The Holocaust is today a frequent concern of comics creators and audiences alike and will likely remain so. As such, it is important to consider what this interest means from a larger, cultural perspective. This paper looks at Magneto and the series Chutz-Pow! Superheroes of the Holocaust, published in three volumes by the Holocuast Center of Pittsburgh and focused on “The Upstanders,” “International Heroes,” and “The Young Survivors.” In both cases, the rhetorical intersections of Holocaust and superhero are momentary, fleeting: comics featuring Magneto have over the past decade increasingly used Holocaust references as a dramatic rhetorical bludgeon with little or no substance or connection to the histories they claim; Chutz-Pow! uses a language of superheroism as a thin scrim over historical stories in order to make claims about what we can learn from the Holocaust. Using these examples, this paper argues that we might be seeing a form of “hyper-Americanization” of the Holocaust in certain superhero fictions.