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imposterogers · 10 months

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Jewish villains arent new *points at magneto*

girl if this is a weak attempt at justifying the mcu’s antisemitism……………… I know the movie verse the best so let’s go over a few things

-our first introduction to erik lehnsherr is at the gates of Auschwitz during the holocaust. he is being dragged away from his mother, and his sorrow/anger triggers his mutation — the ability to manipulate metal

-a nazi scientist (sebastian shaw) points a gun at erik’s mother. says if erik can move a gold coin, his mother will walk free. erik can’t, and shaw murders his mother in front of him. experiments on him. turns him into “frankensteins monster”

-erik spends decades hunting nazis and shaw. we see him interrogate germans who escaped to argentina and call themselves pig farmers laughing. erik shows them the tattooed number on his arm and kills them. he tears a metal filling out of a swiss bankers mouth, who while “neutral” during the war, still kept stolen and bloody gold in his vaults.

the thing is, the x men movies didn’t shy away from antisemitism and erik’s jewishness the way the mcu continues to do (even the red skull was separated from nazism in the films). erik is a true sympathetic villain, bordering anti hero depending on the film/comic.

the audacity to try and say erik, a holocaust survivor who lived thru one genocide and whose mission is to prevent another (of mutants), is in the same category of whatever the fuck marvel is doing is wild tbh

#I am not Jewish pls correct me if anything I mentioned is wrong!!!#erik is just one of my fave characters #tw antisemitism #tw nazi mention #erik lehnsherr #x men #marvel #xmcu

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