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this isn't true.

also, when Rwanda was a German colony, the Germans (and eventually the Belgians) propped up the Tutsi as being the superior ethnic group over the Hutu, even though neither initially saw each other as that (it was more of a class thing). iirc, the Germans were so impressed by how the Tutsi governed the country, they saw them as a lost European people's.

but after years of that, when the Europeans left, they gave the power to the Hutu majority, and years of mistreatment led them treating the Tutsi like second-class citizens.

that, on top of propaganda that the Tutsi were outsiders, had much of the Hutu ready to kill the Tutsi, and that's what happened after the Hutu president was assassinated.

edit: sorry, they weren't seen as European, but more European.

what I'm saying, though, is that someone with a Tutsi father and a Hutu mother, for example, would be seen as Tutsi, and vice-versa if the ethnic groups of the parents switched.

so you had people who were intermingled, who loved each other, but who had to kill the other when the calls came, so that same level of betrayal existed. family killed each other.

there were also cases where the Tutsi were killing other Tutsi alongside the Hutu, and Hutu who were killed during the genocide.

so it's a lot more nuanced than that.

plus, people saw themselves as Rwandans, but had their ethnicities stamped on their identification cards, but it's a small country where people knew each other in their communities.

At the end of the day, I'm sure it will be fine, and I also recognize that trying to keep Magneto tied to the Holocaust is a losing battle. I just think there's something very specific about the circumstances and how the character has evolved over time that can't be transplanted to a different genocide without losing a little something along the way.

More Mr Fantastic ?

Could be great

Might actually be some truth to the rumor that Giancarlo will play Professor X, which would be awesome.

glad to hear Boyega getting another shot at screentime after he was done dirty with Star Wars

Don't care. Superhero movies are played out. Do something different.

I had no idea the MCU would ever land Denzel, but if they truly have, I suddenly find myself hoping he'll play Magneto.

What has John boyega done that was good?

What has John boyega done that was good?

Really not a fan of changing Magneto's origin story. At all.

They should go with someone else for Reed Richards imo. Sure he only had a few lines but Krasinski fell flat af for me in DS2.

I really think it's a case of him not having much to really work with.

I think I remember one of the main cast members saying he didn't even film his scene in the same room as them

That's like half of how those movies are filmed though. A quarter of these actors have probably never even met eachother on set.

Compared to the other Illuminati characters he felt the most out of place. Just seemed like some dude.

I also don't like him as an actor very much so I'm incredibly biased

trying to keep Magneto tied to the Holocaust is a losing battle.

I get not wanting to change Magneto's backstory but I also don't see how you can keep it with the holocaust being 80 or so years ago at this point, which means even if he was a kid he'd be 85-90 in modern times. I guess you could do some shenanigans with mutant's aging slower or something to make up for it. You could easily just make him a victim of a different, slightly more modern genocide like Rwanda or Bosnia and accomplish the same thing.

They could just Steve Rogers the dude. Magneto escapes the nazis, convenient plot device has him in stasis until whatever period they want Xavier to be from, resume the traditional dynamic between the two.

I also think that when they're introduced, the X-Men and mutants will be established in some way in-universe (or multiverse), so if Magneto is shown, it doesn't necessarily need to be during a current timeline.

like, they could be fighting him in the 90s, or something.

Hmm, the X-men with Magnetos rage born from segregation and racism in the USA instead of the holocaust. Denzel would be great at that.

i would love the maker to make his debut but i feel he needs a lot of build up for him to be done justice and then there is my hope of seeing ether onslaught or shuma gorath (enough with the teasing disney) as the big major villain for the mcu

I hate to admit it, but Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, The Boys, and Payday have distorted Giancarlo Esposito's image for me to the point where I cannot in any capacity imagine him playing a character like Xavier.

He's a fucking mutant.

Magnetic powers make him age slower. Done.

If not Magneto, then I hope Denzel gets to play Blue Marvel.

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