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D9 fan wrote: Nightcrawler was suppose to be in Days of Future Past and explain what happened after X2 but they cut him because they felt that there was too many mutants in the film. Though I think they should of had more

Rogue was meant to play a more significant role in the Sentinel future and there was concept art for Jubilee so that's 3 cut mutants. Personally I think they got the balance just right, more mutants would probably have felt like they were just thrown in for the sake of it.