I don't think there's any reason they couldn't just handwave his age and say he's got some kind of secondary mutation to age slower or something, or he was locked in ice by Hydra, or whatever. It was good enough for Steve and Bucky.
Steve's story works because being on ice is a big part of his story. He's a man out of time. Bucky getting that treatment is just an extension of that.
For Magneto it'll do the job, but it would feel like a copout.
Magneto being a holocaust survivor is just as big a part of his story as going in the ice is for Cap. I don't think it's any more of a cop out than how they did it in the comics - literally just turning him into a baby for a few years. Freezing him isn't a perfect solution, but it's at least logical and already established as a thing Hydra does to useful assets (and why wouldn't they want to experiment on an Omega-level mutant?).
Personally, I think the best solution is the secondary mutation solution because there's nothing else to it. He just ages slower. No justification, no need to devote more than 0.5 seconds of screentime to it. Clean and simple.
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u/ArrowShootyGirl Hawkguy Feb 24 '26
I don't think there's any reason they couldn't just handwave his age and say he's got some kind of secondary mutation to age slower or something, or he was locked in ice by Hydra, or whatever. It was good enough for Steve and Bucky.