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** From the original ''X-Men'' film trilogy: Creator/PatrickStewart as future Charles Xavier, Creator/IanMcKellen as future Magneto, Creator/HughJackman as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Creator/ElliotPage as Kitty Pryde, Creator/HalleBerry as ComicBook/{{Storm}}, and Creator/AnnaPaquin as Rogue [[BillingDisplacement for three seconds]]. [[spoiler:Creator/JamesMarsden (as ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}), Creator/FamkeJanssen (as Jean Grey) and Creator/KelseyGrammer (as the older Beast) all made a cameo.]]

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** From the original ''X-Men'' film trilogy: Creator/PatrickStewart as future Charles Xavier, Creator/IanMcKellen as future Magneto, Creator/HughJackman as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Creator/ElliotPage as Kitty Pryde, ComicBook/KittyPryde, Creator/HalleBerry as ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, and Creator/AnnaPaquin as Rogue ComicBook/{{Rogue}} [[BillingDisplacement for three seconds]]. [[spoiler:Creator/JamesMarsden (as ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}), ComicBook/{{Cyclops|MarvelComics}}), Creator/FamkeJanssen (as Jean Grey) ComicBook/JeanGrey) and Creator/KelseyGrammer (as the older Beast) all made a cameo.]]
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* FakeNationality: In addition to the ones from the previous movies, Australian Josh Helman as the young William Stryker (American), Mexican Adan Canto as Sunspot (Brazillian), Canadian Mark Camacho as UsefulNotes/RichardNixon (American, obviously) and Canadian Brendan Pedder as Apocalypse (Egyptian).

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* FakeNationality: In addition to the ones from the previous movies, Australian Josh Helman as the young William Stryker (American), Mexican Adan Canto as Sunspot (Brazillian), Canadian Mark Camacho Creator/MarkCamacho as UsefulNotes/RichardNixon (American, obviously) and Canadian Brendan Pedder as Apocalypse (Egyptian).
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* IKnewIt: On the "Fridge" tab for ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' on Website/ThisVeryWiki, one troper actually proposed the theory that [[spoiler:[[WhoShotJFK Magneto was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy]]]] about three years before that became a major plot point in this movie--although in the actual movie, [[spoiler:Magneto is ''imprisoned'' for assassinating Kennedy, but insists that he actually tried to save him (it's left to the audience to decide whether he's telling the truth)]].

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* ActorInspiredElement: By his own admission, Creator/MichaelFassbender slightly altered his voice so that he would sound a little more like a younger Creator/IanMcKellen compared to how he sounded in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', as he wanted to be able to bridge their respective performances of Magneto together since they both would appear in the same movie.

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* CreatorBacklash: Creator/MichaelFassbender really isn't fond of the scene where Erik gives a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Charles while on the plane, as he felt that his performance amounted to little more than "some dude shouting".

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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/BryanSinger cast Creator/PeterDinklage as Bolivar Task because he and his wife were fans of ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/BryanSinger cast Creator/PeterDinklage as Bolivar Task because he and his wife were fans of ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
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* AshcanCopy: While the treatment is mostly for predecessor ''First Class'' (done to keep X-Men within Fox's domains), the film can be considered the greatest AshCanCopy of all time, if aggregate reviews are anything to go by.

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* AshcanCopy: While the treatment is mostly for predecessor ''First Class'' (done to keep X-Men within Fox's domains), the film can be considered the greatest AshCanCopy ashcan copy of all time, if aggregate reviews are anything to go by.
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* McLeaned: Angel, Azazel, Riptide and ComicBook/EmmaFrost were originally going to return from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', but when the filmmakers decided to go with the "Days of Future Past" story, they had them all killed off.

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* IKnewIt: On the "Fridge" tab for ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, one troper actually proposed the theory that [[spoiler:[[WhoShotJFK Magneto was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy]]]] about three years before that became a major plot point in this movie--although in the actual movie, [[spoiler:Magneto is ''imprisoned'' for assassinating Kennedy, but insists that he actually tried to save him (it's left to the audience to decide whether he's telling the truth)]].

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* IKnewIt: On the "Fridge" tab for ''Film/XMenFirstClass'' on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki, Website/ThisVeryWiki, one troper actually proposed the theory that [[spoiler:[[WhoShotJFK Magneto was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy]]]] about three years before that became a major plot point in this movie--although in the actual movie, [[spoiler:Magneto is ''imprisoned'' for assassinating Kennedy, but insists that he actually tried to save him (it's left to the audience to decide whether he's telling the truth)]].
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** Singer also wanted a younger Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, to show up as well, but he thought there were already too many characters as it was. However, Kodi Smit-[=McPhee=] was cast as Nightcrawler in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.

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** Singer also wanted a younger Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, to show up as well, but he thought there were already too many characters as it was. However, Kodi Smit-[=McPhee=] Creator/KodiSmitMcPhee was cast as Nightcrawler in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
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* FollowTheLeader: The CrisisCrossover and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters were conceived in response to the success of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.

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* FollowTheLeader: The CrisisCrossover and LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters huge cast were conceived in response to the success of ''Film/TheAvengers2012''.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/XMenFilmSeries Enough for its own page]]

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** Creator/JamieCampbellBower and Creator/NicoTortorella auditioned
for the role of [[Comicbook/{{Quicksilver}} Peter Maximoff]] before Creator/EvanPeters was cast.
** Angel, Azazel, Riptide, and Emma were intended to return, until they decided to go with the ''Days of Future Past'' story and killed the former Hellfire Club offscreen.
** According to Singer himself, ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} and Comicbook/{{Gambit}} were supposed to appear in the film.
** Among the concept art that has surfaced for the film is a [[http://cdn.screenrant.com/wp-content/uploads/X-Men-Days-of-Future-Past-Jubilee-concept-art-2-570x988.jpeg costume concept]] of Jubilee for the future scenes, indicating that she was among the characters considered for the film. Creator/LanaCondor would play Jubilee in ''X-Men Apocalypse''.
** Rockslide was also planned as one of the future X-Men, but did not make it past the storyboard stage. However, a Sentinel mimicking his powers ''does'' still appear as a bit of an OrphanedReference.
** The mutant who helps the heroes break Magneto out of jail was originally going to be a teenage version of Cain Marko, aka TheJuggernaut. The script was rewritten to feature ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} in the jailbreak sequence instead, and Creator/JoshHelman, the actor who was cast as Marko, was chosen to play a young version of William Stryker (the BigBad of ''Film/X2XMenUnited'') to make up for his role being cut.
** Betsy Braddock, aka Psylocke, was also considered to make an appearance in the film, but was cut from the script early. It does not help that before the film came out, [[RacialFaceBlindness many were confusing Fan Bingbing's Blink for her.]] Psylocke is played by Creator/OliviaMunn in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** A major DeletedScene would have turned the plot of the movie on
its own page]]ear had it been kept as it featured [[spoiler:Mystique returning to Charles's mansion where she has her gunshot wound tended to by Hank and is basically completely filled in on her role in the story arc, which although Mystique remains defiant, still pretty much would have left the film with nowhere to go had it been kept.]]
** Creator/StanLee was offered a cameo, but opted out so he could attend Fan Expo Canada in Toronto.
** Singer also wanted a younger Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, to show up as well, but he thought there were already too many characters as it was. However, Kodi Smit-[=McPhee=] was cast as Nightcrawler in ''Film/XMenApocalypse''.
** Comicbook/RachelSummers was originally going to be the one to send Wolverine back in time and have a complicated relationship with Storm, but her role was cut and given to Kitty because Simon Kinberg felt the movie already had enough drama and characters.
** Scenes [[ShipTease implying a romance]] between Storm and Logan were filmed, but cut for time.
** Beast was to appear in the future scenes but Creator/KelseyGrammer was busy filming ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction''. [[spoiler: His cameo was added in re-shoots]].
** Havok was to be captured later on in the film and used to test a prototype Sentinel. It was cut for time purposes. This explains why Havok is not seen when Magneto makes his broadcast, but Ink and Toad are.
** In Creator/MatthewVaughn's intended version of the film, Magneto would have intended to kill JFK as revenge for the murders of Angel and Azazel. Raven would also have attempted to pose as Kennedy, with help from Emma Frost, in an attempt to gain power. It would have backfired horribly, explaining the anti-Mutant sentiment.
** Vaughn's version of ''Days of Future Past'' was also intended to be the ''third'' installment of the X-Men prequel series, rather than the second. The second film would've been set in the 70s, and would've introduced a new actor as a younger Wolverine, with plans for this new version of the character to encounter the original Hugh Jackman Wolverine during the eventual ''Days of Future Past'' film, which would've been set in the 80s. Had this happened, Vaughn's pick for the younger Wolverine was Creator/TomHardy.
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** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Creator/RicardoTejedo replaces José Arenas as the younger Magneto.

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** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Creator/RicardoTejedo replaces José Arenas as the younger Magneto.
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** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Creator/RicardoTejedo replaces José Arenas as the younger Magneto.

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* LyingCreator: Prior to the release of the movie, Creator/BryanSinger, [[spoiler:Famke Jannsen]], and [[spoiler:James Marsden]] all claimed that [[spoiler:ComicBook/JeanGrey]] and [[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}]] would not be appearing in the film in any way. They lied to hide the fact that [[spoiler:Cyclops and Jean]] were shown BackFromTheDead in the surprise [[spoiler:EveryoneLives]] ending.

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* LyingCreator: Prior to the release of the movie, Creator/BryanSinger, [[spoiler:Famke Jannsen]], [[spoiler:Creator/FamkeJansen]], and [[spoiler:James Marsden]] [[spoiler:Creator/JamesMarsden]] all claimed that [[spoiler:ComicBook/JeanGrey]] and [[spoiler:Comicbook/{{Cyclops}}]] [[spoiler:ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}]] would not be appearing in the film in any way. They lied to hide the fact that [[spoiler:Cyclops and Jean]] were shown BackFromTheDead in the surprise [[spoiler:EveryoneLives]] ending.



* TheOtherDarrin: In ''The Last Stand'', Bill Duke played a Senator Trask. Which was a possible SequelHook, but wound up in turning that into another guy with the surname Trask given Bolivar became Peter Dinklage, rendering standard other Darrin-ing impossible due to the substantial physical differences between the two actors.

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* McLeaned: Angel, Azazel, Riptide and ComicBook/EmmaFrost were originally going to return from ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', but when the filmmakers decided to go with the "Days of Future Past" story, they had them all killed off.
* TheOtherDarrin: In ''The Last Stand'', Bill Duke Creator/BillDuke played a Senator Trask. Which was a possible SequelHook, but wound up in turning that into another guy with the surname Trask given Bolivar became Peter Dinklage, rendering standard other Darrin-ing impossible due to the substantial physical differences between the two actors.



* PlayingGertrude: Due to a healthy bit of DawsonCasting for Quicksilver. Evan Peters is only ten years younger than Michael Fassbender, even though them being father and son is only hinted at. But Fassbender is also playing Erik eleven years older than he was in the previous film.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JoshHelman was originally cast as a younger version of ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} before the role was replaced by Quicksilver. He was then cast as the young William Stryker to compensate for his role being cut.

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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JoshHelman was originally cast as a younger version of ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} ComicBook/{{Juggernaut|MarvelComics}} before the role was replaced by Quicksilver. He was then cast as the young William Stryker to compensate for his role being cut.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JoshHelman was originally cast as a younger version ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} before the role was replaced by Quicksilver. He was then cast as the young William Stryker to compensate for his role being cut.

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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JoshHelman was originally cast as a younger version of ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} before the role was replaced by Quicksilver. He was then cast as the young William Stryker to compensate for his role being cut.
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** "[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Incredible Hank]]" for Beast due to him HulkingOut every-time he gets agitated. There is also "Hulk [=McCoy=]."
** In order to avoid using the terms like Younger/Older, Past/Future, and 1973/2023 to differentiate between the two Professor Xs and the two Magnetos in this movie, some fans refer to Creator/JamesMcAvoy's Charles as "[=McXavier=]" and Creator/MichaelFassbender's Erik as "Fassneto."
** 1973 Xavier is occasionally called "[[SeventiesHair Hippie]] [[LooksLikeJesus Jesus]] Charles."
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* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/BryanSinger cast Creator/PeterDinklage as Bolivar Task because he and his wife were fans of ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

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* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JoshHelman was originally cast as a younger version ComicBook/{{Juggernaut}} before the role was replaced by Quicksilver. He was then cast as the young William Stryker to compensate for his role being cut.



* CreatorCameo: X-Men writers Chris Claremont and Len Wein appear as US congressmen. Bryan Singer plays the man with the video camera in Paris after Raven gets exposed. The cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel appears as one of the disguises Raven takes to escape the Paris summit.
* DawsonCasting: Evan Peters, who was 26 years old during filming, portrays the teenaged Peter Maximoff.

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* CreatorCameo: X-Men writers Chris Claremont and Len Wein appear as US congressmen. Bryan Singer plays the man with the video camera in Paris after Raven gets exposed. The cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel appears as one of the disguises Raven takes to escape the Paris summit.
* DawsonCasting: Evan Peters, Creator/EvanPeters, who was 26 years old during filming, portrays the teenaged Peter Maximoff.
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** New addition: Creator/PeterDinklage as Bolivar Trask. Fan Bingbing (Blink) isn't as well known in the West but she's the biggest actress in China.

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** New addition: Creator/PeterDinklage as Bolivar Trask. Fan Bingbing Creator/FanBingbing (Blink) isn't as well known in the West but she's the biggest actress in China.
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** Omar Sy's name is shown before Evan Peters' and Josh Helman's during the end credits despite the fact that Bishop was merely a glorified extra who speaks a few words while Quicksilver and Major Stryker had a lot more dialogue.

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** Omar Sy's name is shown before Evan Peters' and Josh Helman's Creator/JoshHelman's during the end credits despite the fact that Bishop was merely a glorified extra who speaks a few words while Quicksilver and Major Stryker had a lot more dialogue.

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* DeletedScene:
** Before going under the mind transference Wolverine gives Storm a passionate kiss.
** President Nixon orders Trask be arrested and realizes that machines aren't the answer to the mutant problem but mutants themselves.
** The Free Mutants talk to Logan before the transference.
** During the scene where the Sentinels attack the president, Logan snaps out of consciousness and attacks Hank.
** Before going in his bunker Nixon grabs his tape recorder.
** An alternate ending where it is not Mystique that recovers Wolverine but William Stryker.

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** Before going under the mind transference Wolverine gives Storm a passionate kiss.
** President Nixon orders Trask be arrested and realizes that machines aren't the answer to the mutant problem but mutants themselves.
** The Free Mutants talk to Logan before the transference.
** During the scene where the Sentinels attack the president, Logan snaps out of consciousness and attacks Hank.
** Before going in his bunker Nixon grabs his tape recorder.
** An alternate ending where it is not Mystique that recovers Wolverine but William Stryker.
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** From the original ''X-Men'' film trilogy: Creator/PatrickStewart as future Charles Xavier, Creator/IanMcKellen as future Magneto, Creator/HughJackman as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Creator/EllenPage as Kitty Pryde, Creator/HalleBerry as ComicBook/{{Storm}}, and Creator/AnnaPaquin as Rogue [[BillingDisplacement for three seconds]]. [[spoiler:Creator/JamesMarsden (as ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}), Creator/FamkeJanssen (as Jean Grey) and Creator/KelseyGrammer (as the older Beast) all made a cameo.]]

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** From the original ''X-Men'' film trilogy: Creator/PatrickStewart as future Charles Xavier, Creator/IanMcKellen as future Magneto, Creator/HughJackman as ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Creator/EllenPage Creator/ElliotPage as Kitty Pryde, Creator/HalleBerry as ComicBook/{{Storm}}, and Creator/AnnaPaquin as Rogue [[BillingDisplacement for three seconds]]. [[spoiler:Creator/JamesMarsden (as ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}), Creator/FamkeJanssen (as Jean Grey) and Creator/KelseyGrammer (as the older Beast) all made a cameo.]]



** Anna Paquin only appears in a brief cameo with no lines, but is listed higher than Peter Dinklage and Creator/EllenPage, whose characters have plenty of screentime and are essential to the plot. Paquin's scenes were restored on ''The Rogue Cut'' Blu-Ray/DVD release, but Rogue's part is still small.

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** Anna Paquin only appears in a brief cameo with no lines, but is listed higher than Peter Dinklage and Creator/EllenPage, Creator/ElliotPage, whose characters have plenty of screentime and are essential to the plot. Paquin's scenes were restored on ''The Rogue Cut'' Blu-Ray/DVD release, but Rogue's part is still small.
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** The film is in no way connected to the album "Days of Future Passed" by Music/TheMoodyBlues.

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** The film is in no way connected to the album "Days of Future Passed" ''Music/DaysOfFuturePassed'' by Music/TheMoodyBlues.

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