X-Men: Days of Future Past Movie Compared to the Animated Version From 1993

While this weekend’s feature film adaptation of Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is expected to gross more than $100 million domestically and be one of (if not the) biggest opening in the history of the X-Men film franchise, it isn’t the first time the classic ’80s story has been adapted.No, a version of “Days of Future Past” appeared on the fan-favorite ’90s X-Men animated series, which aired on Fox Kids’ Saturday morning lineup from 1992-1997, and was released on VHS as a double feature with “The Night of the Sentinels.”(There was a similar storyline in Wolverine and the X-Men, too, but it isn’t a direct adaptation so we won’t discuss it here. According to Wikipedia, Professor X is in a coma for 20 years, and awakens to find that the mutants are imprisoned by the Sentinels. He telepathically connects with the X-Men of the past to try to prevent that future from happening. By the end of the first season, the Sentinel-dominated future was averted. However, a future based on the Age of Apocalypse appeared in its place. Strangely, this closely mirrors one of the most popular theories fans had in the run-up to X-Men: Days of Future Past regarding how the movie would feed into X-Men: Apocalypse.)