Marvel comics has got some problems. Now what do I mean well it seems that they’ve forgotten their history and are in a pit fall of terrible writing. some of the gems of the recent marvel writing are 1) making a character write by a jewish team as an american war hero in ww2 join a nazi group 2) start the mass killing off of the team in their universe used as a place holder for any pressed group the x-men and 3) the most upsetting thing however they’ve done in my opinion the cruel treatment of a long time fan favorite villain magneto. Some may know that in the comics he is a jewish man who survived nazi Germany. He has an infamous line in one of the films when asked why he won’t get a tattoo and shows his arm and the serial number and utters the words “Ive been marked once my dear and let me assure you no needle shall ever touch my skin again.” Now with all of this as a background and a well known one for the character they chose to have him become an agent of the fictional group hydra. Now what do hydra and being a holocaust survivor have to do with one another. Well that nazi group that I said the american war hero (Captain america) joined well it was hydra. In the comics hydra was a nazi science group that is a representation of the horrible experiments done onto those under the nazi regime. And they’ve taken a character who is not only jewish but a surviver of the holocaust and not only that but has Romani children and oh wait those Romani children he has well one of them has a mental illness oh and that Romani child he has that has a mental illness well she has a gay child. So they’ve taken someone who not only himself is a member of a group that was targeted but has a personal connection to other groups massacred by attention of his daughter and grandson. Even forgoing how insulting that is this in polar opposite to the whole reason he’s a villain. The reason he hates humans and tries to kill them is because as a surviver of the holocaust he sees the same actions and opinions he heard then being repeated and target towards the mutants in his world. So instead of trying to become peaceful he goes on the attack and has the mentality of killing what he view to be the people who will insight the death of his people. So making him bemuse a member of a group that is not only opposed to his character but ruins some of his other most iconic scenic in recent memory like oh i don’t know punching the LEADER OF HYDRA TO DEATH while uttering the words “I know my filthy abilities upset you, Schmidt don’t worry you’ll die pure not magnetism just fists” is insulting to not only the people he represents but to the character himself. I cannot think of any long time reader that would’ve thought that this was good idea and cannot fathom why they would want to take their most loved and famous villain and drag him though the mud. And if you ask me the only thing they could do to rectify this is to have him go in yell ‘ha fooled ya didn’t I’ and kill every one in the building. But no they wanted an edgy event and instead ruined one of the most developed, well written, and respected villain in the medium.
Remender, Rick. “Uncanny Avengers 25.” N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
