How to Integrate the X-Men into the MCU, Take 2

julianlapostat:

racefortheironthrone:

So a while back I talked about how I would integrate the X-Men into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but in more general thematic terms as opposed to plot and specific continuity. 

A tweet by “Moviebob” Bob Chipman got me thinking in more detail, and I think I have some ideas:

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That leads me to something that has fascinated me. For a while I have been wondering how you could update some of Marvel’s more era-specific villains. The MCU made HYDRA into the Illuminati/Bilderberg and other Snowdenista conspiracy fantasies but why can’t you do that to others. Like Dr. Doom could be a dictator of a fictional Latin American country rather than somewhere in Eastern Europe since his special aesthetic, a kind of ruritanian baronial doesn’t make sense in contemporary Europe. I mean yeah you have dictatorships in Putin’s Russia and some of the satellites like Belarus but their dictatorship is tied to the end of communism and Dr. Doom was never really part of that to start with.And putting him in Latin America can allow MCU to tap into the “dictator novel” tropes common in a number of South American literatures, while also allowing him as a Foil against Wakanda and Black Panther. 

With Magneto, I was wondering if you could make him a more contemporary figure. Reimagine him as a victim of the Rwandan genocide or the war in Congo, and other places. I don’t know if that would be disrespectful necessarily since after all the concept of Magneto as a holocaust survivor was created only in the 70s (by a non-Jewish artist no less). 

WIth Doctor Doom, I already have my preferred version. And if we were going contemporary, I would definitely go with post-Soviet nationalist strongman.

As for Magneto, I disagree. The concept of Magneto as a Holocaust survivor was what made him something more than a Snidely Whiplash villain, and Chris Claremont is Jewish.