r/okbuddycinephile 10h ago

A creative decision you can't wait people to be completely chill and normal about?

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u/Zombiemorgoth 10h ago

Balkan origins it is.

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u/brinz1 10h ago

Bosnian Magneto

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u/zarotabebcev 10h ago

Magnetović

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u/LingonberryAwkward38 8h ago

Erik: "I have absolutely no problem with humans and am more than willing to work alongside them towards a brighter future as brothers and sisters."

Charles: "Even Serbs?"

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u/sirseatbelt 8h ago

He said humans...

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u/abadluckwind 7h ago

I should not have laughed as hard as I did. Do you feel good making me spit out 18 year old scotch???

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u/sirseatbelt 6h ago

As a Scotch drinker myself, no i feel very bad. I am sorry. :(

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u/abadluckwind 6h ago

It was just Glenlivet18 nothing to fancy. Totally worth the laugh

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u/coloradoautoflowers 5h ago

You were just seeding the scent into your upholstery.

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u/SpaceTechBabana 1h ago

“Oh look at me Glenlivet 18, nothing fancy”

Hahaha I say this with love, but go fuck your self and your “nothing fancy” $140 bottle of scotch. I consider Jameson top tier right now. Which, I mean, it’s not terrible. But still. I’m just jealous and poor, that’s all. Enjoy your scotch my friend!

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u/xkillingxfieldx 4h ago

As also a Scotch drinker myself, that's a complicated question. I think I'd have to go with "yes and no".

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u/Inthegreyistheanswer 5h ago edited 5h ago

Serbians have really ruined a lot of things throughout history, the Kingdom of Serbia even screwed over a Byzantine prince while "helping" him gain the Throne in the 1342–1343 Byzantine civil war.

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u/sirseatbelt 5h ago

I am here for joke racism but this sounds like it might get close to real racism so we should all back away slowly..

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u/Inthegreyistheanswer 5h ago

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=when+did+the+serbian+kingdom+help+a+byzantine+prince+gain+power&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

"Dušan housed and allied with the fugitive prince/general John Kantakouzenos to help him usurp the throne. Dušan used the alliance to conquer vast Byzantine territories for himself."

The Catch: In exchange for Serbian military backing, Kantakouzenos had to agree that any Byzantine towns captured by Dušan's forces would permanently become part of the Serbian Kingdom.

Not racism; historic fact.

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u/dannycas7 2h ago

So rest of Balkans dont like Serbs?

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u/KinopioToad 9h ago

Neato!

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u/TSLBestOfMe 8h ago

Mag-Neato even...

[What? The door is this way? ➡️ I'll see myself out.]

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u/BackseatBeardo 4h ago

Up

Yours

Charles

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u/NewTurnover5485 9h ago

Bruh delete this please

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u/theaveragescientist 7h ago

Ivan stefen magneto III

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u/Indigo2015 1h ago

Track suit costume

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u/Driescoolvink 6h ago

Romanian magneto using his magnetic powers to pull copper wire from train tracks

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u/SmoothDiscussion7763 3h ago

imagine it was just some undermotivated street urchin that got magneto's super busted power, and all he could figure out to do with it was to strip copper wiring and plumbing from places

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u/Confident-Evening-49 1h ago

Honestly, to produce electricity we're using the awesome power of radioactivity to boil water, so I don't see a copper-stealing cigan Magneto as far-fetched.

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u/Imaginary-Throat1526 1h ago

you think copper is affected by magnetism?

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u/Driescoolvink 1h ago

Magneto's powers work on pretty much all metals, even if they don't stick to regular magnets. He uses copper a bunch of times

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u/SolidSync 9h ago

Goes to United States. He will assimilate.

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u/duck1123 7h ago

He really wants to see Statue of Liberty.

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u/McGillicuddys 6h ago

Take him to the Golden Gate

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u/SolidSync 6h ago

I dunno man, did you see what he did to the Golden Gate Bridge last time he was there??

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u/McGillicuddys 6h ago

He just wanted to fly back like a rocket to the Balkans

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u/JokersRedditAccount 8h ago

Can we get a Serbian Dr Doom too?

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u/GMM85 8h ago

We already got Kosovian Susan Storm

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u/EmryssFeniksoff 7h ago

Isnt Latveria a Balkan Country? I bet he hate Serbs 🤣🤣

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u/JokersRedditAccount 6h ago

As far as I'm aware Serbia doesn't exist in Marvel

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u/EmryssFeniksoff 6h ago

I wasnt sure if you are for real and I googled it 🤣 apparently Serbia exist in Earth 616 and it even share border with Latveria 🤣🤣

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u/JokersRedditAccount 6h ago

There's conflicting info when it comes to that. I've seen 3 different maps with Latveria in 3 different spots

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u/LingonberryAwkward38 2h ago

Well it's supposed to be Latvia, so Baltics

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u/JustAWry 8h ago

you ever been to bosnia son

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u/Gerrywalk 4h ago

It’s only fair. We already had Bosnian Joker

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u/MyBloodTypeIsQueso 10h ago

Rwandan Magneto.

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u/LazyTitan39 9h ago

The online discourse would be apocalyptic if they made Magneto black.

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u/habba88 9h ago

The drinkerverse would be apoplectic. I think we might see one of them have an aneurysm in real time

Let's fucking do it!

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u/Temporal-Affairs221 8h ago

Won't happen. Make a black magneto talking about the mutants being persecuted and how awful humans are and you'll be accused of making him a strawman parody of notable black civil rights leaders.

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u/candygram4mongo 6h ago

Easy fix, just make Xavier black too.

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u/freunleven 6h ago

I nominate Terry Crews.

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u/DelcoUnited 4h ago

Will he shave his head for the role?

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u/Ghost-George 3h ago

He did well as president

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u/Temporal-Affairs221 6h ago

I'm too old. I just can't see anyone but Patrick Stewart in the role

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u/JustNota-- 4h ago

I could still see comacho as Prof X :P

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u/igtimran 38m ago

Then they’re just overtly Malcolm and Dr. King. It’s too on-the-nose.

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u/habba88 7h ago

Professor X and magneto were exactly invented to be allegorical avatars of Malcolm X and MLK but go off sunshine

Just bear in mind this is a shit posting sub and nobody is actually expecting them to make a black Magneto, Jesus Christ

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u/Temporal-Affairs221 7h ago

And I'm pointing out why Hollywood would never do it. It's all hypotheticals here.

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u/Chops03xx 7h ago

Stan Lee himself said that was not true. In the original comics magneto wasn’t even Jewish, he was just a basic bad guy trying to take over the earth. There was no mutant discrimination in the original comics, that came later once Chris Claremont took over.

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u/YannTheOtter 3h ago

There were quite a few prominent Jewish actvists that got lynched during the Civil Rights movement, might be a decent origin but then again, I doubt with the current Administration, that Disney is gonna touch anything like that.

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u/Iwona_Klich 3h ago

Kinda no? If he been from Rwanda, and survive a actual hell - black civil right leaders can just look like kids from kindergarten.

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u/Temporal-Affairs221 3h ago

That sounds more like an original character that should get their own origin story and power set.

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u/NoGlzy 1h ago

You wanna give them an actual aneurysm:

Magneta. She's feisty.

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u/another_thyme 8h ago

ok Vince Vaughn

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u/habba88 8h ago

Wooooah, you're gonna come up in okbuddycinefile and call someone an actor? You kiss your mother with that mouth?

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u/another_thyme 6h ago

Tbh I wouldn’t know the word apopleptic if it wasn’t for him in s2 true detective

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u/Mr_Agu 6h ago

can wait to see the ryan gosling black panther spammed everywhere

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u/choma90 6h ago

Say that agian

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u/Iwona_Klich 3h ago

The sound of exploding arses been heard even in Poland... 

Our Polish Critical Drinker from Temu, Drwal Rębajło been having a actual stroke. 

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u/Optimal-Chud 6h ago

Magneto Black sounds like a rapper's name.

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u/PhosphoFred8202 5h ago

You’d have trolls pushing for “Magneto was a straight white Christian in Obama’s America” 😬

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u/Basic_whiteBBQ 8h ago

Bring it. Let the insecure man babies shit their diapers over it.

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u/WillyGivens1 5h ago

Honestly couldn’t think of a more appropriate swap than ProfX/Magneto….they did everything they could to make the parallel for MLK/MalcomX

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u/heliocentric19 6m ago

I know, I really want to see that though. I think it would be an interesting angle particularly if you tie in storm and black panther and their inaction. It gives him a strong reason to oppose humanity as a whole.

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u/kingkongbrody 8h ago

It would be too on the nose.

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u/Longjumping_Fun2576 3h ago

It will cost $600 million and bring in $24 million.

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u/SuperCruisePanther 10h ago

Magneto is a Tutsi and Professor X is Congolese.

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u/SeriousShine8324 8h ago

Professor X as a south african that was with Mandela. Their vision of mutant human relationship shaped by their respective experience.

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u/Daveed75 6h ago

This. Best possible rework of his origin, a dark mirror of Nelson Mandela

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u/Cyneganders 4h ago

Damn, I'd watch/read the hell out of that.

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u/vanya913 8h ago

I wish this happened, but I know that if these movies land well then marvel will try to make them African in the comics as well. They did it with Nick Fury and I have no clue how they would do it with Magneto and Charles.

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u/wesleygibson1337 8h ago

Nick Fury was black in the Ultimate seires before the first MCU movies came out. In fact Mark Millar based him off of Samuel L Jackson in the first place. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, in which case, my bad.

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u/vanya913 7h ago edited 7h ago

This is true. But the 616 Fury was white. The issue I'm pointing out is the difficulty in believably retconning it. There was a whole multi-comic arc involved in replacing Nick Fury with his black son, also named Nick Fury, and it felt very contrived at the time. It would really stretch the imagination to figure out how to believably replace two very important and historic characters with African versions of themselves. Did Charles and Magneto also both happen to have African children that were given the same names as them? That's all I'm getting at.

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u/wesleygibson1337 7h ago

I mean replacing 616 Nick for a black Nick for no real reason besides cashing in on the movies is hilariously stupid. Ya, the comics would just have to have the story take place in another timeline or it would be horrible and borderline racist to reasonablychange them in the mainline continuity lol.

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u/Daveed75 6h ago

They don't both need to be from South Africa.

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u/BleachedUnicornBHole 8h ago

Disney would make the worst decision possible, so Magneto will be an Afrikaner.

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u/GMM85 8h ago

Magneto is Elon?

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u/_J_Herrmann_ 7h ago

ninja from die antwoord.

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u/DelcoUnited 4h ago

Thank god Trump opened up the border to this disenfranchised minority.

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u/florplegorp 8h ago

Played by Idris Elba

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u/Southern-Rip3018 8h ago

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u/AltruisticSquash4356 16m ago

Yeah let RDJ play 3 roles in the MCU.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 8h ago

Too old. Professor X is 40

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u/TheRealRigormortal 8h ago

It’s not uncommon for young gay men to have an older partner

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u/Tynford 8h ago

I mean… it could work

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u/Puzzleheaded-Mix5848 8h ago

Blackneto

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u/Daxnu 6h ago

that would be neto

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u/fanofoz 1h ago

I didn't think I'd like this choice but... 🤔

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u/SilentTempestLord 9h ago

Balkans would be hilarious tbh.

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u/HugeHans 9h ago

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u/TelenorTheGNP 8h ago

I see someone knows their history.

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u/pragmojo 2h ago

Magneto floating over Paris, bending the Eiffel Tower in an Adidas track suite, with an epic Turbo Folk soundtrack playing the the background

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u/ObjectiveCut1645 8h ago

I unironically think this could be very compelling

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u/Zombiemorgoth 8h ago

You also can tie him to Latveria or Zogovia.

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u/Responsible_Bar3957 6h ago

Mostar, seeing the bridge collapse as a teen

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u/coopASR 7h ago

As a Serb I can honestly say please no

Our situation is complicated enough, I don't need people using our example to pick moral sides.

Also, Doctor Serb is just a terrible idea.

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u/Zombiemorgoth 6h ago

I mean, the Croats also did awful things against Serbs. The lucky ones were the Slovenes.

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u/coopASR 3h ago

Age of Hrvoje doesn't sound very scary ngl

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u/TrainingJoust 9h ago

No... Palistinian

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u/stonergirlfairyyy 8h ago

god this sounds incredible and x-men truly might not survive that. if bryan wasn't enough to nuke a franchise that might do it

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u/lanjourist 7h ago

Truly a dark horse idea and would likely give all the executives vertigo if it was openly executed.

But given that Marvel movies advocate giving Spiderman total flock camera control, (Hur dur it doesn’t violate constitutional rights if it’s a private entity public law enforcement is merely outsourcing work to~~) It’ll be a nice beach day in Hadestown if Marvel tried this origin idea.

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u/stackens 8h ago

Unironically this maps best onto magneto as we know him imo

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u/TrainingJoust 4h ago

Like im all for it and it would be fitting. Its just ironic that Isreal government would be the baddies. And I know that wouldn't fly with corporate America.

And damn theres a lot of comments removed by mods here...

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u/Regvlas 6h ago

honestly i think it's too early for that. In the future, once it's a situation that everyone was against, yes, but making it ongoing kinda doesn't make sense cause you're like, 'Magneto, why don't you go and stop the currently ongoing problem?'

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u/xTiLkx 6h ago

Ukrainian origine

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u/Zombiemorgoth 6h ago

Slawa ukraini

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u/Necessary_Fennel_933 9h ago

Rwandan Magneto

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u/berubem 4h ago

Could be a Rwandan magneto.

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u/Zombiemorgoth 3h ago

Sure. And he is extra pissed off because of Wakandan isolationism

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u/PrimitiveEngineer 3h ago

Honestly, him having ties to the Yugoslav wars could be really interesting, but idk if there's any Marvel/Disney writer competent enough to tackle that besides maybe Tony Gilroy

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u/Southern_Orange3744 8h ago

They certainly wouldn't dare make him Afghan

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u/Mean_Marionberry7 9h ago

They’ll make him Rwandan so he can be black

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u/Dude_Nobody_Cares 8h ago

When he starts singing thank you usa. Cinema! https://youtu.be/M2rTafbQepg?

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u/ropean 8h ago

Chernobyl Magneto

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u/TinkerTailorSoulja 7h ago

Magniko Bellic

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u/Unholy_mess169 5h ago

Fuck origins. Keep as is and just have them both dead. Then everyone can argue about what they actully ment to say.

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u/Gonna_do_this_again 3h ago

That's the only comparable thing I can think of without swapping his race.

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u/Zombiemorgoth 3h ago

I think there was some ethnic cleansing going after the fall of the Soviet Union in the Caucasus Republics...

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u/AgitatedStranger9698 2h ago

Sekovia makes the most sense actually. Also let's them off from making it cool to hate Nazis. Wouldn't want to piss off

Given Wanda and Piotrs origin.

Polaris can be him post.

Although Doom I assumed would play that angle. Which doesnt seem to be the case.

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u/Not_So_Utopian 53m ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/dO20RFcQ0tQ3IsXMZ2

When you go to a village and see a wall filled with children with their throats cut, you know the one responsible for it wasn't human.

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u/Saaka_Souffle I’m the Joker baby! 43m ago

Armenian Magneto

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u/boyuber 8h ago

His parents were taken by ICE

I know that's basically the Holocaust story 80 years later

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u/TimidPanther 1h ago

Removing undocumented migrants is in no way the same thing as the holocaust. And to compare the two is insane.

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u/boyuber 42m ago

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u/TimidPanther 38m ago

Countries have the right to determine who stays in them. Enter illegally, and a country has every right to deport you.

It’s the same in any other country in the world.

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u/Longjumping-Ear-6248 9h ago

Or Afghanese. Imagine "anti-wokers's" "rage" if Magneto was dark-skinned

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u/warrioroftron 7h ago

Can some enlighten me...is this worse or better?

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u/InnuendoBot5001 9h ago

Genuinely shut the fuck up do you have any idea what percentage of the mcu is white

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u/Geeked_N_Tweaked 9h ago

Please try to see that while trying to fight stupidity you have made a full circle, It's really not that hard to see! You can do it