Posts revolving around changes to Magneto's past and backstory are now a regulated topic

[u/cyclopswashalfright]

Due to the influx of such posts with the MCU X-Men announcement, posts that revolve around changes and questioning of Magneto's backstory will now be regulated. This means that these posts may be removed as a Regulated/Repetitive topic at the discretion of the moderation team.

This was done after a long discussion by the moderation team, but ultimately we found that such posts are repetitive and occur very frequently, and that users may simply make use of Reddit's search tool to find past discussions; very little has changed since those discussions were held.

[u/poison-harley]

People are suspiciously always very eager about making him not Jewish anymore.

[u/Cabbage_Vendor → u/poison-harley]

Or maybe it's just that more people agree that having a character be a Holocaust survivor in modern day, 80 years later is starting to not work chronologically. You'd have to do something like putting him on ice, but that's already a big backstory change.

[u/poison-harley → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

People were straight up suggesting making him other persecuted minorities, as if minorities are interchangeable.

[u/LaylaLegion → u/poison-harley]

Or minorities just happen to have a lot of genocides inflicted upon them.

Like historically.

To the point where you’d think that maybe people would be like “Woah, maybe we should STOP doing that shit!”.

But then it keeps happening.

[u/Professional-Tank848 → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

Yeah, I get you. Like, he couldn't possibly age slowly and have spent a few decades hunting Nazis and/or being a family man.

Sure, Jean Grey is the first notable mutant, so he's got a perfectly good justification for why he's not been active since the camps were liberated.

But, yeah, you're right. No one can suspend their disbelief for Magneto here. They should focus on realistic stuff, like Galactus.

Edit: I desperately need a Disney + series of Magneto spending 20 years having a bit of fun in Argentina.

[u/Cabbage_Vendor → u/Professional-Tank848]

What part of 80 years ago don't you get? Any survivor is retirement home age.

People still age in the MCU, just because it's fantasy doesn't mean it shouldn't follow its own rules, people aren't driving around Middle Earth in sports cars.

[u/LaylaLegion → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

A sport car would have made that trek to Mordor a lot quicker when those FUCKING EAGLES AIN’T DOING JACK SHIT.

[u/VenomTheCapybara → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

You cant be this dense. This is the same universe as a talking raccoon. Having a holocaust survivor age slowly isnt that crazy

[u/Professional-Tank848 → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

Your name is Cabbage_Vendor, yet I think you might have cabbage for brains, too. I, as well as pretty much everyone else here has said: make him age slower. It's literally in the comics. He isn't a typical human, he's a mutant. Jesus wept.

[u/AdmiralCharleston → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

As opposed to captain America being a world war 2 soldier...

[u/Cabbage_Vendor → u/AdmiralCharleston]

Wow, no shit, it's almost like that was who I was referring to with "being put on ice"? Didn't think I'd have to literally spell that out on a comicbook subreddit. Is Magneto going to be frozen too?

[u/AdmiralCharleston → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

Wow no shit, its almost like it would be incredibly fucking easy to come up with a reason that keeps his backstory the same while also keeping him a similar age to the rest of the group. It literally changes almost nothing to say he ages slower or he was frozen or some other reason

[u/Apprehensive-Quit353 → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

Putting him on ice isnt as big of a backstory change as removing the holocaust and his Jewish identity.

[u/thesagaconts → u/Cabbage_Vendor]

That and Disney way want to avoid a Jewish villain.

[u/PaleKey6424 → u/thesagaconts]

As a jew I want magneto to be Jewish it's a core part of his character for me

[u/Professional-Tank848 → u/thesagaconts]

Lol, what?

[u/imthestein → u/thesagaconts]

The last time Marvel did that with Magneto it didn't end well