Reply #11: That may be the director's intention... [View All]

[ShimokitaJer]

but I'd say it's only possible due to the applicability of the original message to discrimination of any kind. X-2 was based on an X-Men graphic novel called "God Loves, Man Kills" from back in 1982, when gay rights were not the mainstream issue they are today. Many of the elements you specified came from this original storyline, long before the marriage amendment came along. Magneto in the original comic books was not gay but Jewish, and a victim of the concentration camps.

Of course, this does nothing to discount Singer's unique interpretation of the theme in a more current incarnation, but we should also be wary of applying the interpretation too far into the past.