X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Isn't that a different body? It looks to me like someone different.

Though, then the question would be how does he get his own body back for Days of Future Past.

Maybe he doesn't. But he somehow still is a powerful telepath, so maybe it's just an illusion?

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(But why is he a powerful telepath if he just took over some random braindead dude's body - or was he not randomly selected, but carefully chosen because he had the same mutation?)

Could also be something timey wimey.

 

[calronmoonflower]

He took over that particular body because it had no consciousness in it. And as in the case of the Shadow King, he could conceivably keep his powers while in another's body.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

He took over that particular body because it had no consciousness in it. And as in the case of the Shadow King, he could conceivably keep his powers while in another's body.

I am not a Comic Book / Marvel expert, so I have no idea who or what Shadow King is.

But I figure if I would strike "conceivable" in that sentence and replace it with "conveniently", it works well enough for comic/superhero movie logic.

 

[Umbran]

Though, then the question would be how does he get his own body back for Days of Future Past.

Good question. When he pulls the trick in the comics, it is into a cloned body...

One possibility: Days of Futures Past is a time travel story. The events of the movie change the timeline slightly, so he never has to enter the new body to begin with.

Another Possibility: Days of Futures Past is a time travel story. The events we see in that movie that include Professor X occur *before* Phoenix disintegrates his original body.

Another Possibility: He spends some time hanging out in the borrowed body, and then gets a cloned body by the time we seem him in DoFP. He is kept in a wheelchair by psychosomatic issues (this happened in the comics - eventually he walks again, and then gets his spine broken).