#tolerance is extinction

[fakedimebag]

I am UGLY CRYING in the club right now. Inconsolable after this week's X-Men '97 finale.

[bluevallery]

[fathercharlesoffdensen]

Forget Rogue, ‘X-Men ‘97’ Makes It Clear Who Magneto’s Soulmate Is

"The only ones who can break our heart are those kept in it."

"Charles invading Magneto's mind (an act Magneto's right to call a violation) leaves Erik stranded in the literal freezing waters of his lifelong PTSD. Those tumultuous ocean waves, an obvious metaphor for Erik's mind, threaten to sweep both Erik and Charles away. 'Both' is Episode 10's key word. Charles Xavier could've easily consigned Magneto to his agony and gone about his business. Instead, he makes a choice simultaneously selfless and selfish. He doesn't fight Bastion (Theo James) with his X-Men. He stays in Magneto's mind and risks not just his own life, but his psyche. Even though the gesture doesn't excuse Charles's mental attack, he seizes this rare opportunity to help his beloved friend escape his emotional torment. Charles Xavier will either drag Erik free or drown with him, holding him close in the seething ocean.

"Charles is the only person capable of reaching Magneto because they're equals and opposites. Call them polar magnets or counterbalancing scale weights — or just soulmates. They complete one another, overused Jerry Maguire quote or not. Magneto hears Rogue's (Lenore Zann) distraught voice crying out to him in his amnesiac darkness. Hers is the only face he sees from his memories. Yet without erasing or diminishing his obvious love for Rogue, Erik also adores Charles. He has for decades. Even when they were physically apart, Charles rested in Erik's mind. Blocking out Xavier's influence is why Magneto wears his helmet. As Rogue wisely points out to Erik in Episode 2, 'You were worried if you still felt how much he loved you, you wouldn't be able to go through with your crusade.' That helmet is Magneto's armor against love.

"So, of course, it's Charles who reminds his fragmented self of the identity he forged from the ashes. Charles's compassion succeeds for the first time not because X-Men '97 backpedals their 'Magneto was right' statement in Xavier's favor. Rather, Charles finally works to meet Erik where he is. Erik might be an island because of and despite himself, but his fate needn't be forever lost and always losing. Charles reminds him they are a chosen family of two. He bleeds the poison from Erik's heart. And Magneto emerges reborn, reclaiming himself, his memories, and his purpose. He couldn't have a true redemption arc without Charles at his side."

[nicholasmoorethetwittermigrant]

Not to be crass, but after months and months of stupid right-wing grifters handwringing about how “they deleted Rogue’s ass,” having this shot in the finale is bizarrely cathartic.

[fionapplespiano]

HIS NAME WAS GAMBIT. REMEMBER IT!

[fluffycakesistainted]

"People don't want to be better. They're already the best...everything. Best tribe, best faith, they even fight over who's the best victim."

--Erik Lehnsherr - X-Men '97 1x10, "Tolerance is Extinction" Part 3

[kikirumbleroom]

I have not finished watching the new episode but I am already seething that they've returned to villainizing Magneto. Like I get it--he shut down the power..but calling him a 'bad' guy, threatening to kill him without even trying to speak with him [i'm looking at you, wolverine].

The man actively tried to do better. To be better. He proved himself he is capable and showed he can be helpful. Instead of taking all that into account, they're back to seeing the worst--which I can see from past patterns I guess--but it is still maddening. The man suffered trauma upon trauma, was there at Genosha. Granted they don't know he was captured by Bastion, not one of them even think to show some empathy for the man [so far at least]. They're all ready to return to labeling him as a 'villain'.

Like fuck off. And what's worse just before he resurfaced, everyone was saying: Magneto warned us. He said it repeatedly. They pretty much understood what he was saying all the damn time.

And while I'm not saying condone his actions to kill the earth [tho justified tbh], show him some understanding. How can you agree and understand the man one day and then turn around and suddenly say such stupid, superficial nonsense about killing him etc.

[ronnierocket91]

Magneto was right. He was right all along.