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The world found their champion in Beau DeMayo who created the iconicX-Men ’97series. However, before its premiere, DeMayo was fired from Marvel Studios.
From allegations and rumors to trials and tribulations, Beau DeMayo has been quite vocal on his social media accounts. However, it was his comments on the iconic character Magneto that got him on the bad side of the road.
Beau DeMayo Erased A Historical Period From His Script
Although the script was never made into a show, creator Beau DeMayo shared, on his X account, a pitch that he had made in 2014/15 about Magneto. However, fans seemed to notice one thing about the character.
Sharing the script on X, fans immediately noticed thatBeau DeMayohad used the word“Eastern European Genocide”instead of “The Holocaust” which was actually an important part of Magneto’s story.
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Taking to their accounts on X,fans attacked DeMayo with allegationsthat he tried to erase an important historical event just for the sake of keeping Magneto young!
I wrote this around 2013-ish. I was trying to figure out how to make it The Holocaust without a time stamp put on it so that Magneto wasn’t in his 80s. It’s a logic thing I’m curious how future X-Men films address as we move into the 2020s/30s
Marvel fans can suspend their disbelief in order for a man frozen solid in WWII to come back to life in the present era but draw the line at Magneto being a Holocaust survivor who ages slowly
As time moves on, the Holocaust gets further from recent memory.Yet it still is (& SHOULD be) a key part of Magneto’s history.Marvel should add an extended lifespan to his mutant magnetic powers, giving X-Men writers no excuse to ignore/downplay THAT specific human tragedy.pic.twitter.com/e3FmRg2f8e
💁🏿♂️ Magneto is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust.If your portrayal of Magneto ever ignores, undermines or changes that part of his history in any way, you do a disservice to the character, idgaf if you’re a so-called “fan”, or even an X-Men / Marvel writer or editor, period. 🤷🏿♂️pic.twitter.com/UC8bf6aKtf
If you are writing Magneto and your priorities are about how is old he is rather than him being a holocaust survivor then you shouldn’t be writing Magneto
Magneto’s age does not matter in a world with long lived characters like LoganJust make him long lived like every other mutant and keep Magneto a holocaust survivor. It’s a vital part of his backstory and what makes his fight against oppression have real world weighthttps://t.co/bZ6VXVVRCt
Despite DeMayo’s claims that it was an older script and he wanted to maintain the timeline of Magneto by not putting him in his 80s, fans weren’t too happy with the apparent renaming.
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So why exactly does the mention of The Holocaust matter so much to Magneto? Well, that answer is quite easy since Magneto became Magneto when he became a survivor of… The Holocaust.
Magneto Is a Holocaust Survivor
Magneto has a clear distaste for humans and considers mutants to be better (even going so far as to call mutants ‘Homo superior’). Well, there is a very specific reason why Magneto has this hatred.
According to the comics, Magneto was born to a German-Jewish family in the 1920s. Well, his mother, father, and, sister were executed and buried in a mass grave during World War II.
Magneto survived and was sent to Auschwitz where he became aSonderkommando(usually Jewish POWs who oversaw the Gas chamber operation due to death threats). Finding his crush, Magneto and Magda attempt to escape this life but due to his mutant powers, he is persecuted.
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Hence, the hatred from humans and the extent to which people could go to war was what made Magneto himself and to take that away and replace it with “Eastern European Genocide” surely seems appalling.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
