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It’s my favorite thing in the world when villains are written too well and it like crosses the line from “realistic motivation” to “wait why are we supposed to disagree with them again?” It’s so fun when the evil girlies are right they’re just also killing people about it
Supervillains will be like “equal rights would be nice to have” and then stab someone & I’m just like ok slay
It’s my favorite thing in the world when villains are written too well and it like crosses the line from “realistic motivation” to “wait why are we supposed to disagree with them again?” It’s so fun when the evil girlies are right they’re just also killing people about it
Supervillains will be like “equal rights would be nice to have” and then stab someone & I’m just like ok slay
First of all, people are saying things like that Hydra is evil, but it doesn’t have political ideology or anything. It isn’t Nazis, it just allied with them in WW2. And I just feel the need to point out that if you allied with the Nazies at any point, you A) have a political ideology, and B) its defiantly pro-Nazi.
But honestly, I want to deal with the second one, which is people insisting that Magneto joined him because of reality warping and in-universe stuff.
And ok, first of all, their is no justification in-universe that would make a Jewish character throwing their lot in with Nazis and pro-Nazi groups that aren’t technically Nazis ok. But I want to talk about the problem with having Magneto, specifically, do it.
Magneto’s only goal for the last fifty years has been mutant success. This has been his goal as a direct result of his experiences as a victim of the Holocaust and losing his people to that genocide.
Steve Rogers has an absolutely TERRIBLE history with mutants, particularly recently. He’s all, I’m going to attack your sovereign nation to get you messiah, and then blame the mutants when it becomes a fight. After that, because it was pointed out the Avengers are kinda shitty where Mutants are concerned, instead of doing something to help, he found a blonde haired, blue eyed white dude, assigned him the role of new spokesperson for the mutant community, and let him say super dumb shit at press conferences.
When a giant cloud started killing all the mutants, again, instead of doing something, Cap just put an Inhuman on the United Squad (which sounds like a name given by an over eager college diversity group) even while the Unity Squad leader was actively dying of M-pox.
Magneto has no reason, in-universe, to want to work with this guy, who’s constantly screwed over Magneto’s people, even before he was cosmically retconned into a Nazi.
And if you cosmically retcon Magneto to being a Nazi all along, what is his motivation. He’d have to no longer care about Mutants or his own history. And then he’s just a guy, he isn’t that character with fifty years of development at all. He’s essentially a guy you have to remake from scratch. A totally original character.
Which would mean he wasn’t choose (for the variant cover or for the story at large, we’ll see) because its in character or going to open up interesting story possibilities. Because in doing it, you basically strip everything from the character.
Instead he was chosen because someone at Marvel knew it would be shocking to make a Holocaust survivor join the group that’s always been closely associated with Nazis.
