Days of my life spoilers movie#

This team is hunting Mystique who is occasionally blue, but is mostly a white guy, since she’s a shapeshifter. Except they recruit new member Quicksilver for a jail breakout.

Days of my life spoilers movie#

In the seventies, where the bulk of the movie actually takes place, we have this team of X-Men: Wolverine, Beast (who is inexplicably in “human” form for most of this, exhibiting a power I do not remember from the comics and in direct contradiction to the themes of X-Men: First Class), Charles Xavier, and Magneto. –> See “ Why is Wolverine Doing All the Stuff I Already Did?” in Slate But instead of getting to star in this movie, Kitty (Ellen Page) gets to sit there and enable Wolverine’s quest, with a power she doesn’t even possess in the comics.

Together, they decide to send Wolverine’s consciousness back in time.

The ones that do get actual dialogue (aside from basic one-liners) are Charles, Magneto, Kitty, Iceman, and Wolverine - except for Colossus (who’s Russian, so I guess he doesn’t rate), that’s all the white characters. The frame story is mostly doomed fight scenes wherein all of these characters die. If the entire movie had been about them, I would have cheered. That team - and they do, indeed, act like a team, has some great characters: Storm, Kitty Pryde, Sunspot, Colossus, Blink, Warpath, Iceman, Wolverine, Charles Xavier, and Magneto. The movie has a frame story that takes place in the future. And it doesn’t! But mostly by not including women or people of color at all.

X-Men: First Class made me incredibly angry and sad, and I hoped that X-Men: Days of Future Past would not show such obvious disdain for woman and people of color. Note: This post contains spoilers for X-Men: Days of Future Past.Īlso note: I grew up reading the X-Men and for most of my life, they’ve been my favorite superhero team.