chasethestarsacrossmyskin:

lesserjoke: clairedevils: This is your daily reminder that Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are Romani Jews and the children of Holocaust survivors, and that Whedon white-washed them and had them be volunteers with Hydra, a neo-Nazi organization. Not only Hydra volunteers: volunteers to have Hydra perform medical experiments on them to give them superpowers (powers they were simply born with in the comics). If you know anything about the history of Nazi medical experiments you should realize how deeply offensive this is. The worst part is, Joss Whedon wrote them as developing their powers due to the medical experiments going against the greater consensus of Avengers Universe writers: in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. they’re mentioned as having been part of a program where they were being experimented on for already having their powers. If it weren’t for Whedon, they’d potentially at least have been victims as opposed to volunteers.

Whedon is literally fucking up every part of their story line in every way humanly possible.

No. Just, no. Because Marvel sold the X-men to Fox they can not legally be the children of Magneto or referred to as mutants. So, because they have a totally new origin story and aren’t Magneto’s kids you can’t say for sure that they were Jewish. Even if they were Jewish, they still would know nothing about Hydra as an organization. If you think it’s offensive that there is a Neo-Nazi group conducting human experiments then take a look at Captain America who even made a joke in the movie about how he practically did the same thing.

I also think you might misunderstanding how this movie connects with what is going on in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. They were not born with powers. They have the ability to become powered, it just has to be awakened. They are, in essence, part of the Inhuman story line now. Remember Raina, how she knew she was special and was willing to do anything to get the powers she thought she deserved? If you’re the twins and an organization you know nothing about comes to you, promising that you could become special and powerful and strong enough to get the vengeance you always wanted, could you walk away from that? I don’t think you would.

I think their story line is much more powerful with them as volunteers rather than just victims. I’m sorry but Whedon has done nothing wrong.



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