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* Anti-Semitism: Explicitly referenced in recent decades is the comparison between anti-mutant sentiment and anti-Semitism.

Magneto, a Holocaust survivor, sees the situation of mutants as similar to those of Jews in Nazi Germany.

At one point he even utters the words " never again " in a 1992 episode of the X-Men animated series.

The mutant slave labor camps on the island of Genosha, in which numbers were burned into mutant's foreheads, show much in common with Nazi concentration camps, as do the internment camps of the classic " Days of Future Past " storyline.

Another notable reference is in the third X-Men film, when asked by Callisto: " If you're so proud of being a mutant, then where's your mark?

" Magneto shows his concentration camp tattoo, while mentioning that he will never let another needle touch his skin.

Perhaps the most explicit reference to the Holocaust in the film series would be in the prequel film X-Men: First Class, in which a fourteen year old Magneto suffers Nazi human experimentation during his time in the camps and witnesses his mother's death by gunshot.