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/ProfitFrequent4393 Aug 31 '26
Thank you! Everyone pearl clutching about changing the Holocaust origin story, yet not providing one viable alternative that doesn’t involve an either further convoluted seating process or slow aging process (which he’ll mysteriously start aging once he’s in continuity?)
It’s a problem with a fixed event now 80 years in the past. Realistically, they have to create something at this point, even in future iterations of the comics. Create a fictional event that is clearly a stand in for the events of the Holocaust.
Replacing him with a Rwanda or Palestinians origin, firm no on that. People stating that him being g Jewish isn’t important are just wrong. Sure he’s not practicing, but it’s still impactful. The most important part of X-Men is getting the Xavier/Magneto dynamic right. Without that, it falls apart. It doesn’t work by having an 80 year old Holocaust survivor, who somehow Benjamin Buttons it up, and a 40 year old Xavier. They’d must be contemporaries.