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US Politics 11w

ireallylikepancakes

 Every. Single. Mutant. In. Marvel. Comics. Is. An. Allegory. For. The. Civil. Rights. Movement.
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US Politics 11w
202 upvotes, 18 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics.
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Anonymous 11w

Xmen movies were great even the shitty ones.

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Anonymous 11w

Even Magneto?

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Anonymous 11w

alright, I’ve double checked it, and not every writer at marvel agrees that the allegorical nature between mutants and the civil rights movement was ever integral to the writing. But, in recent years, individual mutants have become allegorical in other ways, such as being an allegory for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Anonymous 11w

Gay people never killed a hundred people due to being gay so it’s a bad allegory

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Absol-fucking-lutely agree

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Anonymous replying to -> ireallylikepancakes 11w
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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

“You are a god among insects, dont you ever forget that.” And “in chess the pawns go first” were two of his hardest lines. And the tattoo scene.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

Both young and old magneto actors did great work honestly.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

the tattoo scene and the one i always remember is "no one ever talks about it"

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

My favorite (set of) lines: Wolverine: “you’re a dick.” Cyclops: “Okay.”

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 11w

Idk I didn’t watch Xmen or anything that I can remember (besides some movie where I was really young) I just remember loving Magneto from this Marvel video game because his uniform looked cool and I thought his abilities were really cool 🧲

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 11w

Yes he was Malcom X

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 11w

One of Magneto’s major inspirations was Malcom X.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Jinx

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 11w

and it wasn’t Rivals btw it was something way more obscure on the Nintendo DS

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Anonymous replying to -> ireallylikepancakes 11w

wait really?!

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 11w

magneto's a holocaust survivor whose major motivation is preventing another situation like the one he had to live through from happening to the mutant population

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Both were inspirations

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 11w

Yeah dude haha, magneto was also canonically a victim of nazi germany most of the time.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 11w

they don’t have superpowers

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 11w

An allegory doesn’t have to be 1:1 to be profound.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 11w

Gay people also can’t fly and walk through walls, tho it’d be cool if they could

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Anonymous replying to -> mushy.the.mushroom 10w

Current day marvel would not have the balls to open up a film during the Holocaust like the first X men film did. Those films were built fucking differently

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