10 Insane Alternate Versions Of The X-Men You Won't Believe Exist

3. Future Beast Is A Drug Addict, Beak Has A Baseball Bat

Grant Morrison love his alternate realities, and Here Comes Tomorrow, the final arc in his celebrated New X-Men run, is one of his best.

The baldy Scot carved out a relatively utopian vision for the future of Marvel's distinguished competition with DC One Million, but his vision of the X-Men's future was a little less bright. And infinitely more insane. Later designated as an alternate reality, Here Comes Tomorrow's Earth-15104 sees a post-apocalyptic world overseen by a white-furred Hank McCoy, who has an army of cloned Nightcrawlers (with added Cyclops optic blasts) and used them to wage war on the rest of humanity. In the meantime, the rest of the X-Men have become a trans-species organisation with a less-than-strict screening program, taking on human member Tom Skylark and his pet Sentinel and former villain Cassandra Nova.

With those two, an aging Wolverine, the buff descendent of feathered X-Man Beak and unnecessarily sexy android EVA, the X-Men ended up in this strange configuration and dark future as a result of Cyclops retiring from his duties in the present day, thus robbing mutantkind of the leader they so needed. When he left Hank McCoy tried to keep things together, became dependant on the mutant drug Kick and was so taken over by the evil Sublime being, turning him into a bad 'un.

Anyway, in the end Jean Grey gets resurrected by the Phoenix Force again, and everybody dies. Pretty grim, Grant.