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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Isn't Magneto more in the "genocide you before you genocide us" camp? Understandable, but hardly heroic.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 65 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Xavier is in the "peace and no one gets genocided" camp, and still gets genocided. Magneto is right and is acting in self-defense.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Magneto also has a tendency to shoot first and target civilians, including civilians sympathetic to his cause. He's a sympathetic figure and he has a point, but he's only a hero half the time for a reason.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 42 points 1 month ago

Well, yeah, he's on the right side, so writers have to make him do objectively unforgivable things for seemingly no reason in order to ensure the reader doesn't sympathize with someone challenging the status quo.

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