Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:25:30 GMT -5
Days of Future Past
Taking place between the present day, in which the X-Men fought Mystique's new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and a future timeline caused by the X-Men's failure to prevent them from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, in which robot Sentinels ruled the United States and mutants were forced to live in concentration camps. The X-Men were forewarned of this tragedy by the 2013 AD version of their teammate Kitty Pryde, whose mind traveled back in time and possessed her younger self to prevent this future from ever coming to pass. She succeeded in her mission and returned to the future. Despite her success, the future timeline from which she hailed still exists, but as an alternate timeline rather than as the actual future. This Earth is known as Earth-811.
Rachel Summers, who was a key player in the original storyline, traveled through time to the present day and joined the X-Men. Nimrod, the "ultimate Sentinel", followed her to the present and became a foe of the X-Men and the Hellfire Club. Another supervillain, Ahab, later followed her to the present. Ahab kidnapped the children Franklin Richards (son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, and in the future timeline Rachel's love) and Nathan Summers (son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor, and as an adult the mutant hero named Cable), but was defeated by the X-Men, X-Factor, the New Mutants and the Fantastic Four.
Meanwhile, Rachel joined the European mutant team Excalibur, who twice revisited the future timeline. The first time was in a story by Alan Davis, in which a time-traveling Excalibur and several Marvel UK heroes overthrew the Sentinel rulers of the future America. This also revealed that Excalibur's robotic "mascot" Widget had been possessed by the spirit of the future version of Kitty Pryde. The second revisiting was after Rachel was lost in the timestream, and was only seen in a vision by her teammate Captain Britain.
Taking place between the present day, in which the X-Men fought Mystique's new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and a future timeline caused by the X-Men's failure to prevent them from assassinating Senator Robert Kelly, in which robot Sentinels ruled the United States and mutants were forced to live in concentration camps. The X-Men were forewarned of this tragedy by the 2013 AD version of their teammate Kitty Pryde, whose mind traveled back in time and possessed her younger self to prevent this future from ever coming to pass. She succeeded in her mission and returned to the future. Despite her success, the future timeline from which she hailed still exists, but as an alternate timeline rather than as the actual future. This Earth is known as Earth-811.
Rachel Summers, who was a key player in the original storyline, traveled through time to the present day and joined the X-Men. Nimrod, the "ultimate Sentinel", followed her to the present and became a foe of the X-Men and the Hellfire Club. Another supervillain, Ahab, later followed her to the present. Ahab kidnapped the children Franklin Richards (son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman, and in the future timeline Rachel's love) and Nathan Summers (son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor, and as an adult the mutant hero named Cable), but was defeated by the X-Men, X-Factor, the New Mutants and the Fantastic Four.
Meanwhile, Rachel joined the European mutant team Excalibur, who twice revisited the future timeline. The first time was in a story by Alan Davis, in which a time-traveling Excalibur and several Marvel UK heroes overthrew the Sentinel rulers of the future America. This also revealed that Excalibur's robotic "mascot" Widget had been possessed by the spirit of the future version of Kitty Pryde. The second revisiting was after Rachel was lost in the timestream, and was only seen in a vision by her teammate Captain Britain.