It's X-Menday

The franchise has had its ups and downs, but there have been some amazing movies and moments of the past 19 years. It'll be another six years before Happy Hogan or Pepper Potts breaks Jackman and Stewart's record, even longer if you wait for an actor to play a true superhero for more than 17 years.

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I don't know how they are going to blend them in with the MCU.

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You just bring them in.

We're talking about a movie universe where Hydra thrived unnoticed for the majority of a century, no one knew aliens existed even though they'd been visiting Earth for a thousand years, and an advanced nation filled with flying cars was kept hidden by a force field and a cloak of invisibility.

"Scott, Jean, I think it's time that we become more visible in our fight against evil mutants. With the emergence of superhumans and aliens on our planet, I think it's time that more homo sapiens knew of our existence."
"Yes Professor, we agree."

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Magneto's origin story is central to the X-Men, and I don't really know how they change it without going confusing alternate reality and multiverse shite that's just too complicated.

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First they are making Magento black, second the nAzi will be subbed by the KKK. That would let them put Magento childhood during the Civil Rights movement era.

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We're talking about a movie universe where Hydra thrived unnoticed for the majority of a century, no one knew aliens existed even though they'd been visiting Earth for a thousand years, and an advanced nation filled with flying cars was kept hidden by a force field and a cloak of invisibility.

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Sure, but it's 2023, and the Holocaust was like 80 years ago as of Far From Home.

Fun fact - No one generally gave a shite about the X Men until Chris Claremont’s revival of the title in 1975.

They had a small cult following during the original run but didn’t know it because they hadn’t developed better sales analytics yet. That really didn’t come along until direct sales started replacing newsstand sales.

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Sure, but it's 2023, and the Holocaust was like 80 years ago as of Far From Home.

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Just don't have him as a holocaust survivor. That wasn't his origin for his first 18 years in the comics. It wasn't his origin in the FOX cartoon.

You had enough genocide going down in Yugoslavia in the 1990's to make him a product of that shite-storm.

You are correct sir.

Even going back today, I’m somewhat amazed at the breadth of some of the references across the X Men universe in that series.


For instance, an episode from the first season in Genosha included a number of obscure and non-obscure mutants from teams such as X-Force and Alpha Flight, let alone the occasional video reference to other characters like Maverick who wouldn’t show up on the show for years, if ever.

There was a comic storyline that had him living in the USSR or some soviet republic after WWII, so they could make it one of Stalin's purges or something. But like Tela said, not much would have the emotional weight of the Holocaust. There was also the generational effect of the Holocaust/WWII tying him into the grandparents' generation for lots of readers/viewers.