Before we begin, I would like to say that this article is just for the laughs. Do not take it to seriously since it will have some plotholes and inconsistensies.
X-men: Days of future past was a good movie. It was very entertaining and well made, except for one thing. The script.
Normally, if the script is as bad as it was here, I would hate the movie with every fibre of my being, but DoFP was so good I almost managed to look past the horrible plotholes.
Most people online agree that the movie was awesome, some of them acknowledge the plotholes, but no one has even mentioned the one thing that really perplexed me.
How can Trask be alive in 2006 if he died in 1973?
I can already hear people screaming obscenities about how ignorant I am, but just hear me out.
Let's begin in 1962. First class. Charles Xavier starts the school for gifted children. Erik Lensherr goes around the world killing nazis. Together they help the humans avert the Cuban missile crisis, but after that they go their separate ways.
1973. Having left Eriks band of mutant thugs, Mystique goes after a man called Bolivar Trask. He is building a robot that can target the mutant gene in anyone who has it. These "sentinels" are meant to help the humans against the mutant threat. Mystique finds Trask in Paris and shoots him dead. This fuels the anti-mutant movement and the sentinels are deployed in full force. For decades the sentinel hunt down almost every mutant on the planet, but then they start targeting humans who will give birth to a mutant.
By the year 2023 there is almost no humans or mutants left. Xavier, together with Lensherr, Logan, Ororo Monroe and a few other hatch a plan to end the sentinel threat and even undo all that has been. They send Logan back in time by projecting his 2023 concious into his 1973 body. There he has to find Xavier and together they will stop Mystique from sealing the fate of the world.
They manage to stop Mystique. Human-mutant relations are shaky but at least there won't be any sentinels. Xavier continues with the school for gifted children and soon forms the first X-men. All is relatively calm until the beginning of the second millenia. Senator Kelly, staunch anti-mutant, proposes that since the mutants are rapidly growing in numbers, a mutant registry should be put to use. This is not something that Lensherr is particularly fond of, given his time in the Nazi concentration camp. He decides that senator kelly should have a taste of hus own medicine, so he simply kodnaps the senator and...well you know the rest.
What I am getting at here is that the 2023 we see in Days of future past is actually the first timeline, the original if you will, that begins with first class and Trask being shot. When Xavier and Logan stops Mystique from killing Trask in 1973 Logan wakes up in a 2023 where the Sentinels never got activated and everything was peachy until 2000 when Senator Kelly...well you know.
All this time we have been watching the outcome of Logan timetraveling in Days of future past. We have been watching the alternate timeline ever since the first X-men movie.
Of course this isn't a 100% airtight theory. If it was then at least Jean Grey and Scott Summers should still be dead at the end of Days of future past, Xavier could be alive since we see someone talking with Xaviers voice in the end of The last stand.
Another plothole would be that we see glimpses of the "alternate" timeline when the 1973 Xavier reads Logans mind, but the only thing we actually see that could work against this theory is when he kills Phoenix.
What they should have done was to show the sentinels killing everybody throughout the years. It could have been a great montage set in the 70:s, 80:s and 90:s. That would have been the perfect way to set this movie apart from the first three but still not ereasing them from history. Xavier says to Logan that they have a lot of catching up to do at the end and that's when he tells Logan about the first three movies.
So there you have it, my interpretation of the Days of future past. It's not meant to be taken seriously, just as a fun excersise of your imagination.
I should point out that X-men Apocalypse is not accounted for in this theory, we'll have to wait another two years to see how that one fucks up everything by being set in the 80:s
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