August 13Aug 13 CB Team According to the latest X-Men rumors, Magneto will be 30-35 years old in the MCU reboot. Fans are concerned they're going to scrub the character's Holocaust backstory.What do you make of this? And how would you handle this if you were Kevin Feige?
August 13Aug 13 CB Team That's what makes this difficult. I'm not sure there is a more recent event you could substitute without fundamentally changing Magneto. His experience during the Holocaust isn't just a tragic backstory. It's a huge part of why he believes the persecution of mutants could eventually lead to extermination.I'd rather Marvel find a way to explain his age. In a universe full of mutants, time travel, magic, and multiverses, making Magneto age more slowly seems like a pretty minor hurdle compared to rewriting his entire history.
August 14Aug 14 CB Team 13 hours ago, FantasticJerome said:That's what makes this difficult. I'm not sure there is a more recent event you could substitute without fundamentally changing Magneto. His experience during the Holocaust isn't just a tragic backstory. It's a huge part of why he believes the persecution of mutants could eventually lead to extermination.I'd rather Marvel find a way to explain his age. In a universe full of mutants, time travel, magic, and multiverses, making Magneto age more slowly seems like a pretty minor hurdle compared to rewriting his entire history.I agree, but the excuse for the age has to be good too (Secret Wars would do fine). The longer time passes, the harder it is to adapt Magneto and still respect his origins. He would have to be at least 90 years old in the MCU, and then we have the question: why hasn't he done anything for mutantkind yet? We could use other events by drastically changing Magneto's origins. A Black Magneto could have lived through Uganda's ethic cleansing, or maybe Magneto is Palestinian and saw people getting slaughtered in the name of Israel's senseless colonial expansion. There has been the ethnic cleansing of Armenians, the Rwandan Civil War.... Actually, I think there are some options for Magneto. Also, looking at all that, Magneto is right, humanity is trash.
September 17Sep 17 Well, if they’re not gonna make him a holocaust survivor, maybe they can take inspiration from the 1610 ultimate comics universe from the 2000s for his and professor Xavier‘s origins.. but they can have the same personalities as their 616 counterpartsbecause of memory serves, Chris Evans’ Captain America’s origins background, and history was inspired by the ultimate universe yet he has the same personality as his Earth-616 counterpart
September 20Sep 20 They should just bring back Michael fassbender but have him be the 616/19999999 (or whatever the universe is called after secret wars) version who happens to look like the earth-10005 version loki and kang got away with it
September 23Sep 23 CB Team On 9/20/2026 at 4:51 PM, ChetTheBringerOfDeath said:They should just bring back Michael fassbender but have him be the 616/19999999 (or whatever the universe is called after secret wars) version who happens to look like the earth-10005 version loki and kang got away with itHe was a great Magneto I could easily see him coming back.
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