r/okbuddycinephile • u/Shoddy_Newspaper_718 • 10h ago

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

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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 42m 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 2h 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 9m 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 9h ago

Played by Idris Elba

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u/Southern-Rip3018 8h ago

RDJ obviously

https://giphy.com/gifs/kBtp8iR154Hx6

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u/AltruisticSquash4356 19m 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... 🤔