While Days of Future Past was a fantastic read, my one critique would be the absence of my favorite X-Man Remy LeBeau, better known as Gambit. This is also my complaint about the X-Men films by 20th Century Fox. I don't mean to rant, but how does a child whose mutant ability is to change television channels make it on screen and not our favorite French, kinetic energy manipulating, thief Gambit not? (Yes, I did see his name on the computer in X2).
But I digress... I enjoyed Days of Future Past because I really love the Sentinels. Part of it has to do with growing up watching the X-Men cartoon and seeing moments like Cyclops blasting a Sentinel's head off or Wolverine using his claws to climb up the robot's back to then hack away at its neck. Reading about the Sentinels and their mission to control mutants and humans into concentration camps really spoke to me. At one point in the X-Men story, after the Sentinels are starting to take over, Trask says to Master Mold...
"You were supposed to protect humans from mutants!"
To which Master Mold replies, "That is not logical; mutants are humans. Therefore, humans must be protected from themselves." Trask is left speechless.
This line is from the animated series of the early 1990s instead of from the comics, but it has always stayed with me over the years. Statements like Master Mold's raises the deep question, what does it mean to be human?
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