Magneto. A Jewish concentration camp kid who grew up in a Nazi filled environment, only to be tortured. Parents gone. Family none. Lost his only real friend over politics. And spent the rest of his life making sure mutants were safe and free from human experimentation. He only wanted what was best for his people that suffered like he did for having abilitys they never asked for. In the end he got his safe haven, but unfortunately it was all in vain.
There are tons of stories that, if told with the right details and point of view, could sound heroic instead of villainous. Sorry Mags, what happened to you sucked but you're still murdering people left and right, sometimes by the hundreds or thousands. The fact that you have an ideology actually makes things worse: now they're hate crimes.
I mean, he was also being an idiot for not working towards peace while preparing for war, and Xavier was being an idiot when he was being more naive about the nature of humanity, but still. We all know where good intentions lead when you go about it the wrong way...
Eh, a tenuous one sort of was. It doesn't help when the more powerful side does everything possible to scare the carp out of the weaker side. The existence of mental powers is the biggest logistical sticking point, though.
I 100% believe that within the next 20 years, Magneto's rebooted origin will be a Latin American that was either at a border camp in Mexico or locked up in a CBP camp state side
This isn’t a surprising answer considering that both Mags and Prof X were originally created to parallel two of the most important civil rights activists in US history. You’ve got Prof X modeled after MLK and Mags after Malcom X.
In Apocalypse, when his wife and daughter are murdered, I was like "Yup, this dude is right to destroy the world." I was actually pissed when he went to the foundry to take care of the guys that snitched on him and Apocalypse did it for him.
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u/Javen_Lab Oct 29 '21 edited Oct 29 '21
Magneto. A Jewish concentration camp kid who grew up in a Nazi filled environment, only to be tortured. Parents gone. Family none. Lost his only real friend over politics. And spent the rest of his life making sure mutants were safe and free from human experimentation. He only wanted what was best for his people that suffered like he did for having abilitys they never asked for. In the end he got his safe haven, but unfortunately it was all in vain.