Hannah

The best thing about latter day Quicksilver is that he doesn’t forgive Magneto. Their relationship has been handled in different ways over the years. It changes depending on the period and who is writing. The vehement hatred he’s had since the mid-2000′s is, to me, the most interesting portrayal.

This version of Quicksilver is an abuse survivor who isn’t interested in being a “good” victim. He doesn’t forgive his abuser. He doesn’t seem to be harboring feelings of familial love toward his abuser. He hates him. And he says so. Loudly and in front of everyone. He doesn’t let it go. His anger isn’t tempered.

Part of what makes this unique is that Magneto is a more popular character than Quicksilver. It’s easy to have characters hate their abusers when said abusers are stock characters or villains who only exist for the hero’s development. But Magneto is a big, important character. He’s my favorite out of all the X-Men, and I’m not alone in that. He is interesting. He is sympathetic. We like Magneto… but Pietro hates him.

And a lot of people don’t like Pietro. They think he’s annoying or boring, and here he is calling out Magneto. Pointing out that a beloved character gaslit and abused him when he was a teenager and then tried to kill him. Not backing down about it. Throwing a wrench in comics’ greatest redemption.

This is complicated, all the more so because Magneto is an idea. He represents something powerful. He is a voice for the oppressed. He is resistance. He’s also a character, an imperfect one with a convoluted history. There is an inherent messiness to having someone hate Magneto the Character without it being a critique of Magneto the Idea. This is a character disagreeing with Magneto’s personal behavior, not his philosophy. The problem is that, for many, Magneto’s philosophy is what matters most.

That’s why people treat “Magneto is a bad dad” like a hilarious meme. What he did is serious and terrible, but it’s divorced from the way that people primarily think of Magneto. The fandom response is to treat it as a joke rather than to address that Magneto the Character and Magneto the Idea aren’t always the same thing. Or to say you can like Magneto while acknowledging that his “bad parenting” isn’t trivial or funny. (We can like characters who aren’t perfect, I swear.)

For the most part, the canon doesn’t make it a joke. It accepts the complexity of the situation. It leans into Pietro’s imperfections and Magneto’s contradictions, and then it rejects forgiveness anyway. It lets Pietro be angry, and that’s a fascinating choice.

something that trial of magneto does not get is that magneto is a bad father not because he hates his kids, but because he puts his crusade above them every time, and will lie to them, use them, and hurt them to reach his goals

he's petty and so are his kids, so snipes about mental stability and what not aren't out of character per se. they have rocky, messy relationships. but erik doesn't hate his children + he doesn't hate who they are as people. specifically he doesn't hate lorna

the kind of things erik was saying to lorna in this series - belittling her accomplishments + her personhood - is a specific type of parental abuse that erik hasn't engaged in for a very long time

erik's radicalism is what continues to drive him and his children apart. and he is unhappy with that. krakoa resolves this divide, so why would he continue to mistreat them? erik is a very difficult person, but not in the sense trial of magneto + x-factor portray him

the fact that x-factor had to *make up* a conflict between him and lorna (the prestige of the """house of m""") is enough evidence of how mischaracterized he is as a father.

idk. its still killing me, this "house of m" thing (a name linked to an inherently traumatizing event that erik would never casually claim). there's no reason for erik to suddenly be interested in controlling lorna as an extension of his *prestige* when shes been doing her thing unbothered for years.

dadneto can definitely be controlling - especially towards loved ones - but it's not remotely about prestige. it instead has everything to do with his emotional state, what he's been through, + his relationship with his children

(an example: wanda telling him to let the avengers take her away peacefully and erik being like. No. + proceeding to fight the avengers away from his daughter)

emma apologist hour is Every Hour

Emma Frost slapping people.

There is another.

Everybody, and I mean everybody, has had something to say about this scene. Rather than debating the validity of what Emma said to Ororo, I just want to point out the MAJOR hypocrisy of Emma saying "oh, that wasn't us, those weren't our true selves, that was the worst side ourselves brought out by a force we couldn't control," considering the stance she's taken against Wanda time and time again since the Children's Crusade. Just to remind everyone, Emma is the only person who ever took a telepathic account of Wanda's memories from the Decimation, and she could have cleared Wanda's name any time she wanted. And now she wants to sit here with some "oh that wasn't me, that was my alter ego countess boochie flagrante" type excuse.

"nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them" Assata Shakur

FREE PALESTINE.

important things to consider:

@beleggs

Sincerely I do not care about any other character in Castlevania except for Olrox and Drotla.

They had to put them in different parts because otherwise they would have served so much evil cunt together

queer vampire sex. you agree. reblog

DROLTA TZUENTES… mommy 👀

Castlevania: Nocturne

House of M drives me insane because it realistically just proved that all of Pietro's worst fears were in fact founded and regardless of all the years he and Wanda dedicated to the Avengers, it still came down to them against the world. Wanda was the twin that was friendly, approachable and sociable in a way that Pietro never was, yet the people they spent years with and considered close friends if not family were so afraid of her power that they decided she had to die. I've said it before but in the "too soft to be a villain, too selfish to be a real hero" line about Pietro, his selfishness really boils down to the fact that he knows that no one else will consider the people he loves important enough to save so he'll do whatever it takes on his own. None of Pietro's crimes have ever arisen from a desire to do harm; in fact, it's the exact opposite in a situation where he is the only one who believes the life in question is worth saving. Although Marvel often writes it in a condescending way, I don't think it's of any detriment to Wanda's independence as a character for her brother to recognise that upon the loss of her children, rather than mental manipulation and a death sentence, she needed help and support. Scarlet Witch vol.2 was dumb for pretending that Pietro's status as an overbearing, controlling sibling is not due to legitimate anxiety and trauma that dates back to even before Magneto and the Brotherhood. Pietro is inherently a protector (whose challenge is to recognise when he doesn't need to be) and whereas in a trolley problem situation most heroes are expected to choose the many over the few, he has a fundamental belief that somehow, there must be a way to save them all. He's just never been particularly successful in finding that way.