“So many battles waged over the years... and yet, none like this. Are we destined to destroy each other, or can we change each other and unite? Is the future truly set?” – Charles Xavier
X-Men: Days of Future Past is a story about free will and human nature. Sure, it’s many other
As he considers the carnage of the Mutant/Human war, Xavier wonders, “Are
we destined to destroy each other? Or can we change who we are?” The Mutants
have found a way to jump a few days into the past and avoid small catastrophes,
but changing single events cannot alter the larger arc of stubbornly insistent history. All seems lost; both the characters and the conflict
are succumbing to the chaos. Bryan Singer noted in an interview:
“[Days of Future Past] confronts the notions of hope and second chances. It's characters that are lost trying to find themselves. In X-Men one and two, the characters had come into their own and knew who they were. In this one, they're all lost. And they're trying to keep it together.”