Classic X-Men change their future

[Prince Charon]

Speaking of Ol' Cyke...

Poor teenage Jean...she isn't taking her boyfriend's dystopian future-self's emo mind declarations of love very well isn't she?

Remember kids....too much EMO is bad for you.? :lol:

I was thinking about the good old days where the Xmen just started out as a team. When they had those constant Danger Room trainings, when Scott had this massive crush on Jean when they first met.

I just knew there was going to be a comparison somewhere after AvX and Scott's current mindset and the way he was then. Why was it so predictable is what I'd like to know?

EDIT: I never predicted the Time Travel. Which comic is that one?

All New X-Men Issue #3


Spoilers Ahead:




Basically, the X-Men are debating what to do with Cyclops and his Not-The-Evil-Brotherhood-of-Mutants.

Iceman is all for taking them down. Others don't want a mutant civil war.

Beast (who is dying but doesn't tell anyone) gets the idea from a comment by Iceman ("Young Scott would hate what he has become") and travels back in time to bring the original X-Men to the future in hopes that seeing his young self face to face will snap Scott back in his senses.

I feel an impending Age of Apocalypse type story coming up. After all, if Young! Scott gets killed in the present, it'll retroactively kill Old!Scott as well... and messily unravel a lot of events he was involved in.

I will laugh and laugh and laugh if the whole Marvel 616 universe gets reset to the distant past because of these time travel shenanigans, with the current 616 universe becoming just another alternate universe. XD

There's a fanfic in this.

Let us say that Young Scott is not killed, but the younger X-Men do return to the past, wiser from the experience, and that their memories of this visit to the Dark Future do not get erased (which is otherwise very possible, and might be how Marvel plans for this to go in canon). How would they go about changing their future, and what effect might they have?

Who might they tell?

Could they turn Emma, or might they decide that working with 'evil' people is part of what turned Scott into a loony in the first place (rather than, say, untreated or poorly treated Post-Traumatic Stress)?

 

[ankokudaishogun]

technically, you cannot change history with time-travel, in Marvel. You can only make more alternate universes.

That said, most problems could be resolved by keeping Scarlet Witch away from the battlefield as much as possible.
This is even almost simple because Wanda turns heroic quite early, and Pietro would be all for keeping her away from danger.


there is also a strong chance of Scott and Jean not ending together... which would probably mean Mr. Sinister would go the Age of Apocalypse way to get a child out of them.

And that's without thinking about the Avenger-y ramifications!

 

[paulo_j1983]

They could just slit the genocidal bitch's throat when they get back.

And also not hold back beating down the Avengers, after they try to get payback for Wanda, once they see that Cap A. and the rest of his goons almost prevented the Phoenix from repowering mutants.

 

[Flamewolf]

you can't fight fate. at best you can only make it happen on your terms

 

[TC_Hazard]

Honestly, rather than trying to change the future by altering events I see their biggest issues being about what they find out about themselves.

Scott... well that goes without saying.

Jean finds out she's not only dead, but also that she becomes freakishly powerful in the future and all the Phoenix stuff.

Warren finds out he's kind off but not really but might as well be dead.

Beast probably has it the easiest in terms of what he has to deal with. He has seen what he can become. He knows his mutation and depending on how much he talks to his older self, he will not screw up and accelerate it again.

Bobby has kind of a mixed bag. He's the luckiest one of the five in terms of what he ended up in the future, but he also finds out he is a very powerful Omega level mutant.