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With a modern-day/potential near-future set MCU about to introduce the X-Men, how can they change up Magneto’s origin while staying true to the character’s core?
Magneto is probably one of the most emotionally complex X-Men characters in the roster. Having witnessed and survived the Holocaust, he harbours a deep-seeded resentment toward homosapiens, and sees Homo-Superior as the true next stage in human evolution, but the MCU has a bit of a problem.
The first X-Men movie is expected for 2028, which means we’ll get our first look at Magneto. If they kept his holocaust surviving origins, then at the very least, this would put Erik in his 90s.
I think most will agree that Erik’s childhood trauma is key to understanding his villainous motivations when leader of the Brotherhood, but having a 90+ year old man being the main villain I don’t think would really sell things, so how could they maybe change this up?
In my view, they could quite simply create a new story where mutants were put into concentration camps and subjected to their own Holocaust, from which, perhaps, they were saved by 70s or 80s era heroes.
Alternatively, and though I think this may wind up controversial, I think they could set it during another, more recent global Genocide; that of the Rwandan genocide of the 90s. Have Erik be a member of a Tutsi tribe but an element of it could be written to say there was a liberation campaign conducted by the Wakandans/Black Panther of that time.
Controversial because this is a genocide that still lives within very recent memory, and would obviously need to have Erik played by a black man which would no doubt set off a certain freakish corner of the internet.
What do you guys think? I’ve seen another suggestion before about simply making Magneto’s mutation also mean he ages very slowly, so while the character may actually be 90+, his slow ageing mean he still looks in his 50s/60s.
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Magneto is probably one of the most emotionally complex X-Men characters in the roster. Having witnessed and survived the Holocaust, he harbours a deep-seeded resentment toward homosapiens, and sees Homo-Superior as the true next stage in human evolution, but the MCU has a bit of a problem.
The first X-Men movie is expected for 2028, which means we’ll get our first look at Magneto. If they kept his holocaust surviving origins, then at the very least, this would put Erik in his 90s.
I think most will agree that Erik’s childhood trauma is key to understanding his villainous motivations when leader of the Brotherhood, but having a 90+ year old man being the main villain I don’t think would really sell things, so how could they maybe change this up?
In my view, they could quite simply create a new story where mutants were put into concentration camps and subjected to their own Holocaust, from which, perhaps, they were saved by 70s or 80s era heroes.
Alternatively, and though I think this may wind up controversial, I think they could set it during another, more recent global Genocide; that of the Rwandan genocide of the 90s. Have Erik be a member of a Tutsi tribe but an element of it could be written to say there was a liberation campaign conducted by the Wakandans/Black Panther of that time.
Controversial because this is a genocide that still lives within very recent memory, and would obviously need to have Erik played by a black man which would no doubt set off a certain freakish corner of the internet.
What do you guys think? I’ve seen another suggestion before about simply making Magneto’s mutation also mean he ages very slowly, so while the character may actually be 90+, his slow ageing mean he still looks in his 50s/60s.
#video #movies
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