Dear Magneto:

[yendi]

Using your magnetic powers to mind-control your scantily-clad adult daughter and make her dance is just plain creepy:

Comments

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Hee-YIKES.

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

Did they...forget that she's his fucking daughter?!

[yendi]

To be fair, back in 1973, this wasn't known, but that only excuses Englehart, not Magneto. Also, it's pretty creepy even without the parental issues.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

The placement of the word balloons near the corner make it just that much creepier.

I do like that Iron Man seems to be going "Dude, wtf?".

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

What the SHIT is this????

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, if the writers hadn't decided that he was her father at the time...

Even so. What the HELL????

;_________;

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Dear god, I remember that issue. I was only 13 but it was like, "WTF? That doesn't work that way."

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

There is just no level on which this is not creepy.

[captain18.livejournal.com]

Shades of "A lapdance is so much better when the stripper is crying"?

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the "telepathic domination of women" trope. It's already on my latest version of the bingo cards.

This has what to do with PK control of metal...?

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

How is she scantily clad? Thats a full body stocking under a one piece bathing suit. The only skin you see is her face.

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

Also, when i read Magneto's dialogue, i hear it in The Monarch's voice. I could see him doing this to Dr. Girlfriend.

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

If'n I recall correctly, he was somehow using his magnetic powers to control the amount of blood going to their brains via the iron content.

Pity there weren't any anemic Avengers or X-Men...

[yendi]

That is, indeed, the explanation he gives for the power he uses once in his entire career. Gotta love Marvel in the '70s.

[yendi]

They way the colorists handled her back then, I swear that half the time she looked like she was barelegged.

[spacehawk.livejournal.com]

That makes no sense either biologically, or in terms of PK or telepathy!

This shows how far they will stretch everything, everything, to work in a tired trope. Of psychic domination of women, no less.

/sigh/