Stronger Than You

reuploading this one too bc i tweaked it a bit since i originally drew it and i still like it. and him.

If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it

That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes

I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded

like to charge reblog to cast tbh

never again.

i dont draw magneto enough

headcanon that both erik and charles are absolute shite at chess but they both assume they’re fantastic because they never play anyone else

Charles probably suspected something was wrong when Erik’s rook “jumped” Charles’ Bishop, but didn’t want to admit he didn’t know that rule. 

“Ah, the ‘moving three pawns at once’ opening. Audacious, Erik, audacious.”

The prison gards in x2 watching the game over the cameras like… “W-What are they…what’s going on - Matt look at this shit.”

My favorite part of this is that on a meta level, in the X-men movies, one of the random trivia facts I’ve heard is that neither Ian McKellan nor Patrick Stewart know how to play chess, so they just randomly moved pieces around the chessboard when they said their lines. Every once in a while they would do something dramatic and symbolic like going to checkmate, when the script would call for it, but the rest of the time they have no idea what they’re doing.

So, in a way, this is canon :)

At the very end of X-Men: the Last Stand, we see a nominally de-powered Magneto playing chess in the park long enough for us to see that he’s starting to regain his powers:

(This should start at that scene, at about 1:25.)

The only follow-up we’ve seen to this timeline is the future parts of Days of Future Past, which at no point has a scene in which Future Charles and Future Erik play chess. I can only assume that Erik learned how to actually play while he was working on bringing his powers back, and got so good that Charles no longer plays with him. (Charles is too ethical to use his telepathy to cheat.)

Erik: (Knocks over Charles’ knight with one of his pawns) BOBBLEHEAD MAN TAKES HORSE

CHECKMATE

Charles: *moves rook* not if I put him in a castle!

Erik: I see your skills have improved since our last game

Charles: Of course

I’ve been readying myself for this

Erik: But I’m afraid you did not ready yourself for THIS (Moves the king twelve spaces in a row to knock Charles castle over)

Charles: The king…the most manouverable and deadly piece on the board…

Erik: You forgot Charles

In the game of chess

You must NEVER allow your opponent to see your pieces

Charles: *stacks one rook on top of the other* My DOUBLE CASTLE WILL DEFEAT YOU

Erik: (Gasps in shock) the double castle gambit…

I never thought I’d see it played again…

OK, but knowing Charles and Erik you have to understand, making up their own rules variant and calling it “Mutant Chess” is EXACTLY the kind of thing these two nerds would do.

I CAN BELIEVE THAT

If the Winter Soldier was responsible for the Kennedy assassination and Magneto tried to STOP the Kennedy assassination then that must mean somehow Magneto lost a fight to a guy wITH AN ENTirE ARm MADE OF METAL