Children of Magneto, mutants from birth
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“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
I'm not saying that overall making Mags seem more human was a failure, just in the way they handled that particular situation. Comics have this problem where a character might characteristically act a certain way in one book and completely different in another pretty frequently. I just don't think they valued Magda. It didn't matter how accurate she was. She was just meant to tell Mags story and be a background or side character. People are reaching if they think she hated him for being a mutant or he didn't love her or something. Because that's obviously not what the story is trying to convey. It's just people wanting something to be outraged about.
Last edited by GenericUsername; 12-15-2019 at 01:20 PM.
Love is for souls, not bodies.
I think Relugus meant Magda falls into the trope about certain bastards/orphans charaters' moms where they are most likely prostitudes/slaves/maids/farm girls/dad's one night stands, etc(depending on the time era of the story.)
And in those cases the mom is just some glorified womb to secure the character's biological existence. The focus is usually on the dad who is usually some king/noble, etc.
If that`s what Regulus mean this perspective doesn`t fit Magda`s character at all, especially in light of Magneto testament where it`s pretty clear they took strenght from each other to survive and after Anya died Magda leaving him was supposed to reflect what sometimes happens when parents lose their child at an early age under violent circunstances, they separate and blame each other for their childs death. Magda is a quiet character because there has not been much made with her after she served her part of the story, would it be interesting to know more about her? absolutely, I really would like to know more about their time together, their marriage and if Anya was also a mutant, but even without this Magda is way more than the kind of trope you are talking about imo.
Last edited by Lucyinthesky; 12-15-2019 at 08:54 PM.
"To the X-men then, who don´t die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
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“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
1.And I think it was perfectly fine, it was tragic and so very humanly unresolved.
2.Oh yeah, and it hurts the characters so much to the point that sometimes it's hard to tell how the character even has to be written.
3.Well she was throwback fill in character to establish someone's more central past. I'm not even sure at that point she was meant to be pregnant with the twins. It was a later yet another retcon.
4.This isn't reaching, this is discussing. This one of the ways of reading the outcome. She did love him, it was stated on panel they loved each other, but in that moment? We don't really know what she felt. Fact is she ran away leaving behind the man she loved with a burned body of their daughter...
Love is for souls, not bodies.