In the dystopian future of 2023, sentient robots known as Sentinels are exterminating mutants and humans. A small band of X-Men manage ...
The X-Men rendezvous with Magneto and Professor Charles Xavier in a monastery in China. They hatch a plan to send Wolverine's consciousness back in time to prevent Mystique from murdering Bolivar Trask, the lead designer of the Sentinels. Trask's assassination will make him a martyr, Mystique will be captured and her mutant powers will be reverse-engineered and used to create the formidable Sentinels of the future. Professor X advises Logan to seek out his younger self for aid.
Wolverine wakes up in 1973 in his younger body. He travels to the X-Mansion, where he encounters the young Hank McCoy and a disheveled Xavier. His school has failed and most of his original X-Men are dead, and this has left him a broken man. He has also lost his telepathic powers through taking serum which allows him to walk again. Wolverine convinces Xavier to break out Magneto — who was convicted of murdering John F. Kennedy — out of a prison cell beneath the Pentagon. They do this with the help of Peter Maximoff, a mutant who can move blindingly fast.
Trask unsuccessfully lobbies to Congress for approval for his Sentinel program. Meanwhile in Saigon, Mystique prevents a young William Stryker from appropriating a group of mutant American GIs for Trask's research. Mystique investigates Trask Industries and discovers he has been capturing and experimenting on mutants, including some of her old comrades. Knowing the assassination of Trask occurs in Paris, Xavier and Magneto board a private plane with Beast and Wolverine in order to intercept Mystique, although the two argue over abandoning each other.
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