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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Colossus and Kitty are married in the future, and their marriage ceased to be along with the whole timeline. This was written ''years'' before their romance in the normal timeline (in fact, Kitty had met the X-Men during the Dark Phoenix Saga, moved to the mansion... and this is her first adventure as a member of the team). Still, that romance was also began by Claremont, who had a ''long'' run in the X-Men, so it can be either that he took advantage of a loose plot point he had left years ago, or that he planned it all along.

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Colossus and Kitty are married in the future, and their marriage ceased to be along with the whole timeline. This was written ''years'' before their romance in the normal timeline (in fact, Kitty had met the X-Men during the Dark Phoenix Saga, moved to the mansion... and this is her first adventure as a member of the team). Still, that romance was also began by Claremont, who had a ''long'' run in the X-Men, so it can be either that he took advantage of a loose plot point he had left years ago, or that he planned it all along.
** Magneto in a concentration camp and an ally of the X-Men.
** Future Wolverine appears a bit cold to Rachel. It would be revealed that of the surviving X-Men, Logan was the only one who did not forgive Rachel for her past as a “Hound”.
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* TonightSomebodyDies: Warned in the cover of the second issue: "This issue everybody dies!" And in the grand tradition of comics, this is ''technically'' true... ish.

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* TonightSomebodyDies: TonightSomeoneDies: Warned in the cover of the second issue: "This issue everybody dies!" And in the grand tradition of comics, this is ''technically'' true... ish.

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Kill Em All is now a disambiguation page.


* KillEmAll: Warned in the cover of the second issue: "This issue everybody dies!" And in the grand tradition of comics, this is ''technically'' true... ish.


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* TonightSomebodyDies: Warned in the cover of the second issue: "This issue everybody dies!" And in the grand tradition of comics, this is ''technically'' true... ish.

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


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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: It's mentioned Kate and Piotr had kids in the bad future... and outlived them.
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* GraveMarkingScene: There's a lot in the concentration camp with the graves of many people dead years ago: Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, Charles Xavier, Scott Summers, Kurt Wagner, Susan Richards, Reed Richards, Lorna Dane, Henry [=McCoy=], etc.

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* GraveMarkingScene: There's a lot in the concentration camp with the graves of many people dead years ago: Johnny Storm, Ben Grimm, Charles Xavier, Scott Summers, Steve Rogers, Kurt Wagner, Susan Richards, Reed Richards, Lorna Dane, Peter Parker, Henry [=McCoy=], etc.
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* 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 AdaptationDistillation.

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* 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 AdaptationDistillation.AdaptationDisplacement.
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* 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 AdaptationDistillation.
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* 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/WolverineAndTheXMen''.

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* 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/WolverineAndTheXMen''.''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''.
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Minor editing at the top for clarity: Why not just repeat the name of the aforementioned work instead of indirectly referencing a title from several paragraphs ago. Also, as far as I can tell 2013 is not the anniversary of anything, rather it's the setting of the future part of the story.


Though not as successful as Claremont and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''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 is, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.

The seventh entry in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', is based on this story; however, it was released in 2014, just missing the anniversary. However, the "ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom" crossover ''was'' released in 2013 to coincide with the anniversary, and involves time traveling mutants who seek to stop an apocalyptic future. Notably, Creator/BryanSinger's [[Film/XMen1 first]] ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movie also uses elements of the story, borrowing the central plot about the X-Men trying to stop a Brotherhood plot against the Mutant-hating Senator Kelly.

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Though not as successful as Claremont and Byrne's the aforementioned previous work, ''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 is, has, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.

The seventh entry in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', is based on this story; however, it was released in 2014, just missing the anniversary. original story's bad future setting. However, the "ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom" crossover ''was'' released in 2013 to coincide with the anniversary, original setting, and involves time traveling mutants who seek to stop an apocalyptic future. Notably, Creator/BryanSinger's [[Film/XMen1 first]] ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movie also uses elements of the story, borrowing the central plot about the X-Men trying to stop a Brotherhood plot against the Mutant-hating Senator Kelly.

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* CrossbowsAreJustBetter: Destiny uses a crossbow in the Brotherhood's attack. In fairness, she's an elderly lady with no other fighting powers.


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* TheStraightAndArrowPath: Destiny uses a crossbow in the Brotherhood's attack. In fairness, she's an elderly lady with no other fighting powers.
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'''''"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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'''''"Days '''"Days of Future Past"''''' 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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''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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''Days '''''"Days of Future Past'' 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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* AdultFear: It's mentioned Kate and Piotr had kids in the bad future... and outlived them.



* CrossbowsAreJustBetter: Destiny uses a crossbow in the Brotherhood's attack. In fairness, she's an elderly lady with no other fighting powers.
* DidYouActuallyBelieve: "Foolish Mutant! Did you actually believe you could reach our inner sanctum undetected?" Said by a Sentinel as it deep-fries Future Logan.



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



* GodzillaThreshold: It's acknowledged that sending Kate back is a serious risk, and will erase everything that's happened in the last thirty years. But the situation is just ''that'' awful.



* KillEmAll: Warned in the cover of the second issue: "This issue everybody dies!"

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* KillEmAll: Warned in the cover of the second issue: "This issue everybody dies!"dies!" And in the grand tradition of comics, this is ''technically'' true... ish.



* MindProbe: The future Sentinels use encephalo beams (a favoured AgonyBeam device used by Ultron) to determine whether their prisoners are telling the truth or not. Unlike Ultron, though, their use isn't painful to the subject, and pretty quick.



* OutgrowingTheChildishName: Future Kitty Pryde no longer goes by that. She addresses to "Kate".

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* OutgrowingTheChildishName: Future Kitty Pryde no longer goes by that. She addresses to She's "Kate".



* SchizoTech: An early shot in the future shows a bus being pulled across New York by horses, to show things have gone pretty horrible for everyone, not just the mutants.



* 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 was a trap, and they are all slain]].

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* 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 was it's a trap, and they are all slain]].



* YouShallNotPass: The X-Men did this to the Brotherhood, when they tried to kill Kelly.

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* YouShallNotPass: The X-Men did do this to the Brotherhood, when they tried try to kill Kelly.
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--->'''Angel:''' Does that mean we changed the future?\\

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--->'''Angel:''' -->'''Angel:''' Does that mean we changed the future?\\
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The seventh entry in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', is based on this story; however, it was released in 2014, just missing the anniversary. However, the "ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom" crossover ''was'' released in 2013 to coincide with the anniversary, and involves time traveling mutants who seek to stop an apocalyptic future. Notably, Creator/BryanSinger's [[Film/XMen1 first]] ''Film/XMen'' movie also uses elements of the story, borrowing the central plot about the X-Men trying to stop a Brotherhood plot against the Mutant-hating Senator Kelly.

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The seventh entry in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', is based on this story; however, it was released in 2014, just missing the anniversary. However, the "ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom" crossover ''was'' released in 2013 to coincide with the anniversary, and involves time traveling mutants who seek to stop an apocalyptic future. Notably, Creator/BryanSinger's [[Film/XMen1 first]] ''Film/XMen'' ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movie also uses elements of the story, borrowing the central plot about the X-Men trying to stop a Brotherhood plot against the Mutant-hating Senator Kelly.
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** 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.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: This story was used as the underlying arc of the first season of the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 1990s animated series of "X-Men"]], and was also the basis of the BadFuture B-plot for season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''.

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* AnimatedAdaptation: This story was used as the underlying arc of the first season of the [[WesternAnimation/XMen 1990s animated series of "X-Men"]], series]], and was also the basis of the BadFuture B-plot for season 1 of ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen''.
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''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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''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 ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'' by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne. This time-travel story was the first main story featuring ComicBook/KittyPryde.



Though not as successful as Claremont and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', ''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 X-Men it is, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.

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

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Though not as successful as Claremont and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', ''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 X-Men it is, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.
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Though not as successful as Claremont' and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''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 X-Men it is, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.

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Though not as successful as Claremont' Claremont and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''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 X-Men it is, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.
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The seventh entry in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', is based on this story; however, it was released in 2014, just missing the anniversary. However, the "ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom" crossover ''was'' released in 2013 to coincide with the anniversary, and involves time traveling mutants who seek to stop an apocalyptic future.

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The seventh entry in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', ''[[Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast X-Men: Days of Future Past]]'', is based on this story; however, it was released in 2014, just missing the anniversary. However, the "ComicBook/BattleOfTheAtom" crossover ''was'' released in 2013 to coincide with the anniversary, and involves time traveling mutants who seek to stop an apocalyptic future.
future. Notably, Creator/BryanSinger's [[Film/XMen1 first]] ''Film/XMen'' movie also uses elements of the story, borrowing the central plot about the X-Men trying to stop a Brotherhood plot against the Mutant-hating Senator Kelly.
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Though not as successful as Claremont' and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''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 so many BadFuture storylines like X-Men, ''[=DoFP=] was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.

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Though not as successful as Claremont' and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''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 so as many BadFuture storylines like X-Men, ''[=DoFP=] as X-Men it is, ''[=DoFP=]'' was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.

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Though not as successful as Claremont' and Byrne's aforementioned previous work, ''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 so many BadFuture storylines like X-Men, ''[=DoFP=] was the first and original one, and has been copied and revisited many times since.



Marvel revisited the story in 2015 under the title "Years of Future Past" as part of the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' storyline.

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Marvel officially revisited the story in 2015 under the title "Years of Future Past" as part of the ''ComicBook/SecretWars2015'' storyline.
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The group held in the concentration camp is composed of aged versions of the X-Men: Katherine Pryde-Rasputin (Sprite, later to be known as Shadowcat), Ororo Monroe (Storm), Peter Rasputin (Colossus), Franklin Richards (the son of the Fantastic Four's Reed and Susan Richards), Rachel (not given a surname here, but later revealed to be the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey) and Magneto (now in a wheelchair). With the help of Wolverine, still on the loose, they manage to send Katherine Pryde back in time to October 31, 1980, just before a pivotal presidential election, placing her adult mind in the body of her teenaged 1981 version. She tells the others that, on that day, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants would kill the US senator Robert Kelly, along with Charles Xavier and Moira [=MacTaggert=], which will lead to the anti-mutant hysteria.

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The group held in the concentration camp is composed of aged versions of the X-Men: Katherine Pryde-Rasputin (Sprite, later to be known as Shadowcat), Ororo Monroe (Storm), Peter Rasputin (Colossus), Franklin Richards (the son of the Fantastic Four's Reed and Susan Richards), Rachel (not given a surname here, but later revealed to be the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey) and Magneto (now in a wheelchair). With the help of Wolverine, still on the loose, they manage to send Katherine Pryde back in time to October 31, 1980, just before a pivotal presidential election, placing her adult mind in the body of her teenaged 1981 1980 version. She tells the others that, on that day, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants would kill the US senator Robert Kelly, along with Charles Xavier and Moira [=MacTaggert=], which will lead to the anti-mutant hysteria.
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* OutgrowingTheChildishName: Future Kitty Pryde no longer goes by that. She addresses to "Kate".
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Though the Sentinels have taken over the United States by 2013 and killed and imprisoned numerous mutants and other superpowered beings, it has to be remembered that it was ordinary humans who started the ball rolling after Senator Kelly's assassination. Indeed, Rachel Summers' flashbacks in later stories show the US military eagerly and gleefully massacring mutants before the Sentinels even took over, such as when the X-Mansion is destroyed in an artillery barrage and Charles Xavier, Illyana Rasputin, Nightcrawler and his pregnant wife Amanda Sefton are killed by the army, with Rachel being the sole survivor, or when Rachel is later used as a "Hound" to detect fleeing mutant civilians, who are subsequently massacred by the military.

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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: According to Wolverine, why the now-paraplegic Magneto stayed behind.
-->'''Wolverine:''' He knew what he was doin' when [[HeroicSacrifice he agreed to cover our escape.]] His wheelchair would've slowed us up too much.



* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: According to Wolverine, why the now-paraplegic Magneto stayed behind.
--->'''Wolverine:''' He knew what he was doin' when [[HeroicSacrifice he agreed to cover our escape.]] His wheelchair would've slowed us up too much.
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: According to Wolverine, why the now-paraplegic Magneto stayed behind.
--->'''Wolverine:''' He knew what he was doin' when [[HeroicSacrifice he agreed to cover our escape.]] His wheelchair would've slowed us up too much.
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''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. This time-travel story was the first main story featuring ComicBook/KittyPryde.

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''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.ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Creator/JohnByrne. This time-travel story was the first main story featuring ComicBook/KittyPryde.

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