Political Punk

See, when I say that the X-Men should be a period piece, and that the early 2000s are the absolute last moment they can be set at, but they really should have stuck with an earlier decade? This is what I'm talking about. Magneto being a child during the Holocaust is something that is really ingrained in our current view of the character, exactly because of these movies, but if they had kept his age as 60+ years in the 1960s, or even the 1980s, then he would have been an adult for all of it. Old enough to see the political landscape before the worst came to pass, old enough to remember the early days and recognize the warning signs from his own lived experience.

Hearing the whole “Americans didn’t beat the nazis” thing is so exhausting and counterproductive. Spoiler alert: America isn’t the only country affected by Trump, so this could apply to literally any allies in WW2 (which is more than you think, lots of countries fought alongside Britain and we’re eternally indebted to them). Also even if America failed to rid the world of Nazis in the past until like the last moment where they joined the allies, then surely now is simply an opportunity for them to do it earlier?