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thaddeus thawne you deserved so much better than the dc writers gave you
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SINESTRO: You’ll see things my way one day, Jordan… if it’s the last thing you do.
THE RIDDLER: Riddle me this, Batman—when is a door not a door?
REVERSE FLASH:
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Hey girl, want to hear me yap in excruciating detail about my hyperfixations?
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Preview:
After being cleared by a grudging Leslie Thompkins for active duty, Hal went to work that very next day, surprising absolutely no one at Ferris Aircraft Industries. Hal walked down the hallway to the locker room with a swagger in his step. Carol had been talking to one of the other test pilots when she spotted Hal and, ending her conversation with the spin of her heel, marched up to him. The other test pilot, one Jillian Pearlman who went by the callsign Cowgirl, merely rolled her eyes and went about her business, not offended by this Carol-typical dismissal. Hal shot Cowgirl a grin that was aimed at sheepishly apologetic but landed in the ballpark of devil-may-care.
“I thought you asked for a mental health day, Hal,” Carol said with an arch of an eyebrow. The question was obvious: what are you doing here?
“Yeah, yeah, just couldn’t stay away,” Hal said. “Never felt better, to be honest. And I’m a workaholic, you know that.”
Carol’s gaze grew flinty for a moment before she gave Hal a rueful smile. “Yes, I do.” After all, it was one of the many reasons why they didn’t work out between Hal’s three full-time jobs—aside from, of course, the mind control (on both Carol’s part and Hal’s), Hal’s general aversion of commitment, Carol’s numerous rebounds, etc.
But Hal didn’t let even those grim thoughts get him down.
In no time at all, Hal was entering the cockpit, still smiling. But then, as soon as the canopy slid shut over him, an intense panic washed over Hal, like a bucket of ice water dumped down his spine. His grin vanished into a thin line of pink. Feel fear, overcome it, Hal told himself, a Corps refrain used to overcome the Ring’s yellow impurity, but when the fear didn’t subside, he turned back to trusting his gut, and his gut said he needed to get outside of the fighter jet.
“Highball to Ferris,” Hal said, voice audibly strained, even to himself. “I need to—get out.”
“Ferris to Highball , why, what’s wrong?” came Carol’s voice over the comm. “Everything looks good from our end.”
“I just—I don’t know. Permission to exit the aircraft?”
Source: archiveofourown.org
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The Hunger Games has the FUNNIEST arranged marriage of all time btw. Katniss realizes she'll have to marry Peeta and she's obviously upset so Haymitch tries to comfort her by saying "you could do a lot worse" and Katniss is like "well DUH of course I could do worse than Peeta he's the best & handsomest person on the face of the planet but that's not the POINT I want to be able to choose for MYSELF". Then she goes and chooses Peeta anyway lol. Comedy gold I tell you
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Please let My adventures with Superman kon not be clois kid please please please please please please
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Every character is aroace to me until proven otherwise
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When panels like these exist, you will never be able to convince me Robin 2021 was a bad comic
You don't need to take this abuse.
I've been taking abuse my whole life, why stop now?
I failed someone who meant a lot to me. Because I wasn't good enough.
This island is my punishment for that. With my first death I knew this was the place for me.
Where I could find out if I'm really the monster people keep telling me I am... But I'll never stop until I know if the darkness I feel is real.
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“Magneto’s backstory should be changed, it’s unrealistic that he’d still be alive after all this time!” Have you forgotten what franchise he’s from?
You can suspend your disbelief for the man transformed into sentient rocks by space radiation, the interdimensional bird, and the flaming biker skeletons, but one guy being a little old is where you draw the line?
It's the ~antisemitism~
#its also worth noting that marvel *DID* change magneto's backstory#he was originally presented as someone who had survived the shoah as an adult#and marvel retconned it to him surviving it as a child#iirc his original debut backstory involved him losing a wife and two kids??
Well, no, not really. When Magneto was made to be a Holocaust survivor, he was a survivor from childhood, though by the end of the Holocaust he was in his teens. His daughter Anya was killed by an antisemitic mob after the Holocaust, at some point in the 1950s.
It's also an attempt to pretend that the Shoah is ancient history, when it's really not.
"It's unrealistic for a Holocaust survivor to still be alive."
Assholes, there are Holocaust survivors still alive in the real world.
They're really telling on themselves because Wolverine is like 170 years old.
wolverine being a hundred and fucking seventy: normal
magneto being the same age as currently alive holocaust survivors: impossible
While there are definitely living Holocaust survivors today, most of them aren't up to doing half the shit Magneto does, and it seems to be affecting the impact his stories have on audiences. I remember reading Magneto stories as a kid in the 90s, knowing he was a little younger than my grandparents, and getting hit with a truckload of sympathy for the dude. He just wanted to have a normal life like Grandma and Granddad, and then the war happened and oh FUCK. Younger readers now are much less likely to have that personal connection; that's just how human lifespans work. And it's only going to get worse. Magneto does need some future-proofing.
That's not to say I think Magneto's origin should be changed, or that he should be permanently killed off. Far from it. This is comics; all kinds of timeline bullshit happens all the time. As someone pointed out above, Wolverine is most of the way into his second century of life.
What I'd do--and what I'm shocked Marvel writers don't seem to have done yet--is wave the mutant bullshit wand and make Magneto functionally immortal. Secondary mutation, maybe. Something something magnetic fields. The mechanics don't matter any more than "Wolverine is functionally immortal because healing factor" does. What matters is this:
At some point, Magneto will be the last living Holocaust survivor. And he will not let the world forget.
There was a story I read as a kid where Magneto took a handful of soil from the camp where his family died and spread it on the surface of the moon, where he was building a mutant haven of some kind. The image of him on his knees with soil running through his fingers and an agonized look on his face has haunted me ever since. To some part of him, it's always 1945. Never again is quite literally now.
I want to see Magneto as the furious conscience of the Marvel universe. I want him to rip a hole in the UN General Assembly building and stride in with his full regalia on--except for one sleeve, stripped to the forearm to show his tattooed number--and read the UN the riot act in all his nigh-unkillable glory. I want him to storm into summits between warring planets, atomize the ferrous metal in everyone's weapons, and lay down the galactic law that is There Will Be No More Genocides On My Watch, And My Watch Is Eternal. And I want future writers to use his story, and his enduring popularity as a character, to make sure that audiences don't forget either.
Magneto being a Holocaust survivor is only a flaw in the storytelling if you're a goddamn coward.