Charles & Erik

[katikat]

There's been a rumor going around that X-Men: Apocalypse won't be James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender's last X-Men movie: link. IMO, that would be rocking awesome. I know that most people are all about Jean Grey and Storm and Gambit and whatnot and whonot, but I don't give a flying banana about any of these characters. Professor X and Magneto and the endless push and pull of their affection for each other vs their conviction is the only thing that interests me because I find the juxtaposition endlessly fascinating. So, if these two come back, thumbs up from me!

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[amai_kaminari]

I agree with you 100% If I could, I'd agree with you more than 100%

[katikat]

What I don't get is why they don't make Cherik canon for real. Neither Erik nor Charles are a part of an existing, long-term het ship anyway. And both Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellen, and James McAvoy & Michael Fassbender are rooting for it...

[amai_kaminari]

Sir Ian and Bryan Singer are both out and proud gay men. The cast and crew definitely seem to think of Erik and Charles as a tragic love story. They've said as much.

I think the big problem is that the licensing is owned by FOX, which is notoriously ultra conservative. FOX News is so biased that it's pretty much the unofficial news station for right-wing GOP.

Also, I think they're afraid of alienating the fan boys.

Interestingly enough, when Comics Alliance creates a poll about who Magneto should end up with in his Last Days, Charles won by a landslide!

http://comicsalliance.com/poll-who-should-magneto-hook-up-with-in-his-last-days/

[katikat]

The thing I don't get is that Marvel Comics takes characters like Bobby/Iceman and reboots them gay, instead of taking these two and following their story to its natural conclusion by letting them come out as bisexual and in love. Everybody thinks these two are smitten with each other anyway, so why? Why do they take other characters and twist them into pretzels to bring in queer characters when they have two ready for taking?

[amai_kaminari]

There's also a bajillion versions of Charles running around in the different universes. It's not hard to imagine that in one of them, he and Erik are smart enough to get their heads out of their asses and admit to each other that they're in love.

[amai_kaminari]

So I can't confirm this, but according to fans on Tumblr, this panel was in the a recent Marvel Secret Wars comic:



Granted, Marvel is currently running a bunch of 'What ifs' and AUs, but still...