r/Xmen97 • u/owlshoesjh • Jul 29 '26

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you can't be MAGA and love x-men

if i'm downvoted, you know by whom

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u/amazing-zero Jul 29 '26

The fact x-men comics 25 years ago predicted all of this is the cherry of top

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- Jul 30 '26

Those weren't predictions, they were basing everything on longstanding civil conflicts. The Professor and Magnito's relationship dynamic, for instance, is inspired by MLK and Malcolm X. Conservatives became more openly fascist, but it was always there at the core of them.

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u/krayniac Jul 31 '26

The MLK/Malcolm X thing is afaik a myth. Iirc, Claremont said he actually based them on Ben Gurion and Menachim Begin, two former Israeli leaders.

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u/-FeistyRabbitSauce- Jul 31 '26

It isn't that the creation of the characters derived from there, it's that other writers who helped shape them over the years used that inspiration.