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I'm kind of confused; how does this relate to batkevin74's story? A lot of the characters have similar names, and the setting is clearly the same, but the stories/details don't add up.

I think he'll keep with the news, because that's what he's passionate about. I can't really see him having the time to have such a high-profile job like owning/running a newspaper, though. I think he'll start his own online newspaper (printed news is dying, after all), or maybe become a professional blogger. Either that or go and work for a small, indepentant paper. Whatever he does, it needs to be a form of news reporting where it isn't as censored or controlled by mass media.

A lot of people's complaints with this seems to be based on the assumption that the characters will have to have their minds wiped when they return to the past so as to preserve the timeline. However, I think that it's wrong to automatically assume that these characters will ever return to the past. After all, this is meant to be an entire ongoing seires, not a single story arc.

We've already seen that both alternative presents (Age of Apocalypse) and alternative futures (Days of Future Past) exist. Therefore, why not alternative pasts as well? these 'all-new all-different x-men' could be from a seperate timeline to the 616 universe. In fact, the point at which the two timestreams diverge could well be the fact that in 616 the x-men didn't travel to the future, while in the 'a.n. a.d. x-men's' world they did. (this could also lead into a plotline in which these characters get to see how things turned out in their own world, in which they weren't present).

In my mind, this would more than adequetly explain how the characters are able to travel to, and interact with, the future without messing up their timelines or requiring that the whole series be made void at it's conclusion.

While anything X related in films is a plus with me, I do have my reservations with this one. First, I struggle with the idea of Wolverine and Shadowcat having a major role in this movie if it follows on from the continuity established in the first three x-men films. While the timescale would prevent Kitty and Logan from taking part, the idea of Day of Future Past without hem just doesn't seem right. Of course, if they're trying to establish an entirely new continuity (like the one seen in X-men Origins: Wolverine), it could work out.

My second issue is with asthetics. While it just about works in the comic books, I'm not sure that I would find a group of giant, purple and red coloured robots convincing as an antagonist for a whole film. I know that one made a brief appearance in a deleted scene from the 3rd film, but there it was only as a severed head, so it doesn't really count. In fact, the absence of the sentinels in the first trilogy is, to me, an indication that they don't really work in a live action film. Then again, there is the case for the Transformers films...

@k4tzm4n: I think a part of the issue is that, from a purely comercial point of view, people don't always respond well to reboots, unless it's made really, REALLY obvious. I guess that the people at the top would want to avoid confusion in case it puts people off going to see the film when it's released.

My family had issues understanding that the latest Spiderman was a reboot (my dadspent the whole time grumbling about 'paying to see the same film twice' but with different actors). I can easily imagine having to explain to people the whys, hows and wherefores of the films if they include Shadowcat and Wolverine in the next film. Part of the major issue is the fact that Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine in all of the films to date, despite the fact that the continuity doesn't match up.

@Aiden Cross: I know, they look like something a vet or a dominatrix might wear.

I wonder why the file with Cable (or whoever it is) on it is blank in this image? You'd think that they would have each preview with more and more images revealed, until the final one with all of the characters viewable.

Maybe the two preivews released today and yesterday are actually different pictures, showing Fury Jr. with two entirely different teams, and we just haven't realised it yet...

I think that this was probably the easiest way of bringing Jean Grey back without having the awkward 'what about Scott and Emma' relationship conflict that always seemed inevitable for her return. The easiest way to fix it? Bring back a version of Jean and Scott from BEFORE he got together with Emma.

However, the question remains: will this mean that the current versions of Cyclops, Iceman, Beast, and Angel dissapear? I hope not; Marvel have spent a lot of time developing the characters in the last few years to throw it all away. Personally, I think that these 'All-New X-men' should come from an alternate past (if you can have alternate futures, surely you can have alternate pasts, right?) to the present of 616. That way, they could do some really interesting storylines in which the characters (particularly Scott) get to see just how much they have changed in their future. Just an idea, of course.

As to how the original x-men get transported to the future; two words. Phoenix Force. My guess is that the Phoenix, looking for an appropriate host at the end of Avs.X, decides to go back to its favourite red head, and brings a young (and easier to control?) Jean to the present to fill the role. Of course, the other x-men get swept up and go along for the ride.

Oh, wow! So a gun-wielding anti-hero is going to be taking on the Avengers single handedly? Because we haven't JUST seen that happend a few months ago with Cable in Avengers: X-Sanction...

Let's not forget the Summer's family, where parents seem to come and go at the drop of the hat. First Cyclops and Havok were orphans, then they weren't when Corsair showed up alive. Then there are characters like Rachel, Nathan and Nathaniel, who have... interesting relationships with their parents, at best. Finally, there's Hope, who lost her biological parent(s) at birth and was then adopted by Nathan, who was later killed right in front of her, an event which in turn led to the activation of her powers for the first time.