This a lolwut situation. This is, in fact, a special lolwut situation. I’m not even angry; just sort of of… [DOES NOT COMPUTE]… bemused. To quote Eric Flint: Who ordered this?
Wait… Magneto, A Holocaust Survivor, Is Now a Nazi in the Marvel Comics? What?! https://t.co/bKfXfOQCo6 pic.twitter.com/H4rE65gvi2
— GeekTyrant (@GeekTyrant) March 8, 2017
Magneto makes more sense than Cap. The Nazi faction itself is puzzling and dumb, but he does present a planet-sized persecution complex as justification for his own League of Mutants movement of ubermenchen.
Hey, Bill Paxton was a Hydra agent too. All the cool kids are joining up.
Is all of this Hydra fascination just because of the Cap movies? This seems silly. Everything evil does not have to be Hydra (Cap always made sense because of the Red Skull connection.) There were always plenty of evil organizations that could be used for grand conspiracies- at least when I read the comics many moons ago.
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At this point, they are turning Hydra into P.A.G.A.N. from the Dragnet movie.
I thought Marvel was going to stop injecting politically correct garbage into their stuff?
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My take is simply that Magneto is a Holocaust survivor who wanted to found a country where his own kind would not face persecution. There’s a ready parallel there with Israel, which a good chunk of the Left likes to denounce as Nazis. (And Hydra has always been a proxy for Nazis.)
Just to be clear, yes, it’s farging nuts.
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But pattern recognition indicates that this is where they’re going with the juxtaposition.
Speaking hypothetically: If they were to make Squirrel Girl a Hydra agent, would there be blood in the streets?
That…
Actually could be fun. A subversive farce played deadpan straight. She is, after all, the most powerful being in the Marvel universe. Let the Squirrel Girl and Deadpool writers team up on it unsupervised by their PC overlords.
I just asked the artist about it on Twitter.
I look forward to the answer.
Unfortunately, this is not the 1st time Marvel has made Magneto a functional Nazi. And not even the, “Gaze at the Monster long enough…” sense.