10 Dystopian Futures Of Comic Book Superheroes

When it comes to awful futures, the poor mutants of the Marvel Universe have plenty to choose from. Their most famous dystopia, however, is the classic Days Of Future Past, loosely adapted for the big screen in 2014, and in the popular animated series of the 1990s.

With the robot Sentinels ruthlessly ruling the country, mutants locked up in internment camps and nuclear holocaust beckoning, the future X-Men of 2013 (!) send Kitty Pryde's mind back in time to her younger body of 1980, where she hopes to prevent the assassination of a Senator by the Brotherhood of Mutants.

The broad strokes are the same, but this book is a darker, less Jennifer Lawrence-centric affair, laying the groundwork for years of X-based misery and time travel confusion.

While Kitty is ultimately successful in her t(r)ask, that hasn't stopped Marvel from revisiting the well many times in the following years. Days Of Future Past is a defining arc for such time travel/dystopian future arcs, ensuring that those mutants will stay miserable for decades to come.