Days of Future Past (X-Men episode)

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“Days of Future Past”
'X-Men: The Animated Series' episode

Bishop
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 11-12
Written by Part 1: Julia Jane Lewald
Part 2: Robert N. Skir &
Marty Isenberg
Production no. Part 1: 111
Part 2: 112
Original airdate Part 1: March 13, 1993
Part 2: March 20, 1993
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Days of Future Past is a 2 part episodes from the animated TV series X-Men Animated Series, based on the comic book story of the same name .

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Contents

[edit] Characters

X-Men: Professor X, Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Gambit, Beast, Jean Grey, Jubilee

Supporting Characters Forge, Bishop, Senator Robert Kelly

Villains: Nimrod, Sentinels, Mystique, Blob, Pyro, Avalanche


[edit] Synopsis

[edit] Days of Future Past, Part 1

Days of Future Past, Part 1 starts in New York City in 2055 AD. Starts with an older version of Wolverine, as he saved two mutants from being captured by Sentinels. After he saves them from sentinels, then Bishop comes and fires one round of stun gun and apprehends both mutants and also Wolverine. He takes them to a Mutant Termination Center, he brings rebels here for money. When he gets to the Mutant Termination Center the Sentinels also Apprehend Bishop and he's sent along with the other three mutants he captured. At the Termination Center we see graves of all the X-Men. Then they attack the sentinels and escape. Then the sentinels send Nimrod(Nimrod is a new type of sentinel) to capture them. Bishop and Wolverine escapes, while the other two help them escape. Wolverine and Bishop go to Forge's lab. Here Wolverine prepares to time-travel to go back to stop the assassination of Senator Kelly. Suddenly, Nimrod break through the wall, and Bishop says that he should go, since Wolverine is already old. So Forge sends Bishop through the time-portal, instead of Wolverine. When Bishop was about to go through time, Nimrod also slips in.

Bishop goes back in time and comes to the present, but he doesn't remember why he's here. Later he thinks the X-Men are the assassins. So, he steals a bus and breaks through the door of the X-Mansion. At the mansion he starts shooting at the X-Men. He shoots Cyclops, Storm, and Jubilee. As he raises his weapon to kill them, Wolverine stops him. Then Wolverine tries to kill him, but Professor X stops him. Then they take him to the war room to find out why he attacked them.

The Professor uses Cerebro to probe Bishop's mind. Then he sees all the destruction of the future. Then Bishop's armband senses that when Bishop came back in time, something got through the portal with him. So Bishop and the X-Men go search for it. So they go back t the place that Bishop first landed, when he came back in time. There Nimrod attacks them. None of X-Men's weapons work on Nimrod and they can't stop him. Them Storm changes the weather and increases the cold and freezes Nimrod. Then Nimrod just breaks up, then Bishop Shoots his "Temporal Transceiver", he says without this, time-travelers go back to their timeline. Then they go back to the X-Mansion. Bishop still doesn't know who the assassin is. When Gambit walks in, Bishop takes out his gun and says that Gambit is the assassin, and shoots his gun. Right hear the episode ends with a "To Be Continued.... "

[edit] Days of Future Past, Part 2

This episode begins right after Days of Future Past part 1. Bishop shoots Gambit because he thinks Gambit is the assassin. But Rogue comes stops the bullet, then Gambit and Bishop start shooting at each other. Rest of the X-Men stop the fighting. Then Bishop tells them what happened in the Future. He says that when Gambit killed someone in Washington; the the humans wanted revenge, so they passed anti-mutant laws and created an army of Sentinels. Later the Sentinels turned against humans and now control the world, and says it was all Gambit's fault. But he doesn't remember who Gambit assassinated. The X-Men go to Washington and leave Gambit and Bishop behind, along with Wolverine.

At Washington, the X-Men stay for watch for anything suspicious. Here the Brotherhood of Mutants are also there to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly. Back at the X-Mansion Gambit tricks Wolverine and Bishop and runs away to Washington in the X-Jet.

Gambit standing in front of a shape-shifter that is posing as him.
Gambit standing in front of a shape-shifter that is posing as him.

Back at Washington The Brotherhood of Mutants create a diversion, while Mystique can assassinate the senator. They attack the capital and all the X-Men come to stop them. After a few minutes, the X-men defeat the Brotherhood of Mutants. Back inside the building Mystique turns into Gambit and tries to kill Senator Kelly. Then the real Gambit comes and stops Mystique. Then Bishop comes in and doesn't know who the fake Gambit is, so he tries to kill them both, but Rogue comes and takes off him armband and he is sent back to 2055 AD. Then Rogue helps Mystique helps her escape because Mystique is Rogue's mother.

Back in 2055 AD, Bishop arrives but finds that nothing has changed. Here we see the older Wolverine's skeleton; he seems to have died. Bishop explains that he stopped the assassin, so things should have changed. Forge explains that something else must have gone wrong that made the future turn out exactly the way it was before.

Back in the Present, Professor X goes to see Senator Kelly, but finds that he has been kidnapped.the professor says that it wasn't the Brotherhood it was Magneto because his watch had magnetized. Then this episode ends with a "To be Continued....."

Spoilers end here.