two different graphics being made from this post is going to be my legacy on this app i fear

"Drown me in your colors / / in your hands I come undone."

"MAKE MORE MUTANTS

MURDER NO MAN

RESPECT THIS SACRED LAND."

- "The Three Laws of Mutantdom" [House of X / Powers of X #6]

Thinking about how much of his life Magneto spent taking care of others. In Magneto Testament and in flashbacks, we see him looking out for his family, risking his life trying to find food, warning them from danger etc. Later he was about to commit suicide in the camps until he saw Magda and found a new purpose in saving her, after the war be married her and they had Anya and he took care of his new family. After Anya's death, he decided to go and help other Holocaust survivors. And after that, he tries to take care and help the entire mutant species.

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X-Men '97 1x02 “Mutant Liberation Begins”

When Storm inevitably comes back to the mansion:

"There's a power in seeing yourself in another, in resemblance..."

“it’s… it’s too cold, i’ll drown.”

“i have you magnus, i’ll always have you, even if i’m pulled under, too.”

One detail I appreciated from X-men 97's devastating episode "Remember It" is that it officially solidified Magneto as a Holocaust survivor.

When the original series was made in the 90s, censors were twitchy about cartoons referencing (even obliquely) the Nazis or their atrocities. That was why Magneto's backstory was a generic war-torn Eastern Europe, shown by that infamous scene where Xavier makes him relive the trauma.

Come this series, we do start getting allusions to Magneto's background; most notably during his speech to the UN.

But this image, especially with the inclusion of the patches, removes all ambiguity.

Endless X-Men 97

i rewatched episode 10 bc the first time i watched it i was high and running on an hour of sleep and i did not notice how fucking manipulative charles was omg 😭

"I imagine that ‘some things are deeper than skin’ is the line they wanted to get out of it. (For me that fell flat and overall I think once again Rogue drew the short straw just to accommodate her relationship with Remy but that’s a different conversation all together)."

Okay, here i was reading this ask in the tag and saw this. Now you've piqued my interest. When you've got the time i'd love to know your thoughts on this. 😯

hey there traveler! 🌠 I said that? Oops, might have thought that one out-loud. Silly me. 😶 Well, we’re here now so we might as well drive this one home. 'Some things are deeper than skin' was a shallow take on the situation for the trio, imo. It felt like a sticker placed on top of a damaged car. Some things are definitely deeper than skin. So are Rogue's feelings for Erik. So is what her time with him inspired in her. For someone who was a terrorist, who presented drastic solutions to the world, not once did he try to push that onto Rogue. On the contrary, it was made clear that, in the time they spent together in TAS, he taught her to see her powers not as a curse but as an essential part of who she is. He spoke to her about what it really means to embrace her identity, about building a future that makes her feel proud of who she is, about her powers creating a sense of belonging instead of discomfort, shame, and alienation. His presence in her life taught her not to fear who she is, not to put limits on what she can do, it taught her to be a part of the world she wants to see herself living in. THAT is why she fell in love with him. That is the Erik that Rogue loves. The whole 'touch' only came in later. We already see her falling in love with him before they even considered the possibility of touching. I love Gambit with all my heart, but in that scene he didn't consider a single thing of what Rogue had to say about why she wanted to be part of Genosha's future. He literally went ahead and did the opposite of what Erik had done - he made Rogue revert into herself and feel the pain of her inability to touch for the sole purpose of romantic and sexual gain. That line was ultimately used to show that Remy was in the right, to frame him as the one that's been hurt, with close to no consideration for Rogue and what she wanted from life. He says 'some things are deeper than skin' and it feels off coming from him, someone who has the privilege of sharing a connection based on touch with others. It makes Remy come across as not listening to what's being said. And I know his words in that interaction can be read as romantic in the sense of 'we can overcome anything'. It's a valid interpretation, but it doesn't work for me. I'd rather two partners try and understand each other and listen to each other than dismiss it with a 'we'll find a way'. Especially when one of them is deeply affected by it. It just isn't my jam. So having Rogue echo the 'some things are deeper than skin' fell flat because it only addressed part of the reason why her and Erik shared something. I think there is love in Rogue for both men and, unlike Magneto, Gambit is just not willing to accept it. It has to be him and only him. All this when he's had a lifetime prior to Rogue of experiencing intimacy, touch and relationships and understanding what he wants and what he values. In this instance it just feels like he's indirectly manipulating Rogue's emotions, making her sink into guilt and self-doubt (very important to note here that he's not doing it on purpose, but as an instinctive reaction to his own emotions - because this speaks both of his qualities and his flaws). So when Rogue says ‘Remy was right, some things are deeper than skin’ I think that is her guilt and insecurity talking.

I grew up with ROMY as my OTP but then, in time, that flame died and my view of the ship shifted. Part of the reason is because I started seeing a pattern in their relationship where often times Rogue would end up being the one pulled down, having to accommodate, accept and even apologize for things. And I was just not vibing with it anymore.

Today sure was a day for ruining Magneto's character huh....

First, Resurrection of Magneto depicted him without his tattoo, and then X Men 97 had him say that the Holocaust was about religion and that Jews oppressed him.

I hate it here.

There was a time I would smite you all for what was done to Storm. But today, I have saved you from your own, for an old friend has challenged me to remember this view of Earth. How vast it is versus how small we make it. Charles Xavier entrusted me with his dream, and it does not ask you to love or embrace my kind as your own but merely to accept that this is a shared world with a common future, and that my kind, like yours, have the right to live in it.

Not saying this means the thing but it definitely means the thing. They are literally the couple.