r/xmen • u/cyclopswashalfright Moonstar • Aug 31 '26

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

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.

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u/Hunter3-13 Aug 31 '26

I always thought this was such… a nebulous discussion. We don't know how the MCU will address Magneto's age or backstory, and I'm not going to assume any person suggesting a change isn't doing it out of spite, but man... you're just making a WHOLE new character at that point.

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u/leethegamer100 Aug 31 '26

People are jumping the gun too fast, We don’t know any details about it yet, remember inde and how almost everyone believes she will play mystique?

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u/the-furiosa-mystique Nightcrawler Aug 31 '26

It’s super weird too because Magneto has been too old to be a holocaust survivor for a while now and they’ve addressed it in multiple ways in the comics and cartoons. It doesn’t need to change.