Days of Future Past X-Men: Days of Future Past Easter Eggs SPOILERS

[AdamAndTheAnts]

The reference to Harrier jets foreshadows the X-Jet's own VTOL capabilities just as the accompanying reference to Lockheed alludes to the origins of the X-Jet (and Kitty's dragon-pal).
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In first class set in the 60's the sr71 based x-jet has VTOL.

 

[EnDz0n3]

When white-streak hair mutant-guy finds the metal X in the ground and wipes the dirt off it, you can see the face of the sentinel which finds him reflected in its surface as it opens its maw to blast him to smithereens, leading into...

My second viewing I also noticed the white streaks but the hair behind it is brown. I'm fairly certain this was Nate Grey as well. Just like the kid in the X-mansion is also Nate Grey.

WHOA, HOLY ****, that's Chris Claremont shooting down Trask's Sentinel proposal and saying, "What about our real enemies, the russians, the chinese?"

First time I saw the movie, I recognized Claremont right away.

Annnnd that's Len Wein next to him!

I tried looking for Len Wein my second viewing but still couldn't. I also didn't know he would appear next to Chris so in my third viewing, I'll be sure to look out for it!

At the same meeting, someone says "Your Sentinel program ain't gonna fly," segueing smoothly into Mystique flying into Saigon via helicopter.

I feel like they could've cut this scene. Was completely superfluous.

Who's that mutant in Saigon with the squiggly black eye-makeup on one eye and the Manson logo on his opposite temple? He also manifests radiation-warning symbols on his hands to make people sick? He's also seen later/earlier in the future-holocaust interment camp in Central Park at the beginning of the film and I REALLY feel like I should know who that is, damnit. Ugh.

Ink. Yea not familiar with him either.

Bishop has an I.V. running from his arm to his rifle, allowing it to charge with and fire the energy he absorbs from Sunspot.

The magazine cover with Bolivar Trask ("Rolling Stone," I think?) has an insert headline in the upper right-hand corner, "The Spy Plane We Don't Talk About"...alluding to the fact that the X-Jet of the original comics was based on the still then-classified SR-71 Blackbird.
Stryker's dogtag says he's Protestant, surely a reference to his origin from the comics in "God Loves, Man Kills."

Xavier drinks Tanqueray gin and Johnny Walker scotch and Jameson whiskey. Couldn't recognize the other bottles. CHEERS!

Xavier says, "TOP MARKS, you are perceptive," betraying his history as a (retired) professor.

His files show Azazel and Angel's corpses...who was the first corpse seen before theirs? Magneto later mentions both Emma Frost and Banshee were killed and studied as well.

As the group infiltrates the Pentagon to free Magneto, they break away from a tour guide, echoing the similar scene opening X2: X-Men United with Nightcrawler infiltrating the White House.

Wolverine is standing in front of a fine art painting of soldiers from French history, one of which bears a STRIKING resemblance to HIM. AWESOMENESS.

Cool!

Magneto has the prison I.D. number 0001, showing him to be the first political prisoner of his kind and echoing his concentration camp numerical designation tattoo.

IIRC he also had the 0001 ID number for X2.

And his headphones are 100% anachronistic. Possibly a joke that he's "ahead-of-his-time"...?

HA!

ZOMFG, both Xavier's and Magneto's kings ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE BOARD, FFS. Did they flip the negatives for that scene, maybe? Srsly, WTF. So stupid.

Seriously?? Will have to see that next time!

Stryker is the first to draw a gun on Mystique (love how Trask calls him/her "it," btw).

Callback (errr...foward) to X2. He tells his soldiers to "Shoot it!" during the scene where Mystique infiltrates his base.

Magneto "curves bullets" in a movie opposite James McAvoy, lol.

Clever.

When Magneto reclaims his helmet, we also see one of Angel's amputated wings and Havok's trashed control-suit in display cases...what was the smaller object on the left? Is Angel's amputated wing an allusion to a new take on the Apocalypse storyline, using the '60s Angel instead?

Magneto's coin from FC.

Wolverine is defeated by being weighted down with metal underwater, alluding to his principle weakness and fear in the comics.

The rebars protruding from his body recalls that iconic Fatal Attractions imagery of Magneto pulling the adamantium out of Wolverine.

What at first seems to be a continuity error when Nixon tells Magneto to "kill me but spare everyone else" yet is seen to be NOT talking, may actually be the first hint that the Nixon doing the speaking is actually Mystique.

What do you mean by not talking? Are his lips not moving in this scene.

Anyone catch one inconsistency in this scene? "Nixon" is not limping.

 

[eledoremassis02]

When Xavier uses cerebro, it reminds me of the Wonkatania scene a bit
*I spoilered the Wonka gif so it the looping lights wont bother anyone *

Spoiler

 

[the dmg]

- The painting was of Lady Liberty, who fights for people's freedom, a nod to Mystique's own quest to fight for mutant freedom.

- Nod to the Watergate Scandal with Nixon recording the conversation about mutants.

 

[marveltastic]

Nate Grey was originally (in the comics) created by Sinister to defeat Apocalypse, so it is possible for him to have existed while Scott and Jean were both deceased - especially in a future we don't know much about. Then the future reset and it's more likely that Scott and Jean had a chance to get busy, at least I hope they did. It's totally plausible the kid was Nate. Actually, logically it kinda has to be him.

 

[spideymouse]

Just watched it again today. A couple of Easter X's (besides the obvious X in the opening credits and the overgrown shrubbery in front of Xavier's mansion)...

Wolverine's leather belt when he puts his pants on after he wakes up in the 70s is lined with X's. The study table in the lobby in front of Professor X's office in the new 2023 is in the shape of an X. Did anyone else see more obscure ones?

 

[Spider-Fan83]

The rebars protruding from his body recalls that iconic Fatal Attractions imagery of Magneto pulling the adamantium out of Wolverine.

during that scene, I was half expecting Magneto to melt the rebar metal onto his bones (giving him steel covered bones and claws, instead)

he did have that line earlier (when Wolverine first showed him his bone claws) saying "imagine if they were metal"

 

[By your Command]

Jean Grey is wearing shiny red heels (ruby slippers?) - Wizard of Oz reference?

 

[icekid]

Just watched it again today. A couple of Easter X's (besides the obvious X in the opening credits and the overgrown shrubbery in front of Xavier's mansion)...

Wolverine's leather belt when he puts his pants on after he wakes up in the 70s is lined with X's. The study table in the lobby in front of Professor X's office in the new 2023 is in the shape of an X. Did anyone else see more obscure ones?

Also, I noticed in the glass windows throughout the mansion, there was a subtle blue X in the glass. It's most noticeable when Beast was sneaking up behind Logan.

 

[roach]

I think some of you don't understand what an easter egg is.

 

[By your Command]

I think most of the easter eggs have already been described in the first 8 pages, now it's just a did you noticed page roach, cheer up.

 

[DrDoom]

I think some of you don't understand what an easter egg is.

And some are just reaching........

Jean Grey is wearing shiny red heels (ruby slippers?) - Wizard of Oz reference?

Wolverine drove a car to Xavier's mansion - Cars reference?

 

[spideymouse]

I think some of you don't understand what an easter egg is.

I do think hidden X's in the X-men movies are easter eggs.

 

[ironman_rick]

Was seeing "The wanted" the other day...and this just hit me.

When Prof X was talking to Magneto about curving the bullet (when they were talking about JFK).... James Mcavoy character in "the wanted" had a unique gift of curving the bullet too. Not sure if this was intentional.

The other one..... well guess this dude was right all along. The pyramids were built by alients .....or mutants or whatever t:

 

[roach]

I do think hidden X's in the X-men movies are easter eggs.

They are not...it's a design motif...that's been part of these movies since the first one.

 

[spideymouse]

They are not...it's a design motif...that's been part of these movies since the first one.

Yes they have been part of these movies since the first one, and the cleverly hidden ones are easter eggs in my opinion.

 

[DrDoom]

Yes they have been part of these movies since the first one, and the cleverly hidden ones are easter eggs in my opinion.

It's kinda the definition of "easter egg" too lol

 

[JohnGrey]

I don't know if anybody mentioned this but Bryan Singer made a cameo in the Paris sequence as one of the people recording the mutants. I didn't realize until my third viewing and I was shocked considering he's right in front of our faces.

 

[JohnGrey]

Oh and talking about James McAvoy in Wanted, the scene with Prof X yelling and the bullet passing around him reminded me of a Wanted scene.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

Mystique impersonating the villain and rummaging through his files was I think a call- forward to where she does the same in X2 (impersonating Deathstyke though)

 

[JohnGrey]

When Storm got killed Professor X felt it like he felt Cyclops death in The Last Stand.

I didn't connect that till now and nice catch. Really shows his connection to his students especially those 3.

 

[Great Mind(s)]

Mystique impersonating the villain and rummaging through his files was I think a call- forward to where she does the same in X2 (impersonating Deathstyke though)

Yeah it was great, there was even a cleaner in almost the same position in the first shot.but using 70s cleaning techniques

 

[ctsketch]

Firstly, apologies, I didn't grow up reading the comics, I was a beano and dandy kid. I watch films, love film, but im not a fanatic and don't analyze things. So with that said, sorry for the these n00b questions.

1. Supposedly Charles moves into a guys body that we see in his lesson about doing just that. How come he cant walk if he has a new body?

2. In wolverine origins, wolverine meets stryker in 1973 after being condemned to firing squad? so how come in future past stryker is like 12? with a 10yr old son?

3. In wolverine it seems about 1979 when logan gets infused and in a cage is a what? 15yr Cyclops? I read somewhere he would be a kid in the 1980s so cant be in apocalypse?

4. Im guessing the last 50yrs wolverine could have still been infused etc but he just doesn't know about it as he was the time traveler and when he woke up the changes were committed.

5. Im guessing Charles knows only what happened from the day wolverine came back to the present in his current timeline (he knows wolverine was sent back - but he wouldn't have experienced it?).

6. How is quicksilver wearing a Walkman? wasn't invented until 79?

7. How can having mystiques shape shifting dna suddenly allow centinals to adopt other super powers? mystique didn't have any other abilities.

8. I presume at the end of last stand - magneto is trying to move the chess piece (although I didn't see it move) to demonstrate to us that the cure was only temporary like hanks hand when he visits the boy?

thanks

1. The body was hospitalized, probably also paralyzed
2. Errr Stryker is a Major.... he's late twenties early thirties at the youngest
3. We don't know who is in apocolypse yet or when it takes place
5. Well he interacted with time travel wolverine so he would know, but also he probably read his mind
7. because science
8. yes

 

[icekid]

1. The body was hospitalized, probably also paralyzed
2. Errr Stryker is a Major.... he's late twenties early thirties at the youngest
3. We don't know who is in apocolypse yet or when it takes place
5. Well he interacted with time travel wolverine so he would know, but also he probably read his mind
7. because science
8. yes

As far as number 1, if someone was born brain dead, they literally can't walk because they have never used the muscles to do so, so their muscles haven't grown to support it. That's why people in extended comas have to undergo physical therapy to learn to use those muscles again. I doubt there was time for that if you're prepping for a war and have all your old wheelchairs around.

 

[BlackFox]

7. They had Rogues DNA as well.