Age gaps between couples can be disturbing -- especially if it's between humans -- homo sapiens or homo superiors! One of the strangest X-Men pairings comes in the form of Magneto x Rogue. The two had a brief romance in the Savage Island. Magneto is a recurring enemy of the X-Men while Rogue is a former member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants under Mystique. Mystique gets often retconned or remade into Magneto's second-in-command -- depending on the writer! Yeah, that's why I usually don't update on comics these days. Now, it's time to look into this May-December Affair. Yeah, this is coming from me who'd shipped Wolverine with other women such as Jubilee (which is pedophilia), Psylocke, or Emma Frost!
The Age of Apocalypse storyline presents a different view. Rogue's loneliness comes from the fact she can't control her absorption powers. It should be F*CKED UP that she absorbed her would-be stepdaughter Polaris' powers permanently. AOA Scarlet Witch entrusted AOA Rogue to take care of AOA Magneto. AOA Rogue having AOA Polaris' powers instead made her able to touch AOA Magneto. Both Magneto and Polaris are opposite poles. AOA Magneto could get intimate with Rogue -- something that triggered them as a couple. I wonder what was the reason behind this pairing? Come on, Magneto is F*CKING OLD ENOUGH TO BE ROGUE'S FATHER OR EVEN GRANDFATHER! AOA Rogue is the stepmother to AOA Quicksilver -- something I felt was just too much!
X-Men 97 created that backstory. Yes, Magneto was another officer of the Brotherhood. Magneto and Mystique were secretly Apocalypse' henchmen in the animated series. Magneto was among those who planned Senator Kelly's assassination in the cartoon. It's revealed that Magneto took part in training Rogue to control her powers. Mystique referred Rogue over to Magneto. This seems to be in contradiction to earlier episodes. There was really no hint whatsoever in Saban's X-Men: The Animated Series that Rogue even had a romance with Magneto. Was this in response to the plot that Professor Xavier had a crush on Jean Grey early on?
I never found myself liking this couple. It's probably not the age gap but it just feels all too random. Still, it's not as random as suddenly retconning Magneto's ESTABLISHED parentage to Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch.
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