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Nichtcrawler X posted...

Ultimate really made the younger Magneto work. Being a descendant of survivors, instead of a survivor, really plays with the politics, psychology and morals.

Ultimate in general was an attempt to make characters who were created in the 60s work in the 2000s. Which is part of why the MCU movies draw on a lot of inspiration from the Ultimate comics.

It's why there's such a huge shift for Captain America - in the original comics he was only really in suspended animation for about 18 years, so he's coming back to a world he still mostly understands, and where most of the people he knew are still alive (if a bit older). But in modern versions of the story he winds up having been in suspended animation for 70+ years, so he's stepping into a radically different world and almost everyone he's ever known is either dead or pretty close to dying of old age. It makes that sense of alienation and of being a "man out of time" far, far worse - which sort of changes your perspective of the character.

The sad part is, where there are good ideas in the Ultimate versions of characters, there's SO MUCH CRAP. So you kind of have to consciously try to sift the good ideas out from the bad ones, and come up with something that balances elements of the original version with the good ideas from the newer version. Kevin Feige makes it work because he's a huge nerd, but it would be very easy to completely screw it up (like the new Star Wars films arguably did).
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