Film guide · 2014
The whole film, start to finish, told scene by scene in words. Read this and you'll know everything that happens.
Contains every spoiler, up to the ending.
In the future, mutant-hunting robots called Sentinels have captured or killed mutants and the humans who helped them. Cities lie in ruins.
Kitty, Bobby, Colossus, Blink, Bishop and others are attacked in their hideout. The Sentinels adapt to each power and overwhelm them.
Just before they're wiped out, Kitty sends Bishop's mind into his body a few days earlier. He warns everyone, and they escape before the attack. That's how they've survived.
At a mountain temple, the elderly Professor X and Magneto, Storm and Logan join them. Professor X says it all began in 1973.
In 1973, Mystique, Raven, killed Bolivar Trask, a scientist studying mutants. She was captured, and her shape-shifting DNA was used to make the Sentinels unstoppable.
Sending a mind back decades would destroy it. Only Logan, who heals from anything, can survive. His mind is sent into his 1973 body.
Logan wakes up in his own bed in 1973. His skeleton isn't yet coated in metal; his claws are still bone.
Logan visits the school, but it's closed and neglected. He finds young Hank McCoy and a drunken young Charles. Charles takes a serum that lets him walk but robs him of his telepathy.
Logan shares what the future Charles told him. Wanting Raven back, Charles agrees to help.
Young Erik, Magneto, is imprisoned deep beneath the Pentagon, accused of involvement in President Kennedy's assassination, in a cell without any metal.
Logan and the others ask for help from Peter Maximoff, a teenager who can move at incredible speed.
During the escape, the guards open fire. Listening to music, Peter zips through the seemingly frozen bullets, redirects them and takes out the guards in an instant.
Erik and Charles reunite, but quickly argue. Charles blames Erik for taking Raven away.
In Paris, talks to end a war are underway. Raven slips in disguised as an officer. She's learned Trask has been experimenting on mutants and plans to kill him.
As Logan and the others step in, Erik decides killing Raven would guarantee the future and fires at her. She's wounded but escapes.
The chaos is filmed, and the world sees mutants in action. Trask's people collect a sample of Raven's blood.
Erik leaves on his own, preparing to fight humanity his way.
Old memories haunt Logan, and his link to the future grows unstable. In the future, Kitty struggles to hold his mind in place.
Charles tries Cerebro, but the serum has dulled his power. Through Logan's mind, he speaks with his older self, who tells him not to fear feeling others' pain.
Off the serum, Charles regains his power and reaches out to Raven's mind.
In Washington, the President unveils Trask's Sentinels. Erik has laced them with steel so he can control them.
Erik lifts an entire stadium, drops it around the White House and turns the Sentinels loose.
Logan and Hank go after Erik, but Erik impales Logan with steel beams and drops him into the river.
At the same moment, the Sentinels find the future temple. One by one, the mutants fall, buying time for the past to change.
Raven, disguised as the President, shoots Erik to stop him. Then she turns her gun on Trask.
Charles tells Raven she doesn't have to do it. She lowers the gun, spares Trask and walks away. The world watches a mutant save a human life.
In the future, the deadly battle simply fades away.
Logan wakes up at the school in the future. It's full of students, with Storm, Bobby and Kitty, and Jean and Scott are alive.
Logan asks Professor X to tell him everything that's happened since 1973.
In 1973, Colonel Stryker pulls Logan out of the river, but his eyes flash yellow: it's Mystique in disguise.
In ancient Egypt, crowds chant the name of an immensely powerful mutant as he raises a pyramid with his mind, watched by four horsemen.