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Originally Posted by sdp

I've said this before but superheroes work best at the time they were created, they don't work as ever green heroes of every decade, especially in the post 2000s worlds with mass communications.
This is specifically true for heroes like magneto who have very specific events that changing them for a more modern interpretation just messes with the character.
Captain America was a le to fix this rather cleverly by being frozen but others are just worse origina

That's another reason they shouldn't try to tie their lives to real world events, because time moves on and we're in a situation where the last decade takes place over a weekend or so and yet humanity is stuck on smartphones and social media like we are today.

They should really retcon it like Magneto (or whoever else) lost his parents during the Great Kree war of some unspecified decade. Something something some humans betrayed humanity with the Kree, blame mutants somehow something something.

At least with something made up like the Kree war you can say it happened in 20xx or just never specify the year, and if you do, it's easier to retcon a fictional event instead of trying to explain why a real world event like WW2 all of sudden didn't take place in 1939 for the sake of the story.