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Logan, AKA Wolverine, is the protagonist of X-Men: Days of Future Past released in 2014. The X-Men franchise is one of the most popular superhero franchises with a huge fan following. Considered one of the best X-Men movies by fans, the storyline of X-Men: Days of Future Past explores action, moral standing, and time travel all in one movie.
The clawed hero traveled back in time to avert the dangers of the future and ended up creating a parallel timeline. A look at the movie and its re-analysis is relevant now since the timeline for the movie covers the years 1973 and 2023. The movie is based on the comic book The Uncanny X-Men #141 and #142.
The ending of the movie showed Wolverine drowning and another Logan waking up in Professor X’s school in the future. These two scenarios may seem confusing, as do the subsequent X-Men movies. An interpretation of the ending will also explain what happened to Logan.
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Wolverine in the movie and at the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past deals with Wolverine trying to save the future of both mutants and humans from the terror of Sentinels. His consciousness was sent from 2023 to 1973 to prevent the establishment of Sentinels. This also starts a new X-Men timeline.
In the 1973 timeline, Logan and a young Professor Xavier stopped Mystique from killing Trask. When Magneto planned President Nixon’s assassination, Mystique managed to thwart it. In retaliation, Magneto attempted to drown the adamantium superhero, but Mystique, disguised as Major Stryker, pulled out Logan’s body of 1973.
Another scene at the end of the movie shows Logan returning to Charles Xavier’s school in 2023, a world without any threat from the Sentinels. Jean and Scott are shown alive and thriving along with other mutants.
What does the ending of the movie mean?
The conclusion of the movie proves that the clawed superhero managed to complete his mission successfully by saving the future world from the atrocities of the Sentinels and bringing peace. It also presents Raven as an important ally in his mission. A free-minded character, Raven showed her compassionate side.
Some fans were confused if it was Wolverine from the future who drowned underwater in 1973 and also reappeared in 2023. As such, the movie clearly says that Logan’s consciousness was sent to the past within the younger Logan. This means that when young Logan’s body was thrown into the water, his older consciousness could return to the future.
The parallel and new timeline means many of the previous adventures of the X-Men did not occur in history. Since Wolverine remembers them, they happened but in a different timeline. The X-Men franchise is known for its timeline confusion even in comic books.
Where was Wolverine after X-Men: Days of Future Past?
Logan survived this movie to move on to the next one, X-Men: Apocalypse. As per the timeline, the next movie, Logan, based in 2029, shows an aging Wolverine. But this happens in timeline B. Moreover, it shows a time gap of a decade which justifies the fast decline in the superhero’s health due to adamantium poisoning.
