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IT'S a sad fact of life that minority groups are targeted for discrimination or worse but in comic-book terms, there are untold advantages to be drawn from being different - like being, for example, a high-profile member of Marvel's mutant universe. If you're the Wolverine, it means having unique self-regeneration powers, a cool set of retractable alloy claws - and your own movie franchise. However, with power comes responsibility and once in a while, you may be called upon to save the world.

After being restricted to a memorable cameo in the origins tale X-Men: First Class (2011), James Logan (Wolverine's given name) takes centre stage in X-Men: Days of Future Past, an ensemble film in which he travels back in time in an effort to change the past and save the future of the mutant race.

In a sense, this latest instalment, directed by Bryan Singer (who also helmed the first two X-Men films), gives audiences two for the price of one when Logan (Hugh Jackman) is tasked by Charles Xavier/Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Ian McKellen) to return to the 1970s and persuade their younger selves (James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender) to assist in altering history.