New Brevoort Formspring

Someone suggested freezing both Xavier and Magneto. But I don’t see the purpose of that. Xavier isn’t linked to a fixed point in time save for being a contemporary of Magneto. But freezing Magneto would allow for that to occur, as well as pulling Magneto away from his fixed point of WWII.

As we’ve seen, Magneto developed his powers in the Warsaw ghetto and was then captured and taken to Auschwitz. Perhaps a Nazi Occult element could have experimented on him, freezing him to save for later.

His rage at humans then amplified by losing years/decades of his life. That the, sadly, few that managed to be liberated from the concentration camps had passed on due to their old age. Awakening to a world where those Nazi scientists who poked and prodded him weren’t punished, but given jobs by the American government. Magda and his kids? False memories - not necessary planted by the Nazis, but perhaps as simple as his mind creating them to keep him ‘happy’, only for tragedy to occur to Magda and so on because of his rage. Perhaps survivor’s guilt due to making it out of the Ghetto alone. That he doesn’t _deserve_ to be happy. Self-sabotage, it seems, it a bit Magneto.

He’d run parallels to Captain America then, too. Fighter of Nazis, displaced in time, one making the right choices, joining the Avengers to fight injustice. The other? Making the wrong choices, creating his Brotherhood to fight injustice against himself.

Pulling Magneto out of the frozen state in whatever year is suitable is achievable enough, and you can - as with Cap - pass over as many years or decades as needed.

I’m sure it would require a bit…or a lot…of changes to continuity or whathaveyou, but as you always say, it’s a tool. Changes made would certainly rile up some fans, but it’d allow Magneto to push back on that fixed point a little, and make it 'work’ somewhat.