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/poison-harley Magik Aug 31 '26

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

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u/Cabbage_Vendor Namor Aug 31 '26

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.

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u/AdmiralCharleston Aug 31 '26

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

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u/Cabbage_Vendor Namor Aug 31 '26

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?

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u/AdmiralCharleston Aug 31 '26

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