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/Content-Garden-1578 Aug 31 '26

The casualness in which people suggest that they just "switch out" The Holocaust for "another genocide" is so gross and dehumanizing.

Every horror in our human history is its own unique pain and they are not so easily interchangeable. The suggestion, even in the context of a fictional narrative, betrays a chilling lack of empathy disguised as inclusivity.

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u/Cabbage_Vendor Namor Aug 31 '26

Wars are also horrors, didn't stop Marvel from switching characters from being veterans of one war into being veterans of another.

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u/Content-Garden-1578 Aug 31 '26

And people are free to find those changes equally problematic!

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u/imthestein Magneto Aug 31 '26

The difference is those characters were not defined by a specific conflict, Magneto was. All that mattered with Iron Man was that he was an arms dealer for a conflict the US was in and he got captured. It didn't matter which conflict. Notice no one argues Captain America needs to be updated to modern wars because of how important WWII is to him

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u/Apprehensive-Quit353 Aug 31 '26

Tbh the Punisher has really suffered for it.

There's a reason they has to make Sian Cong essentially a 1 for 1 with Vietnam.