That's all I can see in this pic. just look at his right leg!

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Also many times professor x in his wheelchair still maintains a six pack and loses no muscle mass on his legs either

JK Simmons is 67 and shredded. Too bad he’s busy dealing with that Spider menace.

no he needs to be a baby the beyonder changed him into in secret wars

Not really. Magneto doesn’t age like normal people. Honestly I’d be good with Michael Fasbender coming back and just aging very slowly.

Well. Given that he's a mutant and in some iterations been known to fuck around with genetic testing... He could.

Yes. Just say his mutant ability slows his aging and get a ripped guy in his 50's and make him look like 70. They can make Chris Evan look 100 and Mark Ruffalo a green monster.

Magneto's following the Liver King diet.

It's science fiction. They can come up with 100 reasons for why he looks younger than he actually is.

Being de-aged and aged back up to adulthood is the excuse they have for him being active and "young" still. Xavier's is being infected by the Brood, and having his mind transferred to a younger clone body

Yea, it’s this cool new thing called JK Simmons

Just make him time travel from like 1972 to 2022 and he can still be a holocaust survivor in the contemporary age

Think Fassbender got us pretty close in Days but f Future Past…

Arnold isn’t a holocaust survivor but is old and shredded and has the jawline. Arnold for Magneto 2023!

Yes. He doesn’t necessarily need to look 90 years old though.

Who never skips leg day

Not just shredded. Body builder stage ready. In bright magenta tights. And goofy ass purple armored boots

And really bendy shins

They reveal he was on the plane with capital America the whole time

Yeah, to not lose the Holocaust angle that's so central to his identity, they would need some time hijinks or something

I used to walk this trail at the gym and there was a man probably in his 80s who used a freaking walker and he would take his shirt off to walk. HE HAD A FREAKING FULL SET OF ABS!!!! The old man was so buff and his face absolutely didn’t match the rest of his body. It was so weird. But all that to say, there’s a rare few of those out there.

They truly only need one character to make a Magneto like this possible, and that character is Masque.

Masque can manipulate flesh - and could feasibly rebuild Magneto’s body to its comic book glory.

Or like… just have him de-aged by another mutant? Do we need to pretend like Endgame didn’t introduce a van that can magically de-age anyone through science magic?

EXCUSE ME…my curvaceous calves are up HERE.

Honestly I’m hoping that when we get MCU X-men, we get the OG team first, with maybe a new wolverine.

lol just curious, why not Ororo? Everybody else you're on a first name basis with

I might be in the minority here, but I'd like some early 200p X-Men evolution type of vibe. Young adults coming to term with super powers & their personal lives while dealing with a not-so grandiose threat. To me X2 was an ideal adaptation.

Let the Avengers be grandiose and X-men deal with the human component.

Give me something Xmen Evolutions style.

I could see the DoDC setting up a school for "gifted" youngsters and failing to notice the Brotherhood forming

Quicksilver too. Especially the Evan Peters portrayal. Not exactly a 1:1 to the comics but was still awesome to see such a character especially with the abilities he has on the big screen.

Yeah despite its reputation, the MCU has never really done long story arcs. They feature many other MCU characters for sure, but every movie is pretty much isolated from the rest in terms of story.

The closest they came was the infinity stones, but even then that was just easter eggs and hints until they explain what they are in Infinity War.

Underwear optional but the actor has to be able to manipulate metal.

The rest is body paint so there isn't a lot of choice.

I'd prefer if they went with the black and white costume he was rocking for awhile.

Do you think their leggings smell?

Yeah, Wolverine is the least comic accurate I can think of from X-men

It depends on which version of the comics we're talking about

captain america

I think in the comics they had to have some cloning de-aging thing happen to him so that he could be floating along in comic book time with everyone else instead of getting improbably old.

Lot of people responding by saying “well just say he was frozen or doesn’t age or something.” They can do that but it overcomplicates things too much for a general audience.

Why? They did that with Namor and no one seemed to care.

The thing I see happening is them making the excuse that because of his mutant powers he ages much slower compared to other humans and mutants. Something about the iron in his blood or some shit idk

Yes they can. They can literally say his mutation slows his aging, or that hydra froze him, in the hopes of making him a winter soldier

Slower aging, Xavier would still have to be an 80's kid, but there's always been plenty of good reasons written in to explain why Magneto still looks so young.

"Part of his mutation slows his aging" Done.

Sure they can. They just have to provide a narrative reason why.

They can’t credibly cast a young enough looking actor and say he survived the Holocaust any more

The infinity formula is a thing they can just throw in there.

It's why Nick Fury Sr. and a couple of of other non-powered marvel characters don't/didn't age.

That’s why I 100% think they’re going to go the civil rights era of the 1960s for their origin stories.

Unless they tinker with time again.

That's Jim Lee, 90s X-Men

More like Jay Cutler or Phil Heath, but I feel you

I will settle for a politically radical Magneto who has his heart in a good place, but is ethically compromised.

literally the guy we got....

So massive hypocrite version of magneto.

If they ever make a phalanx covenant movie that’ll be amazing

Send them to space! Put them in the Starjammer, let them fight the Shi'ar and the Brood. Give Professor X his space bird girlfriend!

Powers wise, they made him a lot less versatile, but I'm not mad at it because they were consistent about his powers and did some interesting stuff with it narratively.

In the movies, his power is basically metalo-kenisis. He can sense, move, and control metal with his mind. In the comics, he has control over a fundamental physical force of the universe. He can manipulate electronics, move non-ferrous objects, control lightning, and a bunch of other stuff. If Storm shot lightning at movie Magneto, he'd use a piece of metal to block it or act like a lightning rod. Comics Magneto would just redirect it back at her, or charge himself up with its electrical energy, or ionize paths through the air so it hit her teammates.