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“Magneto’s backstory should be changed, it’s unrealistic that he’d still be alive after all this time!” Have you forgotten what franchise he’s from?
You can suspend your disbelief for the man transformed into sentient rocks by space radiation, the interdimensional bird, and the flaming biker skeletons, but one guy being a little old is where you draw the line?
Well, no, not really. When Magneto was made to be a Holocaust survivor, he was a survivor from childhood, though by the end of the Holocaust he was in his teens. His daughter Anya was killed by an antisemitic mob after the Holocaust, at some point in the 1950s.
It’s also an attempt to pretend that the Shoah is ancient history, when it’s really not.
“It’s unrealistic for a Holocaust survivor to still be alive.”
Assholes, there are Holocaust survivors still alive in the real world.
They’re really telling on themselves because Wolverine is like 170 years old.
wolverine being a hundred and fucking seventy: normal
magneto being the same age as currently alive holocaust survivors: impossible
While there are definitely living Holocaust survivors today, most of them aren’t up to doing half the shit Magneto does, and it seems to be affecting the impact his stories have on audiences. I remember reading Magneto stories as a kid in the 90s, knowing he was a little younger than my grandparents, and getting hit with a truckload of sympathy for the dude. He just wanted to have a normal life like Grandma and Granddad, and then the war happened and oh FUCK. Younger readers now are much less likely to have that personal connection; that’s just how human lifespans work. And it’s only going to get worse. Magneto does need some future-proofing.
That’s not to say I think Magneto’s origin should be changed, or that he should be permanently killed off. Far from it. This is comics; all kinds of timeline bullshit happens all the time. As someone pointed out above, Wolverine is most of the way into his second century of life.
What I’d do–and what I’m shocked Marvel writers don’t seem to have done yet–is wave the mutant bullshit wand and make Magneto functionally immortal. Secondary mutation, maybe. Something something magnetic fields. The mechanics don’t matter any more than “Wolverine is functionally immortal because healing factor” does. What matters is this:
At some point, Magneto will be the last living Holocaust survivor. And he will not let the world forget.
There was a story I read as a kid where Magneto took a handful of soil from the camp where his family died and spread it on the surface of the moon, where he was building a mutant haven of some kind. The image of him on his knees with soil running through his fingers and an agonized look on his face has haunted me ever since. To some part of him, it’s always 1945. Never again is quite literally now.
I want to see Magneto as the furious conscience of the Marvel universe. I want him to rip a hole in the UN General Assembly building and stride in with his full regalia on–except for one sleeve, stripped to the forearm to show his tattooed number–and read the UN the riot act in all his nigh-unkillable glory. I want him to storm into summits between warring planets, atomize the ferrous metal in everyone’s weapons, and lay down the galactic law that is There Will Be No More Genocides On My Watch, And My Watch Is Eternal. And I want future writers to use his story, and his enduring popularity as a character, to make sure that audiences don’t forget either.
Magneto being a Holocaust survivor is only a flaw in the storytelling if you’re a goddamn coward.
for the slow but real trickle of regretful trump voters becoming slightly self-aware, just remember every single one of them voted with the intention of doing as much harm as possible to immigrants, black people, women, queer people, unions, working class, homeless people, elderly people, disabled people, veterans, and as many poor people in other countries as possible.
your coworkers, your family, your friends, your church groups, all of them were told what would actually happen. all of them were warned. it didn’t matter. they want to hurt as many “othered” people as possible and that’s exactly what they voted for. repeatedly.
their only regret is that all the harm they voted for is starting to hurt them too and they dont like it. they’re upset cuz they feel betrayed, not cuz they suddenly realized what they wanted is wrong.
imo none of these people should be forgiven, nor should anyone ever forget the choices they willingly, repeatedly, made to make this world a significantly worse place for everyone else, and funnily enough, for their own damn selves too. i hope every trump voter rots with the consequences of their vote, just like the rest of us have to.
(image description: a three panel drawing with very simple sketched lines and only a little quick coloration. it depicts a woman sitting at a desk, with a computer keyboard, musing aloud; “sometimes I wish my creative works would just make themselves…”, after which she is startled by the arrival of a stick figure with a square head labeled “generative AI,” which replies; “I can do that.” the final panel is the only one with detailed color and lighting, showing the artist whipping out a pencil-shaped laser gun and exploding the AI entity. end description.)
had a conversation in a writing server, decided to make a meme about it.
Despite only having 13 notes, this post made it to another discord server I’m in lol. Sending it around again because it’s still relevant
