XMFC: Days of Future Past AU idea

[bjornwilde]

I didn't like Hank and Charles being so broken in DoFP. It did work for the story but it also seemed a copout. It was the easy way to make a bad future happen. What if everything was going right and the bad things still happened?

We haven't seen Genosha in the X-Men cinematic universe yet. If you aren't familiar with the comics, Genosha was the mutant South Africa during Apartheid wherein mutants were property of the state. Eventually, Magneto, Emma Frost, and other mutant leaders took over the country and made it the first mutant nation.

So my AU idea, what if Charles and Hank, instead of wallowing in their self pity, kept pushing for mutant rights but there is so much resistance within the US. Then Hank gets this crazy idea, what if they could make their own country? Charles picks up on the idea and supports Hank. Hank finds an island somewhere, the original is off the East coast of Africa but it doesn't have to be there. Heck, I'd almost think one of the many Pacific islands might be easy for them to get their hands on. They somehow get UN sanction and get declared sovereignty.

Then they contact Raven, get her on board. Other mutants from around the world flock to this new hope. Erik is a little tricker since he is in prison. But imagine all of them fighting to make a new country? Arguing over how to set up the government? Plenty of conflict can still happen and the future scare that causes the Sentinels could be how successful these rag tag mutants are in turning a rocky island into a viable country. 

Comments

[ceitfianna]

Interesting and yes, that was the hardest part for me to deal with along with Erik being in prison for nine years. It felt like they wanted the movie to be a fix-it while glossing over how it ended up broken.

[bjornwilde]

I still don't understand why Erik was imprisoned and not executed if he was convicted of killing the president. Pretty sure capital punishment was par for the course back then.

I don't know, I feel like I can't look too closely at the movie cause I'll keep finding things wrong. I did enjoy it. I guess it was like First Class that way, I enjoyed it but saw ways it could have been better

[ceitfianna]

Yes, well put, but I feel like First Class didn't have as many huge holes as this one did. Or maybe the movie was better and I was more willing to forgive the issues. It helped that they weren't trying to stitch things together.

[bjornwilde]

I think the difference was focus. In First Class it was about bringing the team together, stopping Shaw was the excuse for that. In Days it was stopping the bad future and bringing in individuals to accomplish that task, with no bonding.

[genarti]

Cool AU idea! (I haven't actually seen DoFP, but... I haven't seen XMFC either because I live under a rock, so.)

I'd suggest that maybe somebody with sufficient powers make an island, though, as I think Magneto did a couple of times in the comics. That way your only sovereignty arguments are with the countries that used to use that shipping lane (and the ones whose ocean current patterns have been disrupted, if you feel like bothering with that), but not with, you know, the people who had been living for years or centuries or millennia on the island they've decided to claim. There's... not great precedent for that one.

Either that, or have the previous inhabitants be the ones who invited them and a real and powerful force in the society and government. In which case it's presumably a mutants-and-humans society, which has its own interest factor but is gonna be a harder sell with Raven and Magneto -- initially, and also in the day-to-day of listening to human leaders as peers and fellows.

I like the idea of the dystopian future coming about as a backlash to how successful they are, though! It sure fits with general X-Men themes of Competent People Trying Hard In A World That Fears And Hates Them.

[bjornwilde]

I like both your ideas! My first vague "hey, they find an island" handwave idea was that it was some barren rock somewhere but with mutant powers (Jean, Magento, Storm, etc.) they are able to pull elements into the soil to make it fertile and to have resources.

Your idea of an inhabited island that invites them has lots of potential! I can see some other power that keeps walking all over them, (taxation, stealing resources, or shipping lanes), being the impedance for the call to Charles and Hank. Maybe the islands ruler is even a mutant!