The black oil shine glistens off the Aliens from the Aliens franchise in some ways, and the pods that the people sleep in during deep space hibernation resemble those of the sleeping people in the Matrix. 

Skynet takes over the world in a way that is becoming more and more possible everyday in Terminator 2.

Though this plot is echoed in the Animatrix Renaissance and X:Men Age of Apocalypse, it is only in X-Men and Terminator that the future saviors Cable and John Conner have large scars on their eyes.

However both men were still sent from the future to save the past from machines, and leave “temporal storms” in the wake of their time travel. 


Then there’s the origins of this stuff, particularly the Sentinels from the X-Men. As usual Kirby was on to something...

non- Kirby sentinels continued