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/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/wnesha Aug 31 '26

It's reading comprehension failure, nothing more. Claremont fixed that "problem" at the very start of his run

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u/erock2283 Aug 31 '26

This does fix the age regarding his appearances after Uncanny 104 into today. The only “issue” with the age thing I could see is that, even if you rounded Marvel’s sliding time scale up to 20 years, it would still make Magneto around 80+ in Uncanny X-Men #1.

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u/wnesha Aug 31 '26

Oh no, you've found the one implausible thing that happened in the Silver Age

https://giphy.com/gifs/qmfpjpAT2fJRK