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I doubt they will make an actual movie focusing on the X-Men anytime soon. Given what Feige said last year about there not being currently be room for that. Could still see X-Men characters like Mystique and Rogue as Captain Marvel villians, Storm and Black Panther as a couple, etc.
edited 24th Dec '17 11:00:41 AM by ManOfSin
Very few people are actually all good or all bad. Saying that Magneto probably shouldn't be trusted given the number of times he's betrayed the X-Men's trst, and that he should probably face trial and incarceration at the very least for all the people he's hurt and killed, sure, that's fair. But he shouldn't be Flanderized into a flatter character, as he so often is.
edited 24th Dec '17 12:55:12 PM by Unsung
I don't understand why making Magneto Rwandan is bad. You don't have to make him related to quicksilver and scarlet witch in this continuity.
edited 24th Dec '17 11:31:36 AM by jjjj2
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the midThe most important thing to me about Magneto is that he is a victim of genocide. That's the inherent tragedy of the character. He is not very religious at all. Thus if you make him Cambodian, Rwandan, or Bosnian, I feel you've retained the essence of the character. Having a serum that keeps him young for decades while he's still out and about is a bit too comic booky for my tastes. The winter soldier was periodically put on ice, and Captain America, was just sitting in ice so I can sort of buy that. The other option they could do is after the second infinity war movie is have thanos' defeat alter reality such that mutants have always existed.
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the mid...wait, so a youth-preserving super-serum is too comic booky, but using the Infinity Gauntlet to reshape the fabric of existence in order to retcon mutants into existing in previous films is fine?
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Yes. I have Willing Suspension of Disbelief. That's one in my mind that's kinda dumb.
Maybe some mutants just have a secondary mutation that causes them to age slower than normal.
Oh God! Natural light!Honestly now that I think about it, it's not the serum that would bother me as much as the idea that mutants have been invisible all this time. Thus in my mind I appreciate a thanos reality altering event, or mutants only recently started appearing.
edited 24th Dec '17 12:40:01 PM by jjjj2
You can only write so much in your forum signature. It's not fair that I want to write a piece of writing yet it will cut me off in the midIt's a pretty standard part of X-Men lore that mutants have been around since ancient times, but for most of history they were very rare, anomalous occurences that either never came to wide attention, were lost to history, or were dismissed as legend. It's only recently that the mutant population has really exploded and become impossible overlook.
The MCU has already established that, while the events of Iron Man are when superheroes became commonly known to the public, there was lots of weird stuff happening in the verse before then that never made the papers. Magneto and some other older mutants could fit right in there.
An MCU X-Men movie would most likely begin as people are noticing that the number of people gaining superhuman abilities keeps increasing, and are freaking out that no one seems able to stop or control it.
Made some comments on presentation of Magneto in the Diversity thread.
On other topics though, how about Jason Isaacs to play him?
Also, in terms of him still being alive and relatively young despite being a Holocaust survivor, if it isn't a secondary power either tied to his magnetism or common to all mutants, I had two thoughts. Have it that when his camp was liberated, he received a blood transfusion from either Steve Rogers (or at least receive Steve's blood from or James Howlett. Not sure if the former would work, because I believe that Erskine was killed and Steve became a human popsicle well before the point in which the camps were liberated. So, I'm liking the second. Especially because you could have a moment of Magneto sparing Wolverine and telling himself something of his past by revealing that Wolverine had saved him many decades earlier. And Magneto would recognize him, because Wolverine would look pretty much the same in the present as he did in 1945.
I'm okay with the idea with mutants living somewhat longer/aging slower than normal humans. Reminds me of The Grisha Trilogy, which has a pretty good take on how different societies might treat empowered individuals, and includes this element that use of one's power feels good and increases health and lifespan. It's used mostly in the context of characters not feeling well when supressing their powers and the most prominent example is the Really 700 Years Old Big Bad, but my understanding is that it probably would work out so that an 80-something looked like a 40 or 50-something.
But at the same time, I'd like the MCU to have someone be The Constant between the 1940's and the present due to some form of the super soldier serum. Because it hasn't been done for Fury or Black Widow. And in this version, unlike some other series, Wolverine wasn't one of the Howling Commandos.
On the other hand, I suppose it's possible that Jim Morita and Principal Morita are the same person...
edited 24th Dec '17 3:34:31 PM by Hodor2
Jason Isaacs was Hook in the 2003 Peter Pan, Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter, and Commander Zhao in season 1 of Avatar the Last Airbender. The man oozes charisma.
In fact, with all the Inhuman's craziness from Agents of Shield, it'd be even easier for Mutants to get lost in the shuffle. That being said, imagine people's surprise when they find out that two races of super humans have been secretly living among them, and one of them is 100% home grown.
One Strip! One Strip!I don't think you need to "update" Magneto's past. HYDRA has cryo-preservation technology and were Nazis, it's why Bucky is still around today despite being 90 or so. Just find some reason that he might have been put on ice, like "oh shit this prisoner guy is the master of magnet, let's preserve him until we can discover and replicate his secrets."
Hell, make the time skip part of his character. He wakes up in 2017 and wonders if the world is any kinder, only to see it's still the same cesspool it was in the 30's and 40's if not worse. That's a pretty good reason to become a villain.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!Hmm. That could actually be an opportunity to do something different from the Fox films. Having him already be an adult back then could be a unique take on his character without betraying his roots.
Though either way it's hard to make Scarlet Witch and Deadsilver his children if he's on ice instead of being able to go out and get laid. Perhaps that angle would have to be abandoned...
edited 24th Dec '17 8:34:17 PM by Anomalocaris20
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

I doubt Marvel's first response upon getting the X-Men rights back is going to be to make X-Men: First Class.
edited 24th Dec '17 10:54:48 AM by TobiasDrake
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