10 Superhero Movies That Made Major Changes To Iconic Comic Moments

2. The Time Traveller - X-Men: Days Of Future Past

The Comic Book Moment: After Dark Phoenix, the next big X-Men story is Days Of Future Past, the two-issue time-travel epic that pushed the Sentinels to their extreme and saw Kitty Pryde jump back to 1980 to stop the assassination of Senator Kelly, an event that originally kicked off a chain reaction and led to the hunting down of all mutant kind.

The Movie Version: There's a load of differences in the telling of the story, but the general idea is just about the same (assassination, time travel, Sentiels). The major changes that stop it being close to an adaptation come from who the time-traveller is; here it's Wolverine who has to go back, reuniting the First Class team and setting up a whole new timeline for the movies.

Does The Change Work? Just as in the comics, if you can put Wolverine in a film, it'll sell better (just compare The Wolverine's box office to X-Men: Apocalypse's), so making Hugh Jackman the lead was financially smart, but it also works well in the film. Like with Phoenix it's just more fitting of the movie franchise and better allows for the integration of both timelines; DoFP: The Movie isn't just a fun future yarn, but a continuity adjustment.

This wasn't the first time the hero of Days Of Future Past had been changed for an adaptation either - in The Animated Series it was Bishop.