The X-Men’s Wolverine has always been able to salve himself from major injuries- including bullet wounds and poisoning. Nonetheless, in one storyline, Wolverine’s healing factor didn’t only heal his person- it saved the entire world from a world-wide pandemic. Even better? It did it twice.

The story happened in the popular 1990 s cartoon X-Men: The Animated Series( which can now be viewed on Disney +) and was later adapted into the comic book tie-in series. The tale itself was a sequel to a reimagining of one of the X-Men’s most popular stories- Epoches of Future Past.

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X-Men: Eras of Future Past has enjoyed many retellings over the years. At its core, the floor is about a dystopian future where monstrosities have been rounded up in detention camps policed by Sentinel robots. Now a darknes of what they used to be, the X-Men manage to send one of their members back in time to warn their past selves about what is to come- and take steps to erase the dark future. Precisely who that member is varies from story to narration. In the original edition, published in The Uncanny X-Men # 141 -1 42, intangible mutant Kate “Kitty” Pryde’s mind is sent back into her younger mas, just in time to warn the X-Men to prevent the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly, whose death would stipulate the triggering happening for anti-mutant hysteria. The X-Men stop the assassination, but the future is left unclear.

X-Men: Dates of Future Past was later adapted into a popular cinema for Fox’s X-Men film franchise. In this explanation, Kitty Pryde actually mails Wolverine’s mind back to the 1970 s where he teams up with a younger Charles Xavier and Hank McCoy to prevent Mystique from killing Dr. Bolliver Trask, whose study would lead to the creation of the Sentinels. Wolverine is successful and terminates up returning to a happier future( at least until the events of Logan ). X-Men: The Animated Series made a different approach in their version of “Days of Future Past” by routing the mutant Bishop back in time( physically) to the 1990 s where he advises the X-Men to stop the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly by Mystique( who camouflages herself as Gambit, moving him a pariah in the future ). Bishop succeeds and returns to the future- merely to discover something far worse has supplanted the dystopia that he remembers…

Upon returning to the future in the two-part episode “Time Fugitives, ” Bishop is elated to be recognised that the war-torn builds have all been resurrected- until mutant discoverer Forge tells him that the entire population is sick for a plague that’s been killing mutants for years. To clear materials worse , no one in this new timeline even knows about the X-Men. Horrified, Bishop scoots back in time to stop the mutant pandemic from ever happening.

This time, nonetheless, Bishop has some event. Turns out that while the monstrosity plague devastated the population in Bishop’s time, it also led to the creation of key antibodies that were vital to mutant survival in the far future. Once Bishop’s actions prevent these antibodies from being organized, the “future-future” begins crumbling as they no longer have the means to fight off the diseases of their season- which doesn’t sit well with the mutant freedom fighter Cable.

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Tracking Bishop back to the point where he first arrived to prevent the monstrosity plague, Cable attempts to stop him from interfering, but is warded off by the X-Men. Cable starts having reservations concerning contending Bishop, whom he recognizes as only another time traveler trying to stop a bad future from happening. He’s even more disgusted when he finds out that Apocalypse- the mutant oppressor Cable and his freedom fighters are battling in the future- is responsible for engineering the affliction, signifying Cable would have to help Apocalypse to safeguard his future.

Cable comes up with an alternate plan, however, when he learns about Wolverine and his amazing healing factor. After privately following the X-Men into a laboratory where the mutant haras is being created, Cable intentionally exposes Wolverine to the plague, is recognized that the mutant’s healing factor will develop an instantaneous exemption to the disease.

The plan handiworks- and not only does Wolverine become immune to the plague, his blood now has the antibodies to help mutants stabilize in the far future. With the help of Beast( Hank McCoy ), the X-Men help distribute these antibodies to the afflicted, saving not only Bishop’s timeline but Cable’s as well.

While it’s not a totally glad intention- Bishop returns to find that, although the plague never happened, his future is still a wreck for different reasons- it’s gratifying to see that Wolverine’s powerful healing factor not only saved himself this time, but the entire world.

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