single Sentinel energy beam approaching Kitty Pryde and Bishop just as they successfully revert to an alternate timeline. The last sequence depicting it is a battle [[spoiler: with a similar outcome ending in Xavier shielding Kitty and Wolverine from ''three'' Sentinel energy beams just as Mystique drops her gun in the past, allowing Trask to live and successfully averting the Sentinel dominated future entirely.]]

* ChekhovsSkill: Erik says that he used his power to curve a bullet to [[spoiler: prevent]] the JFK assassination. [[spoiler:He later uses this power to try and kill Mystique when a gun is knocked from his hand after firing a single bullet.]]

* RemakeCameo: In the French dub, Senator Brickman is voiced by Bernard Tiphaine. The latter was also the voice actor for Beast in the 90's ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon.

** Logan waking up in a daze to Roberta Flack's 1969 cover of "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in both 1973 [[spoiler:and the new AlternateTimeline (playing on a hits-of-the-'70s streaming playlist)]].

''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.]]