I wasn't especially excited about any of these comics. . .though I did like that one page on the subway in Ultimate. And. . .I can't actually say that the "my son" bit made Pietro/Rictor LESS slashy for me, but that may just be how my brain works. I think he IS technically an "older generation" than Rictor -- he's roughly the same age as the original Xmen, while Rictor came along with the younger wave (Xforce, New Mutants, etc). By rough comic book time that would put Pietro in his early 30s and Rictor in his early 20s, probably? Not really enough for him to be playing patriarch, but it made sense to me with his weird savior-kick, I guess.
You make a good point that, considering we're talking about Pietro, a little familial-ness doesn't necessarily take the sex away. Probably adds to in, in fact.
Actually, I'd put Pietro and Wanda in their fourties. Cause Magneto didn't look all that old in the flashbacks where he met Magda, and he hadn't been de-aged yet at that point.
You could argue that the twins are actually a generation older than the X-men, I suppose, but more often they're treated as peers --
I think the sane answer is 'never try to figure out how old someone is in Marvel' -- but you can sometimes go by relative age, and by virtue of Pietro as a character having been around a couple decades longer than Rictor (who first shows up as a troubled-teen during the mid 80s X-factor series, while Pietro has been around since like issue 3 of the orginal Xmen), that's probably safe to assume.
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it made sense to me with his weird savior-kick
Aaaaah. Yes.
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I think the sane answer is 'never try to figure out how old someone is in Marvel' -- but you can sometimes go by relative age, and by virtue of Pietro as a character having been around a couple decades longer than Rictor (who first shows up as a troubled-teen during the mid 80s X-factor series, while Pietro has been around since like issue 3 of the orginal Xmen), that's probably safe to assume.
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