10 Moments Marvel Have Chosen To Ignore

We are just coming off the back of the 75th Anniversary of VE Day and the end of World War Two. Readers have seen the events of this tumultuous period through the eyes of the many of Marvel's premiere characters.

These include unnaturally long-lived beings like Wolverine. People who have "leap-frogged" through time like Capitan America and Bucky Barnes. Legacy characters who had the knowledge passed down from their predecessors like Black Widow and the Carter Family. Except for Wolverine, all of these characters are rooted in the events that took place between 1939 and 1945.

Erik Lehnsherr was a small boy who survived the extermination of his entire family during the holocaust. The trauma of these events led him to swear "never again". Upon discovering he was a mutant and seeing the world turning against his genetic brethren just as others had done to his family during the war. Erik Lehnsherr would assume the identity of Magneto and use his considerable powers to gain respect for his people by any means necessary.

These events would lead him into conflict with not only the X-Men but the Avengers, SHIELD, Spider-man and any number of superhero throughout his life. A life he is still leading in the year 2020. Which would put his age around about seventy-five but judging from his appearances in various stories set during the war, he would be closer to eighty-five years old.

Wolverine doesn't seem quite so cool when you realise he is using his eternal youth, unbreakable bones and razor-sharp claws to push around an octogenarian.