Marvel Needs to Admit that Magneto Makes No Sense in 2021

Marvel Needs to Admit that Magneto Makes No Sense in 2021

Magneto is the X-Men’s greatest enemy and one of the best villains in all of comics…but his Holocaust backstory is becoming a problem.

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Marvel Needs to Admit that Magneto Makes No Sense in 2021

Marvel’s Magneto will soon face an insurmountable problem – and it has nothing to do with the X-Men or any other mutant foe. Over fifty years after his debut, the character remains incredibly popular (there’s a reason why he continues to appear in nearly every X-Men film as the main antagonist) and the ongoing X-Men: Trial of Magneto event proves he’s as marketable as ever. But for all his power, even Magneto cannot fight Time – or more accurately, a backstory that forces him to engage his enemies in battle as an old man.

When Stan Lee created Magneto as the X-Men’s first villain in Uncanny X-Men #1 in 1963, he was simply a mutant supremacist who believed the Earth belonged to Homo Superior and would oppose anyone who attempted to stand in his way, mutant or otherwise. It wasn’t until X-Men writer Chris Claremont took over the title that Magneto’s backstory was revealed in Uncanny X-Men #150: Max Eisenhart was a Holocaust survivor and the sole survivor of his family at Auschwitz, the most horrific of Hitler’s concentration camps.

However, Uncanny X-Men #150 was released in 1981, which would make the powerful Magneto in his 50s or 60s at best. Even if Magneto was a child during the Holocaust, that would make him roughly 90 years old in the present day. The principle of Marvel’s “comic book time” means events are often compressed (a one-month gap between issues in real time doesn’t necessarily represent a one-month gap within the story, for example), but one cannot simply make up the years in which the Holocaust occurred any more than one can pretend it didn’t happen at all. Eventually, Marvel must acknowledge Magneto’s age.

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Marvel Needs to Admit that Magneto Makes No Sense in 2021

Multiple attempts have been made to regress Magneto’s age. He was once reduced to an infant in an infamous story, and his mutant ability to control magnetic fields can slow down his aging process (exactly how that happens is anyone’s guess). But as years turn to decades, Marvel must face a choice: either retcon Magneto’s backstory and lock him in suspended animation after the war for decades (similar to Captain America), or abandon his Holocaust backstory entirely. But Magneto is as inextricably linked to the Holocaust as Captain America is to World War II in general. Thus, Marvel must acknowledge that the X-Men’s greatest foe will soon be a centenarian (and considering that they were once friends in their youth, so will his rival Charles Xavier).

Time in comic books is a malleable thing, but occasionally Marvel encounters massive roadblocks in the form of historical events. World War II, 9/11 – these are moments that any storyteller cannot ignore, especially a publisher for a medium that exploded in popularity precisely because of a war. In ten or twenty years, perhaps, Magneto will no doubt undergo some rejuvenation treatment that will allow him to fight physically with the X-Men once more…but Max Eisenhart will never forget the Holocaust, and neither should Marvel.

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