How do you bring Magneto into the MCU? (He'd be very old with his origin)

[VAD]

He'll be played by an old but famous actor (maybe McKellen?) first and be rejuvenated Doctor Who style by the Great Evolutionary.
At first he will be that nice old man the heroes help and will reveal himself when whatever mcguffin will turn him into whoever will play him onward.

 

[9wilds]

There's no chance they're going to use multiverse or time travel or anything. Nor will he be slow aging. It just doesn't make any sense at all. Magneto's connection to the Holocaust is powerful, but it is not essential. There are countless modern atrocities he could be a part of, including a made-up one.

I think they'll use the snap as a catalyst but they need to wait long enough for the snap to have been a long time ago. The backstory well eventually learn is happening now.

 

[KtotheRoc]

It doesn't really carry the same weight. The fact Magneto went through that shit is how he got warped in the way he did. He's part supremacist, part revolutionary, and all of it because of the insane shit he went through and is threatened with again by non-mutants.

Now, that I think about it, there it is. They experimented on him, gave him an incomplete version of the super soldier formula as they were trying to develop a perfected version for the Red Skull. It ties him directly into the birth of the Marvel Universe, connecting him directly to everything that came before. Not only that, but given what we saw of those who took the serum in "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier", it would also help audiences understand how someone with his background could become a supremacist himself. That and it would very easily explain his slowed aging process.

The only issue remaining would be Xavier himself.

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Xavier doesn't have to be Magneto's age, or tied to anything specifically. He met Magneto later.

Changing where his brother became the Juggernaut is easy enough.

 

[ToddBonzalez]

There's no chance they're going to use multiverse or time travel or anything. Nor will he be slow aging. It just doesn't make any sense at all. Magneto's connection to the Holocaust is powerful, but it is not essential. There are countless modern atrocities he could be a part of, including a made-up one.

I think they'll use the snap as a catalyst but they need to wait long enough for the snap to have been a long time ago. The backstory well eventually learn is happening now.

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Replacing the Holocaust with one of Dr. Doom's dastardly deeds or some shit would be in poor taste. I really doubt they would consider using a fictional atrocity.

 

[Osan912]

Put me in the it would be exciting to change the origins of the X-men in general for a new universe. Being forced to stick to the same blueprint is boring tbh. I shudder to think of them doing another scene of young Magneto, unpopular opinion but it would then verge into Martha Wayne and the pearls territory. Also the fact that the fox films focused so heavily on the differing ideologies between Charles and Erik plus the adventures of Wolverine I think Feige and Co should focus on setting themselves apart. Mainly focus on the two characters done the most dirty. Storm and Cyclops.

 

[KtotheRoc]

Put me in the it would be exciting to change the origins of the X-men in general for a new universe. Being forced to stick to the same blueprint is boring tbh. I shudder to think of them doing another scene of young Magneto, unpopular opinion but it would then verge into Martha Wayne and the pearls territory. Also the fact that the fox films focused so heavily on the differing ideologies between Charles and Erik plus the adventures of Wolverine I think Feige and Co should focus on setting themselves apart. Mainly focus on the two characters done the most dirty. Storm and Cyclops.

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Wolverine is the most popular X-Man. He's going to get the most focus. His own solo films. Appearances everywhere.

 

[9wilds]

Replacing the Holocaust with one of Dr. Doom's dastardly deeds or some shit would be in poor taste. I really doubt they would consider using a fictional atrocity.

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I mean, using a real one is bad for other reasons. Honestly, they might just radicalize him without an atrocity. I think that's fine too. And this is Disney.

 

[jdstorm]

It doesn't really carry the same weight. The fact Magneto went through that shit is how he got warped in the way he did. He's part supremacist, part revolutionary, and all of it because of the insane shit he went through and is threatened with again by non-mutants.

Now, that I think about it, there it is. They experimented on him, gave him an incomplete version of the super soldier formula as they were trying to develop a perfected version for the Red Skull. It ties him directly into the birth of the Marvel Universe, connecting him directly to everything that came before. Not only that, but given what we saw of those who took the serum in "The Falcon and The Winter Soldier", it would also help audiences understand how someone with his background could become a supremacist himself. That and it would very easily explain his slowed aging process.

The only issue remaining would be Xavier himself.

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Personally I would keep them the same age and Xavier dead. You could incorporate him as a concious type character like jiminy Cricket or Ben in Umbrella Acadamy or Mal in Inception

Then have Storm or another Character running the school

 

[joe1138]

I think my issue with that is that it removes the personal element of him experiencing the horrors of a concentration camp as a child, so it makes him way less easy to empathise with.

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I never considered Magneto an empathetic villain. A tragic villain? Yes but not one easy to empathize with.

I'm not sure empathy is essential for Magneto's character. With his comic's origin, I saw him as taking personal trauma and horror and channeling that into hatred and anger.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Just do something like: Due to nazi expirements, they injected him with shit. That combined with his mutations causes him to age slowly.

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I don't think "The Nazi experiments were actually successful" is a good look...

 

[Amnixia]

I don't think "The Nazi experiments were actually successful" is a good look...

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Not entirely how I meant it, I meant it more as a unnintended side effect.

 

[Biske]

Just say he ages slower because of his powers

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Not entirely how I meant it, I meant it more as a unnintended side effect.

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Oh I know, but this still seems iffy lol. I don't think they would go with it.

 

[Amnixia]

Maybe I'm comiting hersey: early twenties Eric JR who takes over for gramps? Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch already aren't his kids and just "magic" so they don't have to worry about that

 

[deimosmasque]

They will just multiverse it. It's their easy answer and it's become their go to.

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When has it been used to introduce a new character that is going to be permanently in the MCU?

Except for America Chavez since that is literally her comic origin as well.

 

[Bengraven]

People are really really really over complicating the mutant thing.

Teenage mutants are popping up everywhere. They manifested like 10 years ago as well but went dark (Xavier or Magneto snatched up the ones who didn't die or go into hiding).

But we're getting new mutants now.

Don't need any multiverse. The creators probably laughing at people over complicating it.

BUT WHERE WAS BEAK WHEN ULTRON ATTACKED

 

[GreenMamba]

Yeah I mean X-Men Evolution, for all of its warts, did a pretty good job of telling a story where mutants are suddenly outed to the world. It's really not that complicated.

Mutants are a secret... until they aren't, and the world has to deal with this. And that's a story worth telling.

 

[MickeyKnox]

I've suggested making him Palestinian but they don't have the balls.

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Don't think that would read the way you want it to.

The US government is entirely on board with everything Israel does and by extension so is the national media apparatus, therefore a Palestinian origin for Magneto would read as just yet another MENA villain from an industry that has had no other use for them other than as an existential threat to the US imperial project.

 

[deimosmasque]

Yeah I mean X-Men Evolution, for all of its warts, did a pretty good job of telling a story where mutants are suddenly outed to the world. It's really not that complicated.

Mutants are a secret... until they aren't, and the world has to deal with this. And that's a story worth telling.

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In fact that would work really well because since we have heard no hide nor hair of them until now. The number one media story/conspiracy theory will be "Why were they hiding? They aren't the first enhanced people we've encountered why would they keep hiding in a world of superheroes?"

 

[Charred Knight]

There's a bunch of early mutants you can use to say that it slowed down or stopped the aging of characters like Magneto and Destiny. Inject Wolverine's blood in them, Sinister or Apocalypse slowed down their aging. Stuff like that. With Destiny its not like you can say "oh her precog made her age slowly" considering the implication that Destiny is the person Conan based the character of Irene Adler on.

 

[Fiction]

Have him either age extremely slowly due to a secondary mutation, or Hydra caught him and put him on ice for a couple of decades. Simple.

Honestly, a Magneto who lived through the Holocaust only to watch the world learn NOTHING from it over the next 70 years would be a pretty horrifying villain.

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This would be perfect

 

[NoalleGospell]

So many people have a hilarious lack of imagination if the first thing they think of a solution to a problem is "MULTIVERSE!".

 

[Big Baybee]

They are just going to change his origins. Especially if the casting headlines for Prof X I've been seeing every are true.

 

[TheMadTitan]

Magneto controls the entire electromagnetic spectrum; just bullshit up that his magnetic field control allows him to slow down his aging and call it a day.