History ComicBook / DaysOfFuturePast

*** Kate and Peter's two children who were unnamed and TheGhost in the original, are named and appear just to show their deaths.

*** Cyclops, Angel, and Banshee, who were only photos labeled "Deceased" on the famous cover and then names on tombstones, each have their deaths shown ''graphically''.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: It's mentioned Kate and Piotr had kids in the bad future... and outlived them.

** ''Days of Future Past'' role-playing games describe the mutants allying with Nick Fury and SHIELD to attempt at forming a resistance movement against the Sentinels, which is hinted of in Issue #1.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: A Sentinel picks up and throws Cyclops onto a huge spike.]]

%%*AmbiguousSituation: Before she was killed by the nuclear blast, was Phoenix the real Jean Grey or the still entity impersonating Grey.

* EyeScream: The radiation from the nuclear blast [[spoiler: that killed Phoenix/"Jean Grey" also destroyed Cyclops']] eyes, which then had to be surgically removed.

In July 2023, a prequel mini-series was released called ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePastDoomsday'', which depicts how things happened.

* EmbarrassingNickname: Katherine Pryde (in the body of her teenager self, but with her adult mind from the future) does not like at all to be called "Kitty" again. She's "Kate"!

** Magneto in a concentration camp and an ally of the X-Men.

* GoneHorriblyRight: In the original timeline, the Brotherhood killed Kelly to make humans scared of mutants. And it worked. But fear did not make humans bow down in obedience, fear made humans cross the GodzillaThreshold to end the Mutant threat.

* MeanwhileInTheFuture: A consequence of the unusual type of time travel. Besides, Kate made the trip early in the first issue, and we still need to know what things are going on at that bad future.

* NotWearingTights: Nobody does so in the bad future.

* TheReveal: Future Kate does not know which Brotherhood member killed Robert Kelly, and the story keeps it a secret right up until the attempt. Turns out it's [[spoiler: Destiny]].

* StormingTheCastle: Averted. The X-Men thought that just three of them would simply get into the secured headquarters of the Sentinels and defeat them all... [[spoiler: but it's a trap, and they are all slain]].

** The epilogue has Senator Kelly inform Henry Gyrich, Sebastian Shaw, and the President that he still view Mutants as a threat, implying that the X-Men’s rescue was AllForNothing.

'''"Days of Future Past"''' is a 1981 ''ComicBook/XMen'' storyline (published in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #141 and #142), written after the successful ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'' by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne. This time-travel story was the first main story featuring ComicBook/KittyPryde.

* HomageShot: The cover art, shown above, is rather famous and recognizable, and has been homaged by numerous other comic book lines (including both ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ''Franchise/StarTrek''), particularly when a BadFuture story is being told.

* AnimatedAdaptation: This story was used as the underlying arc of the first season of the [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries 1990s animated series]], and was also the basis of the BadFuture B-plot for season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''.

* AdaptedOut: In the [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries 1990s animated series]], Kitty Pryde was replaced with Bishop (presumably to capitalize on the then-recently introduced character's popularity).

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Pyro makes his debut in this storyline and is referred to by the other characters as an Englishman rather than the Australian he would eventually become as a result of AdaptationDisplacement.

Though not as successful as the aforementioned ''Dark Phoenix Saga'', ''Days of Future Past'' is commonly ranked among the greatest ''X-Men'' arcs and rarely places very far from the former. In a title with as many BadFuture storylines as it has, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.

** In fact, this may have to do with the ExecutiveMeddling surrounding Claremont and Byrne's previous storyline, ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga. Originally, Jean was supposed to survive that story; after the decision was made to change the ending to one where Jean dies, it may have been too late to meaningfully alter the plot of this storyline, which began a scant two issues later. Removing Rachel's last name could have been a metafictional version of CuttingTheKnot.

'''"Days of Future Past"''' is a 1981 ''ComicBook/XMen'' storyline (published in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #141 and #142[[note]]Technically speaking, only the second issue was marketed as ''Uncanny'', but the earlier issues are referred to that way to reduce confusion and ambiguity[[/note]]), written after the successful ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'' by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne. This time-travel story was the first main story featuring ComicBook/KittyPryde.

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* AdaptedOut: In the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 1990s animated series]], Kitty Pryde was replaced with Bishop (presumably to capitalize on the then-recently introduced character's popularity).

* AnimatedAdaptation: This story was used as the underlying arc of the first season of the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 1990s animated series]], and was also the basis of the BadFuture B-plot for season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''.

* ShortLivedBigImpact: As famous and influential as the story is, it's also a paltry ''two'' issues long. Trade paperbacks of the arc end up including other issues that have nothing to do with the storyline because it would be too short otherwise.

* BrieferThanTheyThink: As famous and influential as the story is, it's also a paltry ''two'' issues long. Trade paperbacks of the arc end up including other issues that have nothing to do with the storyline because it would be too short otherwise.

* FantasticCasteSystem: The Bad Future has one. Humans are on top, then people who ''might'' have mutant DNA, then mutants at the absolute bottom.

* AdaptatedOut: In the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 1990s animated series]], Kitty Pryde was replaced with Bishop (presumably to capitalize on the then-recently introduced character's popularity).

%%* AdaptationalBadass: In the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 1990s animated series]], Kitty Pryde was replaced with Bishop (presumably to capitalize on the then-recently introduced character's popularity), and Nimrod was included right away.

* AmbiguousEnding: Pointed out inside the story.