History YMMV / DaysOfFuturePast

* TheFaceless: On the poster of the "Slain" and the "Apprehended" from the famous and oft-referenced cover, three are blocked over by Kate and Wolverine and not identified. Best speculations then: 1) the picture behind Kate, labeled "Slain", has a pointed mask or headdress and curly hair, likely making it the Scarlet Witch; 2) the one between that and Magneto's picture, blocked by Wolverine with only a spiked tuft of hair visible, is most likely Quicksilver; 3) Xavier is the only remaining possibility for the one in the bottom left-corner, completely blocked over by Wolverine.[[note]]The poster was listing only well known Marvel mutants of that time, so that would exclude Rachel, a completely new one debuting in this comic; and in 1981, would still include Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver then, as it would be decades later that they'd be retconned as being not-mutants.[[/note]]

* MemeticMutation: The cover art of all the "apprehended and slain" mutants is one of the most referenced and parodied in comics.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: It's specified early on that the time travel involves people swapping consciousnesses implying that the teenage Kitty Pryde will visit the BadFuture but she ends up staying unconscious the entire time she's there.

* TheFaceless: On the poster of the "Slain" and the "Apprehended" from the famous and oft-referenced cover, three are blocked over by Kate and Wolverine and not identified. Best speculations then: 1) the picture behind Kate, labeled "Slain", has a pointed mask or headdress and curly hair, likely making it the Scarlet Witch; 2) the one between that and Magneto's picture, blocked by Wolverine with only a spiked tuft of hair visible, is Quicksilver, most likely; 3) Xavier is the only remaining possibility for the one in the bottom left-corner, completely blocked over by Wolverine.[[note]]The poster was listing only well known Marvel mutants of that time, so that would exclude Rachel, a completely new one debuting in this comic; and in 1981, would still include Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver then, as it would be decades later that they'd be retconned as being not-mutants.[[/note]]

* TheFaceless: On the poster of the "Slain" and the "Apprehended" from the famous and oft-referenced cover, three are blocked over by Kate and Wolverine and can't be identified. Best speculations then: 1) the picture behind Kate, labeled "Slain", has a pointed mask or headdress and curly hair, likely making it the Scarlet Witch; 2) the one between that and Magneto's picture, blocked by Wolverine with only a spiked tuft of hair visible, is Quicksilver, most likely; 3) Xavier is the only remaining possibility for the one in the bottom left-corner, completely blocked over by Wolverine.[[note]]The poster was listing only well known Marvel mutants of that time, so that would exclude Rachel, a completely new one debuting in this comic; and in 1981, would still include Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver then, as it would be decades later that they'd be retconned as being not-mutants.[[/note]]

* TheFaceless: On the poster of the "Slain" and the "Apprehended" from the famous and oft-referenced cover, three can't be readily identified. Best speculations then: 1) the picture behind Kate, labeled "Slain", has a pointed mask or headdress and curly hair, likely making it the Scarlet Witch; 2) the one between that and Magneto's picture, blocked by Wolverine with only a spiked tuft of hair visible, is Quicksilver, most likely; 3) Xavier is the only remaining possibility for the one in the bottom left-corner, completely blocked over by Wolverine.[[note]]The poster was listing only well known Marvel mutants of that time, so that would exclude Rachel, a completely new one debuting in this comic; and in 1981, would still include Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver then, as it would be decades later that they'd be retconned as being not-mutants.[[/note]]

* TheFaceless: On the poster of the "Slain" and the "Apprehended" from the famous and oft-referenced cover, three can't be readily identified. Best speculations then: the picture behind Kate, labeled "Slain", has a pointed mask or headdress and curly hair, likely making it the Scarlet Witch; the one between that and Magneto's picture, blocked by Wolverine with only a spiked tuft of hair visible, is Quicksilver, most likely; the last one in the bottom left-corner, completely blocked by Wolverine, leaves only Xavier as the possibility. The poster was listing only well known Marvel mutants of that time, so that would exclude Rachel, a completely new one debuting in this comic, and in 1981 still included Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, as it would be decades later that they'd be retconned into not-mutants.

* TheFaceless: On the poster of the "Slain" and the "Apprehended" from the famous and oft-referenced cover, three can't be readily identified. Best speculations then: the picture behind Kate, labeled "Slain", has a pointed mask or headdress and curly hair, likely making it the Scarlet Witch; the one between that and Magneto's picture, blocked by Wolverine with only a spiked tuft of hair visible, is Quicksilver, most likely; the last one in the bottom left-corner, completely blocked by Wolverine, leaves only Xavier as the possibility.

* TheFaceless: On the poster of the "Slain" and the "Apprehended" from the famous and oft-referenced cover, three can't be readily identified. Best speculations then: the picture behind Kate, labeled "Slain", has a pointed mask or headdress and curly hair, likely making it the Scarlet Witch; the one between that and Magneto's picture, blocked by Wolverine with only a spiked tuft of hair visible, likely making it Quicksilver; the last one in the bottom left-corner completely blocked by Wolverine, leaves only Xavier as the possibility.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: In recent years, people have criticized the ''X-Men'' franchise for its apparent inability to imagine a future for the characters that ''isn't'' a dystopia. This tendency started here, with this story being centered around time travelers from a BadFuture where Sentinels have taken over North America and killed or imprisoned most of its mutant population. However, because this was merely one possible future, rather than an overwhelming number of them, things didn't feel quite so bleak and hopeless.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: It's specified early on that the time travel involves people swapping consciousnesses implying that the teenage Kitty Prude will visit the BadFuture but she ends up staying unconscious the entire time she's there.

* MemeticMutation: The cover art of all the "apprehended and slain" mutants is one of the most referenced and parodied in comics.

* MemeticMutation: The cover art of all the "apprehended" mutants is one of the most referenced and parodied in comics.