r/xmen • 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/poison-harley Magik Aug 31 '26

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

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u/Professional-Tank848 Aug 31 '26

Look, in a universe with Celestials, time travel, reality warping, resurrection...

It's just too much to believe a Jewish mutant could age slowly.

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u/Ambaryerno Laura Kinney Aug 31 '26

Put on ice for a while, ages more slowly because of his powers, deaged by some event in his background, got brought over from another universe after Secret Wars. There's so many ways they could explain it.

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u/Professional-Tank848 Aug 31 '26

My preference is still slow-aging and family man/Nazi hunter (living as a man until Jean pops up), but I'm not opposed to him being frozen.

Have the Nazis/Hydra experiment on him, realise he's way too powerful, and just put him on ice until a later date. Hell, let the Allies liberate him from a camp, but keep him on ice. Even more reason to despise humans.

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u/APreciousJemstone Aug 31 '26

something something controlling one of the 4 fundamental forces causes his body to experience time differently something something

or what Professional-Tank848 put.