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In "Days of Future Past" Kitty Pryde comes back in time to stop the upcoming rise of the Sentenels. It is later revealed that she is Madeline Pryde's future daughter.
After Jean Grey "dies" the first time, Madeline Pryde shows up. Madeline Pryde dies and Jean Grey comes back. Madeline Pryde is later revealed to be some sort of alternate version of Jean Grey.
Rachel Summers is also a future timeline daughter of Jean Grey and Scott Summers. Her having come back to the present creates yet another alternate future timeline in which she becomes Madame Askani, who serves as an adoptive mother to Nathan Summers, aka Cable, the son of Madeline Pryde and Scott Summers, who was infected with a technovirus created by Apocalypse and had to be sent to the future to be cured. Cable comes back in time to stop Apocalypse from taking over the world, regulating his past into yet another alternate future timeline.
Turns out Professor X has a son. His son comes up with the bright idea to commit suicide by going back into time and killing his father before he was born. No Professor X, no X-Men, Apocalypse takes over the world, creating the alternate universe called the "Age of Apocalypse." Bishop, who also managed to go back in time with Professor X's son manages to set the timeline right, but not without the AoA version of Nate Summers coming along for the ride. The AoA timeline Nate Summers, aka X-Man, is the clone child of the AoA Jean Grey and Scott Summers. As he is pulled into Marvel proper, his psyonic cry causes Madeline Pryde to be recreated, only evil like the AoA Jean Grey. I stopped reading X-Man due to horribly suck-ass writing, so I never found out what happened to that version of Maddie Pryde, but I do know that Nate Summers eventualy died.
And, by the way, Bishop is also yet another character from an alternate future timeline, who came back to warn the X-Men of a traitor in their midst, but suffered amneisia while going back in time and forgot who it was. Turns out it was Professor X himself, whose mind created Onslaught. Onslaught was defeated by the sacrafice of almost all the non-mutant Marvel Universe super heroes (except Spider-Man and Daredevil, who didn't make it in time and weren't suffering as bad of a sales drag). But they weren't dead, they were trapped in yet ANOTHER alternate universe, this time created by Franklin Richards, the mutant son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four. This gets fixed, preventing the future that Bishop came from from existing. Bishop then goes into a new future where he becomes a Mad-Max type hero, only to come back to the present just in time for the next major storyline, a battle against Apocalypse that results in the "death" of Scott Summers. But as those issues were coming out, the fact that Scott Summers was already back from the dead was obvious in the Previews catalog, and I was sick of buying books with lousy writing, so I stopped reading all the X-Men books. (Though I am now reading the Ultimate X-Men book, being set in A NEW UNIVERSE without all the baggage of the previous one and with good writing, and I will be picking up the new Wolverine series writting by Greg Ruka, as long as it stays seperate from the other X-Men books as much as possible. And I hear the writers on the X-Men books now are doing a great job, but I'd rather spend my money on Batman these days.)
Can everyone see why so much of the storyline had to be left out of the movies and changed? Because unless you've read 40+ years of comics, you're going to be as confused as fuck. Hell, I've read most of these books and even I get confused as fuck about it all. |
