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Marvel’sX - Mencomics appear to be setting up the dystopianDays of Future Pastreality all over again . In 1981 , Chris Claremont and John Byrne launched a comical script plot line that would redefine the entireX - Menfranchise . The two - part " Days of Future Past " story revealed an revelatory timeline in which man and sport have gone to war against one another , and Sentinels have taken over the planet .
In that twisted alternate future , only a handful of mutation survive , ensnare within assiduity camps . mutant with the right acquirement - sets are subjected to brainwashing in orderliness to transform them into Hounds – herculean hunter task with capturing and kill their own kind . Rachel Grey , the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey in this timeline , is one of them . By the end of the chronicle , Rachel is able-bodied to obviate her timeline by casting Kitty Pryde ’s mind back in time , rewriting account , and now live in the mainstream Marvel ’s modern epoch instead .
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The shadow of " Days of Future Past " has always loomed over the X - Men , as they urgently attempt to create a future tense where gentleman’s gentleman and mutant can coexist peacefully . Right now , that looks less potential than ever before , withthe X - Men miss and believed dead ; the havoc play by their last battle with Nate Gray having pushed humanness too far , and essentially declared war on mutant . An anti - mutant inoculation has been put into prompt circulation , and police force have been passed to ensure no family line will ever have to suffer their child growing up a mutant again . But , disturbingly , Uncanny ex - Men#12 hints that thing are about to get even forged …
InUncanny X - Men#12 , Cyclops and Wolverine separate into a camp that ’s holding a minuscule turn of mutants prisoner . They ’re horror-stricken to learn that the Office of National Emergencies has transformed a duet of these into Transmode - taint Sentinels , a frightening twist on a classic mind . These scout are n’t especially successful ; they ’re well freed by the two live on cristal - Men , although the prison break has a cost ; Strong Guy is killed by a dud , his torso unable to cope with both the plosion and the Transmode virus . Crucially , though , Karma secern Cyclops that the Sentinel project is only one of several . " They ’re trying to weaponize mutants for their own goal , " she explains . " They want to come up a way to practice us against each other . "
That individual gossip will sound very conversant to X - Men buff . It ’s a verbal description of the Hounds , the hunting watch - killers in the " daytime of Future Past " timeline . What ’s more , there have been other hints that this timeline is becoming disturbingly near at hand for the X - world as well . Rachel Grey has found herself struggle with her Hound persona , incertain why that ’s the case ; and a time traveler from the " daylight of Future Past " timeline was the master villain ofthe late " liquidation " event . It really does look as though account is moving down a very dangerous course for the mutant subspecies once again , and that the threat of " daylight of Future Past " is about to become very real indeed .
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