X-Men Apocalypse: 10 Comic Book Mistakes The Film Should Avoid
7. Yet Another Dystopian Future
If you had a nickel for every time a dark, terrible future was invoked in an X-Men comic, you wouldn't even be close to being able to afford all of those wretched storylines. Recently Xavier Jr, Wolverine and Mystique's kid and evil Jean Grey travelled back from a time where Dazzler became the first mutant president, only to be assassinated. Days Of Future Past, too, was based on the first storyline that looked forward to a dystopian future for mutantkind, the template that all later dark X-Men futures would follow. Age Of Apocalypse has a very similar feel in the comics, with the self-styled First Mutant ruling over the Earth with a Darwinian survival of the fittest philosophy. It looks very similar to the dark future in Days Of Future Past, so there wouldn't be much point bringing such to life on film again. The one difference is that its humans, rather than mutants, that are subjugated under Apocalypse's rule and human-sympathisers, which includes the X-Men. Still, nobody wants another of those voice over intros explaining the "dark times"...
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