Understanding Magneto: The Monster Who Wants to be a God (X-Men)



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SOURCES:
“A Choice of Weapons”: The X-Men and the Metaphor for Approaches to Racial Inequality – Gregory S. Parks & Matthew W. Hughey
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/spplmntinlj92&div=2&id=&page=
The Judgement of Magneto – Asher Elbein
https://web.archive.org/web/20240424230333/https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto
From Terrorist to Tzadik: Reading Comic Books as Post-Shoah Literature in Light of Magneto’s Jewish Backstory – Nicholas Puphrey
https://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=KD3OAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA91&dq=magneto+x-men&ots=iph7GO3nMh&sig=2W7WMLClOxvoulj_YBlmkuWixFc#v=onepage&q=magneto%20x-men&f=false

COMICS:
God Loves, Man Kills
Magneto Testament 
New X-Men 
Mutant Genesis 
Fatal Attractions
The Trial of Magneto 
Age of Apocalypse 
I, Magneto
Magneto (2014)
Uncanny X-men
X-Men Unlimited
Magneto: Not a Hero
X-Men 1991
Excalibur
Classic X-men
Uncanny X-Men
House of M
Magneto: Dark Seduction
New Mutants
House of X
Powers of X
X-Men: Red
Resurrection of Magneto
X-Men Legacy (2008)
Magneto (2023)
X-Men (2019)
S.W.O.R.D (2020)

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20 thoughts on “Understanding Magneto: The Monster Who Wants to be a God (X-Men)”

  1. I can’t hate Magneto. I understand why he feels the way he feels. As a Holocaust survivor, he and his people treated like trash and were being whipped out because in the German’s eyes, Jewish people weren’t born the “right way”. It is no different from how mutants are being treated. Humans are demonizing mutants because they sees them as people who aren’t born once again, “the right way”. It is extermination of people who had to decision in being born the way they are.

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  2. Ive only seen his live action and 1992/x97 animated series portrayals and in both he's directly and indirectly responsible for much of the fear humans feel for mutant coexistence. I understand seeing the beginning of what happened to Jews happening to mutants but he constantly goes to the extreme of mutant superiority. not equality. He's a physical threat to humans and a bad representation of mutant life. He's relatable and a great character (for me) until the point where he starts trying to dominate humanity. In both portrayals he goes too far too fast. He's the other end of the spectrum to prof x. Magneto will do anything to ensure mutant survival. Prof X only pursues peaceful coexistence. (just starting to watch the vid as I write this)

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  3. People talking shit about how magneto is right miss the point. Opressed eventualy become opressor, Espain and Portugal fought a thousand years war against the califado and then went out to fund the transcontinetal atlantic slave trade that last for almost just as long. You can eve argue 'but they were right' since muslims still traficed white slaves until the beginning of twenty century. Magneto is just using past tragedies as excuse to enable his worst impulses. He doesnt owe the pain of others and dont get to commit sins in their names. That is what people are supposed to have learned by now.

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