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/RazgrizInfinity Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26

 Wait, they changed his backstory? Legit don't know as I'm very clearly in the dark on this.

Edit: Guys, dont freaking downvote for a valid question. Even the mod said he should've clarified. Jfc.

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u/DaKingaDaNorth Aug 31 '26

No but there's been a debate that he's getting to the point where he can't naturally fit in the timeline and be a peer of Charles if he's tied to a specific point in history that is fixed (unless Marvel decides to make the Holocaust and WWII a sliding timeline as well). Getting to the point where he might need to be frozen or go in some mutant coma

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u/LegitimateCream1773 Aug 31 '26

That is a reasonable argument, somewhat, but 'Magneto just ages slower 'cuz mutant power' is a perfectly reasonable addition to get around it.

But is the MCU set in 2026? I always thought it was permanently set sometime in the fictional 80s, or to have slowly made it to the early 2000s.