Mike Carey on the Magneto/Rogue relationship

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[kiplingkat]

After having Lobdell repeatedly try to shove that non-existent 'ship down my throat through the 1990's, I just have a bad knee jerk reaction to it.

I can't see the two of them as a couple. Yes, they could have sex like bunnies, but actually hanging out together, enjoying one another company? What would they talk about other than being mutants?

Plus Magneto is not exactly Mr. Emotionally Functional. When we last checked in, he was still hung up on his wife (a friend of mine has a very interesting theory as to *why* he is so hung up on Magda after all this time), and has not really dealt with her abandonment and let her go emotionally.

But I do trust Mike Carey, so *if* someone is going to go there, maybe he can make it work.

I just wish they would cut both characters loose form it and move on...

[kiplingkat]

Of course, there is also the fact that Rogue did not back off. In fact she threw herself at him a couple times. And each time he turned her down.


http://s835.photobucket.com/albums/zz275/KiplingKat/?action=view¤t=scan0031.jpg

[joysweeper]

That image reminds me pretty strongly of one I saw on Star Wars Insider once, of Count Dooku and Asaj Ventress. Dooku stands there glowering, Ventress drapes herself all over him. I thought it was a reflection of the different ways bad guys are portrayed depending on gender. The male villain isn't always but certainly can be the impassive, relentless, unknowable force. The female villain virtually always has that element of sex, and sometimes that irritating hint that she's just passionate and unless she's thoroughly mad, she could fall for a hero and that would be all she needed to turn back on evil.

Off topic, I know. But this isn't the first time I've seen a composition like that, and remembering the other case got me thinking about why this pose tends to crop up.

I am using a Thrawn icon to comment on art and the society in which it was made. ...How did this happen?

[cmdr_zoom]

Wait.
Magneto and Rogue have a relationship?
When did this happen?
Also, DO NOT WANT

[jessibot]

Urgh, I did not know this was happening. Major squick factor.

[crabby_lioness]

See, this is why we need strong female characters back in Marvel Comics. There isn't a single, active woman currently out there strong enough to earn Magneto's attention.

Why yes, I am a Magneto fangirl.

[tsunamiwombat]

Miss Marvel? The real one.

Or Miss Marvel. The fake one.

...

Mary Jane Watson?

[foxhack]

But... what about Joseph? T_T

I liked Joseph/Rogue T_T

[blossommorphine]

*shivers* That pic, it just feels so skeevy. I don't know what it is about that pairing that sends my inner red alert off. Some of my friends like it, but something about it has always disturbed me. And I'm a Magneto fan, and awfully fond of Rogue depending on the comic/show. Together, it just seems.. *sighs* I hate not knowing why something sets my red alert off, but this does. :|

[aulayan]

Nothing constructive.

But I just woke up, so reading this at first, I thought the Bold Part was part of the Mike Carey answer and the "As a fellow young woman" part made me go "...Wow. That level of sarcasm will make him an internet pariah."

... Obviously I do need caffeine to make my brain go.

[iondan]

I will forever ship Rogue and Remy.

Also I hate Rogue's new costume.

[halloweenjack]

Nothing that has been, or could be, said to justify Magneto/Rogue could be half as cool as movie-Magneto crooning "I love what you've done with your hair" and Rogue starting to take her glove off in response.

[sandoz_iscariot]

Anything's better than Remy/Rogue.

/driven out of fandom with torches and pitchforks

[valismedsen]

I've never read this story, that's an ugly ditching Magneto did.
http://s835.photobucket.com/albums/zz275/KiplingKat/?action=view¤t=scan0031.jpg

I do remember that in the original story in the Savage Land Magneto perceives a spark beginning between him and Rogue. There's something about that story, art and plot, that just made their ship for me. Maybe it's got to do with the fact that everybody goes half-naked in the Savage Land and Magneto was depicted as a mature man in his prime (oh boy, I've got some daddy issues...) The moral choice of Magneto was also very interesting, choosing his ideals over an opportunity to experience some feelings. But I have to agree that they could hardly have anything in common to talk about. Anyways, I'm always glad when their... thing... is referenced!

[greenmask]

Oh, puke.

[crabby_lioness]

Is ths the first time they met after she gained control of her power? She could simply be getting old feelings out of the way.